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15 Years Ago

Tito — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 20:40:34 +0000

Kurt Cobain found dead 15 years ago today. MTV News reporting archive.

Monica Is Funky Enough

Tito — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:56:22 +0000

Funky Enough, originally uploaded by bigoteetoe.

My first foray into the world of sleeve facing. This one was quick and dirty. I expect better work in the future.

The D.O.C. – It’s Funky Enough [blip.fm]

searching for the perfect beat

Tito — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:00:15 +0000

This bootleg got a lot of rotation in my Mazda when I drove around the greater KC area in the fall of 1998. I especially like the sample work provided by the then newly added DJ Mix Master Mike. The build up/lead into “Time To Get Ill” is a highlight for me, along with my favorite instrumental song “Ricky’s Theme”. What these tracks lack in fidelity, they make up for in awesome. Seems to capture the Beastie Boys concert experience pretty accurately. Now if I could just track down a copy of my long-ago stolen “Rabid” bootleg from the KTS line…

Beastie Boys
Live At Lorely
June 20, 1998

Presumably the iTunes numbers for “Margaritaville” downloads aren’t in yet

Tito — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:01:17 +0000

New York Times: “When Economy Sours, Tootsie Rolls Soothe Souls”

I guess we all need our escapes. Mayday – Rock and Roll Can’t Save Your Life

you don’t say

Tito — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:23:15 +0000

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NP: Harvest Moon

stimulation ideas

Tito — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 23:49:26 +0000

If you got money, then show it and throw at these:

A.L. Kennedy’s Day out in paperback today.
20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers ($13 w/ free shipping). It includes all your favorites. For Real.
$10 super-fantastic cassette tote bag {via – who always has the best leads}

things that make me think of other things

Tito — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 04:19:58 +0000

Comcast – Commercial

The Faint – Agenda Suicide

Why would you like Elvis if you had the real stuff?

David — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:58:05 +0000

Raised on classic rock radio, I never thought much of Van Morrison. Moondance was a pretty decent track, but not worth paying for was how I viewed it.

That all changed when someone gave me Astral Weeks on vinyl. It was akin to hearing Rod Stewart and the Faces do “Stay with Me” as in, wow, this guy used to be amazing!

Of course not amazing enough to want to pay 300 bones to hear him perform the album live this week, but certainly enough to repost this fantastic Talk of the Town piece of his reflections on one of my favorite juke boxes in New York:

When someone grouped Donegan with other practitioners of “pre-Beatles rock and roll,” Morrison pulled up short.

“That’s a cliché,” he said, adjusting his sunglasses. “I don’t think ‘pre-Beatles’ means anything, because there was stuff before them. Over here, you have a different slant. You measure things in terms of the Beatles. We don’t think music started there. Rolling Stone magazine does, because it’s their mythology. The Beatles were peripheral. If you had more knowledge about music, it didn’t really mean anything. To me, it was meaningless.”

(source)

unpaid advert

Tito — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:15:23 +0000

Quick shout out for TagScanner, which I should have downloaded a long time ago. After a quick run through, it appears to meet all my MP3 tagging/file renaming needs — mostly for songs I get from archive.org.

I recommend this batch for starters if you’re looking: Ted Leo & The Pharmacists at Brownies (NYC) July 4, 2002.

Born Again

Tito — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 05:41:05 +0000

Feelin’ nostalgic.

Mercy Rule – Spark MP3

Tell Tomorrow video

Now: Domestica