Shuffle To Slave

I feel like beating a puppy to death with a sack full of kittens.
Instead,
With apologies to the good folks at Slave To Shuffle, here's the next five up on the queue with pithy comments included.

Black Sabbath - After Forever - One of those songs from my acid drenched youth. Coming right after "Sweet Leaf", Ozzy sings about the consequences we all face after becoming worm food. Singing about God's payback being a bitch? Maybe Oz got a bit nervous after singing NIB on B.S. 1? Spirituality and a killer bass line from Geezer Butler. Jeezus, Master Of Reality is sooooooo fucking great.

L7 - Hanging On The Telephone -The chicks in L7 had bigger balls than any of the boys in Blondie. And they were all a whole lot hotter than Debbie Harry! Bonus- L7 was a band called "Camel Lips" in John Waters' Serial Mom.


Replacements - Sixteen Blue (outtake from Let It Be sessions) - Big surprise the'Mats came up. Not. Never one of my favorites, but I know alot of the kids identified with this song back in the day. With the ballads, I preferred "Unsatisfied". And "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out". Yeah, ballads. Or something.

The Jam - That's Entertainment (Live) - A huge hit in England. I loved the frikkin' Jam. Even got to see the band back in the 80's on their last USA tour. " Lights going out and a kick in the balls -That's Entertainment".

AC/DC - Shot Down In Flames - The only AC/DC that matters to me is the Bon Scott version. I respect that they have kept it going, but Brian Johnson has always sounded like he's trying too hard. As a result, his singing comes across as a pale, screeching impersonation of the master. I will always be indebted to AC/DC because, along with the Ramones, I can always figure out how to play their bass lines.


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Now playing: Minor Threat - Small Man, Big Mouth
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m/c douchebag

No one ever rocked the leather m/c like the Ramones.

Thanks to this post at Strange Reaction, I got to thinkin' of my original m/c Black Leather Jacket. It was 'round 1983 or so and, being the broke suburban kid I was; I didn't have the cash to buy one. It always amazed me that the so-called gutter punks all had em... probably mommy and daddy bought em for em when they went back to their Connecticut homes.

But I digress. I started going out with this girl who's parents definitely had serious bucks (her dad was a dentist in some Long Island high falutin' town). She was a couple of years younger than me and probably figured it was cool to be dating Mr. College Asshole Nihilistic Punk Rocker. Aside from her proclivity towards supplying me with drugs and payin' my way into stuff, she was pretty cool in other ways. Once time she made me this really cool Suicidal Tendencies shirt (like the one's that were pictured on the original album cover). I actually still have the back of that shirt.

Anyway, we were all also into the Grateful Dead and one day she presents me with this beautiful heavy duty (not some asian knock-off) Schott MC jacket. Only one problem, she had painted this absolutely kick ass Steal Your Face graphic on the entire back of the jacket.
Well, no way was I going to wear THAT to punk shows. It was bad enough I had long hair. I didn't want to spend ALL my time fighting.
Sooo... Mr. Asshole spray-paints the entire back of the jacket back to black and than throws the usual punk stickers de rigeur on the back as well. My girlfriend was crushed. But I was such an inconsiderate douchebag to her in other ways, I guess she chalked it up to my sparkling personality.
This jacket served me well for many years. It also got totally beat to shit, but survived (it was really well made). Than I left it at a friend of mine and he somehow lost it. Thanks for that, D.

In retrospect, I was a complete dickhead for destroying the jacket. And I hope my ex girlfriend found someone to treat her a fuckload better than I ever did. At least HER pain is over. She didn't marry me!

Here's some Kraut. I had a Kraut sticker on the back of my jacket. Were we ever that young????

Bookage:
The Replacements: All Over But the Shouting: An Oral History - Jim Walsh

Toonage:
Rolling Stones - Leather Jacket
Screeching Weasel - Leather Jacket
Guitar Wolf - Motor Cycle Leather Boy
NOFX - 13 Stitches
X - Poor Girl




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Now playing: Black Flag - Jealous Again
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Gettin' Nowhere, Fast As I Can

Well apathy's got a hold on me

And it won't let go

Tell me your problem, I'll tell you mine

Motherfucker you're gonna know

Well I can go for a change

Go for a jog

Tell me about your rock band

Tell me about your BLOG

Shut up

Shut up

(...with apologies to Paul Westerberg)

This is post number 200. Thanks to the the dozen or so folks out there who bother to read this prose and mayhaps even comment.
The good folks over at Pig State Recon
described this blog as:
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"1/3 cheap jokes,
1/3 whining about his job & sports team & government,
but a full 1/3 is all about this thing we call rock and roll"

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I can live with that.

And I can live with this Husker Du video from 1985.

Fucking rock and roll.

Bookage:

Please Kill Me - The Oral Uncensored History of Punk - Legs McNeil

Toonage:

Peggy Lee - Is That All There Is

Black Flag - Damaged 1 (w/ Dez Cadena lead vox)
Bob Dylan - It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - (BBC 1965)

Deadly Snakes - I Want To Die

Ramones - R.A.M.O.N.E.S.



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Now playing: NOFX - The Decline
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Protect Me From My Enemy, Myself

Insanity is the only sane reaction to an insane society.

-- Thomas Szas --



Bookage:
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy Of Dunces


Toonage:
Porter Waggoner - Committed To Parkview
Roky Erikson & The Demons - Don't Shake Me Lucifer
UK Subs - Down On The Farm
Neil Young - C'mon Baby, Let's Go Downtown (Live Fillmore)
Syd Barrett - No Good Trying


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Now playing: Barry Mann - Who Put The Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)
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Two Riders Were Approaching

This might be a reason to stick around until 2009



Bookage:
Watchmen - Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons

Toonage:
The Replacements - The Ledge (Live NYC 7-27-87)
Pink Floyd - Waiting For The Worms (The Wall demo's)
The Jam - Just Who Is The 5 o'clock Hero?
Hole - Doll Parts




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Now playing: X - Year 1
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How Many Local Dollars For A Local Anesthetic?

“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
-- William S. Burroughs --

Bookage:
William S. Burroughs - Naked Lunch - The Restored Text

Toonage:
Johnny Cash - Cocaine Blues (Live at Folson Prison)
The Clash - Safe European Home (Live London Music Machine 1978)
Velvet Underground - Heroin (Demo)
Flamin' Groovies - Slow Death - (Rehearsal San Francisco 1971)
Nirvana - I Hate Myself And Want To Die



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Now playing: Grateful Dead - Death Don't Have No Mercy
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Lights Out

Linkage:

American Foundation For The Blind

Lighthouse For The Blind

Helen Keller Foundation For Research & Education

Bookage:

John Varley - The Persistence Of Vision

Toonage:

The Five Blind Boys Of Alabama - Way Down In The Hole

Blind Lemon Jefferson - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

Blind Willie Johnson - Jesus Make Up My Dying Bed

Ray Charles - What I'd Say (Parts 1 and 2)

Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground (Live 2-24-74 London)

Now playing: The Royal Flairs - Suicide
via FoxyTunes

I Heart Riff Randall

Gabba Gabba Hey

Toonage:
Ramones - Medley From Rock n Roll High School






Now playing: Face to Face - I'm Trying
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All Things Must Pass

Sunrise doesn't last all morning
A cloudburst doesn't last all day
Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning
It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass
All things must pass away

Sunset doesn't last all evening
A mind can blow those clouds away
After all this, my love is up and must be leaving
It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass
All things must pass away

All things must pass
None of life's strings can last
So, I must be on my way
And face another day

Now the darkness only stays the night-time
In the morning it will fade away
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time
It's not always going to be this grey

All things must pass
All things must pass away
All things must pass
All things must pass away

Toonage:
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
The Beatles - All Things Must Pass (River Rhine Tapes)
Paul McCartney - All Things Must Pass



Now playing: Redd Kross - Get Out Of Myself
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