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The bit that you skip #93: Gazelle – At last, friend
Many songs tend to remind you of your childhood. Another quantity, perhaps greater, hark back to your teenage days. Then there’s songs that make you think of your early adulthood. The wide eyed rookie days. Wages are minuscule, possibilities are endless, and nothing is written in pen. After Headlights broke up, I trawled for everything…
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The bit that you skip #92: The Delays – You and me
As I’ve mentioned in other posts, once MTV dried out as a source of music discovery, it was up to your own sense of resourcefulness to renew your music repertoire. Blogs, magazines, the odd recommendation from a friend, a serendipitous radio station, you name it. Whatever you could do to get more music. Even P2P…
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The bit that you skip #91: Los Fabulosos Cadillacs – Mal Bicho
If I was a real Johnny Comelately with 80s music, I can’t fathom which expression I could use to express how late I was to latin american music. Although I’ve mentioned Control Machete being the first Spanish album I bought, Rey Azúcar by Los Fabulosos Cadillacs was possibly the first one I heard in its…
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The bit that you skip #90: The Offspring – Come out and play (Keep ’em separated)
I was late to the punk party. Proper late. I think I evaded the genre as they were always “the bad guys” in the flicks I saw as a kid. I guess just like the Eastern Bloc, those mohawks and safety pins were an easy design choice to portray “baddies” on trashy Cannon and Golan…
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The bit that you skip #89: The American Analog Set – The Golden Band
“It’s the sound of a living room late at night”. That’s always my quick description of The American Analog Set’s music. Perhaps it’s because their music is always so intimate. Possibly due to the front cover photograph of The Golden Band, where a golden-hued person has his eyes closed and his hand on his temple.…
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The bit that you skip #88: Echodrone – Sailing
*Names have been changed for the mental health of those involved. Venues keep their names ‘cuz I dunno. It was the coldest February I’ve known so far. Snow usually stopped around mid-january, and you could get the odd dusting here and there, except on March of 2012, when we got a proper snowfall and school…
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The bit that you skip #87: Sleeper – Atomic
Songs for bad decisions. Part 1. It’s hard being -allegedly- on the spectrum and as much advance we’ve had as a society for acceptance and care, there’s still an stigma attached. It doesn’t matter the generation, it seems thing won’t progress for some aspects. Sure, neuroscience has jumped leaps and bounds ahead and science communication…
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The bit that you skip #86: New Radicals – Someday we’ll know
Fame can be a real bastard. You get what you give was a mammoth hit for New Radicals, and it wasn’t without its controversy. Marylin Manson famously said he would punch Gregg Alexander, and the ubiquitous nature of the track worked against the other breakout tracks that Maybe you’ve been brainwashed too, their debut album,…
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The bit that you skip #85: Faith No More – The Real Thing
My journey with Faith No More was short and sweet. Fall of ’97 and my dad brought me from a work trip a trio of CDs I loved with all my heart: The Prodigy’s The Fat of The Land, the soundtrack for Spawn, and Faith No More’s swansong Album of the year. All three albums…
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The bit that you skip #84: Elton John – Benny & The Jets
“What do you mean it’s not a live song? What do you mean it’s all studio magic?” I guess I was late to a lot of classic music -or what passes as classic music now!- and had years to catch up. Elton John I knew of mostly due to my oldest brothers, as they were…
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