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...Fugazi...
Duh!!! :D

Yeah, it's pretty much a given, isn't it?

And now I'm listening to Electro-Shock Blues by the Eels. Effin' fantastic album.

Yeah, it's pretty much a given, isn't it?

And now I'm listening to Electro-Shock Blues by the Eels. Effin' fantastic album.

I need to get that.

I'm keen on Franz Ferdinand's new one, and of course, Bonnie "Prince" Billy.

The new Eels is pretty good, too. I was pleasantly surprised.

Currently rocking out to Nirvana's Incesticide

Today - the Mekons, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Big Sugar, Popa Chubby and the MC5. And KMHD jazz, 89.1 FM, also on the web for those of you that need a jazz fix and can't get one on your local radio station http://www.kmhd.org/

I just picked up two really great CDs:
The Philadelphia Experiment: ReMixed
The Detroit Experiment

both from Rope-a-Dope
www.ropeadope.com (http://www.ropeadope.com)

hear it to understand it...

Rocked by **** ~ Evolution Control Committee

Today - the Mekons, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Big Sugar, Popa Chubby and the MC5. And KMHD jazz, 89.1 FM, also on the web for those of you that need a jazz fix and can't get one on your local radio station http://www.kmhd.org/


Goddamn. I love the Mekons. And I thought I was the only person left in the US who did. :)

Is anyone else as excited as I am about the new Mission of Burma CD that comes out this Tuesday?

Recently picked up a copy of The Hellacopters' CREAM OF THE CRAP VOL. 2. Rock does live on!

Currently listening to the Dischord Records box set. Quite possibly the best value in box sets in rock history.

Currently listening to the Dischord Records box set. Quite possibly the best value in box sets in rock history.

How much?

$20 for 3 discs and a book. Beat that.

Teardrop ~ Massive Attack

does anyone here like pink floyd and rush?

Have you been smoking your roommate's pot?

In other news : I'm on a serious nomeansno binge again.

$20 for 3 discs and a book. Beat that.

Teardrop ~ Massive Attack

Nice price.

Also been seriously admiring the TV ON THE RADIO album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. It exists on it's own plane.

Nice price.

Also been seriously admiring the TV ON THE RADIO album Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. It exists on it's own plane.

That is indeed good stuff. Is it doo-wop? Is it indie-rock?

Yeah, it's an album worth owning.

Personally, tonight I was blasting Unrest "Perfect Teeth". What a fantastic album for a perfect spring night.

Turn on the Bright Lights ~ Interpol

Great album for drunken solitude

I have that spinning almost every day at work...call it my midday Calgon. I cannot get enough of that disc.
Another good disc I picked up used:
Thelonius Monk~Genius of Modern Music, Vol1

Lately I've been listening the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Weezer. Thrown in a little Postal Service and Jim Crawford Band every now and then too.

"Goddamn. I love the Mekons. And I thought I was the only person left in the US who did"

I like Mekons - also like Waco Bros

today I've been listening to Yellowcard, Three Days Grace, Buzzcocks, Naked Raygun, The Gamma Men, and Lynyrd's Innards

Naked Raygun
that brings back memories of Tuts, Oz, Metro, Igloo...man, I miss good Chicago Bands, especially the Effigies.

I'm like to see everyone likes non-mainstream stuff. Here's a tip, listen to some Evergreen Terrace or Stretch Arm Strong then go for a ride. That stuff makes me want to just go nuts, it's great. I like me some hardcore, punk, emo, indie, and some bluegrass. Oh yeah, a good little-known band is called Jaya The Cat. Go to their website and listen to "the wilderness", http://www.goldcircle.com/jayathecat/jayasoundcheck.htm it's a song I think a lot of the bikers can relate to. Peace

bad religion - "you" later i'll be listening to the fleshies and SHAT (hopefully).

']that brings back memories of Tuts, Oz, Metro, Igloo...man, I miss good Chicago Bands, especially the Effigies.

I just figured out the easy reply button - idiot - anyway, then you should have gone to Metro for the benefit and seen Pegboy, last month I think it was? shame on you if you didn't :-)

Larry opened with something to the effect of "it's not our own show so I don't have to make an a**hole of myself tonight" - which of course, if you know Larry's style, means he gave great show

']that brings back memories of Tuts, Oz, Metro, Igloo...man, I miss good Chicago Bands, especially the Effigies.

man, you're even older than i am.

I just figured out the easy reply button - idiot - anyway, then you should have gone to Metro for the benefit and seen Pegboy, last month I think it was? shame on you if you didn't :-)

Larry opened with something to the effect of "it's not our own show so I don't have to make an a**hole of myself tonight" - which of course, if you know Larry's style, means he gave great show
Yeah, coulda gone, but didn't :mad:
I still remember Larry and the Bhopal Stiffs playing at Dirty Nellies in the late 80s though, and have seen Pegboy more than a couple times.
So Lady H, name your fav Chicago show...inquiring minds want to know.

man, you're even older than i am.
quiet you...

']Yeah, coulda gone, but didn't :mad:
I still remember Larry and the Bhopal Stiffs playing at Dirty Nellies in the late 80s though, and have seen Pegboy more than a couple times.
So Lady H, name your fav Chicago show...inquiring minds want to know.

For what it's worth: I do believe Pegboy will be playing Chicago soon.

']quiet you...

Amen to that :-) don't tell anyone, but I was going to Dirty Nellie's in the, uhm, later '70s to see Jump'n the Saddle Band among others - favorite show? hhmmm - hard to choose - haven't been going to as many shows since I went back to school so not up to date on all the new ones in the last year or so - going backwards, shows I've seen lately are Three Days Grace, Pegboy, Rancid, Toasters, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Waco Bros, Onfall, Mustard Plug, Sex Pistols w/Rev Horton Heat & Dropkicks - there are others in there but can't remember them off hand - oh, SubHumans UK was one of them - lots of bands that are big now I was seeing in clubs a few years ago, and saw a whole slew of them a couple years ago at Inland Invasion the year Sex Pistols and Buzzcocks played, but I'm lost who's playing in the smaller local clubs right now - top of my list for Chicago has always been Naked Raygun though, and then of course Pegboy and the bands they came from, one of the reasons I love them so much - Bloodsport was one of them too, wasn't it?

My fav shows:
Effigies - whenever, where ever (I remember them at 950 - they even played a 'reunion' at McGregors in Elmhurst...damn)
Husker Du w/ AOF - Cubby Bear
Bad Brains - Metro
DKs/Naked Raygun/crapload of others - Palace (Halloween show!)
Sham 69 w/ Social D - Cubby Bear
Underdog - Elgin somewhere
Gwar - Dreamers (one of the funniest shows ever...)

Rancid you say? Operation Ivy played your old stomping grounds (Durty Nellies)!

I could go on as I guess every show I have seen has been a favorite - Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Slapshot...too many to name them all. The good old days. Where's my bomber...

']My fav shows:

I could go on as I guess every show I have seen has been a favorite - Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, Slapshot...too many to name them all. The good old days. Where's my bomber...

well, that's my problem as well - I've seen so many and as long as they slam me with no BS inbetween I'm in heaven - Yeah, I just bought a pair of Dickies for the first time in a long while - my son has stolen most of my work shirts, but I've still got a few - just please don't tell me you want a Members Only jacket

Members Only? C'mon, I am far from being a Wicker Park hipster.

']Members Only? C'mon, I am far from being a Wicker Park hipster.

No, of course you're not "one of them" - and I didn't have disco jeans with the colored stripes that went up the front of one leg around the to the butt and down the back of the other leg even though I didn't ever go "disco" - erm, and it wasn't pre punk out in the boonies either ;-)

I would only be scared if you still had said "jeans." My house growing up was pretty brand neutral (I was required by Maternal Law to wear toughskins though).
I have my Eisenhower jacket and a handful of gas shirts. I don't think I ever made the fashion transition to 'adult' though
:D

']I would only be scared if you still had said "jeans." My house growing up was pretty brand neutral (I was required by Maternal Law to wear toughskins though).
I have my Eisenhower jacket and a handful of gas shirts. I don't think I ever made the fashion transition to 'adult' though
:D

No worries, then - those hit the dust by '79 - sad though, that my Shell shirt finally gave up the ghost a while ago - wasn't much left to it, I was wearing it for PJs by then - I went adult for a while by necessity, and it wasn't a pretty sight.....

Big Black "Songs about 'Effing'" :)
Clinic "Walking With Thee"
R.L Burnside "First Recordings"

Big Black "Songs about 'Effing'" :)

I have the matching badge as well - have had them both hidden from the kids until recently - when they confiscated my Pegboy Plumbing and Concrete t shirts, and told I needed to buy the, is it Big Black Tools? one, I figured they were in the know already

Ok, I'm hogging the airwaves here, sorry, and I have to go anyway now that I've had me coffee - but I just have to recount my most touching kid quip, once again - when my daughter was about 8 she was in the tub and I got a call - so I'm on the phone and she finishes, and drains the water and is calling me because she cold and needs help getting dressed - and she whines at me "'cmon Mom, I'm naked" - and I said "Oh, so you're a Bare Naked Lady, are you?" to which she replies "No, Silly, I'm a bare Naked Raygun" - I couldn't have been prouder in that moment :-)

ya'll have a great day now, been lovely chatting with you - it's a beautiful day, why aren't you out riding anway????? - I might get a ride in later this afternoon, the lawn is calling my name right now though

Ok, I'm hogging the airwaves here, sorry, and I have to go anyway now that I've had me coffee - but I just have to recount my most touching kid quip, once again - when my daughter was about 8 she was in the tub and I got a call - so I'm on the phone and she finishes, and drains the water and is calling me because she cold and needs help getting dressed - and she whines at me "'cmon Mom, I'm naked" - and I said "Oh, so you're a Bare Naked Lady, are you?" to which she replies "No, Silly, I'm a bare Naked Raygun" - I couldn't have been prouder in that moment :-)

ya'll have a great day now, been lovely chatting with you - it's a beautiful day, why aren't you out riding anway????? - I might get a ride in later this afternoon, the lawn is calling my name right now though

That's great. When I have kids, I can only hope they'll respond in the same way. My parents raised me on a steady diet of Talking Heads, The Smiths and a bevy of classic rock. On family trips, we'd always bust out a host of cassettes, and I distinctly remember listening to the Talking Heads "Fear of Music", specifically the song "Life During Wartime". My brothers and I would sing along to the song and scream in our best imitation of David Byrne the line, "I got some groceries, some peanut butter, to last a couple of days."

Of course my parents loved that. :)

As for riding - it's raining here and I'm not too keen on being cold and miserable. I'll probably hope on my trainer for an hour or so, but right now I'm contend on being lazy.

Riot Act ~ Pearl Jam

More people need to raise their kids on decent music. I'm just thankful I had the foresight to dislike Top 40 from day one...

Iron Maiden-Aces High

Riot Act ~ Pearl Jam



How is this album? This is the only studio album of theirs that I have not bought.

The Sleepy Jackson right now.

Nirvana, Rage against the Machine, Pearljam and Ben Harper..

For what it's worth: I do believe Pegboy will be playing Chicago soon.

this interests me greatly :-) If you hear of something, could you keep me posted please? - I checked around the net and didn't see anything, but with them it's not always out there - I'd appreciate it, thanks in advance

this interests me greatly :-) If you hear of something, could you keep me posted please? - I checked around the net and didn't see anything, but with them it's not always out there - I'd appreciate it, thanks in advance


If I see it again, by all means.

hed pe- Black out.

The new Mission of Burma "On Off On"

This is fantastic, but I like "Signals, Calls and Marches" better. That's to be expected though...

Eulogy to Lenny Bruce ~ Nico

"Goddamn. I love the Mekons. And I thought I was the only person left in the US who did"

I like Mekons - also like Waco Bros
Almost anything that Jon Langford does - Mekons, Waco Bros., solo stuff w/ his Sadies and w/ Sally Timms, etc. - is great. Jon records for Bloodshot and also lives in Chicago, I think. Does that mean that y'all living in Chicago get the benefit of many, many excellent live shows??? If so, I'm jealous - although Jon usually plays Portland with one band or another about once or twice a year.