Mal ,'The Train Job'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
According to my iPod at this moment, it's Pere Ubu's "Life Stinks".
I was fiddling with my iPod this morning and just let the first three songs play alphabetically. It was pure pop bliss with Fountains of Wayne's cover of ...Baby, One More Time; '39 by Queen (their most Beatley song) and 'Til I Die by the Beach Boys.
That does sound like pure pop bliss. My iPod has been punk as fuck this morning, serving up in the last hour not just Pere Ubu, but Mission of Burma, the Descendents, the Ramones, the Stooges, the Raincoats, and now some late 70s Beefheart.
iTunes is playing "Anyone Can Play Guitar" by Radiohead right at this moment.
Huh. Gabrielle Drake - Nick Drake's sister - was in two Avengers episodes and tried out for both the Emma Peel and Tara King roles.
My indie song of the day is the new Andrew Bird album. Yum, Bird.
From the "Crap!" files:
There's been a bit of format shuffling on some local stations. A station that was formerly all classical music got bought and changed format to classic rock plus Redskin games.Some sort of deal was made where WETA, which has been airing NPR and other syndicated shows is going all classical, all the time. The part that makes me say "Crap!" is that "Traditions", a folk music show that runs on Saturday nights has been dumped after this weekend. "Traditions" is the only place around here where you can hear modern folk music along with more old-timey stuff.
Sigh...
The whole thing sounds odd. WFMU's blog had a post about it: [link]
This week in DC, a radio dust up knocks WGMS off the air, ending 60 years of Bach and Beethoven. The new kid on the dial is "Radio George" taking control of 104 fm and spinning nothing but the hits of "the 70s, 80s, and whatever we want." Radio George©R is one of those hip new-fangled stations built on the premise that "its all about the music" i.e. no DeeJays. according to this Washington Post piece (link) the station kicked off with Cheryl Crow and a promise: "one minute you'll flash back to high school, then college, then you're chasing the kids" !!!
The Bach people, however, refuse to stay down - in an unprecedented move they have taken over WETA, a public radio station that has been airing Public Affairs content for 2 years now. This meant that staffers showed up to work only to be greeted by the security guards with summons to go see HR.
but when too many people are bogarting the stream it buffers like a mofo.
I want to send this clause back to 1973 and have it compared to Linear B.
What's your indie rock song of the day?
Don't Blame Your Daughter - The Cardigans
What's your indie rock song of the day?
Y'know, I don't know if I have anything that can be defined as indie rock in my collection. What sorts of things are we calling indie rock?
