PopTodd

another one:

"Monday, Monday" - The Mamas and The Papas

I always make it a point to rotate my listening so that I do NOT get sick of the music that I love.

That is probably why you hardly ever see me listening to Wilco. My wife listens to them enough at home so that I get my fill there. I do love it, so I do not want to get sick of it. Hence, no Wilco for me at work.

I ain't visited much, sad to say; especially in my adult years. But, from what I have:

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue

Cotton Mather - The Big Picture

Jason Falkner - Presents Author Unknown

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live Seeds

The Flashing Lights - Where the Change Is

oh yes! Roosevelt Franklin!!

I knew who it was without even seeing those videos.

I love me some Roosevelt Franklin.

Not sure right now.

The first ones that come to mind are:

"God Only Knows" - Beach Boys

and

"Ju Ju Man" - Brinsley Schwarz (written by Jim Ford)

Given to change at any given moment, and in no particular order:

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Beatles - Revolver

Kinks - Something Else

Television - Marquee Moon

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

Brian Eno - (pick any one of the first 4)

John Cale - Paris, 1919

Steve Wonder - Songs In the Key Of Life

Tom Z

> contestes

 

who is Con? - and why are we talking about his testes?

lined up for tonight . . .

HOORAY!!!!

A lot of those "UK-Only" songs are actually on the set that I have.

But a lot are not.

Same here, only we're also getting sub-zero temps to go along with the snow!

I love the Midwest.

no, i mean, seriously, how do you keep winning these tickets? are you some sort of XRT member? do you enter raffles?

I just enter online.

And yeah, I am an "XRT VIP". Basically, that just gives me the right to enter into more contestes... with better odds. So I guess that helps. A lot.

That's one good-looking set.

 

If it wasn't for Tracy Ullman, I don't know if I would have discovered Kirsty MacColl. I loved her video for "They Don't Know" (with Paul McCartney!) when I was a kid. Years later, when I found out Tracy's version was a cover, I wandered into MacColl's catalog.

Such a brilliant, underrecognized songwriter. I actually shed a few tears the day that I heard of her death.

Seriously.

Not only were Stiff:

"The Worlds Most Flexible Label"

But all of their albums were:

"Electrically Recorded".

Their roster included:

Nick Lowe

The Damned

Graham Parker

The Rumour

Elvis Costello

Tenpole Tudor

Madness

Kirsty MacColl

The Pogues

Desmond Dekker

Tracey Ullman (yes, her)

and many more that you've never heard of, but you really should hear.

I have a small condensation of the 4-disc set, if you need convincing.

But, you should really just buy it!

There was a reason that people said:

how do you keep winning all of these tickets?

I don't know.

But I bought a lottery ticket this week... just because.

This will be something to see.

Thanks for the info.

Maybe I'll win tickets to this too.

I've seen him a couple of times -- both solo/acoustic -- and he is phenominal. So intense.

But it's been a few years (like, 10), so I'm pretty stoked.

Frisbie - The Subversive Sounds Of Love

Mark Sultan - The Sultanic Verses

Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Stiff Records Box Set (disc 3)

Sonu Nigam - compilation

Just got this email from WXRT:

Congratulations! You've won a pair of tickets to see a very intimate performance from Bob Mould live from Studio X at Martyrs' on Tuesday, February 5th! Martyrs' is located at 3855 N. Lincoln Ave in Chicago. Doors open at 5:30pm and the show begins at 6:30pm.

I met Louie and Wendy at the Steve Earle Studio X show a couple of months ago... which is how I wound up here.

Wow.

Just wow.

Good run.

Someone told me that the recent Sesame Street dvd release has a parental advisory sticker of some sort on it - is that true?

Summuffabitch.

Just more evidence that we are moving backwards... back to the puritanical values that we had previously been liberated from.

As soon as my wife finishes with it:

i'm a big big fan of self-censorship.

Me too, at least when it comes to what my kids see and hear.

For instance, when I play a cover of Camper Van Beethoven's "Good Guys and Bad Guys", I change the line:

Just get high while the radio's on

to:

Just say hi while the radio's on

They're 6 and 8. Old enought to get it, but not really. They don't need to be asking me why I condone such things by singing about them.

Kermit and the Mystery Box:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYiFxGtseHw

I watched this with the family yesterday, and we were ALL laughing out loud. Hard.