ELLIE POP - s/t (MAINSTREAM 1968)

this is a nice summertime sunshine sixties pop album. every song has like two or three good song parts but sometimes they don't always fit together in a way that makes sense. songs will slow down for no reason or like out of nowhere the song will go into a waltz time. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. it's all pretty good and catchy, though.

LEXO AND THE LEAPERS - ASK THEM (FADING CAPTAIN 1999)

i was afraid of something like this happening. i am a millimeter away from having a gbv fan blog. it's not my fault that robert pollard writes the best rock n roll songs and the catchiest hooks. i'll get back to posting wacky lsd bullshit really soon i promise. there are six songs here that robert pollard could have written in a day and i'm sure the six songs he wrote the day before that were just as great as these.

B.G. - CHOPPER CITY IN THE GHETTO (CASH MONEY 1999)

this album is new orleans thug money raps from b.g. who was the smoothest of the hot boyz. cash money millionaire mannie fresh delivers some of the flyest beats of his entire career with all sorts of laser gun ricochet sound effects and silly synth wiggles over heavy bounce beats.

like everyone from cash money records has five verses on this album and it's awesome. every so often you hear lil wayne laugh or yell in the background and it's all high pitched and it's funny to think about that guy before he got addicted to codeine cough syrup.

the new year's 2010 shred alert rock n roll party was off the chain and a bunch of people got copies of the volume 5 cd. i was going to sell them but i started to give them away because fuck new year's. i also tried to huff axe body spray.

GUIDED BY VOICES - TONICS AND TWISTED CHASERS (ROCKATHON 1996)

this album is almost completely written and performed by robert pollard and tobin sprout who later went on to form airport 5. surprisingly, this album sounds exactly like the two airport 5 albums released in the early 00's. the catchy fake-british power of pollard's vocal melodies is nothing short of astounding. how he manages to hide secret catchy parts inside of minute-long halfsongs is a mystery best left for expert detectives like sherlock holmes or maybe his great-grand niece shirley.

XBXRX - LOVE SONGS FOR THE BLIND (ANAL LOG 1999) / PINK FLOYD - MEDDLE (HARVEST 1971)

hey guys. i'm going on a trip for a few days but here's a serious punk rock party to keep you company.


and also something to cool out to afterwards.



have a good week fellas.

RED - THE MAN WITHOUT THE MACHINE - I SHOULD TELL YA MOMMA ON YOU (STONES THROW 2009)

what a find! a homeless guy smacking his chest and singing like he's on a talkbox about how he's gonna kick in your door just to show you he ain't playin'. there's two remixes (one by CHOPS and one by dam funk) but neither of them really do it for me. i mean, i'm fine with them, but it's only cause the a-side is hot fire to the max.

ERIC'S TRIP - FOREVER AGAIN (SUB POP 1994)

what a good album to celebrate the beginning of autumn (cause it is like a tight familiar sweater that is both comforting and claustrophobic at the same time).

this record is real good for like a slow bike ride or a stoned soul picnic.

ELECTRIC WIZARD - DOPETHRONE (RISE ABOVE 2000)

fuck yeah. this is the heaviest shit. the slowest smoked out loc'ed out coner-doom ever. look at that fucking album cover. satan having a bong hit and he LOVES it. that's exactly what this album sounds like. legalize drugs and murder.

CPUWAR - I AM THE POISON (D-TRASH 1999)

intense teenage trackerpunk angst from british columbia. insane glitchchop drums, feedback squeals and FUCK YOUs all over the place. i could be totally in the wrong here but i'm pretty sure this is the last cpuwar release to feature any input by founding member m61 (a remix of a song by labelmates bastards united). no disrespect meant to j schizoid, but dude's gotta stop signing shitty atr ripoffs and bring the label's sound back to the days when it was two seventeen year olds fucking shit up with computer programs where you gotta use hexidecimal code to make a song and then taking a break to go play some street hockey.

LOS MAC'S - KALEIDOSCOPE MEN (??? 1967)

awesome chilean sixties pop. they've got every psychedelic studio trick ever going on and it's amazing (backwards tapes, fuzztone solos, tremolo, 12 string jangle guitar, violins, horns, a sample of bob dylan singing in the middle of the song, cannons, tambourines, vocal harmonies, heavy echo blasts). definitely in a world all of it's own. it almost sounds like a compilation of 11 awesome sixties pop bands that learned how to speak english by listening to rock n roll records.

ZERFAS - ZERFAS (700 WEST 1973)

holy crud! this site here has more information about this album than i could ever say on a blog, but let me say this : this album is one of the greatest psychedelic pop albums ever released even though it was recorded like five years (which is a long time if you think about it) after the huge psych-rock boom of the late sixties. like half of the songs on this album are in a bummer territory, but it's cool cause there's tons of cool sounds and awesome hooks in each tune. when i get to my five favourite songs of all time (and i will get there just give me some time), one of the songs on this album will be there.

OS BRAZOES - OS BRAZOES (??? 1969)

awesome brazilian samba psych. a whole bunch of great summertime jams. some of the tunes are lazy with mellow vibes and others have good dance grooves.

if anyone knows what label this came out on, let me know. i mean i don't care but at the same time i kind of do. whatever. you know how it is.

DWARR - ANIMALS (1986 BRAND X)

i'm not quite sure what the hell happened here, but this is my guess (from listening to the record and staring at the album artwork) : in the early eighties, a south caroliner named dwayne warr got a hold of some good drugs and asked some guy to play a high school's collection of percussion equipment along to some heavy rock guitar riffs he had already recorded. mr. warr's tales of a cold and bitter world are presented to a cold and bitter world and, surprisingly enough, met with complete and utter ambivalence. dwayne attempts to record a follow-up, only to have his mind shit the bed completely. he becomes a born again xtian and destroys his remaining copies of his first two albums (1985's starting over + this album) in a massive bonfire.


maybe i'm thinking about this too much. maybe i oughta just take the advice given on the bottom of the back cover.

ELLIOTT SMITH - FIGURE 8 (2000 DREAMWORKS)

there are so many gorgeous sounds on this album that it isn't even funny. another unfunny thing is suicide so think twice before you roll the dice. elliott smith was such a talented songwriter, easily on the same level as harry nilsson or christopher cross. beautiful pop songs that belong to a time of their own.

GUIDED BY VOICES - ALIEN LANES (1995 MATADOR)

a perfect album from start to finish. even the "weird" songs are catchy as hell. really awesome hooks and the songs transition into each other so well. one of the best rock n roll albums by one of the best rock n roll bands.

VENOM8888 - DESTROY VENOM8888 (D-TRASH 2001)

evil sounding noise beats from chicago artist vlado ketch. a dirrty mix of tape noise, robot voices and chopped up hot 93.9 beats. venom8888 kept going with the terror raps on the followup, 2002's venom8888 vs humanity (2002, irk media). shortly afterwards, he released a heavy metal album and another, a tribute to slobodan milosevic and his efforts to decimate the albanian race.

SHIZUO - GIVE UP (DHC LIMITED 1998)

very heavy! it's almost like proto-dubstep. lots of crazy filters and retrigger effects. there will probably never be as exciting and confrontational an act on digital hardcore records ever again, even if alec empire gets a clue and stops trying to be the german trent reznor. seriously guy. all we ever needed you to be was the destroyer.