Saturday Songs (from GRS)
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010Scissorhead GRS has excellent taste in music, and I always look forward to his response to the Flashback Friday post. His comment and music selection is so inspired I am promoting it to a full post.
Nice selection. And like moeman, I see a theme. So I’ll throw in: Gen X – Dancing with Myself (The guitar is better than the solo Idol version.)
And due in part to the recent cat/dog wars: The Weakerthans – Plea From a Cat Named Virtute. I like the comments from the video:
21Renmus: I don’t get it… why do people want to watch a cat lick its paw for four minutes (other than its to the Weakerthans)?jampline: i think you just answered your own question
And to show I’m not partial in this debate (and since my dog is staring at me): George Clinton – Atomic Dog Get yer funk on.
Flashback Friday
Friday, June 4th, 2010I don’t know if you can calls these flashbacks folks. More like retrieved-from-the-archives. They just ooze summer to me. You’re going to have to bear with the lack of videos, but the songs are great. Through the powers of the intertubes, tonight I heard a version of Up On The Roof that I never knew existed. It’s pretty awesome.
Flashback Friday
Friday, May 21st, 2010GRS is in this evening. I would love to do a whole post dedicated to Zanger Bob, but I think the boss would take away the keys and kick me out for good. Enjoy some more melodic tracks with the shoegazing tendencies.
Flashback Friday
Friday, May 14th, 2010GRS here again folks. Not only are we going back in time, but we’re heading to foreign lands. Enjoy!
Sweden:
Iceland:
Belgium:
Flashback Friday
Friday, May 7th, 2010Hello all. GRS here. The boss is busy with some other work and asked if I would post some tunes for your Friday evening flashback experience. As a rookie at the helm of the way-back machine, we’ll only be going back to the 90′s. I want to make sure can get back once the journey is done!
Wayback Wednesday?
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010A few weeks back, MPS played a video interview with Vince Clark, the synth genius behind Depeche Mode, Yaz (Yazoo in other parts of the world), and Erasure; it seems that the editorial team at Motherboard liked what they saw here, and they contacted me about Devo, and well, the video is above.
You might not know this, but the demographics of this site indicate that most Scissorheads are not here on the west coast, and in fact, once you eliminate the east coast, almost all hits come from the Midwest (“Wow – eleminate the west and east coasts, and the midwest is left? No kidding ‘Grain?!” — I hear you, you know) — so I figure a mini-documentary on Devo might be just the ticket for big page hits.
Okay, that said, I think that all of us can appreciate the Akron boys who wear flower pots. If Whip It isn’t the soundtrack to my generation, I don’t know what is. Except for maybe Turning Japanese, but we’ll save that for an MPS After Dark post.
Flashback Friday – Vince Clark Edition
Friday, March 19th, 2010And here is the reason why I went on an ’80s synth binge: notoriously publicity shy Vince Clark gave an in-depth interview about how he creates music, talks about what makes a hit, and gives a grand tour of all of his studio in Maine:
