Those Poor Bastards - The Plague

1. Sick & Alone
2. Black Lightning
3. Barn Burning
4. A Curse
5. Evil On My Mind
6. I Cannot Escape The Darkness
7. The Plague
8. You Belong To Me
9. Old Pine Box
10. Dead Winter Moon
11. Nightmare Lullaby

This is a little out of the ordinary for me, seeing as this album came out just this week, but I couldn't help myself. This, the band's fourth release, is arguably their best. I've always liked this band, but this album solidified me as a full-fledged fan. It took me by surprise and blew me away. I got it three days ago and have listened to it ten times or more already. I also had the good fortune of seeing them play on their tour with Hank Williams III last year. The live experience is a lot different from studio. Their albums, especially this one, have a lot of overdubs; but live it's just the singer with a guitar and a drummer, very stripped-down. It's so different that I think they really need a live album. Something different about this album is that the ones that preceded it were very country-sounding with gothic overtones, but this makes a sharp turn into a gothic album with country overtones. Does that make sense? Well, listen to this album and others and you'll know what I mean. My main reason for posting this right away is because it's so good and it's a fairly underground band, and I want to get the word out on one of the best things going on in underground music today. So what are you waiting for? Get it HERE!!!!!!

The Fall - Live In Bilston (03/04/2008)

1. Exploding Chimney
2. My Door Will Never
3. Pacifying Joint
4. Latch Key Kid
5. Alton Towers
6. Wolve Kidult Man
7. Fall Sound
8. I've Been Duped
9. What About Us
10. Theme From Sparta FC
11. Wings
12. Tommy Shooter
13. Blindness

Yeah yeah, I know, more of The Fall. Some of you are probably tired of seeing this band pop up on here constantly. Well for one, I'm a big fan; but secondly, I've received more compliments on my Fall postings than any other postings. The importance of this one is that it includes at least five songs that will be appearing on their upcoming album, Imperial Wax Solvent. Apparently other gigs have been a lot better than this one (even though I like this one), but I've seen none of those posted, so this is what we've got for an upcoming album preview. If this live show is any real indicator of how the album will sound, I think it will turn around all naysayers against the current line-up and make true believers out of them. I liked Reformation Post-TLC, it's not their best album, but it is sure as hell not their worst, and it was different from any thing else they had done. "Tommy Shooter" and "I've Been Duped" fucking rocked me silly, simple as that, and I officially cannot wait for this album, which will be coming out next month, I believe. The photo above was taken by someone at that show, I was not there unfortunately. Get on it by CLICKING HERE!

Wire - Read & Burn volumes 1-3

Vol. 1
1. In The Art Of Stopping
2. I Don't Understand
3. Comet
4. Germ Ship
5. 1st Fast
6. The Agfers Of Kodack

Vol. 2
7. Read And Burn
8. Spent
9. Trash-Treasure
10. Nice Streets Above
11. Raft Ants
12. 99.9

Vol. 3
13. 23 Years Too Late
14. Our Time
15. No Warning Given
16. Desert Diving


The band that delivered a trifecta of genius with Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154, returned to their roots going into the new millenium when they recorded the Read & Burn series. Many of these songs ended up on their latest album, Send, but not all of them. All that they have recorded are here and will all fit on one CD. There isn't really a whole lot to say about these except to say that they are definitely worth a listen if you are a fan of the Pink Flag-era stuff. This is not quite on the same level of genius that first album is, but hey... what is? I don't really have any thing of substance or historical context to add to this, so I'll just send you on your way with a download link from Megaupload, as Rapidshare is being bipolar and is randomly not working for me. Get it HERE!!!

Radio Salvation

In case you all are interested, there's a very cool radio show that goes on on Wednesday nights out off Ball State University's station in Muncie, IN. I exchange music with the host on a regular basis. Every Wednesday from 9:30 to 10:30 pm, Eastern time. On his blogger page, he posts playlists, so check them out HERE, and if it looks like it might rock your socks off, then you can listen to a live stream at said time and date RIGHT HERE.

I'll be posting more music soon. Promise!

Voter fraud testimony

The Fall - Live at Logan Square Auditorium 05/30/2006

1. Bo Demmick
2. Pacifying Joint
3. Theme From Sparta FC
4. Mountain Energei
5. Wrong Place, Right Time
6. Systematic Abuse
7. I Can Hear the Grass Grow
8. Reformation
9. Blindness
10. Mr. Pharmacist
11. What About Us?
12. Outtro

This one is rare, good quality, and totally sentimental. I went to this show. It's the only Fall show I've been able to go to. They play all the time in England, but God forbid they come to the states a little more often. I do hope to get to see them again at some point, but for now I'll have to tolerate just having this and my memory and my pictures. I took the photo that's at the top of the page, along with many others. Oh, and the whole band signed my copy of "Live At the Witch Trials." I probably should've just had Mark E. Smith sign it since he was the only member of the current line-up on that album, but I was just too excited to see them. So they all signed it and dated it. Very cool! Visit my brain here!

Music news: another Johnny Cash album or two

When June Carter Cash died, it was known to the general public that Johnny Cash basically lived in the studio and always had a guitarist on standby whenever his health permitted him to record. He said multiple times that if he didn't have things to do that he would rather just be dead. Apparently he really meant that, because he just kept recording constantly. That's how the "Unearthed" box set came about, and "American V: A Hundred Highways." Now we're looking at getting one, if not two, more American albums. That would be awesome, as far as I'm concerned.

Bill O'Reilly is a disgrace to humanity

This is absolutely disgusting:

Music news: second Joey Ramone solo record?

According to an interview with Marky Ramone, Joey recorded 20 songs for his first album (only 15 were used), plus Joey demoed 15 more for what would've become a second album. So there's more Joey stuff out there that we have yet to hear.
The interview can be found here.

I think I read a while back that the aforementioned demos are in a legal battle right now between Joey's brother and (I think) the producer on the first album. So it may be a long time before we hear any more.

The Boys - The Boys

1. Sick On You
2. I Call Your Name
3. Tumble With Me
4. Tonight
5. I Don't Care
6. Soda Pressing
7. No Money
8. First Time
9. Box Number
10. Kiss Like A Nun
11. Cop Cars
12. Keep Running
13. Tenement Kids
14. Living In The City
15. Whatcha Gonna Do
16. Turning Grey
17. First Time (long version)
18. Lonely Schooldays
19. I Don't Care
20. Take A Heart
21. Run Rudolph Run (The Yobs)
22. The Worm Song (The Yobs)

So one of the visitors to this site had been looking to hear some stuff by The Boys, to which she found the BBC Radio 1 split with The Vibrators and the Live in Retford album. Not the best representation of their work, in my opinion, so my friend uploaded his copy of the album in 320kbps and sent me the link and said I should share it, as long as he took the time to upload it, especially in such good quality (for an mp3, that is).
This copy of the album is taken from the 2-CD set released by Captain Oi! that included the first two albums, plus a a bunch of bonus tracks. This first album is easily one of the best to come out of the punk explosion, period. It ranks up there "Fulham Fallout," "Life On The Line," "Damned Damned Damned," "Inflammable Material," etc. It's that good. It's simple power pop that is driven home like you're about to overdose on speed. It's so fun, it's so intense! To boot, there is a piano thrown in, which is just a wonderful added touch in my mind. Piano and punk rock just tend to blend well together for some reason.
This band also had three incredible musicians working together. Casino Steele had such a great ear for pop music, Duncan "Kid" Reid had an amazing voice for this kind of music (check out his cover of The Clash's "Complete Control" on The Clash punk rock cover album), and "Honest" John Plain didn't write very many songs, but he added this extra layer of guitar playing that had more personality than you can understand (listen to him play on The Lurkers' "Little Ole Wine Drinker Me" single and you'll know exactly what I mean).
Their first single, "I Don't Care," sold well enough to land them gigs playing with John Cale, The Police, XTC, The Damned, and Generation X, but the day this album came out happened to also be the same day that Elvis Presley died. Their record label stopped pressing this album and started pressing Elvis stuff instead. Thus, even if this album had received much more publicity, there'd be nowhere in hell to find the damn thing. I'm betting that an original pressing of this album will cost you a pretty penny. Lucky for us, word spread of them enough to get this schnazzy CD release of this amazing album. Captain Oi! has also recently released a 30th anniversary edition of this album which is probably worth checking out. Otherwise, you have this version of the album right here.
CLICK HERE, PUNK!