What’s The Sound Of A Cashing Check?
[on the road early, so here's Friday's post...]
This is the way it goes sometimes:
“Hey this band is pretty good. Oh wow, this band’s actually pretty freaking great. Hey look at them performing on TV! Holy crap they’re awesome! I have to see them! What, they broke up today?”
The Blood Brothers - Set Fire To The Face On Fire from the excellent Young Machetes (insound / amazon CD
[photo by manu_el_o_matic!]
The Blood Brothers’ performance of Set Fire To The Face On Fire on the Henry Rollins show was transcendental (Refused-level intensity), but the YouTube post of it is clasically crumb-ee. So here’s “Laser Life,” which also was ridiculously sweet.
This is one of those remixes that’s pretty much totally different from and better than the original version. I guess the Fugees feel the same way, because it’s the version they chose to lead off their Greatest Hits. It was the first Fugees track I heard, and even though the rest of their output was decent, this is pretty much the Fugees to listen to when I choose to listen to Fugees.
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I know there must be people in the world who miss The Darkness as much as I do, but I am surprised that it isn’t a great worldwide clamor. They were both more serious and funnier than they were given credit for (then which for they were given credit?).
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