Blog

Arcade Fire
Belle and Sebastian
Blondie
Bright Eyes (or Conor Oberst)
Chuck Berry
Daft Punk
David Bowie
Depeche Mode
Duran Duran
Elvis Costello
Goldfrapp
Green Day
Happy Mondays
Jerry Lee Lewis
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Kraftwerk
LCD Soundsystem
Manic Street Preachers
Massive Attack
My Bloody Valentine
My Chemical Romance
Neutral Milk Hotel (or Jeff Mangum)
Oasis
Paolo Nutini
Pixies
PJ Harvey
Placebo
Portishead
Rufus Wainwright
Ride
Sonic Youth (or Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon)
Stereophonics
Suede
Teenage Fanclub
Television
The Cure
The House of Love
The Knife
The Libertines (or Pete Doherty/Carl Barat)
The Magnetic Fields
The Pogues
The Police (or Sting)
The Prodigy
The Rolling Stones
The Smiths (or Johnny Marr)
The Strokes
The Verve (or Richard Ashcroft)
The White Stripes
Tori Amos
Tom Waits

1959 Bags & Trane by Milt Jackson & John Coltrane
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Bags%26trane.jpg/220px-Bags%26trane.jpg

1963 The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2e/Mingus_Black_Saint.jpg/220px-Mingus_Black_Saint.jpg

1967 The Piper at the Gates of Dawn by Pink Floyd
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3c/PinkFloyd-album-piperatthegatesofdawn_300.jpg/220px-PinkFloyd-album-piperatthegatesofdawn_300.jpg

1967 The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/Velvet_Underground_and_Nico.jpg/220px-Velvet_Underground_and_Nico.jpg

1968 The Soft Machine by Soft Machine
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3d/The_Soft_Machine-album.jpg/220px-The_Soft_Machine-album.jpg

1969 Monster Movie by Can
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e7/CanMonsterMovieAlbumCover.jpg/220px-CanMonsterMovieAlbumCover.jpg
…

Part III: Summer 2010

1. Elevation. Television. Marquee Moon. 1977.

During those long, eclectic overnight shifts at Fuel On Convenience Store in Shadyside, I began to get back in touch with the roots of who I was. I had tried to build myself up psychologically to be some Superman world-beater, but when you’re restocking frozen food and selling drunk transvestites cigarettes, well, that experience kind of changes things. “Elevation” was an appropriate jam for me at this time then, since it’s one of those songs that implicitly recognizes how small one is compared to the rest of the world—and is alright with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4s5bj5fZO8

2. Stylo. Gorillaz. Plastic Beach. 2010.

Started running and lifting weights again during the summer of 2010, after a lengthy hiatus, and I will vouch for the fact that physical fitness is as crucial to one’s mental and emotional well-being as it is to his physical well-being. …

1965 - Bob Dylan, Highway 61 revisited
1966 - Bob Dylan, Blonde On Blonde
1967 - Love, Forever Changes
1968 - The Rolling Stones, Beggars Banquet
1969 - King Crimson, In The Court Of The Crimson King
1970 - Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cosmo's Factory
1971 - Neil Young, After The Gold Rush
1972 - David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1973 - Lou Reed, Berlin
1974 - Big Star, Radio City
1975 - Patti Smith, Horses
1976 - David Bowie, Station To Station
1977 - Television, Marquee Moon
1978 - Bruce Springsteen, Darkness On The Edge Of Town
1979 - The Clash, London Calling
1980 - Talking Heads, Remain In Light
1981 - Kraftwerk, Komputerwelt
1982 - Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
1983 - R.E.M., Murmur
1984 - Prince, Purple Rain
1985 - The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
1986 - The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
1987 - Prince, Sign 'O' The Times
1988 - Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation
1989 - Pixies, Doolittle
1990 - Depeche Mode, Violator
1991 - Slint, Spiderland
…

garage/post-punk/psych-pop pranksters The Prefab Messiahs have a new 12" out on Fixed Identity called Peace Love & Alienation. Excavated 1982-83 tapes with fab remastered-for-vinyl sound! 2 songs produced by Bobb Trimble!

grab some free tracks here at their Last.fm page
stream the tunes at Bandcamp
buy the 12" on Fixed Identity
read the cool GET BENT! review
check the posts at Altered Zones
see some other press
like up The Prefabs on facebook

.
.
.
.
.
.
.
recommended for fans of:
Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, Television Personalities, Swell Maps, The Clean, The Monochrome Set, 100 Flowers, The Beets, Big Troubles, The Bitters, Bizarros, The Bizarros, Black Lips, Blank Dogs, Acid Baby Jesus, Christmas Island, Cloud Nothings, The Creation, Creaturos, Crystal Stilts, Dead Moon, doomstar!, Dum Dum Dum, Eat Skull, The Electric Bunnies, The Fall, fedavees, The Fedavees, Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fresh and Onlys, Fungi Girls…

Howdy folks,

Thanks to everyone who tuned in last night. I think we all had a good time and learned a lot about each other...and ourselves. Memories were made, friendships treasured, obstacles overcame. If you didn't listen, there's no way to recreate the bonding experience, but you CAN see the music we listened to:

Things that Are Square 8-4-11

(*) = New release

Television - Venus - Marquee Moon

Built to Spill & Caustic Resin - When Not Being Stupid Is Not Enough - Built to Spill Caustic Resin
(*) Woods - Out of the Eye - Sun and Shade

(*) Nodzzz - Always Make Your Bed - Innings
Japanther - Summer of 79 - Skuffed Up My Huffy
Pink & Brown - Puddles of Acid Part 1 & 2 - Shame Fantasy II
(*) Shannon and the Clams - You Will Always Bring Me Flowers - Sleep Talk

(*) Thee Oh Sees - AA Warm Breeze - Castlemania
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Zig Zag Wanderer - Safe As Milk
Fugazi - Public Witness Program - In on the Kill Taker
(*) JEFF the Brotherhood - Shredder - We Are the Champions
…

Because boredom is a terrible thing. I have decided that my horizons need to be broadened some, so I've decided to take this month and listen to 1 'important' album I've never heard before, by an artist I'm vaguely, if at all, familiar with, every day. There are a couple exceptions, but I had to pick some stuff I would be actively excited to hear. I'm not going particularly crazy, I'll still listen to whatever I feel like outside of the day's album, and these are going in no particular order. I'll give each album the usual 5 star-scale rating, and a little writeup of my thoughts.

Master List:
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
(8/5) Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
(8/6) Beck - Sea Change
Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister
Boards of Canada -Music Has the Right to Children
Can - Tago Mago
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
(8/1) The Cure - Disintegration
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
Dr. Dre - The Chronic
…