I have had more time to let the new records by Turbonegro and The Hellacopters sink in and this time around its the Turbonegro entry that is the better of the two. Its got and accessible glam pop sheen that works well. Of course its also the record where they dont have a US release lined up, and its their one record to date that really has the most potential for a cross over mainstream success.
Ive also been listening to tracks (iPod mixes) from the Chuck Norris Experiment S/T CD. Solid Hi Energy RocknRoll from Sweden, so if youre looking for something like the early punky Hellacopters check out The CNE.
Its strange when I you start hearing your friends, acquaintances and obscure bands on the radio. In the last week I have listened to or noted:
Kevin Patrick of New Math/ JBB was on the BBC radio show Shake Some Action playing a few gems from his collection
Little Stephens Underground Garage played Theres a Bimboo Under my Bed by Adam West
And then just today I have been watching the DVD of the Denis Leary TV show Rescue Me, which has the Von Bondies Cmon Cmon as its theme
I picked up the 101ers new album today and despite some apprehension I dig what I have heard so far.
Lastly I picked up the book Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture edited by Thurston Moore. I have always been a mix tape fan, and miss the form. Its only been in the last couple of years that I have given it up, mostly out of laziness but also because so few people have tape decks anymore. I have lately taken to making CDR mixes, which while they still achieve the goal of letting someone know about and be able to listen to music that they dont know, is almost too simple.
Just the other day one of my friends from work had no idea who I was talking about when I mentioned that I wanted to see Bo Diddley at the Taste of Minnesota this year. I quickly asked her if she knew of: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison ect none of which she knew anything abut. 20 minutes of point and click from my iTunes program and I had 20 or so odd tracks of early Rockabilly and RocknRoll on a CD for her. I didnt have to search though my records, my tapes or CDs. I didnt have to cue anything up, or hit any pause buttons. One click and my computer was burning the disc for her..
I have kept a lot my tapes from the past, there are others have I have let go or lost along the way. I am sure that there are tapes that I have forgotten about and ones that I would cringe at even the thought of the music that I put on some of my early tapes.
I know that I did write something about mix tapes here some time ago, so Ill shut up about it now..
Ive also been listening to tracks (iPod mixes) from the Chuck Norris Experiment S/T CD. Solid Hi Energy RocknRoll from Sweden, so if youre looking for something like the early punky Hellacopters check out The CNE.
Its strange when I you start hearing your friends, acquaintances and obscure bands on the radio. In the last week I have listened to or noted:
Kevin Patrick of New Math/ JBB was on the BBC radio show Shake Some Action playing a few gems from his collection
Little Stephens Underground Garage played Theres a Bimboo Under my Bed by Adam West
And then just today I have been watching the DVD of the Denis Leary TV show Rescue Me, which has the Von Bondies Cmon Cmon as its theme
I picked up the 101ers new album today and despite some apprehension I dig what I have heard so far.
Lastly I picked up the book Mix Tape: The Art of Cassette Culture edited by Thurston Moore. I have always been a mix tape fan, and miss the form. Its only been in the last couple of years that I have given it up, mostly out of laziness but also because so few people have tape decks anymore. I have lately taken to making CDR mixes, which while they still achieve the goal of letting someone know about and be able to listen to music that they dont know, is almost too simple.
Just the other day one of my friends from work had no idea who I was talking about when I mentioned that I wanted to see Bo Diddley at the Taste of Minnesota this year. I quickly asked her if she knew of: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison ect none of which she knew anything abut. 20 minutes of point and click from my iTunes program and I had 20 or so odd tracks of early Rockabilly and RocknRoll on a CD for her. I didnt have to search though my records, my tapes or CDs. I didnt have to cue anything up, or hit any pause buttons. One click and my computer was burning the disc for her..
I have kept a lot my tapes from the past, there are others have I have let go or lost along the way. I am sure that there are tapes that I have forgotten about and ones that I would cringe at even the thought of the music that I put on some of my early tapes.
I know that I did write something about mix tapes here some time ago, so Ill shut up about it now..
batattak:
Hey...did you ever go and grab that Tesco Vee song? Over here.