My Life This Week

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"I don't wanna go..."

I can just about guarantee you haven't heard this cover by a band called Airport of a somewhat obscure Ramones song (for those of you who are less familiar with the Ramones, it's the first track on Airport's myspace page: "Basement"). I love the way he replicates Joey's singing style from the original song... you will see what I mean. In fact, I recommend listening to the original first to remember how it goes, and then checking out the cover. Don't forget to sing along!

Sunday's Soundscapes

Let's hear it for distortion:
Jesus and Mary Chain -- Psychocandy
BRMC -- eponymous

Tracing Our Pop Culture Roots

"What if you could trace the French New Wave, Sam Peckinpah, cyberpunk, 'Pulp Fiction,' 'Mulholland Drive,' and 'Sin City' back to one business gamble taken by a third-tier publisher in 1949? In fact, you can, and without being guilty of too much overstatement. A little, sure, but not that much."

Michael Blowhard writes about Gold Metal Books on his blog, _2 Blowhards_.

"You Like Me. You Really Like Me"

So as it turns out, people are not bored with my all-music blog (or so they tell me). I still promise to add some non-music activities to my life and put up some new content, but for now, let the obsession continue:

Today's playlist - a subset of my youth:
Echo & The Bunnymen -- Crystal Days 1979 - 1999 (Boxed Set) -- disk 1
The Cure -- Staring At The Sea - The Singles
The Psychedelic Furs -- Greatest Hits


Also, here the Brian Jonestown Massacre recommends a list of bands worth checking out.

Staying In The Know

Here's a new band to watch: Tearwave. They are from upstate New York, and they blame their brooding yet dreamy sound on the brutal weather. They haven't released anything yet, but they put a few songs online. Let me know what you think.

Music To Scream To

Today's playlist:
The Buzzcocks -- Singles Going Steady
The Clash -- Clash On Broadway Vol. 1
Rodney Bingenheimer -- The Best Of Rodney On The ROQ (Various Artists)
Generation X -- Valley Of The Dolls

Look! Finally something other than music! Oh, wait...

Yeah, I've been a bit obesessed lately. Searching out a page for every band became very addictive. I'm going to take a break from it soon and post non-music content (no really, I mean it), but not yet.

Here is a video on YouTube from 1981 of The Church doing my favorite song of theirs, transferred I am guessing from someone's old Beta tapes.

The Internet Is So Convenient

Really cool Teenage Fanclub songs are up on their website. I particularly like their song "heavy metal".

An Early Start

Great Morning Music:
Cast -- All Change
Mull Historical Society -- Us <--j/k
Oasis -- (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Dreaming of Madchester

The Smiths -- Singles
New Order -- Brotherhood
.....Not their best album, but what's a collector to do?

Tuesday's Muses

Albums that sound like two different bands recorded on the same CD:
Super Furry Animals -- Rings Around The World
The La's -- Eponymous

Monday Already?

Time for a new playlist -- California sounds:
Brian Wilson -- Smile
(an incredible album worth waiting all these years for)
Weezer -- Eponymous

More Than Just Mel Brooks

Another great link pilfered from The Late Adopter:
The Movie Timeline -- The history of the universe according to the silver screen (year by year).

Friday Was A Holiday; This Is America; Therefore I Must Have Been Shopping

Alas, Tower Records will soon be no more, but their going-out-of-business sale isn't half bad ($7 for a new CD is hard to argue with). So today I'm listening to recent acquisitions:
My Bloody Valentine -- Isn't Anything
Devo -- Greatest Hits
New Order -- Republic

The Teenage Years

I'm in a flashback mood:
Elvis Costello & The Attractions -- This Years Model
Billy Bragg -- Back to Basics
The Ted Top 23 Of The 1990s
Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the '80s Underground disk #1

Simple Sincerity

Today's list:
Beat Happening -- Eponymous
Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers -- The Best Of …
--Note: Jonathan Richman will be playing on the UCLA campus next month.. don't miss it.

I Could Lose Days On This Site

"http://www.punk77.co.uk/index.htm - A history of UK Punk Rock from 1976-79: Featuring an A-Z of punk bands from Adam and The Ants to The Sex Pistols to X Ray Spex, fanzines, punk girls, rare record sleeves, audio clips, fashion, punk rock lyrics, interviews and loads of pictures."

1997 Was A Very Good Year To Have A Radio

It must have been -- I often find myself turning back to a particular cassette tape:
The Ted Top 22 of 1997. Paul Weller, Belle & Sebastian, Teenage Fanclub, Pavement, Cast, Blur, Echo & The Bunnymen.. the list goes on and on. Who couldn't have fun with this collection?
(So that's my "playlist" for the day -- that and more paisley underground).

All Jangles

I apparently needed a 12-string fix today:
Teenage Fanclub -- Songs From Northern Britain
The Three O'Clock -- Sixteen Tambourines
The Kinks -- The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
Teenage Fanclub -- Grand Prix

I Didn't Grow Up In The Twenties, Did I?

A great art exhibit on early modernism is touring the country this year. There must have been a lot of early modern art around during my childhood -- as I walked around the exhibit, everything on display felt comfortable and familiar. This collection is great, and it may be coming to a museum near you, so check it out:
The Societe Anonyme
(just imagine the accents in the proper places -- I haven't learned how to change fonts yet)

A Different Day, A Different Mood

It's a Monday:
The Ramones -- All The Stuff (And More) -- Vol. 1
The Dead Kennedys -- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Black Flag -- The First Four Years
The Pixies -- Doolittle
Repo Man Soundtrack

sunday the 5th's music

Yeah, I'm in that kind of a mood:
New Order -- (the best of) New Order
Sonic Youth -- Goo
Joy Division -- Permanent

"That's a human ear all right."

Cheap, accessible, high speed internet has made it possible for
anything to show up on the web, including the creepy, fascinating, and
bizarre. Here, David Lynch indulges his apparent fantasy of being a
weatherman (updated almost daily).

Today's Music

These are great albums to study by -- they keep my energy level up without distracting me from my work too much:
Ride -- Tarantula
The Stone Roses -- Eponymous
The Candy Skins -- Fun?
The Charlatans -- Between 10th & 11th

This Day's Music

Today I am listening to:
The Soft Boys -- Underwater Moonlight
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Eponymous
No Thanks! The '70s Punk Rebellion disk #2