Thanks! I don't know if Budgie was on that version of Grapevine or not, but I'd guess yes. It could be Palmolive, but it's a little more advanced than her usual drumming technique. But man, do the Slits burn that song down!

McLusky are a more recent band for me. They play post-Pixies punk (lots of highs & lows) with a rare sense of humor (for instance, the two albums I have are McLusky Does Dallas and The Difference Between You And Me Is That I'm Not On Fire). I read on Pitchfork that they broke up last month, though.

You'd love Palomar. They're bouncy like the Raincoats and early Talking Heads and have tasty girl-group vocals. Misha & I saw them open for the Mekons back in ought-2.

And the Liars are one of the smartest bands around today who aren't the Fiery Furnaces. That track is from their Gang of Four-ish first album, They Threw Us All In A Trench And Stuck A Monument On Top.

t babbling about music from my childhood

This weekend I had (another) one of my omigod iTunes is soooooooo cooooooool! moments. We had taken my parents out for dinner, and Dad casually mentioned that The Point! was out on DVD. Now, The Point! was a huge, HUGE part of my childhood. Some of my earliest memories are of laying on the floor of the living room and singing along with the soundtrack LP. (In later years, when I would talk about The Point!, people would look at me like I was nuts, because they'd never heard of it.)

So when we got home from dinner, I opened the iTunes store. Ta-da! For $9.99 I could have part of my childhood back. Blessed, blessed iTunes store. (Yes, I'm going to buy the DVD. But the notion that I can sit at my desk and listen to The Point! over and over and over makes me even more of a Perkygoth than normal.)

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Palomar are definitely a Hec-friendly band.

I am embarassed to admit that I totally missed the 24/Go-Betweens shoutout.

t edit I have The Point DVD!

I have The Point DVD!

I'm buying it next paycheck. My very first cat was named Arrow.

Can anyone explain to me why so many people have never heard of The Point!? I know it was on tv fairly often during 1969 to about '72 (as far as my fuzzy childhood memory will let me recall), but for about ten years, whenever I would tell people (who were around my age group) about it, they were convinced I had imagined the whole thing. The only thing that reassured me that I hadn't imagined the whole thing was going over to my parents' house and listening to the LP.

Huh. I not only saw the Point, I'm pretty sure they showed it in school at least once.

I discovered The Point when I discovered Harry Nilsson. A great songwriter, great singer and world class carouser.

Huge Harry Nilsson fan here.

I've never heard of The Point before today, but I'm not much of a Nilsson fan, either.

Current listening: Disc Two for my co-worker, called Mild Side Effects: Vaguely Psychedelic Music.

1. Neutral Milk Hotel - "Song Against Sex"
2. M83 - "Unrecorded"
3. Os Mutantes - "A Minha Minina"
4. Animal Collective - "Who Could Win A Rabbit"
5. Can - "Spoon"
6. The Notwist - "Pick Up The Phone"
7. Silver Apples - "Oscillations"
8. Fiery Furnaces - "Birdie Brain"
9. Spiritualized - "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space"
10. Big Star - "Kanga Roo"
11. Nick Drake - "River Man"
12. Love - "The Red Telephone"
13. Camper Van Beethoven - "The History of Utah"
14. Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra - "Some Velvet Morning"
15. Knife in the Water - "Kill A Tiger"
16. Loose Fur - "You Were Wrong"
17. Eric Matthews - "Poisons Will Pass Me"
18. Richard Davies - "Confederate Cheerio Call"
19. Galaxie 500 - "When Will You Come Home?"
20. Pentangle - "Light Flight"
21. Roky Erickson & the Aliens - "I Walked With A Zombie"

I am indulging in launch.com today to pull me through the workday. I am easily amused at the juxtaposition of songs on my station, but I am hard pressed to decide which is better - Kelly Willis leading into PM Dawn's "Die without you" or Jeannie C. Riley's "Harper Valley PTA" following it.

18. Richard Davies - "Confederate Cheerio Call"

I think my friend George played on this. AMG doesn't have the players listed. I just asked him & he said he doesn't remember the names of the tunes, but given the recording date he's pretty sure it's him.

I had never heard of The Point before I gave my niece a copy a couple years ago, and I am a Nilsson fan. I was definitely watching a lot of tv in 1971, but it's a year or two away from when I can remember stuff now. I don't remember it being on a lot like the various Charlie Brown specials or Rikki Tikki Tavi.