Red Cedar
More apocalypse, less angst
On rotation.
Okay – in lieu of a real blog post, some more musical advice. I’m in a bit of an indie phase at the moment and am currently in love with the following albums:
- Emily Haines and the Soft Skeleton – Knives Don’t Have Your Back
- Decemberists – The Crane Wife
- Yo La Tengo – I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
- The Be Good Tanyas – Hello Love
I’ve also been listening to a lot of the new Muse album Black Holes and Revelations which I’m a little funny about admitting because it’s very epic new-wavey and not the type of music I normally listen to. And in particularly euphoric moments, pretty much anything by Apocalyptica is sneaking through the ipod. Oh yeah, and I also just downloaded one of my favourite albums from the eighties – Big Black, Rich Man’s 8-Track Tape. Does anyone else out there remember what a great album this was? If so, you were probably as fucked up as I was in the late 1980s, but wow am I ever glad to have this back in my collection.
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Betcha I was more fucked up than you in the late 80s! (Oh, what a strange argument from authority that is.) And my old buddy Ike (old buddy like, I’ve known him since I was 17) drums for the BGTs.
Musicians. Feh. (No offence.)
well, as the old saying goes: “if you weren’t fucked up in the late eighties, you weren’t paying attention”!
i always felt “atomizer” was big black’s best album. even during the height of my “drum-machines-are-evil” phase, i always seemed to find that one on my turntable.
i would have to agree with you on atomizer – it is the better record – but that one i have not found a digital copy of yet (i probably do have some wretchedly-burned out cassette version of it somewhere….). i have very strong memories of lying on the floor of the communal house i lived in, varying between that and tom waits on the stereo, drinking myself into a puddle….. (note, i say strong memories – not particularly good ones). oh punk rawk.
Just caught The Decemberists in Portland last week…fantastic show!