All posts by G. Gordon Gritty
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
Elitist Recipe For Enslavement
The global elites have made great strides to realizing their full agenda, including:
*** The creation and control of central banks around the world — including our own Federal Reserve — which manipulates money supplies, causes runaway inflation, and keeps the wealth in the hands of their chosen few while the middle class is destroyed;
*** Control of the United Nations, which uses its power to destroy U.S. sovereignty through claims on our lands, our tax dollars and radical environmental restrictions aimed at crippling our industries and trade;
*** Their North American Union scheme to economically and politically merge America with Canada and Mexico through illegal immigration and “trilateral agreements” to further erode our national sovereignty for the benefit of multinational corporations;
*** Instigating and fomenting conflicts around the world, stretching our national defenses to the breaking point, while demanding military action be followed with “nation building” to rebuild what our government just destroyed.
Trevor Hall Back To Harpers
On Sunday, February 21, 2010, Trevor Hall will be returning to Harpers Ferry to play a show. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased here: http://www.venuevents.net/event/643.
Expect free bananas.
Pete Doherty Is A Bad Ass
As if you already didn’t know (Nu Rave Brain Wave):
Pete Doherty has said that he was in hospital on a life support machine in October when he had to cancel a series of Irish solo live dates. “If I hadn’t been on a life support machine I’d have been in Ireland,” he told NME.COM, speaking of his stay in Swindon’s Great Western Hospital. “But my heart stopped.”
“Their [doctors’] immediate thought was that it was to do with drugs but it wasn’t,” he said. “What happened? Well, I don’t know. I don’t remember. I was running into the walls, making steering wheel signs with my hands. And then I just… stopped. My body just stopped.”
The wisest choice is obviously to go ahead with the December tour that Babyshambles have scheduled that leave out London AND Brighton. “A tour’s just what the doctor ordered,” he said.
Joe & Ian Do “Navajo”
Download New PFYFH Single!
The PFYFH, my OMB formed in 2007, released two singles in January 2009: “Party Whip” and “Political Efficacy.” But just when you thought PFYFH was fading away, a new single surfaced. “JUU” or “Just Under Ugly” is the name of it. It features multiple tracks of recording: orchestral strings sounding guitars, a sporadic drum machine, No Age influenced noise, tape recordings, a CD cover repeatedly tapped by a pencil, a brief wah-wah, and animal noises. All recordings on the single were recorded and mastered in one take in just under one hour. That said, PFYFH is all but done. Thanks to all the fans have who supported the project throughout the past two years. I’ve decided to switch gears from experimental music to garage/punk revivalism. A new collaborative project in that area might be coming soon.
DOWNLOAD: PFYFH – “Just Under Ugly”
While you are at it, you might as well listen to Gangbang Gordon’s latest cover of Black Lips “Not A Problem.” Click here to visit the page where you can hear it and download it. That was another quickie that I put together using two different guitar parts and pots as drums.
Sonic Youth Wilbur Set-List
The review is coming up soon, but for now here is their set list from last night at the Wilbur Theatre:
1. “No Way”
2. “Sacred Trickster”
3. “Calming the Snake”
4. “Stereo Sanctity”
5. “Walkin’ Blue”
6. “Anti-Orgasm”
7. “Leaky Lifeboat (For Gregory Corso)”
8. “Shadow of A Doubt”
9. “Antenna”
10. “Malibu Gas Station”
11. “Poison Arrow”
12. “Tom Violence”
13. “Massage the History”
——-Encore Break——–
14. “The Sprawl”
15. “Cross the Breeze”
—–2nd Encore Break—-
16. “What We Know”
17. “Death Valley 69”
The Theatre
I’ve noticed a concert trend at theaters, for me anyway. First show I saw at a Theatre (Orpheum) was Morrissey. Now, I had heard of Morrissey at the time (October 30, 2007) and knew a few of his songs. That turned out to be a good show. Then, I saw Editors in January 2008 at the Orpheum. I knew a few of Editors really good songs, but overall I wasn’t tremendously familiar with their set. The Orpheum mega-show on September 27, 2008 that featured Built to Spill, Dinosaur Jr., and Meat Puppets was the same deal for me: I knew a few songs from each band. Then on January 24, 2009, we caught Mission of Burma at the Somerville Theatre. Their set list was fairly unfamiliar to me as well. The bottom line is I expect tonight’s Sonic Youth/Feelies show to be quite similar to these prior theater performances. They’ve all been good or great, despite me not knowing most of the songs played.
WMBR and Freeform
But when you say “freeform” you don’t really mean it, right? Don’t you have at least a medium or heavy rotation CDs?Nope, we mean it. A DJ could play “Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer” or Will Oldham 10 times in a row without fear of an MD smackdown.
That, my friend, is the difference between ERS and MBR.
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 