November 2009
35 posts
The Pooh Sticks - The World Is Turning On
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Sorry folks, really busy right now but I promise I’ll be posting again soon!
WatchHere’s the video for Veruca Salt’s “Volcano Girls,” in which the band reflects the song’s exuberance by jumping around at the end of bungee cords while attempting to perform. It’s pretty obvious that they’re not actually doing so, especially when drummer Jim Shapiro’s bungee cord catapults him away from his kit after a cymbal crash. On the other...
WatchJuliana Hatfield - Everybody Loves Me But You
The strange flipside to my heavy identification with Juliana Hatfield: my reaction to this video. First time I saw it was on “120 Minutes” back in spring 1992, around the same time that I’d taped “Nirvana” off the college radio station. Watching Juliana dance around on her rooftop alone, stare dejectedly at her...
Juliana Hatfield - Nirvana
With the benefit of...
Nuggets of the Future Volume 1 →
Since I haven’t really had the opportunity to write any entries in a while, and since the mp3s I’ve uploaded to this blog so far currently add up to about 80 minutes in length, I decided to make up a downloadable first volume of mp3s and post them. Mediafire and Megaupload gave me trouble so they’re hosted on Sendspace, which is a distant third as far as my choices for .rar...
WatchThe video for “Grinder,” which seemed amazingly appropriate to me from my very first viewing. As the band performs the song, with Dave Sardy dressed up as a clown for part of the video, the performance footage is intercut with shots of carnies, genetic freaks, and bizarre human mutations with black bars over their eyes. The shots of bad teeth that dominate Vegas Throat’s cover...
Barkmarket - Grinder
Barkmarket were the...
Monsterland - Insulation
This song came out of...
WatchSwervedriver - Sandblasted
This wasn’t quite the first thing I heard by Swervedriver—I’d caught “Son Of Mustang Ford” and “Pile-Up” on the local college radio station—but the “Sandblasted” video did a great job of contextualizing Swervedriver for me. It clearly presented all of the themes that would dominate their aesthetic: muscle cars,...
Swervedriver - Hands
Especially in their early...
Chainsaw Kittens - Sore On The Floor
“Sore...
Best Kissers In The World - Pickin’ Flowers...
“The name of Lotion’s first album is Full Isaac, which besides getting...”
– Thomas Pynchon’s liner notes for Nobody’s Cool, the fame of which has eclipsed that of Lotion themselves. Which is a shame. As cool as Pynchon is, shouldn’t people trust his taste enough to actually listen to the band he was hyping? Well, if nothing else, I hope it helped them sell...
Lotion - Dear Sir
This is the opening track that...
Bettie Serveert - Smile
Bettie Serveert are a...
