Gong is jazzy psychedelic rock. I love this song.

about one minute in on this video clip and what to my surprise happens? up pops a young and extra nerdy Greg Kot...

Compulsive Gamblers are fucking awesome.

Yeah.

Pretty sure I've played this album more than anything else over the past month and a half:

Whole lotta woman makes me stomp my balls off. Fucking damn... hives covered... stop and think it over is gonna be on my big list of shit that will probably be shitty, but that song will never ever be shitty. I hope new reigning sound is as good as old reigning sound. I haven't listened to music in six months cause of being on a boat like t pain, who i only just realized had been on a boat. My little bro came out with a record that made my head explode. I wonder if vamos is still fucking crazy. His music was pretty cool. I'm going to sleep. fucking kids with their fat christian fiancees are so damn confusing.

When I was 12, me and my friends were convinced The Car's song "Shake it up" had the line "Dance all night with anyone. Don't let nobody pick your bum."

Simakos/EL OSO just texted me that Thax Douglas is dead.

Toadies have more hooks per minute than anyone else.

Ozzy's vocals throughout "War Pigs" are really, really sharp, like almost a semi-tone high. If he were on American Idol, Paula would call him "pitchy."

A waste of money for sure, but I still want this: http://www.sundazed.com/vuinfo.html

Never did find a leak.
Picked it up this morning. There's a second bonus disc with even more covers.
Really enjoying it.

Radio and Records is now dead
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/radioandrecords.html

shocking

Not saying they were cool or anything, just a way to check in with what the masses are listening too every once in a while. Go back to listening to Frighten Rabbit or whatever you are currently indulging yourself with.

sorry, dude... this is compulsive stuff. my fault.

on a related magazine topic, for some reason i just bought a subscription to SPIN magazine. i like to read it while i shit.

i'm pretty much obsessed with Dum Dum Girls and Let's Wrestle.

have you thought about startnig a "5 Music Things" thread?

First 8 tracks on that album are so fucking impeccable it breaks my balls. The last two tracks are good too (especially "Two Thieves"), but they kind of kill the momentum of that initial run which is possibly the best Cartwright-related run of songs ever, including Too Much Guitar. I dunno. Love that album at any rate.

Can't imagine new Reigning Sound being 'bad' as such, but it's got a lot to live up to.

One of the main reasons I play the album so much is so I can get to "Two Thieves."

And I'm just all about the shameless Iggy Pop vocal aping on "Rock 'n Roll Nurse."

Pretty ridiculously solid lineup of songs.

Definately playing the shit out of Your Happiness if I ever get married.

this new Polvo track is amazing...

http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2009/06/p...-sign-to-merge/

They're gonna be at the Bottom Lounge.

I don't know what it is,but recently I've hit a wall when it comes to new stuff. I haven't heard a lot from this year,But the stuff I have that's been praised to the high heavens(Vecktamist,Middle Cyclone,and a couple of others) has bored the shit out of me. The only albums I've really enjoyed this year have been Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix and Sonic Youth. Has this year really been that shitty or am I listening to the wrong stuff?

saw 'em back when and will probably see them again i guess... was never crazy about them live.

The new Ian Hunter...Man Overboard is mighty fine.

Yes, you're listening to the wrong stuff. Cannibal Corpse, Cobalt, Mastodon, Napalm Death, Zu, Propagandhi, Hacride, Dredg, Animals as Leaders, Goatwhore, God Forbid, Anaal Nathrakh, Cave In--these musics are not boring. Stinking Lizaveta is decent as well.

interesting article about collectors of rare 78s:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/arts/music/12petr.html

I just realized I have 60 CD's I've never even listened to yet. This is a very good problem to have,But now I have no idea what I want to listen to next.

I think Nas put this together



Not really sure what to make of this.

EDIT: Yeah, I meant to post this in the compulsive posting topic.

Free Shellac concert tonight at Millennium Park. Wine and cheese will be a flying.

anybody know if you can buy tickets at The Vic's box office anymore? Built To Spill beckons...

Man, you weren't kidding. Disc Two is where it's at. Some amazing extras on that bonus disc, defintely worth shelling out for.

And for those of you who still incomprehensibly maintain that this was the record where they "sold out"- I defy you to crank up the remastered "Fooling" and tell me it sucks with a straight face.

anyone?

Itchin' to get my new ipod.

Man I am fucking sick of everything instrumental with a guitar being labeled as fucking post rock. All my favorite like spacerock/dream pop bands seem to get tagged as such when there is nothing post-rock about them.

One of the best overtly political music videos I've seen.

Jonathan Goes Country is proof that jonathan richman is the best human being ever to live. Really... The best dude.

Wandered around the Loop for a bit after work & inevitably stopped into Reckless - saw this propped up in the tiny listening station & read they were from Rockford. Rockford, Illinois? "1969's A Lovely Sight, Pisces' only attempt at an LP, never made wax; but the fuzz guitar phrases and tambourine shuffle of "Dear One" instantly illustrate the band's woozy realm. Deeper inside, bass scales borrowed from Sgt. Pepper give way to Who moves wrecked by bad fidelity and harsh intrusions of found sounds. Jefferson Airplane's swirled, lysergic Haight Street utopia melds with the urban narcosis of the Velvet Underground's East Village" A secret psychedelic record that nods to the Velvets from Rockford, Illinois? Yes, please. Haven't listened to it yet but the liner notes are great...one band photo features a stringy haired little fella wearing homemade t-shirt proclaiming: "ROCK N ROLL SATISFIES MY SOUL" The c.d. is lovingly packaged...it came with a baseball card for a band called Wee?





I also bought Antlers "Hospice" and the new MOJO magazine...I've been trying to find that Kylesa record everybody's mad about but no dice for a few weeks now.

so? how is it?

Really good. Really weird, too. Traditional late-60's psychedelic pop stuff but some pretty dark stuff lyric-wise - at one point on a sing-songy, hooky tune I was startled to hear the line, "You're mother's going to die tonight". Rockford must've been as drab in 1968 as it is now. There's 4 tunes with vocals put down by a 17 year old girl that're cool, too - she had a pretty powerful, husky voice. The liner notes say she was last heard from on the run from a check kiting scheme or something.

I cranked the shit out of that Antlers record, too, while I was cleaning the house. That's a solid little record right thurrrr.

edit: and as for the new MOJO - you Chicagoans might get a kick out of this: the missus pointed out that in the photo on page 42, accompanying Koko Taylor's obit, the zip code 60660 is under the banner "Koko Taylor and Her Blues Machine" on her van's spare tire cover - Edgewater! Helluva run-on sentence there...

Not bad for a protest song. I passed it on to a few friends who are into political stuff.

A statement from Empty Bottle owner Bruce Finkleman:

Local college radio played a tune this morning that grabbed my ear while I was showering - I couldn't catch the band's name & I thought the chick said the song was called "Don't Stop Labor Day" - quick search on-line isn't turning anything up, though...it sounded similar to The Verve's "See You in the Next One (Have a Good Time)"

Anybody got ideas?

this Ducktails "record" sucks... so many bands/people getting attention lately WAY before they are ready for their close up. this just sounds like someone learning how to multi-track or something. definitely not a record...

i am excited for this:

Kept listening to "The Sprawl" because I swore I remembered the hook resolving on a lower point at some stage in the song. Turns out I was thinking of the hook from "Reena" instead. Glad I figured that out.

WU TANG ALBUM COVER AWESOME WAR!!!