Month: May 2012

33.15 - To Resurrect Ourselves, We Smash Up Both Our Knees

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“If you type 33 in Wingdings it looks like the Twin Towers, OMG CONSPIRACY!”

1997 again, seriously?

Yes, seriously. Piss off.

I actually completely missed Far first time round, it wasn’t until You Already Know covered Bury White on am EP for Record Store Day a few years ago that I heard the song. Heard it, liked it, went and bought some Far records, liked them too. Then Far released At Night We Live, their first album in 12 years, I looked forward to it quite a bit, then it wasn’t really all that great. Aww.

Oh, the post title! You’ll notice that those aren’t the actual lyrics to the song. However, every single time I listen to either version of Bury White, and I mean every single time, my body does an involuntary jerk type of thing, that looks a bit like I’m either trying to headbang, or I need urgent medical attention. Most of times that this happens I’m sitting on a bus or at a desk, and it results in me smashing my knees off the thing in front of me, really hard.

It happened twice while writing this post. I’m in a fair bit of pain now. Enjoy the songs while I limp and whimper a bit.

Far - Bury White
You Already Know - Bury White

33.14 - I Don’t Wanna Go

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I really loved music in the mid-late 90s eh? Today’s song comes from 1997, and it’s the lead single from Veruca Salt’s second album Eight Arms To Hold You.

I’ve got very little chatter to go with this, I just really, really like Volcano Girls. Shouty girls, yay!

Veruca Salt - Volcano Girls

33.13 - I’m The Epitome Of Public Enemy

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This post is absolutely not brought to you in conjunction with The Illuminati. Honest. Promise. It just gets difficult to find new images for these posts. The only New World Order I know anything about is the wrestling one.

Hey, wrestling, that’s as good a segue into today’s song as any. The song references ECW’s Grunge and New Jack, giving me a slightly less jarring transition that the plain old “look, a song!” preamble I’d originally planned to go here.

Weezer eh? Naming albums after Lost characters, having THREE self titled albums and screwing with my digital music library by doing so, playing cruises, generally going a bit weird and off the rails. Cast your mind back to before that though, to 1996 and the release of Pinkerton, their second album. Critically and commercially a failure initially, Pinkerton ended up being a rare beast, something that a fair few critics ended up slating, then changing their minds about. They were right to change their minds, it’s a great album, and today’s song is a cracker.

Weezer - El Scorcho
Weezer - El Scorcho (Live & Acoustic)

33.12 - Tripping

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Back to the hip-hop today. Fans of white Scottish men talking about hip hop rejoice!

Stumbling across DJ Z-Trip was a happy accident. I was living in Watford back in 2001/2002, and took the opportunity to hop into London with my pal to see DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist. Neither of us expected to leave much more impressed by one of their warm up DJs, but Z-Trip was pretty much awesome, and leave raving about him we did.

I’ve never really been into mash ups all that much, but there’s something about the way Z-Trip pulls them off that means when he’s at it, it works for me. Check out some of his mix tapes for evidence, Live in LA and Uneasy Listening in particular. Those, and tons more stuff, are available to download free at Z-Trip’s website.

His own original work is none too sloppy either, although so far he just has the one album to his name, Shifting Gears. It’s that album that we’ll take a couple of songs from for this post.
One song that is just ridiculously fun, and another more straight, with a bit of added gravitas from it’s guest rapper.

Z-Trip featuring MURS and Supernatural - Breakfast Club
Z-Trip featuring Chuck D - Shock & Awe

Then, back to the fun, with a more mash-up style track from an EP.
Z-Trip & MURS - Kiss (Remix)

33.11 - Obvious Post Theme Is Obvious

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Alternate title: Where’s the Beef?

Jeepers, one third of the way through already, so if playing this post on your turntable remember to set it to 33⅓ instead of 45rpm.

Anyway, yes, day eleven means I couldn’t resist the obvious option of turning the volume up a bit.
Here are a selection of some mighty fine bands making lovely loud noises. Also, see, I do like music made post 1998.

A Fight You Can’t Win - Shout First/Loud Words
Black International - Destruct_o_
Bronto Skylift - Gameboy
Carnivores - Five Go Mad On Mescaline
Crusades - Pseudo Andro
Fat Goth - Willie Wonka and the Charlie Factory
Fat Janitor - Two Nights in Hell
Holy Mountain - Gunner (EP version, so Chemikal don’t shout at me)
Hunt / Gather - Cementalist
No Island - Fallow Years
PAWS - Winners Don’t Bleed (Song, by Toad Session)
What the Blood Revealed - To Travel Deadly Ground

A quick diversion south for my Welsh buddies:
Exit_International - Glory Horn

And finally, gone but not forgotten:
You Already Know - Let’s Fuck

33.10 - What Do You Do When the Music Stops?

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I was going to save this song till the end, since that’s usually where it goes when I’m DJing, but I think I’ll throw it out there now instead, I’ve already got enough enough stuff I’m saving for later.

Yes. Yes I can.

The Pipettes - Pull Shapes

I don’t fully trust anyone who doesn’t dance to Pull Shapes. It even has handclaps and everything! I love songs with handclaps.

The image there comes from Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie’s comic Phonogram by the way. More accurately, Phonogram - Singles Club issue #1. Both series of Phonogram published so far are pretty much brilliant, if you like comics & music you should own them.
Buy volume one from Amazon here, and go here for volume 2. Also, you can download Singles Club #1 for free from ComiXology at the moment here. I may well mention it again when I give in to the urge to shove up loads of Britpop.

Clap your hands if you want some more.

33.9 - Late On Purpose

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You can’t get 33:9 on a clock, so you’ll have to settle for this.

For a change this installment of 33 isn’t slipping in just before midnight because I was lazy, distracted, or couldn’t be arsed. It’s actually being written in advance, on Thursday, since I’ll I’ll be out galavanting somewhere on Friday night.

Pete Wylie is a pain in the arse for anyone who likes to keep their music collection carefully aphabetised. Wah!, Wah! Heat, Shambeko! Say Wah!, JF Wah!, The Mighty Wah! and Wah! the Mongrel, all different names for the same band band. In fact, finding this song on my hard drive was a nightmare, I ended up giving up looking and resorted to one from a compilation album.

Anyway, yes, this post is scheduled to publish at 11:53PM why? Guess.

Wah! Heat - Seven Minutes to Midnight

33.7 - Five A Day

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Hello Cleveland! Are you guys ready to rock?

Giving these a theme is quite fun, so here’s another themed post for today.
See if you can guess what it is.

Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Fun fact: this is the first Orange Juice song that I can remember hearing. Thanks, older brothers with good records!

Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
May as well make the blog gloriously NSFW today.

Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll
“Aaaalllmoooooond cookies!”

Smashing Pumpkins - …Said Sadly
It was this or Thirty-Three. I suspect we may come back to the latter.

United Fruit - Wrecking Ball
United Fruit ruin play Stereo in Glasgow on May 28th. Tickets are available here.

33.6 - A Chance To be Lazy

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Can you see where this is going?

The last couple of posts in the 33 series have been more labour intensive than they might look, meaning I briefly had to use my brain. Now, I don’t want to have to do that too often. It’s a small small brain, it gets used up quite quickly, and I might need it at some point later.

With that in mind while trying to think of what I wanted to do today I looked out the window, typed “sun” into search on my music folder, and this is a selection of what came up.

BMX Bandits - Sunshine Day
Dinosaur Jr - Take a Run at the Sun
Evil Hand - A Drop of Sunshine
Lambchop - Your Fucking Sunny Day
Len - Steal My Sunshine
McGazz - Sun on My Back
Skibunny - Sun Sun Sun
Spiritualized - Lay Back In the Sun
Symposium - Drink the Sunshine (Hiya Peenko)
The Great I Am - Sunny Glasgow
Tiny Birds - Don’t Let the Sun Go Down On Your Anger