Phew, I am finally done catching up on re-writing the past. And Sunday is supposed to be a day of rest!
Anyway, I bring back my deep insight into these posted songs. For somebody who is a left-wing anarchist, Jello Biafra does a really good job of dissecting the college-aged “progressive” with this classic track. Yes, the names change, but the message does not. I’d love to see these so-called progressives live as an ordinary citizen in Venezuela (or any other Marxist nation), but I digress.
Happy Easter!
Due to the limitation of the internet and certain laws of physics, I cannot physically place candy on this site. But I can put this video here:
The video quality is rather poor but at least the audio sounds good.
2010 has been a really bad year for musical deaths. The most recent (that I am aware of) was Alex Chilton. Somehow I missed paying tribute to him when he passed away, but there’s no time like the present to post this:
“September Gurls” is easily one of his best pure pop songs.
R.I.P. Alex
Watch out, this song might give you diabetes.
I found this a few weeks ago by accident. I was looking for a Voice of the Beehive video and this was one of the related clips. At first I wasn’t quite sure what to make of it. But the more I listened, the more I loved it. And really, it’s not THAT much sweeter than, say, Altered Images, or the aforementioned Voice of the Beehive.
My research has revealed that one of these ladies went on to sing for a Boyd Rice project. Yes, kiddies, the musical world is very small indeed.
I only wish I had created this on my own.
If this was the Switchblade Sweeties web site 1,001 White Knights would be attacking me to save the honor of the “pink girl” they’re stalking.
I never wanted to like this band. Not back in ’98 when college station played them. Especially not after the album cover became a meme of sorts on /mu/ But here I am posting one of their songs.
The accordion saves the song. And I love this video. The super literal way he interpreted the lyrics, with stick figures, fits the song perfectly.
Kids,
I remember the alternative revolution of the early 90s. For the record I didn’t like Nirvana all that well until I heard “Come As You Are.” In fact, “Smells Like Teen Spirit” sounded like mush to me. Yes, I was a poser, I guess. The whole scene was pretty damn great, but not really as awe inspiring as a lot of people make it out to be. Jane’s Addiction was a high profile “alternative” band that was a lot weirder (and better) than Nirvana, but most people forget that. Not to mention two obscure bands called U2 and R.E.M.
In retrospect few bands have aged well. Pearl Jam’s Ten sounds horribly dated to my ears, and sounded overproduced (at least compared to their live stuff) back in ’92.
But one band that still sounds great is Urge Overkill.
While a lot of bands were happy to ape Black Sabbath and Black Flag, Urge was influenced by the likes of Cheap Trick, KISS and AC/DC. This didn’t win them many fans in the underground (who didn’t seem to mind when they sounded that way on Touch and Go Records…), but the indie kids never understand. Sometimes you want gloomy “alternative” rock, but other times you want some good ol’ rock’n’roll. Urge Overkill provided that better than anybody at that time, and are still better than most bands today.
I don’t remember this video from back in the day. I used to either record or watch 120 Minutes every week. Not a shock. MTV played some great video on that show, but The Jesus Lizard was probably a bit too much even for 120.
Thankfully somebody on YouTube remedied the situation.
There is also one for Puss, but the sound quality is pretty bad.
