captains dead top 12 songs of 08
as i was coming up with my favorite songs of 08 i noticed an interesting trend. that trend being that most of my favorite songs were not necessarily on my favorite records. so, i decided to compile a list of my favorite songs that weren’t on my top album list. out of the 12 here, only about 4 would have been omitted by including tracks found on my favorite records.
two of the albums, in particular were real close to getting into the top ten. first one being, horse feathers’ house with no home which is a lovely collection of americana, that fans of great lake swimmers, iron and wine, bon iver, etc would really dig. the other being why?’s alopecia which, while a great record, i can only listen if i am in the right mood. it gets a little long in the tooth, when completely sober, but damn if it aint a great drinkin record…
these are in no particular order. although if i had to pick, it would be between the bottom three. you may axe yourself, “a milli?” really? yeah, i fuckin love that song… it be bangin and sounds so sweet comin out of the elantra’s boomin system.
taking the farm off wagonwheel blues
the war on drugs myspace
spiders, snakes off a cove
a weather site
un dia off un dia
juana molina site
goner off wrecking ball
dead confederate site
boston wrangler off loose in the joints
the dirty truckers myspace
furr off furr
blitzen trapper site
national talk like a pirate day off (OH) ohio
lambchop site
fatalist palmistry off alopecia
why? mypsace
curs in the weeds off with house with no home
horse feathers myspace
methamphetamine off tennessee pusher
old crow medicine show site
frankie’s gun off self titled
the felice bros site
a milli off the carter III
lil wayne myspace
lambchop celebrates talk like a pirate day
man, i cant believe its been a year already. seemed just like yesterday that i totally didnt get into and ignored last year’s talk like a pirate day. why this year then, greg? glad you axed, citizen. well in observance of said day the fine folks at merge and kurt wagner and his lamchopians are offering up “national talk like a pirate day” from their upcoming record, OH(ohio).
national talk like a pirate day
pre-order OH (ohio) here
i’ll show your punk rock ass
photo by roxanne jo mitchell
i dont want to sound like too much of a puss, but thalia zedek could probably kick my ass and if not my ass she could definitely put a hurt on smangs ass. probably yours too. so, dont fuckin push her. i dont know of a voice that tells more of a story than the one belted out by thalia. she sounds like she’s scene every shithole bar, drank the nastiest of whiskeys and doused her smokes with shards of glass. the broad’s got soul and thats one of the highest compliments i can pay someone.
thalia has a new record out on thrilljockey entitled liars and prayers.
saints around my neck off come’s most excellent gently down the stream and this song kicks all kinds of ass.
thalia zedek myspace
add kurt wagner into my top 5 artists i would love to have a smoke and share some beers with. he just seems as if he would be an awesome bullshitter with tons of hilarious stories to tell. that simple assumption alone puts him near the top of my “get fucked up with” wishlist.
here is the lambchop lineup for this particular show @ the great american music hall which took place on 1.16.99. paul burch / john delworth / mark nevers / paul niehaus / mark trovillion / deanna varagona
& mac mc caughan (#8) and john covertino & joey burns (#6,13).
here’s the zip
1. interrupted
5. n.o.
6. the distance from her to there
7. nine
11. shucks
13. beyond belief
up with people
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbNVx9Y28rk]
this amazon thing is pretty cool. some recommended lambchop tracks.
the tongue erodes each time we speak
what is going on people? me? i had to get a crown yesterday, which was all kinds of awesome. so, now for the next 3 weeks i really cant chew anything to hard for fear of it falling out. other then that, i got shit..
the men and ladies over at line of best fit recently unveiled their monthly mix tape so why the hell not check it out.
oh, yeah. one of my favorite music sites, coke machine glow just recently re-launched.
one of my top 3 favorite bands, centro-matic, is doing something pretty cool for their upcoming dual hawks, which is a two record set with the other record being of the south san gabriel variety. they are looking for submissions from fans on what centro-matic’s music means to them and it should be “more than a quote but less than a thesis.” i dont know if more than one person will be selected for the grand prize cause its worded strangely, but this is pulled from the email i got “selected submission will receive a free copy of the super-fancy limited-edition deluxe version of dual hawks, a t-shirt, and 2 tickets to a show of your choice in 2008 (except sxsw or other festivals where we don’t control the tickets).” interested? send your submission to bob@undertowmusic.com before 2.22.08 to be entered, and make sure to put centro-matic in the subject line. if for some reason you still havent checked em out here some choice stuff..
calling thermatico off fort recovery
triggers and trash heaps off fort recovery
flashes and cables off love you just the same
argonne limit co. off love you just the same
just to know what you’ve been dreaming from will johnson’s vultures await
closing down my house from vultures await
pacificUV, their name at least, sounds vaguely familiar. it may be all due to this kind of scenario. sometimes when i recieve press releases and their band to another band, sometimes i can only hear the other band. such is the case with pacificUV and the mentioning of spacemen 3. they are by no means rippin the legendary 3 off, but merely re-interpreting their sound, but there’s no denying the similarities. sure, i have only listened to this track thus far, but i really look forward to hearing the whole deal, which is entitled long player 2 and due on 4.1.08. i really dig the galaxy 5 “tugboat” type horn explosion on “need.”
pacificUV site
i have been on a huge lambchop kick as of late. one of the many brilliant things about em is that each record is like hearing a cliff noted history lesson on the last 50 or so years of music. if you were just to read about, and not listen to, each lambchop record they would sound like an absolute mess, but when wagner and his extra large band put it down, its pure magic.
here is an absolutely stunning recording of lambchop in madrid @ teatro colloseum, on 12. 12.06. much love to the original taper.
3. prepared
4. the rise and fall of the letter p
5. nothing but a blur from a bullet train
7. tony
8. i would have waited here all day
10. my blue wave
11. catapillar
12. we never argue
13. the daily growl
14. smuckers
15. crackers
16. tony
17. fear
18. the militant
19. the decline of western civilization
20. tony
21. steve mcqueen
22. this corrosion
23. give it
