YSaC, Vol 1717: Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

2014 June 15
by dan

BLUE NOISE (PUPPY)


HELLO I HAVE A 1 YEAR OLD BLUE NOISE . GREAT WITH CHILDREN AND OTHER DOGS. PLEASE EMAIL ME AND I WILL GIVE YOU MORE INFO AND PICS

THANK YOU

Ah Blue Noise. The legendary jazz/punk label was founded in the heady year of 1982, when Lester “Chicken Lips” Jones was released from his contract with Atlantic records. Known for being able to solo brilliantly over the extremely difficult “Giant Steps” changes despite being unable to do so over a 12-bar blues, Chicken Lips was deemed unemployable by the jazz establishment.

This anti-establishment mentality was a perfect fit for a partnership with Sid Rotten, a wanna-be British punk rocker from Topeka, Kansas who shared the Sex Pistols’ gift for petty larceny and self-destruction, but had nowhere near their instrumental or vocal prowess. After rejecting “Rotten Lips” as the name of their record company due to trademark infringement, the two settled on Blue Noise, and went on to release some of the least significant Jazz Punk music of the 1990s, including the Dead Kenny Burrells, Off Minor Threat, and Rancidney Bechet.

The label eventually dissolved after Jones and Rotten got into a shouting match over whose turn it was to go for doughnuts, and the assets were sold off for a dollar on Craigslist.

Thanks for the opportunity for the history lesson, Ralph!

20 Responses leave one →
  1. 2014 June 15
    James permalink

    You forgot about Jehoshaphat Jones, whose album “No”, is the only full length album consisting of one note played over and over again for ninety minutes. Rumor has it that Jones suggested that HE be the one to get the doughnuts, since it was on his way and would be no trouble at all, to say nothing of the fact that he was hungry… Or something.

    I say we spend the rest of this comments section developing this Jazz/Punk record label story. I don’t see how that would be a waste of time… I mean, I SEE that it could be but I ignore that possibility.

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    • 2014 June 16

      The way I heard it, Jehoshaphat’s wife, Blue Bonnet Jones, told them all to hush up, or she’d call the po-lice. She made a perfectly good coffee cake with the crumb topping, but they wanted donuts. Made her mad enough to wail and weep, bless my soul.

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  2. 2014 June 15
    meeshybee permalink

    Cyra-noise may be interested.

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  3. 2014 June 15
    One Moving Violation permalink

    I have some white noise and puppies tend to not like white noise. You know, because white noise is a machine and dogs bark at machines to warn the humans that that thing is a terminator. So if you want to survive the apocalypse,  then you should get Ol’ Blue.

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  4. 2014 June 15
    Ralph permalink

    But what if the blue noise puppy matures and converts to white, brown, or pink noise? I can get that for free without having to feed and walk it. Can Sparky guarantee me it will remain orthodox bluish?

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    • 2014 June 16

      I’m always amazed at the lengths you will go to for a pun, good, bad, or indifferent. 8) I like that in a person.

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    • 2014 June 16
      One Moving Violation permalink

      Yeah, I know a brown noiser at work.

      *walks off mumbling about boss’s pet*

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    • 2014 June 16
      SilvaNoir permalink

      The website claims that’s supposed to help pacify children and soothe migraines. That pink and white noise would GIVE me a migraine, in a the-radio-has-lost-the-station way please either change it or turn it off. Hopefully it wouldn’t give me children, because that would be awkward, not exactly the kind of free gift I’d want… I’d have to go through all the trouble of poking airholes in cardboard boxes and shipping them back.

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  5. 2014 June 16

    I don’t want a blue noise dog. All that high-pitched yapping would get to me.

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    • 2014 June 16
      SilvaNoir permalink

      I already have a tan-and-white noise dog, so I’m all set.

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  6. 2014 June 16
    MissMommyNiceNice permalink

    Ah, yes, I remember it like it was yesterday. That summer I tired with Rainy Day Property. Good times, good times.

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    • 2014 June 16
      One Moving Violation permalink

      Um, it was yesterday.

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      • 2014 June 16
        nojazzhere permalink

        Um, it was yesterday….
        all my (ahem)” troubles” seemed so far away….
        now it looks, uh huh, as if they’re here to stay….
        oh (duh) I believe in um, it was yesterday….
        (Da doo ron ron ron..) yesterday….

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  7. 2014 June 16
    Demon Duck of Doom permalink

    There were a number of even less significant artists that didn’t make the cut, including Herbie Buzzcock, Ella Misfitzgerald, The Jelly Roll Milkmen, Dropkick Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Circle Jerk, The Max Roach Motels, Sonic Ra and Felonious Monk.

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  8. 2014 June 16
    CapnMac permalink

    My google-fu is as I am today, poorly; is there a dog breed remotely resembling the phonic “blue noise”? Or is this simply autocorrect’s version of sparkii speeling “raid tick hown”? (Or, even that ever-present breed, “unner-porch-daik dawg”?)

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  9. 2014 June 16
    invisibleape permalink

    Blue nose

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    • 2014 June 22

      *looks suspiciously at invisibleape*

      Were you named Corey or Matt in a past life?

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  10. 2014 July 2

    I felt like this would be a good time to mention that there is a noise band called Extreme Noise Terrier.

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