Reasonable April Mothership Shambles (April 15th - 19th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

It's a comparatively chilly Saturday in Perth today and over in Melbourne it's just gone half time at the MCG  in the Melbourne V West Coast match. All I can say about West Coast's game so far is WTF! So let's get on with the music.  

First up, courtesy of NPR, I have a 10 track sampler of new music for April. Also new are the latest from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dawes. Some Australian flavour this week too, from punk pioneers The Saints, indie rock heroes Jebediah and unofficial poet laureate, Paul Kelly. Speaking of Punks, I've got a Greatest Hits from John Lydon's PIL. Thanks to Amazon's amazing new retrospectively active AutoRip feature on vinyl (and some creative getting around a geotardation) I have the digital version of one half of my Led Zep Mothership vinyl. Finally, in the Hip Hop corner, jazzy consciousness from De La Soul and gangsta swagger from the King of New York, Jay-Z.

Check it out:

• VA - NPR April Sampler
• Jebediah - Of Someday Shambles
• De La Soul - Buhloone Mind State
• Dawes - Stories Don't End
• Paul Kelly - Ways & Means
• Led Zeppelin - Mothership (LP 1 & LP 2)
• Saints - Know Your Product
• Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
• Public Image Ltd - The Greatest Hits, So Far
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Mosquito

Top Five Artists Last Week

1. Beach Fossils
2. Counting Crows
3. Ryan Adams
4. Elvis Costello
5. Gram Parsons

Song of the Week : Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow

First up, let me apologise up front for the total cheese of this week's choice. However, I found myself in a situation where it has been the ear worm every single day of the week so far and I thought I'd share the love :)

This is Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow from an album called Same Trailer, Different Park. That should clue you in to how whitebread and country this girl is. I hadn't heard of her until NPR streamed her album and I thought I'd give it a listen for giggles. Most of it is a Dixie Chicks bluegrass hybrid and pretty bland overall. But this one song, as cheesy as it is, won't let go of my eardrums. 

I suppose I like the sentiment, I quite like her voice and the melody is very catchy. It’s also a little bit of an insight into some contemporary issues for grrrrls, I suppose. See what you think, but don't blame me if it takes hold of your brain too - in the way that annoying jingles can do.

Toodle Pip

Thanks for stopping by. With any luck you'll find some new music this week that changes your life - or just some annoying song you can't get out of your head. It's all good. 

Hasala malakim.

Sunday Public Asylum Massacre (July 2nd - 6th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.


A week of all work and no play make Corey J something something. Go crazy? Not quite, but it was touch and go there for a while. All enjoyable stress of course, but it does take its toll. Skagboys is going well. One good thing about being tired from work is getting to bed earlier and getting to read every night. Renton and Co. have just had a couple of tastes of Heroin and the book is mainly concerned at this stage with the rampant unemployment of Thatcher's Britain in the 80s. That's not a book report, that's just me making conversation. Okay, okay shut up monkey boy and make with the music. 


In this week's bag of treats, I have the kick-ass soundtrack to a cheesy 70s teen melodrama I just watched, Over The Edge; there's the Sonic Youth and Public Image Limited albums I bought courtesy of a carton of Becks; your funky education continues with disc 3 of Star Time; I threw in some 50 Cent and Cypress Hill coz I is well gangsta innit?; do you remember Soul Asylum? Dave Pirner dated Winona Ryder. You don't remember Winona Ryder? Me either. Queen are good though eh? For new sounds I have some old sounds by Silver Jews and the latest from Japandroids that some well-respected Twitter critics have raved about. I haven't heard them since Post-Nothing and I wasn't overly fussed on that album. I do trust my Twitter critics though, so we'll see.

Check it out:

• Japandroids - Celebration Rock
• VA - Over The Edge Soundtrack
• 50 Cent - The Massacre
• Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
• James Brown - Star Time Disc 3
• Public Image Limited - Public Image Ltd
• Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
• Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
• Queen - Queen's Greatest Hits
• Silver Jews - Early Times

Top Five Artists Last Week

1. James Brown
2. The Cure
3. Eminem
4. Circle Jerks
5. The Police

Song of the Week : Wax Audio - Disturbing Practices (Overboard)

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Initially I was going to pick a vitriolic Elvis Costello song about Thatcher just to highlight how great some songs can be when they're so nasty. Then I remembered a song far more closely related to our own mess and just as nasty - only this time, the politicians' own words are used to hang them out to dry.


This is Disturbing Practices by Wax Audio, a remix of political propoganda from the time of the Children Overboard fiasco. The fact that people forgot Howard and Costello's lies and voted them back in, just illustrates how too many Australians have the derp derp deyturkarejarbs! mentality.


Problem is, the majority of voters seem to still be conveniently forgetting that people have died as a result of this veiled White Australia Policy, this attempt to rile up rednecks and make them feel 'secure' from those nasty desperate people. I'm disgusted in The Ranga for still playing the games with people's lives that got Howard elected. I can say with pride that I voted Greens and kept offshore processing out of the Senate.

I'm 5000

Thanks for stopping by. It is my nephew's first birthday bash this weekend. It's a pirate themed party. So I thoroughly intend to burn copies of all my sister and brother in law's DVDs. Yaaaar! 


Be good to one another. Don't worry about a thing, because damn it, if you're reading this it means you have an internet enabled device and a connection. That's already put you in the richest 30 or so percent of people in the world. Share the wealth a little hey? 


Go Eagles. Hasala malakim.