III

Oh man, I had a whole post and then it went away. . . Also, I hope everybody's holiday (if applicable, and if not, at least the weekend) was fun, back to the working week I'm afraid. I went to Texas and now I have a cold, but it's all good :)

'Kay- So- since we've got Hank Sr down there and Jr over at the wonderful Gimmie Back My Head. . . here's some Hank Williams III with Lovesick Broke & Driftin.

Right here!

Definitely a different sound from Jr, more of a return to Sr, if only because III sounds uncannily like his grandfather.

While the third-generation rebel strives mightily to find his own sound by wedding the spooky, old-style country blues and dark themes of his grandfather (Hank Sr.) to the Southern rock and boogie of his dad (Hank Jr.), at times he's guilty of trying too hard to buck Nashville ("Trashville") and re-create the misery of the Williams family tradition. Song after song packs danger and despair between the lines, in drinking to kill the pain, in wallowing in depression, in walking the "low road" of life. That said, III knows how to conjure a gutbucket rhythm ("7 Months and 39 Days") as well as a mournful tearjerker ("5 Shots of Whiskey"), and his touring band keeps things spare, raw, and honkin'. Not everything comes together, but there's no doubting this is a fascinating snapshot of a magical performer struggling to make his own legend. (amazon.com review)

Hank Williams

You're about to read something sad- this is the only Hank I've got on my computer, so donations will be enthusiastically and gratefully greeted :)

Here are nine outstanding tracks from the man himself. Fantastic songs, wonderful if brief collection, this is one of the first albums I remember hearing. . . I think. . .

The Hits - Vol 1

1. Hey, Good Lookin'
2. Jambalaya (On the Bayou)
3. Move It on Over
4. Long Gone Lonesome Blues
5. Settin' the Woods on Fire
6. Honky Tonk Blues
7. Why Don't You Love Me (Like You Used to Do)?
8. I Saw the Light
9. Lovesick Blues

Buy it (used for 2$).

Many thanks for C for sending this too me.

For those it applies to, have a fantastic holiday. I'm off to Texas for bbq.

Ocarina of Time - Hyrule Symphony

Ok, first, I am not buying a Nintendo Wii. As if that will help my image now that I'm posting this :)

My friend gave this to me yesterday, and it's great listening for writing a paper to, except that it makes you want to play Ocarina of Time. This album runs through Koji Kondo's major Ocarina themes (Kokiri Forest, Lon Lon Ranch, Title Screen, Hyrule Castle, Hyrule Field, Gerudo Valley, others), but now it's in an orchestration from the Hyrule Symphony. This will probably only appeal to those geeky Zelda fans, but I can catiously recommend it to people who are still going Ocarina whaaa-? just cos it's pretty.

Because the pieces are closely based on the original scoring, there isn't much drama or story to the songs- keep in mind that these are background themes that are played over and over as long as you are stuck in one location. Still, the music is lovely, and the easily recognizable themes are set into full, though simple, pieces.
Review

Link
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Tracklist in comments.

Cats Not Dogs

Described as "heavily influenced by punk music, the stooges particularily." Check out their myspace and homepage and then grab some of their music! Fun swagger to their music, Stooges influence definitely present.

20th Century Masters (newest EP)

Trade Secrets Demo EP

(I can post them as one upload, if anybody wants.)

If you find that you're really liking the music, they request that you- "Pass this on to anyone you think would like it. burn thousands of copies if you want. GIVE IT AWAY."

Official Bio reads:

Piss and vinegar rock and roll out of Madison, Wisconsin. It will burn the skin off your face. We have shared stages with Metric, The Kills, Los Straitjackets, The Shocker, The Paybacks, The Fever, The Bamboo Kids, The Heroin Sheiks, Rockit Girl, The Impossible Shapes, and too many other amazing bands for us to count. Our influences include but are not limited to: urinary tract infections, cigarette butts, greyhound racing, sickle-cell anemia, and anything else that will piss off the comfortable living style of Americans. The scene in Madison is dead, we like it that way, because it makes us look better. We have toured the Midwest more times than we say "the" in this bio. We have toured the East Coast twice with incredible crowd response and sales. Slept in our van too many nights to count. Last June we rocked the North by North-East Festival in Toronto, Canada. Got hassled by the man at the border, slept in the van some more, made some "friends" and then we got the hell out of dodge. We have independently released three records: two EPs and an LP. Our LP is played on radio everywhere. We are the real deal. Soon we will have to run a re-press and re-stock of our newly released EP, 20th Century Masters because they sell faster than your favorite record. Rock N Roll is not dead, it's just hibernating in a nice warm placental sac.

He's the - he's the dopest trip

"He asked for a 13 but they drew a 31"

Here's the Offspring's Greatest Hits. I ended up with the album the other day after one of those fun night where we all were looking for/lisnin to/singin along to music from back in the day. . . Maybe there's something to be said in that they were one of those bands you really liked in high school, and now there's a nostalgia element, but listening to it now-- truly enjoyable music :p I was going to say something like "Remember the Offspring?" but I guess they're still putting out music- now I feel bad. But you know how it is. Have fun with this one :)

It's of course a crime that "Bad Habit" isn't on here.

[edit] Grab "Bad Habit" here!

Reqs

Okaay kids. Filling out some reqs.

First, some John Lee Hooker is posted up at 360Grauss. I'll put the link/pw below because you have to scroll through a fairly lengthy post, but make sure to go visit the blog, because it has a lot of great stuff, including a ton of other blues recordings. Unfortunately, the tracks are all unlabeled. I think it's this album, but I'll see what I can do about all that. Zip, Badongo.

Link; Link para download>OBS: Usar senha: 360grauss.blogspot.com

I'll get some PiL up in the next week, for now, you can still head over to PunchDrunk for lots of PiL, looks like the links were re-upped.

And, from my sister-- "can you (or anyone else) think of a song that is scornful of love. I have a dumb PowPow/BP assignment that I am really stoked about-- make a soundtrack for the whinny Chaucer poem Troilus and Crysede... any suggestions would be appreciated"

(PowPow/BP is the name of the teacher of the class. Ha ha. I hadn't heard that first part before.)

Toy Dolls

So hop on over here for a ton of music- including tons of live Clash (some dead links, I'll try to sort through them) and more Vandals than you can shake a stick at.

And grab the best of the Toy Dolls, which will be my specific recommendation for this Tuesday. Even though it totally doesn't have the asthma song on it. . .

The Best of the Toy Dolls

Happy Halloween!

Browse around and you'll find lots of festive posts today- including over at Gimmie Back My Head.

Get some Misfits from detectiefvanzwam.

And definitely definitely get this little broadcast- Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater's War of the Worlds. Find out about the broadcast here.

Have a safe holiday! But most of all have fun :)

Misc!

This is just a quick link round up to let you know I'm still alive and will be even more so when midterms are over :p

Grab yer beautiful selves some Lars Frederiksen & the Bastards (Viking and s/t) from Suburban Terror.

And then some "Townes motherfuckin Van Zandt" (as the guy who introduced him to me put it) from Blood on the Tracks.

Cagey Tigers

Reposting the Cure's Greatest Hits, thanks to Caitlin for uploading it :)

Greatest Hits!

And then, we have Shakira, thanks to Jim because for him, it isn't a guilty pleasure :p

Fijacion Oral, Vol 1

OK Oh No Go

Some Ok Go for what is a rainy day over here. Enjoy!

Oh No

Der Likedeeler: Mando Diao - Ode To Ochrasy

The fabulous Der Likedeeler has posted the newest Mando Diao album!

Der Likedeeler: Mando Diao - Ode To Ochrasy

Don't forget to thank the kids over there :)

Blanche

Finally got my ass in gear, made a new post, and then my browser shut down! But I'm a trooper-so here we go again-

If We Can't Trust the Doctors

Blanche ("Gothic indie-country-folk medicine show revivalists") plays haunting, melancholy, gorgeous Americana. NME calls the album "a strange and beautiful delight" and Vanity Fair labeled it "sparkling, elegant, and smart." If the Cure ran smack into Townes Van Zandt, is what I'm thinking right now. You probably saw frontman Dan John Miller in Walk the Line as Luther Perkins, with his wife Tracee as Perkin's wife Birdie. Little Jack Lawrence (the Raconteurs, the Greenhornes) recently joined the band, and Jack White, who was in a band with Miller, appears on track 8.

It's a collection of near-spooky gothic country-blues, dirges for sanity and laments for optimism wrapped in reverb, banjos, autoharp, pedal steel, and dank Poe atmospherics. Led X-ishly by the husband and wife duo of Dan and Tracee Mae Miller, Blanche plays old-timey Midwestern twang with one foot in authenticity and the other in well-versed satire.

If you like it, buy it! And check out the new EP in October and the new album early next year (nowhere near soon enough). I hope they swing by NY, would love to catch them live.

And grab all the PiL you'll need at PunchDrunk! And Direction Reaction Creation (5 discs of the Jam) from All Night Thing!

Joe Strummer!

From the fabulous Jim and his new layout/blog--

Gimmie Back My Head: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Rock Art & The X-Ray

Grab it! Say "thanks" to Jim!

Also grab the Slackers from You & Me on a Jamboree!

Social D!

Go get yourself lots of great Social D boots/rarities from Hangover Heart Attack, including a concert from Germany, promos/demos, EPs- also get the Supersuckers while you're at it.

Here's my current guilty pleasure :)

My Head!

I haven't been online recently, so I finally went on today and found out that it had really happened- but, we've got Gimmie Back My Head, so don't be too sad. Go visit Jim's new project!!

Ta Dah

Here are a few links to the new Scissor Sisters album, it may be that not all of them will be working by the end of the day-

Rapidshare, Rar dead

Rapidshare, Zip

http://www.load.to/

The Clash En Español

So if you're disappointed with the list that Jim was kind enough to post, here's a different Clash tribute. Because I'm an idiot and didn't take Spanish in high school (I said, I live in SoCal, I can learn it any time, I'll take French now, cos I'm an idiot.), I can't say whether it's more enjoyable if you understand all the words. Naturally, you can make a lot of it out since you already know the lyrics. . . it's fun, and it comes with the original Clash versions, for comparison. All-in-all, not a bad listen, and probably even better if this your kind of thing. It's all very true to the original version. Enjoy!

Thanks to the outstanding individual who uploaded it in the first place!

Clash Tribute En Español.

Janie Jones from Pete and Carl

-who got back together for the time it takes to record Janie Jones. Grab it from the Rock Snob, here.

From strummerville.com-

Janie Jones Single to Raise Strummerville Funds
05/09/2006
Pete Doherty and Carl Barat are just a few of the artists currently working on a cover of the Clash's "Janie Jones" for release later this year. More details will be forthcoming about other artists who are also participating in this project which is intended to raise funds for our charity.

I don't know if I like it-- it lacks energy? It's like. . . let's make a tribute. . . to the, uh, Clash. . . we love them. . . so much. . . Sorry, I'm just sick of Pete Doherty/his antics, so now it's rubbing off on everything he does music-wise, which isn't fair. That's a cute picture though :) I'm excited to see who the other artists are.

Brian Setzer x2

I've been inspired to post some Brian Setzer, since the wonderful TWILIGHTZONE! has got up Brian Setzer's "Nitro Burnin' Funny Daddy" (and don't forget to tell him thank you!).

And if you like what you hear, pick up The Dirty Boogie from the Brian Setzer Orchestra.