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[Dialog] - ""The Girl Hunt Ballet"" - Ballet Music from MGM Musicals
Bongwater - "The Power of Pussy" - The Power of Pussy
Ed Kuepper - "Master of Two Servants" - Electrical Storm
Starlight Mints - "Rhino Stomp" - Drowation
Silk Flowers - "Sand" - Silk Flowers *
The Pernice Brothers - "The Ballad of Bjorn Borg" - The World Won't End
Moviola - "Wisdom Teeth" - The Year You Were Born
John Cale - "Paris 1919" - Paris 1919
Brenda Kahn - "I Don't Sleep, I Drink Coffee Instead" - Epiphany in Brooklyn
Mors Ontologica - "Demon Incubator" - Don't Cry
Jesse Winchester - "Step by Step" - ...And All the Pieces Matter: Five Years of Music from The Wire
Boss Hog - "Trouble" - Whiteout
Thee Oh Sees - "Tidal Wave" - 7" *
Swell Maps - "Black Velvet" - Read About Seymour 7"
Ivy Green - "I'm Sure We're Gonna Make It" - Killed by Epitaph 2xLP
Mad Bunny, Sad Bunny - "Steal Away" - MP3
Reigns - "Everything Beyond These Walls Has Been Razed" - The House on the Causeway *
Dylan Shearer - "As If" - Planted/Plans *
Grifters - "Sweetest Thing" - Full Blown Possession
Neil Young - "When You Dance I Can Really Love" - After the Gold Rush
Awol One & Factor - "Sunset Sandwich" - Owl Hours *
Daniel Savio - "Tough Guy Music" - Skweee Tooth *
Macromantics - "Four Facets" - 7"
Matson Jones - "Good Advice" - Matson Jones
U.S. Girls - "Rise & Go" - Me + Yoko 7" *
The Oblivians - "Ride that Train" - The Oblivians Play Nine Songs with Mr. Quintron
The Nomads - "Thoughts of a Madman" - Vile Vinyl Vol. 1 * [NOT the Swedish Nomads!]
The Golden Dawn - "My Time" - Power Plant
Dan Bryk - "Discount Store" - Pop Psychology *
Autoclave - "I'll Take You Down" - 20 Years of Dischord Records 3xCD [compilation]
Grass Widow - "Yellow Balloons" - Glass Window *
Lizz King - "'Til They Do" - The End, Part Two: The Beginning
Dean Martin - "Houston" - 7"
Sandy Bull - "Gospel Tune" - Fantasias for Guitar and Banjo *
Hunters & Collectors - "The Slab" - Inner City Sound: Australian Punk & Post Punk 2xCD
Nomeansno - "Would we be Alive?" - Would we be Alive? EP [Residents cover]
Big Stick - "Drag Racing" - 12" EP
Funny that you played a song from Electrical Storm - I was thinking about that record when we had our brief exchange about The Saints a bit ago. The rep from TVT records gave me a bunch of crap for not playing All Fools Day when it came out and said that I just wanted them to sound like they used to - I told him that wasn't it at all - that I just wanted them to sound GOOD. And I used Electrical Storm as an example of how they could sound different but still be great. He didn't really take my point....
Posted by: Tim Kastelle | July 27, 2009 at 05:21 PM
Tim: That pretty much sums it up perfectly. I'd argue that the first three Saints records (the ones Kuepper plays on) are actually all pretty different from one another, but boast a sonic progression from one to the next that most clear-headed bands would kill for. Granted, those records were way before my time, but by working backwards through history, they lead me to awesome Kuepper side projects (the Aints, Laughing Clowns) and solo records -- all of which totally have their own thing going on, and remain impressively compelling. The post-Kuepper Saints records on the other hand... Not so much.
Posted by: r:m:b | July 27, 2009 at 05:29 PM