Stiff Records had great commercial hopes for this Manchester quartet, led by balding, bespectacled singer/guitarist/pianist Clive Gregson , whose songs — mostly about the unhappy side of love — have always shown real talent. It unfortunately took the group a long time to escape their basic facelessness and locate a sound, a slow start that may be why Any Trouble ended without ever receiving the acclaim they deserved. Any Trouble , by a half-new lineup, is the band's first great album (this being their third studio outing), a [...]
I understand why they fired me, but did they have to get so fucking cold and ruthless about it? -Doug Hopkins (Rolling Stone, 1993) There is beyond an excellent chance that I was in this crowd. DISCLAIMER: The Gin Blossoms were the bar band in Phoenix during my post college years. So many weekends were spent drinkin', smokin' and dancin' up a sweat with The [...]
The dreaded return of Senator Psycho Man -- because there is no gag I can't milk 'till the udders squirt dust! (with apologies this time to Fantastic Four #284, November 1985) I came of age in the era of home videogame consoles -- first the Pong clones, then the Atari age, the Nintendo generation, and all that followed. Before one was old enough to secure a source of [...]
The random Friday, post exceptional Joe show, five: Ike and Tina Turner - Our Lord Will Make A Way (Mp3) Van Halen - Dance The Night Away (Mp3) The Charlatans - Time For Livin' (Mp3) Any Trouble - Baby Now That I've Found You (Mp3) China Crisis - Seven Sports For All (Live) (Mp3) (Thanks Mick!)
In the bleak midwinter, we all need some sunshine. By the time you read this (by the wonders of modern publish-by-proxy technology) I will be suspended somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, heading to Kauai. I will probably be listening to this mix (on my new noise-cancelling headphones) to wash away the ice and stress of modern life and prepare for some island revellry. I am staying here . Aw yeah. These tunes capture a slice of the island/surf/sun lifestyle for me, and will be my soundtrack until Tuesday. The mix starts with a lovely little Ed Vedder [...]
"Ew, boy. I am looking forward to getting over to the Iron Monkey in two and a half hours." -- Tom, having second thoughts after a caller is already sloshed "Look son, this is the Big Leagues. You're barely Tee-Ball level." -- Tom, optioning Hesh for reassignment to the minors "******* **** and * ******* *******." -- Excerpts of two unaired resposes from author Ken Rogers "He'll film Barbarella in an elevator in Austin. It will cost $4,800. And it will star Rose McGowan." [...]
For today's theme mix, I did something a little different. I got my dictionary out and opened it up to random pages and picked a word. Then, I looked through my collection for a song title that had that word in it. My inspiration for this was the scene in Say Anything when Diane tells Lloyd that she used to underline every word that she looked up in the dictionary. So, here's the most random mix I think I've ever offered up. Hope you like it! [...]
Mine For Life
Rock Town Hall
Armagideon Time
The Vinyl District
I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
Recidivism.
Looking at Them
Summer (Or What It Sounds Like) Vol. 3
Thursday Pass Along – May 24, 2012
