Timbuk 3: Sample The Dog [ purchase ] I've blogged about Timbuk 3 in more personal terms here before, citing my mid-adolescent self, using the work of these early alternative radio, mostly-acoustic new wavers to mine the story between us, and how we find ourselves in music. But though other tracks on sophomore album Eden Alley are more radio-ready, and still others more edgy and weird, this is the cut that I spun more than anything that year, out of sheer joy. [...]
I suspect I drive Paloma to distraction with my lack of sartorial acumen and interest in such. Often she will return home with a new shirt or pair of pants for me. I truly feel bad that I cannot participate in her enthusiasm. Truly, I am. It's just that career choices afforded me the ability to dress casually with few restrictions well into my thirties. (grunge played right to my strengths even if not all of the music associated with that era did) Of course, during the past half [...]
Timbuk 3: A Sinful Life [ purchase ] I was in middle school, a loser and a loner; my best friend that year was a kid who lived down the street, a year older and just as socially maladjusted - but his home life was better, so we always went there after school. PJ was into a particular sort of eighties drum-machine-driven echo-harmony new wave music: he introduced me to The Thompson Twins, Everyone But The Girl, and Wang Chung, too, though I seem to remember that Howard [...]
A tune for my sister whose end of year exams start today
Le COR vient donc de publier son rapport de projections financières sur les besoins de financement des retraites à l'horizon 2050. Il a fallu constituer un équipe de choc pour pouvoir prévoir ce qui allait se passer dans 40 ans. Voici la composition de ce conseil : - Lola Pythie de Delphes - Elisabeth Tessier - Pierre Bonaventure - Marc de Café - Jean Abitboul de Cristal - Aline de la Main - Bruno Stradamus - Edgar Tomancien [...]
Here's an act that I really liked back in the late 80's and into the 90's. They were a folk duo with a drum machine called Timbuk 3. I only first heard them in 1986 when the late WBCN used to play their first single "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." For years, and thankfully I've broken myself of this habit, folks used to ask me how I was doing and I'd say "Doin' alright, gettin' good grades" as in "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." This band always had clever wordplay and I have always [...]
Here's an act that I really liked back in the late 80's and into the 90's. They were a folk duo with a drum machine called Timbuk 3. I only first heard them in 1986 when the late WBCN used to play their first single "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." For years, and thankfully I've broken myself of this habit, folks used to ask me how I was doing and I'd say "Doin' alright, gettin' good grades" as in "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." This band always had clever wordplay and I have always [...]
Once upon a time I went to see Bob Dylan. And some band opening up for him had a hit song about wearing shades in the future, but I didn't really know the song from Cory Hart, who wore them at night. Well, Bob wasn't all that good. But his opening band was tremendous. I became a big T3 fan for a few years after that. They were a band that was vastly underrated, judged on the merit of one hit song and a couple minor hits rather than on the wit of their lyrics and the quality of their [...]
Well, the future's here and somehow we're expected to handle it without the guidance of Charlton Heston. This is disconcerting. I realized from watching The Planet Of The Apes as a child that no one was more at ease in dealing with the future than Heston. It wasn't just maladjusted monkeys. An after-school viewing The Omega Man in the mid-'70s made it clear that the man was equally as capable of keeping a horde of psychotic, Luddite cultists at bay. And, with The Omega Man , it's almost as though the [...]
Timbuk 3: All I Want for Christmas (Is World Peace) [ purchase ] Though the intent of this week's theme is to provide an opportunity for both Holiday music and, more generally, songs of peace and fellowship from the entire musical and seasonal spectrum, I couldn't resist kicking things off with a peace-themed song from Christmases past. I had a thing for Timbuk 3 in the late eighties, thanks to an equally outcast friend who played synthesizer; my fandom was piqued, in part, by the 1987 release [...]
Chinatown : Jake Gittes: I just want to know what you're worth. Over ten million? Noah Cross: Oh my, yes. Jake Gittes: Why are you doing it? How much better can you eat? What can you buy that you can't already afford? Noah Cross: The future, Mr. Gittes, the future. The Graduate : Mr. McGuire: I just want to say one word to you. Just one word - plastics. Benjamin Braddock: Exactly how do you mean? Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it? [...]
Tuesday. Warm. Sunny. Oh yeah Steal My Sunshine - LEN The Futures So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk3
our fourth mix of the season is admittedly a little weak...probably wouldn't throw this one on at a christmas party, but it's still a good listen for decorating the tree & wrapping presents & baking cookies & shit...a few standouts include songs from feist, william bell, rufus thomas & a young luther vandross...the luther track, in fact, is a straight up jam, & probably would have fit a little better on a more upbeat mix, but whatever...check it out. download: the leather canary xmas mix #4 [...]
These are bands that were formed during the year 1984. The Jesus And Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine and Opal are my favorites from this year. Enjoy! mp3 The Bottom Line ( Big Audio Dyanmite ) mp3 Get Tough ( The Del Lords ) mp3 Johnny Come Home ( Fine Young Cannibals ) mp3 Stand At Ease ( The Housemartins ) mp3 Deep One Perfect Morning ( The Jesus And [...]
Star Maker Machine
Barely Awake In Frog Pajamas
A Town Full of Losers
play-list
The Giant Panther
Berkeley Place
snuhthing/anything
SupDudeSupGuy
the leather canary
Songs in Space
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
