Friday Five : \'frī-(,)dā,-dē 'fīv\ : On the sixth day of every week, I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes, then share the first five tracks and thought for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, occasionally we'll have a guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. The Five: " Snaggletooth " by Motörhead (from [...]
Part I of songs played before each band at The Omens / The Christines / Overcasters show this past Saturday at the Hi-Dive. PLAYLIST: The Kinks - Sittin' On My Sofa Them - I Can Only Give You Everything Crocodiles - Mirrors Doves - Push Me On The Rolling Stones - Stupid Girl The Velvet Undergound - I Can't Stand It The La's - Way Out The Dandy Warhols - Down Like Disco 13th Floor Elevators - You're Gonna Miss Me The Monks - [...]
As far back as I can remember, skate videos have been one of the prime sources for musical exploration among our generation. Many still sit around talking about how badass it was to hear certain songs paired up with certain skater's parts. Throughout the years, hundreds of teams have compiled footage and edited to amazing and at times even inspirational soundtracks. What they inspired us to do is not the point, but rather what the music inspired the skaters in the videos to do. Most of the time, skaters were known to handpick their own songs, and the ones they [...]
this is a digital version of a compilation i put together for my own enjoyment in november 1991 of some of my favourite tunes at the time. this of course was in the days before itunes and therefore the days before the shuffle button and the playlist, when you'd either have to listen to an entire album straight through or waste a lot of battery time fast forwarding on your walkman to your favourites. or you just made your own playlist on a trusty c90 instead. mostly contemporary and basically fairly predictable for a [...]
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As I was combing through the archives looking for a long forgotten band to feature, I came across my two Ned's Atomic Dustbin CDs. If you've never heard of Ned's Atomic Dustbin you are not alone. They were popular in the UK mostly between 1990 and 1993. Over here in the good ol' US of A they were played on Alternative Rock stations like WFNX Lynn-Boston here in the Northeast. It's almost like they were somewhat of a buzz band. They never seemed to actually establish their own sound and identity, but when I think back on that precious era of [...]
Having been off the school year calendar for some time, Sept 1 isn't too meaningful a date for me. But thinking back to when entering the month felt like getting ready for a plane to take off, several songs come to mind. This one reminds me of high school freshman year, specifically my after-school job illegally operating the cardboard baling machine at the local supermarket. Those were the days. I remember at the time not being able to decide whether the band name or album title was sillier. Still can't. And to [...]
During the week, having missed the last train, i had the unfortunate displeasure of having to get a number 40 bus home. I mean, don't get me wrong i don't mind getting the bus, in fact i'd happily take the bus home from work over the train sometimes but i've never been one for enjoying late night bus journeys. They're usually inhabited and frequented by people dressed like this.. They have [...]
Did you know that at one point in recent history there was a whole subgenre of English bands that looked and sounded like Jesus Jones and EMF but weren't nearly as popular? Like floppy hair and double bass and everything. Oh really, you knew that did you. Liar. Well did you know that said subgenre was known as Baggy? Oh you knew that too! Well great. Did you know that we used to draw Ned's Atomic Dustbin's logo—a biohazard sign inside a, um, snot blob—all over our notebooks. Ha! You didn't DID YOU.
Electric Tickle Machine Genre: Psychedelic / Garage / Pop From: e. vill, New York [...]
Formed in the West Midlands, UK in 1989, alt-dance rockers Ned's Atomic Dustbin were part o f the English subculture, G rebo, a mix of post punk and garage rock. Jesus Jones and EMF were more of a watered-down and poppy v ersion of the sound that p receded the Amercian grunge sce [...]
Not just because of the unfortunate strangehold that reality TV has taken on my life, but also because alterna-grunge popsters Ned's Atomic Dustbin had two bass players, and that's sheer craziness! What does that factoid have to do with television, you ask? FUCK YOU, BUDDY. -KW POPULAR POSTS: FUNNY PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST: WIN A WASHBURN GUITAR SIGNED BY MUDVAYNE! THE "BANDS [...]
Non-linear Sod it, the time has come. Blow off the cobwebs, crank up the loudspeaker, cos an announcement is in order here at pogo a go-go: FiL is hereby abandoning linear time. What? You thought I was packing it in? Not a chance, Dearest Friend. Yes, yes, I know postings have been rather thin around here as of late, but it's a trickle, not a drought. I still have stories to tell, it's just that I can't [...]
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Perhaps realizing that breaking new artists in the music-stuffed, nostalgia-mired world of now was impossible, many a band that made their mark on the world back in the 1990s got back on their collective horses and rode the wave of "remember when?" this year, from Stone Temple Pilots to My Bloody Valentine to Ben Folds Five to even Ned's Atomic Dustbin . As you might expect, results were mixed overall, although they were probably better than those that would be realized by any new endeavors by the parties involved. [...]
Free School Genre: Experimental / Electro / Shoegaze From: Birmingham, United Kingdom Despite being the UKs second city Birmingham, commonly named as the birthplace of heavy metal, the most regressive form of music known to man, and home to the short lived grebo scene that spawned the likes of Neds Atomic Dustbin , The Wonder Stuff and Pop [...]
I've been enjoying Fi Glover's I Am An Oil Tanker: Travels With My Radio recently, a book which was originally published in 2001 but which I've only just got round to reading (I'm nothing if not tardy). In it, the erstwhile Five Live presenter and current host of Radio 4's Saturday Live explains her love of all things radio while visiting various stations around the world and chatting to the people they employ. Reading it has really rekindled my love of radio too (and Radio 2), which is [...]
There were many, many songs I could have chosen for today's colour-themed Three of a Kind: Blue Savannah By Erasure, Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden, Natalie Cole's Pink Cadillac ... something by Aqua or Blue; or perhaps Keith Harris and Orville's poignant take on the Irving Berlin classic White Christmas . Then there's always Aaliyah's Beige Ain't Nothing But A Number , Lionel Richie's Yellow (Is It Me You're Looking For?) and Reel 2 Real's I Like To Mauve It , to name but several. But in the end I [...]
If it seems like it has been awhile since I've put one of these "from the nineties" things together, it has. I (however) figured that being the lazy Sunday afternoon that it is, today would be the perfect opportunity to get back on track with this one. Besides, I knew you were all dying to hear something from Color Me Badd even though they were completely terrible then and still are today. MP3 | Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Grey Cell Green [...]
For all the talk about sales figures, mainstream media coverage, and whatnot, the comics scene is still a fairly insular environment with a public profile on par with that of contemporary poetry. Most people are aware it exists, few outside the bubble of cognoscenti and critics would be able to name even handful of recent "important" works. Comics do have a leg up on poetry in terms of licensability (there isn't exactly a rush to adapt Charles Simic's work into an XBox 360 game or a Hollywood summer blockbuster), but that cross-medium saturation hasn't effectively translated into a boost in [...]
Ena Sharples. Maybe. Dearest Friends, I have returned from Back East, where I had a funny old ten days or so. Funny, and absolutely knackering. Indeed, my head still feels hollow, like its very pith has been scraped out by a dull spoon. And I'm not sure when I'll find the downtime to recover... The businessy bits went well; lotsa "useful" meetings and a couple of dog 'n' pony presentations (yes, I remembered to make 'em larf) interspersed with drunken gluttony into the wee hours, [...]
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I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
REMIX SUNDAYS- May 27th, 2012
