What is your snowmageddon soundtrack? now playing RAGNAROK edition

[auto-da-fey]

My Brother the Cow: 12 cents used on Amazon and fucking great, without question Mudhoney's finest moment. Give it a shot if you haven't heard it, and then write them off if it doesn't stick. (I spent the 90s not giving a shit about them, but somewhere around 2002 or so a cursory listen to this turned me out).

on a related note--of stuff I never cared about--Tsar was a band that had some serious local buzz in Hollywood about nine years ago, but they never managed to obtain Strokes/Vines/etc-level national notice. I wrote them off as glammy nuisances without hearing a note, but listening now to their 2003 "Straight" b/w "The Creature in Disguise" 7", this thing kind of shreds. doubt I'll put any more effort into pursuing them than this 25-cent-bin purchase from six weeks ago, but glad I finally gave it a spin.   

[Andrew_TSKS]

Oh, I DEFINITELY question the idea that My Brother The Cow is the best Mudhoney album. I'm assuming you've never heard their ACTUAL best album, Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge?

[Countdown to someone shutting me down and repping Superfuzz Bigmuff as their best record begins now]

[Andrew_TSKS]

There's a new Ulver song. I have no idea what to make of it.

Not what I expected at all, but I fucking love it! Garm can apparently do no wrong.

[davy]

Listening to a mid-period Cake album right now -- Comfort Eagle -- for the first time. I really can't believe I wasn't a bigger Cake fan growing up.

This shit just pushes ALL my buttons.

[coldforge]

There's a new Ulver song. I have no idea what to make of it.

Not what I expected at all, but I fucking love it! Garm can apparently do no wrong.

I'll be totally honest; I am already kind of really looking forward to my metal band progressively getting softer and softer over the years, until we settle comfortably into accomplished pop music in our middle age.

[auto-da-fey]

YESSSSSSSS

a non-banner day just improved by Terence Trent D'Arby's "Delicate" coming on at the coffee shop. I don't have the slightest idea what this dude has done since 1995, but I love this song dearly.

[ellaguru]

OK, I picked up a copy of PJ Harvey's To Bring You My Love on vinyl today because, you know, some days it's the best album of all time.

I got home with it and almost wanted to play it, but then realized that it had been a stressful day and I really didn't need the extra stress that comes with PJ Harvey, and decided I needed to find the opposite of PJ Harvey.

And this is what I came up with. Now playing: the opposite of PJ Harvey.

[Good Intentions]

I'm running through the Eyehategod discography for the first time in a few months. This time round, I am really surprised by how much of the lyrics I can clearly make out, even on the first two LPs.

[Andrew_TSKS]

Listening to a mid-period Cake album right now -- Comfort Eagle -- for the first time. I really can't believe I wasn't a bigger Cake fan growing up.

This shit just pushes ALL my buttons.

Kyle to thread.

[elpollodiablo]

Listening to a mid-period Cake album right now -- Comfort Eagle -- for the first time. I really can't believe I wasn't a bigger Cake fan growing up.

This shit just pushes ALL my buttons.

Same here. I really loved Motorcade of Generosity when I was 13, and still do.

[davy]

It's just so fucking easy to like! And not completely inane at the same time!

[fishjim]

On baby duty this morning, spinning this:



What can I say? I feel coddled.

[jm]

Listening to a mid-period Cake album right now -- Comfort Eagle -- for the first time. I really can't believe I wasn't a bigger Cake fan growing up.

This shit just pushes ALL my buttons.

Same here. I really loved Motorcade of Generosity when I was 13, and still do.

Shit yeah, bros.

[auto-da-fey]

sorry davy, I did listen to that Cake song you love, and . . . nope, they still sound as smarmily insufferable as always to me.

also, my burgeoning Redd Kross fandom has begun to sputter out--both Third Eye and Show World so far leaving me mostly cold, with a few notable exceptions ("You Lied Again" on the latter, "Annie's Gone" on the former--Andrew, I tried to get into "I Don't Know How to be Your Friend," but so far, no dice).

still saving Neurotica until a final verdict is in on these two--but it might be a moot point, because last night I randomly put on The Meadowlands for the first time in nearly a year, and now I know it's gonna take me a while to fend off its monopolization of my listening (which is the reason I so rarely play this, or Either/Or, or early REM, or J Church, etc.)

[davy]

Smarmy? Sure.

Groovy as shit? You betcha.

[auto-da-fey]

I just don't hear it. I mean, I was one dogmatic fucking teenager, and there's a long list of bands I hated then that I've come to either appreciate or at least not-hate, which ranges from Pink Floyd to White Zombie to Pearl Jam to Stone Temple Pilots to any band that's ever had a guitar solo and wasn't Crazy Horse or Dinosaur Jr.

but Cake, they just never left the hate-list, and I guess at this point it's unlikely they ever will. I just hear them and I wince, then I feel a little burst of spite and vitriol. guess it is what it is.

[davy]

That's ok. I'll grant that they're a hate-able band, if I'm looking at the situation objectively. I'd rather just nod my head and jam, though.

(And furthermore, I believe "The Distance" is one of the greatest singles of the 90's.)

[jm]

Now I'm curious, adf:

there's a long list of bands I hated then that I've come to either appreciate or at least not-hate ... Pink Floyd

did they graduate to appreciate or not-hate?

[coldforge]

I got your back, bro. Those dudes tweak my shit.

[auto-da-fey]

word.

and I'd say Floyd went from Syd-era appreciation to jammy-through-Shine-on-You-era lessening appreciation with time out for love of a few songs and back to post-Wall-era mostly-hate.

when I got mono as a college freshman I did read a 300-page book on them, which was mostly memorable on account of detailing the various forms of VD they brought home after their first American tour.

[auto-da-fey]

basically, David Gilmour has contributed a few lovely songs and mostly guitar-wanker noise pollution to the history of rock music IMHO and Roger Waters the same except he seems like more of a dick.

[coldforge]

I meant Cake. I like Floyd ok.

[YojimboMonkey]

Today's soundtrack so far has gone Across Tundras, Crippled Black Phoenix, Akimbo, Seven Nautical Miles, and Rosetta.  Guess I'm just feeling the slowed down screamy hardcore/progmetal today, or I guess they call it post-metal or whatever.

[auto-da-fey]

I meant Cake. I like Floyd ok.

oh, yeah, caught that--was just doing a two-fer there.

[elpollodiablo]

My anti-Floyd & -Zeppelin positions are well-known.