Bowiesongs (C. O'Leary)

Warfighting!!! (This is going to be an even more embarassing era than "Freedom Fries", and by 2040 no one will admit to being part of it)

A Certain Ratio Live at Hammersmith Town Hall 1984-08-17 : A Certain Ratio : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive A Certain RatioHammersmith Town HallLondon, UKAugust 17th, 1984Recording generously loaned from the Aadam Jacobs Audio Archive.Lineage: Master cassette >...

A Certain Ratio Live at Hammersmith Town Hall 1984-08-17 https://archive.org/details/ajc02681_acertain-ratio-1984-08-17

It's such a good record

Intro to Hero is so great

The albums they did in that period, esp Vee Vee, i really dig. If you're ok with Pavement, in that vein a bit

It's a testament to Steve Stills that Hendrix legit liked him and loved playing w him

"Can we make the next record's cover a little...livelier, Tom?"

"OK, fine, you can use color. In moderation."

Thomas Jerome Newton finally got a Reddit account

Miles Davis' "So What": 30 seconds of feints, throat-clearing, fleeting thoughts, and then the Riff hits

Mid '90s Archers were something else

Yeah, Side 1 is a masterpiece; Side 2 is...really good?

If pressed, i'll say: their best album. At least, the culmination of one version of the band

Doom & Gloom From The Tomb Jason P. Woodbury & The Night Bird Singing Quartet A hearty congrats to Jason P. Woodbury on his new/fantastic LP, out today. Long in the works, well worth the wait! Jason, of course, is the tireless....

Out today — the new @jasonpwoodbury.bsky.social LP is a thing of beauty.

Yeah, i felt like I knew Recife by the end of it, like I had visited there

Secret Agent floored me--just production/costuming alone, it was stunning

once called this King Crimson as the cast of a police procedural in 1981 ("The Discipline Squad"), and it still fits

Boost for the eve. Thin White Duke in the Paradise Lounge

Biggest surprise is the Ziggy cut. And a lot of good stuff on the 90s albums gets overlooked

Not too many surprises, and a fair number of "this is going on too long, never made it to the last track" casualties

I'm with you---have made my peace with him in part because i feel like so many DK lyrics are about specific beefs with irritating people in San Francisco leftist/arty scenes of the 70s/80s, just writ large

yeah, i was taken aback by a college prof friend on here who said none of his students had seen, or even knew about, "One Battle After Another," which has made $200+ million, is likely to win multiple Oscars and stars Leo DiCaprio & Sean Penn

Better: already loved Fishbone, but seeing them in '91 made me think 'is this the greatest band in the world?"

Worse: Pete Townshend. hearing "I'm a Boy" should've been amazing, but not after an hour of faffing around on "Psychoderelict" songs & boasting how much $ he'd made on the Tommy musical

SNL was getting 10-12 million viewers in the 90s, even in periods when the show was in danger of being cancelled

_**Yo La Tengo - Rhino Records, Westwood, California, August 30, 1990**_ Yo La Tengo murdered the classics one more time for WFMU this past weekend, nobly attempting listener requested songs that ranged from Neil Young to Yung Wu. Even if you missed this year, you should definitely go donate some $$$ to WFMU during their ongoing annual fundraising marathon. Where would we be without freeform radio? In a much worse place, if you can even believe it. As is tradition, YLT’s covers set is unarchived on the WFMU archive — if you didn’t tune in, you were tuned out! But you _can_ check out a casually brilliant covers-heavy afternoon set from 36 years ago, featuring such rarely played numbers as Volcano Suns’ “Balancing Act” and Freddy Cannon’s “Palisades Park.” In the wake of _Fakebook_ , Yo La was on a cross-country opening for the Sundays, but they snuck out on their own to the late/great Rhino Records in Westwood to play for the faithful — cool to hear guitarist Kevin Salem here, who was briefly in the fold. Since its the _Fakebook_ era, things tend towards the mellow side, but the trio does crank things up for “Drug Test” and a closing roller coaster ride through “You’re Gonna Miss Me” featuring a Rhino clerk on free jazz sax. Here’s a snippet from a review of the Sundays LA gig … **_Steve Hochman_**** _:_** The Hoboken, N.J., quartet (the name is Spanish for “I’ve got it”) pretty much kept to the neo-Post-Modern-folk-rocky approach of its recent _Fakebook_ album, a pop-obscurities jukebox composed mostly of songs originally done by the likes of Cat Stevens and Peter Stampfel. But the Tengos winningly broke the mold for a rave-up set-closer of Roky Erickson’s Texas acid-rock classic “You’re Gonna Miss Me.” The Tengos! Did that nickname ever catch on? Maybe we can get it going.

Yo La Tengo - Rhino Records, Westwood, California, August 30, 1990 https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/810890709341175808

yeah, i started reading the article expecting another ho-hum concert review and instead was like "oh wow, what a scoop she got"

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Thin White Duke 50: a night when Bowie sang in a Holiday Inn cocktail lounge in Norfolk, Virginia www.patreon.com/posts/152773...

The crushing/consolidation of of radio post-96 really was the canary in the mine for what was to come

yeah, Caddyshack, Stripes and Ghostbusters have these kind of sociopathic guys as their heroes, going up against "The Man"--the story of the past 10 years is "what if those guys were worse than The Man?"

like the Trump-Kennedy Center thing is a total Al Czervik move. "Come on! Kennedy's deader than death itself now! Let's liven the joint up!"