What the Kids are Listening to: Juno
I had originally entitled this one What the Kids Everyone is Listening to: Juno
Up up down down left right left right B A start
Just because we use cheats doesn’t mean we’re not smart
I don’t see what anyone can see, in anyone else but you
Anyone Else but You – The Moldy PeachesThat right there pretty much sums up the wit present in each and every one of the 19 tracks comprising the #1 record in the country (it’s #1 in Digital Sales as well). It is straightforward songwriting that is simple and to the point. I’ve given this soundtrack a couple of spins and while it’s pleasant and cute it is by in large pedestrian. That said it does serve as a great compliment to the film and my favorite track is the honest and adorable version of “Anyone Else but You” performed by the stars Michael Cera and Ellen Page. It does get kudos for resurrecting Sonic Youth’s brilliant cover of The Carpenters “Superstar” and introducing the kids to the brilliance of Bowie via Mott the Hoople’s classic “All the Young Dudes”.
The Moldy Peaches – Anyone Else but You (Quicktime)
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Nine Lives…
There are few people in this world that are more rock n’ roll than Lemmy Kilmister. Seriously, I’m fairly certain that should some catastrophic event rob the world of all its life it would be Cher, Keef, Lemmy and the cockroaches left standing. So it’s not really surprising that he’s fronting a retro-rockabilly band. But what’s more amazing is that it works better than you’d think it would. Backed by Stray Cat Slim Jim Phantom and Danny B. Harvey of Rockats the trio burns through a set of classic tunes. For a jolt of straight forward balls to the wall rock check out The Head Cats!
The Head Cat – Crossroads (Live) (MP3)
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Stoned in Belgium: Brussels Affair
This, my friends, is the Stones in arguably their finest form. They were touring in support of their latest album, Goats Head Soup, the follow-up to 1972’s Exile on Main Street (a tough album to follow!). Mick Taylor absolutely shredded up the stage with his lead guitar work. You’ll hear it all first hand in this great quality show.
This was intended to be an official live album, but in the early 70’s the Stones were still bound to to an agreement with their former record label (Dekka/ABCO). So the first post-Dekka official live album didn’t come out until ’77 (Love You Live), seven years after they left Dekka.
One of the great musical memories I have are the years in my late teens when I was discovering the Rolling Stones catalog, particularly their albums from the 70’s – and even more particularly – the greatness of Exile and Sticky Fingers. So to come across a show like this for the first time is really a treat.
And if you’re a young ‘un or just new to the Stones, fasten your seatbelts…
The Rolling Stones
Brussels, Belgium
October 17, 1973Nov 17, 2011: The show is now part of the Goats Head Soup Deluxe Box Set.
1. Brown Sugar
2. Happy
3. Gimme Shelter
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
6. Dancing With Mr. D
7. Angie
8. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Midnight Rambler
11. All Down the Line
12. Rip This Joint
13. Jumping Jack Flash
14. Street Fighting ManBuy:
Nobody Knows (including me) by Faces
One of the neglected bands in my life has been Faces (and Small Faces before them). But thankfully, they keep popping up from time to time, reminding me to get my act together. Wohlman included this great track in one of his most recent transmissions (if you haven’t listened to one, you need to. Your musical horizons will expand). It’s a Ron Wood / Ronnie Lane composition that was included on the Faces album First Step. It was the first record after the breakup of Small Faces, and actually reads “Small Faces” on original pressings of the album. The lineup was Rod Stewart, Ron Wood, Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagen, and Kenney Jones.
This song has been around as long as I’ve been alive fercryin’ out loud (since 1970), and I heard it for the first time y-e-s-t-e-r-d-a-y. Great song, I recommend earphones. You’ll hear old Rod in one ear, and who I’m assuming to be Lane in the other. Am I right on that one?
Faces – Nobody Knows (Amazon)
Marah’s New One: Angels of Destruction!
Though their past few albums – to me – have never matched the brilliance and intensity of their first two albums: Let’s Cut the Crap and Hook Up Later on Tonight and Kids in Philly – they sure keep inching more and more back to that original form – both with 2005’s If You Didn’t Laugh, You’d Cry and now with Angels of Destruction! – which just came out Tuesday. One of my favorites so far is the opener, “Coughing Up Blood” – a perfect way to kick off the album. A lazy, rolling groove, catchy backing vocals that wouldn’t sound out of place on a Wilburys or Little Village record, and Dave Bielanko’s talent – one of my favorite singers and an amazingly creative lyricist. Dave & Serge Bielanko and their supporting gang are on a roll…
Marah – Coughing Up Blood
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Watch Marah perform “Angels of Destruction” on Wednesday’s Conan O’Brien show.
Photo credit: Hannah Torreson
The Kid is HOT Tonite!
Thank you Sirius Rewind for bringing this Loverboy classic back into my consciousness. Hey, I joined the Loverboy fan club when I was 11. Mike Reno? A god to me.
Hey, it was 1981, people.
Love Trilogy: to my CDs, it’s “see you later”, not “good-bye”
Well it was inevitable I guess. My 20-month old daughter, you see, had shunned modern technology, and had embraced the Compact Disc ®. So much so that every time she set foot in our loft where the racks of my CD’s were so meticulously displayed, she would stoop to her knees, and begin to explore the inner workings of these amazing jewel cases. Nashville Skyline, Exile on Main Street, London Calling, it mattered not to this inquisitive little person. She tore into them with unbiased fervor – removing the discs, removing the inserts, switching them around with each other.
Yes, for me – as proud I am of her for exploring this fading medium – it was time to pack them up in plastic storage bins. It is there they will remain for another 20 months, probably. Now, most of my CD’s (and a few cassettes and VHS tapes, as you can see) lie encased, merely a staging area for my little one’s adventures in Upstairs Land. Plastic drinking cups, snacks, sandals, a note pad… they all play an important role.
Nostalgia paid a visit as I packed up the CD’s. Here’s one that brings back the memories… this album experienced heavy rotation in my first couple years of college (88-89). The Uplift Mofo Party Plan was the Chili Peppers’ third studio album, and the last Chilis’ album that included their original lineup: Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Hillel Slovak, and Jack Irons. It was released in 1987. In June of ’88, Slovak died of a heroin OD, and Irons left soon after.
This song was a staple in my dorm room “pre-parties”. I can’t remember if it was this song that shook one of my three-foot speakers off of the ledge above and on to my head. May have been.
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Love Trilogy
Zany for Zeppelin: Paris 1969
I have to say, the Led Zeppelin reunion has me all geeked up. As someone who was all of 10 years old when they decided to call it quits after Bonzo’s death, count me in on the side that hopes they do tour (especially after hearing the rave reviews from Monday’s O2 Arena show).
I read Lefsetz’s thoughts on the rumored tour, and while I understand how he doesn’t want Zeppelin to fall into that category of mega-corporate-money-making-reunion-machine, at the expense of people’s memories of Led Zeppelin in their prime – I would like to see these legends together in front of me. I know it can never be the true Zep without Bonzo, but this will just have to do, ya?
So I got my grubby hands on this great 1969 French radio broadcast. The lads had descended on Paris during their tour supporting Led Zeppelin I (listen to Plant introduce the “new” song “Heartbreaker”, from II). I had never listened to a Zeppelin show this far back. It’s a fascinating and wholly satisfying document of a legendary young band with so much ahead of them – so much groundbreaking music in store for us. The French broadcaster likes to hear himself talk, even mid song at one point – but it’s brief and isn’t much of an annoyance at all.
I didn’t discover Led Zeppelin until 1987, during my senior year of high school. The great thing about timeless music like Zeppelin is that there’ll always be a 17-year old somewhere discovering their music. As long as there are living, breathing human beings with ears and the means to play music, the Hammer of the Gods shall live for eternity! Mwaahahahahaha! Ahem.
Uh, enjoy.
Led Zeppelin
Olympia
Paris, France
October 10th, 1969Good Times Bad Times / Communication Breakdown
I Can’t Quit You Baby
Heartbreaker
Dazed And Confused
White Summer / Black Mountainside
You Shook Me
How Many More Times=========
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- Visit Led Zeppelin’s Official Site
- Read David Fricke’s Review of the London O2 Show.
Zeppelin’s Reunion Show
From the live updates on NME.com, here is Led Zeppelin’s set list from tonight’s London reunion show – – –
American Idiots?
Saturday evening this little site popped up touting the new release from a group calling themselves The Foxboro Hot Tubs. By Sunday morning buzz was setting the internet ablaze that this was another one off side-project from Green Day (some of you may well recall the 2003 release by The Network). Brimming with 60’s inspired goodness this is either Billy Joe and the boys or the greatest hoax played on the internet this week. My personal favorite track is just below and you can get the entire EP entirely free at the official site.
The Foxboro Hot Tubs –
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