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Just someone who's totally fascinated by the ephemeral nature of the V/A compilation & DJ mix & trying to piece together a history of music through them 🎶💎
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I *think* this performance is from 1993—back when going 'unplugged' was all the rage—but I'm not 100% sure. Former host of this show, Kennedy, is now embarrassingly getting her checks from Fox News too, so fuck her!
April 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I *think* this performance is from 1993—back when going 'unplugged' was all the rage—but I'm not 100% sure. Former host of this show, Kennedy, is now embarrassingly getting her checks from Fox News too, so fuck her!
One-hit wonder Scottish twin brothers The Proclaimers performing their big song, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," live on MTV's Alternative Nation with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a tambourine
April 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
One-hit wonder Scottish twin brothers The Proclaimers performing their big song, "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," live on MTV's Alternative Nation with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a tambourine
Only highlight that I could find a link to is "Guadalajara" by Mariachi Cobre who are a band from Tucson that you can also find performing at Disney's EPCOT Center—a residency they've managed to hold down since the year the park first opened in 1982:
Guadalajara | Mariachi Cobre
YouTube video by Mariachi Cobre
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Only highlight that I could find a link to is "Guadalajara" by Mariachi Cobre who are a band from Tucson that you can also find performing at Disney's EPCOT Center—a residency they've managed to hold down since the year the park first opened in 1982:
Its strongest tracks overall don't represent these cultural mashups, but for things you've likely never heard before, those are what makes this comp uniquely stick out. Released for a good cause to help fight poverty and hunger in the Tucson area too
April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Its strongest tracks overall don't represent these cultural mashups, but for things you've likely never heard before, those are what makes this comp uniquely stick out. Released for a good cause to help fight poverty and hunger in the Tucson area too
& that's what makes for the most intriguing parts of this 2001 benefit showcase of Tucson, Arizona & the surrounding American southwest region more broadly here
April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
& that's what makes for the most intriguing parts of this 2001 benefit showcase of Tucson, Arizona & the surrounding American southwest region more broadly here
One of the most remarkable things about being part of a multi-ethnic community is not just having the opportunity to experience a wide range of different cultures other than your own, but to have those cultures commingle with one another too...
April 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
One of the most remarkable things about being part of a multi-ethnic community is not just having the opportunity to experience a wide range of different cultures other than your own, but to have those cultures commingle with one another too...
Probably should've been used in a trailer for one of those epic racing videogames for N64 or PlayStation where cars fly off ramps and explode on impact and stuff. Peak turn-of-the-millennium absurdity, but it goes
April 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Probably should've been used in a trailer for one of those epic racing videogames for N64 or PlayStation where cars fly off ramps and explode on impact and stuff. Peak turn-of-the-millennium absurdity, but it goes
Samples liberally from Blur's own famous "Song 2," turning an already lovably stupid partier into some buzzing industrial dance-rock ridiculousness, while also lacing itself with a sampled rap lyric too
April 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Samples liberally from Blur's own famous "Song 2," turning an already lovably stupid partier into some buzzing industrial dance-rock ridiculousness, while also lacing itself with a sampled rap lyric too
Standing for "Smack My Dick Up," this commercial UK big beat drunken rave brawler from the late 90s was the result of a one-off supergroup team-up of Dave Seaman, Laurence Elliott-Potter (aka Larry Lush), David Conway, and Paul Oakenfold
April 11, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Standing for "Smack My Dick Up," this commercial UK big beat drunken rave brawler from the late 90s was the result of a one-off supergroup team-up of Dave Seaman, Laurence Elliott-Potter (aka Larry Lush), David Conway, and Paul Oakenfold
Sampled from Ravi Shankar's sitar on The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" off of Rubber Soul
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Sampled from Ravi Shankar's sitar on The Beatles' "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" off of Rubber Soul
The Chemical Brothers closing out their set at Woodstock '99 with the epic, final track off of their terrific 1997 album, Dig Your Own Hole, in which they pitted their hard-charging and crunchy breakbeat style against an eastern psychedelic backdrop
April 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Chemical Brothers closing out their set at Woodstock '99 with the epic, final track off of their terrific 1997 album, Dig Your Own Hole, in which they pitted their hard-charging and crunchy breakbeat style against an eastern psychedelic backdrop
Husker Du - "Erase Today"
Erase Today - Hüsker Dü
YouTube video by Dick Narcowitz
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Husker Du - "Erase Today"
Minutemen - "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Uncensored Version)"
The Minutemen - Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Uncensored Version)
YouTube video by Eric Chambers
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Minutemen - "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love (Uncensored Version)"
Overkill - "Over the Edge"
SST Overkill - Over The Edge
YouTube video by rip2shred
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Overkill - "Over the Edge"
Higlights:
D.C. 3 - "Theme From an Imaginary Western"
D.C. 3 - "Theme From an Imaginary Western"
D.C.3 - Theme From An Imaginary Western
YouTube video by Diego Foschi
www.youtube.com
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Higlights:
D.C. 3 - "Theme From an Imaginary Western"
D.C. 3 - "Theme From an Imaginary Western"
Most of the best offerings are from bands who were either defunct or had left too, which is obviously not a very healthy sign either
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Most of the best offerings are from bands who were either defunct or had left too, which is obviously not a very healthy sign either
Had SST waited a little longer to put this one out, they could've maybe included something from Sonic Youth's EVOL and Bad Brains' I Against I, and thus enhanced this release overall; but instead what we have here is pretty flat
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Had SST waited a little longer to put this one out, they could've maybe included something from Sonic Youth's EVOL and Bad Brains' I Against I, and thus enhanced this release overall; but instead what we have here is pretty flat
There's a welcomed diversification of sound, as hardcore punk was being outgunned by things like metal and college rock, but unfortunately, most of it sounds pretty unremarkably uninspired and disposable
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
There's a welcomed diversification of sound, as hardcore punk was being outgunned by things like metal and college rock, but unfortunately, most of it sounds pretty unremarkably uninspired and disposable
And this whole album's definitely not a total clunker, but there is a certain stench of meandering 80s staleness to it—plenty of bands lacking the same invigorating fizziness that'd made SST the coolest place to be just a few years prior
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And this whole album's definitely not a total clunker, but there is a certain stench of meandering 80s staleness to it—plenty of bands lacking the same invigorating fizziness that'd made SST the coolest place to be just a few years prior
And then in '87, SST completely lost the plot anyway, when they decided to put out a total of *eighty* releases in just that one fucking year alone, which caused a sudden and unwanted oversaturation and an inevitable dilution of the overall quality of their product
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
And then in '87, SST completely lost the plot anyway, when they decided to put out a total of *eighty* releases in just that one fucking year alone, which caused a sudden and unwanted oversaturation and an inevitable dilution of the overall quality of their product
Reinforcements were on the way to try and plug up all these gaping holes in the form of Sonic Youth and Bad Brains, who'd both arrive in '86, and then Dinosaur Jr. the year after too, but there's no sign of either of them on this second installment in SST's Blasting Concept series here
April 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Reinforcements were on the way to try and plug up all these gaping holes in the form of Sonic Youth and Bad Brains, who'd both arrive in '86, and then Dinosaur Jr. the year after too, but there's no sign of either of them on this second installment in SST's Blasting Concept series here