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Greatest Song Of All Time

Today’s Vegetable:
Ma-a-a-adge … Mabel!

February 25, 2010

To counterbalance all this new Noise Pop shtuff, here’s a classic.
Damn, this song is hard! Where did those harmonies come from? I think about them playing this at a party in Athens in the late 70s, and I’m sure that nobody would ever have that much fun again. And Fred should have kept the mustache.
The [...]

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Friday Flackbash:
Baby Baby Monkey, You Won’t Get No Disease

February 12, 2010

One minute and forty-six seconds of perfection.
The Dickies – You Drive Me Ape (You Big Gorilla)
first posted August 3, 2007
[photo from the Bed Jump Blog]

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Bonus Beats:
A Taste Of Poison Paradise
Or,
Down Dirty Stinky, Grime & Grisly

February 11, 2010

Too much good stuff coming into the inbox lately — gotta relieve the pressure with bonus beats!
Here’s our beloved Or, The Whale (March 12, The Independent) doing a beautiful cover of Britney’s “Toxic” for Cokemachineglow’s Fantasy Podcast:
Or, The Whale – Toxic
http://orthewhale.com
http://www.myspace.com/orthewhale
… and hell, if you’ve been around this vegetable patch for long, you know there’s [...]

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Friday Flashback:
Yes, Miss McClarson?

December 18, 2009

I know I say a song is the greatest of all time kind of frequently, but this time it’s not even debatable.
Lil Mama – Lip Gloss
first posted September 27, 2007

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Today’s Vegetable:
Rumble, Rumble, Rumble

November 20, 2009

A blustery day like this ’un deserves a slamjamma like this ’un, from 2004.
Like Colt 45, it works EVERY DAMN TIME.
Daedelus – Dumbfound (edIT Remix)
For more glitchy fantasticness, check the Glitch Mob’s latest mix Crush Mode.
For the rest of Noises And Mr. Flibberty-Jib, visit rubykhan’s Flickr set.
http://daedelusmusic.com
http://www.myspace.com/edit
http://theglitchmob.com

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Today’s Vegetable:
1891, They Roamed Around And Foraged

November 9, 2009

I’m usually the first to scoff at music “news” like “Band Reveals Artwork And Track Listing For New Album!!!”
However, I will admit that there’s something about the artwork for the upcoming (Feb. 2010) Midlake album The Courage Of  Others that has me reeel excited. Like the artwork for The Trials Of Van Occupanther, it’s low-budg, [...]

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Can You Get Me Some More Champagne?

July 13, 2009

Bone Cootes:  legend, musician, clown fighter, friend to living wrecks, bartender.
Two from his 1997 debut Son Of Dave. One awesome and amusing, the other one of the great love songs of the modern era.
Bone Cootes – Did You See Me

Bone Cootes – So Crazy

http://www.last.fm/music/Bone+Cootes
http://www.myspace.com/bonecootesmusic

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All My Trials, Lord — Soon Be Over

July 3, 2009

Have a wunnerful holiday weekend, American friends.
Non-American friends, have a wunnerful regular weekend, and sorry everybody’s off today.
I love how The King is more into the music than into putting on a show for the crowd in this performance of Mickey Newbury’s classic “An American Trilogy” — during that final post-flute breakdown, he looks like [...]

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The Ack-Right Juice

June 18, 2009

There’s been a lot of reminiscin’ around here lately, but here’s the most reminiscinest: Remember when women in rap resented being called bitches and treated like meat? Doesn’t that seem like a long time ago?
I’m all for some filthiness in my rap, but it just seems so homogeneous these days. I’m sure it’s a lot [...]

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RRRAH!

May 11, 2009

Sacramento?
Freestylers (w/Million Dan) – Dogs And Sledges from Raw As F**k

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