...just to watch him die. the very emphasis of the commandment: thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours. so said freud. ten celebrations in song to our murderous impulses. a [...]
When learning, you must know how to make the distinction between what is ideology and what is genuine knowledge. Its about content, not egos. Look vs. look at me. -- Dan Decon ( myspace ) released Bromst ( amazon ) not all that long ago. I can write long and imputative about the album, being that it can't be summed up in two or three ideas, though I'm not going to. I'm putting this song up to say... if this at all gets under your armor, then check out the rest. It's got big ambition. [...]
Violent Femmes: Gone Daddy Gone [ purchase ] X: White Girl [ purchase ] Slash Records was one of the main labels of the Los Angeles punk movement. Starting with a Germs 7" single in 1978, Slash Records captured the sound of L.A. for eight years. In addition to The Germs, artists that got their start on Slash included X, Los Lobos, Violent Femmes & The BoDeans (both from Wisconsin), The Dream Syndicate, The Blasters, Green On [...]
De basis van dit bericht; het zoeken naar de soundtrack van Glue, Argentiniaanse (?) film (2006). Ben echter niet heel, eh, secuur geweest, omdat niet alle posts hier als soundtrack zijn gebruikt, in ieder geval, niet het letterlijke liedje, maar wel de artiest. Wel Soundtrack (en van Point Blank zo te zien): Click here to view the embedded video. Deze kon ik jullie bijvoorbeeld niet onthouden (sowieso vind ik Stereo Total wel geinig, eigenlijk): Click here to view the embedded video. [...]
Violent Femmes, "I Held Her In My Arms" but it wasn't youuuuuuuuuuu...... <3
So the countdown has begun in earnest to my first SXSW. I know, right? How did it take me this long to go? In past years I've focused on festivals in other regions ( UMS Denver , Noise Pop SF , Coachella , etc) and wound up without the money or wherewithal to trek to Texas. This year, we change that. Two weeks from Wednesday, I hop a plane to Austin. I couldn't be more excited, or more overwhelmed. There will be a showcase that Fuel/Friends is helping to present (details forthcoming) and lots [...]
Tonight's tune would not be considered a new song. However, it is a brilliant song and is more than deserving of a post. I remember shortly after hearing this song for the first time I went on a weekend trip with an ex-girlfriend to my parents' place. I had this song on repeat for the entire three hour drive. I also remember another trip to my parents' place where I subjected the same young lady to three hours of Don't Stop Believing by Journey . It's a wonder we aren't together anymore. Anyways, American Music [...]
This is not going to be an in depth post on the personal/band history of Gordon Gano. Enough's been written from that vantage point and I can't add anything new. I will say though, that if you're too young to have experienced The Violent Femmes in person than you owe it to yourself to go through their entire catalog. You'll be rewarded with nuggets of pure punk rock energy, world music eclecticism, lyricism that is quite unmatched, and musicianship that you simply don't find with this new batch of fly-by-night blog darlings. Then [...]
When you're alone in your bed, I strut my stuff to the banshee beat.
I've heard a lot of covers, but every now and then a song comes along so bizarre I think, no way anyone could cover that. In every case, I turn out to be wrong. It seems musicians can take even the strangest, most idiosyncratic music and remake it in their own image. Let me present…the (not quite) uncoverable. Neil Cowley Trio - Revolution 9 (The Beatles) The ultimate in uncoverable (well, after Metal Machine Music …which, incidentally, an orchestra covered). The original is just random noise [...]
Photography by Lloyd Hughes Ah, looks like winter broke, at least for the weekend, maybe I can squeeze an outdoor ride in? Novel idea, eh? But, before I head out, I'm pretty excited to share today's vinyl. Another from the early nineties , but one quite different than Automatic For The People . One of my very favourite albums, Why Do Birds Sing? by Violent Femmes... Man, how many [...]
- Violent Femmes - Side 1 - American Music, Out The Window, Look Like That, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Hey Nonny Nonny, & Used To Be
- Violent Femmes - Side 2 - Girl Trouble, He Likes Me, Life Is A Scream, Flamingo Baby, Lack Of Knowledge, More Money Tonight, And I'm Free
Kiss off - m4w - 23 (Inyourpants, ohio) Reply to: pers-1015220846@craigslist.org [ ? ] Date: 2009-01-31, 12:08PM EST Like they say in the matrix. Love is just a word. It's not an emotion. If there's anything I've learned in life it's that love is all about infatuation. Look around you pretty bitches with cute guys nerdy dudes with fatties fatties with fatties no one really gives a [...]
EAR FARM's Hit-or-miss is a weekly feature (every Tuesday) wherein the EF music library is put on shuffle, the song that plays is then searched (using the song title) on Google images and a resulting photo (plus an MP3 of the song) is posted. Listen: "He Likes Me" by Violent Femmes from Why Do Birds Sing? View: Image search results for He Likes Me - above image is from the 8th page of results (and was originally from [...]
If it's Christmas at You Ain't No Picasso, that means it's Mixmas! These twelve days give me a chance to turn You Ain't No Picasso over to the musicians I cover and allow them to showcase some of their favorite songs through a themed mix. This is the fourth year of Mixmas; here's hoping for [...]
Hello there. How's it going, eh? That's super cooool. I'm here once again with music for anyone who is into good-ish music. Maybe sometimes great music, but that's up to you, isn't it? Also, I'm adding a new option to the songs I post...from this point on, I will list the iTunes & Amazon download link for the artist, in case you feel like monitarily supporting the artists found here. Sooo...
Photography by Mariah Good friend and fan of Tsururadio (I'm assuming) James Thurber once said, "There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else." That may well be true, Mr. Thurber, you scoundrel, but I've found over the years numbers can elicit much emotion, from the highest joys to the greatest frustrations to the darkest misery. Twenty million, a very happy number when it's the amount you won in the lottery, not so much when it's the amount your company lost last year. It's not even the [...]
The most recent Contrast Podcast is all about Old. Listen to it... here . As I didn't get it together to contribute to this week, here is my Old Minimix and whoa boy is it contrasty : "Dirty Old Man (The Sonics Cover)" by Pipi Eats Cherries "Old Mother Reagan" by The Violent Femmes "Old Year" by Jesu "Old Grey Goose" by Red Belcher & The Kentucky Ridgerunners [...]
The Pitchfork 500 is Pitchfork Media 's chosen list of the best, most influential songs from 1977 to 2006. The Pitchfork 500 isn't a numerical list but it covers different eras and chooses songs that suit that time period. Previously: Chapter 1 1976-1979 Once the 80's hit, instead of punk, we got post punk and slowly a transition into new wave and instead of the of the 70s disco we were given dance. Compared to the 70s, I know much more about the 80s. One of the most [...]
Photography by Story WOOF, busy day Wednesday. Oy. Sorry for the delay... But let's get it on! Our little music brigade had ourselves a little contest over in the mixtape room. The challenge seemed simple enough, build a mixtape of essential songs, songs everyone MUST here before they die. But like I wrote the other day when I presented my 3 hour failure, the task is harder than it seems. The sheer weight added to a song by making it an "essential", [...]
THANK FUCKING GOD OBAMA WON!!! In a celebration of contrast, here are two songs, one that references a less-than-loved-by-the-left American president and one that references shitty American class politics: Old Mother Reagan.mp3 by The Violent Femmes About Ronald Reagan —two thoughts: Iran Contra, War on Drugs. 'NUFF SAID! Fortunate Son.mp3 by CCR About [...]
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