My Bloody Valentine -

Five Songs, 5/3/2021

Posted on May 3, 2021 | Joshua Buergel

The Jesus Lizard, “Gladiator”

HELL YEAH MAN TIME TO GO BREAK STUFF FUCKIN’ LET’S GO GET DRUNK FUCK SHIT UP

Tha Alkaholiks, “Let It Out”

Tha Alkaholiks stood out from out other rap groups in the mid-90s in California by being mostly playful, in contrast to the dominant G-funk aesthetic at the time. E-Swift’s production also presented a different approach than the dense, deep funk jams of the time. This is from their second record, 1995’s Coast II Coast, which featured a whole bunch of fun guests (Madlib, Q-Tip, Xzibit, others), and is just a solid album.

Five Songs, 11/14/2020

Posted on November 14, 2020 | Joshua Buergel

Operation Re-Information, “Autonomous Auto”

This 100% sounds like something I would have picked up at some point, and I have zero recollection of it. It looks like it’s from 1999, and at that time, I don’t really remember picking this up. Well, whatever, it’s pretty fun. Sometimes we both listen to something new around here!

My Bloody Valentine, “When You Sleep”

It’s hard to describe exactly how horny the rock underground and the music press was for My Bloody Valentine when this album came out. Expectations were already high given the previous album, the band spent a couple years (which was an eternity at the time) prepping this album, and then everybody went nuts when it came out. It seemed like overnight that there were a billion soundalike shoegaze bands, each one more mumbly than the last.