The Ekpyrotic Universe

Two musical items of note:

1. Gwen Stefani has reunited with No Doubt and they're on tour
   
2. of Montreal, a band I like, has a new song called Teenage Unicorn Fisting
   

Sadly, I doubt the No Doubt tour will be worth seeing.

I need to hear that song. How very strange.

This is what I get for leafing through Rolling Stone.

I really like this band

( Scientists )

Listening to the radio this morning I switched to FNX a few times as NPR was shilling roses for its Valentine's Day fundraiser. I absolutely had to switch when Bob Oakes started coughing and the asshat who runs On Point, Tom Ashbrook, began chortling about how they'd been eating rose petals and Bob had eaten too many too quickly and was how coughing them up. That was incredibly disgusting imagery for me, so I switched stations quickly.

Over on FNX they were advertising their first "Goth Party". Apparently they're having a big party and playing Goth music and hoping everyone dresses for the event. The only reason I remember this is because I was quite amused by their closing statement:

No Sparkle-Vampires will be admitted.

Because I went to my car at lunch and listened to the radio, I can now not get "Radio Clash" out of my head!

Hey, mgrasso, what did you use to post the iPod wars you used to do? head58 said he really liked the way they looked when you did them and I'd like to use a tried and true method.

I've got 19 people ready to play. I'd like to get 1 more. I'm going to give people 'till noon and then I'm going to post the first round.
If I end up with an odd number, the last person selected randomly gets a bye.
Unless there's a better way to do it and someone tells me what it is.

Edit Got it, thanks everyone!

Since comments on my other post are screened, post anything about that post that you want to discuss here. For example:

rps13_180sx said:
Also: was it just me, or did Motion City's newest album suck? No lie, I can't help but feel they're just turning into a plain-old-emo-band. :/

I don't think it sucked, but I don't think it was anywhere near as good as their first two albums. If their next one is similarly dissapointing, I'll likely give up on them.

My brain is currently playing "Opera Singer" by Cake. However, it isn't using the original lyrics. It is substituting the words to the MST3K theme.

Because he used
those special parts
to make his
ro-boooooot friends.

I was thinking there are concerts I really wish I'd seen. Some of them it'd be completely impossible for me to have seen, like the 1939 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert with Benny Goodman. Others are concerts where I saw the equivalent, for example I saw Sonic Youth in the early 90s, so other concerts from that era really don't count. I'm going to list the top 5 concerts I wish I'd seen with an arbitrary date of 1980 as the cutoff. I was young then, but could have been taken to a show by a parent or older relative. I did see Benny Goodman around that age. Sure, it is a bit of a stretch, but 12 is my arbitrary age.

1) Siouxsie & the Banshees around 1980. Is this the reason my arbitrary date is so early? Maybe. I never saw them, but the early stuff is my favorite. Their shows were supposed to be amazing.

2) The Talking Heads before 1986. I never did see them, though I've seen spinoff groups. Again, their early stuff is my favorite.

3) They Might be Giants any time before 1989. I've seen them a TON since then. I've probably seen more shows by them than by any other band, but I'd like to have seen one of their first shows.

4) The Soft Boys around 1980. They broke up in 1980, but they're one of my favorites. Sure, I've seen Robyn Hitchcock frequently, but it isn't the same. Heck, you could append any early Robyn Hitchcock show to this one too. Anything before say 1986.

5) Vagiant... wait, I'm seeing them Friday. Never mind.

5) Mudhoney around 1992. Piece of Cake is a great album.

Sure, there are lots of acts that vie for that last position and I may revisit this at some point, but that's where they stand today.

Should I have only listed bands I'd never seen? Early TMBG and the Soft Boys are very different from what I actually ended up seeing. Maybe the idea would be better with never seen bands only, though.

Anyway, what bands are on your list?

I hate to say it, but I'm really disappointed with the new Weezer album. There's nothing that grabs me about any of the songs and it seems they've changed "their sound" for most of the album. The Pork and Beans song that has a video is an anomaly on this album and even it isn't great. It is good, but not at the level I'd have expected from them.

The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived is amusing in its conceit, but again doesn't really grab me. Most of the lyrics seemed an afterthought, taking a back seat to the idea for the music. In older Weezer songs the lyrics were just as important as other aspects of the songs.

Maybe they should have stayed retired.