All posts by G. Gordon Gritty
Good God This Is Amazing
This may just be my favorite pre-2000s disc:
Top Songs of 2000s (A-C)
A maximum of three songs per band and they must be favorites!
Alec Ounsworth
1. Pass Along This Way – 2003
Almighty Defenders
1. Cone of Light – 2009
2. Ghost With The Most – 2009
3. All My Loving – 2009
Animal Collective
1. Fireworks – 2007
2. Grass – 2005
3. Peacebone – 2007
Arcade Fire
1. Rebellion (Lies) – 2004
2. Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) – 2004
Arctic Monkeys
1. Fluorescent Adolescent – 2007
2. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor – 2005
3. Dancing Shoes – 2005
Atlas Sound
1. Walkabout (Featuring Noah Lennox)
Beirut
1. Postcards From Italy
Black Lips
1. Not A Problem – 2007
2. Fad – 2003
3. Juvenile – 2007
Bobby Ubangi
1. Back To You – 2009
Bon Iver
1. For Emma – 2007
Bright Eyes
1. Road To Joy – 2005
2. We Are Nowhere and It’s Now – 2005
3. Lua – 2005
Built to Spill
1. Strange – 2001
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
1. Over and Over Again – 2005
2. Heavy Metal – 2005
Cold War Kids
1. Passing The Hat – 2006
2. Pregnant – 2006
3. Hang Me Up To Dry – 2006
Crystal Castles
1. Crimewave (Crystal Castles Vs. Health)
Dandy Warhols
1. We Used To Be Friends – 2003
Deerhunter
1. Disappearing Ink – 2009
Editors
1. Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors – 2007
2. Munich – 2007
3. Papillon – 2009
Flashy Python
1. Obscene Queen Bee – 2009
Fleet Foxes
1. White Winter Hymnal – 2008
2. Mykonos – 2008
French Kicks
1. Abandon – 2008
2. So Far We Are – 2006
3. 1985 – 2002
Fugazi
1. Argument – 2001
Grizzly Bear
1. Colorado – 2006
2. Knife – 2006
Handsome Furs
1. Dead + Rural – 2007
2. All We Want, Baby, Is Everything – 2009
3. Evangeline – 2009
Head Automatica
1. Please Please Please – 2004
2. The Razor – 2004
Immortal Technique
1. Freedom of Speech
Jay Is Better Than One Line!
Look at your Boston Globe and read the Pixies review:
JOHNNY REATARD GOT ONE FREAKING LINE!
“Buzzed-about indie rocker Jay Reatard handled the evening’s warm-up duties.”
NO FUCKING SHIT HE WAS THE OPENER. THAT’S OBVIOUS. HE GOT ME SWEATING, SHAKING IN MY SKIN. APPARENTLY HE WAS ONLY WORTH ONE LINE TO YOU, BOSTON GLOBE. YEAH NO SHIT THE PIXIES ROCKED THE SHIT OUT OF THE PLACE, BUT ONE LINE FOR “INDIE-ROCKER”? GO F YOURSELF.
Classic CD Review: Safe As Milk
Band: Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
Label: Buddah Records
Release: 1967
1. “Sure ‘Nuff ‘N Yes I Do” – B+
2. “Zig Zag Wanderer” – B+
3. “Call On Me” – B+
4. “Dropout Boogie” – A-
5. “I’m Glad” – A-
6. “Electricity” – B
7. “Yellow Brick Road” – B+
8. “Abba Zaba” – B
9. “Plastic Factory” – A
10. “Where There’s A Woman” – B
11. “Grown So Ugly” – B+
12. “Autumn’s Child” – B+
Comments: This is a very encouraging album for me. It’s an exciting listen (as is most music from the 1960s), although I won’t go as far as to designate it as one of the best “classics” that I’ve heard. I wouldn’t say a lot of modern day garage/punk/psychedelic bands are necessarily derivative of Captain Beefheart, but influenced for sure. The best way I can describe this record is: saner than Bloodshot Bill. I guess my own real gripe is that most of these songs feel too archaic; this may be where the delta blues references are validated. My comments may be a bit skewed: most of the bands that I love play music that has several grand-daddies in a plethora of genres and styles. These guys, on the other-hand, could only draw upon a few primitive fathers such as the blues and early rock. I can’t wait to hear Trout Mask Replica, their magnum opus.
Grade: B+
Cigarette Bureaucracy
Promo Magazine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning more than a dozen online cigarette sellers that they may be in violation of the new regulations against selling most types of flavored cigarettes to U.S. citizens and have 15 days to prove that they have stopped those sales or risk government action.
A ban on the U.S. sale of cigarettes flavored with anything other than menthol went into effect on Sept. 22 as part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
That law, enacted in June, gives the FDA power to regulate the content of tobacco products, along with the marketing and distribution of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, and the impact of ads for those products on young people. The new law also lets the FDA limit the amount of nicotine in products and block labels such as “light” and “low tar” that appear to offer “healthier” cigarettes.
So some of us like BBT absolutely hate large scale cigarette smoke in places that clearly say don’t smoke, but we respect smokers’ freedom to light up.
See Saw/Hammer I Miss You
This video is from Monday when the trio played at the Hammerstein Ballroom NY, which is by all accounts comparable to the House of Blues Boston in capacity. The Wang fits about 1,000 more people and is seats only. Y’all know what I realized? Jay’s probably going to play his set just as if he was headlining.
New Black Lips Song!
So Long To Carolina
You might as well check out Joe and Ian’s complete interview at “Maps” in Italy. Here!
Henry Rollins on Chris
Getting Ready 4 Friday
Complete B-Sides
1. “River Euphrates” – Let’s ride the tire down! – Great bass-line and great explosions from Black.
2. “Vamos (Live)” – Spanish – Clingy acoustic guitar; lots of regular guitar effects.
3. “In Heaven” – Screaming – Easy on the vocals, Black! Good God!
*4. “Manta Ray” – The Build-Up! – Rock me, Joey!
*5. “Weird At My School” – Cone of Light Intro! – The bass line is just like in “Bad Kids”! Yee kid.
*6. “Dancing the Manta Ray” – Day-ants the Man-ta Ray! – Funny and awesome how Black slows/lisps his vocals.
*7. “Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)” – Way-hey-hey-ave – Extremely chill version? I guess!
*8. “Into The White” – Kim sings!- Excellent bridge. The repetition may be excessive.
*9. “Bailey’s Walk” – It’s cra-hey-hey-zee!” – As some guy said…I see where Cobain got his vocals.
10. “Make Believe” – David Lovering sings! – DL does his best Morrissey, intentionally or not.
11. “I’ve Been Waiting For You” – Such a long time – A little forgettable, but it’s actually pretty good?!
12. “The Thing” – Narrative Great Salt Lake – I dig the direction of this song.
13. “Velvety Instrumental Version” – Good rhythm; would have been interesting with vocals.
14. “Winterlong” – You seemed to be where I belong – Okay, but weak on the vocals.
15. “Santo” – Hey ya boy, how ya doin? – Nice and heavy with quirky vocals.
16. “Theme From Narc” – Videogame theme – Just kind of there…
17. “Build High” – Megaphone chants – I like the continuous command; kind of country-rock
18. “Evil Hearted You” – Spanish – Espanol invasion!!!
19. “A Letter In Memphis” – The riffs are all there!
Come On Pilgrim
*3. Isla De Encanta – May-oit May-oit May-oit – Frenetic and crazy!
*6. Nimrod’s Son – You are the son of a mother fucker! – Decent flow.
Yes, yes, they’ve been playing a few other tracks like “Gigantic” and “Where Is My Mind?” but those are instantly memorable.
GREEN = GREAT, LIGHT GREEN = GOOD, YELLOW = AVERAGE
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 