Lost treasure I just rediscovered: The Pretenders first album, especially “The Wait” and “Precious.” Yup, Chrissie Hynde swearing and breathing heavy pretty much turned me into a man back in 1979.
Category: Music
MORE MUSIC GAMES
Take a letter of the alphabet. Come up with a great song by an artist whose name starts with that letter, for each decade from the 60s until now. Today’s letter is M:
- 60s: MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
- 70s: Magazine – The Light Pours Out of Me
- 80s: Morrissey – Interesting Drug
- 90s: Modest Mouse – Dramamine
- 00s: Magnetic Fields – All My Little Words
I might be cheating with the last one, but I seem to remember 69 Love Songs coming out in 2000. If I’m wrong, let me know. Now, your turn…
FUNNY LYRIC DAY
“I gave myself to God, there was a pregnant pause before He said ‘OK'” – Belle and Sebastian
Hit “Comments” and participate!!
Is That Bob Pollard?
Oh yeah, funny story from last night. Earlier, Britt had told me that Guided By Voices were still in town and might drop by to see Spoon’s show. So they were rehearsing some GBV songs in case Bob Pollard wanted to come up on stage and sing with them. If you know GBV, you’ll know that Bob Pollard always gets really really drunk before and during their shows. So, when a drunk guy insisted on coming up on stage during Spoon’s set, they let him come up and they just played one of their songs while he wailed something or other. My first thought was, hey, is that Bob Pollard?!
Good Times
Good times. I’ve spent the last two nights seeing my favourite band in the world. I’m talking, of course, about Spoon. They opened for Guided By Voices on Wednesday night, and headlined their own show last night at the venerable Horseshoe Tavern here in Toronto. I was able to arrange an interview with chief utensil Britt Daniel last night and hope to have something put together soon to put up on the site. Jim Eno, drummer supreme, was kind enough to provide me with his setlists both nights and they’ll be finding their way onto the setlists page as soon as possible. Pardon my boundless enthusiasm, but if you’re still in the dark about this amazing band, you need to see the light. You can scoop up many free and legal MP3s here and here and here and here. Oh, and all you lucky people who own one of my Compilation Champs CDs, their new stuff is even better than what you’ve already heard.
Despite the unemployment, a nice couple of days. And both my Leafs and Raptors won last night, too!