Friday afternoon music

[DaveInDenver]

"Gun Sale At The Church"
The Beat Farmers
Van Go (1986)

Well let's pack up the kids and take a break, get away
Leave the hustle and bustle of living from day to day
And I know that the crime in the city is-a getting worse
So we're going on down to the gun sale at the church

Well my lady's all set to have us a real good time
Baby johnny's got fins but he don't seem to mind
So the family's all ready to pray at the holy perch
That's set up in the middle of the gun sale at the church

Well we'll ask the Lord to forgive us of all our sins
And we'll look at the latest in gold-plated firing pins
Well my two main men are Jesus and old John Birch
So we're going on down to the gun sale at the church

 

[Hulk]

Great song. I saw them in Chicago a few times.

 

[Jacket]

Moonshiner

 

[Hulk]

Great song, but I've always thought that it was kind of silly for a 22 year old to sing about "if whiskey doesn't kill me, I don't know what will."

 

[kurtnkegger]

Partial from Wiki...

"The Moonshiner" is a folk song with disputed origins. It is believed that the song originated in America, then later was made famous in Ireland. Others believe that it was the other way around. The Clancy Brothers stated on their recording that the song is of Irish origin, but again, this is disputed. Delia Murphy was singing it in Ireland from the late 1930s

 

[Jacket]

I've been diggin' the new AWOLNATION album. Hollow Moon is killer (video is kinda silly though)

 

[DaveInDenver]

Great song, but I've always thought that it was kind of silly for a 22 year old to sing about "if whiskey doesn't kill me, I don't know what will."

I don't know when you started seeing Tupelo shows, but those early days at Cicero's and the first shows at Mississippi Nights everyone was really drunk so looking back it might not have been a stretch.

 

[DaveInDenver]

That AWOLNATION isn't bad but word to listeners some lyrics are NSFW.

Similarly, Modest Mouse just released a new record that's pretty decent. But talk about a dull video.

 

[DaveInDenver]

A plug for another band, CaveofswordS. They just released their second record Sigils a month or so ago. The guitarist and the bassist are first cousins of mine.

http://www.caveofswords.com/

 

[Hulk]

A plug for another band, CaveofswordS. They just released their second record Sigils a month or so ago. The guitarist and the bassist are first cousins of mine.

Pretty cool music. Any chance they'll be touring Denver?

 

[DaveInDenver]

Yeah, not sure I would have (or will) gone out of my way to see bands playing their style of music (ambient electronic shoegazer?) but now that I've been exposed it's kind of engaging. At this point I doubt they'll tour this far away from St. Louis but you never know.

 

[Hulk]

Good song, great video.

 

[DanS]

Good song, great video.

Very cool. The video definitely made me smile a bit.

Dan

 

[DaveInDenver]

It worked. I pre-ordered their record. It releases next Tuesday I think. They are kind of late 1960s funk-garage rock, The Standells, Sonics, MC5 or whatever.

 

[DaveInDenver]

Like this:


Or one of Kirsten and my favorite guilty pleasures, the Electric Six. Saw those guys at the Mile High Music Fest once and they had the white leather pants and the whole thing.

 

[Hulk]

Like this:

Those are some rocking tunes.

I pre-ordered the album a few weeks ago. Just got the shipping notice.

 

[DaveInDenver]

Holy Yardbirds, eh?

 

[Crash]

Holy Yardbirds, eh?

I'd have to say that the Yardbirds were more than just a garage band, no matter what iteration.

 

[DaveInDenver]

Of course The Count Five 5 so wanted to be the Yardbirds. But so did a lot of other bands. It's exactly what defined the style, what it would sound like when people jammed in their garages. The Yardbirds were a lot better and innovative musicians.

 

[Crash]

Of course The Count Five 5 so wanted to be the Yardbirds. But so did a lot of other bands. It's exactly what defined the style, what it would sound like when people jammed in their garages. The Yardbirds were a lot better and innovative musicians.

My opinion on the matter is that Giorgio Gomelsky, the Yardbirds' producer after their first album, didn't have a clue how to make a good sounding recording. Their output mostly sounded as if it had been recorded in a bad sounding garage. The original British pressings that I have have, even the monos, sound horrible compared to those of the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the bloody Who. With guitar players like Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck how could the Yardbirds not have been, as you say, better and innovative? They truly did rock! Some of the lousy sound can be blamed on the use of "Electronically Reprocessed Stereo" so prevalent at the time but heavy handed mixing made their great music sound like dreck. Again, just my opinion.