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August 31, 2004
School Has Started (Roast)
Systems Officer - Forever This Cyanide
No time for this blahgery. Here's one from one of Zach's (of Pinback) side projects.
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August 27, 2004
Ratatatatat
Probably one of the best album covers ever to accompany this damn fine track. Behold.
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August 25, 2004
Cool Band, Fool's Name
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - Stood On Gold
When I was in Sand Iego this past week (where I went to the sea every day), C. Atlas and I swapped musical files and I got me 'ands on a chunk of Gorky's corpus. I've been a fan for a good spell. But apparently not because somehow this one slipped through muh fingers. The violin in this song is the true fool's fiddle.
Somehow in the last few days I managed to secure copies of a Beulah demo, the new Clinic, the upcoming Pinback (from Mike who got it from Jed who downloaded it off the Web), as well as some Gorky's and Super Furries (oh Wales!) from the olden days. So there's that.
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August 19, 2004
Comments Working Again!
The Mai Shi - Power To The People
So we celebrate with high energy shout-sass. Kind of a Blood Brothersy sounding politico-rant. I heard they were in SLC the day after they played which is kind of a roast.
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August 17, 2004
Zlirg
I'm not tired of singers who sound like Zlirg but are aren't. So I present the flamboyant melodramatic flare of Suede.
This was their first big song in 1992 and what initially drew me to them. After the guitarist Bernard Butler left the band after their second or third album they just weren't as good as they were in the olden days.
These other two songs are b-sides. I recently rediscovered them and they remind me of the summer of 1997. There is something in "My Dark Star" that manages to be both discordant and melodic at the same time. And a certain raw energy (who says that?) in "Together."
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August 16, 2004
Cover Me Badd
Have you heard of The Strokes? They're this band from New York and I think they are going to save Rock and Roll. I got this from a blog called Copy, Right? devoted solely to cover songs. A lot of gems there but the links are only active for about a week. I missed the emotional content in The Strokes version and this cover version captures it nicely.
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August 13, 2004
New Pinback
This is from the upcoming album which I think comes out in October. I bet if you heard this but didn't know who it was, you wouldn't be able to guess that it was Pinback.
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August 10, 2004
Deliver Us
Charlie Daniels Band - Dueling Banjoes
Actually a pretty good little tune if it doesn't conjure images from a certain movie where some pals go on a river trip. I think the guy on the banjo looks like Thom Yorke.
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August 05, 2004
Not Enough Notoriety
The Sugarplastic - The Runaround
The Sugarplastic - Here Comes Mr. Right
The Sugarplastic are releasing a new single on vinyl only every two months for the next two years. The whole project is called 7×7x7 and it's hard to get your hands on. One of these tracks is from 7×7x5 (Here Comes Mr. Right) and the other is from one of their old records. I have some other tracks if you're interested (dave@hobix.com or on SWAB).
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August 04, 2004
Japanese Dancing
I was listening to new tunes the other day in my room and when this came on, my head popped up from whatever I was doing and I said "What? Let's hear that again." I put it on repeat and for the next 25 minutes I danced in front of the mirror to this song. It was hot (no AC in my house) and I was sweatin'. This is so great. A little Japanese outfit. Can anyone translate?
There is also a Nintendo sound effect in the song. I think it's the sound Megaman makes when he jumps.
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