Eighth Show!
Another week of swooning over my musical crushes. Played stuff from Voxtrot's forthcoming debut LP (my favorite song from that) and inadvertently realized that I completely adore Love is All after flirting with them for a couple of months!
Voxtrot - Future Pt. 1 (Voxtrot)
Jim Guthrie - Virtue (Morning, Noon, Night)
Destroyer - Your Blood (Destroyer's Rubies)
Guided by Voices - 158 Years of Beautiful Sex (Tonics & Twisted Chasers)
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun (The Way of the Vaselines)
Beat Happening - What's Important (Beat Happening)
The Bodines - William Shatner
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress (George Best)
Zumpano - The Party Rages On (Look What the Rookie Did)
The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now (The Cloud Room)
Sugar - The Act We Act (Copper Blue)
Ween - Ocean Man (The Mollusk)
Rocketship - Hey Hey Girl
Ozma - Natalie Portman (Rock and Roll Pt. 3)
White Town - Hair Like Alain Delon
Gene - Her Fifteen Years (To See the Lights)
Yo La Tengo & Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers)
Francoise Hardy - Veins
Chantal Goya - Tu M'as Trop Menti (Masculin-Feminin Soundtrack)
Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (History Never Repeats)
Ted Leo - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead) (Split Enz Cover)
Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered
Wolfie - You're Lucky I'm Skinny (Where's Wolfie)
The Lucksmiths - Untidy Towns
Morrissey - Hairdresser on Fire (Viva Hate)
Jawbreaker - Boxcar (24 Hour Revenge Therapy)
Love is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up (9 Times That Same Song)
The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno (Twin Cinema)
I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona (Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Big Star - September Gurls (Radio #1)
Andrew Bird - Plasticities (Armchair Apocrypha)
Band of the Week(s)
Love is All
I got "9 Times That Same Song" right around the time Pitchfork was hyping the hell out of it. Gave it a listen, wasn't too impressed. They just seemed like the "quirky indie rock band of the week." About a month ago I heard their cover of the Pastels "Nothing to Be Done," one of my absolute favorite songs and while the female vocals on it bugged me a big, I realized that any band that covers the Pastels deserves a shot. Listen to "Make Out Fall Out Make Up," I know this song was hot in the internet months ago but holy fucking shit what a song!
Sugar
Between the ages of 16 and 18 I was completely subscribed to punk rock. However, two years wasn't long enough for me to get to everything especially when I basically started with, gasp, Fat Wreck Chords and Henry Rollins spoken word. It was a weird mix that got me into sort of faceless pop-punk (although I still have a place in my heart for No Use for a Name, Lagwagon, and of course, NOFX) and the broader strokes of hardcore (Black Flag, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, etc) with the Descendents sort of fusing the two together. Shortly after getting really into punk I got swept into the maddening world of you-know-what and etc etc. In short, I glossed over Husker Du. Don't know how, don't know why, I know I listened to "New Day Rising," and I just bought it on vinyl a few months ago, and I think it's a great record but man I didn't really get into it until about a year ago. I'm not making any sense. Anyway, I was putting a review on an old Sugar single and finally heard THAT band. And I was obsessed with that song "Paralyized" on Bob Mould's last solo album. So yeah it makes sense I would love this band, a sort of midpoint between Husker Du punk and Bob's new stuff. A COMPLETELY BRILLIANT ALT-POP BAND!
IN FUCKING SHORT: I put the iPod on shuffle and "The Act We Act" came on and I had a moment. I played the song on the show so that maybe others might have a moment. "Copper Blue" is a great record and you should get it and yeah, Bob Mould makes me weak at the knees.
Voxtrot - Future Pt. 1 (Voxtrot)
Jim Guthrie - Virtue (Morning, Noon, Night)
Destroyer - Your Blood (Destroyer's Rubies)
Guided by Voices - 158 Years of Beautiful Sex (Tonics & Twisted Chasers)
The Vaselines - Son of a Gun (The Way of the Vaselines)
Beat Happening - What's Important (Beat Happening)
The Bodines - William Shatner
The Wedding Present - My Favourite Dress (George Best)
Zumpano - The Party Rages On (Look What the Rookie Did)
The Cloud Room - Hey Now Now (The Cloud Room)
Sugar - The Act We Act (Copper Blue)
Ween - Ocean Man (The Mollusk)
Rocketship - Hey Hey Girl
Ozma - Natalie Portman (Rock and Roll Pt. 3)
White Town - Hair Like Alain Delon
Gene - Her Fifteen Years (To See the Lights)
Yo La Tengo & Daniel Johnston - Speeding Motorcycle (Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo)
The Modern Lovers - Pablo Picasso (The Modern Lovers)
Francoise Hardy - Veins
Chantal Goya - Tu M'as Trop Menti (Masculin-Feminin Soundtrack)
Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (History Never Repeats)
Ted Leo - Six Months in a Leaky Boat (Tell Balgeary, Balgury is Dead) (Split Enz Cover)
Shop Assistants - All That Ever Mattered
Wolfie - You're Lucky I'm Skinny (Where's Wolfie)
The Lucksmiths - Untidy Towns
Morrissey - Hairdresser on Fire (Viva Hate)
Jawbreaker - Boxcar (24 Hour Revenge Therapy)
Love is All - Make Out Fall Out Make Up (9 Times That Same Song)
The New Pornographers - Sing Me Spanish Techno (Twin Cinema)
I'm From Barcelona - We're From Barcelona (Let Me Introduce My Friends)
Big Star - September Gurls (Radio #1)
Andrew Bird - Plasticities (Armchair Apocrypha)
Band of the Week(s)
Love is All
I got "9 Times That Same Song" right around the time Pitchfork was hyping the hell out of it. Gave it a listen, wasn't too impressed. They just seemed like the "quirky indie rock band of the week." About a month ago I heard their cover of the Pastels "Nothing to Be Done," one of my absolute favorite songs and while the female vocals on it bugged me a big, I realized that any band that covers the Pastels deserves a shot. Listen to "Make Out Fall Out Make Up," I know this song was hot in the internet months ago but holy fucking shit what a song!
Sugar
Between the ages of 16 and 18 I was completely subscribed to punk rock. However, two years wasn't long enough for me to get to everything especially when I basically started with, gasp, Fat Wreck Chords and Henry Rollins spoken word. It was a weird mix that got me into sort of faceless pop-punk (although I still have a place in my heart for No Use for a Name, Lagwagon, and of course, NOFX) and the broader strokes of hardcore (Black Flag, Minor Threat, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, etc) with the Descendents sort of fusing the two together. Shortly after getting really into punk I got swept into the maddening world of you-know-what and etc etc. In short, I glossed over Husker Du. Don't know how, don't know why, I know I listened to "New Day Rising," and I just bought it on vinyl a few months ago, and I think it's a great record but man I didn't really get into it until about a year ago. I'm not making any sense. Anyway, I was putting a review on an old Sugar single and finally heard THAT band. And I was obsessed with that song "Paralyized" on Bob Mould's last solo album. So yeah it makes sense I would love this band, a sort of midpoint between Husker Du punk and Bob's new stuff. A COMPLETELY BRILLIANT ALT-POP BAND!
IN FUCKING SHORT: I put the iPod on shuffle and "The Act We Act" came on and I had a moment. I played the song on the show so that maybe others might have a moment. "Copper Blue" is a great record and you should get it and yeah, Bob Mould makes me weak at the knees.
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