you aint nothin, you aint nothin

Posted by doubter on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

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sup, jiggas? hey you can buy and download sun kil moon’s april in either flac or 192 mp3 for $9.99 or $7.99, respectively via kozelek’s label caldo verde. it’s pretty damn great, i must add, but i dont know if i dig it as much as ghosts. i much prefer kozelek’s louder, more crazy horse inspired stuff, where as april is pretty mellow overall. you can also do the same for the retribution gospel choir record, which is freakin awesome.

i make no attempts to hide my sordid musical past, in fact i know kind of relish the fact that my tastes werent always so defined. with that being said, it was with great excitement that one of my absolute favorite songs from my early 20′s. it’s amazing the shit you have to listen to whilst in the car sans ipod. i even sat through a rush song, in order to hear this.

jet city woman off queensryche’s empire

i always find it very interesting when a band/artist, who had seemingly made very little impact on societies musical conscience during their run, gets resurrected out of nowhere. no where in my brains would i have thought that dexter romweber and his band flat duo jets were going to gain some kind of resurgence, let alone a movie/documentary in their honor. during my time spent with a few of their records – most notably go go harlem baby, white trees and introducing – i attempted to get friends to hear what hear in the flat duo jets, but just about every one of the records was met with mostly utter distaste. their brand of twangy garage rock can be a hard pill to swallow, to be quite frank. but the rewards are rich if you can just stick with em. if you dig the likes of the black keys, white stripes, etc you may find the flat duo jets to your liking.

here are a few tracks off two headed cow which happens to be name of the documentary and of course the soundtrack too. chan marshall and jack white make appearances in the two headed cow.

rawhide

everybodys movin

rock house

flat duo jets myspace / chicken ranch records

here is part two of the dylan boot, you cant kill an idea. definitely check out “hard rain,” and probably my third favorite song of all time “knockin on heaven’s door.”

1. gamblin man

2. the times

3. hard rain

4. watered down love

5. shot of love

6. just like a woman

7. solid rock

8. masters of war

9. when you gonna wake up

10. in the garden

11. blowin in the wind

12. its alright ma

13. it aint me babe

14. knockin on heavens door


5 Responses to you aint nothin, you aint nothin

  1. SteveC says:

    Knockin on heaven’s door is awesome!

    Gonna put you on the spot here…

    What’s your other two favorite songs?

  2. r says:

    What an awesome show! Excellent sound, a good mix of chestnuts(cool arrangements) and lesser known material, Dylan and his band are in great form(Dylan’s lyrics are clear and well sung, as opposed to now), Dylan speaks(funny intro to “Gambling Man”), thanks Captain.

  3. myboyblue says:

    thanks for the Sun Kil Moon link. I’m going to go ahead and download it. Been buying new music like a drunken sailor for some reason. Been looking forward to this one. Mellow sounds good to me. If you find a link to the new Avett Brothers, ping me as I need to hear this.

  4. Dan says:

    dude! i love the Flat Duo Jets!

    Dex and Crow rock.

  5. Chris says:

    Can i get the first half of the dylan boot from anywhere?

    apologies if its already been posted!

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