30th of May 2012
 

Heroes and Villains

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Heroes and Villains

Love is Tragic (David Werner)
I Can Get Over It (Chaz Jankel)
Sisters O Sisters (John & Yoko)
One By One (Blues Magoos)
Paper Dolls (Jack Lee)
Heroes and Villains (Pooh Sticks)
Rebel Rebel (Shaun Cassidy)
Love Tap (Barnes & Barnes)
Saturday Night (Emitt Rhodes)
Out in the Streets (Trio)

File Under: Ditch digging; Teenybopping; Estate slaying; from Sierra Madre to Sunland to Inglewood. Spring 2012
13th of May 2012
 
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Silicon Teens - “Just Like Eddie”

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Pocket calculator synth 101


9th of May 2012
 

Eve of Destruction

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EVE OF DESTRUCTION

<Compiled Feb-March 2012>

I Didn’t Understand* (Elliott Smith)
Friends of Mine** (Avengers)
November 18th (Drake)
I Know What I Know (Paul Simon)
Land of Oz*** (Le Cirque)
Tough Girls**** (Cinecyde)
Jimmy Igo (Last Men)
Drowning Butterflies (Cleaners from Venus)
Clouds***** (Cobalt)
Fly Into the Mystery (Real Kids)

* from the 1998 dutch tv sessions
** this track popped in my head one night and i had to dig up my thrashed copy of DIED FOR OUR SINS from high school. scrapped the first fifteen seconds of arbitrary riffage and now it sounds like a fucking hit
*** ‘68 memphis soul-psych from the loins of leon russell
**** detroit’s answer to the buzzcocks
***** second cobalt leak. the prog thickens
4th of May 2012
 

26/33

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26/33

Barbecutie (Sparks)
You’re Breaking My Heart (Nilsson)
Yellow Bird (Shangaans)
Clara (Caetano Veloso)
Dust (Frank Ocean)
Don’t Blame It On Your Wife (Appletree Theatre)
Made My Bed, Gonna Lie In It (Easybeats)
Like the Weather (10,000 Maniacs)
Dance (ESG)
Heaven (Rolling Stones)

29th of April 2012
 

David Werner  - Love is Tragic

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Like a teenage Richard Hell fronting the sickest Bowie tribute act in all of Encino.

19th of April 2012
 
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Billy and the Boys - “Life Size Rubber Doll”

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Dis swingin’ little slab comes courtesy of Dreams Records in Eagle Rock

11th of February 2012
 
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Smiles in Boxes - “Nail”

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This one’s been in my stack of Maybe for a while. Perfect for the scene in the movie when the hero ventures to the subterranean S+M bar, where pale souls languish in chains and Oliver Peoples sunglasses


20th of January 2012
 
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Cobalt - “Harmonic Love”

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Bizarre-o new age prog mellow featuring ex-Steppenwolf bassist Rushton Moreve. From an amazing demo entitled COBALT 1: ASTRAL TRAVELS, presumably distributed around LA by the band in 1979 and subsequently forgotten



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