I know almost all the lyrics of Punk in Drublic by heart. Basically how I learned English. And then I spoke English so good I never listened to NOFX again.
No way man. It is an overused tag maybe and a well populated genre, but in any well populated genre there is always at least a little deviation and quality I think. Those bands are a lot of fun.
My youth (and mouth) was all about 1st and 2nd wave ska (though informed by 3rd wave - real talk) and LA punk from the 80s. Also the Locust because San Diego.
There was some good stuff in all the skas. I definitely listened to a lot of Specials.
The first concert I ever went to was a Jawbreaker concert, and it definitely influenced my life. I still love Jawbreaker, and Jets to Brazil's "Orange Rhyming Dictionary" is still filled with some of my favorite lyrics ever. Chicago had lots of good stuff that was born from disbanded pop punk bands.
But pop punk and 3rd wave ska were SO intertwined in Southern California in the 90s. Maybe that was over by the time these things were relevant to you (I'm of a more elder generation).
NOFX, Bad Religion, Descendents, Lagwagon, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Face to Face, Sublime...SoCal punk ruled. HIGH SCHOOL! Epitaph. Fat Wreck Chords. Etc.
rocketfromthecrypt and anyway, east bay. kerplunk, operation ivy. way way back. minutemen. agent orange. DKs, MDC, The Dicks, The Avengers.... Flipper, but that's a different story.... #grampsy #geographicallyinaccurate #stylisticallyinaccurate #areyouokoldman
This nice band of nice people making nice little songs are from Japan and local (Portland) label Audio Dregs has put out a bunch of their records including the one that this song is from which is called Little Songs About Raindrops. They make delicate pretty electronic songs out of loops from xylophones and other soft plinks and plunks.
OH! Also they made a free loop app of sounds from this album. It's really fun to play with!
This is a modern song. Very 2011, right? This is one of the dudes from Ecstatic Sunshine’s solo music. Dubby and Loopy and Heady. I can listen to this one many times in a row.
Here's a little band from the UK in the 19 and 70s. I think they were originally called The New Yardbirds. This is from the first album titled Led Zeppelin!
Golden Retriever - Part 1 (from Golden Retriever 2)
Golden Retriever are from Portland and are a currently existing musical project! Exciting. They make drones on synths and it is nice. Matt Carlson (formerly of Parenthetical Girls and Oregon Painting Society) and Jonathan Sielaff.
Pharrell Williams, super-producer and performer dude of the Neptunes/N.E.R.D. put out a solo album in 07 I think called In My Mind. In 08/09 he reworked the album with ?uestlove of The Roots and another dude. That's what this is from. Funky.
Track 8 from this 2008 ESP TRIBAL MIX that Adam brought back from Monterrey, Mexico!
Adam said on his blog: "back in march, i was down in Monterrey, Mexico playing a wonderful festival (Festival NRMAL). The night before the festival there was a DJ night at a local club w/ DJ Toy Selectah and other cool dudes. Along with some standard party house and dubsetp, they played a little of this new, very cool, very weird local style. Juiceboxxx was there and got a little bit of info about it from Toy Selectah.
Tribal aka Trival aka 3val aka Guarachero aka Tekno Tribal aka Tribal Costeno aka Cumbia Trival is a new type of hybrid house/trance/electro/cumbia that is mixed with traditional Mexican percussion and instruments (acordion, tuba, other stuff from europe that’ve been a staple of Mexican music for a couple centuries). Sounds a lot like Dutch anthemic minimal shuffle vibes mixed with weird latin shaker shuffles and repetitive hypnotic almost Reich-ian patterns.
The next day Juiceboxxx and I set out to find some mix tapes at the huge Monterrey flea market. We went from CD stall to CD stall just saying “tribal? guarachero?” until we found someone who seemed to know what we were talking about. He threw CDs onto his awesomely stacked mexi-crunk PA system and let us pick the best shit out. 6 CDRs in paper envelops, with no info besides sloppily sharpie-scrawled/ very vague titles. one of the discs didn’t work when we got bak to the hotel. the other 5 have become my favorite new music this year. I think they are mostly un-finished tracks meant to be mixed by a DJ, but i like how minimal and repetitive they are. Get into 135 BPM cowbells+congas"
Born in 1952 and putting out music in an underground way since like 1976, R. Stevie Moore is a legend. He gets lumped into "outsider music" but he is more than that, he's actually a great songwriter. He's also on the new Gnar Tapes compilation! He rules. This one is from 1984
Local heroes make good! White Fang released their 4th(?!) album, POSITIVE FEEDBACK, on bandcamp a few months back. It is a certifiable hit! I've heard so many homies talk about how much they like it. It's generally accepted that Fang really took big steps on this album, especially in the recording department. They've made something special. The album has a bunch of cool songs and is really a fun listen, takes you to a feeling and place that its distinctly FANG. Get in.
They were a band from like 89-94. Made music for the TeenBeat label. Washington DC area. Two of these people went onto have a band called Air Miami and Mark Robinson also did projects like Flin Flon and solo material.
The Hollies - On A Carousel/Pay You Back With Interest
These are two singles that were both released in early 1967 by the British band, The Hollies. On A Carousel is sung by Graham Nash (later of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and that other dude) which was the first lead vocal he had taken with The Hollies. It's such a bombastic pop melody with bad ass singing and harmonies. Pay You Back With Interest is taking a bit of a Eric Burdon/Animals influence and combining it with The Hollies excellent arrangement and pop sensibilities. TOP NOTCH POP
From 1985. This group started out a lefty post punk kinda skronky ska-y act in the late 70s but by the late 80s went way pop. If anyone is a Max Tundra fan this stuff (specifically the album "Cupid & Psyche 85") has to be Tundra's biggest inspiration. So 80s sounding in production but the arrangement is so strange and the songwriting is tops!
This is a song from 2011! How modern! This is a Norwegian man. This music is electronic. This song could probably be described as "trancey." But its classy trance! It bubbles and rumbles and makes you feel some kind of Northern Lights rave vibes or something.
Ooh! Rachy Jantzen was just showing me this the other night. We talked about it for like 15 minutes. She was like, check out this song by this guy who is the hero of Xiu Xiu and This Song Is A Mess But So Am I, it doesn't repeat any parts*, it just says what it needs to say and that's that. Then I made her watch Lana Del Rey. * It does
This is my favorite album of 2012 so far. The album is called BE STRONG. It's Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and another dude named Raf Rundell. It makes me feel so good and up and posi.
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Basically how I learned English.
And then I spoke English so good I never listened to NOFX again.
The first concert I ever went to was a Jawbreaker concert, and it definitely influenced my life. I still love Jawbreaker, and Jets to Brazil's "Orange Rhyming Dictionary" is still filled with some of my favorite lyrics ever. Chicago had lots of good stuff that was born from disbanded pop punk bands.
It's crazy how good NOFX are at vocal harmonies!
Lullatone - Falling Leaves
This nice band of nice people making nice little songs are from Japan and local (Portland) label Audio Dregs has put out a bunch of their records including the one that this song is from which is called Little Songs About Raindrops. They make delicate pretty electronic songs out of loops from xylophones and other soft plinks and plunks.
OH! Also they made a free loop app of sounds from this album. It's really fun to play with!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dropophone/id376771022?mt=8
fun
Shalamar - A Night To Remember/Second Time Around
It's a Shalamar MegaMix of perfect feel good disco funk! This is two of their songs back to back (both being extend versions from singles).
Co La - Long Shot
This is a modern song. Very 2011, right? This is one of the dudes from Ecstatic Sunshine’s solo music. Dubby and Loopy and Heady. I can listen to this one many times in a row.
Long Shot by Co La
Led Zeppelin - Your Time is Gonna Come
Here's a little band from the UK in the 19 and 70s. I think they were originally called The New Yardbirds. This is from the first album titled Led Zeppelin!
Welcome to the Church of Zep!
The newest zip file package of 33 awesome songs from the UrbanHonking Secret Song of the Day series.
It's Volume 15!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=24V0YYTW
DOWNLOAD IT NOW.
There are now 515 songs that comprise the UrHo SSOTD canon! That's like 470 GREAT songs and 45 good ones!
Download them all, here are the links:
SSOTD 1
http://www.zshare.net/download/94384855a91ccd7e/
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VJL3P0AN
SSOTD 2
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GH3TC031
SSOTD 3
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6L4GGUJR
SSOTD 4
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=BL5I66WT
SSOTD 5
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WM18540N
SSOTD 6
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=D3DDHW90
SSOTD 7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=T2U11FYW
SSOTD 8
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SOGCW656
SSOTD 9
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DPQU6I3S
SSOTD 10
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5TVGXUMY
SSOTD 11
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7CAKXEUZ
SSOTD 12
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LVHEJZA3
SSOTD 13
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WBRF7CYZ
SSOTD 14
http://www.zshare.net/download/9444004393bf7340/
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LNX1VVVJ
and the new one
SSOTD 15
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=24V0YYTW
I caught up on this weeks episode of The Best Show on WFMU this afternoon and this week Tom played the same Zep song that I SSOTD'd today.
LOL
Golden Retriever - Part 1 (from Golden Retriever 2)
Golden Retriever are from Portland and are a currently existing musical project! Exciting. They make drones on synths and it is nice. Matt Carlson (formerly of Parenthetical Girls and Oregon Painting Society) and Jonathan Sielaff.
Pharrell & the Yessirs - Baby (ft. Nelly)
Pharrell Williams, super-producer and performer dude of the Neptunes/N.E.R.D. put out a solo album in 07 I think called In My Mind. In 08/09 he reworked the album with
?uestlove of The Roots and another dude. That's what this is from. Funky.
Track 8 from this 2008 ESP TRIBAL MIX that Adam brought back from Monterrey, Mexico!
Adam said on his blog:
"back in march, i was down in Monterrey, Mexico playing a wonderful festival (Festival NRMAL). The night before the festival there was a DJ night at a local club w/ DJ Toy Selectah and other cool dudes. Along with some standard party house and dubsetp, they played a little of this new, very cool, very weird local style. Juiceboxxx was there and got a little bit of info about it from Toy Selectah.
Tribal aka Trival aka 3val aka Guarachero aka Tekno Tribal aka Tribal Costeno aka Cumbia Trival is a new type of hybrid house/trance/electro/cumbia that is mixed with traditional Mexican percussion and instruments (acordion, tuba, other stuff from europe that’ve been a staple of Mexican music for a couple centuries). Sounds a lot like Dutch anthemic minimal shuffle vibes mixed with weird latin shaker shuffles and repetitive hypnotic almost Reich-ian patterns.
The next day Juiceboxxx and I set out to find some mix tapes at the huge Monterrey flea market. We went from CD stall to CD stall just saying “tribal? guarachero?” until we found someone who seemed to know what we were talking about. He threw CDs onto his awesomely stacked mexi-crunk PA system and let us pick the best shit out. 6 CDRs in paper envelops, with no info besides sloppily sharpie-scrawled/ very vague titles. one of the discs didn’t work when we got bak to the hotel. the other 5 have become my favorite new music this year. I think they are mostly un-finished tracks meant to be mixed by a DJ, but i like how minimal and repetitive they are. Get into 135 BPM cowbells+congas"
What a wonderful tale!
R. Stevie Moore - I Hope That You Remember
Born in 1952 and putting out music in an underground way since like 1976, R. Stevie Moore is a legend.
He gets lumped into "outsider music" but he is more than that, he's actually a great songwriter.
He's also on the new Gnar Tapes compilation!
He rules.
This one is from 1984
White Fang - Unchain Your Brain
Local heroes make good! White Fang released their 4th(?!) album, POSITIVE FEEDBACK, on bandcamp a few months back. It is a certifiable hit! I've heard so many homies talk about how much they like it. It's generally accepted that Fang really took big steps on this album, especially in the recording department. They've made something special. The album has a bunch of cool songs and is really a fun listen, takes you to a feeling and place that its distinctly FANG. Get in.
http://whitefang420.bandcamp.com/releases
The Motors - Dancing the Night Away
Pub Rock! Punk Rock! England 1977/78
Unrest - Isabel
They were a band from like 89-94. Made music for the TeenBeat label. Washington DC area. Two of these people went onto have a band called Air Miami and Mark Robinson also did projects like Flin Flon and solo material.
Yachts - Yachting Types
Like that other band! Ha ha!
I can't stop enjoying these British pop post punk new wavy bands.
LISTEN:
ART STUDENTS!
They were label mates with Elvis Costello and Joe Jackson and toured American with The Who!
This is from 1979
The Hollies - On A Carousel/Pay You Back With Interest
These are two singles that were both released in early 1967 by the British band, The Hollies.
On A Carousel is sung by Graham Nash (later of Crosby, Stills, Nash, and that other dude) which was the first lead vocal he had taken with The Hollies. It's such a bombastic pop melody with bad ass singing and harmonies.
Pay You Back With Interest is taking a bit of a Eric Burdon/Animals influence and combining it with The Hollies excellent arrangement and pop sensibilities.
TOP NOTCH POP
Get them all and put them in your iTunes and hit shuffle and you will be happy as a clam for many days straight
Donny Hathaway - This Christmas
I didn't know of this song before this holiday season.
I don't think I will post any other holiday music, because this could not be topped.
From 1970
Donny wrote this song.
Donny died in 1979 by his own hands.
http://ginoast.tumblr.com/tagged/radio/
Scritti Politti - The Perfect Way
From 1985.
This group started out a lefty post punk kinda skronky ska-y act in the late 70s but by the late 80s went way pop.
If anyone is a Max Tundra fan this stuff (specifically the album "Cupid & Psyche 85") has to be Tundra's biggest inspiration.
So 80s sounding in production but the arrangement is so strange and the songwriting is tops!
Todd Terje - Snooze 4 Love
This is a song from 2011!
How modern!
This is a Norwegian man. This music is electronic. This song could probably be described as "trancey." But its classy trance! It bubbles and rumbles and makes you feel some kind of Northern Lights rave vibes or something.
Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
2012
Big Daddy Kane - Ain't No Half Steppin
2012
Tuesday January 17
Zongamin - Bongo Song
Perfume Genius - Hood
* It does
March 13 2012
The 2 Bears - Church
This is my favorite album of 2012 so far. The album is called BE STRONG.
It's Joe Goddard from Hot Chip and another dude named Raf Rundell.
It makes me feel so good and up and posi.