And now, happy birthday to me! This concludes birthday week here at Five Songs.
Seam, "Sweet Pea"
I think this 1993 EP, Kernel, is actually my favorite Seam release, pound-for-pound. I'm not really sure why that is, exactly. It's...
Well, this blog officially turns five today! There have been 1137 posts on this site, if my tagging is to be trusted, so a pace better than every other day. More than five thousand little capsules on songs and bands, and that's a...
Cause for Effect, "Sonic Titanic"
This will never fail to make me laugh. It's just so absurd! Demented prog/grindcore fusion, complete with brutal vocals, come on, how could you not love this! I listened to this three times in a...
The Coup, "Get Up"
The Coup got together with one of their peers on this one, Dead Prez, combining two of the most political acts in hip hop at the time for one great track. I don't know what else there...
Koenjihyakkei, "Angherr Shisspa"
Koenjihyakkei is a band led by Tatsuya Yoshida, the drummer/lunatic in Ruins. It's an off-kilter take on prog, inspired by Magma, and it's every bit as unhinged as Ruins ever was. Just with a bigger...