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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 29, 2019 2:26:56 GMT
One of the late 80s songs along with bands like Mudhoney and Naked Raygun that pointed the way towards a lot of big 90s bands, Boston's Bullet LaVolta made a classic right out of the gates......this literally could have Black Flag in 84......The Stooges in 69......it wasn't new but in '88 this sounded like it.......and like the next big thing.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 16, 2019 21:57:34 GMT
I often joke that Pixies songs weren't usually about anything but maybe just sounding cool - but this song, the lead off track of their 2nd release and 1st full length was quite different - a brutal, snide, cheating girlfriend bash - with big screams and walloping drums.
"You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me" - yup, it's weird but it's no joke .....he even names the girl - "Carol" upfront too and you know ........the title. This was as direct as they ever got and it's a classic.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 12, 2020 18:47:05 GMT
One of his best songs and it came out at the very end of the decade too - the song works like its topic, by the end of it you're sort of hypnotized and wrapped up in it at the expense of everything else. It's a perfect song for zoning out.....in isolation.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 13, 2020 20:30:45 GMT
Trump declares national emergency, stocks soar. Hmmmmmmmm. .........often covered, a full decade ahead of its time
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 16, 2020 16:04:28 GMT
They were way ahead in the 80s with predicting things though people kissed back then which is cute and outdated
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 18, 2020 15:22:20 GMT
The last album from REM I really like - and I don't like it that much and after this I bailed - but it's the last time I recognized them and was the last time I couldn't "read" their moves and predict what they'd do.
This song - one of their loveliest along with "Nightswimming" a couple albums later explicitly links this incredibly personal band to incredibly "big and general" ideas - references to "the world" etc. and if you're spending a lot of time in your house looking outward - it makes more sense than ever.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 3, 2020 16:42:03 GMT
Moe Berg was sorta famous as a kinda Canadian power-pop wunderkind with The Pursuit of Happiness in the mid-80s - and the previously posted "I'm An Adult Now" - but his first band The Modern Minds were maybe on to something even better. They only released a single in 1980 but you can get a cd of their outtakes too - and this song "Go" an early demo with different lyrics version of their singles B-side trades the pop for the power .......both versions are knockouts but "Go" is the real little known Buzzcocks/Nerves gem.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 16, 2020 22:13:13 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 6, 2020 20:56:37 GMT
pacinoyes hot take - King of America (1986) is the best Elvis Costello record outside of his first 4 classics (77-80). It's better than Trust (which dips on side 2), the impressive but overrated (and pretentious) Imperial Bedroom and the rocking but weak in songs Blood & Chocolate. It was also the best Rock record of 1986 (take THAT Queen Is Dead, Psychocandy, Candy Apple Grey and er, um Graceland etc!)
.........it also had this song which is one of the meanest, most misogynistic songs he ever wrote and it's stupendous - and those things are not a contradiction either. Costello couches this song in a sweet country pop atmosphere, he sings it beautifully but what he actually spits out here is something else entirely.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 5, 2020 20:55:04 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 7, 2020 0:04:13 GMT
The Angry Samoans - Right Side of My MindOne of the "lost" LA bands of the late 70s/80s - The Angry Samoans were actually too offensive to get any press at all......and that's saying something in a scene where the Germs got plenty off press. Most of the time they were happy just to curse and tell offensive jokes.......for 2 minutes - 10 seconds though, they had their own "Sonic Reducer", where you thought they were the best thing in the world.....or at least in LA.
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