This song is a perfect example as to why Ween was one of my favorite bands ever.
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To anybody that actually enjoys my little blog posts, I apologize for not really posting much these past two weeks.
On the plus side, I haven’t smoked in 16 days which might just be the longest amount of time I’ve gone between smokes since I first started many moons ago.
Peter Nero’s lack of mustache after he grew a goatee always bothered me… so I filled it in. He’s still alive (and going around with a mustache-less goatee) but I X‘d out his eyes anyway.
Circle Jerks - “Live Fast Die Young”
This was what I was originally watching when I was $44.21 richer… that led me to drop that coinage.
It’ll be worth it though.
Also, anybody notice Freddie Mercury was playing bass?
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OFF! - “Wiped Out” - 2012
This was actually my favorite OFF! song I heard tonight.
I love that Keith is so tiny and the sides of his eyes are so wrinkled from screaming all the time.
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OFF! - “Black Thoughts” - 2010
Man. YouTube more or less just made me spend $44.21 on the first two OFF! albums.
I was watching a phenomenal early 80’s live version of The Circle Jerks’ “Live Fast Die Young” and that took me to wikipedia. I then read that Keith Morris teamed up with the dude from Burning Brides to make a new band. I remember when I got that first Burning Brides album in 2001 it blew my socks off (I actually found an original File13 issue that was autographed by the band in the $2.50 section of the record store I worked at back then)
Anyhow, after reading this information, I was on board and watched some videos on youtube and it excited me.
In my humble opinion, I think Keith Morris has the best punk rock yell ever. This stuff is intense. Most of the songs are like a minute long. I love it.
This video is extra cool cos Raymond Pettibon is the subject of the video.
The only thing that bums me out is that I have to turn to a 56 year old man for good “modern” American hardcore that I don’t find too trite.
Ironic, isn’t it?
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Isolated bass track of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” by John Entwistle (with The Who, of course)
From a 1978 performance for “The Kids Are Alright” film.
This was my favorite special feature when I got this on DVD. It is so damn cool, on top of the fact that I think this is flat out the best version of the song I’ve ever heard. I used to walk around town with my Walkman on when I was like 17 and rock this song. I remember this was at the end of side 2 of a mix tape that was otherwise filled with punk rock, however, I had run out of punk rock… and this song fit at the end of the tape PERFECTLY, like it was meant to be there!
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John Entwistle - “I Feel Better” - 1972
Well, since the Entwistle post from earlier today was so popular, I might as well post my favorite song from this album.
In my opinion, this was The Ox at his most cynical and bitter.
It is awesome! One of the best post-break-up sad bastard songs of alllllllll time!
And a good jam all around otherwise.
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John Entwistle - “Thinking It Over” - 1972
For some reason I woke up with the chorus of this song stuck in my head this morning.
I love Entwistle’s lyrics. While I’m sorry his marriage didn’t work out, he wrote some clever & bitter as hell lyrics during that time.
The first two Entwistle LP’s are essential listening. The lyrics are great, especially if you enjoy melancholy-rock.
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Tonight Devil & I watched “Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid” because for some reason she’s been wanting to watch movies lately, so I’ve been forcing her to watch crap from the late 60’s such as this fine flick & “Midnight Cowboy”.
Anyhow, in the beginning of the film a big lurchy son of a bitch took over Butch Cassidy’s gang and I was like “That dude sounds familiar and looks weird!” but it wasn’t till the credits when I saw the name Ted Cassidy that I made the connection that that dude was in fact Lurch from the original “Addams Family” fame with with a friggin’ mustache!
