Holy crap! Another week crossed off the calendar. Here we go!
- Type O Negative, “Angry Inch” (from Life is Killing Me). I’ve already written about this song before.
- Thomas Dolby, “Close But No Cigar” (from Astronauts & Heretics). Hardly anyone I know listened to Thomas Dolby after his “one hit” (you know, the one about being blinded by something…). They are much worse off for ignoring the rest of his output. “She came for coffee… and stayed all night.”
- Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, “Sweat” (from Orange). Lo-fi dirt channel “bloose” from a white NYC guy. It would be a self-parody if it didn’t rawk so much.
- Pegasus, “Black (dark mix)”. A cover of the Sarah McLachlan song from Solace. This was found via a distant LJ acquaintance. If LJ had a decent search engine for posts (it doesn’t), I could have remembered the post where I downloaded it from. Good thing I linked to it once upon a time. Too bad the song is no longer online.
- Squirrel Nut Zippers, “Bad Businessman” (from Hot). The definative theme song for Bernard Ebbers and Kenny-boy.
- The Dambuilders, “Special Ed” (from Ruby Red). Look, these guys were really good. I saw them open for TMBG once, and it was a singular experience to be sure. Joan Wasser could really make a violin rock out.
- Autechre, “Second Peng” (from Anvil Vapre EP). A full eleven-minute-long slab of electronic menace. Music for cyberscapes.
- Low, “Step” (from The Great Destroyer). Featuring their daughter Hollis on backing vocals.
- Tori Amos, “Winter” (from Little Earthquakes). One of the best choruses ever written:
When you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna love you as I do?
When you gonna make up your mind?
Cos things are going to change so fast
All the white horses are still in bed.
I tell you that I’ll always want you near;
You say that things change, my dear… - Vince Guaraldi Trio, “Greensleeves” (from A Charlie Brown Christmas). More Christmas in July; spookily appropriate after “Winter”, methinks.
Have a great weekend.
ASIDE: While typing this up, I just found out via Warp Record’s Newsletter that Boards of Canada are set to release their full-length followup to Geogaddi in October. This is good news, especially to those of us who still listen to Music Has a Right to Children on a weekly basis.