Hey Mercedes – “Our Weekend Starts on Wednesday”
Jay Farrar – “Damn Shame”
The Clash – “Clampdown”
The Clash – “Lost in the Supermarket”
The Feds – “Tonight Inside”
Jay Farrar – “Vitamins”
Ryan Adams – “29″
The Fags – “Greatest Movie Ending”
RAWK SAWNG OF THE DAY: Big Wreck – “The Pleasure and the Greed”
Kenna – “Out of Control (State of Emotion)”
The Used – “Sound Effects and Overdramatics”
The Coral – “Spanish Main”
U2 – “Trip Through Your Wires”
BEST BAND YOU’VE PROBABLY NEVER HEARD: Elbow – “Not a Job”
Best song on this band’s second record, A Cast of Thousands. Patient, moody Brit-rock. Anyone who can make a harmony out of dreary lines like this gets my respek: “The dream again nobody understands / Walking through the long grass on your hands / It’s not a job to do today / Sleep it off.”
Kill Radio – “Do You Know (Knife in Your Back)”
See below.
Kenna – “Hell Bent”
Strange pairing of Kenna and Kill Radio. A couple years back, some major label types convinced the band I once worked with to drive out to Los Angeles for a showcase at The Viper Room. Being the naive little bastards we were, we accepted and blew all the money we had to get out there. The band Upside played with at Viper Room was Kill Radio. The other act Upside’s manager at the time managed was Kenna. Both went largely unnoticed, but are two of my favorites to this day. Another strange connection: the guy who signed Kill Radio to Columbia Records was former MTV VJ Matt Pinfield, who seriously considered signing Upside to Columbia after the band once again blew all their money to make a trip to New York to showcase for more label types at Knitting Factory. A good line from the Kill Radio song in today’s playlist: “In the night they stole it, left you skin and bones and a knife in your back.”
Bernard Butler – “Smile”
The Stills – “Changes are No Good”
Sloan – “Back Stabbin’”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Do it Again”
Queens of the Stone Age – “Go With the Flow”
Spoon – “This Book is a Movie”
The Arcade Fire – “Crown of Love”
Bloc Party – “Banquet”
Islands – “If”
The Thrills – “Whatever Happened to Corey Haim?”
Ben Kweller – “Family Tree”
Built to Spill – “The Weather”
Ryan Adams – “Magnolia Mountain”
First time I saw Ryan Adams at Gypsy Tea Room in Dallas, this was the only song he played that could’ve passed for an actual performance. The man was a complete and utter disaster. I couldn’t listen to him for months. Luckily, Daily Tuneage comrade Redbee and her man convinced me to see him again at Cain’s a few months ago. Like night and day. I can’t even remember if he played this song. I just remember everything was perfect.
Breakdown:
29 songs
3 during commute to work
25 at work
1 during commute home
Short on time. No diatribe today.
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