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YouTube – Slightly Stoopid – Chaunch.

It’s skeletons in the closet week!  Which means I’ll post some guilty pleasures for the next few days.

Slightly Stoopid is a band I had always heard of but never listened to at all – I was put off by their name.  But Chris sent me a few links after listening to this album at a record store recently and being pleasantly surprised at their sound.  I think it’s safe to say I’ll never be a “StoopidHead”, but I did like most of these songs and the blown-out bass on this recording is sort of refreshing as it’s not some over-produced sound.  It is very authentic, and the organ solo around the 4:00 minute mark reminds me of old Jamaican Studio One stuff.  In fact, if I heard the last 2 minutes of this song on the radio and didn’t know who the band was, I would think it was a 60’s recording of some old Jamaican reggae band.  I definitely was not expecting that.  And touring with Sly and Robbie last year gives them a lot of cred in my book.

YouTube – BIZ + SCOTT LA ROCK.

From Chris:

Nobody beats the biz!  All these old nuggets of crucial video tape are appearing on youtube, which is going to keep me curious for years to come. Its so awesome that people take the time to post this stuff. This is Biz Markie and Scott La Rock in Toronto, apparently, in 1987. The outfits are great. I’m sure Canada was the first country to hear hip hop outside of the US. Hell, I’m sure Toronto was hearing this waaaay before those of us in isolated parts of the US were.

YouTube – Cloud Control – Death Cloud.

A friend on Facebook posted this video recently and I had never heard this song or of this band before.  I liked it on the first listen.

I have some time in the next four days to go through some more old tapes and scan a few more things I have run across.

YouTube – Modest Mouse-Fire It Up.

Featuring Johnny Marr.  I just heard this song while I was having lunch.  I haven’t heard all of the songs on this album, but I like this one.   I have a lot of the older Modest Mouse albums, but not the more recent ones.  It’s ironic because I think I like their newer songs more than their older ones, but it’s hard for me to call myself a fan of this band at all.  But how could I not be a fan of a band that somehow got Johnny Marr to join them?  Maybe it’s just jealousy.

YouTube – Linda Scott – I’ve Told Every Little Star.

Kyla put this on a mix tape for me several years ago when we were dating.  I had never heard it before.  I suddenly remembered this song again last week and found the mix tape so I could see who sang it.  And then of course YouTube had a recording of it.

YouTube – Megafaun – The Fade Live on 89.3 The Current.

Kyla and I saw Megafaun perform at the Save Our Arts benefit for Central Park School for Children in Durham last Friday night.  It was snowing when they played and they sounded great – I had never seen them before and am glad that we went.  I bought their double-album on vinyl after the show and have been listening to it all weekend.

The rest of the weekend was filled with snow, ice, a broken heater (that got fixed, thank goodness) and some nice weather at the end.  Now it’s all slush and black ice.  And maybe more on the way this weekend again!

YouTube – “Empire State of Mind” Jay-Z | Alicia Keys [OFFICIAL VIDEO].

Man, I’m getting old.  This song is like one of the biggest ever and I just heard it for the first time a week ago!  Sometimes I think I live in a vacuum.

YouTube – Dinosaur.Jr – Muck (1991).

This has always been my favorite Dinosaur Jr song.   The three rhythm instruments sound great together, and the J Mascis guitar soloing doesn’t get too out of hand.  I need to buy this album again, it has been lost over the years.

They are expecting snow this weekend in Durham, and I hope we actually get it.  If so, I will try to update this site (I’m making a few text edits to some of the pages now) instead of falling asleep early like I did last night after watching Brick City, which was a great series.

YouTube – Old Black Dawning – Frank Black.

The audio quality isn’t great on this video, but it’s the only one I could find for this song.

Tonight I will finally have some time to update some of the pages that have old or erroneous info on them on this site, and maybe upload a few more photos and mp3’s as I continue to listen to the cassette tapes.

I check the “stats” on this site from time to time, and there have been a ton of people listening to Mulligan Stump and G Faithful songs, and not the ones I would think people would listen to, either.  It makes me wonder if some weird spam site has linked those particular songs.  A lot of people get directed to this site from strange Russian and Japanese mp3 download sites (I’m sure they are confused when they actually arrive at this page), and I also get lots of spam comments each day that I delete.  It’s to the point where I think I may just shut off comments altogether as it’s not worth weeding through the spam to find the occasional real comment, but for now I’ll deal with it.  Or I guess I could buy anti-spam software, but I’m cheap.

YouTube – Kinski “The Wives of Artie Shaw”.

This is a great instrumental band from Seattle that I saw a few times when I lived there, featuring the phenomenal drumming of my acquaintance Barrett Wilke.

Gavin Rhodes sent me this article last week.  It’s The Cure’s Roger O’Donnell reminiscing about the making of Disintegration, and it was a fascinating read.

Also, my friend Thomas Tomlinson sent me the drawing below of Creepy G today.
Creepy G was the character in an improvised G Faithful song, and I have added the full size image to that band’s page as well.  Thomas is an amazing artist and I thank him for spending time recreating this character as the original sketches of Creepy G have been lost over the years.

He's a cockroach baby, can't you see?