The Old 97s: Dance With Me

2008 is shaping up to be a very good music year, and here is one reason why. The Old 97s are releasing an album in May, and this single, posted on their myspace page is raising expectations. Dance with Me is their best work since 2001's brilliant Satellite Rides and has me really looking forward to the rest of the album. The guitar work is a little bit surf, a little country, a little flamenco and it sounds hot. Take a listen.

3/27 Surf's Up Night @ Pin Ups

Downtown 5:11 Neil Young Mirrorball
Even Flow 5:04 Pearl Jam Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) [Disc 1]
Growin' Up 3:05 Bruce Springsteen Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
Stagger Lee (Bandstand Version) 2:10 Lloyd Price Lloyd Price Greatest Hits: The Original ABC-Paramount Recordings
Good Vibrations 3:37 Beach Boys Made In U.S.A.
Wipe Out (Re-Recorded Version) 2:17 The Surfaris The Sunshine Collection (Re-Recorded Versions)
Misirlou 2:41 Dick Dale and His Del-Tones Dick Dale and His Del-Tones: Greatest Hits 1961-1976
Surf City 2:43 Jan & Dean Gold 60's - The Essential Collection
Surfin' On the Planet Zorch 3:47 The Meteors The Best of The Meteors
Fins 3:26 Jimmy Buffett Boats, Beaches, Bars & Ballads (Disc 3)
Dance With Me 2:42 Old 97s Blame It On Gravity (May 13)
By Your Side 4:28 The Black Crowes By Your Side
I'm Always Here (Baywatch Theme) 3:22 Jim Jamison Baywatch
Surf Wax America 3:07 Weezer Weezer
The Corn Rocket 3:01 Southern Culture on the Skids Liquored Up and Lacquered Down
Cannonball 3:34 The Breeders Rhino Hi-Five: Modern Rock Blender - EP
Stuck In the Middle 4:09 MIKA Life In Cartoon Motion
The Girl You Lost To Cocaine 2:40 Sia Some People Have Real Problems
What I Got 2:52 Sublime Sublime - 20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection
Mysterious Ways 4:04 U2 Achtung Baby
Honor And Harmony 3:36 G. Love & Special Sauce Philadelphonic
Bubble Toes 3:57 Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales
Frontline 3:11 Pillar Where Do We Go from Here
The Remedy (I Won't Worry) [New EQ'd LP Version] 4:16 Jason Mraz The Remedy - Single
Mono Man (featuring Dr. T) 3:45 Faderhead FH2
Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker) 5:47 Parliament The Best of Parliament - Give Up the Funk
Praise You 3:48 Fatboy Slim The Greatest Hits Why Try Harder
Butterfly 3:37 Crazy Town the gift of game-explicit
Dance Naked 3:00 John Mellencamp Dance Naked
Yer So Bad 3:06 Tom Petty Playback (3) Good Booty
You Can Make Him Like You 2:49 The Hold Steady Boys and Girls In America
Mansard Roof 2:08 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend

3/26 Diamond Nights best in Red event

Burning Down the House 4:02 Talking Heads The Best of Talking Heads (Remastered)
Sister Disco 4:16 The Who The Who: Thirty Years of Maximum R&B
Lawyers, Guns And Money 3:02 Warren Zevon The Best Of Warren Zevon: A Quiet Normal Life
Always the Last to Know (Single Mix) 4:17 Del Amitri 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Del Amitri
Traffic and Weather 3:37 Fountains of Wayne Traffic and Weather
Read My Mind 4:07 The Killers Sam's Town
Man In the Box 4:44 Alice In Chains Facelift
Rusty Cage 4:26 Soundgarden Badmotorfinger
Machinehead 4:16 Bush Sixteen Stone
Enter Sandman 5:32 Metallica Metallica (Black Album)
Thunderstruck 4:52 AC/DC The Razor's Edge
Basket Case 3:03 Green Day Dookie
Cry Little Sister (Original Lost Boys Film Version) 4:45 G Tom Mac Thou Shalt Not Fall
Waving Flags 4:08 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music?
The Picture 3:26 Son Volt The Search (Deluxe Version)
Gun 3:40 Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology
Reach for the Sky 3:32 Social Distortion Greatest Hits
Drank Like A River 2:57 Whiskeytown Faithless Street
Fire 3:13 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Bruce Springsten Live 1975-85 (Disc 1)
Listen To Her Heart 3:04 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers The Big Jangle
Cruel To Be Kind 3:05 Spacehog Resident Alien
Bilingual (Dirty Mix) 7:26 Jose Nunez Subliminal Album, Vol. 13
Pussy Control 5:58 Prince
Pussy Time 2:43 Nashville Pussy Get Some!
Put Your Hands On Me 2:58 Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone
Ayo Technology (feat. Justin Timberlake) 4:08 50 Cent Curtis
Talk Dirty to Me 3:45 Poison The Best of Poison - 20 Years of Rock
Church Of The Poison Mind 3:31 Culture Club The Best Of Culture Club
Funky Cold Medina 4:08 Tone Loc Loc-ed After Dark
Come On Eileen 4:12 Dexys Midnight Runners Musiques de Soirée Dance & Années 80
Short Skirt, Long Jacket 3:17 Cake b-sides and rarities
The Middle 2:46 Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
Chasing Heather Crazy 2:54 Guided By Voices The Best Of Guided By Voices: Human Amusements At Hourly Rat
Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') 3:50 T-Pain feat. Yung Joc Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') - Single
Rave On 1:50 Buddy Holly Greatest Hits
Sweet Little Sixteen 3:02 Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight
Let's Get It On 4:03 Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits

Honesty... is such a lonely word

This was too funny not to share.

Let's see if this works

3/20 Funny T-shirt Night at Pin Ups

Machete 3:38 Moby Play
Ray of Light (Radio Edit Version) 4:36 Madonna GHV2
I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 2:54 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Oxford Comma 3:24 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
July, July! 2:53 The Decemberists Castaways And Cutouts
Fuck Forever 4:37 Babyshambles Down in Albion
Free Fallin' 4:16 Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
Life, In A Nutshell 3:14 Barenaked Ladies Maybe You Should Drive
Basket Case 3:03 Green Day Dookie
You're Crazy 3:17 Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
Deeper Underground 4:47 Jamiroquai High Times (The Singles 1992-2006)
Can't Get There from Here 3:41 R.E.M. Eponymous
Beverly Hills 3:16 Weezer Make Believe
Leave the Biker 2:42 Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne
Dance With Me 2:42 Old 97s Blame It On Gravity (May 13)
Desperately Wanting 4:37 Better Than Ezra Friction Baby
Badlands 4:05 Bruce Springsteen The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Disc 1)
Casey Jones 4:25 Grateful Dead Workingman's Dead
Gimme Shelter 4:22 The Hellacopters Cream Of The Crap! Collected Non-Album Works Volume 1
Beast Of Burden 4:25 The Rolling Stones Some Girls
Optimistic Thoughts 3:31 Blues Traveler Travelers & Thieves
Most People Are DJs 5:51 The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
Sweet Home Alabama 4:45 Lynyrd Skynyrd The Essential Lynyrd Skynyrd D
Lazy White Boy 3:16 Nashville Pussy Get Some!
Learn To Fly 3:57 Foo Fighters There Is Nothing Left To Lose
Read My Mind 4:07 The Killers Sam's Town
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again) 3:21 Wilco Summer Teeth

3/19 House Party Radio Broadcast

Alive (Brendan O'Brien Remix) 5:43 Pearl Jam Rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991-2003) [Disc 1]
Gravity's Gone 3:33 Drive-By Truckers A Blessing And A Curse
Kickin' My Heart Around 3:41 The Black Crowes By Your Side
I'll Be That Girl 3:34 Barenaked Ladies Stunt
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:09 The Beatles The Beatles [White Album] (Disc 1)
Fa Fa 4:44 Guster Lost And Gone Forever
Dead Flowers 4:05 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Fuck and Run 3:08 Liz Phair Exile in Guyville
Daybreaker 3:55 Beth Orton Daybreaker
Shame 3:54 The Avett Brothers Emotionalism
One Step Up 4:57 Eddie Vedder Early Demos
All Thine 2:44 Trailer Bride High Seas
I Want You 3:07 Bob Dylan Biograph [BOX SET] (Disc 3)
Cadillac Ranch 4:51 Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-1985 (Disc 2)
Have You Ever Seen The Rain 2:22 The Ramones Acid Eaters
Acrobat 4:30 U2 Achtung Baby
Headspace 3:43 Velvet Revolver Contraband
Cruel To Be Kind 3:05 Spacehog Resident Alien
Cream 4:13 Prince The Hits/The B-Sides (Disc 2)
Bed 4:35 J. Holiday Back of My Lac'
Hot Thing (feat. Will.i.am) 3:50 Talib Kweli Eardrum
2 Pac Tupac - Changes 4:29
It Was a Good Day 4:20 Ice Cube Ice Cube: Greatest Hits
Fight The Power [Live] 3:55 Public Enemy Revolverlution
The Sons Of Cain 3:59 Ted Leo / Pharmacists Living With The Living
Alright Guy 4:30 Todd Snider Songs For The Daily Planet
Saving Grace 3:48 Tom Petty Highway Companion
Buick City Complex 3:41 Old 97's Satellite Rides (Disc 1)
Sister Cry 4:08 The Jayhawks Hollywood Town Hall
Joy 4:01 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Going Down Swinging 2:25 Nashville Pussy Get Some!
The Corn Rocket 3:01 Southern Culture on the Skids Liquored Up and Lacquered Down
Smashing Pumpkins - Rat in a Cage 4:20
Little Miss Can't Be Wrong 3:55 Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Down With Disease 4:08 Phish Hoist
Ants Marching 4:31 Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming
Girl Inside My Head 3:39 Blues Traveler Bridge
Twin Cinema 2:59 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
Oxford Comma 3:24 Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
Read My Mind 4:07 The Killers Sam's Town
Send Me on My Way 4:23 Rusted Root When I Woke
Dead Sound 3:33 The Raveonettes Lust Lust Lust
When The Stars Go Blue 3:32 Ryan Adams Gold
I'll Be Your Lover, Too 3:54 Van Morrison His Band and the Street Choir
The Luckiest 4:25 Ben Folds Rockin' The Suburbs
Tiny Dancer 5:24 Ben Folds Ben Folds Live
Windfall 2:58 Son Volt Trace

3/15 House Party Radio Broadcast

Do you have any Irish in you? Would you like some?

Funky Céilí (Bridie's Song) 4:01 Black 47 Fire Of Freedom
Walk Away 2:51 Dropkick Murphys Blackout
Salty Dog 2:21 Flogging Molly Swagger
Wild Night 3:34 Van Morrison Tupelo Honey
Desire 3:00 U2 The Best Of 1980-1990
Dirty Old Town 2:47 Ted Leo & The Pharmacists Tell Balgeary, Balgury Is Dead (Plus Solo)
Mrs. Potter's Lullaby 7:46 Counting Crows This Desert Life
No Myth 4:09 Michael Penn March
La Cienega Just Smiled 5:04 Ryan Adams Gold
Come On Eileen 4:12 Dexys Midnight Runners Musiques de Soirée Dance & Années 80
I'll Be You 3:29 The Replacements Don't Tell a Soul
Loser 3:57 Beck Mellow Gold
Volcano 4:38 Damien Rice O
No Cars Go 5:44 Arcade Fire Neon Bible
Squalor Victoria 2:59 The National Boxer
Closer To Me 3:42 Dar Williams The Beauty Of The Rain
Honey And The Moon 4:44 Joseph Arthur Redemption's Son
There She Goes 2:42 The La's The La's
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 2:05 The Beatles Rubber Soul
Hard Sun (Main) 5:22 Eddie Vedder Into the Wild (Music for the Motion Picture) [Deluxe Version]
Darkness On The Edge Of Town 4:24 Bruce Springsteen Live 1975-1985 (Disc 2)
I Won't Back Down 2:58 Tom Petty Full Moon Fever
Play It All Night Long 2:53 Warren Zevon The Best Of Warren Zevon: A Quiet Normal Life
Hold On Hope 3:31 Guided By Voices Do the Collapse
Little Wing 6:51 Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble The Sky Is Crying

3/13 Sports Jersey Event @ Pin Ups

Helter Skelter 4:30 The Beatles The Beatles [White Album] (Disc 2)
Star 69 3:09 R.E.M. Monster
Lump 2:14 The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America (10th Aniversary Edition)
Heroes 3:38 David Bowie Best of Bowie
Groove Is In the Heart 3:52 Deee-Lite The Very Best of Deee-Lite
Comfortably Numb 4:26 Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters
Rock & Roll, Pt. 2 3:03 Gary Glitter The Full Monty [Original Soundtrack]
Centerfield 3:50 John Fogerty CYSTSFTS
The Impression That I Get 3:13 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Devil's Haircut 3:14 Beck Odelay
You Can Leave Your Hat on 4:27 Tom Jones
Mannish Boy 5:21 Muddy Waters The Story of the Blues (Columbia)
Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) 7:04 Bruce Springsteen The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Disc 1)
Cecilia 2:53 Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits
Mr. Jones 4:32 Counting Crows August & Everything After
Mr. Wrong 4:37 Cracker Cracker
Mr. Brownstone 3:49 Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
Dance With Me 2:42 Old 97s Blame It On Gravity (May 13)
Right In Time 4:36 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Hot 'N Cold 3:40 Katy Perry One of The Boys...
Twin Cinema 2:59 The New Pornographers Twin Cinema
Paralyzer 3:28 Finger Eleven Them vs. You vs. Me
Melatonin 4:05 Silversun Pickups Carnavas
Only The Good Die Young 3:53 Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol. 1 [Disc 1]
U + Ur Hand 3:34 P!nk I'm Not Dead
Mono Man (featuring Dr. T) 3:45 Faderhead FH2
De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da 4:07 The Police Every Breath You Take: The Singles
Shattered 3:47 The Rolling Stones Some Girls
Alternative Girlfriend 4:20 Barenaked Ladies All Their Greatest Hits 1991-2001
Jimmy Olsen's Blues 4:39 Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite
I've Gotta Get a Message to You 3:58 Moxy Fruvous You Will Go to the Moon
Hold On Hope 3:31 Guided By Voices Do the Collapse

Best use of Marty McSorley in a rock song, ever

Kathleen Edwards, the brilliant Canadian alt-country songwriter has a new album out and what I've heard of it so far is freaking fantastic. But she gets 1 million bonus points for breaking off this reference in the song "I Make the Dough You Get the Glory:"

You're cool and cred like Fogerty,
I'm Elvis Presley in the 70s.
You're Chateau Neuf,
I'm Yellow Label.
You're the buffet,
I'm just the table.
I'm a Ford Tempo,
you're a Maserati.
You're The Great One,
I'm Marty McSorley.
You're the Concorde,
I'm economy.
I make the dough,
but you get the glory.

An amazing chours that manages to reference Elvis, CCR, fancy wine, cars, planes, and Hockey and not sound contrived. And not just hockey but a Wayne Gretzky/Marty McSorley trade reference to boot. I think I'm in love, and if only her lawyers would let me within 100 yards of her, I'd tell Kathleen that myself.

Because I suck at posting audio, you can check the song out at http://www.kathleenedwards.com/

3/12 Formal Dance at Diamond Nights

and an early b-day party for Sisi....


I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor 2:54 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Beverly Hills 3:16 Weezer Make Believe
Way Down Now 3:50 World Party Best In Show
Wasted & Ready 3:51 Ben Kweller Sha Sha
Hang Me Up To Dry 3:39 Cold War Kids Robbers and Cowards
Short Skirt, Long Jacket 3:17 Cake b-sides and rarities
Oxygen 3:51 Colbie Caillat Coco
Fidelity 3:46 Regina Spektor Begin to Hope (Bonus Track Version)
No Woman, No Cry (L.P. Version) 4:19 Fugees The Fugees: Greatest Hits
The Dutchess - 02 - Clumsy 4:01 Fergie The Dutchess
Timebomb 2:50 Beck Timebomb - Single
This How We Do It 3:54 Montell Jordan versus-3.blogspot..com
Bed 4:35 J. Holiday Back of My Lac'
Put Your Hands On Me 2:58 Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone
Paper Planes 3:24 M.I.A. Kala
Diamonds Are Forever (Remix) 3:53 Kanye West Feat. Jay-Z Promo CD
Sexy M.F. 5:26 Prince The Hits/The B-Sides (Disc 2)
Tennessee 4:33 Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of ...
When I Am King 2:31 Great Big Sea Something Beautiful
Good 3:05 Better Than Ezra Deluxe
Ants Marching 4:31 Dave Matthews Band Under The Table And Dreaming
2 Pac Tupac - Changes 4:29
Slow Hands 3:04 INTERPOL Antics
Green-Tinted Sixties Mind 3:30 Mr. Big Lean into It
Drive My Car 2:30 The Beatles Rubber Soul
Suspicious Minds 3:39 Elvis Presley The Number One Hits
She's The One 4:31 Bruce Springsteen Born To Run
Having A Party 2:27 Sam Cooke The Man And His Music
Waiting For Tonight 3:30 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Playback: Nobody's Children (Disc 6)
Bitch 3:38 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers
Akinyele - Just Put It In My Mouth 3:21
Pledge of Allegiance 3:38 Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Like a Drug 3:17 Kylie Minogue X
Still I Long For Your Kiss 4:09 Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road
Six O'Clock News 4:36 Kathleen Edwards Failer
Desire 3:41 Ryan Adams Demolition
Send Me on My Way 4:23 Rusted Root When I Woke
Let's Get It On 4:03 Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits

Cops and Robbers Event at Pin Ups 3/9/08

I Fought the Law 2:41 The Clash The Singles
Movie Star 3:34 Cracker Kerosene Hat
Mr. Brownstone 3:49 Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
Slither 4:08 Velvet Revolver Contraband
Detroit Medley 7:03 Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
Be True 3:41 Bruce Springsteen Tracks (Disc 2) [Box Set]
Finding Out True Love Is Blind 4:13 Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Little Wonders 3:42 Rob Thomas OST Meet The Robinsons
Please Mr. Jailer 3:04 Wynona Carr Jump Jack Jump! (Remastered)
Shake Ya Tailfeather 4:26 Nelly, P. Diddy & Murphy Lee DJ Envy-Street Sampler
Smile 3:16 Lily Allen Alright Still
The Girl You Lost To Cocaine 2:40 Sia Some People Have Real Problems
So Much to Say 4:06 Dave Matthews Band Crash
New Sensation 3:42 INXS Greatest Hits
Toxic (Radio Edit) 3:14 Mark Ronson Euro Xclusive 07-02
The New Year 4:06 Death Cab For Cutie Transatlanticism
July, July! 2:53 The Decemberists Castaways And Cutouts
Message In A Bottle 4:50 The Police Every Breath You Take: The Singles
Suspicious Minds 3:39 Elvis Presley The Number One Hits
Folsom Prison Blues (Live) 3:07 Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience (Deluxe Edition)
American Idiot 2:54 Green Day American Idiot
Life Wasted 3:54 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam
Put Your Hands On Me 2:58 Joss Stone Introducing Joss Stone
Cream 4:13 Prince The Hits/The B-Sides (Disc 2)
Control 4:36 Mute Math Mute Math
Fall Down 3:24 Toad The Wet Sprocket P.S.: A Toad Retrospective
The pretender 4:29 Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace
Supermassive Black Hole 3:29 Muse Black Holes And Revelations
Come Out And Play 3:18 The Offspring Smash
Miles Away 3:34 Spacetrucker Demo
(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding 3:33 Elvis Costello & The Attractions The Best of Elvis Costello: The First 10 Years
Girlfriend 3:40 Matthew Sweet Girlfriend
What's The Frequency, Kenneth? 4:00 R.E.M. Monster
Until The End Of The World 4:38 U2 Achtung Baby
Singular Girl 4:16 Old 97's Satellite Rides - Bonus Disc
Gun 3:40 Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology
Windfall 2:58 Son Volt Trace

3/5/08 @ Diamond Nights

Lucky Town Bruce Springsteen The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Disc 2)
Brilliant Disguise Bruce Springsteen The Essential Bruce Springsteen (Disc 2)
Radio Nowhere Bruce Springsteen Magic
No Myth Michael Penn March
Singular Girl Old 97's Satellite Rides - Bonus Disc
Even The Losers Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers The Big Jangle
Starry Eyed Surprise Paul Oakenfold Bunkka
Burning Down the House Talking Heads The Best of Talking Heads (Remastered)
Que' Onda Guero Beck Guero
Chaos Mute Math Mute Math: Teleprompt Limited Edition
Some Days Are Better Than Others U2 Zooropa
Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet Get Born
Shawty Is Da Sh*! (10) The-Dream Shawty Is Da Sh*! (10) - Single
Cyclone (Feat. T-Pain) Baby Bash http://www.fluokids.blogspot.com/
Ayo Technology (feat. Justin Timberlake) 50 Cent Curtis
One & Only (Feat. Fallout Boy) Timbaland Presents: Shock Value
Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance The Black Parade
Supermassive Black Hole Muse Black Holes And Revelations
Can't Get There from Here R.E.M. Eponymous
Most People Are DJs The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me
Custard Pie Jimmy Page & Black Crowes Live at The Greek
Paralyzer Finger Eleven Them vs. You vs. Me
When You Were Young The Killers Sam's Town
Ecstasy Rusted Root When I Woke
Mama Said Knock You Out LL Cool J Def Jam Recordings - Let The People Speak
South Side Moby & Gwen Stefani Play
Shutter Buggin' Buck 65 Situation
Crazy Bitch (dirty) Buckcherry 15
Strict Machine Goldfrapp Black Cherry-ADVANCE
You Make Me Feel Like A Whore Everclear Sparkle And Fade
Crazy Gnarls Barkley Crazy - Single
Hard To Handle The Black Crowes Shake Your Money Maker
Cecilia Simon & Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel Greatest Hits
Cannonball The Breeders Rhino Hi-Five: Modern Rock Blender - EP
Stupid Girl Garbage Garbage
Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes Add It Up (1981-1993)
Windfall Son Volt Trace
Let's Get It On Marvin Gaye Marvin Gaye's Greatest Hits

For Dad

My old man would have been 72 years old yesterday. It's hard to conceive of him being that old. and I always wonder what would have happened in those seven years since, and how things had changed between us since I'd "grown up."
Days like this I think about this song a lot... might be one of the best ever written on the father son relationship. Video cuts off the last verse, but hey, still great.





Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now
I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate
We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow
Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us
There's a darkness in this town that's got us too
But they can't touch me now
And you can't touch me now
They ain't gonna do to me
What I watched them do to you

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day
All down the line
Just say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day this time

Now I don't know what it always was with us
We chose the words, and yeah, we drew the lines
There was just no way this house could hold the two of us
I guess that we were just too much of the same kind

Well say goodbye it's Independence Day
It's Independence Day all boys must run away
So say goodbye it's Independence Day
All men must make their way come Independence Day

Now the rooms are all empty down at Frankie's joint
And the highway she's deserted down to Breaker's Point
There's a lot of people leaving town now
Leaving their friends, their homes
At night they walk that dark and dusty highway all alone

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late
Nothing we can say can change anything now
Because there's just different people coming down here now
and they see things in different ways
And soon everything we've known will just be swept away

So say goodbye it's Independence Day
Papa now I know the things you wanted that you could not say
But won't you just say goodbye it's Independence Day
I swear I never meant to take those things away

Maxim also didn't really ask Eva Mendez if she's a screamer

You may have seen that Maxim wrote a review of The Black Crowes new album...without actually hearing the album. The Crowes hadn't handed out advance copies when the review was published, and the reviewer admitted just making up his 2.5 star review. This is a scarcy development, because it shines a light into just how messed up the media has become. Apparently Maxim's editors had a hard time seeing the problem at first. Now their credibility is pretty well shot. It's one thing to give an album a mediocre review after listening to it. And Lord knows the Crowes have been pretty uneven since 1990's brilliant Shake Your Moneymaker. But give them the benefit of the doubt and listen to it. The Crowes also already have a hard won fan base. What would, or has, a faked Maxim review done to the prospects of some emerging band who might be looking to a good review to spark sales or generate interest? And how many other publications does this sort of thing go on at?

2/28/08 @ Pin Ups-- The No Event? No Problem Mix

Running To Stand Still 4:19 U2 Joshua Tree

Rock This Town 3:26 Stray Cats Rock This Town: Best Of The Stray Cats
You And Me And The Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby) 3:35 Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Lump 2:14 The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America (10th Aniversary Edition)
Happy 3:05 The Rolling Stones Exile on Main Street Rock
Mr. Wrong 4:37 Cracker Cracker Alternative & Punk
In State 3:56 Kathleen Edwards Back to Me
Crossfire 2:17 Kasey Chambers Barricades & Brickwalls
Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus) 3:21 Drive-By Truckers Alabama Ass Whuppin'
Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy 2:51 kal-el3 Kal-El's Music #3
P***y Liquor 4:47 Rob Zombie Rob Zombie: Past, Present & Future
The Lemon Song 6:19 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin II
Push It 4:14 Salt-N-Pepa The Hip Hop Box
Paper Planes 3:24 M.I.A. Kala Awesomeness
Back It Up, Boys 3:59 Peaches Fatherfucker Electronica & Dance
Pledge of Allegiance 3:38 Louis XIV The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Like a Drug 3:17 Kylie Minogue X Pop M
Pussy Control 5:58 Prince Booty Bass
BiLingual 7;25 Jose Nunez
Closer 6:13 Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral
I Touch Myself 3:48 Divinyls DiVinyls
The State of Massachusetts 3:55 Dropkick Murphys The Meanest of Times (Deluxe Edition)
Maria's Wedding 4:09 Black 47 Fire Of Freedom
Salty Dog 2:21 Flogging Molly Swagger Punk Rock
No Lucifer 3:27 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music?
Devil's Haircut 3:14 Beck Odelay Alternative & Punk
Miles Away 3:34 Spacetrucker Demo Alternative
Maybellene 2:19 Social Distortion Greatest Hits Rock
Graveyard Shift 4:45 Uncle Tupelo 89/93: An Anthology Country
Mr. Tough 4:06 Yo La Tengo I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
You Get What You Give 5:01 New Radicals Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too
Most People Are DJs 5:51 The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me Rock
map of the problematique 4:19 Muse Black Holes And Revelations Rock
Squalor Victoria 2:59 The National Boxer
Almost Gold 3:21 The Jesus and Mary Chain 21 Singles
Buick City Complex 3:41 Old 97's Satellite Rides (Disc 1)
Essence 5:52 Lucinda Williams Essence Country
Dancing in the Dark 4:34 Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
Atlantic City 3:30 Automatic 7 At Funeral Speed Alternative & Punk
Jimmy Olsen's Blues 4:39 Spin Doctors Pocket Full of Kryptonite
The Distance 3:00 Cake Fashion Nugget Rock 2 2/28/08 9:54 PM
Machete 3:38 Moby Play Electronic 3 2/28/08 9:51 PM
Sandstorm (Original Rework) 5:39 Tunnel Allience 50 Techno Trance Anthems Trance
Grace 3:19 Miss Kittin BatBox Electronic 3
Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again) 3:21 Wilco Summer Teeth
When You Were Young 3:40 The Killers Sam's Town Alternative
Custard Pie Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes Live at the Greek
Ecstasy 5:02 Rusted Root When I Woke Rock 80
Brain Damage 2:48 Bim Skala Bim Bones Alternative
The Impression That I Get 3:13 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Steal My Kisses 4:05 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Burn to Shine R
Girl Inside My Head 3:39 Blues Traveler Bridge Rock
Take me to The BackSeat The Donnas
Song 2 Blur

House Party enters the blogosphere

Hey boys and girls,

Well, I figured I'd try not to be the absolute last person on earth to have a blog. So here it is. Right now it will be a place for me to post setlists, so if you were listening to a gig and heard something you liked but missed the song title, you can find it here. And from time to time there will be my own musings on music. Hope you like it. Feel free to harass me with comments about how obnoxious people with their own blogs are.

Much love to you all,

The Chief Party Officer