What are you listening to right now?

[thurnundtaxis]

Jarvis Cocker - Running the World

[Seamus OBlimey]

Mojo

[Seamus OBlimey]

Uni Sono-st,LP,1975,Finnland

[Sweejak]

TNT trailer.

Bo Diddley and the Bo-ettes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfF_Ygwd0xQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBAJXyF1HVc

[erosoplier]

Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin

Beth Orton Stolen Car

The Chemical Brothers - The pills won't help you now

[compared2what?]

Shangri-La -- The Kinks

A song that not only should be played at a very high volume to begin with, but also one that should turned up a few more notches each time its stunning greatness occurs to you afresh as you listen to it.

Because it just keeps sounding better louder. And there's nothing I can do about that. So address your complaints to Ray Davies.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

Rush - 2112 Overatue/Temples of Syrinx

[MacCruiskeen]

The Kinks - "Days" - '69

[barracuda]

Ice T - The Girl Tried To Kill Me

Eminem & Jacknife Lee - Cleaning out My Closet (remix)

[MacCruiskeen]

Primal Scream - Movin' On Up

[MacCruiskeen]

Terminal ecstasy in open-top vehicles in the North of England, Part 1:

The Teardrop Explodes: 'Reward' (Original video, 1981)

"Bless my cotton socks, I'm in the news..."

Terminal ecstasy in open-top vehicles in the North of England, Part 2:

Carmel: 'More More More' (Original video, 1984)

[compared2what?]

Funny thing that "The Girl Tried To Kill Me" is by any standard other than conventional a truer love song than "Days." Which is not to say that "Days" is not one of my most cherished Kinks songs. It is. And in either '78 or '79, I somehow scammed first row tickets to a Kinks show in a small-ish college venue, during which I was so overwhelmed by the sheer beauty of the song (and possibly also the LSD I was tripping my brains out on) that in order to demonstrate my appreciation for his work, I grabbed Ray Davies's ankles while he was singing it. He looked startled, and moved a little farther back on the stage. About twenty years or so later, I had a not-very-enjoyable but fairly extensive conversation with him at what you would have to call a Professional Function. I considered bringing up the circumstances of our earlier encounter, but decided to err on the side of caution, since he really didn't seem very inclined to like or trust or even wish to continue talking with me to begin with and, in fact, departed from my company as soon as he was at liberty to do so. But he has kind of a reputation for running either hot or cold as the mood takes him anyway, conversationally speaking. So I didn't take it personally.

Plus: Poor Marshall Mathers. It must be awful to have something so close to a limitless talent, and yet be so very ill-suited to life in the public eye that the more he expresses it, the more limited his ability to express it becomes. There are, of course, many more luckless people than he, equivalently damaged beyond repair early in life. He just happens to be more visible than they are. As well as more vocal. Oh, well. I just hope Hailey doesn't end up being as monstrously destructive of self and others as her progenitors. Though it's probably not a very realistic hope. Sigh.

Still. I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish.


David Watts -- The Kinks

God's Children -- The Kinks

It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World -- James Brown

Ya think Ray Davies may have heard "Man's World" at some point between its release in 1966 and the time he wrote "God's Children," which came out in '71? I sometimes wonder. Idly. Because it would be fair use, and possibly even homage, rather than plagiarism, if so. I just enjoy idle thought.

[Truth4Youth]

Revolting Cocks - Sergio

Wet/hate hands admitted,
and...
Through dead nails,
All splitting sand...

Underneath it's strychnine
Winds that change are never seen,
Beasts that back to the wall and cry,
Best of the hopeless never die.

For gods' sake forget to speak,
Miles of what you've got to eat...

Terminal, the playgroup says,
Off to the side with an average,
Blaming the dolls like heretics,
Apostles or inebriates.

Hold on tight,
We're going to wake,

Laugh to death
For pities sake,

Framed for crimes that are never sold
Lies and secrets never been told,
Look just like the two of us,
Standing at the terminus.

[Truth4Youth]

Album: The Big Problem Does Not Equal the Solution
Artist: Crispin Glover

http://miinsane.blogspot.com/2007/12/cr ... oblem.html

Weird shit...

[marmot]

I'm presently listening to one of my favorite Sonic Youth where they're doing a cover of the Carpenters Superstar:

Sonic Youth---Superstar 1994

Carpenters---Superstar 1971