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The bit that you skip #121: Cliff Martinez – Helicopter
In early 2001 I got my real first job. It wasn’t a job inside the university any longer, no, it was a real job, with social security, taxes, strict hours (the paid ones, at least), and office politics. I was a “trainee” at Ericsson and I was in a group of 10 people who took…
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The bit that you skip #120: David Lee Roth – Just a gigolo / I ain’t got nobody
As I wrote yesterday about my experience as a kid with a 24 hour video channel, I had a nice memory pop up. David Lee Roth only existed as the wacky dude from Jump, a video I watched ad nauseam in both Tula and Tampico, as all my brothers and cousins were massive fans of…
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The bit that you skip #119: Men at Work – Overkill
When we moved from Tula to Mexico in August of 1985, the first thing my dad did was hire a cable TV provider that had as many NFL games as possible. He was frustrated with TV reception in Tula, and missing out games, especially from his beloved Cowboys. Since it was still the holidays, I…
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The bit that you skip #118: Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Big Mob
Contrary to other fellow Gen-Xers, my path with Red Hot Chili Peppers didn’t start with Higher Ground, Give it away, or Under the bridge. It was the melancholic Soul To Squeeze, from the box office bomb Coneheads, what made me a fan. I usually ran into their “What hits?” compilation at the listening stations at…
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The bit that you skip #117: Sparta Red.Right.Return.
-“you’re falling straight in our hands” I’ve always loved rainy weather. When I was a kid, hot weather would make my head throb and I would need to lie down. Rain would soothe this pain, and I would be able to be “human” again. In autumn of 2007, it was a different story, rain didn’t…
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The bit that you skip #116: Thrice – Firebreather
It’s a cliché to grab to loud, brash music when things go wrong, but at the worst of times, it’s loud music what helps take away that seething feeling. I always get pinned down as someone who listens only to metal genres and their ilk, but I seldom do. Thrice’s Fire EP from the Alchemy…
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The bit that you skip #115: Thrice – A song for Milly Michaelson
D.A.R.Y.L. The flight of the navigator. The boy who could fly. We had this stretch of movies in the 80s focused on the outcasts of society in the suburbs. Yup, I identified with their protagonists. The boy that could fly had Jay Underwood and Fred Savage. Jay was the titular character, a quiet loner with…
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The bit that you skip #114: Thrice – The Earth isn’t humming
There are two opposing camps regarding covers: one accepts covers as reinterpretations or recontextualizations of songs, famous or not. The other camp treats all covers as cheap cash ins. I think it’s a case per case basis. And even then, the cheap cash ins can work, even if they are as cynical as Weezer’s Teal…
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The bit that you skip #113: Thrice – Night Diving
The last trip I took with my parents was in 2011. I was living in Sheffield and we went on a tour bus around the UK. Even a bit of Wales, but only Cardiff and that Llanfair place. It was september, so we did get drenched in Glencoe, Aviemore, and in Skye. We had whisky.…
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Minty fresh: Failure, Modest Mouse, Beck, American Analog Set
Orestes takes care of new bands, I go for legacy acts. That’s the intro for y’all! Failure – The rising skyline Not a pairing I’d imagine, but it works quite well. Failure’s new song, The Rising Skyline, has Hayley Williams (formerly from Paramore) going on a star surfing slice of space rock. A slow acoustic…
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