Yeah, This is the Good Shit.

 I'm loading up the queues and it's getting late since I wasted an entire week doing fuck all.

Fascist Love (1982)

 

Lou Miami and the Kozmetics

The A side is a fucking classic, but it's the cover of  Lulu's "To Sir With Love" on the flip that got all the college airplay. Original single came in a plastic bag made to look like a Lord and Taylor one.

Later on that same year. (or maybe before. The timeline is really fuzzy. I was in High School for fuck's sake)

Lou Miami and the Kozmetics (1982)

Look, I'm not trying to tell you what to do with your life, but "Dance With Death" is a really really fucking great song. You might want to check that out.

Oh Yeah, Before I Forget.

 

So while I wasn't as totally productive in some senses this past week, I did accomplish two things.

I drove all the way to Wisconsin to buy another vintage guitar.

A (probably) 1969 Baldwin/Burns Split-Sound "Jazz" guitar that is a perfect match for the Baldwin "Jazz" bass I've had for a long ass time.
Both were stripped and refinished in the 70s to natural wood because that's what people did back then.

It's a shame that Jim Burns was such a failure at the business end of things because these guitars are fucking cool. (I also have a 1972 Hayman 1010 from his next failed guitar venture. It's a beast.)

Anyway, my hands are tired from playing too much.

So without further ado

Let Go of Your Bad Days (2003)

This is the follow up post about the Salteens.

I played the shit out of this when I got it a while back.

You too may do the same.

Prince Was Telling the Truth

 Sometimes it really does snow in fucking April.

At least it does in Minnesota.

Hopefully wherever you are, dear reader, it's full on fucking Spring and you find yourself every day with the particular dilemma where you have to decide in the morning if you're going to dress for the early morning cold and sweat on the way home or if you're going to be chilly now to be appropriately dressed for later.

It's a nice problem to have.

I mean, it was supposed to be Opening Day for baseball around here just last week but it was postponed due to snow.

Short Term Memories (2000)

The Salteens from Vancouver. That's in Canada.

This is the sunny pop you need to bop along to on a pleasant Spring day.

Enjoy the sunshine.

 

Plus an added bonus:

 

Tomorrow (2000)

Here's a contemporary single to go with the full length that has includes a passable cover of Guided by Voices in "Motor Away" for extra credit.
 

The In Between

 So when this posts will be the day I that Robyn Hitchcock comes back to Minneapolis.

I have a ticket and I'm looking forward to it. I've seen the guy probably 30+ times since the middle of the 1980s (around "Fegmania", if I remember correctly)

If I'm lucky, I may have a chance to chat with him a bit again. He's been like this ongoing acquaintance for the last thirty years who has absolutely no memory of ever encountering me before in his life. It's actually kind of funny to imagine and even funnier when I consider that he's probably one of the longest running acquaintances I have in my entire life.

He added a second show as well the next night and although I'm very tempted to go. (He always plays a very different set on consecutive nights in the same place), but another friend's band, Annie & the Bang Bang, is playing as well and I haven't had a chance in too long to see them.
Plus I get to feel like a bon vivant flitting about on sequential nights for the rock and roll.

Anyhoo...

Practical Footwear (1998)

Sodastream

This falls into that nebulous area where it's labelled as an Elongated Player, but there's seven songs and it's a solid half an hour which would qualify as a feature length in another time.

Other than that, I'll just cut and paste the profile from Discogs:

"Sodastream is an Australian duo of Pete Cohen and Karl Smith, who produce songs from lo-fi to melancholic pop. They formed in 1997, ceased the project in 2007, and returned in 2013."

 

Tossing Out Some Random Splits.

 Blah Blah Blah

I'm really starting to wonder if my heart's even in this as much anymore.

I also hope you're all caught up on stuff on here because I deleted another gig going back to 2015 to make space for new things....

Winter's Mist 2 (1995)

A lovely seven inch collection of the indiepop via the Silver Girl label in the middle of the 90s.

It's the very thing you didn't really know you needed today.

You're welcome.

 Third Story comp (2005)

A mere decade later Third Story put out this little seven inch with Emilyn Brodsky, the Vibration, and a personal favorite of mine, Mirah.

You needed this too.

The Oven Awaits.

 

That.

 

 Look Who You're Talking To (2006)

The other one by Human Television and the last thing they released.

Maybe it was the rather condescending review that they got from those pretentious arbiters of hip Pitchfork that caused them to pack it in.

I hope not. I prefer to think they were made of harder stuff and broke up because of artistic differences or somebody fucking somebody else's girlfriend like normal bands.

God, I hope so.

Gotta Be Quick

 I realized as I was heading for the other queue that I'd screwed up my posting calendar which means that I have to throw together another couple of quickies to fill it in until I have time off again.

It's hard being me.

All Songs Written By (2004)

Human Television. Brooklyn. 

Indie Rock with a bit of the old Shoegaze that the old hipsters used to groove to.

Don't break a hip.

I Have More I'll Get Around To

 I have to keep an eye on the time.

Cabbage Rolls in the oven and all.

I'm not trying too hard right now anyway.

(In-ter/a-bang/) (1996)

The band is Pest 5000. About the only concrete thing I could find online off the first couple of google pages was that they were from Montreal, Canada.

I picked this up years ago after I snagged a couple of singles on a whim for a buck apiece and liked them.

They're still deep in the boxes and I've been really unmotivated lately so I just keep digging myself deeper into a hole because I also keep buying new stuff.

Someday. Maybe.

But in the meantime. This.

It stayed on my phone for over a year, if that helps.