Henrietta Skinny Girls Flathead Stacie Ann Cuntry Boys & City Girls Cigarello Whistle for the Choir Chelsea Dagger For the Girl Doginabag Creeping up the Backstairs Vince the Loveable Stoner Everybody Knows You Cried Last Night Baby Fratelli Got Ma Nuts from a Hippie [...]
...Maybe a permanent one. If I don't come back, thanks for visiting. -Kent

Happened upon this on eMusic today. It's Joe Strummer performing under the pseudonym Electric Dog House. Not sure what year it was released. In fact, I can't find any info on EDH. Anyone know anything? [MP3] Electric Dog House – "Generation"

[MP3] Generation X – "100 Punks Rule" That first album by Billy and the boys was awesome. Here's my favorite track. [MP3] The Jam – "Saturday's Kids" I really need to devote an entire entry on the Jam. Until then...... [MP3] Hoodoo Gurus – "I Want You Back" This is from their 1983 Stoneage Romeos debut disc – it spent quite bit o' time on my turntable back in college. [...]

Thanks to Water-rat Sparkylulu for turning me on to the Fratellis. These fun-first Scots are kinda like an amped-up, rocked-out Beatles, infused with the bounciness of early XTC. Their lyrics tend to the jokey side, which is sorta disappointing. They seem to have the talent to go farther. They're said, though, they're definitely a band to watch. These are from the 2006 debut disc Costello Music: [MP3] The Fratellis – "Henrietta" [MP3] The Fratellis [...]

Andy Partridge of XTC fame recently compiled an entire musical life of outtakes, alt takes, and unreleased takes into an eight-disc set titled The Fuzzy Warbles. As I understand it, this was originally only available through his website as a British import (and it cost an ungodly sum). Well, this past weekend, a co-worker and co-lover of XTC stumbled upon the set at Border’s. He happened to have a 20% off coupon on him so he decided to make the investment. He was kind enough to share volume one with me – and I’m [...]

Santa went to the Island of Misfit Blogs this weekend and brought back these two gems: [MP3] Spinal Tap ? "Christmas with the Devil" [MP3] Steve Martin ? "Five Christmas Wishes"

[MP3] Aimee Mann ? "Stupid Thing" Let's begin ballady with this track from Mann's first solo disc. [MP3] Ben Kweller ? "Hear Me Out" Love this Kweller tune from his '04 disc On My Way. [MP3] Nirvana ? "Breed" Recently saw a VHI "Classic Album" episode on "Nevermind" and it reminded just how great this disc is. [MP3] Pavement ? "Range Life" [...]
From The Tragic Treasury: [MP3] Gothic Archies ? ?Walking My Gargoyle? From Funnel Cloud: [MP3] Hem ? ?Not California? From Ole Tarantula: [MP3] Robyn Hitchcock ? ?(A Man?s Gotta Know His Limitations) Briggs From Boys and Girls in America: [MP3] The Hold Steady ? ?Chips Ahoy!? From Ben Kweller: [MP3] Ben Kweller ? ?Penny on the Train Track? From Dead American Radio [MP3] Left Alone ? ?Justino? From Rabbit Fur Coat: [MP3] Jenny Lewis [...]

This is the best I?ve heard in 2006, a good but not great year fer rock ?n? roll. Of course, I only have two ears so there?s only so much I can listen to. I?d love to hear others opine on the subject. Or even share a track or two. Look for Part 2 tomorrow. From The Longest Meow: [MP3] Bobby Bare Jr. ? ?The Heart Bionic? From The Life Pursuit: [MP3] Belle & Sebastian ? ?The Blues Are Still Blue? From Back to Higher Ground: [...]
Okay, I signed up at File Lodge as a backup when I exceed my downloads at MediaMax. You can now download Five fer Friday IX via File Lodge (it's slower than MediaMax, but at least yer gettin' them). MediaMax downloads refresh on Friday so the rest of the posted files (at least those that don't have a red "Expired" next to them) will be availabe then. -Kent
Sorry, folks. MediaMax only gives me 10 gig of downloads a month. Water's getting too dang popular. My 10 gigs will refresh 12/15. I'll try to post on a second site to avoid future download issues. -Kent

[MP3] 101ers – “Sweet Revenge” Joe Strummer from his pre-Clash days (thanks to Pete for this!). [MP3] Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – “Coma Girl” Joe Strummer from his post-Clash days. [MP3] The Clash – “(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais” Why not? Joe Strummer from his in-Clash days. [MP3] Of Montreal – “Art Snob Solutions” Of Montreal says: “Kill all [...]

Read on only if you have an affinity for wickedness, wretchedness, and woe. You’re still reading? You are a sick person. But that’s not all! You’re also a prime candidate for the books popularly known as A Series of Unfortunate Events. As some of you may know, particularly if you’re sick, this set follows the nasty, nefarious Count Olaf as he schemes to get his grubby, greedy hands on the fortune of the kindly, caring Baudelaire children, who have been cast out into the cold, cruel world after the mysterious death of their parents. Over the past two [...]

Well, December is here. Time to drag the Christmas songs down from the attic. [MP3] Apples in Stereo – “Holiday Mood” [MP3] The Boys – “Run Rudolph Run” [MP3] Dance Hall Crashers – “I Did It for the Toys” [MP3] Dr. Elmo – “Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake” [MP3] Dressy Bessy – “All the Right Reasons” [MP3] The Essex Green – “Deck the Halls” [MP3] Fountains of Wayne – “I Want an Alien for [...]
[MP3] The Hong Kong – "Tongue Tied" New wave, Blondie-like pop from another blondie-led band. [MP3] Elvis Costello – "Radio, Radio (Live on SNL)" Thanks to Franz for this one – he also shared this YouTube link to the circa-1979 performance. [MP3] Elvis Costello – "Mystery Dance" This is for Senap who bemoaned the fact that I left it off the My Aim Is True post (okay, no more Costello for a

This post goes out to Greg, the childhood buddy who introduced me to punk back in high school and in the process saved my rock ‘n’ roll soul from the likes of Journey, Styx, and REO Speedwagon. Thank you, Greg. I am forever indebted. The thought of tootling around town as a 43-year-old to the strains of You Can Tune a Piano But You Can’t Tuna Fish gives me the willies. One of Greg’s favorite bands back in the day was 999, a bubble-gummy Brit punk outfit who [...]

If you any of you are pondering doing a music blog, here’s one of the perks: As you become established and start getting some traffic to your site, record companies begin offering you free discs in hopes that you’ll give their band a plug. This has happened twice now at Water. One I turned down. The other – a band called Memphis – I accepted after listening to the single they sent. Memphis is a Vancouver-based band that strays to the mellow, contemplative side of indie pop. Here [...]

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 [...]

By popular demand (one person constitutes popular demand at the Water All Around blog), here are three tracks from Costello's classic 1977 debut disc, My Aim Is True: [MP3] Elvis Costello - "Watching the Detectives" [MP3] Elvis Costello - "(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes" [MP3] Elvis Costello - "Waiting for the End of the World" BONUS [MP3] Elvis Costello - "Radio Sweetheart" [...]