Inhale 420 Stoner Rock Compilation
Honestly, I am not certain whether or not I have put this one up before or not, it's an old one from 2000....I know I haven't listened to it for a while, so if I have already posted it,sorry, here it...
View ArticleThe Ultra-Mega Flaming Lips post, part 1
This is a hard one to do, because, like, say Yo La Tengo, the Lips have such a HUGE volume of material, both commercial and unofficial, that it's almost impossible to get a comprehensive selection of...
View ArticleThe Ultra-Mega Flaming Lips Post, Part 2
OK, so yesterday we left off with "Transmissions From the Satellite Heart", a great album and a career highpoint.....so what would they do after that? Well, the next release was 1995's critcally...
View ArticleThe Ultra-Mega Flaming Lips post, Part 3
So, yesterday we left off with 2006's "At War With the Mystics".....I guess the next time these lads were heard from were a pair of 2009 releases...first up we have "Embryonic".....a double album set,...
View ArticleThe Ultra-Mega Flaming Lips post the finale
Cleaning out the Flaming Lips vault with whatever I have left, some EP's and stuff, again, I just feel the need to comment again on what an innovative band, all of their ideas may not work, but they...
View ArticleI Decline
From Chicago Illinois comes this hard-rocking, semi-stoner, semi-thrash band, they seem most similar to perhaps Thin Lizzy's twin-guitar attack, maybe with a bit of Black Sabbath and some random...
View ArticleDavid Byrne/Brian Eno "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
A seemingly forgotten minor-classic, I loved this albumwhen it came out in 1983 or whenever it was.......Brian ENo and David Byrne lay down some super-groovy funk tracks and compliment them with...
View ArticleBuilt to Spill
Some catchy, hook-filled, guitar jamming indie rock from Boise Idaho, most often bringing to memory the work of Pavement, or, perhaps more accurately, Dinosaur Junior. This is also a band (like Flaming...
View ArticleHuman Expression and Other Psychedelic Groups
Found this one a couple days ago on Venenos Do Rock (and it's a FANTASTIC site. very http://venenosdorock.blogspot.com/) and couldn't wait to share it with any of you guys who might have missed it...
View ArticleA non-musical bonus for lovers of cinema
Going to hit the road again for a couple days, hitting the casino again tomorrow night with my lovely wife Carla, our son Grant and our "adopted son" Aaron (Grant's best friend) and getting up early...
View ArticleThe Mothers of Invention
The Mothers get very little play on these share blogs, I am going to change that a bit....certainly NOTgoing to delve into Zappa's entire career, for one, there is JUST TOO MUCH, and for another, a lot...
View ArticleBack With a Vengenace, Dave Sez presents more TELEVISION!
No such thing as "too much" Television, one of my all time favorite bands....the post- "Adventure"stuff is not always great, but IS ALWAYS interesting, and here the legend that is Dave Sez offers up...
View ArticleA NEW semi-regular feature, let's see how it works....
Here is the story.....I have a huge file of maybe 100 (or more) albums of Greek punk albums, singles, EP's, and etc.....problem being I cannot read a word of Greek, and have been looking for a...
View ArticleZerocharisma
And JUST in case you don't appreciate my Greek Punk effort team up with new friend APANTA BAPANTA, let me throw our just one more tasty tidbit on a Friday evening for ya......Digging DEEP for an...
View ArticleMitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels
Say it with me: "Va-Ri-E-Ty"......it's ALL rock n roll, but to my ears it is all nearly as intersting, andif I want to put the Mothers of Invention/Televsion/Zerocharisma/and Mitch Ryder up on...
View ArticleBonus post on a slow Saturday, Robert Savage
Had this all ready for tomorrow but feeling somewhat generous, thought I'd put up an extra Saturday post with some obscure early 1970's hard/psych rock and what could POSSIBLY be wrong wit...
View ArticleThe Shirts
Regulars at CBGB's at the height of the scene, but, somewhat like Talking Heads or Television and a few others, not because they were especially "punk" in thier presentation, but more, actually,...
View ArticleA Sunday bonus post and another favorite of my late Dad's
My Dad really loved versatility/variety in music, not just in rock, like I do, but he was quite a fan ofblues, country, folk.....lots of stuff. When I was a kid the stereo was on ALL the time, and you...
View ArticleOK, gonna have to trust me, this is GREAT shit (non-musical)
OK, basically this is a MUSIC blog, first and foremost....I LOVE music and I LOOOOVE sharing it with the rest of the world, hope it makes some of you happy, which is my goal.....lately, though, I have...
View ArticleDream Syndicate
Finding good stuff in the early 1980's was not an easy chore, basically we were stuck with 1970's hangers-on, The Clash, Costello, etc......but there WERE good ones out there, you just had to LOOK for...
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