Dickless - I'm a Man 7"

I'm a Man b/w Saddle Tramp
SP 59, released May 1990

Bo Diddly's I'm a Man has been covered so many times, never like this though. This is so brutal most purists would think its a travesty, however its anything but. The one simple riff played repetetivey sloppy over the top while Kelly Canary screams the very familiar lyrics so you can barely understand them. Saddle Tramp was included on the Sub Pop compilation The Grunge Years and is a 98 second burst of heavy brilliance. Adding to the sound is the fact that the single was recorded live on a Sanyo stereo. As Thurston Moore described Dickless, they play pure "foxcore".

Velvet Monkeys - Rock The Nation 7"

Rock The Nation b/w Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
Sub Pop SP102, released February 1991

Sub Pop Singles Club #28

This is a pretty common single for the Sub Pop Singles Club with 7000 copies pressed. The front of the sleeve shows Don Flemming, Malcom Riviera and Jay Spiegel, this is around the same time they formed their band Gumball. While the back of the sleeve shows Thurston Moore playing bass and you cant see his face but i think it might be J Mascis playing guitar. Both are really great tracks, espescially the Beatles cover.

Lonely Moans - Shoot The Cool 7"

Shoot The Cool b/w Texas Love Goat
Sub Pop SP46, released October 1989
Sub Pop Singles Club #12

Happy Birthday Joe

Joe Perry of Aerosmith is 60 today.

The Remains

The Remains were a mid 60's psychedelic garage band from Boston. I first heard them on the Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From the First Psychedelic Era compilation with their song Don't Look Back and it quickly became one of my favourite songs on the compilation. Here ive posted a very 60's live TV performance of Diddy Wah Diddy along with studio versions of Dont Look Back, Hang on Sloopy and a cover of Like a Rolling Stone. Also their version of the garage standard I'm a Man originally by Bo Diddley is as good as youll ever hear.



Don't Look Back


Hang On Sloopy


Like A Rolling Stone


I'm A Man

Vivre Sa Vie

Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux is a 1962 French film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. The title means "To Live Her Life: A Film in Twelve Scenes", but in the English-speaking world it was released as My Life to Live (North America) or as It's My Life (UK).

The film stars Anna Karina, Godard's then wife, as Nana, a young Parisian woman who abandons her marriage and a child in order to pursue a career as an actress. Faced with financial troubles she drifts into prostitution. Nana believes she makes this choice of her own free will, but the film emphasizes the social structure that forces the poor into such situations, and builds to a tragic conclusion.

Minutemen - Paranoid Time EP

The Paranoid Time EP (1980) is the first ever Minutemen realese and the second SST release after the Nervous Breakdown EP by Black Flag. Seven tracks. Less than seven minutes. This is punk rock.

Track Listing
1. Validation
2. The Maze
3. Definitions
4. Sickles And Hammers
5. Fascist
6. Joe McCarthy's Ghost
7. Paranoid Chant

Recovery

Recovery was a Saturday morning music television program on ABC TV. It was on air each week right after Rage. It ran between 1996 until it was axed in 2000. Ive posted a few clips here of live performances on the show. The performance by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion is probably the greatest thing ever captured on film. Followed by an awesome display of trailer trash boogie by Southern Culture On The Skids. And finally J Mascis alone and amazing with just an acoustic guitar.

Stranger In My Own Home Town

I just heard Stranger In My Own Home Town by Elvis for the first ever time today. Im usually only interested by his early rock and roll material but was really impressed with this song. It was originally written by Percy Mayfield (who also wrote Hit The Road Jack) and recorded by him back in 1964. Elvis then recorded his version of the song in 1969 and was released on his Back In Memphis record. Elvis sounds so suave yet possessed with attitude as he belts out this bluesy version of a great song. The band also grooves along and just basically sound fantastic.

Maybellene

Maybellene is Chuck Berry's first ever released single. The song was adapted from the traditional fiddle tune "Ida Red". It was released in July 1955 and reached number 5 on the Billboard rock charts and was a number 1 R&B hit. Rolling Stone magazine wrote of it "Rock & roll guitar starts here."

Here Chuck Berry performs his song to a very sedate and formal crowd as he moves around the stage with his famous moves which comes across quite funny and odd looking.


And here the Replacements perform the song live quite early in their career back in 1981. Its loose, its drunken, its sloppy and singer Paul Westerberg barely even knows the lyrics as he makes them up as he goes.