1) Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
2) Josh Martinez - Tranzar
3) Butthole Surfers - Summer in the City
4) Los Gatos Locos - Headhunters
5) Trans Am - Conspiracy of the Gods
6) Sufjan Stevens - To Be Alone With You
7) Happy Mondays - 24 Hour Party People
8) Le Tigre - Les and Ray
9) Jens Lekman - Pocketful of Money
10) Jon Brion - I Believe She’s Lying
Bonus Video: My flavor of the week, Chromeo’s “Needy Girl,” a song with absolutely no irony. None whatsoever. Nada. Nil.
When I grow up I want a fancy vocoder too.
In my totalitarian state, music like that will be promoted heavily but, ironically, people sporting that sort of mustache will be fired into the ocean with a cannon.
1. Drivin’ on 9 by The Breeders / 2. Slippery People by The Talking Heads / 3. Classifieds by Bob Mould / 4. Ooh Baby by X / 5. Bad Man by T-Model Ford / 6. Don’t You Even Go There by LMNO / 7. Solid State by Combustible Edison / 8. Living in the Ghetto by Toots & the Maytals / 9. The Journey by The Pretty Things / 10. Blessed be the Name by Mississippi John Hurt.
P.S. I think the sidekick got the Vocoder at Peter Frampton’s garage sale, who himself got an inflatable pig at a Pink Floyd yard sale.
1. “Living For The City”, Stevie Wonder
2. “Ziggy Stardust”, David Bowie
3. “No Sleep ‘Til Brooklyn”, Beastie Boys
4. “Time And A Word”, Yes
5. “Fixing A Hole”, The Beatles
6. “Birth, School, Work, Death”, The Godfathers
7. “Groove Is In The Heart”, Dee-Lite
8. “Pinch Me”, Barenaked Ladies
9. “Rudie Can’t Fail”, The Clash
10. “Walk Away Renee”, The Left Banke
1) Paul Mounsey: Passing Away
2) Rolling Stones: Street Fightin’ Man
3) Jimi Hendrix: Killing Floor
4) Nine Inch Nails: Head Like A Hole
5) Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Righteous And The Wicked
6) Iggy Pop: Lust For Life
7) Public Enemy: Final Countdown of the Collision …
8) The Cult: Love Removal Machine
9) The Breeders: Roi
10) Melissa Etheridge: Precious Pain
Track on repeat lately: Motorhead’s cover of Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Lemmy’s all-in-the-midrange sound and gravel-pit voice make for a very different sound.
A rare treat, I got a second Ten on the train home, thus:
1) The Clash: Train in Vain
2) Enter The Haggis: Maggie’s Pancake Mix
3) White Stripes: Ball and Biscuit
4) Beastie Boys: Sabotage
5) Beck: High 5 (Rock the Catskills)
6) Macy Gray: I Try
7) Ramones: Pinhead
8) Southern Culture On The Skids: Soul City
9) Wicked Tinkers: Terror Time
10) Beck: Go It Alone
Now, no FRT is perfect, but if one were going to go on my headstone, I could do worse than that one. B&B is probably my favorite modern attempts by a rock artist to do something that is identifiably blues and not just blues-rock or blues derivative.