oh, weezer (insert sad face.) you came so far, so fast only to fall even farther, even faster.
here are some pinkerton demos.
1. why bother
2. getchoo
3. no other one
4. tired of sex
5. devotion
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photo by steve caraway
the new hayden, in town and field, came out last week, or i guess two weeks ago, but i finally gotten around to checkin it out over the weekend. after a few listens, i can confidently say that this is definitely one of his, if not his best. his on going slide into neil young on the beach/after the gold rush territory is really strong with this record.
hayden site
whilst, on hayden’s hardwood records site i came across this little candian vixen, basia bulat. she’s got a real 60’s songstress quality to her voice, which i very much appreciate. the music, at least this track, is upbeat if not a little quirky. again, fine with me. her oh, my darling comes out on rough trade on 2.5.08
basia bulat myspace
admittedly, i have never been a big fan of the who. mostly, due to the fact that i have never tried - although, like a lot of bands, i plan on it. anyway, my man paul brought this set of who demos/rehearsals to my attention called the punk meets the godfather. click the link for more info. anyway, some very cool stuff, including the almost 12 minute, “baba o’riley.” thanks again, paul.
1. the real me
4. im the one
6. bell boy
7. cut my hair
8. brrr
9. drowned
10. im the one
11. pure and easy
12. baba o’riley
top of the morning all. i scoured the internets and couldnt come up with any info that would lead me to believe that these white album demos were ever released. so, i feel fairly confident that i should be ok with posting these. i believe they also go by the name of the kinfauns demos. more info can be found here.
1. intro
2. cry baby cry
4. the continuing story of bungalo bill
5. im so tired
6. yer blues
7. everybody got something to hide..
9. revolution
10. while my guitar gently weeps
11. circles
12. sour milk sea
13. not guilty
14. piggies
15. julia
16. blackbird
17. rocky raccoon
18. back in the ussr
19. honey pie
22. junk
23. dear prudence
24. sexy sadie
26. rishikesh no 9
top of the evening. here are a bunch of bad religion demos. i dont have any info on the lineage, but if anyone has any idea let me know.
this can now be found here
1. do what you want (acoustic)
2. suffer (acoustic)
3. 1000 more fools (acoustic)
4. no control
5. change of ideas and anxiety
6. you
7. billy
9. generator
11. atomic garden
12. fertile crescent
13. kerosene
14. incomplete
16. infected
17. hooray for me
18. marked
stranger than fiction
los angeles is burning
in an interesting turn of events, the captains dead compound will soon, in 7 months, have a new member. thats right, my bride is expecting our second child. just when i thought i was just about done wiping ass and making vain attempts at explaing the universe, i get pulled right back in. this is all from a guy and a gal that never expected to have one, let alone two. i blame my wife! i told her that if she wasnt such a slut we wouldnt be having these little happy accidents. she laughed. no, seriously she did.
in other news, i am unfortunately going to have to start deleting a lot of older stuff. this is due to quite a few pains in my ass that refuse to stop the leeching. i am blowing through about 20 gigs a day when i should only do about 5. so, anything older than 4 months old will be going away over the next few days. there will be no way for me to recover this stuff cause i just dont have the time to download everything. its just much easier to delete the stuff.
how awesome would it be to live in a tree house?
half way through listening to former athenian phosphorescent’s pride, i got this weird vision in my head that i was sitting in some church and a through the black couds shown a light directly on me, kinda like what happened to jake in the blues brothers. pride has this really strange, but uplifting, other worldly quality that is hard to deny. there is something very church like about pride. the vocals seem to reach to the heavens, but the music seems to be from the dirt - if that makes any sense. pride is one of those special kinda records that you dont want to share with anyone, but want to preach to the masses about from the top of a mountain. not to sound overly queer, but pride left me kinda stunned. i wasnt expecting this at all and i actually sat there motionless for a few moments once it was finished. that is something that hasnt happened since my first listen to bee thousand - which happens to be my favorite record of all time. if i dont listen to another record this year that would probably be ok with me. as a reference point, i would say that pride is part graceland era paul simon, beach boys’ pet sounds and will oldham’s ease on down the road.
pride is being released on oct 23 - i believe. he’s currently doing a bunch of shows, so check his myspace page for details.
a picture of our torn up praise
daytrotter has an interview with matthhew houck, who is phosphorescent, and in typical daytrotter fashion have a couple of live tracks available.
phosphorescent myspace
i found this pumpkins bootleg the other day and found it to be kinda cool. i dont know much about it but its entitled “may we have a record contract, please.” according to some sources this is a demo collection circa 1989 which is pre gish.
1. honeyspider (alternate)
2. with you
3. egg
4. rhinoceros (alternate)
5. bye june
7. daughter
8. daydream
9. psychodelic
10. bury me
11. daydream
12. not worth asking
13. honeyspider
14. rhinoceros
15. snap
16. love (old demo)
17. c’mon
i want one of these, really badly. if you are wondering what it is, it is a darth vader lamp. duh! the face looks like a piece of rootbeer flavored hard candy, yum, and his helmet looks like its made of evil sequins. all of which makes it even the more awesomer! want one? click here
sadly, lucy’s fur coat is just one band in a long line of many san diego based bands that have gone the way of the cassette tape. during the early - mid 90’s it seemed like their was just a shitload of great bands comin out of san diego. then after a year or so they just rolled out like a fog, never to be heard from again. the music, on the other hand, was kinda like teenage love makin. hard, fast and no style, but thats what made em great. lucy’s fur coat’s jaundice is what i would catagorize as the epitome of the san diego scene - at least from the outside looking in. the record is a hot mess and sounds like it was recorded over a long weekend that included, but not limited to copious amounts of beer and weed… its absolutely glorious though.
luckily for you, the gentelmen of lucys fur coat have both of their records available for download free o’ charge.
lucy’s fur coat site
now these things have been passed around so much you can drive a truck through em - if you are pickin up what i am putting down. i had accidentally deleted mine a few years back and when they showed up on dime the other day i had to get em. not as cool as the yankee hotel foxtrot demos but still pretty great stuff.
here are the summerteeth demos by the greatest band to ever be featured in a vw commericial, wilco…
4. candyfloss
7. shes a jar
10. via chicago
11. elt
12. my darling
13. in a future age
i am still having a hard time dealing with the recent booting off of sam on bret michaels rock of love. sure, she had a seemingly endless amount of trust issues, was white as a bob barker’s hair and had that funky gap tooth but she was cute as hell. meh, he doesnt deserve her anyway. i am sure he will end up picking heather the 32 going on 52 year old. she’s dang nasty in every conceivable definition of the word. i wouldnt even fuck her with your dick.
anyone seen once yet? i hear that its supposed to be quite wonderful.
btw, if you werent aware, senor jobs is announcing a slew of ipod stuff today, actually like right now. he’s already announced a new widescreen nano. check engadget for developing details.
i have to admit, atlanta’s gringo star’s name really annoys me. the music’s good, the name not so much. so the quandry that lays ahead of me is how can i respect a band’s music if i dont respect the name that they have chosen to share with the world? it reminds me of a high fidelity type question. anyway, like i said their music is pretty damn good and really thats all that matters. even if i have a hard time letting name roll off my tounge without grimacing, but i digress. if you are a lover of 60’s era kinks, or that oozie pop goodness that only big star can provide then the southern gentlemen of gringo star should put you into some kinda saccharin, with a splash of whiskey, induced haze
their self titled debut record is out now, i believe
gringo star myspace
sticking with my issue with band names, chicago’s head of femur gets the award for most misleading. to me, head of femur sounds like a name reserved for goth or death metal band. throw in “bloody” or “black” in front of their name and there you have it! i dont want to mislead cause i actually dig their name. what about the music you ask? im gettin there, dont rush me. they are actually kinda hard to describe, intelligently. the title track off their upcoming leader and the falcon ep, due on 10.2, starts off with a springsteen-esque tickling of the ivories then they break into e6 inspired harmonies - thats all within the first 10 seconds. from there its just good ol’ smart pop that will definitely illude the masses. call me absolutely crazy, but one thing i keep hearing throughout is the escape club’s “wild, wild west.” am i the only one?
they are doing a short tour. make sure to check their myspace page for dates.
elliot guild is in california split from hysterical stars
head of femur myspace
if you havent checked out the mabuses as of yet please do so. their debut mabused is freakin great. if you are a fan of supper furry animals, olivia tremor control/circulatory system, etc definitely check em out.
the mabuses myspace
i dont give enough damn love to matthew sweet thats for sure. he singlehandedly changed the way i look/listen to pop music with the release of the classic girlfriend and the often misunderstood, but no less brilliant altered beast. here are the demos to the latter; a set commonly referred to as superdeformed.
