February 6, 2010

How about a video clip of Tool’s Maynard James Keenan from the 80s? “Only if he’s rapping,” you say? Tell you what: how about I throw in some headless guitars, too? Sound good? This clip looks like someone walked into a crowd of musicians and said, “Hey! You five random strangers, write a song and get ready to play it in my basement a week from now!”

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(via frankhejl) A definitive album from my high school days.

(via frankhejl)

A definitive album from my high school days.

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February 5, 2010

frankhejl:

YIKES! I had no idea. And yet, there he is, playing keyboards, sticking out like a sore thumb from the Colour Me Badd reject and what looks to be the studio hands moonlighting as a band in their spare time.

They probably even recorded the theme for AM Cleveland.

stephstephanie:

Hahahaha…how have I not seen this?

fuckyeahnineinchnails:

kittykittybangbang:

Trent Reznor’s band Slam Bamboo (yes, Slam Bamboo) on AM Cleveland in the 80s.

Thank you Madthoughts!

Sounds like everything on Pretty Hate Machine.

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January 27, 2010
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The Van Pelt - “We Are The Heathens”
Sultans of Sentiment, 1997

Highly-underrated album by a highly-underrated band featuring Chris Leo (brother of Ted Leo) on guitar and vocals. C. Leo is a big fan of constructing a catchy riff and repeating it for a long time, and this song is an example of that (an extreme example can be found on the opening track of Heaven Ain’t Happenin’ by The Lapse, the band Leo would form after TVP). Find Sultans of Sentiment now and listen to it. Google is your friend.

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January 26, 2010
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Placebo - “Pure Morning”
Without You I’m Nothing, 1998

In 1998, The Microsoft anti-trust case was filed. Osama Bin Laden was declaring a fatwa against “crusaders”. Charleton Heston was elected head of the fucking NRA. The groundwork was being laid for the cultural shifting and bearshit craziness we would awake to the dawning of in the ’00s. So it was either coincidence or that sort of mystical pop culture prescience that led English alt-rockers Placebo to release a single in ‘98 that, if taken at face value, is about purification via fucking and getting fucked up (in the narcotic and physical harm sense) as an only partially successful means of escaping ominous unidentifiable doom.

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January 19, 2010
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Marcy Playground - “Saint Joe on the Schoolbus”
Marcy Playground, 1997

The second single from Marcy Playground’s s/t debut was not as popular as their first single, “Sex and Candy,” but neither was anything else they did.

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January 18, 2010
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Beastie Boys - “So What’cha Want”
Check Your Head, 1992

The Beasties at their finest: forceful, chaotic, sharp-tongued and playful. This song is, as everyone by now knows, about having sex with Full House’s Dave Coulier.

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January 13, 2010
BUYB's "Ask" Feature Is Now Enabled

Ok, I’ll get in on this masturbatory action for a bit.

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D Generation - “No Way Out”
No Lunch, 1996

New York glam punk band D Generation never quite generated the popularity they deserved, but they did earn themselves a spot on the “Airheads” soundtrack. And isn’t that, after all, the dream?

This of course was long before my unfortunate run-in with D Generation singer Jesse Malin’s douche side.

Watch the video here.

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January 11, 2010
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ericmortensen:

Nine Inch Nails - Please

from The Fragile

Geez.  This record is ten years old already.  What did you think of The Fragile when it came out?  What do you think today?

Here are the answers to your questions: It’s great./It’s great.

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