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Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

It’s 2AM and after a few swigs of Beam, I found a better version of the Lido Shuffle, from back in the day when ol’ Bosley had a little fight left in him

I might just be tipsy and overstimulated, but this recently discovered version almost approaches a Glass-Houses-era Billy Joel level of energy. And I love the sloppy studio beginning buidling up to the big concert thing going on. I take it back, Boz, you’re OK. You’re no Donnie Iris but you’ll do.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

Wigs talked big, but where is he now? I still love the boy, though.

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 10

Last volley. I’m bleat (and late.)

The sitcom ending? not bad, but it’d been better if Suzanne Pleshette woke up in bed next to the Viking. Or Minotaur, or whatever that thing is. At least it’s not the Layer Viking. I kid, I loved the Layer Viking

I dunno where to go with this, so I’m going to torture you all with a song I’ve heard three times in the last 48 hours, and I can’t explain why.

The Lido Shuffle
by Boz Scaggs

It especially sucks because when I hear the opening bass riff, I think it’s going to be Thin Lizzy and I get all excited. There are already bands I used to like that are about that exciting live, and it’s only going to get worse. Last time I saw Stereolab, Tim was wearing a linen suit.

Thanks for having me. Both matches were great and bless you all for sticking with us. Drive home carefully.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 9

Dinner wasn’t ready, and the crying was my wife, not my daughter. She can wait.

Man, Talking Heads. I’m not going to go there. They’re great and all, and they’re all still respectable, and at least they’ve kept the reunions to the minimum necessary level. Wait, I’ll go close. Great song we’ve all heard a million times, but have you seen the video? it’s actually a bit layer-tennis-y:

Genius of Love
by Tom Tom Club

The Tom Tom Club, of course, is Chris and Tina, the less-hip, married half of the Talking Heads. They weren’t in the Modern Lovers, they didn’t have a big suit, but this song actually holds up better than a lot of Heads stuff.

“Bohannon! Bohannon!” Bring on the last volley!

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 8

More Koxvoldian jump-cutting and sort of an animated timeline look. Sweet. And that banjo music is back. Of course the biggest hit of recent years with a banjo is Feist, but I’ll spare you having to hear that again.

Banjo… Oh, I know! Let me share with you the magic of electric banjo:

Oh How to Do Now
by the Monks

Look them up, they have a great story and they’re a little hard to take at first but they grow on you. They got on German TV, after all.

I think dinner’s ready and someone’s crying upstairs, so I’m going to disappear for another moment. 10’s not up yet anyway.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

OK, where the hell was I on the other match? I’m losing my audience. Love me. Oh, right, got it…

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 7

Hutch does what he does best, and it’s sweet. There are two songs I like that are closely related to Video games, and “Theme from Narc” by the Pixies isn’t all over the web, so here’s:

Warp to World 6-9
by B.E.N.E.F.I.T.

Totally not work-safe, and the lyrics are totally stupid/misogynistic, but the beat and sample rule, and the “pause” is genius.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volleys 9 and 10

Might as well wrap this all up at once, right?

The outside-the lines sine wave (brill, by the way) of volley 9 can only be the beginning of:

Super-Electric
by Stereolab

Too effing Pure. Which takes us back to Zulkey’s DeRogatis interview which has clearly been weighing on me today. Jim says of Sasha Frere-Jones, “By the way, Sasha, you were in a in a fucking art rock band [Ui] that was whiter than Stereolab.” I don’t know if that’s possible. Well, whiter, maybe, but not as Frenchy. I always thought “Hey, Sasha Frere-Jones and Tobias Frere-Jones have the same weird last name and they both live in New York, but that’s probably a coincidence.” But today I thought, “no, that’s stupid, they gotta be related.” And it turns out they’re brothers, of course. I looked it up. In Meggs.

So anyway, that was neat, and then there’s volley 10. I don’t know Chris all that well, just through Tennis and blogging and I met him in person at the studio once, when we talked about being from Cincinnati, and the new Creation Museum that opened up in Kentucky. So when I went home for Christmas, I thought “there’s no one I’d rather stroll through the Creation Museum than Chris Glass (for various reasons obvious and not-so-obvious), so we hooked up and it was fun. So I’d like to think this last post is a little memento of our time together there, which has been documented elsewhere. And hopefully next time I see him we can do something less creepy and weird.

So anyway. Blurry dinosaurs make me think of Pylon. Hey, looking just now, they’re hip again, vinyl on DFA and everything. Who knew?

Crazy
by Pylon

(I couldn’t find “Cool” or a better version of that, sorry. I bet it’s DFA’s fault.)

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

OK, i’m here at Coudal West, and I’ve got my Berings Strait. Catch-up soundtrack coming soon.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

Holy carp, I’m actually caught up now. Baby baby, please don’t worry, I’ll be back in the time it takes to break a heart.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 8

Jeez, Glass has a lot going on there, but nothing’s grabbing me, song-wise. I’m also going to have to go pick up my daughter sooner or later, or they just throw her out in the snow with a fruit roll-up, so I’m going to have to wrap this up from Coudal’s Galewood branch.

Glass is rumored to be working on a website for a famous band I like a lot, I don’t know if it’s hush-hush or not, so I won’t say the name of the band, but it contains twin sisters, one of whom is famous for smearing ham in her hair to make it shiny, and the other of which is famous for knitting.

So here’s a song that has nothing to do with all that. It’s actually about Apple’s web browser:
Safari
by The Breeders

I love the Sabbath-on-German-Television video.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 6

Kox picked this one out himself, can’t argue with that, especially at FOUR FOURTY FOUR central standard time.

The Final Countdown
by Europe

There’s a lot to love about that video. That’s a whole ‘nother essay. Plus it makes me think of GOB, which is good.

Update: ‘Crans wrote out the rest of the lyrics to “That’s right bitches, I’m going to fuck you up.” Nice.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 7

Can I relabel those charts?

1: Kiss record sales, 1971-2007

2: Chan Marshall’s self esteem 10-11pm

3: My blood-alcohol level, 9am-1am

I don’t really care that much for Cat Power, but that covers album was interesting and their new one is covers, again, so maybe it’s good. My friend in Pensacola gets mad when I make fun of her because she came into his record shop once and was very nice and bought a lot of stuff.

I found a Reason
by some woman’s left breast in a plaid shirt that I don’t think is actually Cat Power.

YouTube is awesome.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

OK, at the risk of falling farther behind I’m gonna take a little break and actually look at the matches and commentary.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 5

“Yeah.” This would have been a good post to save that David Lee Roth track for. Damn. Man, I’ve got more windows open here than a methane factory.

How about the greatest “Yeah” in rock and roll? Would you settle for that? It’s not their best work, but the first second of the song RULES.

“I Dig You”
by Beat Happening

Dangit, foiled again by a 30-second clip. I’ll post that “Yeah” later. In the meantime, settle for:

Black Candy
by Beat Happening.

There are probably some good Calvin “Yeah”s in there.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 6

Gruber’s caught up with me so I can rape his commentary for ideas now. Which is good because there’s no other way to go with this one:

“She’s like a Rainbow”
by Cub

What(interrobang), it’s not on YouTube or LastFM? I guess I’ll have to settle for a cover by a less famous and talented band:

She’s a Rainbow
by the Rolling Stones

Check out that video, I love crap like that. They cut off the cool guy yelling at the beginning, lame.

And if you’re not into Cub, they were so awesome that Neko Case was (for a while) their drummer, which is to say she wasn’t even the hottest, most talented person in the band. Go back and read that sentence again.

Weird, going back to an old volley, Bad Brains also cover that song, with “Day Tripper” but the LastFM sample (Really dissapointed, or maybe I’m missing the link where it plays the whole song.) doesn’t sound anything like the original of either song, it’s just dub rambling.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 4

Kox’s abrupt cuts into- and out-of-his volleys bugged me last time, but now I think they’re awesome.

his muttering for some reason reminds me of the beginning of this:

soulcraft
by Bad Brains

which reminds me of the instructions at the beginning of “Joe McCarthy’s Ghost” or Lou and Sterling making fun of each other through “Temptation Inside Your Heart” or Neil Hagerty trying to teach Pussy Galore the entirety of Exile on Main Street, as they were recording it. Studio talking is second only to there’s a party going on in the studio background noises for making a song great.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

My beard is lame, I only still have it because I was hoping for a Glass/Draplin beard-off and I wanted to be the commentator. I have some housepainting to do this weekend so hopefully I can splatter enough latex on it (settle down, Glass) to have an excuse to shave it off.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 5

Wow, Shaun that was fast, the other match is a volley behind. All those jello shots and gatorade… I’ve gotta go “break the seal.”
Wasn’t there some sort of Wallace and Grommit joke where the sheep was named “Shaun” because when you say it with a british accent, it sounds like “Shorn?” Now that whole first match makes more sense. Duh.

For no reason other than it’s awesome and I have to pee, in case you missed it on CP yesterday, check this out (especially the mp3 link at the end):

Running With the Devil
DLR’s solo vocal track

‘Crans just sent me a photo clue to something he was talking about, as if I have had any time to read the ‘real’ comments. ack.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

Benscho, I’ve heard that (about Ronald) but a better source tells me he quit because he DIDN’T do drugs, or at least heroin, and Drzod was freaking him out. I’m sure there are reliable sources (DeRogatis’ book, that movie that I sort of half- paid attention to) so don’t take my word on that. I love bands like I love my family, but I’m too old to read books about them, those always come off about as literary as those paperbacks about New Kids on the Block and their ilk that somehow seem to come out before they’re even famous.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 4

Glass’ “animated” (you’re gonna try to out-animate Hutchinson? I mean Koxvold? Wait, that’s the other match, I’m confused) tumblerful of orange Curaçao reminds me of Pete Saville’s (I say “Pete” because even though he’s embarrassingly un-prolific and a bit overrated, I place him second only to Vaughn Oliver anyway, and I would probably hide if I ever saw him in person) cover for Electronic’s Getting Away With it, which I once, in college, using just tape recorders and the pause button, in a fit of lameness, mixed together with Public Image and it sounded pretty good. I lost that tape a hundred years ago, but you can make your own remix:

Public Image
by P.I.L.

Getting Away with It…
by Electronic (basically Johnny Marr, Bernard Sumner, and Neil Tennant)

I don’t remember how/why it sounded good, but it impressed my poli-sci professor. Yes, I was basically Rick from the Young Ones in college.

And yes, I like the Pet Shop Boys. A lot. Shut up.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 3

At least I’m not any farther behind than the real commentators, I guess.

That sound! Where have I heard that sound before? Oh, now I remember, it’s that motherf**king pre-recorded telephone spam we get six times a week here at LT headquarters where you pick up the phone hoping to hear “Hi, Bryan this is Kim Deal, Chris Glass was busy and told me to call you,” and instead you hear “BWAAAAAAH This is your captain speaking!” and then some rant about discount cruises, as if a cruise is something you’d want to a)book for something work-related or b) want to be cheap about. When you go on a cruise, you want mini octupuses all hidden in the rice pilaf in your midnight buffet, whether they gross you out or not. That’s why you go on a cruise. Extravagance.

Anyway, where does this take us? I don’t know. I always liked this song…

Sea Cruise
by Frankie Ford

My rock and roll history professor always made a big deal about the Frankie Ford version vs. the Huey Piano Smith version, as if it was some sort of Crewcuts/Chords deal, but I can’t tell the effing difference unless I hear them both at once.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 3

Woo, only like 28 more of these to write!

Fight or Flight? My first thought was “Fight Test” by the Flaming Lips, but I think DeRogatis might have freed me this morning from having to like them anymore. Yeah, they were awesome, Yeah, they’re still pretty cool, Wayne’s capable of making you feel good maybe better than anyone since Mr. Rogers, but I’m just not feeling it anymore. That click track on the W.A.N.D. notwithstanding, they just need to stop wearing costumes and playing festivals and just learn to ROCK OUT again.

Mountainside
by Flaming Lips.

Wayne used to lave long hair and look cuter than Eddie Vedder. Now he looks like a high-school counselor after a hard night. You don’t NEED to grow up, Wayne! Rock! call Jonathan or Ronald and make up.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

HutchCox SOUNDTRACK volley 2

OK, I am three volleys behind. Jim: “You don’t have to be all Lester Bangs about it.” Ha, OK.

Kox’ laser bolts evoke “2112” but I already blew my Rush load… let’s see…

I was going to try to hold off on the stoner rock, but I’m loving on that lately, too, and it doesn’t get any more stoner rock than a viking getting shot at with lasers.

I just picked up this record last week and it’s all I’ve been listening to.

Pink
by Boris

Double 180-gram pink swirl vinyl with an acid-tab insert sheet. Awesome. Plus, how many japanese stoner-drone-metal bands have a chick? And, I’ve read, they capitalize their name differently depending on the commerciality of a release, the really weird stuff is “boris,” the slightly more accessible stuff is “Boris,” and the “must-haves” (like “Pink”) are BORIS. Sweet.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

Erasure is awesome. There, I said it. I sing “A little Respect” at the top of my lungs pretty much every morning as my car rattles down the Lake Street Death Star Trench.

I need someone to bring me a gatorade

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

InmanGlass SOUNDTRACK volley 2

Jesus, I already can’t keep up. Glass doesn’t waste any time stealing Hutchinson’s viking from the other match, which reminded me that I should post Wunderbar but then I remembered I used that last time… crap.

Ok, stick with me here. What’s the second best Viking song out there? Not coming to me, or at least The Immigrant Song doesn’t fit. (hey, that’s not a full-length track, LastFM are liars!)

So let’s talk about re-using various elements to make something new and awesome. Let’s talk about hip hop. After reading (oh, the links) Claire’s interview with Jim DeRogatis today, I couldn’t agree with his hip-hop vantage point more (gangster rap is, for the most part, played out and lame, and the best hip hop artists all were college students and acted like themselves). So that makes me think of the Sugarhill Gang and I just learned that that (double that!) song was sampled from this:

Cavern
by Liquid Liquid

Which, again, is not a full track (Grrr) but proves that even the earliest hip-hop/rap had a lot more to do with indie rock and dance (Liquid Liquid were part of the whole 99 Records thing that i’m just learning about and it’s fascinating) than it did with gangster posing. Another good example of that is Afrika Baambaata and Kraftwerk, but I’m probably three volleys behind now so you can find 30-second clips of them yourself. None of that had anything to do with Chris’ volley, by the way.

Topic: Peoples' Choice - Two Matches for 1/24 / Conversation About The Matches

After saying I have nothing to hide, it’s clear my wife was listening to my itunes lately, I don’t even know who DeRosa are, but I’m sure they’re awesome. And all that stoner rock is definitely hers, ha.