No intro today, because I'm working on something Five Songs-related that will be fun, and I'm going to get back to that. So on to the tunes! Tortoise & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, "It's Expected I'...
The Roots, "We Got You" Just a brief thing from the Roots' live album, I won't spend more time on this than it lasts. Wu-Tang Clan, "A Better Tomorrow" The way the drums start up on this track,...
X (Australia), "Suck Suck" This is a punk band named X, but not THAT one. This one is from Australia, which is why Amphetamine Reptile credited them this way after re-issuing the record. This album came out in 1979, actually pre-dating the first...
Labi Siffre, "I Got The..." This is from the 1975 album Remember My Song, a record that became famous due to sampling (especially in Eminem's "My Name Is"). As with so many of these great old funk records, it&...
Russian Circles, "Vorel" Russian Circles usually gets tagged with the post-rock label, which doesn't really hang together to me. There's nothing really post- about most of their stuff. To me, this is really just straight up instrumental metal, and...
