Songs of the Week: Country Edition

George Jones- Walk Through This World With Me (1964)

Johnny Cash and June Carter- Jackson (1969) For all the pretty prsioners at San Quentin

Hank Williams- I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive (1952)

Patsy Cline- Crazy (1962)

The Statler Brothers- Flowers On the Wall (1965)

Meat Puppets- Lost (1984)

Those Darlins- The Whole Damn Thing (2009)- Dayem, so hot!

Chris

Arctic Monkeys H & E

Hopes: I hope they open with hey hey, we’re the Monkees… oh wait, wrong Monkeys lol. I hope the British boys play all of my favorite tracks of course, most of which appear on Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am Not. My favorite AM number is “Riot Van,” so I strongly wish they perform this, even though it is highly unlikely. “Teddy Picker,” “Secret Door,” and “Cornerstone,” would be more than nice as well. Lastly, I want this to be one of the best concerts I’ve ever seen, over an hour of rockin rolling, and placed in my top 10.

Expectations
: I expect that they will play “The View From the Afternoon,” “I Bet You Look Good On the Dance Floor,” and maybe one other off Whatever… I anticipate that they will play “Fluorescent Adolescent” and a few other tracks from Favourite Worst Nightmare. Most of the songs will come from their latest release, Humbug/. They will play for about an hour and it will be a great show in my top 15.

Chris

Tommorow!

Set List From Friday Night @ Terminal 5 In NY!
1. The Jeweller’s Hands – Humbug
2. Brianstorm – FWN
3. This House is A Circus – FWN
4. Still Take You Home – FWN
5. Potion Approaching – Humbug
6. Red Right Hand (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover)
7. My Propeller – Humbug
8. Crying Lightning – Humbug
9. Sketchead – Humbug B-Side
10. I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor – WPS
11. The View From The Afternoon – WPS
12. Cornerstone – Humbug
13. If You Were There, Beware – FWN
14. Pretty Visitors – Humbug
15. Do Me a Favour – FWN
16. Fluorescent Adolescent / Last Christmas – FWN
Encore:
17. Secret Door – Humbug
18. 505 – FWN

$35 Helders doesn’t sing “Last Christmas” tommorow night. Good shit, Alex!

Porno Music Video

First, Girls experimented with gay pornography in their video for “Lust for Life.”

Now, Massive Attack has gone the porno route with a 1973 film featuring commentary from the actress (Georgina Spelvin, now about eighty years old) who starred in it.

Fine. Here’s the link for said nude art (can under-18s watch it since it is a music video?)”Paradise Circle”: http://special.the-raft.com/massiveattackdvd/paradisecircus_full.swf

Damn, We’re Screwed

Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House passed the most ambitious restructuring of federal financial regulations since the New Deal on Friday, aiming to head off any replay of last year’s Wall Street failures that plunged the nation deep into recession.

The sprawling legislation would give the government new powers to break up companies that threaten the economy, create a new agency to oversee consumer banking transactions and shine a light into shadow financial markets that have escaped the oversight of regulators.

The vote was a party-line 223-202. No Republicans voted for the bill; 27 Democrats voted against it.

The Boston Globe said in their article that it would “crack down on the types of Wall Street practices that caused last year’s economic meltdown.” You (Michael Kranish), my friend, are retarded. This legislation gives more power to the Federal Reserve, you know the institution that actually caused the mess. Oh and just to vent some more, Rep. John Tierney (Democrat – District 6) voted in favor of it. Stooge.

MY Top Songs of 2009

1) Animal Collective- Summertime Clothes

2) The Almighty Defenders- Cone of Light

3) Deerhunter- Disappearing Ink

4) Jay Reatard- Rotten Mind

5) King Khan & BBQ Show- Anala

6) Girls- Lust For Life

7) Uninhabitable Mansions- Speed Is Deceiving

8) Box Elders- Atlantis

9) Black Lips- I’ll Be With You

10) Strange Boys- Woe Is You and Me

11) Waaves- So Bored

12) Mika Miko- I Got A Lot (New New New)

13) No Age- You’re A Target

14) The Pains of Being Pure At Heart- Come Saturday

15) Bobby Ubangi- Greasers’ Lament

16) Arctic Monkeys- Secret Door

17) Those Darlins- Red Light Love

18) Sunset Rubdown- Idiot Heart

19) Sonic Youth- What We Know

20) Vivian Girls- Before I Start to Cry

Chris

Boston based shows/fests – DIY, punk, noise