Tripouttaniss (haha, love this GIF!)...is the Colbert Report considered liberal media? Never really looked at media as being left or right wing, as it is it's own beast, selling sensationalism and not concerned with any kind of social responsibility. I guess these days though with Fox on the right and MSNBC on the left, the news can be a little more black and white. Fascist and Communist...hahaha. Love the Colbert Report though where anything political is fair game, left or right, and open to being exposed for it's hypocrisy and fallacy. Actually a fan of satire in general because we can find humor in just about everything we do, although I guess we can find our lives/points of view to be a pathetic travesty as well. This is a good week for optimism though because a jaded view of humanity can become a burden and it gets boring to listen to someone bitching all the time. It has warmed up here in the sparsely populated, desolated, isolated, pseudo wasteland that is Northwest Kansas and the snow has all but melted. The guy I get hay from thinks the worst of winter is over, but of course being the pessimist that I am, I feel like we haven't paid yet for the fact that winter got such a late start. Life is like that too, when it's been especially hard you look for that light at the end of the tunnel that signals that you crossed over to the other side. On the other hand when things are going great you've got to be careful and not let your guard down because that's when the shit will hit the fan. To use an AA cliche, "one day at a time" right? In case you're a "friend of Bill W." or you're looking to be enlightened/entertained, check this out for 400 AA Slogans!
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Music imitates life too...I guess people imitate music as well. Lately I've been "spinning" a lot of garage music. I don't know too much about the mid 60's garage scene, except that maybe on ebay, when a guy is trying to sell a record and he puts in the description that it's garage, you can count on him adding another $10 to the starting price (same thing if you list it as "Northern Soul"). I suppose as a genre, historically those bands are considered proto-punk and in the late 70's early 80's you see a garage revival thing going on. First thing I think of is the Cramps, the masters. My bro Jefe mentioned The Music Machine in the comments on a Troggs post a while back...felt like I should have heard of these guys a long time ago, but I'm no expert and the day you stop learning is the day they may as well cut off your oxygen. "Dig" Music Machine, have them on the ebay radar, but in the meantime have downloaded everything I can find..their hit,
Talk Talk
slightly lesser known, but still two killer tunes
Trouble
Masculine Intuition
miraculously that little bit of garage sweetness somehow led to another little diddy, by an equally killer band,
The Seeds - Pushin' Too Hard
be sure to check my buddy Peter's Killed By Death Records you get a punk cover of that one.
Go figure that the 60's garage sound was popular and influential in the late 70's, early 80'. Pogue's frontman Shane McGowan's earlier band the Nips (aka Nipple Erectors) had a sock full 60's padlocks to split your head open to. On a side note,,,Mr. McGowan is proof positive that some can be sloppy shit faced 24/7 drunks for 30+ years and somehow maintain (not me), anyway...'66 garage done in '70 punk rockness,
The Nips - All The Time In The World
In 1984 the Damned did an album (and a 7") under the name Naz Nomad & the Nightmares, a bunch of covers and a couple of originals that are worth some time for you reckless 60's junkies who know how to dance "the jerk".
She Lied (the Bittersweet cover)
Action Woman (the Litter cover)
So on the Music Machine tip we have Rocket From The Crypt. Saw them play at least once in San Diego (The Casbah), but the memories are hazy as apparently they did not withstand the brain cell genocide associate with being excessively drunk, or maybe they just didn't impress me that much. Reflecting on that, up to a point I sure had a blast partying, but damn, what's the point of being pass out drunk, you can't even remember if you had a good time. On the other hand maybe "remembering" isn't all it's cracked up to be. Saw a hell of a lot of bands over the years, but for the most part I don't remember if they were good, who played with them or even who I was with, sometimes. Anyway this 5" EP is from 1995 and to be honest with you it's alright, but the originals (up there) just have something more authentic and original, obviously...still cool though. This is what I've been listening to so...
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Just so you can get a sense of the "real" Rocket from the Crypt (and it's kinda worth it), here's two tunes (originals) from these guys off their first LP "Paint as Fragrance" in 1991... Maybelline [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdO42K36suE]
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