Forgotten Favorite Archives
Tonight DJ Will Bestman and Bliss bring Annie to the Black Cat. Very excited! I have to attend my office Xmas party beforehand, so after imbibing on mucho free alcohol there, I'll be at the gig, suit and all. Should be fun.
Like Woah! Bob Hillburn is retiring.
New Travis album on the way. I have no rational explanation as to why I am such a big Travis fan. But I am. There, I said it.
Did everyone catch The White Stripes on the Daily Show? If not, ProductShopNYC has the video. I missed the interview, but the two performances were great. Oh, and if what TuningFork is saying about Jon Stewart is true, my respect for the man just reached new heights. Back in 2002, Stewart said his favorite band was Buffalo Tom. Fuck yeah. Respect.
Worst. Game. Ever. Seriously.
I keep forgetting to link to the Sports Guy's State of the NBA piece. He, like everyone else, is down on the Celtics.
I actually remembered to upload an MP3 for My Forgotten Favorite today. Here ya go:
Blur: Trimm Trabb (MP3)
Second best song named after a pair of trainers ever? I am completely biased about 13. I think it's brilliant, but then again I worked on it back when I was working with William Orbit. And by "worked on it" I mean I did alot of paperwork for the album. Anyways, this is my favorite track off of that record and it popped up on my iPod on Wednesday, the first time I'd heard it in many moons. I love the loop-like drums at the start of the song and the way they sit behind Alex's big, slinky bassline. I still brace myself when Graham comes in with the huge, buzzsaw guitars at the 2:53 mark. I think this record is some of the best playing Coxon did as part of the group. This is a record the band never could have or would have made with Stephen Street. I'll let you decide if that's a good or bad thing.
Ummmmmmmmbest? How did this happen and me not know about it? OK, who can get me one of these posters ASAP? [via goldenfiddle]
How a Web site helped the Bucks acquire an All-Star.
Police force Brendan Benson to play the last half of his Berlin gig acoustically after saying his gig was "too loud".
The Artic Monkeys do something to merit those Oasis comparisons.
Speaking of, Noel must be promoting a new single or something.
Guero remix album tracklisting.
Thank you for setting the record straight. I have problems with that too. Great post.
From today's "Make 'Em Say 'Duh'" newsfile; iPod nano lawsuit will only benefit attorneys.
Hey, I almost forgot! I have a contest for you all. Supergrass just released their latest record, Road to Rouen, and I'm really digging it. To celebrate, I'm giving away the following:
GRAND PRIZE: Limited edition tinymeat ipod case, a copy of Road to Rouen, magnets, pins and a "Kiss of Life" CD single.
Runner Up Prize: a copy of Road to Rouen, magnets, pins and a "Kiss of Life" CD single.
All you have to do is drop me a line and tell me what Supergrass video saw the group imagined as giant muppets. Winner will be announced in two weeks.
To tide you over here are some Supergrass links and videos:
Road to Rouen album website
"St. Petersburg" video Windoze / Real / glorious Quicktime
Finally, here is video of the band performing on Leno.
I also remembered my Forgotten Fovorite today.
Lush: Sweetness and Light (MP3)
I heart Lush and this is one of my favorite songs of theirs. Quoth the bar manager at Saint Ex when I played this last week. "Wait, is this Lush? Fucking Sweet." Indeed. And while we all know Miki was the really, really hot one (I totally have a thing for pink hair), any Lush fan worth their salt knows that Emma wrote the best songs, like "Sweetness and Light" (lyrics). Remember when VW used this in a Jetta ad? This is from the album Gala, which was the band's first three EP's all packaged together. I think Spooky is still my favorite album of theirs. Buy some Lush at Amazon.
My camera shipped last night and travelled from Maspeth, NY to Saddlebrook, NJ to Harrisburg, PA to Laurel, MD in the span of about 15 hours. Unfortunately, it's not scheduled to be delivered until Monday. Oh well.
Great show last night. I got a nice little buzz on and enjoyed myself quite a bit. My DCist review will be up shortly. The set from Detroit in June was actually better. They took out "Songbird", "Love Like A Bomb" and "Little By Little" and added "Guess God Thinks I'm Abel" and "Acquiesce". Liam screwed up the lyrics to "Acquiesce" just like he always does. But that's not a bad thing. "Abel" was awesome. I love the loud outro right at the end. The show was just awesome. Best part?
Dude next to me: "You seem like a big fan, have you seen them before?"
Me: Yup. 14 times.
Dude next to me: "Really? No shit."
Liam actually jumped down into the crowd and mingled with the first few rows at the end of the set. I have never ever seen or heard of him doing anything like that before. Fucking Ace.
Liam Gallagher is electricity.
He IS rock n roll.
And, most impressively, he IS rock n roll when he's just standing there with his hands in his pockets.
And yes, I have a man crush on him.
No pics, sorry. Instead, check out these shots from their San Diego gig. Wowzer.
**UPDATE** Here's my DCist review.
I got into a fucking traffic jam on my back from the gig, at like 12:30 in the morning. They were putting up an overhead road sign on the highway and traffic was backed up for 45 minutes. Lovely. I escaped the parking lot quagmire at the gig only to get stuck in that. Worst.
Obviously, I missed the Sox game last night. But we're one back with three to go. Go Papi Go!
Despite not sleeping much last night, I remembered about "Forgotten Favorite" today. This is a track from a fan club show in 1994. Enjoy!
I think my uber-busy social schedule finally caught up with me last night. Around 11:15 or so I just completely hit the wall. The DCist party was alot of fun but I was really out of it for much of the night. I even forgot the memory card for my digicam so I have no visual evidence. Bad blogger. I'm very much looking forward to doing absolutely nothing tonight. But enough bitching, on to the goodies.
REM - Orange Crush (MP3) - My favourite REM song ever. Green was the first REM album that I had ever heard and this (along with "Stand") was the tune that really stood out. I can't decide what I like more, the ratatat drums at the beginning our Peter Buck's non-solo at the break. Oh wait, now I know. It's the same for pretty much every REM song. Mike Mills backing vocals.
I have an MP3 of the blogging panel from Tuesday but have to upload it first (it's a huge file), so I'll post that next week. So if there are downloads on my site that you want, get 'em while they are up.
I've been meaning to break this out for a while, but summer hours on Fridays kept messing up my schedule. So without further ado, I'd like to introduce you to information leafblower's new Friday feature, Forgotten Favorite, where I'll be highlighting some random old track that I happen to be rocking out to that particular week.
I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes I find it completely overwhelming to listen to the ginormous amount of new music available in all corners of the internets, and sometimes I just want to curl up into the fetal position and seek out the comfort of my iTunes library for something that takes me back, or, like the title suggests, some awesome song I used to love but have all but forgotten. So here we go. Our first installment will feature two songs, and it's brough to you by the letter "V".
Velocity Girl: Forgotten Favorite (MP3) - My new feature's namesake is a song I used to rock out to all the time in college. I was introduced to Velocity Girl when I purchased Copacetic (what was once Sub Pop's second best selling record EVER) on a whim after reading about the band in Spin. I liked what I heard and eventually sought out their first EP, which included this song. I must have seen this band like 6 times in college (which, keep in mind, I attended in BFE North Cackalack, so I didn't exactly achieve the concert going volume that I'm used to today), trailing only the mighty Archers of Loaf and the dearly departed Buffalo Tom. Velocity Girl ruined most of the other female fronted indie groups that I've heard since (Rilo Kiley for one). To me, VG is better and I'd rather give Simpatico! a spin.
The Verve: Gravity Grave (Live From Glastonbury, 19911993) (MP3) - Fuck Joe Dimaggio, where have you gone Captain Rock? The music world in general is worse off since the demise of The Verve and Mad Richard Ashcroft, one of the most engaging performers I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. I've recently come around on his depressingly domesticated first solo record, but nothing will ever beat the drugged out, drunk and severly fucked up musings of Ashcroft back in the mid-90's. He was all about attaining the groove and keeping it, witnessed here at the end of the track as he implores the corwd "We got one minute left, C'mon! One minute, C'mon!". The Verve at their sloppy cosmic best.
I uploaded a bunch of photos of Mr. Pink last night, so if you've been jonesing for them lately, you're in luck. I've got him learning to DJ, close up, sleeping, sleeping some more, breaking stuff, and interrupting my flow! More than one person has commented that I only seem to take pictures of my cat lately (so true), but that should be coming to an end now that my week of hell has begun. So expect pictures with humans in them soon.
Very glad to hear that Red Auerbach is feeling better.
The Sports Guy trades email with the OC dude. I yawn.
Roger Avary has aquired the lifetime movie rights to Glamorama.
Don't forget, Bluestate on Saturday! We have giveaways and guest DJs! And Me! andnatalyatoo. :)
And don't make plans for next Thursday!
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