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That’s right people. It is time to celebrate a man’s death by consuming mass amounts of alcohol. Who cares how long it actually took for Patrick to become ordained (he was 60 when he returned bringing Christianity and snake repelant to Ireland), let’s toss a Jameson into a half a Guinness, and slam the whole thing down. That is how you honor someone’s death… well, that is what I’ll be doin’. Actually, I am going to take it easy because I have a soccer game the following day. I am a Denver Free Agent, 3rd division, over thirty, amateur. This is the first game of the season, and I can’t wait to play. We have practiced once, will repeat tomorrow, and with luck, the team we are playing will be as out-of-shape as us. Sadly, there are only two possible outcomes: a humiliating loss or a painful win. And sadly again, I am leaning towards the former. I am in shape, but rusty, whereas is everyone else . I am in the CSSA, the most organized amateur group in the world. I had to get an ID card, and get this– we’re not allowed to curse. I am going to lose all my money, because Red cards are a $30 fine. Fuck that. Fuck that cock-sucking, mother-fucking, steaming pile of bullshit! Every time I fuck up on the field, which is often, I say, “Shit”! I say it as Eddie Murphy said in his routine about white people saying shit, with an emphasis on the ssshhh and a strong accent on the t sound. “ShhhiT, shhhiT. Stop fuckin’ pushing me, man!” –EM. It rolls out of my mouth like CO2, naturally.
Man Man is coming. I can buy their album at the show. I always like doing this, as I feel that they get more money this way. Ratatat are comin' too! And saint's be praised, Animal Collective are headed up.
Well, I have something to do, so I’ll post some pictures later at Flickr of my game. They won’t be pretty, but what is?

looking for these

I'ma lookin' for these albums, also. If they float by your river or pond, pick them up and throw them to Denver. I'll dig through the trash, and play them for my neighbors. They'll love it.

Skip Spence– OAR
Jacques Berrocal– Parallèls

Thanks

AMSG

"The man that hath no music in himself…Let no such man be trusted." –Shakespeare .

1. Raymond Scott– Powerhouse. The Raymond Scott Project, Vol. 1
2. Swell Maps– Collision Time Revisited or Train Out of It
3. Lucinda Williams– Lucinda Williams
4. Smog– Sewn to the Sky
5. Wynonie Harris– Good Rocking Tonight
6. A.R. Kane– Up Home! or 69
7. The Chills– Kaleidoscope World
8. The Embarrassment– Retrospective or LP or Heyday
9. Halo of Flies– Four From the Bottom or Singles Going Nowhere
10. Randy Holden– Population II
11. Sun City Girls– Torch of the Mystics
12. Martin Newell– The Greatest Living Englishmen
13. Antipop Consortium– Arrhythmia
14. Biz Markie– Goin’ Off
15. Freestyle Fellowship– Inner City Griots
16. Boogie Down Productions– By All Means Necessary
17. Brand Nubian– One For All
18. Company Flow– Funcrusher Plus
19. The Coup– Steal This Album
20. Das EFX– Dead Serious
21. The D.O.C.– No One Can Do It Better
22. Ed O.G. & The Bulldogs– Life of a Kid in the Ghetto
23. Edan– Primitive Plus
24. The Egyptian Lover– On The Nile
25. The Herbaliser– Blow Your Headphones
26. Jungle Brothers– Straight Out the Jungle
27. Kid Koala– Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
28. Leaders Of The New School– A Future Without the Past
29. Main Source– Breaking Atoms
30. Organized Konfusion– Organized Konfusion
31. Restiform Bodies– Restiform Bodies
32. Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth– Mecca and the Soul Brother
33. 7L & Esoteric– Soul Purpose
34. Stetsasonic– In Full Gear
35. I-Roy– Ten Commandments
36. Four Tet– Dialogue
37. Animal Collective– Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished/Danse Manatee or Hear Comes the Indian
38. Dangerdoom– The Mouse and the Mask
39. Princess Superstar– My Machine
40. Plastic Bertrand– Ça Plane Pour Moi
41. Wolfmother– Wolfmother
42. The Fags– Light ‘Em Up
43. Yeah Yeah Yeahs– Show Your Bones
44. Ratatat– Classics
45. Teenage Fanclub– Grand Prix or Songs From Northern Britain
46. Soup Dragons– Hang-Ten!
47. Inspiral Carpets– Life
48. The Goodnight Loving– Cemetery Trails
49. Girl Talk– Night Ripper
50. Mannequin Men– Showbiz Witch
51. Man Man– Six Demon Bag
52. …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of the Dead– So Divided
    

And on, and on, and on….

There is no particular order to this list. This is my third, known list, and probably my last one. It is in a quality notebook, it isn’t full of impossible wants, and it isn’t too, too long. As I find things, I’ll come back and cross them off.

Quick MP3

Explosions In the Sky- Catastrophe And The Cure (Four Tet Remix)

Here is an MP3 for all sixteen of you. Enjoy.

"I got that Joy, Joy, Joy, down in my heart..."- Rod and Todd Flanders

I had some spare time (ha!) and ventured out to Jerry’s Records Exchange on Colfax. I first heard about this place from Thurston Moore, singer for Sonic Youth, when they opened for REM at Fiddler’s Green, or now known as, Coors Amphitheater. He stated quite plainly, “You should go there.” So I did and do.[1] Jerry’s was the first place I bought my Krautrock albums, my first LP bootlegs by Magazine and Robyn Hitchcock, and a place where I go when I need a lot of friends.
Record flipping, or digging, is a slower process than CD’s. When I go to Cheapo Discs, even I am amazed at how fast individuals can peruse the CD racks. I mean, what happens when they blink. There has to be a gem or two lost because of the fury they search with. With Jerry’s, I slow my roll, I glance and view. Sometimes, certain albums just have an interesting look to them. I don’t recall the author, but someone once said to, “…look for albums from the seventies with black and white members who all look to have taken acid. These albums have the best music in them…” and this is a focal factor I apply to records. I kind of have Jerry’s Records memorized, and I don’t go all through all the racks as often anymore, but I defiantly hit up the “New Music” sections without a second thought. I found two gems, even though they weren’t on my list, I still wanted them. Plus, they were inexpensive, and that is a beautiful thing.
I got L.L. Cool J’s “Going Back To Cali” single for $8. Do you remember this video? It has Martha Quinn a former VJ in it. I’ll link a YouTube video for you to view if you need further recollection here. I also got a Neal Pollack CD titled, “Never Mind The Pollacks”, for $3.50. I just got this book for Xmas and didn’t know there was an album accompaniment. But here it is, and this forced me to start reading the book. I am in love with both items, now. If you haven’t already, go and read the book and buy the album. You will feel well just supporting a fine slice of literature and music. Plus you will be as cool as me, and you can tell people that you know a guy who met Elvis, and didn’t sue Elvis when he ran over and killed his father.[2]
And since I was close by, I went to Wax Trax. The woman behind the counter was plying Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and I told her, “This is my favorite divorce album."

She looked me and asked, “What is your second favorite, then?”
“Shoot out the Lights”, I said.

She laughed and rolled her eyes at me. I’m glad that I didn’t have to state another one, because I don’t know of any other’s, anyway.
At Wax I found two more LP’s, again not from my list (This list that I keep speaking of, I’ll place it here later on. It is an endless list that grows just as fast as I kill it off. It is a snake head eating the other side, but acquiring nutrition from its own body…therefore growing with each…segment…swallowed…? Yeah, that’s it.) Anyway, I got the single for “Ball of Confusion” by Love And Rockets for $4.00 and Killing Joke’s Night Time for $4.00, as well.
I love Love And Rockets cover of The Temptations song. I am surprised The Temptations only put this on a greatest hits compilation without it being the lead track on a sure to be great album. But, what the fuck do I know. To be honest, I didn’t know it was a cover until I heard the song in a Red Robin restaurant, when I was a lad. (I had a recorded version of this album, and there wasn’t any credit information on the blank cassette, except for the titles, so I couldn’t have known Daniel Ash and David J. didn’t write it.) I was fifteen, out with my parents returning from a soccer game, way the hell out in Colorado Springs, and The Temptations version came on. I told my parents, “This band is covering Love And Rockets, this is their song.” My parents laughed at my naivety, and I pleaded ignorance not stupidity. I still plead this. Killing Joke made some good albums, but if you know about Nirvana, then you may know why I got Night Time. I had only heard Killing Joke’s song once on KTCL a long, long time ago, but I can hear with certainty why Nirvana took the baseline from “Eighties” and used it for “Come As You Are”. This is also the first thing I learned to play on a guitar, the Nirvana version, that is.[3] Now, I did buy the album for the one song, originally, but I am quite pleased with how it sounds, and I will have to venture for more Killing Joke albums, adding to my stupid list, yet again.

[1] I also remember Michael Stipe telling a girl, in the front row, that she should wash the patchouli she had drenched herself in, because, “It stinks”. I laughed and laughed. It was beautiful. Mr. Stipe does have a sense of humor, be it small in reserve and scope, but there nevertheless.
[2] This is a book of “historical fiction” with true names and events, so this is an example of the fiction. Go read this book!
[3] The cartoon Daria, her best friend Jane, who’s brother Trent; he would play that opening line over and over as well. I won’t dig up the cartoon for proof, but just trust me, it is true.

Searching

I should be finishing homework, but I can’t get this song out of my head. The song “Today” from Tom Scott and The California Dreamers: It was killing me, because I knew I had it somewhere amongst my collection. I started digging, looking up older albums, searching song titles, everything futile considering the fact that this needle wasn’t going to just appear in my stacks and stacks of Records, CD’s and Tapes. But just because something doesn’t work, I don’t stop trying in hopes it someday will.
I heard this song on the end of a Boondocks cartoon. It was the particular episode about Riley Freeman spraying graffiti around his neighborhood. At the very end of the episode, there is a police chase and that song played in the background. I love the scene, and the music choice was a perfect accent for creativity. So I watched the episode over and over. I put my ear up close to the speaker and made out these lyrics, “To be living for you is all I want to do”. It was clear, it was credible, and now I just had to find the song from whence it came from. Ha! This is easier said than done. Tons of sights claim they can find any song you want, even with the fewest possible lyrics. Bullshit. Every site I typed on came up with nothing. There was even one sight that claimed it could find the song just by tapping the rhythm onto the keyboard. I didn’t bother even trying. Finally though, I found the song. Thank the internet gods for lyricsfly. They produced the answer upon my first try. They earned a bookmark from me, certainly. Jefferson Airplane, from their second album, Surrealistic Pillow.I don’t really like this album, even though I stole it from my Father (before he gave me his collection, anyway) and I just don’t get the “five star” rating from AMG and the rank of #146 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums Ever, but whatever, it contained the song I was looking for, titled “Today”. The correct song, the wrong artist, though. I just had to find out who covered this song, and can you believe it? There is not a website solely dedicated to artist’s that have covered Jefferson Airplane songs. Come on, man. There is a site for ridding American currency of the dime, but not for what I needed. So I just kept typing things into Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and this goofy page came up. I should write to him and confirm his belief that the song is in fact, a Jefferson Airplane cover, but it did what I wanted, and now I have what I wanted. I just need you guys to go out and purchase me this album. It has “Today” by Tom Scott. I’ll burn you a copy when you do, okay? Thanks.

New Music for today, January 2nd, 2007

I had a little spending money left from the holidays and went out for a slight spurge at Second Spin in the hopes of knocking off music from my undying list of albums to own. I got three from my list and Second Spin have a buy three get one free sale goin’ on, so I purchased one for fun that isn’t on my list, but is certainly a very popular album at that. I only shelled out twenty-two dollars and 37 cents, so my guilt is slight and justified for buying anything when I still am unemployed. Here is what I bought:

Mountain Con- The MC Stands For Revolution. “What? You haven’t heard of this group, and you don’t own this album?” is what I would have been asking myself before today, and what I shall ask people after, forever now on. You certainly hear the Tom Rothrock influence over the whole album. It makes me want to go and purchase Tom’s album Resonator. I will, but for now, this Mountain Con album has already played twice in my car, and I even sat in the parking lot of Safeway until the end of track five, Cowboy Wasteland. I heard about this group from CMJ on their exclusive monthly compilation CD, but it wasn’t this album, and it was the song The Escape Artist, and I knew that I had found some sweet ear-cocaine, and that I needed more, and my addiction isn’t satisfied, so I’ll shut up about this album as I can certainly not give it justice, lest but these fellows have a new lifelong friend and fan. Go buy this album. I found it used for a $1.50.

Hot Chip- The Warning. After the sixth song, I didn’t shut off the album or start skipping through the rest of the album. It was refreshing, because this band is new, and has a positive sound waiting for them. If they avoid the production of Flood or The Matrix and lastly, Timbaland, they will do just fine. (I don’t dislike those producers, but I know that they can easily ruin what Hot Chip has going on, and those guys have a habit of randomly producing an album that they needn’t touch, i.e. Alive & Amplified.) Hot Chip could have condensed this album into a couple of EP’s, as it tends to drag with the ninth track, Arrest Yourself, but that is just an opinion of mine and can’t be supported by what a record label expects, or what the intent of the artists involved is. The Album Leaf’s latest release, Into the Blue Again is a perfect example. It should have been cut up into two EP’s instead of one long LP. I adore Seal Beach and Lifetime or More, and they are two finely concise EP’s that stand up very well, and are always a pleasant listen. But if these two should tour together, I would drag myself by my chin to hear them, definitely.

Marie Laforêt- Marie Laforêt. Wow! This was a find. I should have wet my pants in the store when I saw this. The 1995 re-release of this gem, is something I have been drooling for since I saw that crappy movie Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby and heard her cover of Paint It Black in the background. I pressed pause at the end titles just to find this song, and had a hard time doing it because her title is Marie Doucer/Marie Colêre. I went to eBay and Twist & Shout but found squat, and really just limped it on my list; if only there to haunt and torment me. But I crushed that despair, and here it sits with pride, making a desire within me to make out with all women from France.

Fatboy Slim- You’ve Come a Long Way Baby. Yeah, I didn’t own this album till’ now. I avoid hype and forget that it doesn’t always involve poor taste. But it is all right, now, Ma; I’m only listening...to what I have missed. The cover photo puts my collection to shame, but music listening shouldn’t be a contest, and I am proud that I own a partial amount of Norman’s collection. I do, in fact, own the song Take Yo' Praise by Camille Yarbrough that Mr. Cooke sampled on Praise You and are glad to own this track along with this whole album. The Rockafeller Skank video fills me with the want of a dune buggy.