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So dig this big crux

Egg Shen — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:58:52 -0800

Minutemen's Mike Watt interviewed about Double Nickels on the Dime. This soundboard recording of the March 1, 1985 concert at The Stone in San Francisco reminds me of Robert Christgau's review of Ballot Result:

As someone who's never had much patience with the mystique of the ill-recorded moment, music overheard just before it slips into the historical void its creators figure it for, I'll make a partial exception for the Minutemen, because I miss them so much. I know most of the songs on this mostly live double in versions I prefer, but better than any studio distillation it underlines the crucial point: they lived. And given the modesty so intrinsic to their world-historical public ambitions, its muffled, take-a-flier intimacy speaks. Also, I like the covers.

Go for it! CHROME

Potomac Avenue — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:40:06 -0800

Top Albums of the 1980s, Scratch 'n Sniff Stickers. Package #1 Package #2 Package #10 All the Rest of the Packages. Also on the Damper: Smush.com

WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing

Trurl — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:40:36 -0800

WET: The Magazine of Gourmet Bathing covered a range of cultural issues and was widely known for its innovative use of graphic art. Started as a simple one-man operation that included artwork and text solicited from friends and acquaintances, the production, team, and circulation of the magazine would grow over the years. Its content also evolved to cover a wider expanse of stories that captured a smart and artsy Los Angeles attitude that was emerging at the same time as punk, but with its own distinct aesthetic. The magazine’s energetic creativity and flair for the absurd would remain a constant. As design problems arose, solutions were often improvised on the spot, creating a quirky and prescient editorial sensibility that remains one of WET's most enduring legacies. Its layout and design helped to catalyze the graphic styles (NSFW) later known as New Wave and Postmodern.

Alex Cox's "Repo Man"

Trurl — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 19:07:40 -0800

Alex Cox: REPO MAN was made as a "negative pickup" by Universal at the time when Bob Rehme was head of the studio. At the time, the big deal over there was STREETS OF FIRE, and nobody really noticed our film [8 MB PDF] at all. Which was lucky for us, since Bob Rehme had "green-lighted" a film which was quite unusual by studio standards. (previously)

TV, When It Rocked and Rolled

jonp72 — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:01:40 -0800

In August 1990, when Spin magazine was still an edgier cousin to Rolling Stone, it published a list of the 35 Greatest Moments in Rock 'n' Roll Television. Now, thanks to the magic of the Internet, many of these moments are only a point and click away. 1. Elvis Presley makes his network TV debut on the Dorsey Brothers Show 2. Elvis Presley performs Heartbreak Hotel and Blue Suede Shoes aboard the USS Hancock on the Milton Berle Show 3. Elvis Presley appears on Ed Sullivan, but only from the waist up 4. Jerry Lee Lewis debuts on the Steve Allen Show 5. the Ed Sullivan Show ignites Beatlemania 6. Dean Martin introduces the Rolling Stones on Hollywood Palace 7. James Brown upstages the Beach Boys and the Rolling Stones at the T.A.M.I. Show 8. the Rolling Stones bring Howlin' Wolf onto Shindig! 9. the Rolling Stones sing Let's Spend ~~The Night~~ Some Time Together on the Ed Sullivan Show 10. Chad & Jeremy play the Redcoats on the Dick van Dyke Show 11. The Who explode onto the Smothers Brothers Show 12. the 13th Floor Elevators sing You're Gonna Miss Me on American Bandstand 13. the Seeds perform Pushin' Too Hard on the Mothers-in-Law 14. James Brown singlehandedly stops a race riot with simulcast concert at Boston Garden 15. The Monkees psychedelicize the airwaves at 33 1/3 Revolutions per Monkee 16. The Doors freak out a PBS special 17. Tiny Tim and Miss Vicki get married on the Tonight Show 18. John & Yoko jam with Chuck Berry on the Mike Douglas Show 19. the Legendary Stardust Cowboy plays Paralyzed on Laugh-In 20. the New York Dolls appear on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert 21. The Blues Brothers, dressed as cops, cite Brian Wilson for failure to surf 22. Iggy Pop and David Bowie play Sister Midnight and Fun Time on the Dinah Shore Show 23. the Dickies guest star on the sitcom CPO Sharkey 24. David Bowie duets with Bing Crosby on the Little Drummer Boy 25. Elvis Costello plays ~~Less Than Zero~~ Radio Radio on Saturday Night Live 26. Patti Smith sings You Light Up My Life on Kids Are People Too 27. the Cars host Midnight Special with special guests the Records, Suicide, M, Lene Lovich, and Iggy Pop 28. John Lydon of Public Image Ltd. defiantly refuses to lip synch on American Bandstand 29. John Lydon and Keith Levene of PiL piss off Tom Snyder (part 1, part 2) 30. David Bowie sings I Got You Babe with Marianne Faithfull in a nun's habit 31. The Clash appear on the ABC late night show, Fridays (Part 1, Part 2) 32. Prince lip-synchs 1999 on Solid Gold 33. the Replacements trade clothes in between songs while guesting on Saturday Night Live 34. Annie Lennox of the Eurhythmics sings Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) in male drag at the 1984 Grammys 35. Iggy Pop does a lounge version of Search and Destroy on the detective show, Shannon's Deal

No Need to Atone for Your Synths

jonp72 — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 11:59:03 -0800

Not all groups with synthesizers in the 1970s and 1980s were lame Top 40 acts with keytars. Some groups of the era used synths for spastic keyboard bleeps, herky-jerky tempos, and angst-ridden aggression in a style now classified by record collector geeks as synthpunk, minimal synth, or minimal wave. Several famous New Wave acts dabbled in the style before providing soundtracks for Molly Ringwald movies (OMD, Electricty) or singing about waitresses in cocktail bars (the Human League, Being Boiled), but vintage videos from synth punk acts all over the world can be found all over YouTube. New York City Suicide, Ghost Rider Suicide, Frankie Teardrop Dark Day, Arp's Carpet Los Angeles Catholic Discipline, Underground Babylon The Screamers, Vertigo The Screamers, 122 Hours of Fear Nervous Gender, Miscarriage San Francisco The Units, Unit Training Film: Warm Moving Bodies Tulsa, Oklahoma Los Reactors, It's A Wonderful Life Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Billy Synth & the Turnups, I'm So Sick of It South Florida Futurisk, Meteoright Futurisk, Army Now France Metal Urbain, Panik Australia The Primitive Calculators, I Can't Stop It The United Kingdom The Normal, T.V.O.D. Fad Gadget, Collapsing New People Spain Aviador Dro, La TV Es Nutritiva Los Iniciados, Marca de Anubis Japan P-Model, ArtMania P-Model, Health Angel