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Sep 24, 2011
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The Hummingbirds — “Blush”
Jangle pop from a late-’80s Australian band. Pretty melodies and harmonies and stuff.
Aug 18, 2011
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Guided By Voices — “My Valuable Hunting Knife” (from Crying Your Knife Away)
Great? Great.
Speaking of GBV, Merlin mentioned this compilation on the latest Back to Work, but I can’t find anywhere to, uh, “acquire” it from (all links I can find are dead). Does anyone know where I might find a copy?
Aug 12, 2011
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Arcade Fire — “Wake Up” (Live at the Enmore Theatre, Sydney, January 22, 2008)
I know it isn’t exactly groundbreaking or controversial to say this, but holy shit. That tempo change between the slower, main part of the song and the faster part, what I guess would be the coda (about 4:07 into this video), still pretty reliably gives me chills, even now.
(This was night one of a two-night stand at the Enmore. I was there for the second night, and I’m almost certain that it is my favourite show I’ve ever been to.)
Jul 6, 2011
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Sure, those things Lars is hitting look like drums, but they’re actually custom-made drum-shaped phone books. Little-known fact.
Related: the other big deal about …And Justice For All is the total lack of a bass track throughout the entire album. Using the original bass tracks included with Rock Band, fans have remastered some of the songs on Justice and called the result …And Justice For Jason. Personally? I’m so used to the dry sound of Justice that I prefer the original bass-less mix. Also, it seems as though the guy who mixed this new version tried to make up for twenty bass-less years by cranking the bass track way too far up. Yucky.
Also worth mentioning: the demos for Justice, featuring scratch lyrics by Hetfield:
And that’s all the stuff I have about …And Justice For All. You can go about your business now.
Apr 17, 2011
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For Lucas.
Nov 4, 2010
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Oct 9, 2010
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Dan Hartman — Fletch, Get Outta Town
This, “Ghostbusters,” and “Back In Time” represent the zenith of Songs Written For Movies That Were Basically About The Movie.
Can you think of any others?
The One Rule: the lyrics have to explicitly mention something from the movie (for this reason, “Danger Zone” doesn’t count. Sure, it’s about planes (it’s about planes, right?), but nowhere does Kenny Loggins mention a character or event from Top Gun).
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Sep 28, 2010
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Help me out here. Is this chord progression from a song? Is it from a Green Day song? I seem to think it’s from a Green Day song. If it helps any, it’s G / D / E / C.
Analog Shazam, anyone?
UPDATE: Adam identified it — turns out it was the bridge from “Basket Case,” by Green Day. Shit, I should’ve known — I sure listened to it enough times in high school.
UPDATE 2: The plot thickens. Jay pointed out that it’s also from “When I Come Around.”
I think the one thing we’re learning today is that Scott remembers nothing about Green Day.
Sep 11, 2010
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Sorry, but I take every opportunity I can to sing Rush guitar parts. Much to the chagrin of the people around me in traffic. “Oh, hell yes. I play my car like Dizzy Gillespie played… whatever.”
(I’m pretty sure that onomatopœia is correct. Related: for a very short period of time, I did a thing called Widdly Widdly where I wrote down the vocalisations of bits of songs. It’s not very good, but I do still like the name.)
Aug 31, 2010
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I never put the meaning of this picture together until today.
Aww. Sad.
(Speaking of that guest lecture.)
Aug 25, 2010
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Australian Driving Lessons for Ryan Heise Volume 1
Crikey, Aussie Drivin’ School For Rawhide Volume 1, STREWTH!
(OR, Canadians Be Driving Like This)
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Aug 23, 2010
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Way to get me going, Rawhide.
(Why “Rawhide?” Ryan Heise -> @ryhei -> sounds a bit like Rawhide, duh.)
Aug 4, 2010
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I dare you to find me an album cover that’s more ’80s than Missing Persons’ Color in Your Life.
(I reckon I could have gotten my hair to Terry Bozzio (bottom-right on the album cover) length if I’d left it for a couple more months.)
I’m not saying there should be some kind of competition to find the most-’80s album cover, but yes I am. Thompson Twins Tuesday? Wham Wednesday? I don’t know.
Aug 3, 2010
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Some notes:
- Elvis Costello produced the first Specials album.
- Chrissie Hynde was one of the female vocalists on The Specials’ first two albums.
- John Bradbury sold that insane 14” x 10” snare drum to The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst. It’s the same snare that can be heard all through Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography.
- I just realised that, in Rat Race (2001), the whole bit with the Barbie Museum is funny because Jon Lovitz’s character is Jewish.
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