Our friend, David Eric Grohl, wrote Metallica an open letter from the standpoint of just being a fan. Sounds like something we’d do. Yeah, basically he beat us to it. Plus his “PS” torches anything we would have come up with, even if it was still 2002. Good one Dave!
Dear METALLICA,
Hey, it’s Dave! Remember me? Yeah, I’m the guy that’s been listening to your band faithfully since 1983. I bought your first album Kill ‘Em All from a mailorder catalogue called Under The Rainbow, I think. Actually I can’t remember. It was 1983 for Christsakes! But that album changed my life and I’ve been listening to your albums ever since (even St Anger!).
I can’t wait to hear the new shit, and no matter what you guys do I’ll always be first one at the shop waiting to hear it. I’m sure you’ll come out and blow everybody’s fuckin’ minds, because you’re fuckin’ METALLICA!
Good luck. And don’t release it until it’s kick-ass.
Fuck Yeah!!! Unkle’s “MORE STORIES” is kicking my ass right now. Not that I should have expected anything less, but being the pessimist that I am I wasn’t really sure what this bonus disc and “part 2″ of their last record “War Stories” was actually going to be. No one wants to fork over some cash for some shitty euro remixes. We’ve all been played the fool and done that once or twice haven’t we?
Well you won’t be disappointed here… this is a record containing a mix of B-sides, remixes, unreleased War Stories session tracks, and music composed for the film Odyssey In Rome (by Abel Ferrara who made flicks like The Driller Killer, Ms. 45, King of New York and Bad Lieutenant). I found out about this little fucker a while back and wanted to buy it but being as broke as I was at the time, I couldn’t fork over the $50 bucks for this Japanese import. Now I’m beating myself up for not resorting to other forms of prostitution to get-dat-money. Now that I have it (I stole it), I can’t stop dancing. And I recommend buying this record at once, so I can balance out my crime of stealing it. Don’t blow it.
Ever since Unkle’s “War Stories” came out almost a year ago, I’ve been dancing in mesh shirts ever since. I don’t think I’ve played a cd this much since “In Utero” when I was about 13… And If you’ve ever been lucky enough to see the brilliance that goes on when Travis and I dj, you know what I’m talkin about. It’s a staple and the shit slays.
Here are three “new” Oasis songs that leaked today. Triple the jerk material that I expected to find when I woke up today. I can’t seem to find the actual mp3s of these songs anywhere but they’re out there, I guess that’s what you get for being on “rock n’ roll” time and sleeping all day. Oh fucking well. So if one of your glorious Buddyhead readers have these mp3s (and I know some of you do) please email them to me, pronto @ travis@buddyhead.com. No word if these are even on the new album… either way though, it’s new Oasis to me. Sounds killer dudes. Looks like we’ve got a rocker and two mellow Noel numbers. Shit yeah! High five Noel, high five Gem, high five Liam, high five Andy and high five Zack! By the way, you guys all owe me a pint.
Update: Thanks to two Buddyhead readers (who obviously get up much earlier than I do) that go by the names Deborah Thomsen and Carrie Dennis, we now have those three “new” Oasis songs plus five demos from “Don’t Believe The Truth” and a live song (that I didn’t know about) for you to all hear. Fuckin’ A! Give those two pirates a round of applause.
And sorry we had to take the Dennis Wilson songs down, we’ll have em up back up at some point. I guess I jumped the gun… I tend to to do that and I’ll tell you it’s not a very good trait to have.
On June 17, 2008 Dennis Wilson’s critically acclaimed solo opus, “Pacific Ocean Blue”, will be re-released, expanded and titled “Legacy Edition”! Yes, that was a collective “FINALLY!” you just heard from fans worldwide. Lemme explain a bit, not only have 20 new tracks been added to it but this album has been out of print for almost 20 years now! It’s now considered a “lost classic” to pretty much everyone who’s heard it. My favorite music magazine, Mojo, champions it every chance they can. Example: they listed it as one of “The 67 lost albums you must own!”. You can pre-order the new 2xCD for $23 bucks from Amazon by clicking here. I dare you to buy this amazing record RIGHT NOW. As Rollins might say… “DO IT!”
You can go to http://www.pacificoceanblue.net/ to hear short streams.
Released (only a month after I was born) back in August 1977, “Pacific Ocean Blue” made Dennis Wilson (who was known in some circles as the “troubled alcoholic drummer”) the first Beach Boy to release a solo record. Think that hurt a few egos?
Not only was Dennis first but he proved he could make really good records on his own as well. To me, “Pacific Ocean Blue” sounds way more like California than “Pet Sounds” or any other Beach Boy’s record does. It was produced by Dennis and his close friend & writing partner Gregg Jakobson. They co-wrote songs for The Beach Boys in the past including “Forever” (which is on every best of I’ve ever seen), “Baby Blue”, “Celebrate the News” and “San Miguel”. “Pacific Ocean Blue” shot up the U.S. charts and “peaked” at #96 (and was on them charts for 12 weeks). . It went on to sell almost 300,000 copies (which out sold all those whack disco records The Beach Boys were putting out at the time) and then it went out of print for about 20 years. I’ve seen the cd on ebay for as much as $250…
Gregg Jakobson and the album’s original engineer, John Hanlon, went back into the studio this past year, brought up all the old tracks and finished what Dennis had left them. They are the reason this new re-issue comes with 20 previously unreleased tracks including some that were supposed to be Dennis’s follow up album which he was working on when he died…
Hi, I’m Meathead. Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve spiced up your life with my Pulitzer prize-winning Internet web column, but I’ve been busy these past couple weeks getting all sweaty. I’m sure you’ve been there, you know what it’s like. But it’s okay, just relax, everything’s cool. Seriously, chill the fuck out.
You know what’s one of my favorite frozen, pre-packaged desserts based on a Mexican food staple? Hint: You’re looking right at a picture of it, and it’s also mentioned in the title. Give up? I’m talking about the delicious, savory Choco Taco. I know what you’re thinking. “Buddyhead is a music website! I come here to read about music! Choco Tacos aren’t music! Therefore, my conclusion is that an opinion piece on Choco Tacos has no place on Buddyhead! This is bullshit! I’m calling my state representative right now!” But don’t worry, this actually is music-related. Just be patient and you’ll see. Besides, your state representative is probably too busy banging your mother to pick up the phone. BURN
So a while ago my friend was all “oh Akron Family, yeah…they’re SO such-and-such” and played me some of Love Is Simple. We were driving around and it was a beautiful day and it sounded terrific and super weird — all this super euphoria and mystical shaman nonsense — both of which can be likable in limited quantities. There was a hushed reverence with which people said things like “…sound like ’60s Grateful Dead, Neil Young and math rock…” and “…killed it at Coachella…” and “…singer quit band, checked into a Buddhist monastery…” Even with the dumb slash in their name and the fact that their not actually from Akron Ohio, I thought might be in love. At least this is the way I was thinking when I skipped dinner and rushed to the club (since, duh, it might sell out) to have my consciousness expanded, in person, by a two-set long evening with the Akon/Family.
Ever since I wrote about Neil Young’s out of print live album “Time Fades Away” (here and here) I’ve been getting emails about it. At first, people were writing me to say thank you for throwing it up for download because the album only came out on LP and has since been long out of print. Lately the emails I’ve been getting are asking me to put the record back up. Well, I’ve finally gotten around to it. So here it is kids, enjoy. Hopefully this shit will be on the new Neil Young boxset coming out soon. Speaking of, when is that big motherfucker of a boxset coming out? Anyone know?
And here’s my favorite song off the album, along with Jubilee’s cover of it which you can find as a b-side on their first single “Rebel Hiss” over @ http://www.jubilee.LA
The past few days have been a crazy rock n’ roll week… if you want you can listen to the new muxtape I made while you read exactly why this week ruled. http://buddyhead4.muxtape.com/
On Wednesday, I invited myself to DJ with Shepard Fairy at the Glasshouse in Pomona,CA before Love & Rockets played their first full show in nine years. I’m not counting them playing the Mick Jones song “Should I Stay or Should I Go” twice at the Joe Strummer tribute show a few months ago at the Key Club as a real show. Did anyone else realize they played a Mick Jones song or am I the only one? What the fuck?!?
Jane’s Addiction are going to get “back together” AGAIN for another reunion tour, this time it’s gonna be some dork named Carl (who played bass in Satellite Party) pretending to be Eric Avery. All I have to say on that subject is… FUCKING WEAK DUDES.
BUT… get this, Eric Avery has agreed to reunite with the band for one night only. Yeah, I just ejaculated in my shorts right now. To say I’m psyched would be a huge understatement… WOOO! FUCK YEAH!
So the real Jane’s Addiction will be performing at the first-ever U.S. NME Awards show at the El Rey here in Los Angeles. I guess they are getting crowned with some “Godlike Genius Award” during the ceremony and then will be playing a few songs.
After putting it off for a few months, I finally got around to jumping on the Muxtape bandwagon. I rummaged through my mp3 library and arranged a selection of hip, happenin’ tunes for you to enjoy bitch and complain about. If you’ve got roughly 37 minutes and 10 seconds to kill, please feel free to click on the image of the obsolete music format below:
Hi, I’m Meathead. As you may recall, I’ve posted several articles here on Buddyhead over the past few weeks. But it’s all been a sham. I thought I could get away with it, but I soon realized that I had underestimated the intelligence of the average Buddyheadite. I now know better, and I hope you can forgive my mistakes.
When a person, regardless of sexual orientation, logs on to the internet and surfs to Buddyhead.com, they come to be informed of the latest happenings in the music business (or “biz,” as they’re calling it these days). People, like you, are very busy with everyday things like work, school, kids, mortgages, band practice, fixing that damn screen door again, Clive Barker novels, angioplasties, earwax, robbing Office Depot at knifepoint, potstickers, prayer meetings, getting your necktie caught in the ATM, oil changes, laundry, waterboarding, wearing form-fitting rubber suits, the Yankees, pushin’ th’ little daisies and makin’ ‘em come up, store-brand barbecue sauce, tax returns — you know, the daily grind. You simply do not have the time to sift through a bunch of unnecessary tripe, like a photograph of Hulk Hogan on acid. I mean, honestly, why should that even be on Buddyhead? What does it have to do with music, or anything else for that matter? No, you don’t want to see Hulk Hogan on acid. You come to Buddyhead for the straight-up facts; nothing more or less. You deserve to be presented with quality, informative writings, accompanied by relevant and visually appealing images.
In the last four to seven years (depending what you count) the world of independent rock music has been trading its riffs for hi-hats and any of the lo-fi aesthetic that once defined it for a slick dance-floor gloss. Now, I’m not hating on all of this—I’ve got my share of Rapture records—but if I have to hear one more radio-ready disco-pop act described as “post punk,” I’m going to shiv someone.
Sorry if I made anyone upset with my last post about Radiohead. I honestly didn’t mean to be so hard on them, seeing as how they did have some decent songs back in the 90’s. Sure, In Rainbows may have been a complete and utter disappointment, but that certainly doesn’t mean that Radiohead doesn’t have at least one more hit in them before they’re crushed to death under the weight of their own self-importance. I should have chosen my words a little more carefully, as we all know that Radiohead fans are an emotionally fragile bunch, and I’d hate to be responsible for yet another mass suicide. So please accept my most sincere apologies for my lack of sensitivity. Buddyhead deserves better.
While I’m throwing sorries around, I’d also like to apologize to the guy who pointed out my lack of research when writing about that Provigil ad banner a couple of weeks ago. Oh shit, busted! I thought I could get away with it, but Inspector DZK is on the case. Thanks for setting me straight, dude. I bet you’re a real hit at parties. And you’re right, Buddyhead readers don’t come here for that shit. They come here to read the infamous gossip page watch Raconteurs videos. In that spirit, I thought I’d talk about a video I saw on the internet today.
I log on to MySpace every now and then, mainly so they won’t delete my account for inactivity or some bullshit like that. Inevitably, as soon as I get there, I see a plug for some new horrible flavor-of-the-week hipster band that is apparently all the rage right now but nobody will give a shit about by the time you’re done reading this sentence. Usually I just ignore them — I mean, what’s the point of looking at hipsters if you’re not able to reach out and physically strangle them? Maybe the next Firefox update will let me do that, but in the meantime, my only options are to A) log out of MySpace and lock myself in the closet, or B) buy some piano wire and go for a walk down Vermont Ave.
About a two weeks ago I went to Amoeba and dropped about 50 bucks on a bunch of crap I didn’t really need. As always I hit the Ride section in hopes that I would discover something that I don’t already have, like a new album. And to my surprise I found “Hurricane #1″…
Later that night I picked up Travis and headed over to the Wiltern to check out BRMC for the 30th time. Which for the record was borderline depressing because they didn’t play any of the heavy shit and didn’t play very well. I love them, but the show almost put me to sleep. On the way over we listened to few of these Hurricane tracks and ended up singing along to almost all the songs which was so weird since neither of us had ever heard this album before. The good thing is, is that the songs are pretty catchy, but the lyrics are little predictable. Hence the reason why Travis and I were singing over this shit at first listen. It was actually pretty funny listening to Travis sing.
Speaking of Madchester…. This is a really cool documentary about (my favorite band from Manchester) The Stone Roses that someone sent me a DVD of a few years ago (thank you whoever that was) and now, like everything, it’s on youtube in six parts. Get into it. Also get into my third muxtape @ http://buddyhead3.muxtape.com/.
Blood On The Turntable Documentary 1/6
And here are some of my favorite early songs by The Roses to accompany the video… Listen to these while you practice the Ian Brown dance.
Because of Meathead’s post about Radiohead I’ve gotten some pretty sweet hate mail. It’s like Buddyhead 1999 in my inbox the last few days, reminds of back when people actually read what we wrote here and stuff. Ahh, the glory days! Anyways you gotta check out the hate after the jump.
With the goal of cheering this place up, I figured it was time I posted a photo that displays one of my favorite sayings… “SET PHASERS TO RAVE!” This photo was taken in a shitty backstage on this past Jubilee UK tour in Leeds. It’s titled “Set Phasers To Rave!” Click to make it bigger so you can read all that.
I just like the idea of Setting my phaser to rave. Sounds like it’d be a good time. Whatever it is.
If you’ve been following the hottest band in the world, Radiohead, as much as I have lately, you’d know by now that they are, without question, the leaders of the music revolution that’s happening today. You can tell by the way everyone else is trying to copy all of their brilliant, innovative new ideas.
For instance, when Radiohead decided to be totally badass and say “Fuck you record label, taking all our money, we’re going to sell our own records now,” they’d do the same thing, simply walking away from their legally-binding record contracts. Naturally, some haters out there want to imply that Radiohead’s contract was simply fulfilled sooner, thereby giving them the chance to split before other big-name bands could, but that’s bullshit. Most bands love their friendly, caring, creatively nurturing record companies and would have no reason whatsoever to want to leave them, until Thom Yorke determines that it’s cool to do so.
From what Amazon.com says… it looks like we will all be able to buy a physical copy of the new Spiritualized album (called “Songs in A&E”) on May 27th, 2008. You can pre-order the regular version or prove you’re a real fan and buy the “Deluxe Edition” for a mere $42.99. Sweet right? Not really… check out this fucked up bummer… I’ve already got it on my ipod. Most likely you do too. Or will after reading this.
So, I have been wanting to yak- yak yakety yak about something on Buddyhead for ages, the list of records, bands, cobblers and fashion I wanted to blather on about has grown and grown, I always put it off, too lazy, too busy, and sure you don’t want to hear a rant / ramble of a mid life crisee.
Having said that, I got home recently and found the double bollocksed remastered (deluxe packaging to boot) “Bummed” release had appeared in my house, Rhino Records had delivered the goods..Now I am not a fan of much UK stuff, aside from the Stones, Beatles, Sabbath, Venom, Motorhead, Walkingseeds, Loop, Deviated Instinct, Electro Hippies, Gallon Drunk etc, all of them more than worthy, but most else total shite, however “Bummed” came out when my listening mind was at its most receptive and my memories of that time pretty vivid even though there was a lot of old vim and vigour going up my nose, and along with the discovery of ecstasy - my thrash head was obsessed with grunge, noisy American hardcore, noise, Australian pop, noise, sludge… then I heard the remix of “Wrote For Luck” whilst out of my pile in some shitty “indie / alternative” club in some shitty part of north London, armed with a pill and a bottle of thunderbird wine. It was revelatory! I went to another “club” a week later, this time with another of those pills, and witnessed possibly the worst piece of shit ever, the Paris Angels, seriously, they were shit, but I was dancing my ass off (E being the magic number!), and then they stopped, and it seemed like an endless stream of Mondays’ tunes began pouring from the speakers, I didn’t stop till they kicked us out, finding a nightbus whilst dish-eyed and looking like a Mudhoney roadie at 4 am in north London isn’t exactly easy, but it seemed fun.
Hi, I’m Meathead. Sorry it’s been a while since I’ve spiced up your life with my Pulitzer prize-winning Internet web column, but I’ve been busy these past couple weeks getting all sweaty. I’m sure you’ve been there, you know what it’s like. But it’s okay, just relax, everything’s cool. Seriously, chill the fuck out.
When a person, regardless of sexual orientation, logs on to the internet and surfs to Buddyhead.com, they come to be informed of the latest happenings in the music business (or “biz,” as they’re calling it these days). People, like you, are very busy with everyday things like work, school, kids, mortgages, band practice, fixing that damn screen door again, Clive Barker novels, angioplasties, earwax, robbing Office Depot at knifepoint, potstickers, prayer meetings, getting your necktie caught in the ATM, oil changes, laundry, waterboarding, wearing form-fitting rubber suits, the Yankees, pushin’ th’ little daisies and makin’ ‘em come up, store-brand barbecue sauce, tax returns — you know, the daily grind. You simply do not have the time to sift through a bunch of unnecessary tripe, like a photograph of Hulk Hogan on acid. I mean, honestly, why should that even be on Buddyhead? What does it have to do with music, or anything else for that matter? No, you don’t want to see Hulk Hogan on acid. You come to Buddyhead for the straight-up facts; nothing more or less. You deserve to be presented with quality, informative writings, accompanied by relevant and visually appealing images.
If you’ve been following the hottest band in the world, Radiohead, as much as I have lately, you’d know by now that they are, without question, the leaders of the music revolution that’s happening today. You can tell by the way everyone else is trying to copy all of their brilliant, innovative new ideas.
