So here is Static Friction 5. I've been avoiding the uploading.
This new mix is a good mix, including some soft wimpy stuff and some louder stuff, too. Reviewing this list, it appears this is a fairly poppy mix this time.
I like blabbering on about music, but I don't know that anyone else likes to read it.
So I will compromise- both a short and a long list.
Take that.
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1. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American. From the Bleed American LP. Was titled as such prior to the 9/11 attacks, changed later to a s/t LP. Very well-marketed and went platinum. Super poppy but great content.
I like blabbering on about music, but I don't know that anyone else likes to read it.
So I will compromise- both a short and a long list.
Take that.
1. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American.
2. Get Up Kids: Coming Clean.
3. Smashing Pumpkins: I Am One.
4. Down By Law: Independence Day.
5. Replacements: Favorite Thing.
6. Depeche Mode: Fly on the Windscreen.
7. From First to Last: Note to Self.
8. Exploited: Alternative.
9. Jesus and Mary Chain: Between Planets.
10. Guardrail: I Won't Change my Mind This Time.
11. Rainer Maria: The Double Life.
12. Chumbawumba: That's How Grateful We Are (live).
13. Circle Takes the Square: Houdini Logic (remix).
14. Billy Bragg: Walk Away Renee.
15. Canterbury Effect: Rocky Mountain Love Letters.
16. Jawbreaker: Jinx Removing.
17. Circle Jerks: Wild in the Streets
18. Ben Gibbard: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (live acoustic).
19. Consolidated: I Reckon You Should Shut the Fuck Up and Play Some More Music.
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1. Jimmy Eat World: Bleed American. From the Bleed American LP. Was titled as such prior to the 9/11 attacks, changed later to a s/t LP. Very well-marketed and went platinum. Super poppy but great content.
2. Get Up Kids: Coming Clean. From the 4 Minute Mile LP. Mistakenly called 'emo,' this band is a great heart-on-their-sleeve pop punk band. Check out the rest of the album, go see them if they haven't broken up. again.
3. Smashing Pumpkins: I Am One. From Gish. Back when SP was more distortion than catchy. Awesome song from an awesome LP. This was big when Dinosaur Jr got big, too. Remember when MTV played music videos? Remember when 120 minutes on Sunday nights? sigh.
4. Down By Law: Independence Day. From All Scratched Up. A good follow up to punkrockacademyfightsong. DBL recorded a video to this song (?) and then wrote songs later expressing regret for doing so. Very catchy tune, most of their songs are; very well-produced and written punk rock music.
5. Replacements: Favorite Thing. From their Let it Be LP. Very good jangly alternative rock from Minnesota without getting into country or bluegrass. Anyone trying to learn their music better be patient: deceptively difficult.
6. Depeche Mode: Fly on the Windscreen. From Black Celebration. Released in 1986, it was their 5th LP. Ahh, memories. Great early dark-alternative electronica.
7. From First to Last: Note to Self. From the awesomely-titled Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count LP. Most of the post-hardcore music on this tune sounds similar, but I suppose that defines the term "theme."
8. Exploited: Alternative. From Troops of Tomorrow LP released in 1982. Back when punk and hardcore was something to fear. Back when punk rock was expected to have poor production and still be awesome. Unfortunately, back when Wattie of the Exploited is rumored to have been drifting into racist politics. I hope that's not true...
9. Jesus and Mary Chain: Between Planets. From their Automatic LP from 1989. Starting out as heavy distortion in their early days, including using white noise to fill in as background noise, Automatic was rather well produced, and spawned a video or two (I think?), and later the Pixies covered another song from this LP- Head On, and made their own video for that cover song. A great hybrid of electronica and blues.
10. Guardrail: I Won't Change my Mind This Time. From the Non-Doug LP. The title is probably wrong. Ask Steve. To avoid sounding too arrogant, this is my old band and i really liked it despite the hard times during the band's life. This is probably my favorite song we did, written in about 15 minutes.
11. Rainer Maria: The Double Life. From their Long Knives Drawn LP. Great heart-felt indie-pop originally from Madison, Wisconsin. No longer together, rumors spread that the singer Caithlin De Marrais was going to do solo work, no word as yet. Many of their songs are about interpersonal relationships, which gets tiresome at long intervals, but the songs are so dynamic that this takes a long time to get there.
12. Chumbawumba: That's How Grateful We Are (live). From Showbusiness! LP. Live recording, b/w a speech by Noam Chomsky called Capital Rules. Great classic Chumbawamba before they married electronic sounds and drum machines. Later they did classical English protest songs. Great songs.
13. Circle Takes the Square: Houdini Logic (remix). From their s/t EP. This track features their song over-dubbed by Trigga and Quick, rappers. Their flow is good, and they totally lose their place in the end of the song when CTtS takes off and goes crazy. Awesome.
14. Billy Bragg: Walk Away Renee. From Reaching to the Converted. Solo, as usual, just Mr. Bragg and his guitar. Sweet song about a girl. aww.
15. Canterbury Effect: Rocky Mountain Love Letters. From Exercise in Humility. Saw these guys as a side-stage act at Warped tour a few years ago. Huge acts came through with the tour, NOFX and Thursday and Flogging Molly..... this was my favorite act by far. I was among maybe 6 people watching them play from a trailer. Good god they were awesome. They come from Brazil. Brazil, Indiana, that is.
16. Jawbreaker: Jinx Removing. From 24 Hr Revenge Therapy. I've upped this album before BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME. Blake Schwarzbach before Jets to Brazil. Awkward chords, awkward timing, very abstract lyrics throughout. Artsy indie pop unafraid to stand up to punk rock elite.
17. Circle Jerks: Wild in the Streets. from the LP of the same name. Great song for the summer. Think of the Iran riots, but with the rioters not really interested in social justice, just the neato riot part. California punk from the early 80s. Punk rock that couldn't care less about the "Anarchy in the UK" punk from across the pond.
18. Ben Gibbard: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (live acoustic). Yes, a Cindi Lauper cover. Live acoustic cover from a live bootleg recording I have. In case you aren't familiar with the name, Mr. Gibbard is the singer/guitarist from Deathcab for Cutie.
19. Consolidated: I Reckon You Should Shut the Fuck Up and Play Some More Music. From Business of Punishment LP. While this is a track from the album, the band records audience comments from set-up microphones in the crowd; this is technically not the band. Great uber- political industrial music. They don't allow dancing at their shows, or so the rumors go- kinda silly.
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Static Friction 5 is up. As they say in French, Il est ici!"
4. Down By Law: Independence Day. From All Scratched Up. A good follow up to punkrockacademyfightsong. DBL recorded a video to this song (?) and then wrote songs later expressing regret for doing so. Very catchy tune, most of their songs are; very well-produced and written punk rock music.
5. Replacements: Favorite Thing. From their Let it Be LP. Very good jangly alternative rock from Minnesota without getting into country or bluegrass. Anyone trying to learn their music better be patient: deceptively difficult.
6. Depeche Mode: Fly on the Windscreen. From Black Celebration. Released in 1986, it was their 5th LP. Ahh, memories. Great early dark-alternative electronica.
7. From First to Last: Note to Self. From the awesomely-titled Dear Diary, My Teen Angst Has a Body Count LP. Most of the post-hardcore music on this tune sounds similar, but I suppose that defines the term "theme."
8. Exploited: Alternative. From Troops of Tomorrow LP released in 1982. Back when punk and hardcore was something to fear. Back when punk rock was expected to have poor production and still be awesome. Unfortunately, back when Wattie of the Exploited is rumored to have been drifting into racist politics. I hope that's not true...
9. Jesus and Mary Chain: Between Planets. From their Automatic LP from 1989. Starting out as heavy distortion in their early days, including using white noise to fill in as background noise, Automatic was rather well produced, and spawned a video or two (I think?), and later the Pixies covered another song from this LP- Head On, and made their own video for that cover song. A great hybrid of electronica and blues.
10. Guardrail: I Won't Change my Mind This Time. From the Non-Doug LP. The title is probably wrong. Ask Steve. To avoid sounding too arrogant, this is my old band and i really liked it despite the hard times during the band's life. This is probably my favorite song we did, written in about 15 minutes.
11. Rainer Maria: The Double Life. From their Long Knives Drawn LP. Great heart-felt indie-pop originally from Madison, Wisconsin. No longer together, rumors spread that the singer Caithlin De Marrais was going to do solo work, no word as yet. Many of their songs are about interpersonal relationships, which gets tiresome at long intervals, but the songs are so dynamic that this takes a long time to get there.
12. Chumbawumba: That's How Grateful We Are (live). From Showbusiness! LP. Live recording, b/w a speech by Noam Chomsky called Capital Rules. Great classic Chumbawamba before they married electronic sounds and drum machines. Later they did classical English protest songs. Great songs.
13. Circle Takes the Square: Houdini Logic (remix). From their s/t EP. This track features their song over-dubbed by Trigga and Quick, rappers. Their flow is good, and they totally lose their place in the end of the song when CTtS takes off and goes crazy. Awesome.
14. Billy Bragg: Walk Away Renee. From Reaching to the Converted. Solo, as usual, just Mr. Bragg and his guitar. Sweet song about a girl. aww.
15. Canterbury Effect: Rocky Mountain Love Letters. From Exercise in Humility. Saw these guys as a side-stage act at Warped tour a few years ago. Huge acts came through with the tour, NOFX and Thursday and Flogging Molly..... this was my favorite act by far. I was among maybe 6 people watching them play from a trailer. Good god they were awesome. They come from Brazil. Brazil, Indiana, that is.
16. Jawbreaker: Jinx Removing. From 24 Hr Revenge Therapy. I've upped this album before BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME. Blake Schwarzbach before Jets to Brazil. Awkward chords, awkward timing, very abstract lyrics throughout. Artsy indie pop unafraid to stand up to punk rock elite.
17. Circle Jerks: Wild in the Streets. from the LP of the same name. Great song for the summer. Think of the Iran riots, but with the rioters not really interested in social justice, just the neato riot part. California punk from the early 80s. Punk rock that couldn't care less about the "Anarchy in the UK" punk from across the pond.
18. Ben Gibbard: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (live acoustic). Yes, a Cindi Lauper cover. Live acoustic cover from a live bootleg recording I have. In case you aren't familiar with the name, Mr. Gibbard is the singer/guitarist from Deathcab for Cutie.
19. Consolidated: I Reckon You Should Shut the Fuck Up and Play Some More Music. From Business of Punishment LP. While this is a track from the album, the band records audience comments from set-up microphones in the crowd; this is technically not the band. Great uber- political industrial music. They don't allow dancing at their shows, or so the rumors go- kinda silly.
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Static Friction 5 is up. As they say in French, Il est ici!"
