Break Up Your Band

Elastica - “Connection”Elastica, 1995 Justine...

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:00:00 -0500

Elastica - “Connection”
Elastica, 1995

Justine Frischmann and her Brit band mates in Elastica had the doors to being briefly played on The Real World and dozens of other MTV shows flung wide open for them with this hit off their s/t first album.

Fun fact: You may think you can steal riffs from Wire and get away but, somehow the vital connection is made.

themusicnextdoor: breakupyourband: themusicnextdoor: Gary...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:16:09 -0500

themusicnextdoor:

breakupyourband:

themusicnextdoor:

Gary Numan - ‘Metal’.

Far superior to the inexplicably lauded Nine Inch Nails cover.

Great song. Great album. Waaaaatch it on the NIN shit talk!

Just for the record, I love NIN - The Downward Spiral is close to being my favourite album of the ’90s. I do, however, find Trent’s cover of ‘Metal’ rather dull compared to the original.

I will reblog this in the interest of raising both of our Tumblarity scores (apparently the bar for having a high Tumblarity has been raised to proposing to someone on Tumblr and making everyone throw up all over their goddamned keyboards. Please. Spare me.) and to say your statement has been accepted into the record and we are totally bros now.

themusicnextdoor: Gary Numan - ‘Metal’. Far superior to the...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:23:41 -0500

themusicnextdoor:

Gary Numan - ‘Metal’.

Far superior to the inexplicably lauded Nine Inch Nails cover.

Great song. Great album. Waaaaatch it on the NIN shit talk!

Follow-up to previous post: Here’s J.H. playing...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:27:19 -0500

Follow-up to previous post: Here’s J.H. playing “Universal Heart-Beat” live. Please be advised that the Crush Alert has been elevated to a 4.5.

Juliana Hatfield - “Universal Heart-Beat”Only...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:42:17 -0500

Juliana Hatfield - “Universal Heart-Beat”
Only Everything, 1995

Juliana Hatfield launched her new website this week, and it may very well re-ignite my crush on her. Should that happen, I will resort to re-reading her memoir. It is, sadly, a crush-killer.

nobetterhigh: Biz Markie, Doug E. Fresh, & Kool Keith-Let...

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:22:07 -0500

nobetterhigh:

Biz Markie, Doug E. Fresh, & Kool Keith-Let Me Clear My Throat

Doug E. Fresh’s work on this track is something I will talk at length about to anyone who will listen. He KILLS it! His delivery cuts like a laser through the beat. Rap needs more Doug E. Fresh.

Collective Soul - “December”Collective Soul,...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:20:50 -0500

Collective Soul - “December”
Collective Soul, 1995

This song is either a heavily-symbolized meditation on complex relationship dynamics, or it’s about getting oral.

Soul Coughing - “Super Bon Bon”Irresistible Bliss,...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 09:54:00 -0500

Soul Coughing - “Super Bon Bon”
Irresistible Bliss, 1996

Mike Doughty, singer/slam poet/college friend of Ani DiFranco, assembled a band from people he met while working the door at NYC’s now-defunct Knitting Factory. Their second LP gave us this catchy, stream-of-consciousness single with a bass line that you will be humming to yourself all day (you’re welcome). To this day whenever I go to an arena, stadium, or anyplace else that has a mezzanine I need to get to, I think to myself, “You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine!”

Ian MacKaye makes a very self-referential prank call.

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:32:10 -0500

Ian MacKaye makes a very self-referential prank call.

The Ocean Blue - “Ballerina Out of Control”Cerulean,...

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:43:00 -0500

The Ocean Blue - “Ballerina Out of Control”
Cerulean, 1991

This is one of the prettiest songs off this album by always under-appreciated The Ocean Blue. If you like The Sundays, you will like this album.

Fox!

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 15:27:34 -0500

Fox!

Bob Dylan Reacts to Spankwire I shot this about a year ago, the...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:48:51 -0500

http://www.ucbcomedy.com/videos/play/5295

Bob Dylan Reacts to Spankwire

I shot this about a year ago, the same night I shot the Bedtime Stories Reaction Video, then I lost the tape in my apartment. Ari Scott found it while cleaning last night. She is the savior of comedy.

I think Bob Dylan would be proud.

Madonna - “Human Nature”Bedtime Stories, 1994 In...

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:28:09 -0500

Madonna - “Human Nature”
Bedtime Stories, 1994

In 1992 Madonna released her “coffee table” book Sex. Stories circulated by my friends regarding the book’s contents grew to mythical proportions and sent fourteen-year-old-with-a-huge-crush-on-Madonna me on a quest to find the book and/or it’s contents at any cost. With no older brothers or similar connections to the seedy underbelly of the adult world, it was a long and difficult road that finally concluded with the advent of the Internet. You can find not only the entire book, but also the rare hour-long, highly-fappable 8mm film that many of the books photos were made from, on the Internet. God bless you, Al Gore.

Anyway, lots of people not as attractive or brave as Madonna got their huge, largely-untouched-by-the-opposite-sex panties in an uproar about Sex, so she made it up to them in 1994 by releasing this slinky, pulsating single addressing the controversy and making a bunch of money.

See the (also pretty fappable) video here.

See the contents of Sex with your friend Google.

Reuters: If He Lets You Buy His Underpants, You're The One

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:45:04 -0500

Reuters: If He Lets You Buy His Underpants, You're The One:

sherrypop:

Plus, I want to dispute this claim. We’ve all bought underwear for boyfriends at some point, right? So far, none of them have been “the one.”

leilacohan:

Someone wrote this headline. For real.

What if she lets you buy her underpants from a vending machine or on Craigslist?

The Black Crowes - “Remedy”The Southern Harmony and...

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:26:43 -0500

The Black Crowes - “Remedy”
The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, 1992

I feel like I’m maybe one or two tiny life choices away from having become someone who wears a lot of bajas, smokes a lot of weed, and invests a lot of time and money into religiously following jam-band circuit bands like the Black Crowes.

Rage Against the Machine - “Snakecharmer”Evil...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:57:26 -0500

Rage Against the Machine - “Snakecharmer”
Evil Empire, 1996

Look, guys, seriously, please don’t let it get back to the Crimethinc Collective that I’m saying this because they will totally revoke my Anarchist membership card, tear it up and then throw the pieces in a dumpster that I will then have to go diving in, but I still think RATM was a great band. I know the whole “it’s fratboy punk!” argument has a lot of steam but if it wasn’t for getting into them in high school I might not have eventually wound up listening to “legitimate” punk/anarchist bands. Besides, by being really loud and in everyone’s faces for a few years and then totally disappearing RATM’s career pretty much mirrored most of the political groups I joined in college.

Man this song rocks. I will listen to it while I wait for Dunkin Donuts to throw the day’s bagels into their dumpster.

Megadeth - “Train of Consequences”Youthenasia,...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:11:06 -0500

Megadeth - “Train of Consequences”
Youthenasia, 1994

Continuing with the theme of albums that came out this week at different years during the ’90s, Megadeth’s Youthenasia came out 15 years ago this week.

Cute chick/dude in your office: “It’s 4:00 already? I’m going down to the deli to get a snack.”
You: “Why don’t you stay here and snack on this Megadeth I’m about to rock right the fuck out to in my cube?

Cut to you two telling your kids how you met.

Think of this not as a ridiculous picture I made for no reason,...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:20:56 -0500

Think of this not as a ridiculous picture I made for no reason, but as a powerful political statement.

Enjoy this jpg, made for absolutely no reason.

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:12:45 -0500

Enjoy this jpg, made for absolutely no reason.

Alice In Chains - “Again”Alice In Chains, 1995 Alice...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 15:25:00 -0500

Alice In Chains - “Again”
Alice In Chains, 1995

Alice In Chains’ final studio album was released 14 years ago this week. Tracks like this one as well as “Grind” and “Over Now” give this album a harder, sludgier, and bleaker sound than previous AIC albums. The death of singer Layne Staley in 2002 marked the end of Alice In Chains forever.

“Hey, what are you talking about? They just put out a new studio album!”

What? Sorry, can’t hear you. Not listening to what you’re saying at all.