Monthly Archive for April, 2006Page 2 of 13
as it turns out, steve is not dead. he’s just badly injured, and apparently horribly disfigured. frankly, he is not wanted around these parts anymore if he’s any uglier. i am sure i would lose my lunch if that were the case.
one thing we love doing here at hq is going through old cd boxes that we haven’t looked at in years. since we are almost completely digital now, we really dont have any need to look through these boxes that often. every once in awhile though, we get bored and need something to do.
a record that i used to love that was pulled out of the wreckage is tempe’s dead hot workshop’s 1001. i am not ashamed to say that i loved the gin blossom’s new miserable experience, and dead hot workshop is in the same vein. while new miserable experience was pure pop bliss, 1001 is a wee bit dirtier and not as poppy, but just as good in it’s own right. after that record though, they seemed to have fallen off the map. as it turns out they have put out two more records, that i cannot vouch for, but the mp3’s on their site sound pretty all right.
steve, the intern, is dead. long live steve!!!!
it should come to no surprise that being of the early 30’s demographic that i am, one of my favorite, if not my favorite, bands is pavement. depending on the day it fluctuates between pavement, guided by voices, superchunk, wilco and a few others. it’s sad to admit, but i am an aging hipster. one day i woke up and was married, had a mortgage, two car payments, and a wee lad. all of this and i still feel like i am 15, at least mentally. dont think it wont happen to you, people!
hearing slanted and enchanted for the first time struck me the same way as it takes a nation of millions. it was a glorious racket that was an absolute mess, not unlike my life at the time. it sounded as if everything could fall apart at any moment, but they kept on moving forward regardless. it truly was a life affirming record. if i thought that slanted and enchanted was life affirming, then crooked rain was life changing. we’ll touch on that at a later date.
pavement
missoula, mt
4.21.97
in other news.
why does american apparel ads use such big breasted women?? they taunt me.
a great pavement show from 97 in montanta
picking up where we left off with the spoon stuff
bands i totally forgot about, pt 2
mp3 o’ the day
probably my favorite song of the year, from one of the best records of the year, rabbit fur coat by jenny lewis and the watson twins.
rise up with fists - live
we here at captainsdead.com are much like elephants in the fact that we never forget, nor do we ever forgive. we once met a guy that ruined it for the rest of man kind, or anyone that happens to carry this certain trait. he was what we called a fucking know it all. oh man, you could not tell this guy nothing. he had some crazy, and i mean crazy, crackpot ideas on stuff. off the wall ideas are good, half baked crazy ideas not so good. which brings me around to that one trait. he was a carrier of the white guy with dreads disease, or trustafarian disease. since then i have been unable to trust any guy inflicted with this disease.
so, given the history here, i should be very wary of orlando’s the wynn brothers. its a shame, too, that i saw thomas wynn’s photo before actually listening. god damn you myspace! as you probably figured out by now, i actually did listen, but pictured the lead singer looking like don knotts - dont ask me why. to my surprise, the wynn bros, are pretty damn good. if you are in the market for allman bros flavored rock, then these guys will itch where right you scratch. they sound like a band from a different time and place, completely outta step with todays musical landscape. landscapes be damned!
these are streams, btw.
