Monday, March 29, 2021
Appalachian American Ennui: I Used to Call Her Mommy
Appalachian American Ennui: I Used to Call Her Mommy: On cold mornings I helped my grandmother feed the yawning mouth of a Warm Morning stove with shiny black lump-coal. The smell was ine...
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From Rolling Stone's Best Alternative Albums of All TIme (The Article's On My Facebook Page)
Husker Du: New Day Rising (1985): New Day Rising; The Girl Who Lives on Heaven Hill; I Apologize; Folklore; If I Told You; Celebrated Summer; Perfect Example; Terms of Psychic Warfare; Times the Pain; Powerline; Books About UFO's; I Don't Know What You're Talking About; How to ______ a Cat; Whatcha Drinkin'; Plans I Make. NOTES: I strongly suspect that this band influenced Charles Thompson, progenitor of Pixies.
Oasis: Definitely Maybe (1994): [Lyrically very weak] Rock & Roll Star; Shakermaker; Live Forever; Up in the Sky; Columbia; Supersonic; Bring it on Down; Cigarettes & Alcohol; Digsby's Diner; Slide it on Down; Note: Near perfectly executed from Up in the Sky through Bring it on Down. Married with Children; Hard-driving. In general, the music is more main-stream, classic R&R. Very high quality.
R E M: Document (1987): Finest Worksong; Welcome to the Occupation; Exhuming McCarthy; Disturbance at the Heron House; Instrumental Track in the Style of R E M; Strange; It's the End of the World as we Know It, and I Feel Fine; The One I Love; Fireplace (Very Unusual); Lightnin' Hopkins; King of Birds; REM Style Instrumental Track; Oddfellows Local 151.
Pixies: Doolittle (1989): This album is sacred to me.
The Smiths: The Sound of the Smiths (2008) [Deluxe Edition], 44 Songs! (I'm Blown Away by this epic album. The instrumentals underlying Morrisey's unique vocals is beyond belief): Hand in Glove; This Charming Man; What Difference Does it Make; Still Ill; Exposed - Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now; William, It Was Really Nothing; How Soon is it Now (It's got that electronic cadence that reminds me of Bone by RH. Fucking great. I blogged it to AAE); Nowhere Fast; Shakespeare's Sister; Barbarism Begins at Home; That Joke Isn't Funny; Headmaster Ritual (Great. Just Great); The Boy With the Thorn In His Side; Bigmouth Strikes Again; There's a Light That Never Goes Out; Ask; You Just Haven't Earned It Yet Baby; Shoplifters of the World Unite [and Take Over]; I Started Something I Couldn't Finish; Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me; These Things Take Time; (to be continued . . . .) Stretch Out and Wait; Wonderful Woman; Oscillate Wildly; Meat Is Murder; Please, Please, . . .: Back to the Old House; Asleep (I'd love to hear Thom York); The Queen is Dead; Money Changes Everything (Instrumental);
Grant Lee Buffalo: Mighty Joe Moon (1994): Absolutely Great! And I rarely use exclamation marks. Exclamation Punctuation. Every song stands on its own. "Mighty Joe Moon, there's no controlling you." Indeed.
Frank Black: Frank Black (1993):
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Monday, March 15, 2021
Frank Black - Jesus Was Right
Charles Thompson a/k/a wears it out on the guitar toward the end of this one.
Frank Black - Parry the Wind High, Low
The instrumental at the end of this piece is beyond description.
Sunday, March 14, 2021
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My Essential Pixies
P I X I E S and F R A N K BLACK
Kim Deal, Vocals, Bass Guitar; Charles Thompson, a/k/a Black Francis, Vocals, Rhythm Guitar; David Lovering, Drums; and Joey Santiago, Lead Guitar.
Albums
Come On Pilgrim, 1987: A+
Surfer Rosa, 1988: A
Doolittle, 1989: A+
Bossa Nova, 1990: A
Trompe Le Monde, 1991 A
In 1988 I was visiting a former boarding student from high school in Tullahoma, Tennessee when a television program, entitled Michelob Night Music aired. David Sanborn was the host. He introduced a relatively new band, called Pixies. They played This Monkey's Gone to Heaven. I was blown away. Nothing else has ever come close to the charge I got that night from this performance.
Frank Black's solo, sans Pixies, work is connected with a catchy-ness that's like nothing I've ever heard. Catchy. But it's more, much, much more, than that. He's the Dylan Thomas of AltRock. Prolific.
Frank Black and the Catholics: Devil's Workshop Album: A, Every song is listenable.
Frank Black and the Catholics (1999)
Dog in the Sand Album (2001)
Frank Black, et al. : Pistolero Album (1999)
Frank Black: Honeycomb (2005)
Cult of Ray (1996)
Black Letter Days (2002):
Devil's Workshop (2002)
Fast Man/Raider Man (2006)
Teenager of the Year (1994)
NonStopErotik (2010)
Oddballs (2000): Can I Get a Witness (Absolutely great song); Baby That's Art; Pray a Little Faster;
Christmass (2006):
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Adult Mom - "Passenger" (Full Album Stream)
The pedal steel takes me back to the Mountain View Inn and Cline Bunch's jukebox.
The Smashing Pumpkins- Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
I just got turned on to this masterwork. This is among the best.
Monday, March 8, 2021
Underground Monster hunting eelfish. Big fish swallowing mudeel. Undergr...
I have so many questions.
Sunday, March 7, 2021
Wednesday, March 3, 2021
My Essential Smashing Pumpkins
S M A S H I N G P U M P K I N S
Gish 1991: A+
Siamese Dream 1993: A+
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness 1995: Title Track Piano Instrumental (I could listen to this the rest of my life): Thru the Eyes of Ruby; We Only Come Out at Night;
Adore 1998: A+ (Soft studio album)
Machina/Machines of God 2000
Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music 2000
Zeitgeist 2007
Oceania 2012
Monuments to an Elegy 2014
Shiny Oh So Bright 2018
Cyr 2020
Tuesday, March 2, 2021
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Great cover of Walking on the Moon, by one of my favorite bands, the Police. This is a great song about falling in love.
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NPR did a piece called "This I Believe" a few years back. Listeners were invited to recite their core beliefs about anything...
