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Richard & Mimi Farina - Another Country From Celebrations...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:53:30 -0500

Richard & Mimi Farina - Another Country

From Celebrations For A Grey Day, one of my favorite and vastly underrated records.

Sez Allmusic: “Appalachian-like instrumentals that put the dulcimer to the fore alternate with strong contemporary folk compositions, which are by turns mournful and high-spirited.”

whitneymcn: And to be clear about this: if you don’t already...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:47:07 -0500

whitneymcn:

And to be clear about this: if you don’t already own it, you should download this classic album for only $5 at Amazon this month.

dontforgetthecoffee:

You can download this classic album for only $5 at Amazon this month.

Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover) So...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 06:33:36 -0500

Uncle Tupelo - I Wanna Be Your Dog (Stooges cover)

So interesting. So different.

Nirvana - School Sometimes I think that out in the ether...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:16:26 -0500

Nirvana - School

Sometimes I think that out in the ether somewhere there is this oil well of artistic creativity and greatness, and you’re lucky to get a few drops of it here and there over the years. I also think that, even given all the bullshit that came later, for about 18 months in 1989-1990 Nirvana mainlined directly into the motherlode of this oil well. “Bleach” could be, probably is, the greatest debut record ever. Punkmetal stoner rock to its fullest expression.

many hearts rach: I know this makes me solidly entrenched in an...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:38:03 -0500

many hearts

rach:

I know this makes me solidly entrenched in an elderly and caucasian foxhole from which there is limited escape, but I heart them. Maybe it just makes me Irish.

bass line ftw gbattle: Ambrosia - “Biggest Part Of Me”. In...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:46:14 -0500

bass line ftw

gbattle:

Ambrosia - “Biggest Part Of Me”. In addition to providing immortality, the food-of-the-gods apparently grows your hair to ridiculous lengths and enhances your blue-eyed soul street cred. I’ll grant them that the song is timeless. The hair, not so much.

Part of my childhood was seeing Purple ride his bike through...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:55:36 -0500

Part of my childhood was seeing Purple ride his bike through Central Park

whitneymcn:

Adam Purple

Ofege- It’s Not Easy Great, great track from the equally...

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:16:00 -0500

Ofege- It’s Not Easy

Great, great track from the equally wonderful new compilation Forge Your Own Chains: Heavy Psychedelic Ballads and Dirges 1968-1974 on the Stones Throw/Now Again label.

Ofege were a bunch of Nigerian afro-funk high school students who recorded this in the early 70s.

“Besides, being managed by Hell’s Angels and named after a...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:42:34 -0500

“Besides, being managed by Hell’s Angels and named after a brand of LSD, Blue Cheer was the absolute antithesis of the Zeitgeist, singer Dickie Peterson later commenting: “We were the ugly stepchildren. Everybody of the San Franciscan scene was all ‘kiss babies’ and ‘eat flowers’. We were sort of ‘kiss flowers’ and ‘eat babies’; we weren’t peace and love.” No shit, Sherlock!”

Julian Cope, The Godlike Genius of Blue Cheer

Volkswagen advertisement, 1995

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:48:00 -0500

Volkswagen advertisement, 1995

“Tickets - $5.00 advance, $6.00 day of show”

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:52:00 -0500

“Tickets - $5.00 advance, $6.00 day of show”

Donny Hathaway - Jealous Guy With all due respect, definitive...

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 06:24:00 -0400

Donny Hathaway - Jealous Guy

With all due respect, definitive version of the Lennon song.

utterly wonderful Garcia tune - one of my favorite ever - with...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:36:06 -0400

utterly wonderful Garcia tune - one of my favorite ever - with classic Hunter lyrics:

The truth of love
an unsung song must tell
The course of love must follow blind
without a look behind

barefootjukebox:

Rubin and Cherise-Jerry Garcia Band

Priceless. Scan the faces of the dudes in the front rows. ...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 08:54:39 -0400

Priceless.

Scan the faces of the dudes in the front rows. Different look for each one but all expressing the same thing: astonishment

jenrobinson:

neighborhoodr-prospectheights:

Photo: The Ramones at CBGB. Copyright Ian Dickson.

afternoon listening

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:47:21 -0400

afternoon listening

RIP D Boon also, win = Pups cover whitneymcn: Three guys, six...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:16:00 -0400

RIP D Boon

also, win = Pups cover

whitneymcn:

Three guys, six songs, eleven minutes and thirty six seconds of awesome.

merlin:

The Minutemen - The Tour - (Live - March 1, 1985)

SST Records
Live at The Stone in San Francisco

“Corona”

“Beacon Sighted Through Fog”

“The Only Minority”

“Badges”

“The Cheerleaders”

“Lost” (Meat Puppets cover)

Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version) Yea one of the...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:50:00 -0400

Pavement - Summer Babe (Winter Version)

Yea one of the NSB’s favorite songs ever and one of those songs that utterly blew my mind many years ago, but playing it here because Yancey’s description is so fucking priceless AND spot-on:

“Summer Babe” is spectacular, for sure. It’s totally effortless, feels like it might have been written on the spot, excited sideways glances between the band members, too fearful to wonder if this is it because they don’t want to jinx it, like a pitcher getting too excited in the 8th inning of a no-hitter. It also contains what I am reasonably certain is the first Swisher Sweet reference in song (“mixin’ cocktails with a plastic-tipped cigar”). It also contains a McCartney-worthy bass line. To repeat: it is spectacular.

awesome yvynyl: j is for joanna...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:08:56 -0400

awesome

yvynyl:

j is for joanna newsom by hellojenuine

(via jesuisperdu:haleyworldeater)

sweet and sour. Love it mokoyfman: Yo La Tengo, By...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:00:11 -0400

sweet and sour. Love it

mokoyfman:

Yo La Tengo, By Two’s

Beautiful.

yvynyl: Grace Slick. (via loudandsoft)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:45:42 -0400

yvynyl:

Grace Slick.

(via loudandsoft)