Darth Drabek

Like I said, Bales, I haven't listened yet so any judgment on my part is unwarranted, but the album and song titles gave me the impression that these guys were either smirking jokesters or highbrow noise-rockers. I mean, The Difference Between Me and You is That I'm Not on Fire? Falco Vs. The Young Canoeist? It smacks of Morrissey or Belle and Sebastian. Eh, I suppose I'll give them a listen sometime this week and stop presuming I know what they will sound like. Besides, if they are taking the piss out of the indies, that's A-OK with me. Morrissey - You're the One for Me, Fatty

Please meta, don't judge Crichton by just his most recent book. I guess it upset a lot of people by dismissing the effects of global warming. He has written controversial material before, but State of Fear has been derided by earth scientists all over as a premise supported by bad science. Some folks have said he let his political leanings trump the believability of the book. I'd pick Congo or Sphere instead.

Teenage Fanclub - I Need Direction I "found" that McLusky album the other day... haven't listened to it yet. Bands that ooze prentention have to work that much harder for my props, because I'm biased against them from the start.

Maybe they've infiltrated the Hot Topic crowd stateside and I've just missed it. That's entirely possible, because I avoid that scene at all costs. Still, I don't see Against Me! fitting with those bands at all... they aren't nearly as accessible. Although they can be catchy occasionally, on As the Eternal Cowboy.

Whoa, since when have Against Me! been touring stadiums with Green Day? I'm just saying, I know I haven't paid much attention to the "punk" world in a few years but I would still catagorize them as obscure. Cake - It's Coming Down

I was not a fan of the second Jurassic Park movie. I liked the book, but the film and the book were two different stories. If I remember correctly, there were MAJOR plot changes and they even combined the personality traits of two kids in the book into one kid in the movie. Anyway, I'm watching Natalie Imbruglia music videos on YouTube. She'll always be my favorite pop star.

Whiskeytown - Dancing with the Women at the Bar

Teenage Fanclub - The Town and the City Found a used copy of Howdy! for relatively cheap, picked it up. I know it's not supposed to be one of their best, but hey - mediocre TFC is still better than anything I'd hear on the radio. :D

Handsome Boy Modeling School

The Lemonheads - Rudderless

Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young Those Catholic girls start much too late. True 'dat, Billy.

No it was not the "good" kind of Christian rock band. They played gigs in churches, for Christ's sake!* My only defense is that it was a small school, and these guys were the only people talented enough to form a rock band. It just so happened that they were really into God and all that jazz. Blues Traveler - But Anyway *pun INtended. My favorite thing about that joke is that you can remove the comma from that sentence and it's still true and even funnier!

I remember a song called "Chem 6A" by Switchfoot. I had some friends in high school that were in a Christian rock band (in which I briefly played rhythm guitar). They were all big Switchfoot fans. That one you linked is a pretty good one too. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere (Neil Young cover)

Ah cool. It will probably be tough to find, but I'll keep an eye out. It would be interesting to compare those two songs 1965 versions with the ones Cash recorded 40 years later on one of his last albums. Billy Bragg and Wilco - The Unwelcome Guest

Mustaches are manly, that much is true. So are these recordings from the 70s? Because I know he did "Sam Hall" and "The Streets of Laredo" on American IV just a few years ago. I didn't realize they were songs he had recorded previously, and I never read a review mentioning it either. Warren Zevon - The French Inhaler

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Biomusicology Wow, Johnny Cash looks bad with a mustache.

The Patriot Act is a bunch of malarkey. I don't think I'd support it even if I trusted the government not to abuse the authority that act gives it. I understand the risks, but then again I don't have to worry too much. I live in Ohio - not exactly a terrorist target, even if we do have LeBron James.

Oh the animated room video was a classic. Very bad, yeah, but still classic in a pop culture trivia way. I don't know who the dude is. The comments even give me a lead, but I still have no idea. Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name UP THE IRONS!!!

One of my old bands used to cover Mary Jane's Last Dance. We used to cover Twilight Zone too, and there's actually a recording of that one. I'll have to dig that one up sometime. I gotta say though... I liked the song a lot more when I didn't know the video took place in a morgue. It's actually pretty damn creepy, isn't it? Especially when he's dancing with the dead girl.... hoo boy. The Rolling Stones - Loving Cup Phish covers this song, and it's actually very good. I'm not a hippie though, I swear. :ph34r: Ohhhhhhhh.... what a beautiful buzz!

So that was J. Geils? Hmmm... don't remember that, but I do remember this: J.Geils Band - Centerfold Don't feel bad Kor, but ..... I was just a sparkle in my dad's eye when that song was number 1 on the charts. Great video though!

Ah the beach boys were very good at what they did. I seem to remember Baley (was it Baley?) calling them heavily overrated, and that may be true, but they were still very good, dammit! I also forgot that Ted Leo signed to Touch and Go a few months back. That would be a pretty rockin set of bands (most of whom even I've never heard of, but I trust T&G's rep as a great label). Goddamn if we don't have to keep this music thread going ourselves sometimes. Ah, I see Krookie is in here too. Maybe he'll post something brand new for us to read. Yeah, that was a pretty bad joke. The quality isn't great, but I love the song. Edit: Johnny Hickman tears up the solo. Gotta love it.

Ah one of my favorite Beach Boys songs. Have you ever heard the original "Hang on to your Ego?" I think it was on the same album as Wouldn't it be Nice. Although, you might have a hits comp, god knows the beach boys put out enough of them. Anyway, yeah, it was a potshot at some of his contemporaries (I've heard Lennon), and Mike Love whined that they change it. "I Know There's an Answer" is the tepid result. Joe Jackson Band - On Your Radio

Slow week? What are you talking about? Some guy confessed to the Jon Benet Ramsey murder!!1189! That's like six months of news stories right there! Please: no one start a thread about it, because I don't want to read any more about a Caucasian American child beauty queen from a wealthy family who got abused and killed. Yes, it's tragic, but it happens to other people too and their families don't become national tabloid darlings. Woo... sorry 'bout that. I better have another beer before I get too worked up. Anyway, yeah. Pluto, what a bummer. Maybe Disney will change the dog's name to Neptune now. Although the whole "god of the sea" thing doesn't really fit a dog's name from my perspective, but then - I'm just rambling.

I loooooove that album cover. Here's something very, very odd. Apparently, Jim Davis decided to make several very unfunny Garfield comic strips back in 1989. "What's so shocking about that," you say. "Garfield is never funny!" "Ha ha ha," I reply. But these strips are intentionally thought-provoking and there's even a "popular" theory that all subsequent strips are delusions as Garfield starves to death in an abandoned house. Creepy, eh? Of course, the reason I came across this odd piece of internet jetsam is because the song playing in the background is "Bonnie Brae" off the latest Twilight Singers record. Garfield is Dead?

Yeah, that's the album cover I'm referencing. Definitely jumps off the rack at you... I think Albini produced pixies records right? And Nirvana too, IIRC. I have heard good things about that book, but have not read it. Frank Black - Hang On To Your Ego A cover of a Beach Boys song that Brian Wilson wimped out on and changed the lyrics to: "I Know There's an Answer."