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Five Songs, 9/11/2022

Posted on September 11, 2022 | Joshua Buergel

Hot Snakes, “Plenty For All”

Hot Snakes! Hot Snakes! Hot Snakes!

The Wedding Present, “Flying Saucer”

Compare this tune with the Cinerama song from yesterday. It’s a simpler arrangement, but fundamentally the same type of song. But this feels so much better because the focus is where it belongs, on Gedge’s voice and guitar. This comes from Hit Parade 2, which documented the second half of the Wedding Present’s 1992. They put out a single every month, collecting all the tunes on two records. While a bit uneven compared to the albums from that time (as you might expect), they still have a bunch of great material on them and are both worth your time.

Five Songs, 3/3/2021

Posted on March 3, 2021 | Joshua Buergel

Frisk Frugt, “Solsorte Synger Solen Op”

Frisk Frugt is the alias of Anders Lauge Meldgaard, who makes experimental pop music using modified toy instruments and various homemade instruments. He’s an artist I found through The Quietus, which can be a good source of music out of left field. It’s an interesting album, unlike anything else I really have, and there’s always room for stuff like that in my collection.

Hepcat, “Prison of Love”

You know what else we always have room for around here? Ska. Always! Can’t wait for a fourth wave.

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.