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Remixing/remastering—especially with the aid of new tech—is a thing that should be approached real cautiously. There always exists the temptation to impose what are actually artifacts of current trends into the source material for the sake of “improvement”. This is how you get a gated snare...

Regarding my other picks: “The Ballad of Bill Lee” -- Rick Rizzo (Karl Hendricks Trio) I've loved Karl Hendricks since 1993 when I saw The Karl Hendricks Trio play the second stage at Lollapalooza. They were loud and dressed like regular people and sang songs about baseball cards and being...

Great cover, great song. MInutemen were one of the greatest bands ever. There was A LOT of debate among the punk rock cognoscenti regarding Mike Watt licensing this song to the hated corporate ****pile that was MTV. Then Mike Watt got on the internet long enough to say that D. Boon's dad was...

“It’s Okay” -- Pearl Jam (Dead Moon) Pearl Jam - *It's OK* (SBD) - 9.11.11 Toronto My Eddie Vedder story is thus: sometime in the early 00’s when Eddie Vedder was visiting his mom in Evanston, IL, he stayed in downtown Chicago for a week, mostly hanging out in the bar I worked at during the...

Hate doesn’t describe my feelings about Radiohead. It’s self-conscious avante-lite with many cool parts that doesn’t quite add up to a whole band for me. I like The Bends a lot and have liked everything I’ve heard from The Smile. Johnny Greenwood is obviously a wizard but a lot of this stuff...

Thoughts on Calvary Cross -- This one is the Thompsons’ “Cortez the Killer”. Super simple 3 chord progression (F Am G) upon which the band can make a 3-minute song or build a 20-minute wall of destruction. I love every live version of this song I’ve ever heard. -- The lyrics are evocative...

Weird record. Might have been the ludicrous amount of cocaine that gave them the courage to indulge all of their best and worst impulses. Hence we get hyper-driven trucker meth like "Cornucopia", the bent-gospel weeper "Changes" and what might be the greatest riff of all time in "Supernaut"...

Crass--"Do They Owe Us A Living" If Malcom McLaren created the idea of a punk band with the Sex Pistols, Crass carved out the reality. An aggressively anti-capitalist arts commune as dedicated to their politics as they were to art. They declared punk dead by the time their first...

30 Wipers--Mystery I could've picked any song from the first three Wipers records--they are all perfect--but "Mystery" is the most accessibly rockin', has the best bass line, and wasn't covered by Nirvana. The Wipers auteur Greg Sage is the imprimatur of post-modern Pacific Northwest...

Sorry, just catching up with this. I'll be posting a little thing about some of my less-well-known pics. I'll just be way late. Smog--Our Anniversary Some thoughts on this, my 31st favorite song. Bill Callahan went from a basement-taping lo-fi experimentalist to our generation’s Kris...

If you are all interested in the evolution of American music and how useless "genre" is as a descriptor of a music's sound or cultural heritage, you might want to read this article on the history of the banjo, that instrument synonymous with the traditional music of rural southern white people.

My Round 2 Pick. Frank Sinatra:  In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning. A few hundred years ago in the US there wasn't much in the way of "genre". On one hand there was classical and neo-classical arrangements for symphonies and chamber quartets, and then there were the huge number of...

Hi.  This mess is just bleak as hell. 4.Xx. “Almost Was Good Enough”. Magnolia Electric Company

3.XX. “No Children” by The Mountain Goats I truly hope this song hasn’t been taken I haven’t been paying attention to this draft much. https://youtu.be/QS27S3mspjU

Hey sorry y’all.  I’m at work and the wi-Fi is all wonky. I’m taking “Sleep All Summer” by Crooked Fingers.  Will get a link tonight.

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Awesome. Thanks for the votes!  I cheerfully accept this on behalf of Letters To Santa, an amazing endeavor started by some good friends of mine.

Dude I saw Shelter like a year or two before that in Moundsville.  The Krishna’s regularly held hardcore shows and were singularly responsible for a nascent scene in, of all places, Wheeling WV.  I’m so glad that my early exposure to the underground wasn’t just these idiotic factions of...

This was the second time I saw the Blues Explosion. We drove from Columbus, to Morgantown to Pittsburg in my friend Lloyd’s Geo Metro to pick up the tall bald girl and the short brunette next to her in the front row.  If you were into “indie” music at the time you know how fuggin’ rare it was to...

https://youtu.be/XlTqcshkmc8   3.18. Bellbottoms—Jon Spencer Blues Explosion  A+ soundtrack to I’m-The-Man badassery for more than 2 decades and anyone who thinks otherwise is a virgin.