Thinking of Gen and the concert not being played tonight:

Earlier:


Currently:


Later I plan on listening to Somewhere Nice, Someday by Infinity Girl

A nightcapper

Greyhounds of the Future

I'm in fucking tears.

I can't spread you some though.

Jonathan Fitoussi - Diagonals



awesome stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udNnI1lA7HE

Autechre - Live on IBC Pirate Radio, June 1991

This is really early Autechre - at this point, they'd released at most one EP. Practically archaeology listening to this.

Listening to a bit of B-52s lately, and have had "Private Idaho" stuck in my head. Great guitar riff, love the vocals it's like another Rock Lobster.

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Joya
The Sea and Cake - Nassau
Stereolab - Refried Ectoplasm: Switched On, Vol. 2

Bubblegum pop. Mainly Kim Petras.
The soup nazi is going to be disappointed with me.

After two and a half decades of weird experimental music, what is actually weird to me is liking pop.

I hear you. I felt the same way when the big bit me. Think it started with “Paper Planes” and “Single Ladies,” and obviously now there’s a ton of pop that’s very interesting.

Not bubblegum pop, mind you, but, like, Frank Ocean n’ shit.

I honestly do not know who this Petras humanoid is. But as for what can be considered "bubblegum", there's a wide range. Here's one of my favorite compilations of all time:



And how about something like Brenton Wood's delicious "The Oogum Boogum Song". The Archies' "Sugar, Sugar", for heck's sakes. All essential.

ETA: The Box Tops — I believe it was Robert Christgau who said he considered them the litmus test to tell between shit listeners and those who got rock & roll. Lester Bangs loved 'em too!

All of this said, maybe I will throw up once I listen to "the Petras"... ;)

A great record from start to finish. I may come across as a virgin saying this, or Severian reading his first Pitchfork review*, but this record makes me cum like a horse when I listen to it. That good. Oh my God! This is bliss! Pure bliss!!

* Don't worry man, I just like taking the mickey out of you. I don't hate you or anything. xxx

GREAT fuckin' album. And so is the live one. And so are the two live jams available here:

https://heronoblivion.bandcamp.com/

Pulled out my copy of 1998's Soul Deep: The Best Of The Box Tops, and here's the exact quote from the liner notes:


Speaking of Chilton and of "Sugar, Sugar", check out Alex's DEMONIC version from Free Again: The "1970" Sessions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQJRmkKjBM8

Yes, been there. Consumed the jams. Thanks for sharing.

Well I read my first pitchfork review in like 1998 or something, and I read it to myself. And didn’t care for it. So not sure what that would sound like. Silence, probably.

But yeah, I really like that Heron Oblivion album as well.

if you liked that one, now listen to the real deal:

You're the second person who's told me that. I know where my allegiance lies though...

'Cause I heard it in the wind
And I saw it in the sky
And I thought it was the end
And I thought it was the fourth of July

I’ve always preferred the commercially more successful Soundgarden to the earlier, sludge zeppeliny Soundgarden

“The Day I Tried to Live” fucking rocks.

Oh, but “Searching with my Good Eye Closed” is on Badmotorfinger though. Hmm.

Nope. I prefer Superunknown and even Down on the Upside. Them’s good albs.

Superunknown doesn't get enough respect, simply for having 70 minutes of killer tunes - and only one of them, 'Half', I'd call filler.

Also love that they ended up with a lot of fucked up time signatures because they, basically, couldn't be arsed to play in time.

Church Of Misery- Master Of Brutality







Church Of Misery Announces Tour

So I had the awkward experience of listening to the song 'Orgasm Addict' whilst my little brothers were in the room...

In the U.S., Superunknown is basically the only Soundgarden album the general public knows or acknowledges.

It’s good. It’s the best one. It’s got little Beatles-isms on it that I really love. Great melodies. But all of their albums really deserves attention and praise.

Superunknown is huge here. So I can’t really complain that it doesn’t get enough respect. Soundgarden in general doesn’t get enough respect, but Superunknown is set.

Superunknown is mad good. Very inventive. I like it when a band employs a myriad of styles on an album.

Still on my Kim Petras kick. She has no official album but she has a good 40 songs out there.

Digging some Outkast. It had been a long while since I had heard them. Current favorites :

Snappin & trappin
Return of the g
Unhappy

Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade