I have fully embraced being a rockist and spun a mint vinyl copy of this last weekend and it was suddenly a great day in music.

Caetano Veloso's "Tropicalia," both the song and the album, kinda make me feel awesome.

It has just been correctly observed by some bloke on Twitter that the Wikipedia entry for Warren G's Regulate is a very good read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulate_%28song%29#Synopsis

I particularly like the last line.

Pretty sure my soul sister wouldn't be able to identify Mister Mister if she heard it playing on the radio

I've been listening to this album all day for some reason. It's so weird, it's either completely poppy and fun, or an annoying advertisement/waste of time. However, it switches between these things so fast I can't stop it on one or the other. At least it isn't boring.

Don't judge me.

Close enough, right here:



One of my favorite songs, and not too shabby an album.

"I need McGriddle"?

I was at George Harrison's house the other day. One of them anyway. Now a Krishna Temple, you'll be surprised to hear. Nice pad.

so i broke out my box of cassettes and my tapedeck crapped out on me after one tape. do i actually buy another fucking tapedeck?

^ no.

I have one that I don't use and I'd like to get rid of it as I'm moving soon. You're welcome to it if you want it.

yes, thanks...

wanna bring it by the bar? i work Thursday nite...

If I'm not too busy I probably can. Are you there until close?

one of my favorite songs for several years.

Maybe this is as much a part of the American collective consciousness as, idk, the Hitler Diaries is in the UK but anyway - "Frank Sinatra has a cold". A good read.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1003-OCT_SINATRA_rev_

you are a true gentleman, Raj. thanks for the tapedeck... cheers.

No problem - glad it found a good home.

This Heat's "Deceit" needs a vinyl reissue. Not sure how high the demand is, but still...

That new Ray Lamontagne single is awesome.

I am completely obsessed with Bjork's "Unravel" at the moment. Thom Yorke says it's his favorite song and all I can say is that he has good taste.

^^^

If I'm spinning Bjork these days it's almost exclusively the single version of 'All Is Full Of Love' (The album version is average, the single is astonishing). I can play it for hours on ends.

'Unravel' is a good song though. I think 'Immature' is my favourite off that album now.

Just been reliving some good times with this record -



Kind of a proto-Royal Trux, this is from 85ish, I think it might have changed my life in that it was pretty much the first time I heard a record that completely dispensed with song structure. I mean, this was around the same time as I heard J&Mc and Sonic Youth but I could hear the music in those records, under the noise. This was just lots of samples, chanting, feedback, atmosphere, hooks - but no recognisable tunes. Tracks on this EP included 'Drag Racing', "I Look Like Shit' and 'Shoot The President'. And if that doesn't tell you all you need to know then you're really not paying attention.

I think one of them is dead now.

edit: whoa

Now little Bo Peep cold lost her sheep
And Rip van Winkle fell the hell asleep



*salutes*

Oh, I downloaded Drag Racing Underground a while back because I was reading about Pussy Galore one day. Now I have a reason to listen to it/know what the hell it is.

I'm really, really digging "Joga" these days, but yeah, no other song in her discography can top "Unravel." The tour video for it is also very pretty. Hell, I should finish my Bjork thread, if only to shit on Volta some more and get it out of my system.

I think "Heart of Stone" is my favourite Rolling Stones song.

http://soundcloud.com/shamantis/j-biebz-u-smile-800-slower

one of the most heavenly tracks ive heard...

A-ha! moment -- listening to Sugar Hill Gang I now know where that, "Hoo-HA! Get your motor checked!" sample on Paul's Boutique comes from. A-ha! I had that shit on a green cassette - I used to convince myself that the clear, transparent cassettes somehow sounded better.

The sun always shines on t.v.

Not to be 'that guy', but he's saying "Hoo-ha! Got them all in check!"

I've had many "HEY!" Paul's Boutique sample moments. When I first got into Sly & the Family Stone, it amazed me how much of that stuff I already knew via samples from PB. Also, though I was only 10 at the time - when I heard Vanilla Ice's album and he used the same "Stop that train, I wanna get off" sample used in "B-Boy Bouillabaisse", I thought that was such an obvious rip-off. That album came out about a year after PB, it couldn't have been a coincidence.

Two a-ha! moments in one day - thanks for correcting me...I've been blurting out the wrong lyric for, what, 20 years now?

And you can find the spoken word sample of Marley saying something like, "Dem knew it...but dem can't do it" on his record Talkin' Blues.

Are we still under a no-fish rule? No? Alright, can someone hook me up with a mp3 of this tune. Grassyass.

I could have sworn I bought that CD used at some point, maybe it was nabbed in the great CD theft of 2005 and I never noticed until now.

does anybody else ever have trouble getting videos on The Onion website to play?

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-cure,38884/

they never work for me, won't even start up.

I guess I'll be picking it up used at Reckless, also. It's an alright compilation. I only really want the Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Pavement tracks.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wda2ldp53a43...0Turns%2026.mp3

Badass. Thanks!

So I guess TI is fucked.

Pleased to learn he married someone from XScape, though.

Impulse buy at the Starbucks counter this morning:



Starbucks makes me nervous.

switch to de-caf

I like to think Eddie Cochran would have wanted it that way.

Portrayed by Riki Rachtman, Brian Setzer, and now a Starbucks cover -- best posthumous career?

Speaking of Jerry Lee Lewis, I saw his name pop up in Rhapsody's new releases this week and gave it a listen. Pretty cool album actually. The usual, end of career, duet with famous people covers set, but done surprisingly well.

Hey, Tweed - did you ever go up to one of Levon Helm's barn parties?

No, not yet. Remains high on the to do list. I saw him at Chicago Theater last year, he's great but the crowd was pretty lame.

this is so good

The latest Springsteen reissue has me thinking that it won't be long before some artist, when faced with the lack of rare material for some elaborate commemorative edition, will just go into a studio and record new "outtakes" in their earlier style to supplement the tracklist. Some authentic sounding cassette "demos" could be newly created as well - to remedy the lack of any being made in the first place.

Heart's new album Red Velvet Car is surprisingly kickass and Faces-esque. I'd say it was their best record since Dog and Butterfly but then Jupiter's Darling was pretty damn good too.

revisited "nothing's shocking", and conclude that "mountain song" could have definitely been a fugazi tune...

...I might be an adult but I'm a minor at heart - go to college, be a man, what's the fuckin' deal!?

here Alan, let me do that properly for you: