#timbuk3

[doomspaniels]

When Gwyn chooses to put down her soft toy to start gnawing on an allowed chew, I have been saying, "Good girl, making good choices!" But because everything morphs into song lyrics in my head, this has become "doing all right, making good grades, the future's so bright, I gotta wear shades."

I guess my puppy is studying nuclear science. I'm very proud.

[rastronomicals]

Timbuk3

[myimaginaryradio]

Future's So Bright - Timbuk 3 - 1986

[strange-messengers]

“Greetings From Timbuk3″, Timbuk3′s 1986 debut album

[krispyweiss]

Future Remains Bright as Pat McDonald Turns 70

There’s a party in Timbuk3 today as Pat McDonald turns 70.

Born Aug. 6, 1952, McDonald formed Timbuk3 with his then-wife, Barbara K., in 1984. Over the next decade, the couple put out a half-dozen albums before going their own ways personally and professionally.

Their music was and remains quirky. And Sound Bites loves them in the strangest way.

Since the breakup, McDonald has collaborated on songwriting with artists ranging from Cher, Stewart Copeland and Peter Frampton and recorded solo and with the Legendary Sons of Crack Daniels and Purgatory Hill.

His future remains bright, so break out the shades.

8/6/22

[zeruch]

#vinyloftheday is a strange oddity from the 1980s, the debut major label record the band #timbuk3, which produce their soul US charting hit, "the future's so Bright I gotta Wear Shades". The band produced jangly, desert Western inflected pop, not necessarily unlike Stan Ridgway, with a really wry sense of humor; case in point, the future so bright single became for decades a popular song to play at high school and college graduations, even though the actual meaning of the song was it ironic grim look at a possible future nuclear Holocaust scenario (not unlike how Springsteen's "Born in the USA" is not the patriotic anthem many thinks the chorus makes it out to be). The band should have done better chartwise, because I definitely wrote some great tunes over the course of their half-dozen albums, but this is the only one I have on #vinyl. It was one of the first records produced by Dennis Herring, who later became famous for producing albums by Ben Folds, the Hives, Modest Mouse, and Elvis Costello. (at SoFA District) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTcvqPuJ6qs/?utm_medium=tumblr

[altoecko]

Album on table! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n2RphNIqbQZAT67t8ldkttV5HB-f1zKK0 https://open.spotify.com/album/4sTmO22LMshhDvK34HU74T?si=YE6PKzIkRdG0uhqWJOOYoA https://www.discogs.com/Timbuk-3-Eden-Alley/release/2628997 #edenalley #timbuk3 #rockmusic #newwave #southernrock #altrock #alternativerock #irsrecords #1988 #sweetrepeat #antiquemallfinds #ihov #LicoricePizza #instawax #instavinyl #nowspinning #nowplaying #vinylgram #vinyligclub #vinyljunkie #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #recordcollecting #recordcollection #recordcollector (at Gresham Park, Georgia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJzo7ChsF2K/?igshid=156p0h52hxi50

[jenniferdotson808]

The future’s so bright, I gotta wear shades 😎 #Timbuk3 🎶 #TGIF 🥳 #friYay 🙌🏽 #pandemicpuppy 🐾 https://www.instagram.com/p/CH1p4kSD_ft/?igshid=tzegmjnebgku