BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - "Rush"

And of all my friends, you've been the best to me:



Even when I'm not dead.

I miss this car:

And I miss seeing this dashboard:


And I miss not being able to reach the passenger door without laying flat on the bench seat.

CAKE - "The Distance"

My old pal Jeremy sent this blast from the past:



Great horns, and great MELODICA!

WEEZER - "Say It Ain't So"

From the wreckage of the music scene of the '90s comes... WEEZER!


Weezer - Say it Ain't So


Say it ain't so.

BECK - "Devil's Haircut"

This one goes out to Jared:

YAAARRRRGH!

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Razza frazzen.

REPUBLICA - "Ready to Go"

This one, from 1996:



My daughter likes this one. So do I.

The Year of the Sphere

The Sphere is a year old now.



So there.

This hangs above my bar

It's a paper plate from THE CRAMPS's backstage buffet from back when they played Hammerjack's in Baltimore, or perhaps the 9:30 Club in DC in about 1990... either way, I wasn't there, as my pal Erik Dorr (who owned York's SOUND BIZARRE record store) had backstage passes that I missed out on because I was heading to Florida on vacation. I really regret that, but I'm glad that Erik was such a pal that he had the band members sign this paper plate to me, and I've treasured it ever since...

Now I'm gonna go drink a big fucking juiceglass of scotch in memory of Lux. Stay sick.

REPUBLICA - "Drop Dead Gorgeous"

Sigh. Another piece of the puzzle that is The Sphere of Repugnance...



What can I say? I'm drop-dead gorgeous!

PULP - "Mile End"

Speaking of Pulp:



Very Bowie, very lost.

Here's just the song:

I guess you have to go right down
before you understand just how, how low,
how low a human being can go.

Turn it the fuck up, loud-like.

DAVID BOWIE & NINE INCH NAILS - "I'm Afraid Of Americans"

A perennial favorite:



That last part is cool in how it breaks out of the first 9/10ths of the song and sorta drives the point home... I wonder if Bowie or Reznor wrote that part.

WEEZER - "Buddy Holly"

And just for old time's sake, there's this classic:



"Weezer was filmed in front a live audience."

NICK CAVE - "Stagger Lee"

This is one of the most frighteningly grim songs I have ever heard, and his album "Murder Ballads" is chock full of grim weirdness:



HOLY SHIT, THAT'S IT FOR ME, NO MORE DRUNKEN NIGHTS AT SOME FUCKING ROADHOUSE.

THE KIDS IN THE HALL - "Girl Drink Drunk"

Thank goodness I've never been THERE. OK, only for a year or two.



What.