VOTE!!!!!

If you live in America and you are registered, go vote today!

I don't care who you vote for, be it Ron Paul, Barack Obama, John McCain, Ralph Nader, or Ronald McDonald. I don't care. If you are registered, let your voice be heard. Vote for Obama or McCain if you want someone to have a fighting chance of making it. Vote for Nader or Paul or a third party if you want to send them a message; or do a write-in vote for Rocky & Bullwinkle if you want to give a big middle finger to the whole system. If you don't vote, no one will know what you think one way or the other. Silence is consent.

I have already voted, and I proudly voted for Obama. He's the first politician in my lifetime that has shown any real hope for America's future. Go OBAMA!!!!!!!

The 101ers - Elign Avenue Revisited

1. Letsagetabitarockin'
2. Silent Telephone
3. Keys To Your Heart (V1)
4. Rabies (From the Dogs Of Love)
5. Sweet Revenge
6. Motor Boys Motor
7. Steamgauge 99
8. 5 Star R'n'R
9. Surf City
10. Keys To Your Heart (V2)
11. Sweety of the St. Moritz
12. Hideaway
13. Shake Your Hips
14. Lonely Mother's Son
15. Don't Let It Go
16. Keep Taking The Tablets
17. Junco Partner
18. Out Of Time
19. Maybelline
20. Gloria

Maybe not essential to your rock 'n roll collection, but definitely essential to your Clash collection. This is Joe Strummer growing up, playing songs that were his stepping stones to The Clash. This band is how Mick Jones met him and the rest is history. There are some great songs on here, but a lot of it is just Joe Strummer just revving up to be in his creative explosion, only a few months away. I have one vinyl of theirs, repressed unfortunately, but I definitely recommend this CD over the vinyl, there's more here. Get it HERE!!!

Clearwater Ahead, Indeed

Some great news everyone!

For one, I got a new iPod for birthday, which can hold, like, a million times as much music as my last one. So I am quickly trying to fill it up, and it's fantastic!

Secondly, I got my CD drive fixed, so I have also been spending hours upon hours of the last month or so uploading albums, collections, and videos. I have an awful lot uploaded already that will be making its way onto the blog soon.

Spread the word of this blog, because I'm deliberately trying to get things out there that you won't find elsewhere. The Mark E. Smith documentary is a perfect example of that!

I am also currently trying to get the entire 15-CD set of Hank Williams' Mothers Best radio recordings downloaded through a torrent. It's been over a week and so far I'm at 58.5%, and right now it's in dead water. As soon as I have it up here, so then will you. They just released, this week as a matter of fact, a 3-CD set of select recordings from those, but that's only 3 CDs out of 15. I would happily buy the 15 CD set, quite frankly. However, they're not giving me the 15, so I'm getting it where I can.

Thank you all for the comments! Every comment is one more reason to keep doing this! Thanks again!

The Associates - The Affectionate Punch

1. Affectionate Punch
2. Amused As Always
3. Logan Time
4. Paper House
5. Transport To Central
6. Matter of Gender
7. Even Dogs In the Wild
8. Would I Bounce Back
9. Deeply Concerned
10. A

I found out about this band through The Smiths. I was reading about a song called "William, It Was Really Nothing," and supposedly the song is about the lead singer of this band. I had never heard of The Associates before, so I figured they were worth a listen. This is the only album I've heard so far, but so far I like them an awful lot! So, if nothing else, this is a good introductory album. Enjoy!!

Television - Summerstage (06/16/2007)

Disc 1:
1. Introduction
2. 1880 Or So
3. Balloon
4. Venus
5. Little Johnny Jewel
6. Prove it
7. Frustration

Disc 2:
1. Glory
2. The Sea
3. Persia
4. Marquee Moon

This band should really do some international touring as a reunion project. For one, so I can finally see them play live. Secondly, there are so many bands doing it, but Television is one of the few bands that could pull it off without it being embarrassing. This bootleg proves that they still have it and that they still can rip on guitar like no other, and why so many bands are failing at trying to mimic their sound and their chemistry. With limited space on my hard drive, I don't keep bootlegs unless they're either of a special nature (like The Greedies bootleg I posted a while ago) or they're just really fucking good. This one is both. Get it RIGHT HERE!!!

Ahmad Jamal - At The Pershing (But Not For Me)

1. But Not For Me
2. Surrey With The Fringe On Top
3. Moonlight In Vermont
4. Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In)
5. No Greater Love
6. Poinciana
7. Woody 'N You
8. What's New?

Hello kids! Claudius is back! We're going to start with something different, but amazing nonetheless. I don't own very many jazz records, I'm slowly easing my way into the genre on all fronts. This is so far one of my very favorites, along with John Coltrane's "Ascension" and "A Love Supreme." In case you're wondering which one is Mr. Jamal, he's the pianist, and he will blow your mind. Get it HERE!

Election 2008

Hope y'all are registered to vote!



Hope y'all are registered to vote!

Reccomend some blogs to me!

So when I switched over to the new version of Firefox, a wonderful little thing happened: it deleted all of my bookmarked websites that were organized in a folder, including almost all of my favorite blogs.

So this is an open invitation to send me links to good blogs. In the comments section, put the address at the top of the page, and then give me a brief description of what the blog is like and what kinds of stuff they post.

I love old punk rock, the kinds of stuff that Punk Not Profit and Nuzz Prowling Wolf post. So stuff like The Lurkers, Sham 69, Eddie & the Hot Rods, etc. I also love old rock n roll, like Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley. I love rhythm and blues groups like Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels and Spirit. I also love soul, funk, blues of all kinds (but primarily Mississippi delta blues), gospel (but definitely more like gospel from the chapel scene in The Blues Brothers), old honky tonk country, jazz, spoken word, bluegrass, classical, and folk music. I think that about covers it.

Looking forward to the recommendations!

Also, does anyone have any idea what ever happened to Nargo The Bort? I thought his bootleg concert video blog was one of the coolest things ever, but I only got to download two shows from it.

Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger alternate takes

1. Everybody Knows
2. Goodnight Rose
3. Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
4. Pearls On A String
5. Tears of Gold
6. These Girls
7. Two

Goddamn, I love South Park. I found that picture on a blog, thought it was great. Not nearly as great as the Lego version of Mark E. Smith, though. Admittedly, this isn't the kind of thing I would normally post, but I like throwin' ya new things once in a while. These were hard to find for a while, but luckily I got in touch with someone who sent them to me and now I pass them on to you all. Ryan Adams recently released an album (but he's probably released twelve or more since then), called Easy Tiger, which is a pretty good album truth be told, and these are simply alternate versions of some of those songs. They're all good versions too. That's all there is to say about that. I saw him in concert a while back, and he was blitzed like you wouldn't believe. It was funny until he started playing 10+ minutes of stoner jam band solo stuff. But I digress. Get these alternate mixes by CLICKING HERE.

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

1. Kill the Poor
2. Forward to Death
3. When Ya Get Drafted
4. Let's Lynch the Landlord
5. Drug Me Get
6. Your Emotions
7. Chemical Warfare
8. California Uber Alles
9. I Kill Children
10. Stealing People's Mail
11. Funland at the Beach
12. I'll in the Head
13. Holiday in Cambodia
14. Viva Las Vegas

I may eventually post all of the Dead kennedys albums on here. I have no remorse whatsoever in doing so. The Dead Kennedys were what they were because of Jello Biafra, plain and simple. Jello was to the Dead Kennedys as Glenn Danzig was to the Misfits and Kurt Cobain was to Nirvana. The whole thing cannot function without that key member, though in two of those cases, the bands have exploited the name without the key member for monetary purposes only. So I suppose this is my protest to the members who betrayed Jello and have been ripping him off ever since then. Even Jello's replacement singer, who had many bad things to say about Jello, was eventually ripped off and betrayed by the same people. Fuck them. So here's your free copy of this brilliant album. This came out in 1979, I believe, which was the same year Jello Biafra ran for mayor of San Francisco. He tells the whole story of that on the I Blow Minds For A Living spoken word album, it's a bad ass story! Get this album by CLICKING HERE!!