Daddy, make a picture

Actually two new CDs.
Du Jazz Dans le Ravin by Serge Gainsbourg and Shades in Bed by the Records who look to be pulling hard to be ambushed by VH1’s Bands Reunited.
Starry Eyes has a fond place in my fifteen year old inner self. I remember hanging out at various friends’ houses late at night […]

The challenge from Mac — list the top five songs on your iPod / whatever that automatically make you cool, hip, ‘must be cool if you like these songs’ songs:
In no particular order, the top five plays on my iPod:

Roadrunner - Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
I Could Be Happy (Martin Rushent Remix) - Altered […]

Gary and I have been comparing notes on the most embarrassing concerts we saw in High School. For Gary, and he will kill me for this is, it was Van Halen. For me it was Foreigner - on the Double Vision tour.
I did make up for it by catching the Ramones the following week. […]

music for a romantic weekend getaway …
1 | Seymour Stein | Belle & Sebastian
2 | Don’t Explain | Billie Holiday (Dzihan & Kamien remix)
3 | Weather Storm | Massive Attack
4 | It Could Be Sweet | Portishead
5 | Never An Easy Way | Morcheeba
6 | Ride It On | Mazzy Star
7 | The Other End […]

For some strange inexplicable reason, my daughters are often soothed to sleep by the sounds of late-70s / early-80s New Wave bands. It all started when they were newborns and I would walk them to sleep to The Style Council.
Right now S is grooving to Altered Images. Someone tell me, do they make Joy Division […]

I’m feeling this weird urge to listen to Bauhaus. There’s some sense memory coming to me every time I hear the opening notes of Bela Lugosi’s Dead. I’m probably half remembering some drunken night spent in some dorm room or hanging out at the radio station 20 years ago.
Was it 20 years ago? Damn I’m […]

Ralph’s World!!!

I come home to find out that Sue is now Tivo-ing American Idol. We are truly going to hell.

Some suggested listening for the coming media circus / war…
Black Sabbath - War Pigs
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Wilco - Ashes of American Flags
Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
Gang of Four - To Hell With Poverty
Black Flag - Rise Above
RunDMC - It’s Like That
Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
The Clash - The Magnificant […]