Mike Lupica:
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from August 26, 2003
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from August 26, 2003
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| Artist | Track | Album | Comments | New |
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| In keeping with my newfound hatred of internet blogs, (joining my older, more established hatreds of television, forced eccentricities, the band YES, and Arsenio Hall) I have decided to change the nature of the comments on this week's playlist. Any interesting anecdotes to share about the bands/songs that were played are included. One liners, parlor tricks, nickel gags, and most links have been axed. Stories about what I did this week are also axed. I have suddenly decided to become a very private person, and really, odds are that you don't care what happened when I went to see "Saturday Night Fever" in Bay Ridge on Thursday night, or what my sister and I did when we hung out on Saturday. | ||||
| Halo Benders | Virginia Reel Around the Fountain | The Rebel's Not In | I forgot that I actually used to like Built to Spill. Their first album, inparticular -- the one on C/Z Records that I loaned to nobody and then nobody ever gave it back to me. And what about Doug Martsch's older band, the late lamented Treepeople? I always felt like Doug gave those bandmates a royal dis by trotting off and becoming an indie rock star without them, when the Treepeople were in fact a perfectly fantastic band in their own right. See, you can't trust anybody anymore. Calvin Johnson, on the other hand, I have few interesting opinions on. I saw Beat Happening once and liked his on-stage aerobics more than his singing. | |
| Swell | Come Tomorrow | Bastards & Rarities | * | |
| Nappy Roots | Good God Almighty | Wooden Leather | * | |
| Screaming Trees | Transfiguration | Even if and Especially When | ||
| Mickey Jupp | You'll Never Get me Up in one of those | Juppanese | ||
| Puffy | Long Beach Nightmare | Nice | * | |
| Janis Joplin | Me & Bobby McGee | Pearl | ||
| Hanoi Rocks | Malibu Beach Nightmare | Back to Mystery City | ||
| Skunk | Rosie | Last American Virgin | I forgot to mention that I used to have a long-running (like 10 years) argument with two friends who insisted that Skunk sounded exactly like old Soul Asylum, to the point where they would tease me for refusing to admit it. The truth of the matter is that I never liked Soul Asylum, then or now, and I didn't like anybody pissing on my Jersey band pride parade. Making it worse is that these two jokers were from BOSTON of all places, a city that encouraged the band Hullabaloo to record multiple albums. | |
| Listener | FYI | Whispermoon | * | |
| Knaughty Knights | Connection | split 7" w/ Wildebeests | As stated, I think this band has some affiliation with Jay Reatard -- a notorious, beer-swilling delinquent from Memphis. You've got to respect and admire a guy whom you hear ABOUT before you actually hear his music... In Jay's case, a woman at his old record label once told about something he did with a German stripper and a bottle of wine that was so upsetting to me, I've never been quite the same man since. I know what you're thinking it was that he did, and believe me, it's even worse than THAT. | * |
| Bobby Fuller 4 | Magic Touch | Best of... | ||
| Dizzee Rascal | Fix up, Look Sharp | Boy in da Corner | Screw the cat, this is awesome. Billy Squier samples have been a long time coming, damnit. Either this wipes bling bling off the face of the planet, or I'm sending a memo to management. | * |
| The Juan MacLean | Give me Every Little Thing | split CD w/ the Rapture | * | |
| FB | One of them all | Teutonik Disaster Vol. 2 | compilation | * |
| Scratch Acid | Damned for All Time | Just Keep Eating | Scratch Acid later became known as the Jesus Lizard, a band that was notorious for featuring a frontman who would take his trousers down on stage nearly every night. Many hundreds of years ago, I was taken to see this band by my then-girlfriend as a 21st birthday gift, following a then-perceived-as-fancy dinner at TGI Fridays. Funny how your tastes change when you get older. I'm not sure which I find less appealing now; a Jesus Lizard concert or the cheddar potato skins from Friday's salad bar. To say nothing of taking down my trousers at a rock concert. | |
| Public Enemy | You're Gonna Get Yours | Yo! Bum Rush the Show | ||
| Kraut | New Law | Wheting the Scythe | ||
| The Genies | Know what to do when you get it | Funk Soul Sisters | compilation | * |
| Dionne Warwick | We Can Work it Out | Soulful | ||
| Fannypack | Boomin' System | So Stylistic | * | |
| Mortals | Atomic Cocktail | Last Time Around | ||
| Al Perry | Glue Sniffin' Revival | The Now Sound | compilation | |
| David Lee Roth | I'm Tired | Diamond Dave | Savoy Brown cover | * |
| True Believers | Accept It | 7" | ||
| Brother JT | Brother Brother | Hang in there Baby | * | |
| Kris Fucking Kristofferson | Stranger | Songs of Kristofferson | ||
| David Kilgour | Today is Gonna be Mine | Feather in the Engine | ||
| Iggy Pop | Pumpin' for Jill | Party | ||
| Omid (feat. Spoon of Iodine) | I'm Just a Bill | Monolith | * | |
| Outkast | Hey Ya! | * | ||
| T-Love | Intellectual Proptease | Long Way Back | * | |
| Glass Candy | Cold Party | Demos June 2003 | I (briefly) looked for the Playboy article about the sexiest babes in indie rock, for which Ida No of Glass Candy was a contestant, but it seems to have been taken down. Here is an article from a DC paper that explains the results, however. Disclaimer #1) I am only peripherally interested in indie rock, and by default, those who are alleged to be its' hottest babes. Disclaimer #2) Someone from that band Rainer Maria was nominated. I saw them at Brownies once and recall disliking them so much that I was far more interested in leaving the club immediately than I was in seeing any member of said band naked. Disclaimer #3) Aren't these things always rigged, anyway? | * |
| Country Teasers | Wizmo! | Secret Weapons Revealed at Last | * | |
| Kazumoto Endo | Gimme Gimme Gimme (a Man after Midnight) | Masters of the Scene | Tribute compilation to ABBA | * |
| Dynasty | Amy's Song | Dynasty | * | |
| Cheap Trick | Low Life in High Heels | Special One | * | |
| Dickies | Fan Mail | Dawn of the Dickies | ||
| Bill Tatman and the Rampagers | What's Wrong with You? | Teenage Shutdown: MOVE IT! | compilation | |
| Lili Z | Guess Who I Am | 10" EP | ||
| The Law | Shriner's Holiday | |||
| Jesters of Destiny | Last Night | Fun at the Funeral | ||
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