Plans trip to CD World tomorrow, because Heather luuuuuvs a man in housepants.

You can have them all, Heather.

OTOH, he was pretty funny on Chappelle's show, in a sketch about white people music.

Not enough MEEEP in the world.

I woke up this morning to a package containing the new Modest Mouse CD, a MM bootleg, concert poster from their last tour (w/The Shins) and three shiny buttons on my doorstep. (This was all a special deal for people on their mailing list.)

And am listening to their first new CD in two years right now AIFG!!!

t /ridiculously excited fangirl

Isn't he wearing cotton drawstring pants on one of his album covers?

"You know why I wanted to become a doctor?" "The flattering drawstring pants?"

On an entirely different topic -- does anyone know if it's possible to copy music from a shared central server onto an iPod on a Mac?

You can have them all, Heather.

She has to share.

OTOH, he was pretty funny on Chappelle's show, in a sketch about white people music.

Yeah, that was amusing. I wish I could get my hands on a copy of it.

On an entirely different topic -- does anyone know if it's possible to copy music from a shared central server onto an iPod on a Mac?

If you're running iTunes on the Mac, you can add songs to the library from anywhere, and then manually update the iPod then ... does that make sense?

A question for Hec and any other fans of the '60s. Is there a short name for teen-oriented, up-tempo pop-rock of the mid to late '60s? I'm thinking of groups like the Happenings, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the Buckinghams. If you're from Chicago, add the Cryan' Shames. Maybe the Mamas and the Papas and the Association, though they might be a little too psychedelic for this sort of thing.

They're not psychedelic. Not surf. Not Motown. Definitely not British Invasion (though that's more a geographic label than a description of a sound, and the Dave Clark 5 might pass for what I have in mind). Too early for bubblegum.

Any thoughts?

A question for Hec and any other fans of the '60s. Is there a short name for teen-oriented, up-tempo pop-rock of the mid to late '60s? I'm thinking of groups like the Happenings, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, the Buckinghams. If you're from Chicago, add the Cryan' Shames. Maybe the Mamas and the Papas and the Association, though they might be a little too psychedelic for this sort of thing.

This covers a number of sub-genres. Chicago, as you note, was famed in the mid-sixties for the poppiness of its garage bands. The closest catchall for most of these groups (Happenings, Association in particular) is Sunshine Pop. Heavy emphasis on vocal harmonies. There are a number of recent (within the last few years) compilations covering this genre, as hardcore Beach Boy fans branched out into music which (heretofore) had been considered way too wimpy.

Varese Sarabande did one of the first series on this titled Sunshine Days. There are three volumes.

My favorite group in this genre is The Yellow Balloon - which sounds like Vivaldi as done by late Beach Boys. (In a good way!.)

Another huge cult group from this genre is The Free Design - a family group with extremely intricate harmonies.

I'd also recommend The Millenium - by Curt Boettcher, a major figure in this scene. (Curt produced the early Association hits.)

The Chicago label Dunwich was probably most famous for the garage-pop sound associated with that city.

That sounds like it, Hec. During summers in college, I listened quite a bit to a Chicago AM station (WCFL) that relied heavily on the '60s local garage bands (and also played songs like "Double Dutch Bus" -- how's that for format-bending?). And just before WLS went all-talk, they had a Sunday morning oldies program that had some of the same slant.

Sunshine Days looks like a delight -- I'm familiar with about half of the tracks. And Cub Koda wrote the review (yes, I bought the 45 of Brownsville Station's "Smokin' in the Boys' Room" way back when)....

And Cub Koda wrote the review

He wrote a lot for AMG and Goldmine and record collectors mags like that.