What Are You Listening To Right This Very Second?

[masterofsparks]

I've always had mixed feelings about that one.

Although, Let's Spend The Night Together is always fun.

Apparently, Muddy felt the same way.

I've heard that Phil Upchurch (who plays guitar on the album) refuses to talk about it or answer questions about it. Stupid blues purists.

[Austin From Chicago]

I've just finished watching some Royal Headache videos on YouTube and I must say - these guys are a bit of all right. Man, what a difference a really good vocalist makes.

Royal Headache - Surprise

[mostlymeat]

Yeah the singer for Royal Headache is incredible and the album is front-to-back hits. I hate the way it was recorded though, all blown out, why do they do that?

I got to see them last year in SF and didn't expect them to come back so soon since they are from Australia but they are touring the states again now, heads up!!!

5/25/2012 Los Angeles CA @ Blue Star w/ Joyce Manor, DeathHymn No.9

5/26/2012 Oakland CA @ Vitus w/ Personal & the Pizzas, King Louie and Missing Monuments, Mean Jeans + more

5/28/2012 Santa Barbara CA @ Velvet Jones w/ Ceremony + more

5/29/2012 Pheonix AZ @ Rhythm Room w/ Ceremony, Avon Ladies

5/30/2012 Albequerque NM @ Launchpad w/ Ceremony + more

6/1/2012 Austin TX @ Scoot Inn w/ Toody and Fred (Dead Moon) Mark Sultan, GG King + more (Chaos in Tejas)

6/2/2012 Austin TX @Club Deville w/ The Clean, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, + more (Chaos in Tejas)

6/6/2012 Minneapolis MN @ House Party w/ OBNIIIs
6/7/2012 Chicago IL @ The Burlington w/ OBNIIIs, Football

6/8/2012 Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin w/ Heavy Times

6/9/2012 Minneapolis MN @ Triple Rock Social Club w/ CONDOMINIUM, The Arrivals, Cozy, Nato Coles + more.


6/13/2012 NYC NY @ Cake Shop w/ Scott and Charlene’s Wedding + more

6/14/2012 NYC NY @ Warsaw w/ Ceremony + Screaming Females + more

6/15/2012 Boston MA @ PA'S LOUNGE w/ + White Pages, Guilty Party

I've just finished watching some Royal Headache videos on YouTube and I must say - these guys are a bit of all right. Man, what a difference a really good vocalist makes.

Royal Headache - Surprise

[danner]

Okay, thanks to this thread, I ordered myself up a couple of Young Governor 7-inchers:

Firing Squad / 25 with a Bullet
Pizza Face / Punks in Labour

Good stuff!

[Alex P.]

Yeah, it's a little bit more horrifying than I thought it would be.

[cavorting with nudists]

Bruce Springsteen doing "The Weight" in tribute to Levon Helm, on YouTube from the other night in Newark.

Not my favorite Band song, rendition a little stiff, and the E Street Band ain't The Band, but a lovely gesture by a great American.

[Austin From Chicago]

Yeah the singer for Royal Headache is incredible and the album is front-to-back hits. I hate the way it was recorded though, all blown out, why do they do that?

I got to see them last year in SF and didn't expect them to come back so soon since they are from Australia but they are touring the states again now, heads up!!!

5/25/2012 Los Angeles CA @ Blue Star w/ Joyce Manor, DeathHymn No.9

5/26/2012 Oakland CA @ Vitus w/ Personal & the Pizzas, King Louie and Missing Monuments, Mean Jeans + more

5/28/2012 Santa Barbara CA @ Velvet Jones w/ Ceremony + more

5/29/2012 Pheonix AZ @ Rhythm Room w/ Ceremony, Avon Ladies

5/30/2012 Albequerque NM @ Launchpad w/ Ceremony + more

6/1/2012 Austin TX @ Scoot Inn w/ Toody and Fred (Dead Moon) Mark Sultan, GG King + more (Chaos in Tejas)

6/2/2012 Austin TX @Club Deville w/ The Clean, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, + more (Chaos in Tejas)

6/6/2012 Minneapolis MN @ House Party w/ OBNIIIs
6/7/2012 Chicago IL @ The Burlington w/ OBNIIIs, Football

6/8/2012 Madison, WI @ University of Wisconsin w/ Heavy Times

6/9/2012 Minneapolis MN @ Triple Rock Social Club w/ CONDOMINIUM, The Arrivals, Cozy, Nato Coles + more.


6/13/2012 NYC NY @ Cake Shop w/ Scott and Charlene’s Wedding + more

6/14/2012 NYC NY @ Warsaw w/ Ceremony + Screaming Females + more

6/15/2012 Boston MA @ PA'S LOUNGE w/ + White Pages, Guilty Party

I've just finished watching some Royal Headache videos on YouTube and I must say - these guys are a bit of all right. Man, what a difference a really good vocalist makes.

Royal Headache - Surprise

Not a fan of that whole thing either, sad to say. SOOOO many indie rock bands are overdoing the tin can-reverb effect on the vocals and doing that fake-analog distortion thing....it's getting out of hand. GBV already covered (perfected?) that technique, guys; it's no longer innovative to make your records sound like shit on purpose.

[dave from knoxville]

Julie Klausner deconstructing a song called "Show Me How Your Pussy Works" on How Was Your Week.

[Steve of Bloomington]

The ghetto-tech classic referenced in 'Absurdistan'?

[masterofsparks]

I've always had mixed feelings about that one.

Although, Let's Spend The Night Together is always fun.

Apparently, Muddy felt the same way.

Anyone else remember this one, which is sort of the 90s version of Electric Mud? I don't even like JSBX that much, but I fucking love this album.

[cavorting with nudists]

I play that one often.  Electric Mud comparison kind of a stretch though.

[masterofsparks]

I play that one often.  Electric Mud comparison kind of a stretch though.

Older blues musician collaborates with hip younger rock musicians in an attempt to reach their audience. It doesn't seem like a terribly huge stretch to me. True, the two don't sound especially alike, but they are both very much products of their time.

[cavorting with nudists]

Well, OK.  I was thinking of the sound.  And, while both may have been efforts to acquaint younger audiences with old blues guys, the pure crassness of the commercial calculations behind each.

Mebbe I would think of the Burnside as more like John Lee Hooker recording with Canned Heat--in neither case did the older artist compromise his music too much.

[Dennis]

slint - spiderland. 

i haven't heard this album in maybe a decade, but man oh man was it worth revisiting. 

[hardweek]

I've been listening to the complete Motown singles box sets, 1958-1971. And by complete, I mean over 1500 songs. It has taken me over a year. I'm on the last disc!