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Title: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Susannah on April 16, 2008, 07:04:40 PM
I'm kicking myself for not thinking of this earlier:

Hot streak--Elvis Costello 1977-1982

Cold streak--mostly everything else, with a good year here and there (1986, for example, was "King of America" and "Blood and Chocolate," two great albums; 1994 for "Brutal Youth" and "Kojak Variety.")

You could argue that his unwillingness to release the same kind of stuff over and over again is commendable (it is), but I don't think the quality is there.  Also, he's pricing himself out of having a younger fanbase, annoying everyone with the constant re-releases in different packaging, etc.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: masterofsparks on April 16, 2008, 07:26:03 PM
Also, he's pricing himself out of having a younger fanbase, annoying everyone with the constant re-releases in different packaging, etc.

David Bowie is guilty of the same thing but it doesn't seem to have hurt his standing with younger fans.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: AaronC on April 16, 2008, 09:14:25 PM
I'm kicking myself for not thinking of this earlier:

Hot streak--Elvis Costello 1977-1982

Cold streak--mostly everything else, with a good year here and there (1986, for example, was "King of America" and "Blood and Chocolate," two great albums; 1994 for "Brutal Youth" and "Kojak Variety.")

You could argue that his unwillingness to release the same kind of stuff over and over again is commendable (it is), but I don't think the quality is there.  Also, he's pricing himself out of having a younger fanbase, annoying everyone with the constant re-releases in different packaging, etc.

Funny, I thought this same thing this morning.  Devo is another one with an incredible hot & cold streak. 
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on April 16, 2008, 09:34:10 PM
I did not get to listen to the whole show last night.  Did anyone mention Public Enemy from 1987 to 1991? Granted, not the longest streak, but certainly one of the hottest. Four classic albums in about as many years.  I know some may argue about Apocalypse '91, that it is not like the previous three, but the album is damn tight when you consider the fact that James Brown's lawyers (and others) started administering beatdowns for sampling around that time.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Stupornaut on April 16, 2008, 10:07:14 PM
I did not get to listen to the whole show last night.  Did anyone mention Public Enemy from 1987 to 1991? Granted, not the longest streak, but certainly one of the hottest. Four classic albums in about as many years.  I know some may argue about Apocalypse '91, that it is not like the previous three, but the album is damn tight when you consider the fact that James Brown's lawyers (and others) started administering beatdowns for sampling around that time.

I was going to suggest Eric B. & Rakim's first four albums if my phone hadn't been shut off, but man, that's a good one.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Emily on April 16, 2008, 10:27:56 PM
Alicia Silverstein: hot streak - Clueless, Crush, Aerosmith videos, then an extended cold streak & now she's just streaking (for PETA) ahahahaha.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Dorvid Barnas on April 17, 2008, 12:43:23 AM
Jeff Conaway 1978-82 - Co-star of Grease, Two time Golden Globe nominee for Taxi, daily conversations with Tony Danza. HOT STREAK!

Jeff Conaway 2006 - Present.  Breakout star of Celebrity Rehab, Celebrity Rehab II, and what appears to be a trailer for the next Christopher Guest movie. 

[youtube]x4vhdIx0j6o[/youtube]

Danza was his wingman at Studio 54!  Now Butch Patrick is doing stuntwork on his couch.

COLD STREAK.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: todd on April 17, 2008, 10:02:45 AM
Cold streak: horror films. There are two trends that have come to dominate the past few years, and neither of them are good: remakes of Japanese films, and "torture porn" (where a bunch of innocent people get cut into tiny pieces or have nails driven into their eyes). Ugh. No thanks.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: ericluxury on April 17, 2008, 10:09:11 AM
Cold streak: Music journalism.
Its not just about there being no Nick Kents or singular journalists or writers. There might be a great talent pool, but now its mostly internet music journalism that favors the long-winded and the lyric quoting and embarassing magazines. Especially now that file sharing makes everyone think they are musical expert, musical journalism is very, very cold.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: <<<<< on April 17, 2008, 11:00:32 AM
David Bowie is guilty of the same thing but it doesn't seem to have hurt his standing with younger fans.

By virtue of sheer influence, no doubt.

How many kids born after Ian Curtis died are professed fans of Joy Division?  Quite a lot, I'd expect.  They've been post-humously pulling new generations of fans for almost thirty years simply because influential people talk about them (or copy them).

Pretty much the same deal with Bowie.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: senorcorazon on April 17, 2008, 11:06:47 AM
Public Enemy

Some could argue that Flavor Flav's hot streak is finally here. After being an idiot he has become a full-tilt moron and has a third season of a TV show because of it.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: erika on April 17, 2008, 11:09:09 AM
Every single thing the Smashing Pumpkins did after Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness has been icy cold.

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: masterofsparks on April 17, 2008, 12:23:57 PM
Every single thing the Smashing Pumpkins did after Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness gish has been icy cold.

Fixed!
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: pinky on April 17, 2008, 12:34:56 PM
Where is the NetFLix thread??
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: senorcorazon on April 17, 2008, 03:19:38 PM
Every single thing the Smashing Pumpkins did after Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness gish has been icy cold.

Fixed!

Get thee to Siamese Dream! Yes, a little too teenage angsty, but it saved my life last week waiting an hour to travel the last two lights to get into the Holland Tunnel. Wait, maybe that's an unfair situation to judge an album on -- anything with 45 guitar tracks per song would be appreciated at that point.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on April 17, 2008, 04:23:04 PM
Cold streak: Music journalism.
Its not just about there being no Nick Kents or singular journalists or writers. There might be a great talent pool, but now its mostly internet music journalism that favors the long-winded and the lyric quoting and embarassing magazines. Especially now that file sharing makes everyone think they are musical expert, musical journalism is very, very cold.

agreed.  i loathe the peppering of lyrics in music reviews.

in fact, ive never liked music reviews; however, i like Andy Earles.  otherwise, im looking for a report card rating and flipping to the actual articles (due to a forthcoming album). 
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: JonFromMaplewood on April 17, 2008, 05:03:20 PM
Public Enemy

Some could argue that Flavor Flav's hot streak is finally here. After being an idiot he has become a full-tilt moron and has a third season of a TV show because of it.


If Chuck didn't have Flav around to act as his Rosencrantz/Guildenstern, then P.E. wouldn't have gotten anywhere.  P.E. would have been considered too serious.  Flavor Flav made them a lot harder to categorize, and therefore more interesting.  Yeah, he's a moron, but it was perfect for P.E. at the time.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: yesno on April 17, 2008, 05:16:50 PM
Cold streak: Music journalism.
Its not just about there being no Nick Kents or singular journalists or writers. There might be a great talent pool, but now its mostly internet music journalism that favors the long-winded and the lyric quoting and embarassing magazines. Especially now that file sharing makes everyone think they are musical expert, musical journalism is very, very cold.

agreed.  i loathe the peppering of lyrics in music reviews.

in fact, ive never liked music reviews; however, i like Andy Earles.  otherwise, im looking for a report card rating and flipping to the actual articles (due to a forthcoming album). 


I like long-form music journalism like "Our Band Could Be Your Life" or well-written features like you might find in Wire.

But I see album reviews as strictly utilitarian.  Give me some basic facts.  Tell me what it sounds like.  Give me some context.  Thumbs up/thumbs down.  Metacritic is great for this.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on April 17, 2008, 05:36:10 PM
Cold streak: Music journalism.
Its not just about there being no Nick Kents or singular journalists or writers. There might be a great talent pool, but now its mostly internet music journalism that favors the long-winded and the lyric quoting and embarassing magazines. Especially now that file sharing makes everyone think they are musical expert, musical journalism is very, very cold.

agreed.  i loathe the peppering of lyrics in music reviews.

in fact, ive never liked music reviews; however, i like Andy Earles.  otherwise, im looking for a report card rating and flipping to the actual articles (due to a forthcoming album). 


I like long-form music journalism like "Our Band Could Be Your Life" or well-written features like you might find in Wire.

But I see album reviews as strictly utilitarian.  Give me some basic facts.  Tell me what it sounds like.  Give me some context.  Thumbs up/thumbs down.  Metacritic is great for this.

same here.  i'll pick up another "Our Band Could Be Your Life" before i browse an album review. 

...such a good book.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: masterofsparks on April 17, 2008, 05:53:21 PM
Every single thing the Smashing Pumpkins did after Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness gish has been icy cold.

Fixed!

Get thee to Siamese Dream! Yes, a little too teenage angsty, but it saved my life last week waiting an hour to travel the last two lights to get into the Holland Tunnel. Wait, maybe that's an unfair situation to judge an album on -- anything with 45 guitar tracks per song would be appreciated at that point.

I liked SD at the time (I saw them on that tour), but when I re-listened to the album about a year ago I didn't even make it all the way through. gish, on the other hand, still sounds good to my ears.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Oogie on April 17, 2008, 06:33:16 PM
not music but

coen brothers:
blood-simple to barton fink ++++

hudsucker to ladykillers ----

no country to ???? ++++
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: KickTheBobo on April 17, 2008, 09:07:38 PM
Every single thing the Smashing Pumpkins did after Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness gish has been icy cold.

Fixed!

Get thee to Siamese Dream! Yes, a little too teenage angsty, but it saved my life last week waiting an hour to travel the last two lights to get into the Holland Tunnel. Wait, maybe that's an unfair situation to judge an album on -- anything with 45 guitar tracks per song would be appreciated at that point.

I liked SD at the time (I saw them on that tour), but when I re-listened to the album about a year ago I didn't even make it all the way through. gish, on the other hand, still sounds good to my ears.

I still love Gish & Siamese Dream, and despite what some folks said about their live show, I saw them at Roseland on the SD tour and they freakin' tore it up. Jimmy Chamberlain = one of the tops on the skins out there. I think the problem with listening to SD now is that it's broken up by all the overplayed singles (who really wants to hear 'Today' again?). There was a time when I actually LOVED the song 'Disarm'. I kinda lost track after that, but some of the tunes from Melancholy seemed good.

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: argyle on April 17, 2008, 09:32:41 PM
Gimmick, you're including Fargo and Big Lebowski in the Coen's cold streak?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Martin on April 17, 2008, 10:19:03 PM
Public Enemy

Some could argue that Flavor Flav's hot streak is finally here. After being an idiot he has become a full-tilt moron and has a third season of a TV show because of it.


If Chuck didn't have Flav around to act as his Rosencrantz/Guildenstern, then P.E. wouldn't have gotten anywhere.  P.E. would have been considered too serious.  Flavor Flav made them a lot harder to categorize, and therefore more interesting.  Yeah, he's a moron, but it was perfect for P.E. at the time.

That's a fantastic ref, Rosencrantz/Guildenstern! Also, PE is a great example for the topic.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: namethebats on April 17, 2008, 11:39:40 PM
Hot: John Cazale: Godfather, pts I-II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter. A spotless resume.
Cold: The U.S. presidency between Jackson and Lincoln.

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Fig Neutron on April 17, 2008, 11:56:14 PM
I kept pushing myself to call in with this, but kept pulling myself back because it happened to be who I was listening to that day, so figured it couldn't ACTUALLY be a good example--it was just what I was thinking at the moment.  But here goes:

Scott Walker:

Four great albums in the 1960's (not even counting The Walker Brothers before).

Then a completely DEAD streak for 25 years.

Then a HOT streak from 1995 to today.

Even though that last hot streak is just three albums (or two, depending on if you count Pola X) over the past 12 years.  I thought that would be kinda funny to mention in itself.



Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Scot on April 18, 2008, 08:14:51 AM
another hot streak: cheater slicks! not a bad album in the bunch. in fact, not a less-than-stellar album in the bunch!
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: furnstein on April 18, 2008, 11:48:08 AM
Brian Eno from the first Roxy Music album to Remain In Light is an all time hot streak.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: furnstein on April 18, 2008, 11:50:11 AM
This topic has renewed my love of this song:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBeBQJHhIj4[/youtube]
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: erika on April 18, 2008, 12:31:27 PM
The Muppets are having a cold streak.

There. I said it.

*sniff*
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Mason on April 18, 2008, 01:28:33 PM
The Muppets are having a cold streak.

There. I said it.

*sniff*

Sad but true. Ever since...well, you know. The unavoidable change in leadership. Went from charming to corny right quick.


Hot Streak: Hows about AST Poll perennial Paul F. Tompkins? Did someone say this already? Several years ago there was some buzz around his name, but unless you lived in LA and went to Largo, you'd just know him as that guy from Mr. Show. Then boom! He's on fire. Since then the man can do no wrong. (I hesitate to write that. When people start saying "can do no wrong", you know you're in for a fall).

Cold Streak: Quark XPress (page layout program). The industry standard in printing, graphic design and publishing since the late 80's. Somehow it clung onto its position forever, despite the program staying horribly outdated with each new version. Despite being a buggy and unintuitive piece o' crap software that often corrupts files. Finally Adobe InDesign has established itself as proper alternative, so Quark's streak looks to have ended. Goodbye Quark, I never loved you. I merely tolerated you.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: argyle on April 18, 2008, 02:22:12 PM
Pee Wee Herman was on an incredible hot streak from first movie through his self-love bust.  Then cold.
THEN he got a little warm again, when he hosted You Don't Know Jack for about five minutes.  Hot to Freezing to Warmed Over to Cold.

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: yesno on April 18, 2008, 02:23:59 PM
Cold Streak:  7 Second Delay
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Matt on April 18, 2008, 02:32:18 PM
Hot: John Cazale: Godfather, pts I-II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter. A spotless resume.

I had thought of this one also. The man only did five films in his life, but he made 'em count.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: gravy boat on April 18, 2008, 02:47:23 PM
From a commercial success standpoint, John Travolta.  White hot with Saturday Night Fever, Grease, Welcome Back Kotter then mostly duds, reaching the lows of three (!) Looks Who's Talking movies.  Resurrected in Pulp Fiction, more success with Get Shorty, some other minor hits then backs to dudsville.  Battlefield Earth was a memorable disaster.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 18, 2008, 02:52:18 PM
Frozen Streak: Lady Talk.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: todd on April 18, 2008, 05:55:02 PM
Cold Streak:  7 Second Delay

Never listened to the show, but was thinking about trolling through the archives - can you explain?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: masterofsparks on April 18, 2008, 07:38:05 PM
Cold Streak:  7 Second Delay

Never listened to the show, but was thinking about trolling through the archives - can you explain?

You should definitely dig through the archives. The last several shows, with a couple of exceptions, have kinda flopped, though there are people in the audience whose favorite shows are the ones where the concept totally derails.

7SD is not as caller-driven as The Best Show, so I find that enjoy the podcast or listening on the archives just as much as listening live.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on April 18, 2008, 07:41:25 PM
I still listen to 7SD, but I don't know if the word "enjoy" really applies to any of them.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: yesno on April 18, 2008, 08:20:27 PM
Quote
Never listened to the show, but was thinking about trolling through the archives - can you explain?

There's some great ones in there.  The game where Andy gets people to say "no" is one of the funniest things ever.  And overall, Andy is one of the most naturally funny people I've ever heard on the radio.

It's just that a lot of the recent shows don't really work.

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: senorcorazon on April 19, 2008, 10:35:33 PM
It's just that a lot of the recent shows don't really work.

Isn't that kind of the point? I find it one of the funniest things around, but it's definitely a SLOOOOOW burn. The one where they just repeated what was on the radio had me bored for 20 minutes and then dying of laughter.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: octopus volcano on April 19, 2008, 11:29:13 PM
Twin Peaks was a hot streak which devolved into a cold streak.  Real cold.  It started to sputter after revealing Laura Palmer's killer, I guess it didn't really have anywhere to go after that.  I recently watched these again with someone who was too young to have seen them when they originally aired, she wanted to skip to the end of the series not long after the big reveal.  Which is what I did back in the day.  Even though I have the DVDs I've still never seen a good part of the second half of season 2.  It appears to really suck.  The finale is good though.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Steve in North Hollywood on April 20, 2008, 03:27:32 AM
Hot: John Cazale: Godfather, pts I-II, The Conversation, Dog Day Afternoon, The Deer Hunter. A spotless resume.

I had thought of this one also. The man only did five films in his life, but he made 'em count.


You could almost say the same for JT Walsh.  But instead of only showing up in 5 films and making them all count, he showed up in damn near EVERY FILM for 15 years, making his one career count.  It's a shame he shuffled loose just when he was on the verge of becoming a household name.  But, here we are, ten years later, and Hollywood still hasn't replaced him.  Nobody plays "unassumingly creepy-as-hell" like JT Walsh did.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Jouster on April 20, 2008, 06:54:16 AM
Twin Peaks was a hot streak which devolved into a cold streak.  Real cold.  It started to sputter after revealing Laura Palmer's killer, I guess it didn't really have anywhere to go after that.  I recently watched these again with someone who was too young to have seen them when they originally aired, she wanted to skip to the end of the series not long after the big reveal.  Which is what I did back in the day.  Even though I have the DVDs I've still never seen a good part of the second half of season 2.  It appears to really suck.  The finale is good though.

The second season is kind of remarkable - from hot streak to cold streak back to hot streak at the end (or as close as you get to a hot streak when you're recovering from a cold streak like that).  There's no other show that squandered its potential as badly as Twin Peaks did, but it was still so rich that most of it remained interesting.  Even the plotlines that turned out to be so awful were interesting initially (except for James and the femme fatale, which had no redeeming qualities that I can remember).  Despite what people try to say, neither John from Cincinnati nor Carnivale came close to capturing that initial magic (in my opinion) - oh, well.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Sarah on April 20, 2008, 07:05:27 AM
I agree, Jouster.  But don't you think this is true in part because when it first aired Twin Peaks was absolutely, utterly, completely (insert additional hyperbolic synonym here) unlike anything anyone had ever seen on television? 
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Jouster on April 20, 2008, 04:36:10 PM
Cold streak: HBO Comedy.  They went from probably the two best comedy shows ever made (The Larry Sanders Show and Mr. Show) to some of the worst (Entourage, Tourgasm, etc).  Flight of the Conchords is charming, but I still think it's pretty grim.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Martin on April 20, 2008, 04:53:48 PM
Hot/cold streak: I was gonna say Kenneth Branagh 1989-1996, because of Henry V, Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, In the Bleak Midwinter, and Hamlet, but then I realized Frankenstein and Dead Like Me are in there. In any case, he's had an ice cold streak post-Hamlet.

Hot hot streak: Michael Ritchie, 1972-1976 (Prime Cut, The Candidate, Smile, The Bad News Bears). Already discussed in the Movies... thread. I've now seen The Bad News Bears, it's every bit as good as people say, and thus it extends the hot streak even further. Still haven't seen Downhill Racer (1969), which preceeded Prime Cut, but I have a copy coming my way soon.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Jake from Memphis on April 20, 2008, 10:52:08 PM
Hot Streak:
Not taking anything away from his "classic period," but Miles Davis 1965-1972.  Begins with E.S.P and ends with On the Corner.  Within that you get Miles Smiles, In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Water Babies, Miles in the Sky, Live Evil, and a few more flawless records. 

Also, Scott walker Scott 1-4 is quite a streak as well.

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: ericluxury on April 21, 2008, 01:17:18 AM
Cold streak: Netflix. 5 straight movies that are scratched at various levels and then a disc that is straight-up broken. For shame, previous renter of Northern Exposure season 1.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on April 21, 2008, 12:42:07 PM
Hot/cold streak: I was gonna say Kenneth Branagh 1989-1996, because of Henry V, Peter's Friends, Much Ado About Nothing, In the Bleak Midwinter, and Hamlet, but then I realized Frankenstein and Dead Like Me are in there. In any case, he's had an ice cold streak post-Hamlet.

Hot hot streak: Michael Ritchie, 1972-1976 (Prime Cut, The Candidate, Smile, The Bad News Bears). Already discussed in the Movies... thread. I've now seen The Bad News Bears, it's every bit as good as people say, and thus it extends the hot streak even further. Still haven't seen Downhill Racer (1969), which preceeded Prime Cut, but I have a copy coming my way soon.

kenneth branagh did have a decent hot streak.  (i enjoyed How To Kill Your Neighbor's Dog)
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: AaronC on April 21, 2008, 01:14:41 PM
Cold streak: the rapper Coolio.  He was huge when I was in high school.  Last I heard, he was doing an online cooking show. 
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: masterofsparks on April 21, 2008, 01:27:07 PM
Cold streak: the rapper Coolio.  He was huge when I was in high school.  Last I heard, he was doing an online cooking show. 

That's what threatening Weird Al will get you.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: senorcorazon on April 21, 2008, 01:41:49 PM
Cold streak: The piano. After becoming a staple in a lot of homes and the place where people would congregate at a party after a few drinks to sing and whatnot, it's been dialed down to maybe only the occasional keyboard gathering dust.

Hot streak: The IDEA of guitar. Air guitar championships and Guitar Hero proves it. And further proof of the cold streak for piano is it's exclusion from the instruments in Rock Band. Let's all be thankful for that.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: argyle on April 21, 2008, 03:29:08 PM
A similar cold streak to the piano, how about....Cold Streak:  The Grandfather Clock.

hot streak: parents buying their kids houses.  What's up with that?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: JBillington on April 22, 2008, 07:05:45 AM
Hot Streak:
Not taking anything away from his "classic period," but Miles Davis 1965-1972.  Begins with E.S.P and ends with On the Corner.  Within that you get Miles Smiles, In a Silent Way, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Water Babies, Miles in the Sky, Live Evil, and a few more flawless records. 

I'd extend it to include Get Up With It (1974) and the Japanese-tour madness of Aghartha/Pangea (1975). These latter two initially sound like the worst kind of jazz-fusion excess, until you get into them.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: The Cleef on April 22, 2008, 10:20:09 AM
Captain Beefheart
hot streak = Safe as Milk - 1968 to Spotlight Kid 1972
cold streak = 1974
hot streak = 1978 - 1982
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: buffcoat on April 22, 2008, 03:19:49 PM
Captain Beefheart
hot streak = Safe as Milk - 1968 to Spotlight Kid 1972
cold streak = 1974
hot streak = 1978 - 1982

Who's afraid of the spiritwiththebluesforbones?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Matt C on April 27, 2008, 02:15:46 AM
Sorry this is an old topic but I just heard the show and wished I had called in.


Stan Lee.

1960's: Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-men etc.

Modern: Stripperella, various interiews.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: dave from knoxville on April 27, 2008, 06:05:38 PM
I agree, Jouster.  But don't you think this is true in part because when it first aired Twin Peaks was absolutely, utterly, completely (insert additional hyperbolic synonym here) unlike anything anyone had ever seen on television? 

If only for saddle shoes on Audrey Horne, t'would have been enough.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 27, 2008, 11:52:07 PM
Sorry this is an old topic but I just heard the show and wished I had called in.


Stan Lee.

1960's: Spider-Man, Daredevil, Hulk, Fantastic Four, X-men etc.

Modern: Stripperella, various interiews.

Good one, though the presence of Ditko and Kirby complicate it.  I guess you could say all three of them had cold streaks once they stopped working together, though I still like most of Kirby's solo stuff.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: <<<<< on April 28, 2008, 12:09:31 AM
Cold Streak:  The Grandfather Clock.

Definitely looking for the grandfather clock to be making a comeback soon, along with the machine that goes "ping".

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Matt on April 28, 2008, 12:29:09 AM
Nick Lowe, 1972-1980: The last four Brinsley Schwarz albums (Nervous on the Road, Silver Pistol, Please Don't Ever Change, New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz), the Tartan Horde single, Jesus of Cool/Pure Pop for Now People, Labour of Lust and the Rockpile album (Seconds of Pleasure). Also, producing the early Graham Parker albums, the Damned's first record and the Pretenders' first single, not to mention Elvis Costello's first five albums.

Hot streaks don't get no hotter than that.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: dave from knoxville on April 28, 2008, 09:03:01 AM
OK, but where's his cold streak? I saw him recently in Nashville, and he was wonderfully entertaining, and a lovely gracious guy to boot.

How about BOC? The first 4 albums were like houses on fire (especially Secret Treaties and Agents of Fortune), and Spectres had a couple of mighty fine moments, but with the exception of isolated cuts (Heavy Metal: Black and Silver, anyone?), it's been frigid since about 1978. Doesn't stop them from appearing at sledloads of county fairs, though.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: erika on April 28, 2008, 10:29:27 AM
Man, artificial sweeteners are on a hot streak. I hate this crap. If I see soda and it says "50% less sugar" I expect 50% less sugar and not 50% more chemicals.

Gross.

Low carb, low shmarb.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Josh Fenderman on April 28, 2008, 11:41:12 AM
Public Enemy

Some could argue that Flavor Flav's hot streak is finally here. After being an idiot he has become a full-tilt moron and has a third season of a TV show because of it.


If Chuck didn't have Flav around to act as his Rosencrantz/Guildenstern, then P.E. wouldn't have gotten anywhere.  P.E. would have been considered too serious.  Flavor Flav made them a lot harder to categorize, and therefore more interesting.  Yeah, he's a moron, but it was perfect for P.E. at the time.

Exactly...  more than a few of my friends were drawn in by PE not because of Chuck's lyrics but because of the crazy guy with the clock around his neck saying "Yeah... booyyyyeeee!"
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: G-MINUS-MARK on April 29, 2008, 03:57:36 PM
Excuse me if I've missed this in a previous post

But with Tom in mind

Hot Streak ABBA?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: andrew in philadelphia on April 30, 2008, 01:43:41 PM
unblemished, career-long hot streak: mike watt

maybe it's my fan bias talking, but everything this guy has played on is pure gold.

minutemen - on the greatest bands of all time
fIREHOSE - see above
dos - a band consisting of only 2 basses and occasional vocals? amazing..
3 very solid and interesting solo records - plus tons of great singles from the 8 million different bands he puts together
j mascis and the fog
hellride
'lil pit
porno for pyros
the stooges (even though the mix on "the weirdness" stinks and you can't hear the bass)
banyan
the unknown instructors

Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Chris L on April 30, 2008, 02:36:05 PM
"the weirdness stinks"

Correct!
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 30, 2008, 02:41:05 PM
Mike Watt is awesome.  But when did he play with Porno for Pyros?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: gravy boat on April 30, 2008, 02:50:28 PM
unblemished, career-long hot streak: mike watt

maybe it's my fan bias talking, but everything this guy has played on is pure gold.

minutemen - on the greatest bands of all time
fIREHOSE - see above
dos - a band consisting of only 2 basses and occasional vocals? amazing..
3 very solid and interesting solo records - plus tons of great singles from the 8 million different bands he puts together
j mascis and the fog
hellride
'lil pit
porno for pyros
the stooges (even though the mix on "the weirdness stinks" and you can't hear the bass)
banyan
the unknown instructors


I don't know if it counts as to the hot streak but I've always loved Watt's web site.  So comprehensive -- here are some songs.  Here's what Mike says about the latest show in Australia.  Here's what Mike had for lunch.  When he was really sick a few years ago he was posting pictures of the abscesses in his stomach(?).

He's like no other.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: andrew in philadelphia on April 30, 2008, 04:03:02 PM
"the weirdness stinks"

Correct!

hey, hey.. just the mix i said. think i'm one of the few people on this planet who actually like that record.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: andrew in philadelphia on April 30, 2008, 04:04:26 PM
Mike Watt is awesome.  But when did he play with Porno for Pyros?

plays the bass on the title track from "good god's urge" and (i think) one more tune on that album. also did live bass duties on the tour for that record. perry had him wearing some type of furry mouse suit. it's all here: http://hootpage.com/hoot_pfp.html
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: andrew in philadelphia on April 30, 2008, 04:10:29 PM

I don't know if it counts as to the hot streak but I've always loved Watt's web site.  So comprehensive -- here are some songs.  Here's what Mike says about the latest show in Australia.  Here's what Mike had for lunch.  When he was really sick a few years ago he was posting pictures of the abscesses in his stomach(?).

He's like no other.

the website - "mike watt's hootpage" - is the greatest. i never saw those pics (i can imagine though!) - but the abscesses and subsequent infection that almost killed him a few years back was actually in his perineum. i believe "taint" is the more commonly used english slang for that region. gross..
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on April 30, 2008, 11:55:21 PM
I was also digging his podcast (The Watt From Pedro Show) for a while.  Is he still doing that?
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Josh on May 01, 2008, 12:02:20 AM
I was also digging his podcast (The Watt From Pedro Show) for a while.  Is he still doing that?

Yes (http://www.twfps.com/).
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on May 01, 2008, 01:20:24 PM
Cold Streak: My checking account.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: jed on May 01, 2008, 01:25:07 PM
Hot streak: The Dallas Mavericks, 07/08 Regular Season
Cold streak: The Dallas Mavericks, 07/08 Playoffs

It's always funny to me when a team I don't care about and that spends more money than everyone else on their players flops in a major way.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: iAmBaronVonTito on May 01, 2008, 01:34:09 PM
Cold Streak: My checking account.

word!
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: senorcorazon on May 01, 2008, 03:23:00 PM
Cold Streak: My checking account.

Hot Streak: My savings account
Cold Streak: My savings account in 2 months, after wedding bills
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on May 01, 2008, 03:28:41 PM
Oh yeah,

Colder Streak: my savings account.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Stan on May 01, 2008, 03:39:08 PM
 My car recently gave my checking account a really thorough enema.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: stepheninchicago on May 01, 2008, 03:53:56 PM
After calling in, I regret not offering this cold streak...

CHEVY CHASE: post "Fletch"-->present.

do we even need to analyze this? Maybe with the exception of Xmas vacation and Dirty Work (and that's really stretching it) dude has been failing hard.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: Sarah on May 01, 2008, 04:19:57 PM
Come on.  You've got to agree his work in Zoom was superb.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: erika on May 01, 2008, 04:29:04 PM
Oh yeah,

Colder Streak: my savings account.


My credit report is ICY.
Title: Re: Hot Streak/Cold Streak
Post by: PatrickChew on May 02, 2008, 10:26:08 AM
After calling in, I regret not offering this cold streak...

CHEVY CHASE: post "Fletch"-->present.

do we even need to analyze this? Maybe with the exception of Xmas vacation and Dirty Work (and that's really stretching it) dude has been failing hard.

No love for Cops and Robbersons?

Actually, Memoirs of an Invisible Man is worth revisiting. Not one of Carpenter's best, but what are ya gonna do?