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Something amazing happened today. I went grocery shopping and not a single person filled me with murderous rage. Not one. I think the key was spending a little time this morning before shopping at the library. Also, running into an old friend of the family's at Woolworths helped a bit. It's incredible what a difference a good run at the shops can make to your stress levels. I feel relaxed and refreshed. Highly unusual.
Speaking of relaxed, this week's list was starting to look a little too crunchy so I threw Janis Ian and We Are Jeneric in to clear the palette For a serve of bubblegum, there's a Billboard compilation for 1980; plus the classic Huey Lewis and the News album, Sports. Two crunchy albums from, can you believe it, 1987 that I didn't know about previously are from The Lemonheads and Pulp. Also here is the soundtrack to Before Sunrise/Before Sunset which I happily drove all the way back to Guildford to get after leaving it behind two weeks earlier. For more funky and soulful flavours there's LL Cool J and Slackwax. Lastly, for a little more crunch, I'm revisiting Last Splash from The Breeders.
Check it out:
Something amazing happened today. I went grocery shopping and not a single person filled me with murderous rage. Not one. I think the key was spending a little time this morning before shopping at the library. Also, running into an old friend of the family's at Woolworths helped a bit. It's incredible what a difference a good run at the shops can make to your stress levels. I feel relaxed and refreshed. Highly unusual.
Speaking of relaxed, this week's list was starting to look a little too crunchy so I threw Janis Ian and We Are Jeneric in to clear the palette For a serve of bubblegum, there's a Billboard compilation for 1980; plus the classic Huey Lewis and the News album, Sports. Two crunchy albums from, can you believe it, 1987 that I didn't know about previously are from The Lemonheads and Pulp. Also here is the soundtrack to Before Sunrise/Before Sunset which I happily drove all the way back to Guildford to get after leaving it behind two weeks earlier. For more funky and soulful flavours there's LL Cool J and Slackwax. Lastly, for a little more crunch, I'm revisiting Last Splash from The Breeders.
Check it out:
- VA - Billboard Year End Hits 1980
- We Are Jeneric - Animals Are People Too
- LL Cool J - Bigger & Deffer
- The Lemonheads - Hate Your Friends
- Slackwax - Night Out
- VA - Before Sunrise / Before Sunset OST
- The Breeders - Last Splash
- Janis Ian - Between The Lines
- Pulp - Freaks
- Huey Lewis and the News - Sports
Top Five Artists Last Week
- Bob Dylan
- Elvis Costello
- Counting Crows
- Arctic Monkeys
- Mazzy Star
I was going to give you an Elvis Costello song from Spike, but then remembered he got the gig last week. So I've gone with something new instead. The band is Yuck, a UK outfit that released its self-titled first album in 2011. If you haven’t heard them, they’re kind of Pavement-y and a little grungy. They don’t sound English to me.
This song Out Of Time is off their second album released last week, Glow & Behold. It’s best features are the jangling rhythm guitars, the lead guitar which follows the melody of the vocal and the slightly off-key vocals themselves. When it gets noisy is when it calls up the 90s. That grinding fuzz over melodic structure just puts the grunge in the tail. It’s short and sweet and a bit gloriously sloppy, a really good soundtrack to a Friday in the office.
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The big game last week turned out to be somewhat of a fizzer. While the lesser of two evils won (Hawthorn), the game itself was a mess and neither team really did anything inspiring. Since then though, football news has gone beserk with Lance Franklin leaving for Sydney for massive amounts of spoondoolah and, for Eagles fans at least, the new coach controversy with Adam Simpson chosen over favourite son and leading club goal kicker Peter Sumich. I'm personally happy to have Simpson on board, but do not have fond memories of the last time West Coast poached a Hawthorn person as coach. I'm not even going to say his name, lest it waken the spirits of curses past.
If you are at all interested in Australian Hip Hop, check out Hunter: For The Record. I chipped in to fund it via Pozible and recently watched my downloaded copy that was a reward for backers. Even if you're not into Hip Hop, actually, it's still a very raw and real look at a man going through the terrible torture of terminal illness.
Rest in Power, MC Hunter. Hasala malakim.
The big game last week turned out to be somewhat of a fizzer. While the lesser of two evils won (Hawthorn), the game itself was a mess and neither team really did anything inspiring. Since then though, football news has gone beserk with Lance Franklin leaving for Sydney for massive amounts of spoondoolah and, for Eagles fans at least, the new coach controversy with Adam Simpson chosen over favourite son and leading club goal kicker Peter Sumich. I'm personally happy to have Simpson on board, but do not have fond memories of the last time West Coast poached a Hawthorn person as coach. I'm not even going to say his name, lest it waken the spirits of curses past.
If you are at all interested in Australian Hip Hop, check out Hunter: For The Record. I chipped in to fund it via Pozible and recently watched my downloaded copy that was a reward for backers. Even if you're not into Hip Hop, actually, it's still a very raw and real look at a man going through the terrible torture of terminal illness.
Rest in Power, MC Hunter. Hasala malakim.
