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Like a lot of teenagers, I had my share of angst-filled difficult years. Growing up in San Jose, California during the early 80s, and going to what could ungenerously be called a “burnout junior high school” ( see another post I did on this here ), there were a couple years there where I felt, um, kind of alone, or at least pretty much divorced from my peers. We’re talking Ages 13, 14, 15 – grades...
1. Friday I'm In Love - The Cure 2. Black Friday - Steely Dan 3. Friday Night, August 14th - Funkadelic 4. Friday On My Mind - The Easybeats (had to look that one up--thought it was the Hollies) 5. Police On My Back - The Clash Read and post comments | Send to a friend
'Released on Hallmark / Pickwick in 1969, 'Bird Sounds In Close Up' is the possibly the greatest LP I've reviewed in Electric Roulette's entire 48 year history.'
Muxtape Challenge ahoy! We still have some tricky slots to fill, mostly in the early years, and really Muxtape isn't that hard to handle. Meanwhile, while we prevaricate over our Primer idea Left And To The Back steals in with an extraordinary downloadable compilation of largely British and certainly not American 60s psychedelia, including Cook & Moore's glorious Bedazzled (fuck off, Fraser and Hurley,...
The Presets - This Boy's In Love (Lifelike Remix) ( YSI ) ( ZShare ) Bloggers go apeshit for the Australian tunes at the moment, no? I don't have all my facts straight (and I am sure some would argue), but it would seem that this probably thanks in a large part to Modular's well-deserved international influence. And yes the Cut Copy album is fantastic, but to be honest I prefer the new Presets . The...
Let's give the end of the working week an appropriate sendoff today with a song that's been playing in my head since, oh, 9 a.m. Monday morning. (And maybe it's been playing in yours, too.) From the spring of 1967,...
2007 must have felt like the honeymoon to an exceptionally long engagement for Bishop Allen. After poking around for a label to call their own, they released 12 EPs in 2006 before signing to the newly formed label Dead Oceans. Now Bishop Allen and the Broken String is in stores and pumping your life full [...]
AC/DC: Plug Me In is well worth the price for the music, the interviews, and just to watch Angus Young rock the stage. AC/DC: Plug Me In is a virtual musical history of the Australian hard rock band AC/DC. It contains over 5 hours of music, rare and unreleased live video's, interviews, tour promo films, and alternate live versions. It is contained on two DVD's. The first documents the Bon Scott era...
I can't imagine a more amazing demonstration of the folk music process at work than the difference between The Easybeats bashing out their subversive Australian working class protest hymn "Friday on my Mind" on TV in 1967 -- -- and this bunch of regular joes having a Down Under living room singalong of the same song for somebody with a camcorder forty years later. I'm a huge fan of Easybeats auteurs...
Last week’s edition of Theme Time Radio Hour with your host Bob Dylan was a seven day affair. A thumbnail: Sterling Harrison ( “Here’s a great guy you never heard of …” ) — Seven Days U2 — Sunday Bloody Sunday (Bob then reads the names of the 13 who were killed on the day memorialized by the [...]
Seven Days-Sterling Harrison Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2 Lucy Mae Blues-Frankie Lee Sims Blue Monday-Smiley Lewis Ruby Tuesday-Rolling Stones Tomorrow Night-Lonnie Johnson Wednesday Week-The Undertones Thursday-Morphine Friday On My Mind-The Easybeats Lonely Weekends-Charlie Rich (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night-Tom Waits Wasted Days And Wasted Nights-Doug Sahm Sunday Morning Comin’ Down-Kris...
done to the tune of Donovan's Season of the Witch (Kooper - Still's Super Session version, of course). When I look out my window, Many sights to see. And when I look in my window, So many different people to be … Must be the season of the switch. OK, so I switched a word. Sue me. Simon F's taken heart in hand, [...]
The Easybeats occupy a unique place in the pantheon of 1960s British rock acts. For starters, they were Australian, except that they really weren't — they met in Sydney alright, and being based in Australia with the talent they had gave them a leg-up over any of the local competition. But lead singer Stievie Wright originally came from England (although he'd been in Australia for some years), and bassist...
