The Stooges - Live In Chicago (04/15/2007)

1. Loose
2. Down On The Street
3. I Wanna Be Your Dog
4. TV Eye
5. My Idea Of Fun
6. Dirt
7. Real Cool Time
8. No Fun
9. 1970
10. Fun House
11. Skull Ring
12. Trollin'
13. audience
14. 1969
15. She Took My Money
16. Not Right
17. I'm Fried
18. audience
19. Little Electric Chair

Without a doubt, the best show I've ever been to in my life. I was there, I took those photos, and I've never seen a live band blow me away like The Stooges did on that night just one short year ago. I wrote a review of the show for my college's newspaper, so I don't terribly feel like going into details here, but this show was an experience that you won't get any where else or with any other band. It's definitely a lot different just hearing it through a bootleg, but I was front and center for this orgasm of rock 'n roll. GET IT HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thom Yorke - Live At The Bridge School (acoustic)

1. intro (10/26/2002)
2. Everything In Its Right Place
3. I Might Be Wrong
4. Sail To The Moon
5. Like Spinning Plates
6. There, There
7. Pyramid Song
8. Lucky
9. After The Gold Rush (Neil Young cover)
10. intro (10/27/2002)
11. Street Spirit (Fade Out)
12. Morning Bell
13. Nice Dream
14. I Might Be Wrong
15. Sail To The Moon
16. Like Spinning Plates
17. True Love Waits
18. Paranoid Android

I'm honestly not too sure what the story is behind this one. I know it was a benefit gig, and that it was only the two performances, but other than that I don't know much about it. I know that the lead singer for Radiohead went solo for this one with nothing but a guitar and a piano and went through some of the Radiohead catalog, and did a very good job of it. I wish he hadn't repeated any material, but that's all right, they're still very good performances. Some of the songs are given a completely different kind of treatment, and if you're a fan, then it's just fascinating to hear some of those songs under these circumstances. Excellent performance, and top-notch recording quality! Get it HERE!

Magic Sam - West Side Soul

1. That's All I Need
2. I Need You So Bad
3. I Feel So Good (I Wanna Boogie)
4. All Of Your Love
5. I Don't Want No Woman
6. Sweet Home Chicago
7. I Found A New Love
8. Every Night And Every Day
9. Lookin' Good
10. My Love Will Never Die
11. Mama, Mama/Talk To Your Daughter
12. I Don't Want No Woman (alternate)

I hope you don't think that I assume you're stupid, because I most certainly don't. However, I never cease to be amazed at the number of people I run into (even people who say they love blues) who have never heard of this guy, much less heard this album. I don't understand how someone can be a fan of blues, or even just rock 'n roll, and have not heard this essential masterwork of brilliance and skill. There are just a handful of people in this world who are as talented as this man, and ordained by God to do what they do. What I mean is that everything about Magic Sam's work is flawless, but he makes it seem so easy. It just flows out of him like water and I just can't help but be impressed every time I listen to him. If this will be your first listen, prepare to be amazed. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Jello Biafra - High Priest Of The Harmful Matter

Disc 1:
1. Intro - Love American Death Squad Style
2. Talk On Censorship

Disc 2:
1. Tales From The Trial

Jello Biafra has been a big influence on my life recently. His spoken word albums (I think he's up to 8 of them now) are pretty much all dedicated to spreading information that you might not have otherwise heard. While it's sometimes entertaining, his mission is not to entertain. He is an artist on a mission to challenge the listener. He receives news sources from all over the world, often times from very obscure places and I'm not even exactly sure how he does it, but it all comes together in very powerful messages. One of his most-covered topics is of the utmost importance on this album: CENSORSHIP. It sounds like the kind of thing that's saved for the 1950s, but that's if you're to believe that everything they say on the news is true and that we have a "liberal" media. This is really just the tip of the ice berg for his work, I encourage you to go out and buy his albums and become challenged. He cites a lot of his information on the album, so you can even check up on most of the information he presents if you think he's exaggerating or lying. The "Tale From The Trial" segment is in regards to the Dead Kennedys album "Frankenchrist," being put on trial under the recently put-in-place obscenity laws thanks to Tipper Gore and the PMRC. It was the first (and maybe only) album to ever be prosecuted under that law, and he walks you through the entire process from start to finish, and even if you're only mildly interested in underground music it's a fascinating listen. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Red London - This Is England and Sten Guns In Sunderland EP

This Is England
1. CND
2. Guitars And Crime
3. Windward Drifter
4. Clubland Rock
5. Red Alert
6. Where I Was Born
7. Bric-A-Brac Youth
8. No War No Hate
9. Kill A King
10. Posers Retreat
11. Durham Boys
12. Production Line
13. This Is England (part 2)

Sten Guns In Sunderland EP
14. This Is England
15. Soul Train
16. Revolution Times

I'm going to get this out of the way: this is not a very good album. So I have a different motive in posting this. Let me explain. These are the first two releases by the band, put onto one CD. It contains the indisputable punk rock classic "CND." That song has shown up on a LOT of punk compilations. I loved it then, I love it now. So, naturally, I wanted to hear more. I went looking for more Red London for a while with no luck whatsoever. I eventually found a greatest hits compilation of theirs, but the first thing that struck me was the "CND" was not on it, which was odd, but then I listened to it and it sounded like a whole different band. I may be mistaken, but I think it's a collection of work that the band (with a different singer) did on a label they were on later in their career. So NONE of this early work is on their greatest hits CD. Through much effort, I finally found this CD, and...... I didn't like it. The singer, who I liked so much on the opening song, ended up annoying the hell out of me. The guitar work is the best part about it, but no other songs are quite on the level with that classic track. So I'm posting this for any of you curious about what Red London sounded like during "CND" era, and saving you the trouble of looking any further than right here, so you will know that they did, unfortunately, suck. I do dig the song "Red Alert," though. So get it HERE.

Simon and Garfunkel - Live 1969

1. Homeward Bound
2. At the Zoo
3. 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
4. Song For the Asking
5. For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her
6. Scarborough Fair
7. Mrs. Robinson
8. The Boxer
9. Why Don't You Write Me
10. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
11. That Silver-Haired Daddy Of Mine
12. Bridge Over Troubled Water
13. The Sound Of Silence
14. I Am A Rock
15. Old Friends/Bookends Theme
16. Leaves That Are Green
17. Kathy's Song

Recently released, I believe, through Starbucks. It may seem superfluous, especially if you've heard a live album of theirs before, but the performances on here are absolutely dynamic. This is the tour promoting their (at the time) not-yet-released "Bridge Over Troubled Water" album, so the crowds are hearing many of the songs for the first time. The audience reactions, especially to the title track, are priceless. They're exactly what you'd expect from hearing such amazing songs for the first time. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Dead Boys - We Have Come For Your Children

1. 3rd Generation Nation
2. I Won't Look Back
3. I Don't Wanna Be No Catholic Boy
4. Flame Thrower Love
5. Son Of Sam
6. Tell Me
7. Big City
8. Calling On You
9. Dead and Alive
10. Ain't It Fun

Unfortunately, this phenomenal album was overshadowed by its predecessor, even though this album is just as good. Also, it was soon after they recorded this album that they fizzled out and Stiv Bators would soon be no more. This has songs that should've become punk rock standards ended up being confined to an album that was given little attention and had almost no international distribution. This is one of my most-listened to punk rock albums, and I pass it on to you. Get it RIGHT HERE!

Barack Obama - Live in Muncie, IN (04/12/2008)

Okay, I'll admit this one is a bit unorthodox, but I'm a big fan of Obama, and I think he is the best hope for our country. Not necessarily that he's the best guy for the job, but he stands a damn good chance of getting in, and I think he will genuinely work to make this country better. He came and spoke a few times in Indiana, where I live, and I was at this particular event. It also happened to be a damn good speech. I was very pleased to be able to shake his hand. Give it a listen RIGHT HERE!

Where, oh where, has Nargo gone?

Does anyone have any idea what happened to Nargo The Bort's blogs. He had a bunch of them, with the most and some of the best bootlegs, including live concert footage, that you could find anywhere. I checked up on his blogs a couple of weeks ago and every single one of them are gone and he has yet to reply to my e-mail which I sent over a week ago.

Where is our beloved Bort?

In any case, I will re-post some or many of the bootlegs I found on his blog, as many of them are very good and/or rare. I downloaded somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 of them.

I hope he has not gone for good, he was one of the best. And if he is, well... another one bites the dust, I suppose. I guess it's up to people like me and my fellow bloggers to carry the torch. That is, if protesters in France don't go on a rampage and steal the torch from me.

Radiators From Space - "Television Screen" single & TV Tube Heart

"Television Screen" single
1. Television Screen
2. Love Detective

TV Tube Heart
1. Television Screen
2. Prison Bars
3. Great Expectations
4. Roxy Girl
5. Press Gang
6. Contact
7. Sunday World
8. Electric Shares
9. Enemies
10. Ripped and Torn
11. Not Too Late
12. Blitzin' At the Ritz
13. Party Line

From the original Irish punk scene came the band that would include a young Phillip Chevron who would later join the legendary Pogues. This is very good, underrated stuff. Enjoy! Get it HERE!