Everybody sells out eventually...

Things have never been the same since Nike started using "Revolution" in their commercials.

According to my ST soundtrack LP, "Gimme Some Money" is definitely a Guest/Shearer/Reiner original.

Things have never been the same since Nike started using "Revolution" in their commercials.

Yoko said that "John would have approved."

Do we still need pig songs? Here's what I've got.

Three Little Bops (entire 3 Little Pigs WB cartoon told in hipster jazz lyrics)
Gimme A Pigfoot And A Bottle Of Beer - Bessie Smith
Horny Pig - Buck Naked and the Bare Bottom Boys
China Pig - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Pig Foot Pete - Ella Mae Morse
Little Pig - The Polecats
We are The Pigs Suede
Hog-Tied Over You - Tennessee Ernie Ford & Ella Mae Morse (genius great song!)
Salt Pork West Virginia - Louis Jordan & Tympani Five
Too Much Pork For Just One Fork - Southern Culture On The Skids
Shake the Bacon - Jody Reynolds

Let me know if you want any of those and I'll post 'em.

So many new messages!

I must have missed why we need Pig songs - but I have some I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Pork and Beef - The Coup
A Big Fan of the Pigpen - Guided by Voices
Pigs That Ran Straightaway Into The Water, Triumph Of - The Mountain Goats
Wang Dang Pig - The Soft Boys

IoMusicN, on Saturday I witnessed about a dozen kids from the ages of 6 - 16 perform The Wall (album, not movie, though it was clear some kids had been studying the movie for performance suggestions) in its almost entirety. I was there because I did some freelance PR for Chicago's new School of Rock. The kids performed Saturday and Sunday at Schubas, and both shows were sold out. It was at times adorable, at times pretty rockin' and at times too embarrasingly emotive for me to watch.

on Saturday I witnessed about a dozen kids from the ages of 6 - 16 perform The Wall

Whoa! Also...tina!

I've recently been cogitating what's the ultimate teen angst album.

Currently it's a tie between The Wall and Violent Femmes (s/t).

Hec! I am pimping both your and CI's books to music nerds like a crazy person. When are they going to be available again?

Currently it's a tie between The Wall and Violent Femmes (s/t).

Fo' sure. Personally, I would go with the VFs, but only because I was much angstier when I discovered it (13ish) than when I went through my brief Pink Floyd period (16). At 16, I was less angsty because I was In Love.

It can't really be 2:30, can it? Bed for me!!

When are they going to be available again?

My manuscript is due in April, so I expect it'll be out in Fall of 2007. Which makes it, of course, a perfect stocking stuffer for the Tom Waits fan in your life. Corwood's still working on his, so I expect he'll be roughly on the same schedule.

Currently it's a tie between The Wall and Violent Femmes (s/t).

I myself would give the nod to The Wall as all the angsty teens I knew were listening to it, and when they found out you were/wanted to be angsty too, that was the album they recommended to you. The Violent Femmes were angsty too, but they were a sort of jaded angst. I found the Femmes a few years later in life when we were all angsty and had been for a while, and all had a sort of been there, angsted that attitude about everything, and the Femmes seemed to reflect that in their music. I would pick Floyd over the Femmes for Ultimate Teen Angst album because Floyd was what we listened to when we were angsty for angst's sake, and the Femmes were for later, when we were angsty because it was cool.

See I think of VF as teenaged angst, and PF as later college stoner angst. Of course, The Wall is what I was forced to listen to by roommate in frosh year everytime she was hungover, which was often.

What about the Smiths, and the Cure? They were the angst music of my teenagedom.