Yep, it's been 9 months, but I'm still here. I'm not sure if I'll start posting regularly again, but for some reason I felt like posting tonight.

Here's the lyrics to a couple of my favorite songs at the moment. As it happens, the vibes they have are similar to my moods and state of mind most of the time these days.

"To the Birds" by Suede
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This has been stuck in my head all day:

"freedom today / righteousness saved / from the whores behind Babylon"

Did I come up with that or did my brain lift it out of some song? The lyrics to a lot of stuff I listen to isn't on the web so I can't be sure. Maybe it rings a bell for one of you.

Did you know that Dave Grohl put together a QOTSA-style metal super group called Probot? He compiled an album's worth of material with tons of guest musicians and put it out about five years ago. It has it's ups and downs, but I have always loved the song "Dictatosaurus". I think it's loosely about the Allies taking Europe back from Hitler in WWII ( Read more... )

I've got the chorus to the song "World Without End" by Solarized stuck in my head:
    the day turns into night
and every night brings another day
but way down deep inside
babe, you know that I'm still the same
forever isn't far away
tomorrow's just another name for yesterday
Tomorrow's just another name for yesterday. Hmm.

Some of the best songs are buried on little known albums that appeared during the transition from psychedelia to hard rock that occurred in the late 60s/early 70s. This is one of them. It's called "Of Dreams" and it's by an almost completely unknown guy named Steve Morgen from Brooklyn, NY. You'd be hard pressed to find a copy of his lone album or ( Read more... )

For the record, Of Montreal's "Disconnect the Dots" and the Apples in Stereo's "Winter Must Be Cold" are two of the best indie pop song ever. Ever. In the history of Indie Rockdom. Going all the way back to the Hittites and Mesopotamia. Anyway, I'm sure these songs will be all over my Last.fm charts at the end of the week ( Read more... )

And now, a Valentine's Day poem from the Brothers Ween...


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