How charming.

I kind of love "Return of the Mack."

The main watery piano riff in Ulrich Schnauss' "Knuddelmaus" is pretty much a direct tribute to the opening track off the Cocteau Twins/ Harold Budd collaboration The Moon and the Melodies.

The repeated piano figure that opens "Blumenfeld" is the same note and timbre of the opening of Sheena Easton's theme song to For Your Eyes Only.

I read on Pitchfork Media once that Axl Rose stole part of A Strangely Isolated Place for the intro to one of the Chinese Democracy songs.

Sticky Fingers by the Rolling Stones is one of the best albums of all time.


I wonder if such an album could be made today by a mainstream artist? I doubt it. The title/cover's about masterbation. song one is either about interracial sex or heroin, or both. they have multiple songs mentioning heroin, morphine and cocaine. All on an album that got and still gets significant airplay.

The best song off it imo is Dead Flowers. A track protected from airplay on classic rock stations due to the sarcastic bitter tone and it's overt heroin reference. wonderful stuff!!!

The stones spent so many albums trying to prove what badasses they were. they really nailed it on this one.

i specifically remember this because when i read the article i had never heard a strangely isolated place, so i checked it out and was promptly floored. getting people to discover ulrich schnauss is easily to best thing axl rose has done in the past 10+ years.

Man... that whole "Ted Leo being Danzig" thing just reminded me I should be listening to a lot more Ted Leo. And a lot more Misfits.

http://pitchfork.com/news/37017-watch-ted-...s-tribute-show/

Pretty fucking radical.

i've honestly been pretty repulsed at even the thought of listening to ok computer for quite some time now, but i had my ipod on shuffle this morning and "climbing up the walls" came on and it pretty thoroughly rocked my world.

Probably the best shit I've seen, all year. Amazing.

Not sure if this is really the place for this, but nevertheless...

http://www.inbflat.net/

Wonderful.

hey, that's pretty fucking cool

Just downgraded "Grind" from 5 to 4 stars.

just listened to Ruth White's Flowers of Evil for the first time. Some good, creepy electronic shit here. Can't imagine 7 Trumps...will get much playing time but Evil is here to stay.

I bet there's a high incidence of repetitve motion injury in black metal.

Frank Zappa and Gallagher on the old tv show, Make Me Laugh (from the 1970s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRNnRJny9j4

My first favorite band was Newsboys. A lot of their stuff still holds up really well:

Not Ashamed was the first CD I ever bought. Nothing produced by the Newsboys holds up, except for the ridiculously expensive tobacco pipes made by guitarist Jody Davis:




imo.

No album as a whole really does, but individual tracks definitely do.



Actually Thrive was my first ever CD, which came out in 2003. :|

Oh wait, I forgot, Phil Keaggy was the guy I liked before Newsboys. He's good too.

hm.

I like Keaggy, but I don't like that video.

edit: two of these guys are in Dethklok's touring band:

lol @ phil keaggy

i used to have this beatlesque album of his that i remember loving, and then my parents brought me this tape of him doing this forest acoustic music or something and it was pretty gross

listening to nothing but christian music growing up is a bit of a mindfuck

yeah. My first secular CD was Collective Soul's s/t because I was able to convince my mom that they were Christians even if they weren't a Christian Band.

I think my first non-christian album was either Tool - 10,000 days or RHCP - Stadium Arcadium
gollygeewiz that's weird to think about

How old are you, Liffey?

I'm shocked by this non-Christian stuff. What different lives we've led... My first CD was Speaking In Tongues, by the Talking Heads.

Basically my parents were full-on hippies. They followed the Dead around the country, but my dad's favorite bands were Blue Cheer and Quicksilver Messenger Service. I remember being 11 and him telling me how Jerry Garcia was a great guitarist and all, and Jimi Hendrix was a great guitarist and all, but there was this guy named John Cippolina from the Quicksilver Messenger Service and how I really had to hear side 2 of Happy Trails. He put it on during dinner and my mom made some off-hand remark about how the music seemed particularly loud. My dad got pissed and pulled the record off the turntable and finished the dinner in silence. He never played another record in the house before or after.

My point in this is that I think there were two things pulling my parents in opposite directions:

1. They - especially my dad - still had a passion for the music that went along with their mid-to-late sixties rebellion. It still lit 'em up and made them passionate. But...

2. after becoming religious they felt guilty about their past ways. After free love died and all that, my dad found himself in the throes of a pretty strong speed habit, while my mom was dealing with being a mother of five at the age of 33 and having a husband (and son (not me, btw)) who also was dealing with a drug addiction. Once my dad cleaned up and my mom figured out how to deal - around the time I was born - they had become Right Wing Reaganites who vilified their past lives, the good along with the bad. A casualty here was all the great music they were into. I think they saw secular music as an inlet into every negative aspect of their former lifestyle. Slippery slope type of thing. As a consequence, music wasn't really present in my house growing up. I didn't have my first boombox until I was 11, and I didn't buy that Collective Soul album until I was 12. My passion for music was really under wraps until my dad passed away when I was 14. It was pretty obvious to me - even at that point in time - that their control was driven by fear. A mistake, imo, but I guess understandable, given their background and all the shit they dealt with.

My mother was reacting against a very similar restricted listening upbringing that she endured, when she raised me. Hence my favorite records, when I was 7 or 8, being Talking Heads/David Byrne, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Talk Talk, Kinks, and early Aerosmith LPs. Not that that's a lot of out-there music, but certainly different than the big band stuff she was brought up on. In spite of being very religious, she is violently anti-Christian rock.

My 9 month old son just did his first identifiable dance. The song was "Christmas lights" by Wild Billy Childish & the M.B.E.s.
Couldn't be more proud.

The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs (with Henry Rollins and Peaches) are releasing their own version of The Dark Side of the Moon./

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I hear tell it sucks

I wish the Flaming Lips weren't one of Monty's pet bands; getting pretty difficult to separate the music from the bullshit.

On Embryonic, the bullshit comes pre-inserted into the music!

This is great.

Stevie Wonder's awesome Police-Stevie medley at the Rock and Roll HOF awards is some higher ground

Simon and Garfunkel sort of killed at at that awards show...

Reminded me of

WOXY's playing by the band Middle Distance Runner (tune's "The Unbeliever") that sounded so much like that old band Lupine Howl it sent me key-stroking clickety-clack to find out if they're cousins...doesn't look like it. Remember Lupine Howl? Yeah, nobody does...that 1st record was just north of OK but the packaging was wicked - massive gate-folded booklet with S&M imagery and whatnot:



Also, WOXY played a song called 'Arming Eritrea' that made me feel like chewing glass & punching cops.

Re Newsboys: "Breakfast" is my favorite.

Basically, it's very simple: anything they did with Steve Taylor is great. Without him producing/writing, it's hit and miss at best.

A friend of mine texts me to say he finally sat down and listened to Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. "Wow. It's awful! Except for 'Fences'". No need to even reply to insanity like that.

Is there already an app for buying a soundtrack (or just the song they're playing) on your tv while watching the movie at home?

Forgot how much I LOVED this song:

New M.I.A. "THERES SPACE FOR OL DAT I SEE" http://www.twitvid.com/B54ED

VH1 is getting close to this. If there isn't, there will be soon.

Invent it, and you'll become very rich.

Velocity, you're kind of describing Shazam I think

Is it possible that I actualy like Coldplay's Viva La Vida? I feel like such a KFOG target market post-Yuppie.

someone just drew my attention to this review on Amazon, by a Mr Pomeroy from Wiltshire:

Rumor is Rolling Stones to headline Bonnaroo.