Wednesday, April 24, 2013
DJ SMILLER TONIGHT
TONIGHT: a last minute addition to DJ Roger's afternoon set at Lowbrau: DJ SCOTT MILLER will be spinning reggae and possibly R.E.M. starting at 5:30. Stop on by after work and bob your noggin to Smiller's mellow sounds. Try the beer below which is photographed in extrememly dim light and you will not be sorry. It is a sour saison from that trendiest of breweries: Prairie. It is fucking delicious. Clay was poppin' bottles at Lowbrau last night and it was really fun. I asked the server for a Gose and she gave me a Geuze. What a wacky mixup!
I met a delightful young lady named Whitney yesterday and she gave me these earrings that she made! I love them. She sells her stuff at Bows. Check it out!
Crap! an ebay seller turned down my offer on a grateful dead baseball-style shirt with green sleeves and an eagle on the front. it has the sickest font. he said he hopes to get full price. good luck with that dude. it has a stain and a hole in the sleeve
ReplyDeleteFables of the Reconstruction and Reckoning are fucking classic, that's crazy talk!
ReplyDeleteNM
Reckoning is great! On paper it's their best record but Life's Rich Pageant takes it for me. Fables is flawed. It has great songs for sure but it's kind of uninspired in parts.
ReplyDeleteLife's Rich Pagent is my fav as well. heckamax's too, I think. Why coz it's the best one. Or the best one before I stopped listening to R.E.M. Who knows what happened in the 90s.
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Green really killed my R.E.M. love affair. Though as a mature adult I've come to appreciate the subtle pleasures of Stand.
ReplyDeleteGreen is so bipolar--"World Leader Pretend" and "Pop Song 89" on the same record--but I still like it. It's by no means as irritating as "Radio Song" and "Shiny Happy People" and Out Of Time. I'm surprised Bill Berry held on for another few albums ... There are though some really great 90s REM songs.
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If a person were to bring a dog, can you sill hear the music outside?
ReplyDeleteBecause Dusty has a lot to learn about REM.
Natalie
I still have a dream of doing an event that's kinda like a Halloween show, but where bands try to take songs from a great venerable band's dodgy/crappy later discography and try to turn them into something that's kinda good? Like...Are these possibly just good songs that suffered from blasé performances and overproduction?
ReplyDelete90s REM vs 90s The Fall vs late-80s/90s New Order vs mid- to late-80s Wire vs Smooth Noodle Maps by Devo vs (anything else you can think of). If this ever happens, I do a pretty good Graham Lewis impression for some of those Wire songs.
Captcha unscramble: Sac hibachi
Life's Rich Pageant is most definitely their best albulm.
ReplyDeletejamattack!
Woah Rick, what are you saying about The Fall's 90's output? Extricate? Light Users Syndrome? Levitate? The Marshall Suite? Fucking classics.
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Next Halloween theme: Bad era
ReplyDeleteI love it!
Charles
No no no.....I said "kinda" Halloween-ish, but just with a little bit more effort to actually reinterpret the songs so that what's generally considered terrible might actually be good. That might require a different level of effort, so maybe each band would just play 3-4-or-5 songs. If someone wanted to knock themselves out and recreate a whole terrible album, why not....besides the massive time-suck it would take.
ReplyDeleteSee, it wouldn't work as a "Halloween show" 'cos (A) not enough audience members will know the lyrics to the songs well enough to join a singalong, so there goes one major Halloween-show fun-factor, and (B) it's my idea...and I don't think I have the right to exert control of a Halloween-show-planning think tank (although I'd love to help sometime) when I've never participated at any level besides fan and showing up with the keys to The Hub that one time.
Yet more possibilities...
Happy? by P.i.L.
Sugar Tax by O.M.D.
The Herd by The Wipers
or whatever Psychic TV or Pere Ubu recorded in 1990, or that wanky metal album that Discharge made.
Green is my favorite
ReplyDeleteI'm glad davey took a "stand"
ReplyDeleteyou wont find a finer work song anywhere!
ReplyDeleteMy major takeaway from this thread is that Scott Miller listens to records on paper. That's next-level shit!
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bad era is a great idea for halloween.
ReplyDeleteI dunno.....If you guys think so. I'll wait 'til a chorus of agreement builds.
ReplyDeleteMy other silly idea I had when The Hub was a thing was a night where bands with guitars and drums did guitar-based covers of 80s synthpop and industrial songs. Partly, it was gonna be a selfish attempt to do my vocal impressions of the dudes from Nitzer Ebb and Front 242.
I think Nitzer Ebb was the first band I ever saw live. They opened for Depeche Mode on the Violator tour. Biz went too (i dont want to bare this cross alone).
ReplyDeleteWould bands who never had a good era be an option?
I've been a pushing for the 'questionable politics' theme for a while now.
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Haha...wow, Dave. I was at that show at Cal Expo, too! I loved the first three Nitzer Ebb albums (still love the first two!), and I was so disappointed by their live show which seemed really outta place in that open air setting.
ReplyDeleteMaybe if the regular Halloween show funmakers strip off all the special restrictive rules I had in mind and turn it into a fun show, it could actually work!
My original idea was that you had to pick a band from the late 70s/early 80s who was considered seminal or even great, and then perform songs from the latter discography after they made too many albums, or after they rolled with the contemporary sounds of the mid-80 to late-80s where every drummer sounded like a drum machine, and the guitars were hardly noticeable. But the point I had in mind was to see if any of the songs are actually salvageable. Don't worry about dressing up like the band....just try to reveal the songs to be good songs that were held back by overproduction, cocaine, three extra minutes of filler, or whatever.
BUT....What I love most about Halloween shows is that it's just so damn fun, and almost anyone can contribute their own fun-factor if they want. That's where my "try harder" idea with reinterpreting the songs seems to run counter to that. So how 'bout I just let it go?
Why not also let go of the late 70s/early 80s rule, too? Then people could do Starship, Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (please, Joel!!!), "Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place" by the Rolling Stones. Of course, those were all bands that at one time were great.
And as to your question of bands that were never great.....SURE!!! Glen Frey?!?! David Hasselhoff?!?!
sorry, the halloween theme has to be summed up in 1-3 words. TLDR
ReplyDeleteHaha....."Only Bad Music"
ReplyDeleteHAPPY BIRTHDAY BOBBY BURNS!
ReplyDeleteIf you're interested, we'll be teeing off at Weatherstone NEXT Saturday for the Bobby Burns Memorial Urban Golf Classic. First tee is Ye Olde Weathered Stone.
See Sacramento Cacophony Society FB page for more details.
-The Neighbor
I'd be all over doing late era Kinks!
ReplyDeleteI'd do Monster and Automatic For The People in a heart beat!!
ReplyDeleteThe Jacksons' Victory album might be awesome. "Torture" seems like it could be fun. "State of Shock" provides the opportunity for a Mick Jagger cameo appearance. And the painful ballad "Be Not Only" would be an excruciating(ly funny) change of pace.
ReplyDeleteI love bad era!
ReplyDeleteI call Cosmic Thing
Should there be a panel to decide if someone's "bad era" proposal is actually "bad" or not?
ReplyDeleteKinks - The MCA years
ReplyDeleteJD
Van Hagar!!!
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Trash era Alice Cooper!
ReplyDeleteall right, it could be good. I could do hounds of love (which I consider to be bad due to production and especially the drums) I don't care if no one agrees, it's my genuine opinion. Cloudbusting can certainly be in there as well. And Babushka. I am a firm early Bush fan (Kate Bush that is, but Bush too)
ReplyDeleteI need to listen to "Cloudbusting" again. I can't remember if I like it because of the video, or the song itself.
ReplyDelete"I want to know what love is" era Foreigner.
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My friend/local jewelry artist Whittney (whose stuff is in the post above) is having a big sale of her stuff on Fab.com just for this weekend. Feel free to help promote it!
ReplyDeletehttp://fab.com/sale/20423/
the video sucks too
ReplyDeleteDonald Sutherland dropped everything in the middle of shooting a movie to appear in that video....c'mon, now!!!
ReplyDeleteCaptcha unscramble: lymphatic sludge
He should have kept shooting
ReplyDeleteBad Era theme would thin out number of bands, no?
ReplyDeleteNM
Not necessarily. No shortage of bad music out there.
ReplyDeleteIt just occurred to me that whoever does the Beach Boys oughta have a crossover cameo with the Fat Boys during their cover of "Wipeout". I actually heard that song at Stevie Boy Burger in South Sac recently.
Kokomo could be in there
ReplyDeleteBiz will have to back me up on whether this really happened or not, but i seem to remember seeing Chubby Checker cover the Beach/Fat Boys Wipeout at the Boardwalk.
ReplyDeleteOh man...I totally remember the Fat Boys/Chubby Checker version of "The Twist". I'm glad the Fat Boys dropped their 50s fascination before teaming up with the new Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, who also had a comeback album at the time redoing all their old songs with drum machines and synthesizers.
ReplyDeletemaybe it was the Twist then with some fake-Fat Boyz. that would seem more likely.
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