Uncle Tupelo – “Gun”
Starting the week off right…
Doves – “M62″
Kenna – “Red Man”
Injected – “Dawn”
Pearl Jam – “Dissident”
Fifteen years after its release, Vs. remains one of the purest and most sonically pleasing albums I’ve ever heard. The engineering is just superb. That kick drum feel is so deep and heavy, but not too boomy. The snare drum cracks like a lightning bolt. Most engineers will tell you kick and snare sounds are two of the hardest things to master, and most good engineers will tell you Brendan O’Brien and Nick DiDia hit perfection on all cylinders with Vs. and most of the other records they’ve done. On Vs., they top the rhythm section with this jangly, open-ended guitar tone that’s as meticulous as it is loud and a purposefully raw, up-front vocal sound that makes it feel like Eddie’s sitting in the room with you. I find myself listening to this album more for the sonic value than the songs sometimes, and that’s a damn shame since most of the songs on Vs. are my favorite in the Pearl Jam catalog.
Bloc Party – “On”
The Minus 5 – “Desperate for Someone”
Eels – “Jungle Telegraph”
The Jayhawks – “Will I See You in Heaven?”
The Beatles – “A Day in the Life”
The Stills – “Helicopters”
Metallica – “Sanitarium”
Ol’ Dirty Bastard – “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”
This the only song I can play on piano. I’m cool with that because I think ODB would be coo’ wit dat, 2.
Breakdown: 13 songs in three locations
Ate all the meat I could at the barbecue at Kody’s place in honor of Cooper’s birthday tonight. Didn’t keep track of every song that belted out of the monstrous mono speaker in the living room, but I feel totally comfortable and damn proud to report it was nothing but AC/DC, Airbourne and Lucero. At least until the whiskey and tequila took hold of Cooper and Co. That’s when I heard grown men getting down to Kelly Clarkson and realized I didn’t have enough booze in me to get down like that. Not on a Monday. So I left, being the occasionally responsible professional I am. What a shame!
Tags: AC/DC, Airbourne, Bloc Party, booze, Brendan O'Brien, Doves, drunk, Eels, Glister, Injected, Kelly Clarkson, Kenna, Lucero, Metallica, Nick DiDia, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Pearl Jam, Tequila, The Beatles, The Jayhawks, The Minus 5, The Stills, Uncle Tupelo, whiskey
