The Modern Lovers

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(thing) by pingouin (4.3 y) (print) ? (I like it!) 1 C! Sat Nov 13 1999 at 10:21:24

An early 70s Boston band: Jonathan Richman (guitar, vocals), Jerry Harrison (guitar and keyboards), who later joined Talking Heads, Ernie Brooks (bass), and David Robinson (drums), later of The Cars. Their debut was produced by John Cale (Richman was a devout Velvet Underground fan) and yielded such post-VU chestnuts as "Roadrunner" and "Pablo Picasso" (much covered, including by Cale). Richman kept the ML name for subsequent bands.

(idea) by ideath (1.9 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Thu Mar 16 2000 at 22:06:18

They were named the Modern Lovers because when someone asked Jonathan Richman what kind of music they made, he said they made music for modern lovers (modern love songs?).

(person) by Metacognizant (10 mon) (print) ? (I like it!) Fri Sep 28 2001 at 5:34:45

Discography (does not include albums credited only to Jonathan Richman). Of course, "The Modern Lovers" is a fluid concept, it refers basically to whomever Jonathan was playing with at the time:

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Annoying, affectless hipster kids in record stores	Jonathan Richman	John Cale	Proto-punk
The Cars	Neil's dance of compromised joy	Jonathan Livingston Seagull	Alex P. Keaton
The Strokes	Robyn Hitchcock	Roadrunner	Dream Log: February 12, 2000
Losing My Edge	I, Jonathan	The Velvet Underground	How to clean a fish
Pablo Picasso	Route 128 Revisited	Depeche Mode	Kama Sutra
affection	Kim Fowley	The Stooges	George W. Bush's 2005 State of the Union Address

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