Here's another Weekend
Post:
After yesterday's "Tank Girl" post, this one crossed the old brain pan, as its full name is "Cindy (Rotten Tanx)."
I haven't heard this solo Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) song in over a decade, if not more.
But I still laughed when he got to the line, "Hey Cher is hot."
Hear the song on Youtube.
Weekend posts are a chance to revisit songs that have happy memories, not of anything in particular, other than just hearing the tunes.
Many of these songs were tracks that I played during my 90s stint as an Alternative/Modern Rock radio show. They're tunes that I hardly hear these days, but are fun to revisit.
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Sunday, September 1, 2013
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Sonic Youth "Bull In The Heather"
Here's another Weekend
Post:
Since it's Derby weekend, I figured I should post a horse-race-betting tune . . .
Hear the song on Youtube.
Weekend posts are a chance to revisit songs that have happy memories, not of anything in particular, other than just hearing the tunes.
Many of these songs were tracks that I played during my 90s stint as an Alternative/Modern Rock radio show. They're tunes that I hardly hear these days, but are fun to revisit.
Since it's Derby weekend, I figured I should post a horse-race-betting tune . . .
Hear the song on Youtube.
Weekend posts are a chance to revisit songs that have happy memories, not of anything in particular, other than just hearing the tunes.
Many of these songs were tracks that I played during my 90s stint as an Alternative/Modern Rock radio show. They're tunes that I hardly hear these days, but are fun to revisit.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Sonic Youth "The Diamond Sea"
I was never really into drugs (yeah, "really" is a qualifier).
I always felt like they usually detracted or distracted from the experience, rather than added to it.
Especially during concerts. So I was almost always completely sober for shows.
Because being high would have meant totally missing out on one of the great concert music experiences of my life.
In the mid-90s, some time after their "Washing Machine" album came out, I went with a friend to The Tennessee Theater in Knoxville to see Sonic Youth.
Sonic Youth's live shows were never about style---in that there were no costumes or dancers or schtick. But they did have an incredible light show.
And when they performed "The Diamond Sea" and the tune moved into its long, dissonant final phase and the lights were pulsating and my ears were rings and the energy of the audience was ratcheting up, up, up . . . I really could have sworn that I was tripping on something. The floor was moving, the shadows were bulging, time was bending.
It was the weirdest, coolest damn thing.
And then, like the tide receding, the music subsided and I was back to earth.
That couldn't have happened if I were fucked up . . .
Geffen released the song as a single, which edited down the CD version, from 19 minutes to under 6, which is what appears in the video. And Youtube doesn't let you post anything over 10 minutes.
Hear the shortened version on Youtube.
The vinyl version is actually longer than the CD version at nearly 26 minutes.
I always felt like they usually detracted or distracted from the experience, rather than added to it.
Especially during concerts. So I was almost always completely sober for shows.
Because being high would have meant totally missing out on one of the great concert music experiences of my life.
In the mid-90s, some time after their "Washing Machine" album came out, I went with a friend to The Tennessee Theater in Knoxville to see Sonic Youth.
Sonic Youth's live shows were never about style---in that there were no costumes or dancers or schtick. But they did have an incredible light show.
And when they performed "The Diamond Sea" and the tune moved into its long, dissonant final phase and the lights were pulsating and my ears were rings and the energy of the audience was ratcheting up, up, up . . . I really could have sworn that I was tripping on something. The floor was moving, the shadows were bulging, time was bending.
It was the weirdest, coolest damn thing.
And then, like the tide receding, the music subsided and I was back to earth.
That couldn't have happened if I were fucked up . . .
Geffen released the song as a single, which edited down the CD version, from 19 minutes to under 6, which is what appears in the video. And Youtube doesn't let you post anything over 10 minutes.
Hear the shortened version on Youtube.
The vinyl version is actually longer than the CD version at nearly 26 minutes.
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Geraldine Fibbers "California Tuffy"
I saw Wilco in concert earlier this week.
It had been 10 years since I'd last seen them live. That was before Nels Cline had joined the band. So seeing him was the part of the show I was most looking forward to.
Cline has done a bunch of things in his career. I mean, you must be a hell of a player, if you're working with Charlie Haden and Sonic Youth and Willie Nelson.
I was reminded that he played in this kick-ass 90s band, The Geraldine Fibbers, who had the minor (but awesome) alterna-hit "California Tuffy."
Hear the song on Youtube.
It had been 10 years since I'd last seen them live. That was before Nels Cline had joined the band. So seeing him was the part of the show I was most looking forward to.
Cline has done a bunch of things in his career. I mean, you must be a hell of a player, if you're working with Charlie Haden and Sonic Youth and Willie Nelson.
I was reminded that he played in this kick-ass 90s band, The Geraldine Fibbers, who had the minor (but awesome) alterna-hit "California Tuffy."
Hear the song on Youtube.
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