Why I Love Wikipedia

exhibit A:








exhibit B: this

I hate my keyboard//////////

Someone played the song The Day The World Turned Dayglo on WTUL which reminded me that the band X-Ray Spex existed and was pretty good. Here is the album the song is on, Plastic Fantastic.  Lora Logic of Essential Logic played saxophone for the band.

Chairs Missing

Earlier I said I'd eventually get around to uploading this album, and while I hardly feel indebted to my invisible (non-existent) readership, I am still going to keep my word.   So here's Chairs Missing, Wire's second album.  It marked a departure from the band's previous "punk" album Pink Flag in that the songs are generally longer and more melodic (this is cop out music press speak).  Also it got a 10/10 from pitchfork, if that means anything (it doesn't).  I dunno, I read wikipedia.  Anyway,  it's a really good album, with some excellent, instantly memorable songs including Heartbeat, Outdoor Miner, and I Am the Fly.

There is a Bea Arthur Shaped Hole in My Heart

Never forget.

p.s. I want to meet a guy named Amyl Nitrate.

Sitcom Hell

I wonder what it's like to be the session musicians charged with recording "Do the Urkel Dance".

It's the end of the school year crunch, which is why I haven't posted recently.  What could be more  soothing in a time like this than David Attenborough style nature videos?

Animals are weird.  To round this post out, I've uploaded the totally excellent Talking Heads album Fear of Music.  It contains the song  Animals, which is why I decided to put it here, but I've been meaning to put up some Talking Heads for a while, because they are awesome.  I love how Talking Heads songs are really about what their title is, they don't fuck around.  Fear of Music is one of the three Talking  Heads  albums produced  by Brian Eno, and  supposedly he acted almost as another member of the group.  He and David Byrne became BFFs and started doing everything together and even dressing alike, which alarmed the other members of the band, which is one of the reasons why they formed Tom Tom Club, whose song Genius of Love was eventually sampled almost in it's entirety by Mariah Carey.  This is all vital information if you want to function in todays fast paced society.  Every song on this album is really really good, it's one of those albums that you really ought to listen to all the way through.

And here it is.

ESG

ESG was a band that could have only existed  in the demented time and place that was New York  in the late 70s.  They were a bunch of young sisters from the Bronx who made weird spaced out minimal funk, got some songs produced by Martin  Hannett of Factory, got sampled by everyone, and then went on with their lives.  I found this album in a record  store, listened to it because it looked cool, bought it and ripped it so here it is:

ESG - A South Bronx Story

The Pinnacle of Western Civilization

was probably this 3:33 music video.

154

Lately I've been listening the shit out of this album, Wire's third.  Wire made three perfect albums, Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154,  and then  they made a bunch of  mediocre ones that I like to pretend don't exist.  I'll post the other two later, but for now, tada.

Youtube Recommended this Czech Disco ZZ Top to me...

...which is why we're getting  married.

Let's listen to Telex

Telex were a Belgian band. They were really cool, and one of their members looked just like that muppet Grover used to torture all the time on Sesame Street (the one with the mustache). Read their wikipedia article, it's entertaining.

Twice the Youtube, Twice the Youtube

Because Youtube is synonymous with fun. (I should be a sloganeer.)
The best thing I may have ever done.

Another pretty good thing.

youtube i love you

breakfast song

Angela Lansbury (may not be suitable for minors)

pack jam

super cool tunes

moving public access performance

erasure covers abba live with unitard

skate witches

dinosaurs

baby's gang

the violent femmes on sabrina the teenage witch

jesus is my friend

move your boogie body

special effects

fonzie had a cartoon

Mark Gormley

Alexyss K. Tyler

Jan Terri

THIS IS HOW I MAKE BREAD

My Criminal History

More odds and ends I uploaded for some reason or another.  They aren't particular favorites exactly, but I love them all.

This one is the sort of album it is slightly awkward to play around people becuase it is insanely dark, but I don't think of it that way. It makes me happy. It's strange, I don't like their other work very much but I love all of these songs.

Death in June - But What Ends When The Symbols Shatter?



This one is definitely one of my top ten favorite albums, although it might be cheating since it's an anthology.

Josef K - Entomology



This is ripped from my mother's vinyl collection. I kind of like the sound quality, it's a bit more fuzzy and physical, if that makes sense. Please kill me.

Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity


What can you say about Scott Walker? No one else can write a flamenco song about The Seventh Seal and get away with it. Plus he's insane, and he used to be a real snazzy dresser.

Scott Walker - Scott 3



Scott Walker - Scott 4

Days they go slow, nights they go fast, I think I need a distraction in the form of a blog post.

Here's some more albums I uploaded recently for one reason or another lately. They're all good.

See, I do like some current music.  Actually, they're named after a New Order song and they are sort of a rip off, but whatever.  The albums spotty, but Drugs in My Body is a great track.
Thieves Like Us

Classic Pulp
His n Hers

More classic Pulp
Different Class

This is a mostly instrumental album by Durutti Column. Very pretty guitar, good music to putter around to.
Another Setting

Three Videos That Make Me Happy

NY 77

I recently uploaded a bunch of classic NY77 albums, so here they are in all their nihilistic rock'n'roll glory.


Blank Generation – Richard Hell and the Voidoids


That's All I Know (Right Now) – The Neon Boys


So Alone – Johnny Thunders


L.A.M.F. (Like a Mother Fucker) – Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers