February 2009
90 posts
Ruth - Polaroid Roman Photo & Thriller (seeqpod playlist)
dedicated to my sweet mondrimat
(BTW - anybody know anything else about this band, ruth? only this one track, PRP, exists on amazon)
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Amy Winehouse — Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Shirelles cover)
i’m considering a serious crack habit if this is how my pipes are at 90 pounds. jesus, she’s got a range.
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Atlantic City by The Hold Steady
originally by Bruce Springsteen
(posted by bunkercomplex)
now here’s a cover song that I just hate to love…although maybe i just need some hold steady schooling
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The Cramps - Can’t Find My Mind
“Well everything is fine/ But I can’t find my mind”
1. thanks to tittyshakers.com for featuring some excellent cramps vids
2. i might be saying this because i’ve been listening to quite a lot of nick cave recently, but I kinda never realized b4 tonight just how much the cramps are like the perfect spawn of nick cave and frank zappa.
Fan Secrets - A facebook note inspired by Molly Lambert’s fansecrets.tumblr.com glossary.
Head Guard: Don’t you know your right flank from your left flank?
Guard #1: I’m sorry sir…I flunked flank.
Head Guard: You flunked flank?…[exasperated] Git the flunk outta here!”
- Mel Brooks, History of the World Pt. 1
“
Schadenfreude is pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. The word referring to this emotion has been borrowed from German by the English language and is sometimes also used as a loanword by other languages. Philosopher and sociologist Theodor Adorno defined schadenfreude as “largely unanticipated delight in the suffering of another which is cognized as trivial and/or appropriate.”
The Three Stooges’ comedy trademark was exaggerated slapstick routines where a performer’s apparent pain created enjoyment and laughter among their audience.
” —Schadenfreude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The D.O.C. f/ NWA - The Grand Finale
Produced by Dr. Dre, and DJ Yella.
Featuring all the members of NWA - Eazy-E, Dr. Dre (speaking), Ice Cube, MC Ren, and DJ Yella (drums) and a sample of Parliament’s Chocolate City (listen here.)
From my favorite pre-Chronic Dre album, The D.O.C.’s No One Can Do It Better.
Goddamn shame that the original Diggy-diggy DOC y’all, who can sound like a funky Twista when he wants to, and who is really just a far superior lyricist then the rest of NWA, was forced behind-the-scenes after a car accident damanged his vocal cords. He was kinda the only person to embody a west coast/east coast hybrid sound, which, if he had taken the spotlight, couda potentially sent 90s rap down a less self-destructive course. Oh well though, @ least we got this one album out of him.
And, according to his wiki page, he is actually still (ghost)wrting and working with Dre and Snoop so that’s a good to hear.
I hightly suggest getting the whole album (really no filler )as its just that much better then the rest of the pre-Chronic Dre days and sounds wholly unique and different then pretty much all other rap albums. (Kid friendly too as there is very little cursing or dergatory lyrics)
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eazy-e - eazy-er said than dunn
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Dax Riggs-Truth in the Dark
You know there is something fundamentally different with the generation that is “coming of age” today (born circa 1993) when Dax Riggs isn’t enjoying Smashing Pumpkins/Pearl Jam levels of fame. It’s like the 8/9th graders are content listening to the All-American Rejects and Lady Gaga, both whose singles are having healthy runs in the Billboard Top 10, and whose songs couldn’t be more “empowered.”
I hesitate to say this, without sounding a bit Holden Caufield like, but the lack of a “coming of age” struggle is going to have some major reprecussionos later in life both personally for the individuals, and collectively as a generation.
Or maybe I’m wrong. I was just under the impression that a big part of growing up could be traced back to how the questions that arise during this time period, are answered. what happens if they are just simply never asked?
