Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
The Pain and the Pinkerton Thugs
Someone recently asked for this album on a local messageboard…so I figured I’d link to it here. Late 90s Boston-by-way-of-Maine street punk.
The Pinkerton Thugs – The Pain and the Pinkerton Thugs
- One Day
- We Build Our Own Prisons
- Russia
- The Deal
- The Social Monster
- Cruelty Free
- For the Warriors
- The Struggle Continues
- Battlecry
- Ballad of the Slaughterhouse
- Propaganda by the Deed
- The Coldest War
- In the Town Where I Was Born
Preston – Last Call
Preston was a band I was in when I was 17. I had been in a previous band called Go48 with Mark, but that came to an and we started Preston. We played around the Merrimack Valley (MA) with other local bands like Model Kit, Langston, Drexel, and 5Bucks. Here are six songs we recorded at Harvard in 2002.
- Recorded in 2002 at Quad Sound Studios (Harvard) by Jon Lammi and Marc Flynn
- Mastered at MWorks by Matt Azevedo
- Marcel Moreau – Guitar/Vocals
- Mark Rudgis – Guitar
- Josh Regula – Bass
- Mike Parisi – Drums
Weezer on David Letterman 2009
Taken from Stereogum’s The 12 Best Late Night TV Performances Of 2009
Rivers and band continue taking turns that leave some longtime fans in the cold, but their killer performance of the Raditude standout “(If You’re Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To” with the Late Show band cast the new Weezer in the best light possible, showing that after all these years they’re top notch performers who are still capable of churning out a straight-up stellar pop song.
-Stereogum
The First Two Music Videos I Saw
The other say when talking about Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, I tried to think of the first music video I’d ever seen. My parents would tape episodes of Alf and The Hogan Family and these two videos were on those tapes.
Tears For Fears – Shout
Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
Do you remember your first music video?
A Slightly Older Billy Bragg – Tank Park Salute
It’s almost one year since my last Billy Bragg post.What I really wanted to find was a video for Little Time Bomb, but I’m glad I found this video for Tank Park Salute instead.
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
and what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there’s some things I still don’t understand
You were so tall
How could you fall?
Some photographs of a summer’s day
A little boy’s lifetime away
Is all I’ve left of everything we’ve done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I’m but my father’s son
I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute