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Périphérique Est - Qui Va Me Croire

File under “songs in languages I don’t speak that I can sing along to anyway.”

Also file under “this band should have been the biggest band in the mid-2000’s ‘midtempo European punk played exclusively by really attractive people’ scene but never caught on for some reason.”

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Pavement - Kennel District (alternate version)

The fact that the original version of this song is unarguably one of the most off-key vocal performances ever committed to tape notwithstanding, if anyone ever publicly doubts the songwriting talents of Mr. Scott Kannberg A/K/A Spiral Stairs, I will play this version at full volume and fight them.

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This is an MP3 of my dear friend Joe Mormann (yes, that’s his given name, yes, he was raised Mormon) interviewing himself as Richard Dawkins. Joe Mormann is a genius.

“It’s almost as if churches are asking to be burned by the homeless.”

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Comets On Fire - Graverobbers

If you need me I’ll be trying to jump a flaming dirtbike over the Grand Canyon or something.

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The Yummy Fur - Roxy Girls

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The Marked Men - A Little Time

I think of all the bands during whose sets I have lost or broken my glasses, (see also, in reverse chronological order: Pygmy Shrews, White Load, Ramming Speed, Polysics) the Marked Men are my favorite.

Vonnegut Is Good At Breakin' It Down

“You know- he was always acting like he was on his way between two secret places; couldn’t ever talk to anybody.”

“Maybe he really did have a very rich secret life,” I suggested.

“Nah.”

“Nah,” sneered the bartender. “He was just one of those kids who made model airplanes and jerked off all the time.”

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LAMPS - Bertha Walt

Surely one of the best songs out there about a woman being devoured by an elephant.

“ You don’t solve anything ever, really. You simply state a problem which, when you’re lucky, gives you some idea of what possible problems you can—it indicates, you know, your future headaches.

—Garry Winogrand (via)
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God’s Gift - Anaesthetic

Heard this band/tune for the first time this morning on Michael Goodstein’s superlative podcast/sometime-radio-show Choking On Cufflinks. The rest of the record is so-so, but it’s been a long time since I liked a song so much on first listen.