some crap from down under

ran across these dudes a bit ago while scouring youtube. i was hunting for only ones songs and you know how it goes on you tube, one thing leads to another...television addict by the victims:



here a fansite:
http://www.myspace.com/thevictimsau

singer went on to do hoodoo gurus. i liked them when i was 14. i like the victims more.

getting nostalgic

i forgot how good this record is compared to the stuff i've heard recently:


i kinda hate it when a band like this puts out an over-produced record. kills all their energy.

nobunny!

BA-BOOM!

THIS ONE IS FROM 2005 ON CHICA-GO-GO:


TALK ABOUT A PARTY ANIMAL

trans-linguistic garage snot

i don't really know much about jaques dutronc other than i've found some really catchy shit by him on you tube. i've kinda halfassedly looked for some of his records on ebay, but it hasn't gone father than that because i don't have any $$. oh well. maybe some of the other earwaxers can direct you to good and better stuff, but i dig this one a lot:

here's a myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/jacquesdutroncsongsblargh
listen to et moi et moi et moi

in that myspace there's a link to a wikipedia page.

church of the snake!

in provo on tuesday night!
with:
color club
and:
the boy who could fly!
here's bryan gomm's flyer:
http://compoundprovo.blogspot.com/

this one is for cassie s

haha. here's your japanese culture:

the mayyors

today is a sad sad day. RIP Jim Dickinson.

i have no clue where to start. i like making short posts on this blog, because most times you can get a good idea of what a band or singer is trying to do with one key song. it isn't that that one song can define the entire project of the band or person, but many times it gives you a way to orient yourself to where the band is from, or maybe an artistic philosophy they're working expressed in sound. i believe when you can understand, at least in some part, where they are coming from it can give you a better sense of where they are going. for me it opens up a space for reference. i think i really understood how this concept worked through reading about and hearing and seeing people like jim dickinson play music, or listen to the bands he recorded and produced, and not to mention the things he said about music. a large part, for me, of this information comes from robert gordons brilliant "nonfiction" book called "it came from memphis. go pick it up. if it wasn't for that book i don't think i would have immersed myself in the story of memphis music. and i wouldn't have really cared at all about people like jim dickinson or alex chilton or furry lewis or tav falco and i wouldn't have understood their importance to some of my favorite bands like the oblivians. it's funny how one person can create such an ariadne's thread. jim dickinson was kind of an embodiemtn of that idea. he had his hands in many many types of music and was involved in many many peoples lives. i only met him once, but he was one fo the few folks around that got me star struck. and he wasnt even a star. haha, the record industry hated him. he did what he wanted and was a maverick from the start. i hate knowing that a guy like him won't be around to fuck with the powers that be.
like i said at the beginning, i don't know where to start with his music, so i'll post my favorite song he was involved in:
i believe he was on piano