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#Built to spill nothing wrong with love zip zip#

It's like the music of Explosions In The Sky as played by the Cure, with little bits of GYBE! thrown in just for kicks. I just now got around to listening to Red Sparowes, a band that Wardell recommended to me forever ago. I've been adding a bunch of bands on mycrack today because I'm A) not interested in listening to anything I have on hand, and B) am horribly out of touch. But man, I'd be totally ok not hearing either of their songs ever again. Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson: I totally appreciate the cultural import of both of these guys. I saw them at SXSW a few years ago, and while their performance was good, it did nothing to make me want to listen to them more. My first thought is that it's the vocals, but then I think maybe it's because the songs sound indistinguishable from each other to me. X: I've never been able to pin down quite what it is about this band I don't care for. Ultramega OK still totally fucking rules! Remind me to tell you my weird meeting with Krist Novoselic story sometime. In the 90s, when the grunge thing was happening, I liked Nirvana a lot, but I was way more into Alice In Chains and Soundgarden. Again, this band suffered from crazy overexposure. Nirvana: I still like to listen to Bleach every once in a while. Remind me to tell you my weird meeting with Michael Stipe story sometime. They became a Big Music Making Machine, just like U2, and I didn't really care about anything they had to say. By the time Monster came out, I could barely stand to listen to them. REM: I liked these dudes as a kid, circa Green. That said, that was a month or so ago, and I haven't rushed out to pick up the new LP. Since I originally wrote this post, I heard them do a tune from their newest record on some late night talk show, and it sounded pretty cool. (An exaggeration, duh, but you know.) Regardless, 'Race For the Prize' is still the jam. I don't need to hear The Soft Bulletin ever again, because for a about two years, I couldn't spend more than an hour or so in a bar without it coming on. The Flaming Lips: Maybe this group has suffered from overexposure. (I was heartbroken to find out that Isaac Hayes was one of them.) I still want to check out Sea Change so I can hear dude try his hand at doing Gainsbourg. I saw them live years ago, and my favorite part of their set was their cover of fucking 'Freebird'.īeck: I think I like what Beck does conceptually, but his music always sounded too slick to me even though it was presented as this anything-goes thing. But I am not engaged by them, even a little bit. that I pretty much never, ever feel the urge to listen to, in no particular order:īuilt To Spill: I enjoyed their first album ( Ultimate Alternative Waivers). The warm, sweet, non-flutter-and-wow-y analog sound hasn't made the music suck any less.ģ This still holds true. Guess it's good that I listened to all that garage rock.Ģ I now also have both of these albums on vinyl. 3 )ġ A little over three years after I wrote this, I got to open for the Sonics at their first Seattle show in 35 years.

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(* PS: I will pay good American dollars for a copy of Devastatin' Dave's Zip Zap Rap. Definitely worth the $0.50 I paid for it. You can hear the cocaine on this album even more clearly than on The Dude. Last night, Chris and I were listening to it, trying to imagine the band in the studio making this record, and not being able to figure how they could take what they were doing seriously. Orleans - Waking And Dreaming 2: You may recall that this album, which contained the 70s AM Gold hit 'Still The One', also had one of the absolute worst album covers of all time*. They take a kitchen sink approach, throwing in Middle Eastern, Baltic, and Carribbean bits together with vocals in French, Italian, and Hindi, and it comes out sounding pretty sweet. I'm sad that I never actually procured a record until now. I like it.ģ Mustaphas 3 - Heart Of Uncle: I've been aware of these guys since about 1989 when I read a review of one of their records in Spin and it sounded really cool. You can practically hear the lleyo being snorted off the mixing board. A Dave Koz clone rips out some gross alto sax solos. Quincy Jones - The Dude 2: It's soooo 1981. From what I understand, the band teamed up with the folks behind Avril Lavigne's sonic drek, The Matrix, for their next record. The Mooney Suzuki - Electric Sweat: Garage rock isn't usually my bag, but I've been listening to the Sonics 1 a lot lately, and this CD was $4.00, so I figgered what the hell? Sure enough, it's pretty rockin'. It's spooky and ambient but still rocks out in spots. Yann Tiersen & Shannon Wright - s/t: Yann Tiersen did the music for 'Amelie', and Shannon Wright is just awesome.