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Five Songs, 9/10/2023

The Mr. T Experience, "I'm Like Yeah, but She's All No" Seems like we've had a lot of East Bay stuff recently. Or am I just imaginging things? Anyway, it's welcome. I might have that impression because I was listening to Operation Ivy in the...

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Five Songs, 8/23/2023

fIREHOSE, "Blaze" fIREHOSE's swan song was Mr. Machinery Operator, their second major label release and one produced by J. Mascis. And I think you can really hear Mascis's influence on the record, especially on this track. It's still fIREHOSE, but it's much rougher, much muscular...

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Five Songs, 8/14/2023

Elvis Costello & the Attractions, "New Amsterdam" Costello was in the middle of his 10/10 run of albums (ignoring the covers record), with Get Happy!! being maybe the most distinctive of the lot. It's not my favorite (that's probably This Year's Model followed by Imperial...

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Five Songs, 10/27/2022

The Staple Singers, "I'll Take You There" This is such a majestic tune, absolutely irresistable. De La Soul, "Thru Ya City" I mostly think of the two AOI albums (this is from Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump) as kind of lost albums for De La,...

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Five Songs, 10/13/2022

Throbbing Gristle, "Walkabout" As I was getting further into industrial and noise, around 1991 or so, a key thing I used to help out was Usenet. As I read newsgroups and learned more about bands, Throbbing Gristle would come up a lot as one of...