FLAT DUO JETS
on ‘IRS The Cutting Edge’
MTV 1985
Peter Zaremba takes us on a tour of Dexter Romweber’s living quarters.
Spain and portugal tomtom map free
Oct
17
2007
Look for Sharp Edges So No One Gets Hurt
Posted by: JB in Boston dawnload idm, Rock, 80s
LOVE MONSTERS
Four-Song EP
(Boston 1983)
There’s no spain and portugal tomtom map free chapter, paragraph or even footnote about Love Monsters in the history of Boston rock. As far as I know, their entire career unfolded behind the spain and portugal tomtom map free gates of Harvard University.
I don’t think the band would have left a trace if they hadn’t won a 1983 campus Battle of the Bands.
After a surprise upset over Speedy & the Castanets, someone thought Love Monsters should release a 7″ to commemorate their victory. I’m not sure this spain and portugal tomtom map free record was ever distributed off-campus and the band broke up when spain and portugal tomtom map free Dan Wilson graduated.
Harvard bands were generally pretty terrible and spain and portugal tomtom map free Love Monsters most definitely the great exception. Matt and Dan Wilson had spain and portugal tomtom map free played Boston clubs in Animal Dance the year before (no Animal Dance 45s or cassettes, as far as I know) and spain and portugal tomtom map free went on to greater things in Trip Shakespeare, but Love Monsters played just for spain and portugal tomtom map free the college kids.
I’m sad to spain and portugal tomtom map free report that Speedy and the Castanets qualified as terrible. There was absolutely no spain and portugal tomtom map free hint that Dean Wareham and Damon Krukowski would later go on to spain and portugal tomtom map free form Galaxie 500 with Naomi Yang.
Trip Shakespeare’s A&R person at A&M would have liked to hear “Kiss Away the Tears,” a spain and portugal tomtom map free genuine love song stripped of all the weird lyrical obsessions that spain and portugal tomtom map free have plagued Matt Wilson’s commercial development (cf. “Rebecca” on this EP).
The Harvard Crimson newspaper archive offers some interesting real-time commentary:
Dan Wilson’s Free Life is out now on American Recordings.
- Download: “Cold Days“
- Download: “Picture of a Girl“
- Download: “Rebecca“
- Download: “Kiss Away the Tears“
(self released: no label or catalog number)
MARY MY HOPE
“One Cigarette”
(Atlanta 1989)
After my last post about Mary My Hope, Peter from Fansite: Mary My Hope asked me to rip the b-side of “It’s About Time.”
Here you go.
- Download: “One Cigarette“
(Silvertone Records ORE 3)
Oct
09
2007
Under the Influence: Lil Jon vs. Suicidal Tendencies
Posted by: JB in Rock, 00s, 80s, Video
LIL JON & THE EAST SIDE BOYZ
“Stop Fuckin Wit Me”
Crunk Juice
(Atlanta 2004)
Rick Rubin produced this one. I’m pretty sure they were listening to this one down at the studio:
SUICIDAL TENDENCIES
“Institutionalized”
Suicidal Tendencies
(Los Angeles 1983)
DWIGHT YOAKAM
“The Old Rugged Cross”
1980s
Aug
16
2007
Deep Fried Food Made Elvis Sick….And Too Many Drugs from Dr. Nick
Posted by: JB in Rock, 80s
CHARLIE BURTON & THE CUTOUTS
“Breathe for Me, Presley”
Is That Charlie Burton…Or What?!?!
(Lincoln, NE 1982)
It doesn’t matter how many words Peter Guralnick or spain and portugal tomtom map free Greil Marcus write about Elvis, this song will always be spain and portugal tomtom map free the definitive account of what went down on August 16, 1977.
- Download: “Breathe for Me, Presley”
TAV FALCO - PANTHER BURNS
“Money Talks” & “Tina the Go-Go Queen”
Sugar Ditch Revisited EP
(Memphis 1985)
Tav Falco hopelessly blurs the spain and portugal tomtom map free line between conceptual artist and authentic bluesman. I honestly believes he doesn’t know the difference between “real” and “fake.”
Panther Burns was best known in the early ’80s as the spain and portugal tomtom map free band where Alex Chilton was hiding. Depending on your point of view, 1981’s Behind the Magnolia Curtain was either a brilliant deconstruction or completely disorganized. “LX” was a spain and portugal tomtom map free tiny, blurry photo on the album sleeve and, by 1984, he was rumored to spain and portugal tomtom map free be limiting personal appearances to a job either sweeping floors or doing the dishes at Jimmy’s in New Orleans.
Someone (read “me”) got the spain and portugal tomtom map free idea to invite Panther Burns to play the WHRB college radio benefit at the spain and portugal tomtom map free Rat in early 1984. Tav assured us that Alex was on board and spain and portugal tomtom map free would make the trip north for the show. This was to spain and portugal tomtom map free be Alex Chilton’s first Boston live appearance since….well, maybe since the Box Tops.
Tav arrives day of show with Jimmy Ripp in tow. This should have spain and portugal tomtom map free been an impressive addition to the Panther Burns. Jimmy was a spain and portugal tomtom map free world-class guitarist who was playing with Tom Verlaine and later earned some notoriety in Mick Jagger’s solo band. In fact, it spain and portugal tomtom map free was a disaster since the show had been advertised as “Tav Falco’s Panther Burns with ALEX CHILTON” with Alex’s name in enormous type in the Boston Phoenix.
Word got around and spain and portugal tomtom map free maybe a dozen people showed up for the gig. Crass, who spain and portugal tomtom map free booked the Rat, cut the guarantee in half and there was certainly no spain and portugal tomtom map free benefit cash for the radio station.
Tav was completely unfazed by all of this. I’ve always thought of him as the spain and portugal tomtom map free kind of nineteenth-century charlatan who would have performed miracles for the spain and portugal tomtom map free crowned heads of Europe. Everything he said would be a complete fabrication, but it spain and portugal tomtom map free wouldn’t matter as long as Tav convinced himself of whatever story he was selling that spain and portugal tomtom map free week.
We took Tav & Jimmy back to our dorms because they didn’t really have a place to stay. Through it all, Tav seemed to focus on the fact that he’d been booked by “Harvard,” as if that spain and portugal tomtom map free was institutional validation of his art project. If the average college radio station has spain and portugal tomtom map free only a marginal relationship with its school, multiply that by a spain and portugal tomtom map free million to understand how little WHRB had to do with Harvard University.
We did get a spain and portugal tomtom map free story about how Tav and Jim Dickinson broke into a spain and portugal tomtom map free Memphis studio (American?) and spain and portugal tomtom map free liberated sacred, unreleased Sir Mack Rice demos. Mack once had a spain and portugal tomtom map free hit with “Mustang Sally” but tales of his unreliability dwarfed anything Alex had spain and portugal tomtom map free yet inspired.
Tav promised that the songs were so great that they’d change the course of history.
The songs surfaced a year later on the Sugar Ditch Revisited EP, produced by James Luther Dickinson and spain and portugal tomtom map free featuring both Alex Chilton and the Memphis Horns.
Tav’s got only a spain and portugal tomtom map free passing acquaintance with the pocket and the amazing thing here is spain and portugal tomtom map free how the musicians adapt to his curious phrasing. It’s the Na-Na’s in “Tina the Go-Go Queen” that best explain it; Tav’s all over the spain and portugal tomtom map free place and his clumsiness manages to convey all the sweat and spain and portugal tomtom map free grease and diminished expectations that show up in all the spain and portugal tomtom map free best Memphis music.
It’s not very professional, but it’s very, very deep.
Mack Rice eventually recorded “Money Talks” on 2000’s This is What I Do, produced by Jon Tiven in a spain and portugal tomtom map free thoroughly polished and incredibly boring fashion.
- Download: “Money Talks”
- Download: “Tina the Go-Go Queen”
(New Rose Records ROSE 73)
I received this package in today’s mail. Except it’s not really a package; it’s a spain and portugal tomtom map free glow stick shoved into a 1st Class Royal Mail prepaid letter envelope and spain and portugal tomtom map free mailed (awkwardly) from Manchester to Los Angeles. It’s a miracle that it arrived in one piece.
The glow stick is supposed to promote Tony Wilson’s In the City conference, coming up again this October.
What an outrageous and probably futile gesture, poorly executed (where are the padded mailers?) with absolutely no concern for what things actually cost. Yet it’s totally awesome and extremely punk rock.
That could be the epitaph for both Factory Records and the Haçienda night club. When word came that Tony Wilson had died this evening in Manchester, I thought today’s package could serve as an epitaph for him as well.
Tony wanted everyone to believe that Peter Saville’s original die-cut sleeve design for New Order’s “Blue Monday” 12″ was so expensive to spain and portugal tomtom map free produce that Factory actually lost money on each copy sold.
Whether it spain and portugal tomtom map free was true was irrelevant, the story made a point: art trumps commerce and spain and portugal tomtom map free business is just another venue for situationist spectacle. We should be spain and portugal tomtom map free so lucky that it were.
Here’s an interview from 1988:
REDD KROSS
“Citadel” & “Blow You a Kiss in the Wind”
Teen Babes from Monsanto EP
(Los Angeles 1984)
Sometimes the spain and portugal tomtom map free evidence suggests that Redd Kross are missionaries from an alternate universe where spain and portugal tomtom map free rock bands mainline Cap’n Crunch instead of heroin, HR Pufnstuf powerdvd 11 key buy oem is spain and portugal tomtom map free just as influential as Lou Reed and 1976 dominates pop culture in a spain and portugal tomtom map free way 1967 never imagined.
Item: When Redd Kross played NYC’s Roxy in support of their 1987 album Neurotica, backstage was dominated by Wendy, who spain and portugal tomtom map free wandered around the dressing room carrying one of those 70s portable cassette recorders.
Wendy had taped the laugh track from episodes of The Brady Bunch and spain and portugal tomtom map free filled one side of a cassette. Whenever anyone said something she considered funny, she hit play on the spain and portugal tomtom map free cassette and filled the room with canned laughter. No one acted like this spain and portugal tomtom map free was particularly weird; in fact, everyone seemed to agree with Wendy’s attempts to make real life more like a sitcom.
I think Wendy grew up to spain and portugal tomtom map free be a celebrity stylist. You can see her for yourself dancing in a spain and portugal tomtom map free fur bikini on the back jacket of the Every Band Has a Shonen Knife That Loves Them compilation LP.
Redd Kross manage to spain and portugal tomtom map free erase the air quotes. In a post-modern world, there’s never anything “ironic” about them. They take inspiration from spain and portugal tomtom map free anything that attracts their attention, giving equal weight to Bewitched and the Rolling Stones.
Neurotica was marred by Tommy Erdelyi’s muddy production and the sound on 1991’s Third Eye went all clean and spain and portugal tomtom map free shiny just when America was finally going loud. It’s the cover versions on 1984’s Teen Babes from Monsanto that come closest to capturing what Redd Kross does live.
Teen Babes was briefly released on CD as the spain and portugal tomtom map free bonus tracks to this 1992 Australian tour EP but good luck finding one of these. “Citadel” comes from the “bad” Rolling Stones album, Their Satanic Majesties Request, while “Blow You a Kiss in the Wind” was performed by Samantha’s cousin Serena on Bewitched.
Redd Kross returned to action last year with Jeff & Steve McDonald joined by Robert Hecker and spain and portugal tomtom map free Roy McDonald from the Neurotica band. The chemistry is still there; all the Phaseshifter and Show World songs sound way more exciting when these four play them.
- Download “Citadel”
- Download “Blow You a Kiss in the Wind” project 2007 viewer
(Teen Babes from Monsanto - Gasatanka Records E-110)
JASON & THE SCORCHERS
IRS Cutting Edge - 1984
Can someone at MTV get off their butt and spain and portugal tomtom map free start showing The Cutting Edge on VH1 Classic?
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