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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Husker Du on "Good Company" April 1986
Been a while! You head to Cincinatti for a weekend, and on a whim get some liposuction. A weekend turns into a week, a week turns into 6... you know how it goes.
Do you remember seeing Husker Du on a local morning TV show back in 1986? I sure don't, but then I've never lived in or near the "twin cities". You?
Friday, January 15, 2010
Friday Playlist: An Ugly Death, It's So Easy
Reviving the "Friday Playlist" for the late Jay Reatard. Here he is with his what will be known as his "classic" touring band lineup running through two of my favorites just over a year ago:
Friday, October 16, 2009
Friday Playlist: Competent Drumwork
There's a certain something about people who broke big out of Michigan. Think of Iggy & the Stooges, Barry Gordy, Madonna, Ted Nugent, Thomas Edison, Funkadelic, Michael Moore, Jack Kevorkian, the White Panthers and the MC5. Few states can compete with that.
Add Flint's Grand Funk Railroad to that list. Given this is a Youtube clip, the bass won't be rattling any bongs, but it's remarkable nonetheless. Given this is 10 minutes long it's a playlist of one. If you make it through the whole thing, you'll agree that's more than enough. It starts paying off about halfway through.
[ When this post gets translated into a Facebook note, what will happen to the Flash embed? You might need to click over to Junk Nexus to see it. ]
Add Flint's Grand Funk Railroad to that list. Given this is a Youtube clip, the bass won't be rattling any bongs, but it's remarkable nonetheless. Given this is 10 minutes long it's a playlist of one. If you make it through the whole thing, you'll agree that's more than enough. It starts paying off about halfway through.
[ When this post gets translated into a Facebook note, what will happen to the Flash embed? You might need to click over to Junk Nexus to see it. ]
Friday, October 9, 2009
Shallow thoughts re: Decemberists show Oct 8, 2009
The sound was great. This was my first indoor rock show without earplugs in probably 17 years. No (tobacco) smoke, no tinnitus, and back home by 11 PM. Pleasant!
The 50+ crowd was out in force, as were kids with glasses. Chicago Police were on hand and there were no arrests.
I did not expect them to play the whole new album "Dark Side of the Moon"-style.
I am dense.
You may remember all the Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons this band used to get. I've seen NMH (twice!) and the Decemberists put on a much, much better show than NMH.
You may remember all the Jethro Tull comparisons this band still gets. I haven't seen Tull (ever!) and I didn't think about Tull at all during this show. I still hear some Tull in "The Crane Wife" though.
This is only my 4th visit to the Riviera, and it's always an Event: Sonic Youth/Royal Trux 1992, Kraftwerk 1998 (first Chicago show since the early 80s), Wilco 2008 (final night of their play-everything 5 night stand). Kraftwerk still may be my favorite of the 4, but it's close now.
The 50+ crowd was out in force, as were kids with glasses. Chicago Police were on hand and there were no arrests.
I did not expect them to play the whole new album "Dark Side of the Moon"-style.
I am dense.
You may remember all the Neutral Milk Hotel comparisons this band used to get. I've seen NMH (twice!) and the Decemberists put on a much, much better show than NMH.
You may remember all the Jethro Tull comparisons this band still gets. I haven't seen Tull (ever!) and I didn't think about Tull at all during this show. I still hear some Tull in "The Crane Wife" though.
This is only my 4th visit to the Riviera, and it's always an Event: Sonic Youth/Royal Trux 1992, Kraftwerk 1998 (first Chicago show since the early 80s), Wilco 2008 (final night of their play-everything 5 night stand). Kraftwerk still may be my favorite of the 4, but it's close now.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Friday Playlist: JOURNEY
The theme for the Shermerville 3rd/4th grade girls soccer team names this fall is rock bands. We got Journey. Though I have no Journey records, I am familiar enough with their music to know their Greatest Hits album from the late 80s is kind of weak. This playlist is, if nothing else, less weak.
Picking a song to start the playlist was tough, since most Journey songs sound like they would make good 2nd songs. So I punted and went with one that the band themselves chose as a leadoff on one of their albums. Check out that last sentence: football and baseball allusions, but no soccer ones. The final song was easy to pick, because it's obligatory, but you have to listen to a long prog/jazz instrumental named after a comet before you get to it.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/JOURNEY/16343591
Picking a song to start the playlist was tough, since most Journey songs sound like they would make good 2nd songs. So I punted and went with one that the band themselves chose as a leadoff on one of their albums. Check out that last sentence: football and baseball allusions, but no soccer ones. The final song was easy to pick, because it's obligatory, but you have to listen to a long prog/jazz instrumental named after a comet before you get to it.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/JOURNEY/16343591
Friday, August 14, 2009
Friday Playlist: NEU!
The truth about most of these "Friday Playlists" is I don't usually play them on Fridays when I post them. I usually find it hard to work while listening to music with vocals. This week's playlist is the (nearly) all-instrumental 1972 debut album from everybody's 2nd or 3rd favorite "krautrock" band, NEU! I actually listened to it this afternoon.
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/NEU_/15254892
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/NEU_/15254892
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