Do the 13th Floor Elevators have any cool songs besides "You're Gonna Miss Me"? Their catalog is available on eMusic.

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"Fire Engine" is pretty great. Television used to cover it.

Heh. Cool song.

Did Television do the fire engine "sound effects"?

"Tried To Hide" and "Roller Coaster" are a pretty great songs, too, but I don't think those versions on eMusic are the album versions. I'm pretty fond of both The Psychedelic Sounds Of The 13th Floor Elevators and Easter Everywhere.

REM's new single sounds pretty good. Guitars and everything.

Why do I keep forgetting that Prince is friggin AWESOME?

I was at a Fatburger yesterday, and Pink Cashmere came on the jukebox. I had to run home immediately and download it off iTunes. After taking a few hours to toally sex up S, 'cuz that's what you should do when you hear that song - sex somebody up as soon as possible.

I went to one of the best shows I've ever seen last night. Teeny-tiny show featuring Estradasphere [link] Jason Webley [link] and Amanda Palmer (!!!). And the conjoined twins Evelyn Evelyn [link] performed live for the first time ever.

The venue was the house/recording studio/performance space that Estradasphere lives in. The performance space was about as big as my living room and kitchen put together, and the audience was probably no more than 100 people.

Okay, so I'm searching teh interweb, trying to find information about, and a place to buy a CD of the self-titled album, by 70's Aussie electronica band, Cybotron. Aside: if you go to their MySpace site, listen to "Sonic Overdrive", which is brilliant track from the album I'm looking to purchase.

So anyway, I found copy of their album, "Implosion", at Aztec Music, via Google. The site also has some other excellent Aussie music, so I'll probably spend more money than I can afford there, but what the hey!

So anyway (yeah yeah, I'm getting there! Trust me, it's gonna be good!), I'm scanning through the links on Google and I notice one that points to a Blogspot blog, and which mentions "Colossus" by Cybotron. I click the link and lo and behold, discover a link to a copy of the album. I set the process in motion, and once it's downloading, I head over to the main page of the blog...

OH. MY. GOD.

The Lime Spiders! The Huxton Creepers! I Spit on Your Gravy! The Hitmen! and soooooooo maaaany others!

I've died and gone to Aussie music heaven.

AUSROCK

Great resource, Jimi. I love me some Lime Spiders.

Elliott Smith covering "Waterloo Sunset".

CDs in high rotation in my car this week:

Hunky Dory - Bowie. I don't think I'd ever realized before that the punk band Saccharine Trust got their name from "The Bewley Brothers. Also great: "Bombers," "Quicksand," "Kooks," "Andy Warhol," and, of course, "Queen Bitch."

Black Letter Days - Frank Blake. Really good. Maybe better than Teenager of the Year. Much more varied. Two great covers of Tom Waits "Black Rider" (one a surf guitar/ garage rave up).

Thrill - Eleni Mandell. Her first or second album. Great songwriter and really interesting, varied production on this by whassisname - Jon Brion. Some great rockers like "Pauline" and "Red Chevelle" - some knockabout Waitsian stuff. Her voice is very reminiscent of Polly Jean's.

We Love the Pirates - comp of sixties British pop interspersed with Radio London's pirate radio ads.

Faerycakes for Tea - comp of British popsike. Pretty much like the psychedelic side of the Monkees and Banana Splits.

I don't think I'd ever realized before that the punk band Saccharine Trust got their name from "The Bewley Brothers.

I never knew that, either. Doesn't seem very likely, given their music.