Tag: Tunesday
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Tunesday: The Minutemen, Corona
If you kids ever wonder why we olden shits scoff at your Beeber and all that empty Disney crap, it’s because the music we played to make the double-hung windows shake was unimaginably awesome. You know nothing about the 1980s–Patti Labell and Duran Duran? I never once saw a girl wearing leg warmers on the…
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Tunesday: Dusty Brown
I’ve realized that I’m a musical schizophrenic–or worse. My favorite music is probably either from that transition to “college alternative” via New Wave via Punk (if you can’t guess my age from that, shame on you) or old school country western, and the modern “Americana” music that draws so much spirit from it, but I…
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Tunesday: The Damned, Eloise
I used to love this song. The Damned were a band I never quite figured out–very popular on college radio in the mid- to late-eighties, they had this sort of strange punk thing going on for a while the morphed into the elegiac stuff in this video. I liked it all. Aw, what the hell…here’s…
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Tunesday: Cake–Comfort Eagle
I don’t have a big, personally significant story that goes with this song–it’s just a freaking fantastic tune by a super cool band that too few people know about. If I needed to claim a personal theme song it might very well be this one. Just imagine me walking through the scene, maybe wearing boots…
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Tunesday: Violent Femmes–Gone Daddy Gone
I was in tenth grade. Xylophone solo? Hell, yes. This song is even better now than it was 30 years ago. I used to listen to these guys for hours.
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Tunesday: Lindi Ortega
Another great, slightly under-the-radar singer/songwriter: Lindi Ortega doing “All My Friends.” I picked this song in particular because not only is it a fantastic song by a talented artist with a mesmerizing voice, it would make the perfect opening song on a soundtrack of my nearly-finished novel, which opens with a whole lot of the…
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Tunesday Preview: Be Good Tanyas–Light Enough To Travel
I’m starting to work back into the daily post thing–is it too cute to reconstitute the weekly music video as Tunesday…? Seeing as it’s a pretty long stretch to call any business I’m about “cute,” I think I’m going to go for it–starting next week. Since I already wrote the following introduction for today, we’ll…
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