"If Dave has me eating meat other than people meat, GOMP him." -- Ted, taking a stand on his potential vegan lapse in "The World Is in the Turlet" video, via IM "I like that you didn't challenge that also. You accepted that you possess the power to creep people out." -- Tom, noting Spike's embrace of his most obvious superpower "I like Adam Sandler, but I don't like his movies." -- Spike, offering an odd declaration of fandom "You can't cuff a ghost." -- Tom, pointing out the [...]
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Yes, you read that right. I've decided to make a little mix tape for you today, valued reader, because I love each one of you so, so much. Thank you for coming here and reading my writing and listening to the music I recommend. I know some of it sucks (the writing and the music) but a lot of you have continued to support the site. So it is with a very full heart that I express my deepest (and most erotic) love for you. Please enjoy the tunes. For old time's sake, here are the "rules" for previous Sunday [...]
Mark Robinson is the founder of Teenbeat and member of Unrest , Air Miami , and Flin Flon . He has released solo work and been in other bands as well but I am choosing to focus on those three. I was unaware of Unrest until Perfect Teeth was released in 1993. They had released several records and singles starting in 1985 but I was completely unaware of them until their last full length album! To be honest, I can't even say that I'm a fan of the early stuff I've [...]
Unrest Demo 1986? I'm not sure if this was "officially" released as a cassette on Teen Beat, but I believe this is the unreleased 1986 demo. It was on a cassette with a few other demos from other bands that I got years ago. No idea on a track list, but I did recognize this Minor Threat cover. (If anyone has any more info about this, I will update this post.) Set List: Unknown Sample: Straight Edge (Minor Threat Cover) Download: The Monday Set: Unrest [...]

I'm in the middle of writing a paper and studying for finals, but I'll be damned if I'm not going to meet my deadline here. Get ready for it, y'all, because I'm just going to be puking music all over you tonight. Thanks to everyone who offered kind words, donations and bids on my Ebay auctions. I'm going to try and post a few more things next week after my tests are over. My auctions went incredibly well. . . just over $400 for about 18 items. That should definitely help. Anyway, enough about me. [...]

IMAGE "BORROWED" FROM THREADLESS. This is a t-shirt called "Breaking the sound of music" by Samuel Lara. Buy it here . We promised Theme songs for every day of the week, and we'll give you theme songs for every day of the week. Here are the theme songs for Wednesday. Enjoy, and please comment if you like it, hate it or miss something: Levy - Wednesday [...]
I have had a temp job recently and thus have been scanning lots of invoices one after another. I downloaded a torrent of This American Life episodes to make the brainless work more tolerable. One of the show's background music themes comes from Mark Robinson, leader of indie demi-legends Unrest. Here are two of their most classic songs. Suki ("love" in Japanese) rocks and rolls on one chord right into your skull. Unrest - Suki Make Out Club is what the old MakeOutClub.com pre-myspace pre-friendster emo kid capitalizing internet site [...]

Dear Friends, I wish you all a happy fourth of July. Please celebrate safely. I don't want to hear any stories about how you caught an M-80 in your eye, or blew your hand off with a cherry bomb. I'm tired of those stories. They're depressing. For those of you outside of the United States who come here to read my attempts at cunning witticisms and listen to free music (51% of you!), take the afternoon to get drunk like everyone here is! Sincerely, Evan America: It's [...]
"You'll just have to watch me do it, and if the hate of watching me do my thing burns you up, that's your problem." -- Tom, doing it his way "I didn't even know he was a singer. I thought he worked in advertising." -- Tom, discovering the real occupation of Hank Williams, Jr. "Wow, I thought I was good at this -- you're great at this. -- Tom, commending Paycheque for correctly identifying FDR as being deceased in a game of Dead or Alive "Talk [...]

Ever get the feeling Ye Olde Discographee is a little short in U-band breadth? Oh well, it's a boon for Unrest fans, who hopefully do not number more than 100 as I'm also a little short in mp3-host-bandwidth this month (hence I'll be snipping old mp3 links pretty quickly from now on...so tune in weekly or you may miss out). Here's "So Sick" from the 2,000 copy tour 7" released on Unrest's Mark Robinson's Teen Beat label in 1993. This A-side song appears on 1993's Perfect Teeth album, and an extended version of the B-side "Vibe Out" appears [...]

Teenage suicide, don't do it! But as long as you keep your tongue planted firmly in cheek, go ahead and download this rockin' good 1992 Peel Session version of "Teenage Suicide" from a bootleg 7" EP released in 1993. All you zany theme bloggers take note: There are more than enough songs with "teenage" in the title out there awaiting compilation. The Candyskins even released a completely different song called "Teenage Suicide" on their Death of a Minor TV Celebrity album in 1998...it's nowhere near as good as this one. Side A [...]

Da da da da da da. Da da da da da da. Da da da da da da. Da da da da da da. I love Unrest's poperiffic cover version of Miaow's "When It All Comes Down", the last of four songs released on Sub Pop's March 1991 Singles Club 7". It was released in an edition of 7,000, so it's hardly rare, but it may be new to mp3dom. The other three songs on this EP are covers of songs by Crispy Ambulance, ESG, and Crawling Chaos...all obscure bands [...]

Here comes the weekend! I've been trolling through Youtube for ancient videos & lost indie faves & unearthed some sweet lil beauties for you: Heavenly -- P.U.N.K. Girl I can't find any videos for them unfortunately...C'mon I bet someone has a live clip or something out there! Velvet Underground -- After Hours (Closet Mix) How about some Velvet Underground clips? Sunday Morning , Femme Fatale (with Nico) , & a tiny bit of Venus in Furs (with Edie dancing & [...]
Loving you down, 1996-style. (Back when my heart was its sweetest, right before...you know.)
During the actual NCAA tournament, down time is filled with ridiculously sentimental features about how this team fought back from their point guard's traumatic carpal tunnel, or how this 7 foot center is really a concert pianist who performs for poor orphans in his free time. Now imagine what would happen if you were a douche-y TV sports dude, and you had completed one of these segments to air in the second round, only to have your piece on the obese head coach and the plucky team who inspired him during his bout with the gout become useless due [...]
"I don't need to take this shit from you..." Hayden - In September "I need your love all the way through..." Hip Whips - I Need Your Love "And I'd like to say you were the first one..." Unrest - Make Out Club "A sullen spent seven years, scraping love from the [...]

Wow I sure am POST CRAZY these days! Sometimes I'm just not feeling Sugartown-y & can't seem to get the inspiration to say anything. I'm always inspired to post songs but to talk about them is another thing. However, I recently become OBSESSED with this song: Suburban Kids with Biblical Names -- Seems to be on My Mind I've listened to it over & over & have not gotten sick of it yet! I sent it to a friend last night who sent me an instant message [...]

I promised on Friday that I would make up for cruelly abandoning Mark Robinson's Flin Flon by posting some of his earlier work. Always a man of my word, I start with the Teenbeat Records founder's first band. It was started, like the label, as an uber D.I.Y. project in 1985. <img alt="e47849pvten.jpg" src=" http://www.merryswankster.com/ images/e47849pvten.jpg" width="100" height="100" align="left" hspace="3" Unrest - "Teenage Suicide" Unrest version 1 took a little time to find its feet. Five years in, from 1990's otherwise [...]