Are any of my readers actually excited about today being Valentine's Day? I am surely not. This holiday has never been my thing and probably never will be. It might actually be a criteria for me settling down with one choice woman, "Do you celebrate Valentine's Day in the way Hallmark deems appropriate?". "Yes", would be a deal breaker. Anyway its difficult for me to let any holiday slide without some recognition so I'm posting a mix, but its not your traditional mix of Barry White's and Al Green's. Obviously its going to include a slew of the [...]
As Wednesday creeps into the edges of your consciousness, it's my pleasure to again pair with two of Philly's finest -- Bruce from Some Velvet Blog & Duke from The Late Greats -- for a tag team Valentine's Day bacchanalia. There are millions and trillions of love songs out there, ranging from the sublime to the silly, from the nostalgic to the nasty. We each arbitrarily picked out ten that we liked for this holiday of cupids and red roses, and we're putting it up 2 [...]
Even though I swore all week I was only going to watch the Grammy Awards long enough to see Stewart, Sting and Andy perform, I've somehow gotten sucked into watching the whole thing. So I figured I'd keep a running blog to keep myself interested. - As excited as I am about the Police reuniting, that performance seemed a little anticlimatic. It was nice they tried to do something fresh with "Roxanne," but that rearrangement of the second verse didn't really work. - How much longer do we [...]
1) "Whiskey" - Voxtrot [ Buy other Voxtrot ] 2) "Diet Coke At The Gap" - The Cheat from Drunk With Power [ Buy it ] (via Speed of Dark ) 3) "Juice" - Eric B & Rakim from Juice soundtrack [...]
So, it's a new year, and we've pledged to keep things interesting for all of you who like to visit frequently (but mainly for me). We're trying to come up with new features that may happen more than once (or regularly, as some might say). This may be one of those—the idea being that, on the traditional "day of rest," the day that everyday is like, the day that's...um...here again, in tidy attire, will be the day to post songs that wouldn't necessarily be posted, and group them together in useless, arbitrary categories. Sounds like fun to me. [...]
I had mixed feelings when Tower Records shut off the lights for good last month. Honestly, it was inevitable. The company had been teetering on the edge of bankruptcy for years, due to bad business decisions and shortsighted views on the changing music industry. I won't go into a long discussion about how mismanaged they were, but the quote at the beginning of this article blaming all the industry's problems on file sharing illustrates how management at the company just didn't get it. And their poor customer service was legendary. [...]
I never intended to put together a 24 song, 77 minute power pop mix. It just happened. One night I found a reissue of Flippin Out, a mid-nineties power pop gem by the Boston band, Gigolo Aunts, on eMusic. Later that same night, I found myself buying the out-of-print three decade power pop compilation, Poptopia, that Rhino released in 1997 (for a considerable mark-up I must add). It didn't end there, as the next two weeks I was obsessively scouring the internet and tearing through my old cd rack in search of the best power pop music ever made. The [...]
Happy new year! Hope everyone had a good 2006 and a good new years eve, and is ready for a 2007 thats even more uberrockin than 2006. Right now I am listening to PRONG! How much more ROCK can you get?!?! Last year of course saw the release of a rather stunning Replacements compilation by the folks at Rhino that somehow managed to include material from both their Sire and Reprise albums as well as two new tracks. I was under the understanding that they were also due to do some re-releases of the whole catalogue with [...]
For this week's Throwback, I decided to go with one of those 80's bands that pretty much everbody has heard of, but few people are actually familiar with. The Replacements were a band from Minneapolis, MN that fromed in 1979 and saw their demise in 1991. They were mainstays on 80's college radio and many of their songs and lyrics have been fixtures in pop culture ever since. If you are familar with them, enjoy this trip down memory lane. If you aren't, this is your chance to become acquainted. [...]
Paul Westerberg is in a cast after putting a screwdriver through his hand and hurting himself pretty bad. Doctors are telling him he won't be playing guitar for a year according to Jim Walsh's blog. Jim's a Minneapolis writer and...
To some degree I'm repeating myself here, but plod on dear reader... there are extenuating circumstances. Amy mentioned that I've been sick. It's true. Not run-of-the-mill cold, flu or whooping cough ill, but one of those things where you're having nurses swap out new IV bags, one in each arm, for almost a week. I'm better now thank goodness (the stew was perfect, Am, merci). About halfway through my medical vacation they switched my drugs to something that can affect your hearing if you're not careful. Being mildly paranoid (which isn't a bad thing in the [...]
This is a post I've been wanting to do for a while. A few months back as I was listening to "Beer for Breakfast" by the Replacements, I realized that there are a lot of wonderfully stupid songs out there ¬– songs whose subject matter is so crass, juvenile, and/or moronic that they induce guffaws and/or grins. Below are some that I found. If any one of you can think of others, let me know and I'll try to post 'em. STUPID SONG INSIGHT!!! Note that [...]
[MP3] Cracker – "Movie Star" Gotta love a song with the lyric: "The movie star crashed her car but everyone said she was beautiful even without her head." [MP3] Devo – "Uncontrollable Urge" Devo could really throw down in their day. I sometimes forget that. [MP3] Guided by Voices – "Glad Girls" Poppy fun from G-by-V. [MP3] Replacements – "I Hate Music" [...]
It's a neighborly god or the reverse I'm ontoâ€"â€" a proper noun emblazoned across tiles that fast became another proper noun, your name, a kind and wide-eyed monster, marbles slotted in as afterthoughts & your vision. To wit, I drown in Louis Jadot under the pretense you're an inch beyond the green glass. No number of lines does justice to this shambles.
i wonder what sheep look up is up to these days? how many times do you think that the ex-members of sheep look up have sat around and drunkenly retold the story of the time that they played on the same bill as the mats? i can also assume that these members "rocked so much fuckin harder" than the mats, or at least the way they tell it. 18. cant hardly wait - acoustic 19. valentine 20. birthday girl 21. bundle up [...]
like most 30 somethings, i possess a gradually expanding wasteline - although its flatlined in recent years, a mortgage, a wife, a kid, car payments, a job i dont care for, and an unwavering love affair with the replacements. i was 13 when i first heard please to meet me, and i knew i was in love as soon as i.o.u. blasted through piecemeal , see shitty, stereo. i love(d) them for everything they werent, even though it would take some years for me to firmly and confidently grasp everything the feared and loved. i contend [...]
Here’s the first of my multipart tribute to the Replacements, one of the best rock bands of our modern day and one of the founders of the indie sensibility. Here’s some live covers they did, plus one original. I wish they were better quality, but you’re gonna have to live with it. Maybelline (Chuck Berry cover)-The Replacements . Born to Lose (Johnny Thunders cover)-The Replacements . Rock [...]
Ahh, the eternal clash between labor and management. The boots and the suits. The have-nots and have-gots. The card-carrying union workers and the club-clutching union breakers. The greedy and, well, the greedy. Happy Labor Day, everyone! [MP3] Against Me! â€" “Baby, I’m an Anarchist†[MP3] Bedouin Soundclash â€" “Immigrant Workforce†[MP3] The Clash â€" “Career Opportunities (Live)†[MP3] The Clash â€" “Magnificent [...]
Even if you’re here strictly to snatch songs and not to read my scintillating prose (that’s only like one or two of you, right?), you’ve likely detected my affinity for the Replacements. Well, it seems my affinity is shared by many who’ve actually taken up instruments and formed bands. In addition to countless covers of Mats tunes (click here for a recent tribute disc), several groups have written songs about the ramshackle Minneapolis rockers. Indeed, even the Mats have written songs about the Mats (see the two songs below that Paul and Chris penned about deceased [...]
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I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
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Untouched By Work or Duty
I Rock Cleveland
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Medication: A Buddyhead MP3 Blog
Shake Your Fist
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Monday Music – 28 May 2012
Andre 3000 As Jimi Hendrix: Foxey
Listen: The Vaccines – No Hope
