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Noah is a deutch

Kim loves miss ohio

Brooklyn people all look the same esp shrimp cracker

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iPod on Random

1. The dB's - Dynamite ; Stands for Decibels
2. The Flamin' Groovies - Sweet Roll Me On Down ; Flamingo
3. Man Man - Man Who Make You Sick ; The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face
4. The Louvin Brothers - The Great Atomic Power ; The Best Of...
5. Thee Fine Lines - Open Up My Heart ; S/T
6. Jennifer Gentle - The Garden Part 2 ; Valende
7. Jon Rauhouse - Mannix ; Steel Guitar Heart Attack
8. The Dukes Of Strasosphear - 25 O'Clock ; Children of Nuggets Box Set
9. Twink - Suicide ; Think Pink
10. The Leaving Trains - Osmosis ; The Big Jinx

iPod On Random

400th post (!!????)

1. Otis Redding - I Cant Turn You Loose ; In Person at the Whisky a Go Go
2. Roky Erickson - Things That Go Bump In The Night ; Dont Knock The Rok
3. Harlan T Bobo - God's Lamb ; Im Your Man
4. NRBQ - Bats In My Room ; Tapdancin Bats
5. The Cramps - Chicken ; A Date With Elvis
6. The Knitters - Trail Of Time ; Poor Little Critter On The Road
7. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - Monkey Puzzle ; Take It From The Man
8. The Replacements - The Ledge ; Pleased To Meet Me
9. The Gentlemen - Let's Be Gentlemen Please ; Blondes Prefer Gentlemen
10. The Waco Brothers - Do What I Say ; Cowboy In Flames

Top Ten Albums of 2007

As a wise man once said:
"Alas, 2007 has come and gone and hopefully we have more to show for it than this collection of albums. Oh, let us raise our arms and heads to the Gods, and offer this music in repentance for our many collective sins. We shall pray that our chosen selections are worthy to enter the pantheon of the greats that have come before and will surely come after. Our Gods are not very forgiving Gods but they love to Rock with their Cocks Out. "

Here they are, the Top Ten Albums of 2007:

Hendo's List

1. King Khan & The Shrines - What is!?
2. The Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil & Los Valientes Del Mundo Nuevo
3. Billy Childish & The Musicians of the British Empire - Punk Rock
at the British Legion Hall LP & Christmas 1979 LP
4. Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses
5. Demon's Claws - Satan's Little Pet Pig
6. The Warlocks - Heavy Deavy Skull Lover

7. Grainbelt - Trouble Coming Down
8. Brian Glaze - Rainsplitter
9. Richard Bishop - Polytheistic Fragments

10. Mary Weiss (w/ Reigning Sound) - Dangerous Game

Honorable Mentions: Harlan T Bobo - I'm Your Man ; The Broken West - I Can't Go On, I'll Go On ; The King Khan & BBQ Show - Teabag Party 7" ; The Final Solutions - Songs By Solution ; The Chesterfield Kings - Psychedelic Sunrise ; Two Cow Garage - III ; Miss Alex White & The Red Orchestra - Space & Time ; CPC Gangbangs - Mutilation Nation ; Tinariwen - Aman Iman ; Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter From The Ash ; Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips ; The Sadies - New Seasons


Niedermayer's List
1. the national - boxer

2. spoon - ga ga ga ga ga

3. the clientele - god save the clientele

4. elliott smith - new moon

5. charlotte gainsbourg - 5:55

6. Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew Spirit If...

7. black lips - good bad not evil

8. the treasury - the treasury ep

9. the warlocks - heavy deavy skull lover

10. radiohead - in rainbows


Shamsky69's List

1. The Black Lips-Good Bad Not Evil

2. Bruce Springsteen-Magic

3. Detroit Cobras- Tied and True

4. Jason Isbell- Sirens Of The Ditch

5. Terry Adams- Rhythm Spell

6. Tommy Womack- There I Said It

7. Two Cow Garage-III

8. Black Lips- Los Valientes del Mundo Nuevo


Shrimp Cracker's List
1. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
2. Radiohead - In Rainbows
3. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
4. Bruce - Magic
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
6. V/A - I'm Not There OST
7. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
8. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
9. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
10. Marah - Can't Take It With You EP

HM: 1990s, Black Lips, Robert Wyatt, Bright Eyes, Kings of Leon, John
Fogerty, White Stripes, Grinderman


No Name's List(s)
New Releases:
1. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - S/T
2. Bruce Springsteen - Magic
3. Rilo Kiley - Under The Black Light
4. The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters
5. Jarvis Cocker - S/T
6. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
7. Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
8. Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
9. The Mendoza Line - 30 Year Low
10. Lucinda Williams - West
11. Devandra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon

Reissues, Comps etc.
1. Miles Davis - The Complete On The Corner Sessions
2. Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Going On
3. Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall
4. Johnny Thunders & Patti Palladin - Copy Cats
5. V/A - The Sandinista Project: A Tribute To The Clash
6. Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire & Excitable Boy
7. The Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable
8. VA - Music From The Motion Picture I'm Not There
9. The Beach Boys - The Warmth of the Sun
10. Carlton Patterson & King Tubby -Black & White In Dub

Honorable Mentions
1. Josh Rouse Bedroom Classics: She's Spanish, I'm American
2. Betty LaVette - The Scene of the Crime
3. Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade
4. Oakley Hall - I'll Follow You
5. Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
6. Robert Plant & Allison Krauss - Raising Sand
7. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
8. Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
9. Antibalas - Security
10 The Besnard Lakes - The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horse
11. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
12. Coco Rosie - The Adventures of...
13. Great lake Swimmers - Ongiara
14. Tegan & Sara - The Con

The Chesterfield Kings

I've always had a bit of a problem with a great deal of the music coming from the tail-end of the '70s, all the way through the '80s. For some reason, someone decided that over-producing a record was cool. Well, it aint. Due to my inability to look past the crappy production values, and appreciate the songs for themselves, I kind of missed the boat on a lot of the seminal 80s bands. For some reason, I had always kind of lumped The Chesterfield Kings in with a group of bands that had badly produced records, rendering them unenjoyable to me. Boy was I wrong, The Chesterfield Kings were one of only a handful of bands that really seemed to get it from this era. Forming in the late '70s in Rochester, NY, these guys were wearing much different influences on their sleeves from their pop contemporaries. Instead of looking to the future with bullshit synthesizers and awful dance music, the Kings looked back to the glory days of teenage garage bands - the mid '60s. Check out their website if you want a full history, basically, these guys have been the real deal for a long time.
Their new album, Psychedelic Sunrise, on Little Steven's Wicked Cool Records doesn't skip a beat. The album's opener, Sunrise (Turn On) is another one of my favorite songs of the past few months, but the whole album is pretty killer. The album is another entry into the ever expanding Thumbs Up '07 list.

Check it out:
Sunrise (Turn On)

The Warlocks

I just saw The Warlocks at the Knitting Factory last week. I picked up a copy of their album Phoenix when it came out several years ago. I dug it then, but for some reason, it never really sunk in with me at the time. This past summer, I kind of rediscovered them, and was listening to them a lot more, especially that album. The song "Shake The Dope Out" is in my top 5 songs of the past 6 months (for me that is, not new releases).
Live, they were mind blowing. With the stage lights turned off except for some low red and blue lights coming from behind them, Bobby Hecksher and co. were just oozing VU cool. They made a huge racket too, with 2 drummers, a bassist, and two guitars layering fuzz on top of fuzz.
The new album on Tee Pee Records, Heavy Deavy Skull Lover is another great notch on their belt. With their past few releases, they've slowly moved away from the more 3 minute psych/rock song format and into more extended fuzzed out jams if you will. The droney repetitiveness works really well for them. Except for one song around 3 minutes, most on this album are at least 5 minutes in length, and somewhat mid-tempo or slower.

Here's a tune:
So Paranoid

It's worth noting that the openers for The Warlocks that evening, Darker My Love, also completely blew me away. More on them later, but check out the video on the post below this, and you'll see what i mean

Darker My Love

Darker My Love - "Summer is Here"

The Sadies

Fresh off the heels of last year's Double Live Album and Rat Fink Soundtrack, The Sadies have returned with their first new studio album in a few years, New Seasons. When it comes to cosmic americana music, The Sadies deliver the goods better than anyone else out there. They effortlessly pull off that Meat Puppets/Byrds style of country rock, and then can easily switch gears and lay into some Morricone-worthy spaghetti western. These boys from Canada can really do it all. I also just came across a live bootleg where they are the backing band for Andre Williams, which is also amazing. Pick up the album when you get a chance, thank you.

Here's a tune:
Never Again

Metalocalypse

Last night I picked up the Adult Swim cartoon Metalocalypse on DVD, and it rocks. "Throw it at that guy!...". I really don't like or care that much about Metal, especially Death Metal, but Dethklok kicks ass.
Seriously, check it out.

Top 10 pickups from the WFMU Record Fair

Me and no name hit up the most overhwelming record fair I've ever seen. Granted, that's not really saying much for me, but it was still an amazing amount of records. WFMU knows how to throw a party. For instance, at the Norton Records Table, I easily could have spent upwards of $500, no problem.

Here are my top 10 pickups from this afternoon thus far, and I haven't even been able to listen to everything else yet.
1. The New Chesterfield Kings CD from the Wicked Cool table
2. Les Sexareenos "Do The Nose Mustache" 7"
3. Roky Erickson "Don't Knock The Rok"
4. various CPC Gangbangs 7"s
5. James Blackshaw "The Cloud of Unknowing" - cool 12 string guitar shit in the Fahey vein - a style I've recently been digging
6. Knights of Fuzz DVD and interactive CDrom
7. Back issues of Big Takeover for $1
8. Dan Melcior's Broke Revue - Heavy Dirt
9. Mighty Hannibal - Hannibalism!
10. that sausage place with all the mustards......

Wooden Shjips

The Wooden Shjips new album has helped make my commute to work a little easier the last few weeks. I had always avoided bringing my iPod along for the ride, but I figured I'd give it a try recently, and I've listened to their album a handful of times on the commute. With headphones on, its been really easy to lose your train of thought, and let the mountains of fuzz wash over you. The guitars and organ are turned up to 10, and the delay and reverb-heavy vocals add to the psych feel. The songs are relatively simple and repetitive, and they've definitely listened to their fair share of Spacemen 3. I gotta say I've been digging the drone aspect of these guys along with a handful of other artists recently. Unfortunately, I missed their set during CMJ a few weeks ago, I'm sure they would be a cool band to see live. Add it to the thumbs up list for '07.
Here's a tune:
Losin' Time

I have seen the light

Last night I saw perhaps the best concert I have ever seen. Hendo Bendo HallofFamers King Khan and BBQ Show played Cake Shop and blew the roof off the basement. Fellow rocknrollers Benn and Alex (not to be confused with the famous CD binder of the same name...) and I got a front row seat for the mayhem. They're mix of 50s rocknroll/r&b ballads with balls out punk rock is not to be missed. It should also be noted that King Khan looks lovely in a dress that is at least 7 sizes too small for him.
Here's a photo of the opening raga jam courtesy of Benn


It's also worth pointing out that openers Live Fast Die fuckin ruled also.

BFF

Hey Buddy

Brian Glaze

Of all of the musicians/bands currently doing the psych/folk/fuzz thing, Brian Glaze may be one of my favorites. My cousin turned me on to one of his older albums, Let's Go To The Sea, and I've been really enjoying that for the past year. I was down at Other Music the other day with noname, and saw his new release on Birdman Records, Rainsplitter, I had to pick it up. I've got to say that this new release is another classic. The way he layers sounds/swirls is truly amazing. He also has a knack for writing really catchy tunes. Everything has a similar feel to the earlier Brian Jonestown Massacre stuff, who he was a member of at one point. I got to say, I'm not as wild about the drum-machine song 21-31 (the song itself is cool, but the drum machine is grating), but everything else is great. Appearantly, this whole thing was recorded in Greg Ashley's apartment during Thanksgiving of 2005. Thumbs up for sure.
Here's a tune:
Welcome To The Cinema



Also, check out this video of one of my favorite songs from Lets Go to The Sea, "Don't Believe In Love":

Hendo's Song Of The Day

It's a Tuesday morning, and I'm heading in to work early today to take minutes at another meeting. This seemed like an appropriate song for the day.

The Third Bardo - Lose Your Mind

Government Cheese

The Shake

The Shake. They're from Spain, and thier album Trippin The Whole Colorful World is out on Rainbow Quartz Records. They got a nice '60s pop/garage thing going on, and you should check 'em out.

Here's a tune: Untitled




Here's the video for Can't Fight Your Loving:

Hendo's Song of the Day

Here's a song by the Japanese band The Raydios. The band has ex-members of upper echelon MFs Teengenerate, so you know they kick ass. Enjoy.

The Raydios - Turning Blue

Hendo's Song of the Day

Here's an installment of my song of the day. I made a mix last night for my roomate that was supposed to be based loosely on the movie Terminator 2. While looking through my library of songs at my disposal, I found this one by Rose Tattoo, and obviously it fit the bill perfectly. Needless to say the mix sucked except for this one song. I just finished a long day at work, and I've had this stuck in my head all day. Enjoy

Rose Tattoo - Nice Boys

What I did on my summer vacation

Top 3 albums of the moment:
1. Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
2. The Warlocks - Phoenix
3. V/A - Songs The Detroit Cobras Taught Us

What do you crave (besides White Castle that is...) ???