Did you know Ryan Adams is quitting music? No one has blogged about that, so I thought I'd tell ya.
What, Heath Ledger died?! When?! Get out.
Try the shish with aioli, folks. Click me and grow a moustache.
(mp3) Ryan Adams - Ramblings (live)
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(mp3) Docent Död - Solglasögon
Available on S/t (1980)
(mp3) U2 - The fly
Available on Achtung Baby (1991)
(mp3) Ming Tea - BBC
Available on Austin Powers International Man Of Mystery (1997)
(mp3) Peeping Tom feat. Norah Jones - Sucker
Available on S/t (2006)
(mp3) David Gilmour - Island jam
Available as a b-side on Smile single (2006)
How's that for a fool proof cash-in title, eh? Someone had their thinking cap on.
This is the third attempt to get this record sold, after Welcome Back, Carrie (1977) and Look Who's Talking In A Plastic Bubble (1993) bombed. Not snappy enough.
These three tracks are all from 1976 and 1977. I could be completely wrong though, I don't trust my sources and I trust myself even less.
Something I do know for certain is that he's sure got some sweet pipes that Barabrabarirainino dude. If he wasn't so anti-Xenu I'd might be able to enjoy this full on.
Also, how much you wanna bet Back Doors Crying is about an evening of anal sex that didn't live up to the expectations? My gaydar is beeping, Vincent Vega. Beeping loudly.
(mp3) John Travolta - Can't let you go
(mp3) John Travolta - Slow dancin'
(mp3) John Travolta - Back doors crying (highly recommended!)
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High time for the third installment in Metal Bastard's Theme Mix series (don't you just love referring to yourself in the third person?). The Hand Songs complilation I promised in the last post will have to wait a while, it needs more work.
Being unemployed and having the whole day at you disposal sure is great for making random things that serve no purpose. Apart from this one and the Hand mix, I have already finished a Dream mix with Nat King Cole, Brant Bjork, Whiskeytown, Patsy Cline and others. It's terrific and will probably be posted this weekened or next week.
There's also a Time mix in the works (featuring Björk, The Hellacopters, Jim Ford, Tom Waits and Lee Hazlewood) and I was thinking of doing a Waters mix of songs with "sea", "ocean", "river", "lake" etc in the title. But I came up with at least 30 brilliant River songs so I might make a separate mix for just them.
Until then, here's a healthy dose of hellfire, brimstone and eternal suffering.
Hail Satan!
PS. Devil And The Sea by St. John Green is a song I found over at Swan Fungus a few months ago. Click here and download the whole album, it's brilliant.(zip) Metal Bastard's Satan Songs (57 mb)
1. The Rolling Stones - Sympathy for the devil (1968)
2. Roky Erickson & The Aliens - Don't shake me Lucifer (1981)
3. Kris Kristofferson - The silver tongued devil and I (1971)
4. Desert Sessions - Up in hell (2001)
5. Maddog - Devil's daughter in disguise (1976)
6. Spinal Tap - Hell hole (1984)
7. Porklift - Satan built my 18-wheeler (1996)
8. Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Devil with the blue dress on/Good golly miss Molly (1966)
9. The Hives - What's that spell... Go to hell! (1997)
10. Evil Superstars - Satan is in my ass (1996)
11. Jerry Garcia & David Grisman - Friend of the devil (1991)
12. The Pogues - Boys from the county hell (1984)
13. Procol Harum - The devil came from Kansas (1969)
14. St. John Green - Devil and the sea (1968)
15. The White Stripes - Catch hell blues (2007)
Previous installments:
Metal Bastard's Gone Songs (January 20th)
Metal Bastard's House Songs (January 23rd)Buy em @ Amazon.com.
(mp3) The Shins - Kissing the lipless
Available on Chutes Too Narrow (2003)
(mp3) Elvis Presley - Guitar man
Single (1967)
(mp3) Bob Dylan - One more cup of coffee
Available on Desire (1976)
(mp3) Bob Marley - Mellow mood
Available on Mellow Mood (1996)
(mp3) The Rolling Stones - Doncha bother me
Available on Aftermath (1966)
So how do you like the new banner? Smudgy jpegs ftw!
I liked making the Gone Songs mix so much that I just had to make another one based around the same idea. So completely pointless and so much fun. I was listening to Jimi Hendrix' Red House and decided to make a mix of House songs. There are only two rules for these mixes:
1. The chosen word has to be in the title. I don't care if that word appears a hundred times in the lyrics, if it's not in the title it doesn't count.
2. Only songs I can think of on my own will be included. Searching the computer for the word hoping to find mp3s is cheating and strictly verboten.
Muchos gracias to "scrapmusic" and "tony" who both were kind enough to suggest words for future mixes in the Gone Songs post.
The former suggested the word "chips" which proved very tricky. The latter suggested songs with bodyparts in the title, which was much easier. The bodypart that got my creative juices flowing was "hand". I'm already working on a Hand mix in my head, and Nick Cave, Primus, Richie Havens and Pearl Jam will most likely be on it. Stay tuned, I'll probably throw it up sometime next week. I just need a few days to work it and think of potential songs to include.
Until then, kindly suggest words for future mixes in the comments. Do so while downloading this flawless mix - which covers 82 years of music! Try to top that, I dare ya.
1. The Olivia Tremor Control - The opera house (1996)
2. Charlie Poole & The North Carolina Ramblers - White house blues (1926)
3. Depeche Mode - Here is the house (1986)
4. Love - A house is not a motel (1967)
5. John Murphy - In the house, in a heartbeat (2002)
6. The Stooges - Fun house (1970)
7. The Animals - House of the rising sun (1964)
8. Tom Waits - Come on up to the house (1999)
9. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Red house (1967)
10. Spencer Moore - Cleaning house (1968)
11. Bo Hansson - At the house of Elrond & The ring goes west (1972)
12. 13th Floor Elevators - Slip inside this house (1967)
13. Bruce Springsteen - My father's house (1982)
14. Radiohead - House of cards (2007)
15. Leerone - Empty houses (2008)
(zip) Metal Bastard's House Songs (68 mb)
Previous installments:
Metal Bastard's Gone Songs
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(zip) Pink Floyd's Early Years (52 mb)
1. Apples and oranges (1967)
2. Arnold Layne (1967)
3. Candy and a currant bun (1967)
4. It would be so nice (1968)
5. Julia Dream (1968)
6. Nick's boogie (1967)
7. Point me at the sky (1968)
8. Scream thy last scream (1967)
9. See Emily play (1967)
10. Vegetable man (1967)
1. Kelly Clarkson - Since u been gone (2004)
2. Skid Row - Youth gone wild (1989)
3. Maggie McNeal - When you're gone (1975)
4. Anna Ternheim - To be gone (2004)
5. Cop Shoot Cop - Get gone (1995?)
6. The Supersuckers - Then I'm gone (2002)
7. Tages - I'll be doggone (1966)
8. The Posies - Going, going, gone (1993)
9. U2 - Gone (1997)
10. Sammy Davis Jr. - Please don't talk about me when I'm gone (1966)
11. Broder Daniel - I'll be gone (1998)
12. Woody Allen & His New Orleans Jazz Band - After you've gone (1998)
13. Billy Bragg & Wilco - Another man's done gone (1998)
14. Captain Beyond - Thousand days of yesterdays (Time since come & gone) (1972)
15. Drive-By Truckers- Gravity's gone (2006)
(zip) Metal Bastard's Gone Songs (47 mb)
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1. Alan Price - O lucky man!
2. Gene Vincent - Race with the devil
3. The Crack - You keep running
4. David Sandström Overdrive - The sixties
5. M. Ward - Today's undertaking
6. Captain Beefheart - I'm glad
7. The Hives - Return the favour
8. Brinsley Schwarz - Silver pistol
9. Duncan Sheik - In the absence of sun
10. Sammy Davis Jr. - I don't care who knows
11. The Solution - Words
12. The Moody Blues - Nights in white satin
(zip) Metal Bastard's Boredom Mix (37 mb)
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If I say "Pink Floyd", what comes to your mind?
Most likely Dark Side Of The Moon and/or The Wall. Maybe Animals or Wish You Were Here. Perhaps images of flying pigs and elderly citizens with a lot of nose hair playing songs at 40 bpm at Live 8 flash before your eyes. And if you know anything about rock history, you might be thinking of Syd Barrett.
But what were these four upper middle class British gents doing for all those years between Syd Barrett leaving/being sacked in 1968 and the release of Dark Side Of The Moon in 1973? Ladies and gentiles, I give you: Pink Floyd's Lost Years, aka Pink Floyd's Glory Years For Dummies.
I say "glory years" for a reason. I'm a rabid Pink Floyd nerd (got all the albums, all the movies, all the books, all the documentaries, all of everything) and this is without a shadow of a doubt my favorite era in the history of Pink Floyd. I've never subscribed to Syd Barrett's genius. Yes, he wrote some good tunes, but what he was doing simply wasn't my cup of tea.
Their big bloated, over produced, stadium rock era started with the monumental success of Dark Side Of The Moon, and while I like their work from that album on, that wasn't my bag either. Nope, I prefer the shit that was going on inbetween when the band was left to experiment and try to find their voice.
The guided tour starts here:
A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968)
In 1967, Pink Floyd's debut album Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was released. It is said that The Beatles eavesdropped on what the Floyd was doing while recording the album at Abbey Road, and then ripped the concept off and called it Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, but I doubt it. The album (and a few hit singles like Arnold Layne and See Emily Play) made Pink Floyd psychadelic superstars and the world seemed to be their oyster.
Unfortunately, lead guitarist, lead singer, frontman and main song writer Syd Barrett was becoming increasingly unreliable. Some say it was all of the LSD and Mandrax he was putting into his system, others (like bassist Roger Waters) say it was schizophrenia. Either way, it was obvious he couldn't function as the band's leader anymore, and he certainly couldn't be trusted at live gigs. Therefore David Gilmour, an old school mate of Syd's who at the time was playing in a blues rock band called Joker's Wild, was brought in to take over guitar and vocals duties, and the band existed for a short period of time as a quintet. The photo at the top of the post is one of the few taken with both Syd and David in the band.
One day in January of 1968, sick of Syd erratic behavior, the other four members decided to simply not pick up Syd for a gig and just like that Syd Barrett's tenure with Pink Floyd was over. Apparently, he would occasionally show up at gigs and stand in front of the stage, staring David Gilmour down.
Before he left though, he participated in the early stages of the recording sessions for Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful Of Secrets. The final track Jugband Blues is all Barrett (and honestly sounds completely out of place), but apart from that no one seems to be able to agree on exactly what he played on the album. It's obvious he plays on Remember A Day (anyone could recognise that trademark, spacey guitar of his) but he may also play on some of the other songs, such as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
The rather silly sounding Corporal Clegg was the first song in which Roger Waters touched upon the topic of war as a way of coping with his father dying in World War II. This would become one of the main topics in his songwriting career from that moment on.
More (1969)
Pink Floyd's first endevour without Syd was the soundtrack for Barbet Schroder's film More. The album is quite different from everything else Pink Floyd ever released. There's two heavy, rock songs bordering on proto-heavy metal (Ibiza Bar and The Nile Song, which are really the same song), and quite a few acoustic, almost country-ish, folk tunes like Cymbaline, Green Is The Colour, Cirrus Minor and Crying Song.
There was also a few exercises in electronic, experimental mood music, reminding us that it was indeed meant to accompany a film, and not necessarily something you only listen to. It remains one of my all time favorite Floyd albums, and Cymbaline could very well be the best Pink Floyd song ever written. Unfortunately the song was taken off their regular live set as early as 1971.
Ummagumma (1969)
Ummagumma is definitely the band's most experimental work. Released as a double album - one record of studio recordings, the other of live recordings. I gotta be honest: I only ever listen to the live album. You see, on the studio half the band didn't work as a band. No, each of the four members recorded their contribution individually. It's clear they were clutching for straws at this point, desperately trying to think of new things to explore. Or at least new ways to explore old things.
The "songs" by drummer Nick Mason and keyboardist Rick Wright are completely unlistenable, and Roger Waters' songs are just silly. The only proper song on it is David Gilmour's brilliant The Narrow Way Part Three.
The live half however, is near flawless. Amazing live renditions of Astronomy Domine, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Saucerful Of Secrets and Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. Not the best live versions of these songs ever recorded, but all four of them better than any studio takes ever released.
Atom Heart Mother (1970)
For the next album, the band teamed up with composer Ron Geesin to create the 23 minute title track, a track which I absolutely love. Like Ummagumma, this album also featued more prominent individual song writing from the band members.
Roger Waters' If is mindnumbingly boring and almost identical to parts of the material he wrote for the film The Body the same year and Ummagumma the year before. Apparently he was in some sort of pastoral, acoustic phase. Good for him. Too bad you can't listen to it.
The closer, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, is a bad joke gone too far and the less said about it the better. David Gilmour's beautiful Fat Old Sun and Rick Wright's nostalic Summer '68 are much better. Plus, it has the best album cover ever.
Meddle (1971)
1971 saw the release of Meddle, mostly known for containing the 23 minute epic Echoes, which both musically and lyrically would set the standard for all their future musical endevours. Gilmour's and Wright's harmony vocals came to the forefront for the first time on this track, and it would become one of the band's trademarks over the following decade.
One Of These Days is a nice bit of krautrock with one of very few vocal contributions by Nick Mason, A Pillow Of Winds is a soft acoustic piece that wouldn't have sounded of place on More, San Tropez is a tropical sounding song with a shuffle beat and Fearless is most notable for ending with the fans of the Liverpool football team singing You'll Never Walk Alone.
Arguably the Floyd's least cohesive album (along with A Saucerful Of Secrets), with each track going in a different direction.
Live At Pompeii (1972)
This film was my first introduction to Pink Floyd, which might explain why I prefer this particular era.
The title is a bit misleading since the band only performed three songs at the amphitheatres of Pompeii. The rest were filmed in a studio in Paris. Also filmed later, for a 1974 recut, were scenes shot at Abbey Road studios of the band recording Dark Side Of The Moon. Or at least that's what the film makers want us to think.
In reality, the album had already been finished, so "recording sessions" were staged for cameras. Also included in this 1974 cut is interviews with the band and some bits and pieces from the Abbey Road cantine. Nick Mason's bickering about his no-crust-policy regarding apple pies is particularly entertaining. Once he's informed he cannot get a piece of apple pie without crust, he doesn't want any pie at all. I'll never understand why he couldn't just remove it himself. Perhaps it's an early version of "red M&M's only"?
The film contains what are in my opinion the definitive versions of all included songs. Careful With That Axe Eugene, One Of These Days, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Set The Control For The Heart Of The Sun and Echoes (here divided into two parts, bookending the picture) have never sounded better, before or since.
Obscured By Clouds (1972)
Obscured By Clouds was yet another soundtrack album for a rubbish Barbet Schroder film, this time La Vallée. It remains Pink Floyd's most overlooked album, and it's hard to see why. Fans of Dark Side Of The Moon should love this, as it has a very similar production and similar song structures. Childhood's End for example, can easily be seen an early, rough version of Time (off Dark Side).
The only real difference is that Obscured By Clouds doesn't have that pretentious over-all theme that Dark Side had, and it also lacks all those samples of voices, thunder, cash registers, footsteps, heartbeats and god knows what. In many ways, Obscured By Clouds is Dark Side Of The Moon with all the bullshit left out.
The following year Dark Side Of The Moon was released, and you probably know the rest. As always, if you like what you hear buy the damn albums and support the artist. Because Pink Floyd needs your money. They live on the streets, wearing rags, eating out of trash cans, roasting rats over campfires, selling their arses to strangers for a Guinness. You have this one chance to save them from poverty. Take it.
But first download this 19 track compilation I've put together just for you. Yes, you.
(zip) Pink Floyd's Lost Years (98 mb)
From A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968):
1. Let there be more light
2. Remember a day
3. Corporal Clegg
from More (1969):
4. The Nile song
5. Green is the colour
6. Cymbaline
From Ummagumma (1969):
7. Careful with that axe, Eugene
8. The narrow way, pt. 3
From Atom Heart Mother (1970):
9. Summer '68
10. Fat old sun
From Meddle (1971):
11. One of these days
12. Fearless
13. San Tropez
From Live At Pompeii (1972):
14. Echoes part 1
15. A saucerful of secrets
16. Set the controls for the heart of the sun
From Obscured By Clouds (1972):
17. Burning bridges
18. The gold it's in the...
19. Childhood's end
The fifth installment in this eclectic series of mixes.
I dare say the best one yet.
(zip) Silver&Crimson volume 5
The Olivia Tremor Control were part of the Elephant 6 collective, also home of Elf Power, The Essex Green, Dixie Blood Mustache (the best band name ever!), Major Organ And The Adding Machine, The Neutral Milk Hotel and the worthless Of Montreal.
Visit the Elephant 6 website to find out more about these weird bands. The Neutral Milk Hotel's 1998 album In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (these people like long names) is often percieved as the definitive Elephant 6 masterpiece. I beg to differ, as I often do.
Dusk At Cubist Castle, recorded between 1993 and 1996, and released in '96, is most definitely the Masterpiece (yes, with a capital M). A whopping 27 tracks of the most beautiful psychedelic pop music you could ever imagine. The list of weird shit going on here never ends. Melodica, chanter pipe, space bubbles (!), singing saw, "mallet struck acoustic guitar", Tibeten prayer board... I haven't even heard of half of the instruments used on this recording.
Here's some examples of just how utterly extraordinary The Olivia Tremor Control could be when they wanted to:
(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping fences
(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - No growing (exegesis)
(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - NYC-25
...and some examples of how fucking annoying they could be:
(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - Tropical bells
(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - Green typewriters (#18)
(mp3) The Olivia Tremor Control - Theme for a very delicious grand piano
But this is all part of the charm, the genius that was The Olivia Tremor Control. I certainly wouldn't want an OTC album without the noise collages and the pointless interludes. They're just as much a part of the band as the gorgeous Beatles-like melodies and angelic vocal harmonies that Fleet Foxes can only dream of.
You can't have one without the other, as these two sides of the band represent the two very different musical views of main songwriters Will Cullen Hart and Bill Doss.
Add to this the eye popping cover art, which is basically Lucy In The Sky Diamonds realised, and you got yourself a shimmering psychedelic meisterwerk worthy of all the praise in the world.
Elephant 6 has a section where you can freely download mp3s. Click here for the Olivia Tremor Control section. I particularly recommend the gig at Emmaboda in Sweden 1998.
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(mp3) The Rolling Stones - Torn and frayed
Available on Exile on Main St. (1972)
(mp3) Kinky Friedman & The Texas Jew Boys - They ain't makin' jews like Jesus anymore
Available on Old Testaments And New Revelations (1992)
(mp3) Jesse Malin - Questioningly (Ramones cover)
Available on The Song Ramones The Same - A Tribute To The Ramones (2002)
(mp3) Jandek - Painted my teeth
Available on Modern Dances (1987)
(mp3) Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound
Available on Juju (1981)
After that Thåström post (scroll down), I thought I'd share some songs by Imperiet, the band in which he was the guitarist, lead singer and main song writer between 1981 and 1988.
For the first two years they were a side project to Ebba Grön while their bassist Fjodor was in prison, and featured the other three members. Originally named Rymdimperiet, they shortened their name and became a full time band when Ebba Grön split up in 1983.
Imperiet were basically the soundtrack to my childhood, I know all of these songs like the back of my hand. They were a pretty natural continuation of Ebba Grön, with their first album considered by many (including myself) to really be the fourth Ebba album.
This is a compilation of some of my favorite Imperiet songs I made in 2000. Imperiet's biggest hits aren't on it, because I had just bought their Greatest Hits compilation and saw no reason to include them.
These songs are taken from the albums Rasera (1983), Blå Himlen Blues (1985), Synd (1986), Live/Studio (1988) and the singles collection Kickar 1981-1987 (1990).
This is premium shit, peeps. You may not understand the lyrics, but that doesn't matter. Great melodies transcend all language barriers.
(zip) Metal Bastard's Imperiet compilation
1. Rasera (1983)
2. Århundradets brott (1985)
3. Kom ihåg (den fria världen) (1983)
4. Offret (1986)
5. Kontroll i Stockholm (1983)
6. Höghus, låghus, dårhus (1983)
7. Kom kom (1984)
8. Innan himlen faller ner (1986)
9. Personliga Person (live) (1988)
10. Min maskin (1984)
11. Tonårsjesus (1985)
12. Moderna män (1985)
13. Blå himlen blues (1985)
14. Kanonsång (live) (1988)
15. Den nya dansmusiken (1983)
16. Holländskt porslin (1985)
17. Vad pojkar vill ha (1981)
18. Balladen om briggen Blue Hull (1986)
(zip) Metal Bastard's Imperiet compilation
Some fun stuff I found on MySpace, all downloaded and zipped up for your listening pleasure. Some of it you might've heard, others you haven't. Some of these people are signed, others aren't.
Especially good are Baby Shakes, Movie Star Junkies, The Carrots and Emily Wells who are all in a league of their own. They're almost as good as my MS Paint skillz. Almost.
Emily Wells' Symphony 9 And The Sunshine reminds me of something though... But I can't put my finger on it. Is it Zeppelin's Going To California? Could be.
(zip) Metal Bastard's MySpace Raid Volume 1
1. Baby Shakes - Stuck on blue
2. The Carrots - Beverly
3. The Hex Dispensers - The crone (99 cats)
4. Emily Wells - Symphony 9 and the sunshine
5. Naked On The Vague - All aboard
6. Movie Star Junkies - Your miserable life
7. Körsbärsfettera - Tonårsfylla
8. Ida Redig - Morning smile
9. Psychedelic Horseshit - Portals
10. Lovvers - Human hair
11. High Places - Head spinz (Hawney Troof remix)
For a more in-depth rundown of Joakim Thåström's career, I'd like to direct you to my post on his 2002 album Mannen Som Blev En Gris on my other blog.
I've been a fan of Joakim Thåström more or less my whole life. I had no choice - my older sister would blast his records at full volume all through the 80s. I've loved all the phases he's gone through, the punk stuff in the 70s, the political rock of the 80s, the industrial metal of the 90s, and his return to his rock roots in the last decade.
But I've always had the feeling that Thåström would do wonders if he would only strip down his music and open up, not unlike Johnny Cash's transformation in the 90s, but I never thought it would happen.
Well, with this album it did.
In his lyrics Thåström had always been hiding behind the words, often giving you the feeling of either writing total fiction or deliberately writing lyrics that didn't say anything, just throwing together words that sounded good. The kind of lyrics that are so vague you argue they're about "everything and nothing", but most of the time ended up being about nothing, since you as a listener couldn't relate. Whenever he did write about personal things, they would be hidden behind so much clutter and metaphores that it didn't make much of a difference.
Thåström had always been an artist who was too busy moving forward to ponder the past, and in addition to this he was always quite embarrassed over large parts of his discography, mainly the albums he made in the 80s. For periods of time he wouldn't give interviews at all, he isolated himself in Amsterdam and Copenhagen, and refused to talk about his early years. Mattias Huss put it very well:
The personage of Joakim Thåström is shrouded in rock'n'roll myth. In the minds of the Swedish, he is the solitary wanderer, the mysterious stranger of musical non-conformism. Thåström is the one and only rock star of the far north.So when Skebokvarnsv. 209 was released in 2006 people reacted the same way they did when Bob Dylan suddenly opened up and became personal in No Direction Home and Chronicles: Volume One - journalists pored over every line and marvelled at the things they revealed.
(mp3) Thåström - Söndagmåndagsång
(mp3) Thåström - Ingen sjunger blues from Jeffrey Lee Pierce (highly recommended!)
(mp3) Thåström - Främling överallt
(mp3) Thåström - Om Black Jim
Bonus tracks:
(mp3) Thåström - Fanfanfan
B-side version, alternate take (2006)
(mp3) Johnny Cash - Thirteen
Not available on Unchained (1996)
(mp3) Scott Walker - Jesse
Available on The Drift (2006)
Buy it all @ Amazon.com.
The video for Om Black Jim:
(mp3) Jandek - Nancy sings
Available on Chair Beside A Window (1982)
(mp3) Glenn Miller - Moonlight serenade
Single (1939). Available on Moonlight Serenade (compilation, 1992)
(mp3) Marvin Gaye & Kim Weston - It takes two
Single (1966). Available on Together/Take Two (compilation, 2001)
(mp3) David Gray - Babylon
Available on White Ladder (1999)
(mp3) Randy - Summer of bros
Available on The Human Atom Bombs (2001)
This album must have really signaled to record industries that music was 'shifting', because we fans understood that it was not really, and this album shows that through its weakness to, well, even be good.
I listened to this as part of appreciating a variety of band's starts, and this band really just, I mean... This was thought to be good, or at least good enough for other deals? As I said, I understand that garage band rock was a big focus, with other bands too, but this leads to success?
Sometimes I have to sit back and remind myself that good comes out of bad, because the band's improved and that's for sure; however, unless you're a fan, or just a music connoisseur like me, then you'll never pick up this album. Simply because there is no point.
(zip) The Hives - Tussles in Brussels
1 ) Intro
2 ) Abra cadaver
3 ) Antidote
4 ) Missing link
5 ) Main offender
6 ) Statecontrol
7 ) Walk idiot walk
8 ) Outsmarted
9 ) A little more for little you
10 ) Die all right!
11 ) The Hives declaire guerre nuclaire
12 ) No pun intended
13 ) Hate to say I told you so
14 ) Born to cry (Dion & The Belmonts cover)
15 ) Supply and demand
16 ) Diabolic scheme
17 ) Two timing touch and broken bones
18 ) B is for Brutus
19 ) Dead quote olympics
20 ) A.k.a. I-D-I-O-T
(zip) The Hives - Tussles in Brussels
Buy all things Hives @ Amazon.com.
(mp3) Evermore
Bonus track:
(mp3) Save me a Saturday night
(mp3) I'm on to you (highly recommended!)
(mp3) Delirious love (feat. Brian Wilson)
Buy it @ Amazon.com.
