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The bit that you skip #256: American Music Club – Wish the world away
1994’s San Francisco is American Music Club’s best album. Their seventh album, and the last before a long hiatus, finds the band with a polished sound that tightly holds to Mark Eitzel’s tremendous lyrical work. I’m always ambivalent on my fave track on this album. I hold it dear to my heart as it’s the…
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The bit that you skip #255: Brand New – Degausser
Before youtube, the only chance you had to catch a video was either MTV (or any of its knock offs) or waiting ages to download on dial-up or any P2P program like limewire, bearshare, and the like. There were a couple of websites in the early 00s where you could download videos with reasonable quality.…
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The bit that you skip #254: Gareth Coker – Cathedral Canyon
A friend once said that soundtracks are the new classical music. I agree wholeheartedly. The influence of composers like Rachmaninoff and Beethoven bubbles in songs from Star Trek, ET and more. Videogame soundtracks have found their own niche and slowly but surely got the recognition they need. From the eerie drones of Eric Brosius compositions…
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The bit that you skip #253: Red House Painters – Lord Kill The Pain
When I was a kid, I had this uncle who was a bit of a hero to everyone. He made the greatest parties, he always had a quick smile with a wink, could make the best drinks, and always made you laugh. The entire family was always there for gatherings at his massive house in…
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The bit that you skip #252: VAST – Free
The randomness of getting to know a band is always fascinating. Maybe you got a YouTube recommendation. Maybe you had a song in your head and through the magic of searching, you stumble upon that earworm from years before. Sometimes you find a band through another band. In 2002, I was obsessed with American McGee’s…
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The bit that you skip #251: Live – Lakini’s Juice
A tragic song doesn’t necessarily have to be a slow song. Lakini’s Juice always felt like a song rooted in utter destruction, which I’ve always understood being self-control. Once there’s no barrier, wanton overwhelms our protagonist. The video seems to confirm it and I know a few places banned it. The busybody pearl clutchers from…
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The bit that you skip #250: Peter Gabriel – Mercy Street
Peter Gabriel always felt like “the guy with funny videos who went serious”. Blame it on the MTV megahit Sledgehammer. Or the lesser known follow up, Steam. Both songs have trippy, technically deft videos that sort of damage the song from my viewpoint. The songs are great, that’s a fact, but the videos seem to…
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The bit that you skip #249: Pink Floyd – Pigs (Three Different Ones)
The previous post I wrote for Sloucher got me a warning from the AI censorbots from threads. Apparently, the cover art from Those Darlins counts as “sex solicitation”, or so says threads, who don’t even have a button to reply, just a few kafkian options and none applies to “the album has a cover with…
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The bit that you skip #248: Those Darlins – Optimist
Many years ago, American Laundromat, an american Indie label, got in touch. They’ve read my constant bigging up of Repo Man and they had a tribute album to the film. I got a review copy and was happily surprised on the new takes on songs I’ve loved since I was a kid. Repo Man is…
