Unsane - Visqueen

Artist: Unsane
Album: Visqueen
Release: 2007
Label: Ipecac

Tracklist:

1. Against the Grain

2. Last Man Standing

3. This Stops at the River

4. Only Pain

5. No One

6. Windshield

7. Shooting Clay

8. Line on the Wall

9. Disdain

10 .Eat Crow

11. East Broadway

As far as "new" Unsane goes, I thought Blood Run was a decent record....until I heard Visqueen! Wow!! This is my 2nd favorite Unsane record next to Scattered, Smothered, and Covered. Production is immaculate, and song writing is top notch. If you've never heard Unsane, get this album, and tell people to fuck off that razz you for only having "new" Unsane!! This album kills!! Unsane has re-invented noise rock with this one, and is well oiled once again!! Can't wait for more.

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Guided by Voices - Mag Earwig

Artist: Guided by Voices
Album: Mag Earwig!
Release: 1997
Label: Matador

Tracklist:

1. Can't Hear The Revolution

2. Sad If I Lost It

3. I Am A Tree

4. The Old Grunt

5. Bulldog Skin

6. Are You Faster?

7. I Am Produced

8. Knock 'Em Flyin'

9. Not Behind The Fighter Jet

10. Choking Tara

11. Hollow Creek

12. Portable Men's Society

13. Little Lines

14. Learning To Hunt

15. The Finest Joke Is Upon Us

16. Mag Earwhig!

17. Now To War

18. Jane Of The Waking Universe

19. The Colussus Crawls West

20. Mute Superstar

21. Bomb In The Bee-Hive

Robert Pollard may have alienated some GBV fans when he hired a new back up crew. Especially when the "new" album is such a departure, production-wise from the usual lo-fi recordings Pollard & co have become infamous for. In the same foul swoop tho, he's managed to recruit a schwack of new ones with Mag Earwig!. I've always dug the lo-fi ramblin's of GBV....but this new sound was kind of refreshing. Some stand-outs..."I am a Tree", "Bulldog Skin", "I am Produced", "Little Lines".

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Mix Tape Vol. 2 - Covers!!!

I`m really trying to update this more often. The descriptions might get a bit lazier, but i`ll try ta get music up here more at least.

So...I`m a sucker for covers...that are well done of course. Here`s 60-some covers that give me goosebumps. You`ll have to excuse the bad tagging, file names, and bitrate on some of these again. Most of them don`t say who the cover is of either, so you`ll have to Google it or something.

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Six Finger Satellite - Severe Exposure

Artist: Six Finger Satellite
Album: Severe Exposure
Release: 1995
Label: Sub Pop

Tracklist:

1. Bad Comrade

2. Parlour Games

3.White Queen to Black Knight

4. Pulling a Train

5. Simian Fever

6. Cock Fight

7.Dark Companion

8. Where Humans Go

9. Rabies (Baby's got the)

10. Board the Bus

Great fucking synth post-punk! In the vein of early Liars. One of the greasiest albums I've ever heard...

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Mixed Tape!

Happy New Year!

Actually, who gives a shit...just kidding, I'm actually looking fwd to some things happening in 2011!

What I've posted here is a mixed tape. It's not a "best of 2010" thing at all. I just thought since I'm not goin' out for New Years this year, I would make a mixed tape for my 11 hungover followers to wake up to tomorrow morning/afternoon. I wanted to put it in order(cuz thats the WHOLE point of a mixed tape, right? ease into it with something mellow...then some pop/punk, then hit 'em with some metal....THEN, for the last song....THEE grossest, heaviest song that was EVER recorded!!! ...ok, I mighta went off on the order thing there a bit...), but since the file names are all fucked(every song still has "band-song.mp3" type formula), it would have been too much work....plus, how cool are surprises??

Also, please keep in mind that these mp3's are from ALL over the place, and some of them are the very first mp3's I ever downloaded...before bitrate quality and tagging were big concerns...so bare with some of the shitty quality and tagging.

Making this mix actually reminded me of alot of old cool shit, and has spawned some ideas for future blogging. Stay tuned and Happy New Year!!! dp

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Turbonegro - Ass Cobra

Artist: Turbonegro
Album: Ass Cobra
Release: 1996
Label: SFTRI

Tracklist:
1.Dazzling Display of Talent
2.The Midnight NAMBLA
3.Deathtime
4.Black Rabbit
5.Denim Demon
6.Bad Mongo

7.Mobile Home

8.I Got Erection

9.Just Flesh

10.Screwed And Tattooed (bonus track on the SFTRI release only)

11.Hobbit Motherfuckers

12.Sailor Man

13.Turbonegro Hate the Kids

14.Imorgen Skal Eg Daue

15.Raggare Is a Bunch of Motherfuckers

16.Young Boys Feet (bonus track on the SFTRI release only

Fuck new Turbonegro! There are only 3 albums....Never is Forever, Apocalypse Dudes, and THIS ONE! Period. Ass Cobra is gayer than cum on a mustache! Total fucking rape rock. The best of the 3 for mentioned. If you don't download this NOW, you're gay!

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*Desert Island Week* Helmet - Strap It On

Artist: Helmet
Album: Strap it On
Release: 1990
Label: AmRep


Tracklist:
1.Repetition
2.Rude
3.Bad Mood
4.Sinatra
5.FBLA
6.Blacktop
7.Distracted
8.Make Room
9.Murder

#5...I thought long and hard about my final desert island album. It was a toss up between Meantime, and Strap it On. Both albums engineered in just about complete opposite ways. Strap it On is one of the both rawest, and tightest albums I've ever heard. This album has always been critically acclaimed due Page Hamilton's innovative stop/start staccato riffs and(then unheard of) drop d tuning.

Stay tuned, as I have decided to post a few of the hundreds of desert island runner-ups.

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