Tag Archive for 'bbc'

drop that zero and get with the hero

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gregor
on April 20, 2008
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hola, gaywads! hope everyone is enjoying their respective weekends. my 4 days off are coming to an abrupt end, with another 11 day stretch ahead of me. yeah.. hey mr. drunkard has the new my morning jacket “evil urges” available for your listening/downloading pleasure, here. i was, honestly, unimpressed with my first go around with it, but after a few more listens i am definitely diggin it - sounds almost like mmj fronted by prince. admittedly, i am still getting used to the more groove-centric mmj, as z did nothing for me the first 20 or so listens.

i am really liking this bowerbirds record, hymns for a dark horse. they remind me of early iron and wine, andrew bird and a more cohesive devendra banhart. check em out!

in our talons

bowerbirds site / myspace

i am surprised i never heard of the pedaljets during their “hey day” of the late 80’s - they called it quits in 1990. they apparently opened for the likes of the replacements, husker du, flaming lips, meat puppets, etc and even had a video on heavy rotation on the late, great mtv classic 120 minutes. i think that actually still runs, but i am sure its as inconsequential as it has been for the last 15+ years. anyway, when their self-titled record was released back in 89, the band was none to happy with its production. fastforward, 17 years and they band got back together and decided to re-do the record with the original masters. they even re-recruited my man archer prewitt(sea and cake, the coctails) to do the cover artwork - he did the original cover art back in 89. it’s being re-released via oxblood on 5.6.

agnes mind

place in the race

pedaljets myspace / oxblood

here is leonard cohen live on the bbc, broadcasted during the summer of 68. tracks 1 - 5 are from an 8.31 broadcast and 6 - 12 are from the 9.7 broadcast. i appear to be missing track 13, which is “one of us cannot be wrong.” anyone have it?

1. you know who i am

2. bird on the wire

3. the stranger

4. so long marianne

5. the master song

6. there’s no reason

7. sisters of mercy

8. the teacher

9. dress rehearsal rag

10. suzanne

11. that’s no way to say goodbye

12. the story of isaac

note to self: remember to get ass wart cream for giant wart on my ass

Published
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gregor
on April 4, 2008
in bootleg and shows
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dont have time for much today, for as this gets pushed out to the internets i will be most likely shopping for baby car seats or if i have any kind of luck enjoying a mid-afternoon beer. most likely its going to be the former though. only one month until we add number two into the van dyke clan. yeah… until tomorrow…

here is a radiohead boot commonly referred to as ground control to major thom. btw, apparently they set up some kind of social networking thingy.

tracks 1-10 recorded live @ hammerstein ballroom on 12.18.97

tracks 11-14 bbc radio one ‘evening session” recorded at maida vale studios, Llondon, 5.28.97

track 15-16 studio outtakes

1. karma police

2. the bends

3. exit music

4. subterranean homesick alien

5. my iron lung

6. no surprises

7. bones

8. paranoid android

9. fake plastic trees

10. street spirit

11. no surprises

12. talk show host

13. climbing up the walls

14. exit music

15. just

16. nobody does it better

much anger in him. like his father.

Published
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gregor
on November 23, 2007
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animal collective on the bbc, 11.19.07

doggy heylight

from a beach

on a highway

going fishing! holla!

he’s out..you’re out too..and i don’t think i’m in either!

Published
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gregor
on May 6, 2007
in neil young, photography, shows and tunes
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so, as of late i have been messing around with photography. i have always been really inspired by photos and i wanted to try my hand at it. i had some extra amazon money to spend so i went and purchased this camera. for those too lazy or dont care enough to click on that link, its a panasonic dmc lz7, 7.2 mp with 6x optical zoom. granted its not the top of the line but the specs are great and i figured i can take at least good if not great pics with it. since i know very little about the world of photography - see taking good photos - i was hoping one of you fine readers could point me in the right direction as i attempt to venture forth. any good sites to visit with tips and stuff?

taking a break from the bedhead series, here is neil young performing on the bbc in 1972 shortly after the release of harvest.

1. out on the weekend

2. old man

3. journey thru the past

4. heart of gold

5. dont let it bring you down

6. a man needs a maid

7. love in mind

8. see the girl dance

we’re gettin the band back together

Published
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gregor
on January 11, 2007
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i like radiohead quite a bit, but i never got why people go apeshit over them. they remind me of a sitcom that i never go out of my way to watch, but when i do catch it, i enjoy it quite a bit. my one problem with them is that the music is too cold for me to make an emotional connection. this is not to say i need to make these kind of connections with every band, but with a band i like this much, i wish it were possible. the only record i really dont dig all the much is the much beloved and highly overrated, ok computer. me thinks hail to the thief or the bends are my favorite radiohead records, although i dig kid a quite a bit. i love the dreamy pop of the bends, especially “fake plastic trees,” and “high and dry.” i have yet to hear any of their new stuff, but i am sure it will be gobbled up, even by yours truly.

here is a 2001 bbc recording - nice stuff.

1. national anthem

2. morning bell

3. lucky

4. packt like sardines

5. no suprises

6. dollars & cents

7. life in a glass house

8. exit music

9. i might be wrong

10. street spirit

11. paranoid android

12. idioteque

13. everything in its right place

The Bends Kid A Hail To The Thief

damn you engadget! pavement on the bbc

Published
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gregor
on November 12, 2006
in pavement, shows, techno-babble and tunes
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i stole this photo from engadget, which as i have stated before is the best site, technology or otherwise on the net. one of the many things that i love about engadget is that the staffs collective writing style is very conversational, and they dont get too technical just to prove they can - see boring as hell and really quite pompus. the past weeks visits to engadget have ben a bit painful though. with all the ps3, wii and zune it made me realize that my pocketbook doesnt match my technological aspirations/wants. regarding the zune, i dont want one but i still would love to play with it. i found this tid bit of information pretty funny. in order to install the zune you must register it first - which is totally insane if you ask me. i dont believe that apple requires this, do they? apparently, a zune was purchased a couple of days early at some mega retailer and when they went to install it they kept getting errors. as it turns out in order to install the software it must connect to the zune servers/database which are not up yet because the zune has yet to be officially released. i think that its a fair assumption that the zune is going to bomb.

my wife and i have been together for almost 9 years, and in that time there has not been a week that has gone by that i have not listened to a pavement record in her presence. it has not been until recently that she has finally started sharing my love, of pavement that is. dont know what the hell changed in her brain, but damn bitches be crazy.

this can now be found here

here is a pavement bbc radio show from 99

1. the hexx

2. you are the light

3. here

4. cream of gold

5. ann dont cry

6. stereo

7. father to a sister of thought

8. carrot rope

9. cut your hair

10. trigger cut

11. shady lane

ok, here is a question i am posing to your dear person(s) i have heard some rumblings that its a pain in the ass to download each individual track especially when a post contains more than 10 tracks.? would you prefer that i provide a link to a .rar file that contains all the tracks? keep in mind that i am fairly lazy, so maybe what i will do then is only provide a couple of track direct links, but the also provide the .rar file. let me know if you care.