HAPPY VALENTINES & DAY

They had a run of hit singles between 1977 and July 1979. Then it stopped.

Many folk blamed a disastrous UK tour in 79 when they were blown off-stage every single night by an up and coming band called Joy Division. Others said they just got fed up with the one-dimensional approach to song-writing and playing. The truth is that they probably just fell out of fashion as so many bands tend to do after a few years in the limelight....and besides, the third LP - A Different Kind Of Tension - had a near impossible task in following up the near perfection of Love Bites.

But 33 years on(!!!!).....this deserves a huge re-assessment. It's a classic pop song of having your heart broken. And denial.

mp3 : Buzzcocks - You Say You Don't Love Me
mp3 : Buzzcocks - Raison D'Etre

You say you don't love me

Well that's alright with me 'cos I'm in love with you

And I wouldn't want you doing things you don't want to do

Oh you know I've always wanted you to be in love with me

And it took so long to realize the way things have to be

I wanted to live in a dream that couldn't be real

And I'm starting to understand now the way that you feel

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't love me

Well that's alright with me 'cos I have got the time

To wait in case someday you maybe change your mind

I've decided not to make the same mistakes this time around

As I'm tired of having heartaches I've been thinking and I've found

I don't want to live in a dream I want something real

And I think I understand now the way that you feel

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't love me

Well that's alright with me I'm not in love with you

I just want us to do the things we both want to do

Though I've got this special feeling I'd be wrong to call it love

For the word entails a few things that I would be well rid of

I've no need to live in a dream it's finally real

And I hope you now understand this feeling I feel

You say you don't

You say you don't

You say you don't love me

You say you don't love me

You say you don't love me

Mmmmm....

It might be sixth-form poetry. But it's bloody good sixth-form poetry. Morrissey-esque....




Fucking brilliant......way better than most of the solo material in recent years!!!

As I say.......Happy Valentine's Day.

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Lyrics

Barton Hollow by The Civil Wars, Music Lyrics and Video

Barton Hollow is the title track and the first single by The Civil Wars, from their first full-length studio album “Barton Hollow” (February 1, 2011). The album debuted at #1 on iTunes album sales chart and at #12 on the Billboard 200. As of January 2012, it has sold 270,197 copies in the US.

The “Barton Hollow” refers to the community of Barton, Alabama, a few miles down the road from John Paul White’s hometown of Muscle Shoals.

The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow Lyrics

I’m a dead man walking here
But that’s the least of all my fears
Ooh, underneath the water

It’s not Alabama clay
That gives my trembling hands away
Please forgive me father

(http://musicloversgroups.blogspot.com/2012/02/civil-wars-barton-hollow-lyrics.html)
Ain’t going back to Barton Hollow
Devil gonna follow me e’er I go
Won’t do me no good washing in the river
Can’t no preacher man save my soul

Did that full moon force my hand?
Or that un marked hundred grand?
Ooh, underneath the water
Please forgive me father

Miles and miles in my bare feet
Still can’t lay me down to sleep
If I die before I wake
I know the Lord my soul won’t take

I’m a dead man walking
I’m a dead man walking

Keep walking and running and running for miles
Keep walking and running and running for miles
Keep walking and running and running for miles

Ain’t going back to Barton Hollow
Devil gonna follow me e’er I go
Won’t do me no good washing in the river
Can’t no preacher man save my soul

Ne-Yo - Get In Lyrics

Get In
Lyrics by Ne-Yoenergy is always from youuh uhsays clear to me what you won’t not do mhm mhmdon’t even know my name, baby you’re noti don’t know..is the energy that makes you cool fr us to takeand ambition awaychorus:uh get in into each otheruh ’cause no one will feel get inuh get into one anotheruhh ’cause do what we really get inand the music loud and the lights are loweverybody is

Nicki Minaj - Starships Lyrics

Starships
Lyrics by Nicki Mina

jLet’s go to the beach,
eachLet’s go get away
They say, what they gonna say?
Have a drink, click,
 found the bud light
Bad b-tches like me, is hard to come by
The patron own, let’s go get it on
The zone own, yes i’m in the zone
Is it two, three? leave a good tip
I’mma blow off my money and don’t give too quick
I’m on the floor, floor
I love to dance
So give me more, more, till

Akon - Hurt Somebody Lyrics (Ft. French Montana)

Hurt Somebody
Lyrics by Akon Ft. French Montana

This concrete is too cold,
to be walking on it
Or else walking on it with no shoes on (no shoes on)
Don’t wanna struggle, oh no
Don’t want it to become a habit
I’ve been living in the gutter with no shoes on
Let me get up out of here
Before I hurt somebody
Or I have to hurt somebody
Before I hurt somebody
Or I have to hurt somebody
Before I hurt somebody
Or I

The Only One and Only Gillian Welch

      Well, it's that time of year when I tend to feature a a female alt-country star (Neko Case), Kelly Willis, Lucinda Williams, Iris DeMent), so this year I thought it was high time for a Gillian Welch compilation.  There's one cut from each of her formal releases, but the rest is contributions to tribute albums and soundtracks, duets, and a lot of live tracks.  Disc Two  arrives next week.

Beulah Land

Pocahontas

Pretty Flowers

Summer Evening

Lua

Silver Dagger

I've Been Down Before

Gold Watch And Chain

I'll Fly Away

Wind And Rain

Barstow

One Monkey

Black Star

Tonight I'll Be Stayin' Here with You

White Rabbit

THINKING ABOUT GOLF-PLAYING POP STARS.....

Lloyd Cole's solo career hasn't brought a huge deal of success with just the one chart hit - Like Lovers Do back in 1995.  I'm not sure if it has been Lloyd himself or the record label but some of his better material has been left behind as LP tracks with the stuff released as singles being weak.

This, the second single lifted from Bad Vibes in 1993 is an example of what I'm referring to:-

mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Morning Is Broken

Bad Vibes isn't a great album - it's certainly my least favourite of all the solo material.  But it does itself no favours by leading off with Morning Is Broken which is a rather dull song all round that still got issued as the second single from the LP.  Maybe Lloyd saw something in it that few of the rest of us did.

The start of it nowadays reminds of the hit single Dominoes by The Big Pink, but for years I couldn't get out of my head that it was the sort of nonsense we'd be subjected to by Kula Shaker.

The single was shoved out on two CDs and the four tracks were a bit of a mixed bag:-

mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Radio City Music Hall
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Eat Your Greens
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - The Slider
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - Mannish Girl

The best of them is The Slider which happens to be a cover of a Marc Bolan song.  The good thing is that a few years later, Lloyd did re-discover his mojo and nowadays his material and live shows are things of joy and often rare beauty.

Here's a TV performance from back in the day:-



Happy Listening

SATURDAY & SCOTTISH SINGLE (Part 20)

From wiki:-

Bis are a Scottish indie pop band composed of Steven Clark (Sci-fi Steven), John Clark (John Disco), and Amanda MacKinnon (Manda Rin). Formed in 1994, the band broke up in 2003, but reformed briefly in 2007 for a series of concerts.

The three musicians formed Bis in 1994, when Rin and Disco were in secondary school and Steven had recently finished there. About a year later, they appeared on BBC Television's Top of the Pops performing "Kandy Pop" from their Secret Vampire Soundtrack EP ahead of its release: much being made at the time about them being the first 'unsigned' band to do so: in reality dozens of bands - especially in the late 1970s and 'novelty' acts - had appeared on the show with singles released on labels they had no formal contract with other than as a distributor or, like Bis, on a single by single basis.

Bis released a number of EPs, three of which entered the UK Singles Chart. In the late 1990s "Eurodisco", from their album Social Dancing, became a minor success for the band in Australia as well as the UK.

The band's name, rhyming with 'this', derives from "Black Iron Skyline", a lyric from the song Twilight of a Champion by The The.

The band's early releases were on Glasgow's Chemikal Underground label, run by The Delgados, before transferring to Wiiija where labelmates included Cornershop. In the United States, their records appeared on the underground label K Records, and on the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label. They toured extensively both in the UK and abroad— their diverse influences reflected in the kind of acts they appeared with: Pavement, Garbage, Luscious Jackson, Foo Fighters and Gary Numan amongst them.

The group became a favourite of the likes of Blur, John Peel and Green Day, despite a particularly hostile review by Steven Wells in the New Musical Express entitled "The Sinking of the Bis-Lark".

The U.S. first encountered the band during the closing credits of The Powerpuff Girls animated series. Their song "Detour" was also given some radio airplay in the U.S. They enjoyed a period of success in Japan, selling nearly 100,000 copies of their debut album in its first week of release, but future releases failed to be anywhere near as successful.

The band broke up in 2003, after playing a farewell show at King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. All remained active in the local music scene. Steven and John Disco played in Dirty Hospital and Rin acted as a DJ. Rin was also in a band called The Kitchen, whilst Disco joined the ska band, The Amphetameanies, which included members of Belle & Sebastian and Pink Kross.

In 2005, they announced on the official Bis website that together they had formed a new band, called Data Panik with Stuart Memo on bass and drummer Graham Christie. After releasing two 7" singles, however, the band split up.

Bis contributed an old song to the game Jet Set Radio Future called "Statement of Intent". In 2005, Bis performed in animated form on the CBBC children's cartoon BB3B.

As of 2006 Rin was working on solo material.  In 2007 she teamed up with the Scottish electro-pop outfit, Juno!, and has collaborated on their independently released singles, "Smoke & Mirrors" and "These Boys Are Athletes", as well as regularly appearing live with the band, most recently at the Rock Ness 2008 Festival.

To celebrate the 10 year anniversary of the release of their debut album The New Transistor Heroes, Bis re-formed in April 2007 for three shows in Glasgow, Manchester, and London. A greatest hits compilation titled We Are Bis from Glasgow, Scotland was released on compact disc to coincide with these shows.


In August 2008, Rin released the solo single, "DNA", which she followed up with the release of her debut album, My DNA with "This Is Fake DIY" in September 2008.


In November 2009, Rin announced that the band would reform to play at the Primavera Festival in May 2010.


More recently, singer Manda Rin provided the artwork for an iPhone game called "All Fridges Are Psychotic" and (on 18 November 2010) made a short guest appearance on the BBC music quiz programme Never Mind the Buzzcocks. She also teamed up with Hyperbubble on a track for their 2011 album Drastic Cinematic.

And here's the one bit of plastic I have in the cupboard:-

mp3 : Bis - Kandy Pop
mp3 : Bis - Secret Vampires
mp3 : Bis - Teen-c Power
mp3 : Bis - Diska

A #25 hit in March 1996.   Next up.....Blood Uncles.

THE MONDAY CORRESPONDENT

From Hilltown to Tinseltown.

Hearing a track on my iPod whilst in the middle of the South China Sea inspired this posting.

The track I heard was Tragedy Girl by King L, a band band formed in 1995 by Gary Clark.

Clark had fronted Dundee band Danny Wilson, who were formed in the mid-eighties. Gary Clark and schoolmate Ged Grimes had been in a school band together. It was when they were joined by younger brother Kit Clark, they were signed to Virgin Records after being discovered busking.

Initially they were called Spencer Tracy, their first album was recorded, the artwork completed, when someone from Virgin Records in America feared that they may be sued by the Tracy family, and so a name change was needed.

Clark’s father was a big Frank Sinatra fan and his favourite Sinatra film was Meet Danny Wilson, about which Clark Snr was always complaining that the TV companies never showed often enough. It seemed to fit the bill.

The album Meet Danny Wilson was released in April 1987, and its first single Mary’s Prayer was released three times before becoming a hit in the UK. It only happened after it was championed by Jonathan King’s ‘youth’ TV show No Limits who kept playing the video as a song that ‘should have been a hit’. The song actually went to #32 in the US charts before it reached #3 in the UK charts, as I said earlier, at third time of asking.

mp3 : Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer

The album was an eclectic mix, with two tales of leaving their hometown of Dundee - Davy and Aberdeen. Other tracks had a jazz feel to them and one song  - Nothing Ever Goes To Plan -  is even described as a Bosa Nova. But the strength of the album is the song writing of Gary Clark.

The follow up album Bebop Moptop produced a second hit single The Second Summer of Love, a song that I don’t really care for, while another single I Can’t Wait was backed by a wonderful live cover version of the famous Abba hit Knowing Me Knowing You which includes the immortal shout out ‘Jimmy Shand*’ before the instrumental break where they played an accordion instead of a guitar.

mp3 : Danny Wilson - Knowing Me, Knowing You (live)

*Sir Jimmy Shand from Auchtermucty, Fife was a Scottish musician who played traditional Scottish dance music on the accordion. He was a favourite of the Queen.

The three members of Danny Wilson went their separate ways in early 1991, Gary Clark then released a single under the name of Eleven.

He then set about writing and recording a solo album, most of the songs were intended for a third Danny Wilson album but he had a free hand with his choice of songs without consulting anyone else.

Ten Short Stories of Love was released in 1993; it’s an album that shows Clark’s ability to write bitter/sweet pop songs. The album had a more soulful sound in places. Unfortunately the album didn’t sell in any great numbers.

mp3 : Gary Clark - This Is Why, J

It was on the back of this release that I saw Gary Clark, for the one and only time, play live in his hometown of Dundee, at the Whitehall Theatre on the 27th May 1993.

Being a sort of homecoming gig, the place was packed to the rafters and a surprise was that in his touring band was Boo Herwerdine, the founding member of The Bible.

During the evening both Ged Grimes and brother Kit joined Clark on stage. One of the highlights was when they played a tremendous version of the Isley Brothers’ Summer Breeze, which was quite appropriate for an early summer’s evening even in Dundee.

The collaboration with Hewerdine continued into Clark’s next project, the aforementioned King L album Great Day for Gravity.

The pair started writing songs and the album developed further when Clark met Eric Pressley on a trip to Los Angeles. Neil MacColl, also a former member of The Bible, joined in the writing and recording of the album.

The album once again failed to sell but received great critical acclaim, but it's one that I've found very enjoyable rediscovering recently.

mp3 : King L - Tragedy Girl

Clark and Pressley then formed a band Transister with Keely Hawkes, (sister of Chesney ‘the one and only’ Hawkes). They produced a six track EP and one album. Tracks from the album were used in six different Hollywood movies. Their sound is quite similar to Garbage.

mp3 : Transister - Dizzy Moon

Gary Clark then became ‘a gun for hire’ songwriter composing hit songs for the likes of Natalie Imbruglia for whom he co-wrote and produced her million selling album White Lilies Island.

So far he has worked with David McAlmont, Liz Phair, Skin (Skunk Anansie), Mark Owen and Lloyd Cole among others.

mp3 : Mark Owen - Kill With Your Smile

Working with Lloyd Cole seems on the whole to have been a very enjoyable experience, according to a recent interview with Gary:-

"I’d met Lloyd a few times in the process of gigging and doing promotional work, we shared the same publisher and he suggested that it would be good for us to write together. We met up in New York and we came up with a few songs. The interesting thing about Lloyd is that he is a brilliant songwriter….but he doesn’t want to write lyrics with anyone else.


I was used to being involved in the lyrics, so it was a weird dynamic trying to work with him, because I’d suggest things and could feel him pulling away. I’d suggest more and he’d just close the song down. So I left New York thinking we had a bunch of unfinished things and Lloyd would finish the lyrics once I’d gone.


‘That Boy’ is the one song of ours that saw the light of day and it has been released, on the original ‘The Negatives’ album, on a Greatest Hits compilation and on another release.


It really is the gift that keeps on giving!!!!"

mp3 : Lloyd Cole - That Boy
mp3 : Lloyd Cole & The Negatives - That Boy
mp3 : Lloyd Cole - That Boy (Langer & Winstanley Mix)

Gary Clark now lives in LA and is a highly sought after songwriter and producer.

If you are listening to a mainstream radio station chances are you are hearing a pop song written and produced by a man from Dundee.....from the Hilltown area of the city of Discovery.

Mr John Greer, Monday 20 February 2012

Kid Cudi - Dose Of Dopeness Lyrics

Dose Of Dopeness
Lyrics by Kid Cudi

Moving without moving.
Pure crush groovin’
Right on track, right on and
I’m backRap ex-lax,
yeah I be pooing on ‘em
Damn right, Mr Cudi he be dippin’ on ‘em
Say it loud, you all want the new new
Explorer like Dora
Thats how I got a clue too
So f-cking underground,
barely on YoutubeTill Day
 N Nite now they al got a clue who
Took me a minute man, took me a whileHard

Crooked I - Monsters In My Head Lyrics (Ft. Slaughterhouse)

Monsters In My Head
Lyrics by Crooked I Ft. Slaughterhouse

Monsters in my head
Monsters in my head
[Crooked I]
What if I told you
 I wake up screamin’ and swingin’
Dreamin’ that
 I’m fighting demons
Dreamin’
I’m swingin’ on heathen’s
Competin’ and schemin’ to eat every piece of my piece when
I’m sleepin’Need a priest and a deacon
When I’m speakin’ to preachers tell ‘em
I’m only at peace when I’m drinkin’I’

Santigold - Disparate Youth Lyrics

Disparate Youth Lyrics
by Santigold


Don’t look ahead,
 there’s stormy weather
Another roadblock in our way
But if we go, we go together
Our handš are tied here if we stay
Oh, we set our dreams to carry us
In the middle where we were one
Now we push right past to find out
Or either win what they have lošt
Oh ah, oh ahWe know now we won’t go
Oh ah, oh ah
Our lives worth fighting for
Oh ah, oh ah
We know now we

Bruce Springsteen - Easy Money Lyrics

Easy Money Lyrics
 by Bruce Springsteen


You put on your coat,
I’ll put on my hatYou put out the dog,
I’ll put out the catYou put on your red dress for me tonight,
honey
We’re going on the town now looking for easy money
There’s nothing to it mister,
 you won’t hear a sound
When your whole world comes tumbling down
And all them fat cats they just think it’s funny
I’m going on the town now looking for easy

Bruce Springsteen - Easy Money Lyrics

Easy Money Lyrics by Bruce Springsteen

You put on your coat,

 I’ll put on my hatYou put out the dog,

 I’ll put out the catYou put on your red dress for me tonight, 

honey

We’re going on the town now looking for easy money

There’s nothing to it mister, 

you won’t hear a sound

When your whole world comes tumbling down

And all them fat cats they just think it’s funny

I’m going on the town now looking for easy

THE NUMBER ONE SINGLE WITH THE LONGEST TITLE (WITHOUT BRACKETS)

And before anyone grumbles, the picture on the sleeve is distorted as illustrated above.

I've never been a huge lover of the Manics. I've not much of their stuff in the collection.  And I've certainly got no time at all for this abomination of a cover single they recently released.

But there was a time they were riding the crest of a wave and deservedly so. They got to #1 in August 1998 with a song that was inspired by the Spanish Civil War and the part played by left-wing Welsh volunteers who joined the International Brigade in the ultimately doomed effort to prevent the rise of fascism under General Franco.  It's not often get pro-war songs from a left-wing perspective.

The song takes its name from a Republican poster of the time. A photograph of a young child killed by Nationalist bombs is shown under a sky of bombers with the stark warning "If you tolerate this, your children will be next" written at the bottom. An original of the poster can be seen at the Imperial War Museum, London, as well as at the Southworth Spanish Civil War Collection at the University of California.

According to the sticker on the front of my copy, I picked the CD single up for £2. Not bad for a hit as big as this and for the fact there's remixes to suit most folk's tastes:-

mp3 : Manic Street Preachers - If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next

mp3 : Manic Street Precahers - Massive Attack Remix

mp3 : Manic Street Preachers - The Class Reunion of The Sunset Marquis Mix

The third track features work from uber-producer David Holmes.

Happy Listening

Teenage Shutdown #13-I'm Gonna Stay - CD (Teenage Shutdown, 2000)

Target: Fuzz!

1 The Mondels - I Got A Feeling (GA, U.S.A.)

2 Mongrell's Band - Be My Girl (Oneonta, AL, U.S.A.)
3 The Wanderer's Rest - Anytime Anywhere (Milwaukee, WI, U.S.A.)
4 The Peabody Hermitage - Something So (Chattanooga, TN, U.S.A.)
5 The Modds - Leave My House (Poplar Bluff, MO, U.S.A.)
6 Greg Barr & The Barr Association - Dance Girl Dance (Houston, TX, U.S.A.)
7 The Great Society - I'm The One For You (Villa Park, IL, U.S.A.)
8 Oscar Hamod & The Majestics - Got To Have Your Lovin' (Gary, IN, U.S.A.)
9 Ides - Psychedelic Ride (Milford, DE, U.S.A.)
10 The Grains Of Time - No Matter What They Say (Albertville, AL, U.S.A.)
11 Lou Capri - Love And Kisses (Chicago, IL, U.S.A.)
12 The Mondels - You'll Never Come Back To Stay (GA, U.S.A.)
13 The Rock Garden - Super Stuff (Camden, AR, U.S.A.)
14 The Moxies - I'm Gonna Stay (Paducah, KY, U.S.A.)
15 The Black Banana - Listen Girl (Bradford, PA, U.S.A.)
16 The Night Mist - Last Night (TN, U.S.A.)
17 The Sceptres - But I Can Dream (Glen Ellyn, IL, U.S.A.)

Chris Brown - Turn Up The Music (Remix) Lyrics (Ft. Rihanna)

Turn Up The Music (Remix) Lyrics by Chris Brown Ft. Rihannaturn up the music, cause this song just came onturn up the music, if they try to turn us downturn up the music, can i hear it til the speakers blowturn up the music, fill your cup and drink it downif you’re sexy and you know it put your hands up in the airput your hands up in the air, girl, put your hands upif you’re sexy and you know it

REVISITING AN OLD POST....45 45s AT 45 - NUMBER 2

Originally posted on Tuesday 17 June 2008

I’ve repeatedly said that I was never a punk, but just someone who loved an awful lot of the punk-sounding records. However, the early singles and debut LP by The Clash weren’t things that I was initially fond of – they were just too raw and raucous for my tastes, which at that time were still evolving.

As with most teenagers, I got some money from my mum and dad and aunties and uncles for my 15th birthday, and so I traipsed up the road to the record shop. I can’t actually remember everything that was bought…there’s every chance I bought a bundle of disco stuff as Saturday Night Fever was all the rage and all the girls wanted someone who danced like John Travolta.

I do distinctly remember buying my first ever single by The Clash with some of the money – it was on prominent display in the shop having just been released a couple of days previously. The reason I remember all this is down to a sort of hero-worship of a guy called Mick. Not only did he work in a record shop, he also had his own mobile disco with lights and everything....and Mick said that day that if I wanted to buy something special for my birthday then it should be this new single called (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais.

When I told him that I didn’t really like The Clash, he asked me if I had ever really listened to them. I had to admit that I hadn’t other than what I had sometimes heard on the radio. He then offered to play the single for me there and then. Of course in order to retain any degree of coolness, I was always going to say it was fantastic.....

So I took the record home, but I was nowhere near convinced. This certainly was nothing like love at first sight. But like all new records, it continued to get spins on the turntable all the time, and within a week or so, after a number of listens, I realised, in a sort of Road To Damascus conversion moment, the song was something really different and special. And with that I felt I could classify myself as a Clash fan – one of the best decisions I ever made as the band and their music became a sort of secret password for getting on so well with people in the years to come.

The first example of this was a year later when I took on my first ever summer job, over a period of six weeks or so, at the age of 16. It was in a city-centre store that sold car accessories. I was easily the youngest member of staff – the rest of them were dead old being at least 19, while the store manager was ancient at the age of 25. I wasn’t able to do the sort of things they did, such as go out to the pub after work on a Friday night. But one other worker was interested in the fact I bought Melody Maker every week – although his own preference was for the NME.

That’s when I learned his taste was for punk/new wave, his favourite being The Clash. The fact that I liked the band was a big factor in me being accepted in the workplace.

A few years later, the time had come to move out of the family home and into a student flat. It was a case of trying to find folk you would be compatible with, and the deal with the two lads who I was eventually to move in beside was sealed when we all said that White Man…was our favourite Clash single. So much so in my case, that by this time (1983) I had learned to play it note-for-note on a Casio keyboard which I demonstrated one evening in a drunken stupor while another of the flat mates played bass and the other sang. The girls we had back that night were far from impressed.

I always thought I was in a minority with my love for this single over all others by The Clash. I was certain that White Riot, London Calling or even the cover of I Fought The Law would win out in any popularity contest. But no, there was some sort of poll a few years back which revealed that the most popular and enduring song was the one released in June 1978:-

mp3 : The Clash – (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
mp3 : The Clash – The Prisoner

It was unusually slow and melodic for a punk/new wave band. You could even make out a whole lot of the words without the need for a lyric sheet. It was also a song that lended itself to the use of your badminton racquet masquerading as your guitar….and it’s a song that has aged magnificently, sounding every bit as fresh, exciting and vibrant today as it did 30 plus years ago.

It’s hard to recall that all those years ago, the release of White Man… caused a bit of an uproar among the hardcore fans of the band. It was a radical departure from the short, sharp, loud and angry songs that had symbolised everything punk/new wave was supposed to be. It was, looking back, the earliest indication (notwithstanding Police & Thieves) that The Clash were no one-trick pony but in fact a quite extraordinary band capable of producing top-quality songs influenced by all sorts of genres.

I no longer have this single in the collection – another victim of the Edinburgh debacle of 1986, but by then it wasn’t a bit of vinyl that could have safely gone on the record player.

It was a record that had been played to within an inch of its life – it was worn out, full of scratches and jumps courtesy of it being shoved on more than once in a drunken stupor in which I bumped against the turntable. And because I imagine that’s how everyone who ever owned the single behaved with it, I’ve never pursued a copy via e-bay as the vinyl will be in a far from pristine condition. Instead, I’ve relied on an antiseptically clean copy that I have within the 3-CD box-set of Clash on Broadway.

2012 update...

One of the greatest things about blogging is how generous many folk are.  Not long after this post appeared back in 2008, someone (and I'm annoyed I can't remember who it was) got in touch to ask if I had the alternative version of the song recorded especially for a Rock Against Racism LP in 1978. When I said I hadn't, it was promptly attached in an e-mail. And here it is...

mp3 : The Clash - (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais (alternative version)

Happy Listening

ONE MONTH ON FROM VALENTINE& DAY - SOME BEAUTIFUL LOVE

From 1991. A cracking wee bit of pop from Julian Cope. In reaching #32 in the UK singles charts, this remains one of his best-performing solo efforts.

At this point in time, Julian was fond of writing wonderfully entertaining an but often obtuse sleeve notes for all his songs.  Here's what he said on this 12":-

mp3 : Julian Cope - Beautiful Love

Is a campfire song written to the elements and sung to the 4 corners of the world, enthusiastically and in a bad dialect. "Beauty-full love, where have you gone?"  Aaf Verkade provides the White Man's Trumpet as hauntingly innocent as watching Charles and Di clapping ON the beat at the Nelson Mandela concert earlier this year. From the forthcoming album "Peggy Suicide".

mp3 : Julian Cope - Port Of Saints

Is self-explanatory. Balfe and Bill Drummond now exist only in mu unconscious, but I shall always be paranoid of their desire to do me wrong. Quite a timely slag-off really, as Drummond has just seen fit to release all kinds of old material without asking anyone's permission. That poor guy - ever the entrepreneur - torn between '80s W.A.S.P. intellectual KAKA and a superb organisational ability.

mp3 : Julian Cope - Love L.U.V.

Hugoth Nicolson took this poor innocent song and introduced it to a weekend in the big city. The obvious results are clear to see like Rita Tushingham and Lynn Redgrave in 'Smashing Time'. 'Beautiful Love' got laid, got drunl and got hungover and hoping to die. Remix engineers? I shit 'em.

mp3 : Julian Cope - Unisex Cathedral

"Where the bitches stand in line." Previously released in April 1990 on the Texas-only LP 'DROOLIAN'.

For once the songs match the notes.  It's mostly good stuff.

Happy Listening

TODAY:PERFORMING IN MARYLAND, USA

ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BITS OF MUSIC SO FAR IN 2012

Last month I wrote these words about the group who had been bottom of the bill at a gig at King Tut's on 15 February:-

"First up is Father Sculptor who get the night off to a very entertaining start with a short but varied five-song 20 minute set. It begins and ends with bog-standard 80s indie-pop enlivened by excellent playing – Drew thought the drummer was great, while I was impressed by the guitarist. But the second song of the night was one that caught my attention – very reminiscent of the Sire-era James...i.e the time when they were really struggling commercially but making great music. It’s after this song they announce it is their first ever gig which does make the performance all the more impressive. They’re worth keeping an eye on and hopefully I’ll come across them over the course of the next 12 months - it will be interesting to get Aldo’s take on them."

Not long after I got a nice email from the band thanking me for the kind words and then not long after, this:-

JC,
That Sire-era James song ('Ember') is up via,
http://fathersculptor.bandcamp.com/
Ta ra.

It really is every bit as good as I remember:-



It's going to be released on 16 April. I'll certainly be buying a copy. And here;s hoping Father Sculptor will have a live gig to support the promotional activities.

Infinite (インフィニット) - Be Mine (ネコハジャ) Japanese Version Lyrics

These Be Mine (ネコハジャ) Japanese Version Lyrics performed by Infinite (インフィニット) @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

dakishime tai ima sugu kimi dake
sou kotoba yori mo taisetsu sa
hitori de nakanaku temo i i
boku ga soba ni iru yo kimio mamoru tame

three two one

nekkohaja kimi no kokoro o
iyashi te ageru yo
dakara boku no soba ni ite
kotoba ja tsutawara nakute
aishiteru kara sou
mamori tainda kimi dake

The Cataracs Ft. Waka Flocka - All You Lyrics

These All You Lyrics performed by The Cataracs Ft. Waka Flocka @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

i see you looking but you trying to act cool, right
you don't even care what a dude right,
prolly wanna pick, prolly want 2 right
if the girls get ugly and the mood right
lil moon light go ahead and let it go
i don't mean to come across too sexual, oh, oh
but that's ... epic though


...volcanic, hot

FINALLY...I OWN A PIECE OF VINYL BY THE STONE ROSES

As picked up for £2.99 in a charity shop the other week. One of the few songs of theirs that I truly like. It's the 1989 reissue of their single from two years earlier.

mp3 : The Stone Roses - Sally Cinnamon
mp3 : The Stone Roses - Here It Comes
mp3 : The Stone Roses - All Across The Sands

Seemingly this particular version of this 12" single contains a different longer version of the title track than the original 12" released back in 1987 and also contains an alternate recording of All Across The Sands.

But many of you probably knew that already.

Walk off the Earth - Little Boxes Lyrics

These Little Boxes Lyrics performed by Walk off the Earth @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

little boxes on the hillside
little boxes made of ticky tacky
little boxes on the hillside
little boxes all the same

there’s a pink one and a green one
and a blue one and a yellow one
and they’re all made out of ticky tacky
and they all look just the same

and the people in the houses
all went to the

Spiritualized - Hey Jane Lyrics

These Hey Jane Lyrics performed by Spiritualized @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

hey jane, where you’re going today?
you took a call and you ran all day
that clock going 110, i never said i’ll get you back again
so you ain’t got time to make no mistakes
ain’t got time to waste my prays

hey jane, where you’re going today?
you lit a fire then you find the game
they say you got a troubled soul
i

Katy Perry - Wide Awake Lyrics

These Wide Awake Lyrics performed by Katy Perry @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

i’m wide awake
yeah, i was in the dark
i was falling hard
with an open heart
i’m wide awake
how did i read the stars so wrong

i’m wide awake
and now it’s clear to me
that everything you see
ain’t always what it seems
i’m wide awake
yeah, i was dreaming for so long

(Pre Chorus:)
i wish i knew then
what i know now

Mumford and Sons - Where Are You Now Lyrics

These Where Are You Now Lyrics performed by Mumford and Sons @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

it came to the end it seems you had heard.
cause we walked the city streets,
you never said a word.

when we finally sat down
your eyes were full of spite.
i was desperate, i was sweet
i could not put up a fight.

where are you now?
where are you now?
do you ever think of me
in the quiet, in the crowd?

Earl Sweatshirt - Oldie Lyrics

yeah, fuck that

look, the contrast is a pair of lips

swallowin’ syrup and settin’ fires to sheriffs whip

fuckin’ all american terrorist

crushin’ rapper larynx to feed ‘em a fuckin’ carrot stick

and me? i just spent a year ferrisin and

and i lost a little sanity to show you what hysterics is

spit to the lips meet the

Aerosmith - Legendary Child Lyrics

These Legendary Child Lyrics performed by Aerosmith @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

i tell you what i’m talkin’ about

remember not too long ago

i was down and out of luck

i was out to do the dirty deed and didnt give a f***

[cover with background vocal]

and then she caught my eye

the girl was lookin’ fresh

and what was underneath it all

was passion in the flesh

if you think you see the devil’s

Birdy - Just A Game Lyrics

These Just A Game Lyrics performed by Birdy @ lyricsepoch.blogspot.com.

i don’t know where i am,
i don’t know this place.
don’t recognize anybody,
just the same old dirty face.
see these people, they lie,
and i don’t know who to believe anymore.

but there comes you,
to keep me safe from harm
there comes you,
to take me in your arms
is it just a game?
i don’t know.
is it just a game?
i don’t

Google Play to Compete With iTunes

Google, who has long since been getting criticism for having its digital media services splintered, announced today the launch of Google Play. Google Play is cloud-based and consists of Android Market, Google Music, Google Movies, and the Google eBookstore. They will all merge together as a unified media service. Over the next few days users will see changes in the names as app updates will appear on their Android device: The Android Market will become "Play Store", Google Movies will be "Play Movies", Google Music will be "Play Music", and the Google eBookstore will become "Play Books". Google's motivation behind merging its content is to put itself "out there" on the market in order to compete with iTunes and Amazon and ensure the Android Market doesn't get bigger than Google itself. It's a long time coming, but now users will have more choices and iTunes gets another competitor worth mentioning for sure.

A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF GIGS : OTHER FOLK NOW CONTRIBUTING!!!

Hi

Not sure if you want reader reviews but i thought i might mention Saturday night's gig.

ABC Sauchiehall Street - The Felice Brothers supported by Craig Finn

Been a fan of America's finest the Hold Steady for a number of years so couldn't pass up the opportunity to see front man Craig Finn perform a solo set at the ABC. With the Hold Steady being on a bit of a break Craig's gone and done a solo album. Clear Heart Full Eyes is, well lets be honest, not a patch on the Hold Steady but it's a solid enough debut in a quiet and affecting way and most of it gets an airing tonight. Backed by some check shirts with guitar, bass, drums and slide guitar/guitarist the band were pretty good especially as things start to speed up towards the end with the single Honolulu Blues and New Friend Jesus where Mr Finn helpfully informs us he's got a new friend and his new friend's name is Jesus.

The Felice Brothers I knew little of but they were a wee bit of a revelation to these ears. Lining up in a row from left to right we had violin/box of tricks, accordion/keyboards/vocals, guitar/vocals, bass/vocals, drummer. This is a band that looks like they're doing everything they can to avoid pigeon-holing we had everything from folk to hip-hop to country to old fashioned hoe-downs. The busy crowd seemed to be enjoying all of this and I didn't catch too many song titles but Whisky In My Whisky will have you singing along on first listen. I'm thinking my wallet's going to regret me going to this one.

Tiny






All contributions welcome.........

THE SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF EDWYN COLLINS (Part 5)

As mentioned last time out, 50 Shades of Blue flopped on release in October 1989. It would be fully five years before Edwyn Collins released his next single.

Between times however, there were 2 LPs unleashed on the world. Hellbent On Compromise appeared in October 1990 to little fanfare and brought an end to his association with Demon Records. It's a fine piece of work if a little patchy in places. It features the last song that he wrote in conjunction with Paul Quinn as well as a couple of covers - one originally by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and the other by Willie Nelson - which sort of encapsulates perfectly the music that has had most influence on Edwyn.

He spent most of the next few years producing a range of acts, some of who were on the then little-known London-based indie label Setanta Records. Edwyn himself inked a deal with the label in the early 90s and it was August 1994 when the LP Gorgeous George was released.

There was a surprising amount of critical acclaim for the LP, albeit it didn't sell all that well - initially that is. It's re-release a year later was totally different.....

One of the real poppy songs began to pick up a bit of airplay on late evening radio. And so two months after the LP was released it was decided to put out the Expressly EP featuring said poppy track, some tracks that hadn't made the final cut of the LP and some remixes across 2 x CD singles:-

CD1

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (Macrame remix by Youth)

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - Out Of This World (I Hear A New World) (remixed by St Etienne)

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - Occupy Your Mind

CD2

A Girl Like You, plus:-

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - Don't Shilly Shally (spotter's '86 demo version)

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - Something's Brewing

mp3 : Edwyn Collins - Bring It On Back

The EP climbed to #42 in the charts. Close but no cigar. That would come, along with a very fine claret, around a year later as will be told in Part 7. There's another flop tale before then next time around.

All Hail the New Traditionalists -That Dangerous Age Lyrics

           I thought of putting together a Sharon Jones and Detroit Cobras compilation a while back, but I was waiting for a new Cobras release.  That was about 18 months ago, and since there doesn't seem to be one forthcoming in the near future.... well, now's as good time as any (especially with summer on its way - if, I may be so bold, I think it would make a nice bbq soundtrack).   And I know traditionalist is kind of a silly term, but, hey, it seemed a bit better than revivalist. :)

100 Days, 100 Nights	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Hey Sailor	The Detroit Cobras
Ain't Hittin' on Nothin'	The Detroit Cobras
My Man Is A Mean Man	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
(I Wanna Know) What's Going on	The Detroit Cobras
Give It Back	Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Wild About That Thing	Sharon Jones, Alvin Youngblood Hart & Teenie Hodges
I'll Be Home Someday	Detroit Cobras
I Just Dropped In To See What Condition My Condition Is In	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
I'll Keep Holding On	The Detroit Cobras
Pick It Up, Lay It In The Cut	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
Ya Ya Ya (looking For My Baby)	The Detroit Cobras
Heartbeat	The Detroit Cobras
She Ain't a Child No More	Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
Last Nite	The Detroit Cobras
What If We All Stopped Paying Taxes?	Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
The Dap Dip	Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
As Long As I Have You	The Detroit Cobras

Paul Weller - That Dangerous Age Lyrics

That Dangerous Age by Paul Weller, Music Lyrics and Video

That Dangerous Age is the second single by English singer-songwriter, Paul Weller, taken from his eleventh album, titled “Sonik Kicks”, which was released on 19th March 2012 via Island Records/Yep Roc.

Paul Weller - That Dangerous Age Lyrics

(Shoop… Shoop)
And when he wakes up in the morning
It takes him time to adjust
So sick and tired of the money
(Shoop, he’s at that dangerous age)
And all the life that is lost
(Shoop, he’s at that dangerous age)

If you could only get it back
How high the whirl
Could start to stack
And every chance you gets to fly he goes far
In his car

He likes 2 sugars in his coffee
(Shoop, he’s at that dangerous age)
He wants a chick in the office
(Shoop, he’s at that dangerous age)
He’s touching straight up bay
(Shoop, he’s at that dangerous age)
He’s on a much higher rage
(Shoop, he’s at that dangerous age)

And he will seconds of a frame
He starts to see
And takes the blame
And any chance he gets to run he goes far
In his car, very far

She wears her skirt so much higher…
(http://musicloversgroups.blogspot.com/2012/03/paul-weller-that-dangerous-age-lyrics.html)

She has the heir for high flyer
(Shoop, she’s at that dangerous age)
She gets down on the student range
(Shoop, she’s at that dangerous age)
And all her friends think she’s trying
(Shoop, she’s at that dangerous age)
She’s at that dangerous age
(Shoop, they’re at that dangerous age)
She’s at that dangerous age
(Shoop, they’re at that dangerous age)

(Shoop, she’s at that dangerous age)
(Shoop, she’s at that dangerous age)

And when he wakes up in the morning
It takes him time to adjust
He’s so sick of the money
And all the life that is lost

Eva Simons - I Don’t Like You Lyrics

I Don’t Like You by Eva Simons, Music Lyrics and Video

I Don’t Like You is a song by Dutch pop singer Eva Simons set to be released on March 26, 2012 under Interscope Records. Simons premiered the song on her Twitter profile on 20th March. The track is produced by Zedd.

Eva Simons - I Don’t Like You Lyrics

Fade to the darkness all the way
At the start gets I hoped
There for once I had escaped the fakes, the snakes
Waste of time so face so face
I’ll be bald enough to throw
On an ish I belong to say to say

The fist is old, but this old
It’s dead and ended now
I left all the reasons why
Why you should still be here
Go

Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now, like you
I don’t like you
You ain’t what I want
And time will never work this out
(http://musicloversgroups.blogspot.com/2012/03/eva-simons-i-dont-like-you-lyrics.html)

Oh no, i’ve got cold
In the heart
Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now
Forget you

Oh no, i’ve got cold
In the heart
Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now
Forget you
I don’t like you

All the way
Saved, not confused we’re in the rain
It’s losing hand fold
Why play on nothing to gain
All on the rates

The fist is old, but this old
It’s dead and ended now
I left all the reasons why
Why you shouldn’t even be here
Go

Oh no, i’ve got cold
In the heart
Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now
Forget you

Oh no, i’ve got cold
In the heart
Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now
Forget you
I don’t like you

All the way
Done with right
I just don’t feel this I’m not all over it’s there
Through it all, that’s what it is
This love has taken its last breath

Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now, like you
I don’t like you
You ain’t what I want
And time will never work this out

Oh no, i’ve got cold
In the heart
Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now
Forget you

Oh no, i’ve got cold
In the heart
Where did we go wrong
I don’t even like you now
Forget you
I don’t like you

THE SMITHS ON BRITISH TELLY (PART 2)

Filmed at Derby Assembly Rooms (7/12/83) a live version of 'Hand In Glove' was first broadcast on 9 December 1983 as part of BBC2's Old Grey Whistle Test's Sight and Sound special. Three months later, promoting The Smiths, another live rendition was recorded in the Newcastle studios of Channel 4's The Tube on Friday 16 March 1984 along with 'Still Ill' and the yet to be recorded 'Barbarism Beguis At Home'.


The third, and best, televised performance of the song was again on The Tube.  Filmed in concert at Glasgow Barrowlands (25/9/85) as part of a lengthy feature on The Smiths' autumn Scottish tour broadcast the following month, 'Hand In Glove' was shown in its entirety capturing the audience hysteria (impulsive stage invaders and swarthy bouncers dragging asphyxiated fans out of the scrum) and on-stage electricity to a tee.







mp3 : The Smiths - Hand In Glove (live, Brixton Ace, London : 29 June 1983)*

*as made available years later on There Is A Light That Never Goes Out single

Next up.....Jeane

Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground Lyrics

Rocky Ground by Bruce Springsteen, Music Lyrics and Video

Rocky Ground is the second single by Bruce Springsteen, from his seventeenth studio album, “Wrecking Ball“.

The song was written Springsteen and will be released exclusively in select stores as a limited-edition 7-inch 45-rpm vinyl single as a part of Record Store Day on April 21, 2012.

Bruce Springsteen - Rocky Ground Lyrics

(I'm a soldier!)
(I'm a soldier!)
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground

Rise up shepherd, rise up
Your flock has roamed far from the hills
The stars have faded, the sky is still
The angels are shouting "Glory Hallelujah"

We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground

Forty days and nights of rain have washed this land
Jesus said the money changers in this temple will not stand
Find your flock, get them to higher ground
Flood waters rising and and the kingdom's on fire

We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
(I'm a soldier!)

Tend to your flock or they will stray
We'll be called for our service come Judgment Day
Before we cross that river wide
Blood on our hands will come back on us twice

(I'm a soldier!)

Rise up shepherd, rise up
Your flock has roamed far from the hills
Stars have faded, the sky is still
Sun's in the heavens and a new day's rising

You use your muscle and your mind and you pray your best
That your best is good enough, the Lord will do the rest
You raise your children and you teach them to walk straight and sure
You pray that hard times, hard times, come no more
You try to sleep, you toss and turn, the bottom's dropping out
Where you once had faith now there's only doubt
You pray for guidance, only silence now meets your prayers
The morning breaks, you awake but no one's there
(http://musicloversgroups.blogspot.com/2012/03/bruce-springsteen-rocky-ground-lyrics.html)

We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
There's a new day coming
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
(I'm a soldier!)
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
Oh, a new day's coming
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
(I'm a soldier!)
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
Oh, a new day's coming
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
(I'm a soldier!)
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
There's a new day coming
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground

We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground
We've been traveling over rocky ground, rocky ground

Cover Drive - Sparks Lyrics

Sparks by Cover Drive, Music Lyrics and Video

Sparks is the third single by four-piece pop band from Barbados, Cover Drive, taken from their debut album, titled “Bajan Style”, which will be released on 30 April 2012. They described the album as “a beach party in Barbados”.

The tune premiered on The Hits Radio and is already starting to rise on the charts. It will be officially released on 23 April.

Cover Drive - Sparks Lyrics

Happy to see you setting me off like sparks
You ignite all the colours inside my heart
On the doorstep like we’d never been apart
Hope you know that I’m happy to see you

It’s just another night
The boys are getting higher
But baby in my head
I’m nailing you instead
It’s just another night
Under the strobe lights
Can’t hear what I’m dancing to
Just wanna be you

Ohh, chips die, and I’m ready to go
On my mind I can’t wait anymore

Happy to see you setting me off like sparks
You ignite all the colours inside my heart
On the doorstep like we’d never been apart
Hope you know that I’m happy to see you

Them girls put on a show
But they will never know
What makes you beautiful
I watch them come and go
Them boys got all the talk
But they don’t a lie

You know my every thought
That’s why I make them walk

Ohh, chips die, and I’m ready to go
On my mind I can’t wait anymore

Happy to see you setting me off like sparks
You ignite all the colours inside my heart
On the doorstep like we’d never been apart
Hope you know that I’m happy to see you

Nothing needed to say
We got nothing to prove
No world dust, and later, no winner with you
We got no games to play
So we got no lose
The world doesn’t matter
You’re here and…

Happy to see you setting me off like sparks
You ignite all the colours inside my heart
On the doorstep like we’d never been apart
Hope you know that I’m happy to see you
(http://musicloversgroups.blogspot.com/2012/03/cover-drive-sparks-lyrics.html)

Happy to see you setting me off like sparks
You ignite all the colours inside my heart
On the doorstep like we’d never been apart
Hope you know that I’m happy to see you

ROCK, POP, INDIE MAGNIFICENCE

Was sitting in a cafe having a bite to eat the other day.  One of the staff was mucking about on a laptop creating a mix of music for the patrons to enjoy or endure.  All of a sudden, amidst the non-descript singer-songwriters with their whimsical ballads with a twist of indie-folk, this came blaring out:-

mp3 : Radiohead - Bones

It's the fourth track on the 1995 LP The Bends.  In some ways it is a sort of forgotten Radiohead classic. It is squeezed onto the album right after two hit singles - High And Dry and Fake Plastic Trees, and right before one of their best loved songs and another hit - (Nice Dream) and Just.  But there's no way that Bones should ever be regarded as a filler track.

Great tune.  Killer chorus.  And an ambiguous enough lyric to spark a debate.  Is it merely about growing old or is it about the physical pain that a mental breakdown brings? Who knows?  And who really cares??  Just turn the volume up and enjoy the music.  It's rock, it's pop, it's indie all at once. It's also magnificent.

Especially played live.

1994



1997

Ear-Piercing Punk - CD (AIP, 1996)

1 The Groupies - Hog (I'm A Hog For You Baby) (New York, NY, U.S.A.)

2 Outlaw Blues - Nonstop Blues (CA, U.S.A.)
3 The Mile Ends - Bottle Up And Go (Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.)
4 The Sound Extraction - I Feel Like Crying (Mayfield, KY, U.S.A.)
5 Bohemian Vendetta - Enough (Long Island, NY, U.S.A.)
6 Keith Kessler - Don't Crowd Me (Renton, WA, U.S.A.)
7 The Age Of Reason - (Your Love Is Like A) Magnet (North Bronx, NY, U.S.A.)
8 The Kommotions - Little Black Egg (Garland, TX, U.S.A.)
9 The Ugly Ducklings - She Ain't No Use To Me (Toronto, Canada)
10 The Groupies - Primitive (New York, NY, U.S.A.)
11 The Guys Who Came Up From Downstairs - Growth (Cedar Rapids, IA, U.S.A.)
12 Bram Rigg Set - I Can Only Give You Everything (North Haven, CT, U.S.A.)
13 Precious Few - The Train Kept A' Rollin' (Lynchburg, VA, U.S.A.)
14 Creation's Disciple - Psychedelic Retraction (Bronx, NY, U.S.A.)
15 Animal Jack - Gotta Hear The Beat (OH, U.S.A.)
16 Color - Down The Road Apiece (U.S.A.)
17 Color - Young Miss Larsen (U.S.A.)
18 Denis & The Times - Just If She's There (Norfolk, VA, U.S.A.)
19 Maltese - You Better Stop (KY, U.S.A.)
20 The Oscar Five - No More (U.S.A.)

Listen To Dr. Schluss' Glaze Of Cathexis and Damaged Tape

As I review more albums, I'd love for you to check out my own music and leave some comments to tell me what you think. The Glaze of Cathexis albums are my more psychedelic rock based offerings, while the Damaged Tape recordings are my journeys into electronica. Please have a listen!

Glaze of Cathexis

Glaze of Cathexis - 2011 - I Often Dream of the Apocalypse

Glaze of Cathexis - 2010 - Underground Sound

Glaze of Cathexis - 2009 - The Golden Konbanwa

Glaze of Cathexis - 2009 - Cloud Machine

Glaze of Cathexis - 2008 - The Visions Surround You

Glaze of Cathexis - 2008 - The Holographic Universe

Glaze of Cathexis - 2005 - Tokyo Rainbow Bridge

Glaze of Cathexis - 2003 - Visits Planet Earth

Damaged Tape

Damaged Tape & Andrew Bland - 2012 - Beyond the Ghost House

Damaged Tape -2011 - Nude Witchcraft EP

Damaged Tape - 2011 - Ambiguous Reality

Damaged Tape - 2010 - Beyond the Astral Labyrinth

Damaged Tape - 2009/2006 - The Erotic Couch/Cannibal Sisters Soundtrack

Damaged Tape - 2009 - Psychedelic Anthropology

Damaged Tape - 2008 - Ship of Lights

Damaged Tape - 2008 - Stone God

Damaged Tape - 2005 - Futara

Damaged Tape - 2004 - Electric Ocean