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My favorite records of 2007:
1)Grinderman (Nick Cave, et al)
2) Jam Skate - Mr Quintron
3) Dangerous Game - Mary Weiss
4)I'm Your Man - Harlan T Bobo
5)Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John - Peter Case (Grammy nominee!!)
6)A Year in the Wilderness - John Doe
7)At My Age - Nick Lowe
8)Notes From the Underground - Deadbeat Poets
9)What Is?! - King Khan & the Shrines
10)Sweet Warrior - Richard Thompson
11)Shrunken Heads - Ian Hunter
Best of Re-issues/Box Sets/Previously released material
12)the... MORE
1)Grinderman (Nick Cave, et al)
2) Jam Skate - Mr Quintron
3) Dangerous Game - Mary Weiss
4)I'm Your Man - Harlan T Bobo
5)Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John - Peter Case (Grammy nominee!!)
6)A Year in the Wilderness - John Doe
7)At My Age - Nick Lowe
8)Notes From the Underground - Deadbeat Poets
9)What Is?! - King Khan & the Shrines
10)Sweet Warrior - Richard Thompson
11)Shrunken Heads - Ian Hunter
Best of Re-issues/Box Sets/Previously released material
12)the... MORE
While my 2007 best of the year movie list will appear in the first Maroon of the quarter, I will not be submitting a music list this year. I have admittedly weird tastes, yes, but this year, my weird taste has been validated more in the press than in past years. For instance, my favorite song of the year, hands down, was "No Pussy Blues" by Grinderman, Nick Cave's latest project. This deadpan, 100% irony-free song is about just what is sounds like, one of the oldest rock s... MORE
The Grinderman record has got to be one of the best of the year so far. But, must pale in comparison to their live performances, as demonstrated by this footage from British tv.
Ever hear of Nick Cave? Well, if you haven't, he's one angry aussie. Grinderman is a side project for him and his original band (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds). Grinderman was described as "Foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well old enough to know better" at their initial press release. They play a fusion of blues and garage rock that is deliberately dirty, raw and unprocessed. They're lyrics consist of some of the raunchiest things to come out of a singers mouth, while a... MORE
I Guess he's not getting any! Genius.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO_TjpoHOJc
Saw Grinderman do this on Later last night too early for it to be on Youtube but I found this.
These guys are scary. I love the guitarist's tiny guitar sounding like it's been unleashed from hell.
Listening to Junkyard by the Birthday Party in the 80s as a 16-year-old truly scared me. Glad to see ol' Nick's lost none of his anger!
Exciting news from Anti- Records. Grinderman, consisting of Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey and Jim Sclavunos and described as "foul-mouthed, noisy, hairy, and damn well old enough to know better," will drop their self-titled debut album in North America on April 10, 2007. A sample track, "No Pussy Blues," has been streaming on MySpace for several weeks now. As I recall, and as a re-listen just now confirmed, the song has a simple but hypnotic bass line and a coupl... MORE



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