Kaoru Abe - solo 1.21.1972

SYR3
edit- i cant force myself through it..

With many thanks to Pookie, I am listening to:



as well, also thanks to Pookie, an assortment of singles containing some of the most bizarrely beautiful music I've heard in a while.

Fushitsusha's first Double Live. So incredible.

More CDs off my "do I sell or not" pile.
Today: Swans - "The Great Annihilator" and Liminal - "Nosferatu".

Here's a review I wrote. It's kind of stupid, but it expresses my enthusiasm.

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Heh, heh.

"What the hell?"

I love it when I hear that reaction about a record. It usually means there's something good going on there, something challenging. I bought this mostly because I'm turning into a Sonic Youth completist, and it just doesn't seem right to have SYR 1,2, and 4 without having 3. So there you go. And I like the music contained within my collectible item, too. But if you haven't listened to much new noise stuff, like Liars or Double Leopards and that kind of stuff, or even to older kraut stuff like Neu!, you might not connect to this right away.

Anyway, I love that my favorite band took time out to experiment. They're such cute kids, getting all experimenty noisy and shit!

BUY THIS RECORD! Better yet, steal it.

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they might be giants- ana ng

The Idiot Joy Show by The Fall. A decent live recording from 1995.

No Noo Yawk!

Hole - Violet
I'm in a pop-music mood today

Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque

I forgot how much I love this one! I usually only play it winter. It sounds good right now, though.

Here's a self-indulgent review I wrote:

Dozens of scenesters soiled their pyjamas when Spin magazine picked this as 1991's number one album. Seems albums like Nevermind and Loveless caught the critics by surprise when they began bubbling up to the surface and then overtaking Bandwagonesque like ecological disasters in scope. Admittedly, Bandwagonesque wasn't the kind of album to spawn legions of noise-addicted blissheads or sell loads of flannel shirts to disaffected adolescents. But on Bandwagonesque, Teenage Fanclub nevertheless produced 10 (out of the 12) catchiest, craftiest songs of 1991. Whether the critics were right or wrong, well, "Big deal," as the members of Teenage Fanclub themselves might respond, to quote "Star Sign" from this album: "If these songs all change your day, big deal. Seen it all before... Given time, these things will change."

Nothing here's dazzingly original but that doesn't matter when you can make classic chord changes sound this easy and good. You'll not find anything else as swoony as "Pet Rock," "Sidewinder," or "Alcoholiday," no matter how hard you try. For variety, "Star Sign" sounds like the Byrds playing Ride (or vice versa). "Metal Baby" feels like a scruffier T. Rex song, and "The Concept" launches the album with some of the funniest lyrics on disc or vinyl, including, "She wears denim wherever she goes/Gonna buy some records by Status Quo." There's an homage to Sonic Youth, with "Satan," all guitar noise and mad-bull bass in an all-too-short Daydream Nation soundscape.

Half the time, these guys sound like they can barely pull it off--no, that's not quite right, because they can and do pull it off with amazing musicianship. It's that they sound like they could not care less if they did or not, but they go ahead regardless, and do so with endearing slacker grace. If they could have spawned any musical movement, Teenage Fanclub could have been one for the non-generation of slackers--that is, if they cared to. Because even when Jesus is knocking on your door, in "Guiding Star," and all you can muster is that you "kinda like the way he wears his hair... kinda like the way he walks on air," there doesn't seem to be too much to get too excited or concerned about.

So relax, don't worry if this is or was number one on anyone's list but your own, and feast your dadblasted ears on this contagious shaggy whiteboy college radio pop.

Unwound - Lucky acid

speaking of acid...

Just say no.

beach boys-surf's up

Quasimoto - Further Adventures of Lord Quas

Big Women ~ GBH
My favorite song right now for some reason haha.

right this minute:

beat happening - bad seeds (live)

Now that'll take ya back!

Yeah, I also dug these out today: Alice in Chains - Facelift & Redd Kross - Third Eye. 1990 and 1991 were very good years.

beach boys-holland

Black dice - head like a door

Panda Bear - Self Released Cassette

A Thousand Leaves

The barracks of afghanistan
rly nice of goldenchild!

My a.m. drive time: Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris

On the walkman: Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill (cassette from LP)

Last night on the home hi-fi: Alice in Chains - Facelift & Red Kross - Third Eye

a smattering from across the spectrum, yes?!

I remember this song

"Big women I like the size
Big women, flabby thighs..."

Or something like that.

Broadcast - Tender Buttons

Silver Jews - American Water

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights

And in its full glory:

"Big women, I like the size, big women flabby thighs.
Big women, big women, big women .. they fill my eyes.
Oooh a a ah !
Here they come, walking down the street, big and bouncy look so neat.
I like them best between the sheets, big women give me a treat.
Skinny wenches will not do, I need a big one to see me through.
I've gotta get some meat to see me through the night,
in the morning I feel alright."

today:
O'Rourke/Moore/TNB - Voluptulist
SYR3
currently on SYR4

The latest from the "do I sell or not" pile:

Red Sparowes - At The Soundless Dawn
Ruby - Salt Peter
Ocean - Here Where Nothing Grows

What do you think of this? I remember loving it at the time, but haven't listened to it for quite a while. I was a big fan of Silverfish. I wonder whatever happened to Lesley Rankine?

I know this sounds a bit wishy-washy, but I think I like it. What I'm not sure about is how likely it is that I'll give it repeated listens.

I never saw Silverfish, but I did see Leslie Rankine doing her thing with Pigface. It was very scary.

Songs About Fucking - Big Black

Stupid people shouldn't breed.

Hoppipolla - Sigur Ros, at www.pandora.com

greatest radio website ever

I'm on a JaMC binge, since I bought all of their reissues half-off. That'll be it for a while.

Ovo-Mammut

JAMC be good. I want Darklands & Honey's Dead. I have P.C. and Automatic, and I like both in equal measures for different reasons.

Ya every single CD is completely different. I'd say Darklands and Automatic are similar, maybe, but that's it. PC is full of white noise, Darklands and Automatic are 80's rock + feedback, the latter being maybe a bit more electronic, Honey's Dead is more pop/rock, but ironically the solos on it are some of William's best (the solo in Catchfire is one of the greatest guitar moments ever), and then S&D is acoustic-based. It was well worth getting them all.