tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:41:25 +0000http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)Blogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-9171313652517675845Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:11:00 +00002009-12-17T06:13:00.917-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20091. Who Fingered Rock 'n' Roll - Cornershop2. Baby You're A Star - Gidgets Ga Ga3. Turpentine - The Manvils4. This Is Our Perfect Crime - The Von Bondies5. Duke Hat - One Hundred Hurricanes6. Smoke - Lucero7. Where the Hell is Henry - Chuck Prophet8. Hang You From the Heavens - The Dead Weather9. I Know What I Am - Band of Skulls10. The Fixer - Pearl Jam11. Not http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/12/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2009.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-6160011519609467868Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:29:00 +00002009-12-16T14:31:55.176-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20081. Constructive Summer - The Hold Steady2. Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution - The Black Crowes3. 3 Dimes Down - Drive-By Truckers4. Riot in the Foodcourt - Cobra Verde5. Knuckleheads - Izzy Stradlin6. Raise A Holler - Diamond Dogs7. Rest of My Days - Gentlemen Jesse & His Men8. The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem9. Los Angeles - Counting Crows10. No Redemptionhttp://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/12/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2008.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-4118321662449746381Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:26:00 +00002009-12-19T22:40:21.743-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20071. Missing You - The Manvils2. The Lucky Ones - Pride Tiger3. Brianstorm - Arctic Monkeys4. The World Was a Mess But his Hair Was Perfect - The Rakes5. Junior's Song - Izzy Stradlin6. Wake Up - Tim Armstrong7. Dashboard - Modest Mouse8. Stuck Inside a Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again - Cat Power9. Maybe Tonight - Nicole Atkins10. K To Be Lost - Sister http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/12/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2007.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-8932660566457690046Wed, 09 Dec 2009 19:47:00 +00002009-12-09T12:51:15.367-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20061. The View From the Afternoon - Arctic Monkeys2. Wolf Like Me - TV on the Radio3. I Can Get Us Out of Here Tonight - Lucero4. Closest I Ever Been to Memphis - Diamond Dogs5. Tearstained Letters (feat. Joan Jett) - The Heart Attacks6. Bethamphetamine (Pretty Pretty) - Butch Walker and the Let's Go Out Tonites7. Deadwood - Dirty Pretty Things8. Dance Like a Monkeyhttp://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/12/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2006.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-292013309660135346Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:34:00 +00002009-12-19T22:41:25.486-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20051. 4th of July - Shooter Jennings2. Last Night in Town - Lucero3. Joy - Bettye Lavette4. I'm In the Band - The Hellacopters5. I Wanna Holler (But the Town's Too Small) - The Detroit Cobras6. Little Sister - Queens of the Stone Age7. Your Little Hoodrat Friend - The Hold Steady8. Til' The Bleeding Stops - Deadstring Brothers9. Walt Whitman Bridge - Marah10. Celtichttp://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/12/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2005.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-8524173220527347872Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:26:00 +00002009-12-02T10:33:23.647-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20041. King of The Rodeo - Kings of Leon2. Vaccination Scar - The Tragically Hip3. C'mon C'mon - The Von Bondies4. #1 Summer Jam - Butch Walker5. Me and Mia - Ted Leo & the Pharmacists6. But Julian, I'm a Little Bit Older Than You - Courtney Love7. Can't Stand Me Now - The Libertines8. Mr. Brightside - The Killers9. Rebellion (Lies) - The Arcade Fire10. Take Me Out -http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/12/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2004.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-4492335695664314801Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:26:00 +00002009-11-27T10:35:41.070-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20031. Welcome to the Monkey House>We Used to Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols2. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes3. Mexican Wine - Fountains of Wayne4. Good Dancers - The Sleepy Jackson5. Fools on Parade - The Jayhawks6. Sinkhole - Drive-By Truckers7. Joe's Head - Kings of Leon8. That Much Further West - Lucero9. Mahgeeta - My Morning Jacket10. English Girls http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/11/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2003.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-2961939726504703801Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:36:00 +00002009-11-25T20:29:41.239-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20021. Float Away (All Of The Streets Are Lonely) - Marah2. A Day At The Races - Jurassic 53. Two Months Off - Underworld4. Weak Become Heroes - The Streets5. Sacrifice - The Roots6. Cause = Time - Broken Social Scene7. Concrete Sky - Beth Orton8. 7 Months, 39 Days - Hank Williams III9. Sweet Lullabye - Stewboss10. The Golden Age - Beck11. Hard Candy - Counting http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/11/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2002.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-4531176231497234197Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:30:00 +00002009-11-25T19:05:51.791-07:00Decade End Mix: 25 Songs from 20011. What a Drag! - The Kim Band2. Hey Sailor - The Detroit Cobras3. Bullet - Frank Black & The Catholics4. The Other Man - Sloan5. Everything Hits At Once - Spoon6. Know Your Onion! - The Shins7. Lowdown - My Morning Jacket8. Jacksonville Skyline - Whiskeytown9. Good Souls - Starsailor10. Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk - Rufus Wainwright11. I Might Be Wrong - http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/11/decade-end-mix-25-songs-from-2001.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-4031921378279636010Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:34:00 +00002009-11-25T19:05:21.675-07:00So here comes my big Decade End project, trying to fit 25 songs from each year into something reasonably coherent and listenable. The latter quality is not necessarily a guarantee. In the context of music fandom, this is a decidedly “mainstream” kind of mix, but it’s not purposely so. It’s just the songs I happen to like best and also fit well together out of the 76 songs from 2000 I chose to http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/11/decade-end-project-mix-from-2000.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-5750430373335336883Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:58:00 +00002009-10-20T07:17:58.348-06:00This is a must hear for even a casual Stones fan, and for all the bootlegs I have from this band, it's probably the most essential. The background to this set comes from the accompanying nfo file: Necrophilia- How this title was even granted a catalog number - AB4224 - is a mystery. However the never-released album from 1971-1972, the planned follow-up to Hot Rocks was pressed on a few acetates,http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/10/live-in-shadow-see-through-shadow.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-760872249506396290Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:44:00 +00002009-10-02T06:25:23.110-06:00"This..this is one of those groups who are going to keep it going a long, long time, they've got a great sound, the J. Geils Band!" so it is proclaimed by Bill Graham himself to begins this fantastic show from the Fillmore East in 1971. I found a blurb about this particular show from Wolfgang's Vault: "Going onstage after Mountain and before the Allman Brothers was certainly no easy task, but http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/10/it-aint-what-you-do-its-how-you-do-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-6416841807650708784Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:05:00 +00002009-09-16T10:52:05.304-06:00The Quireboys, or the London Quireboys as I first got to know them, were one of my favourites in the early 90s. Between A Bit of What You Fancy and The Black Crowes' Shake Your Moneymaker I scarcely listened to little else circa '90-91. If one were to inspect the photographic evidence of that time period it was black jeans, untucked pin-striped shirt and jacket with the occasional headband. That http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/09/tell-me-son-whats-your-kind-of-thing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-5447747745876575388Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:48:00 +00002009-08-26T08:09:41.869-06:00The first time I ever heard Slade was via their early 80s comeback hit 'Run Runaway' from Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply, which still kills me and is turned up to full volume whenever I hear it. I still haven't heard that album, which I should probably remedy soon. Of course the 80s covers by Quiet Riot were also inescapable. I also like this one story about Slade from Danny Sugarman's http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/08/howyafeelinallright.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-4017642583938650896Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:09:00 +00002009-07-29T18:31:27.310-06:00John Fred & his Playboys tend to be remembered mainly for the hit'Judy in Disguise', one of my favourite singles from the late '60s. Sadly ignorant of his actual albums I went looking and usenet kindly provided, as it usually does. 34:40 of John Fred, their second album, was released in 1967 (iTunes suggests it might more accuractly be titled called 34:20...) the year before he hit big with that http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/07/somethings-gonna-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-256298227034153114Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:56:00 +00002009-07-10T09:32:35.689-06:00Bring Me My Shotgun: The Apartment Demos is an acoustic set of early recordings from the late Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of the Grateful Dead. Recorded in San Francisco in 1966, the quality isn't bad considering the home recording. Blues, gospel and soul were always Pigpen's best contribution to the band, and this is what you get here, just him and his guitar. It's not essential listening to a http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/07/bring-me-my-shotgun.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-6826855766885520762Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:07:00 +00002009-06-17T08:03:44.845-06:00I only heard the Blasters a few years ago and was duly impressed, but to be honest it was Dave Alvin's solo songs heard on a few choice mixes that put me on the search to hear more. Lucky as usual, usenet provides and in this case, doubly so. The debut albums of both brothers, Phil Alvin's Un-Sung Songs from 1986 and Dave Alvin's Romeo's Escape from 1987. Plenty to recommend on both, the straighthttp://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-wish-it-was-saturday-night.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-2504799567492611838Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:18:00 +00002009-10-05T19:00:12.123-06:00Inspired by the recent country-rock discussion on the obner board, this seemed to be a logical choice. The first two solo albums from Don Everly, the self-titled Don Everly from 1970 and Sunset Towers from 1974. I believe this may be currently available as a bundled disc, but the single albums themselves are long deleted. Which is a shame because it's some first-rate country-rock. 'Don't Drink http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/06/brand-new-rock-n-roll.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-5300128911323201030Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:02:00 +00002009-06-07T13:11:58.890-06:00After a full year of nothingness, it's time to get back to it. I figure this is one hobby I want to recommit too. Stuff is about to happen.http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2009/06/return-of-jack.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-5246999470651291524Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:06:00 +00002008-12-11T03:02:15.138-07:00After seemingly a dead serious promise to keep up with this blog, I've clearly let things bog me down to the point where I'm unable to string together a bunch of words and upload some serious records to share. Well, seeing as I'm an unreliable fuck at the best of times, this should be no surprise. But on the upside between April and now, I've accrued a lot of terrible albums to share. This was a http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-gave-you-diamonds-you-give-me-disease.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-64353712458125650Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:40:00 +00002008-12-11T03:02:15.444-07:00At the risk of already becoming redundant and/or predictable, I've come back to post some more about the Forgotten Rebels, but in this case I come bearing actual albums. These are all out of print now, so I don't feel bad. The main impetus for this post was the recent acquisition of This Ain't Hollywood. I snagged it from another blog, which claimed it was a vinyl rip of their 1981 album. Now, ithttp://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2008/04/dolled-up-in-neon-strut-your-wares-down.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-4818219511077859578Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:30:00 +00002008-12-11T03:02:15.739-07:00Of all the urban legends in music, probably my favourite is the one about Merry Clayton. As the story goes, her incredibly incendiary performance of 'Gimme Shelter' during the Let it Bleed sessions induced a miscarriage. The funny thing about urban legends is they always seem particularly unbelievable, Rod Stewart's semen story notwithstanding, but listening to her on that song, frankly, it http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-aint-gonna-worry-my-life-away.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-7472649354121770055Sat, 08 Mar 2008 20:50:00 +00002008-12-11T03:02:15.926-07:00I don't know if these guys really looked like this, but I hope they did. Wrapped in bullets and carrying guns. This was the only picture I could find of the band, so I assume they're all dead. I actually first found a mention of this band on Skynfan's Guide to Rock 'n Roll and while the songs were good, the actual listening experience was terrible because it was an awful rip. However, Usenet http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2008/03/you-cant-get-there-from-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-6665564274207691184Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:02:00 +00002008-12-11T03:02:16.252-07:00Full Disclosure part 1: I really only wanted to hear this band because of 'Mama Told Me (Not to Come), which was featured prominently in the film Boogie Nights. And it took a lot of effort to start exploring this band because I honestly associate it with another, considerably more horrible film, The Big Chill which featured 'Joy to the World'. Anyway, I could never find any proper albums of Threehttp://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2008/03/how-does-your-light-shine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-624457060040549830.post-1343999455221759276Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:42:00 +00002008-12-11T03:02:16.473-07:00So a month goes by without a post. As far as resolutions for the new year go, this one clearly got blown to hell. I promised myself if I started doing this I'd be regular about it, and a goddamn month has gone by. My reader must be terribly disappointed. So to make up for that, a BOZ SCAGGS ALBUM! Obviously a joke, right? Not at all, a super album that should be heard by all. When I think Boz http://kucharkuzma.blogspot.com/2008/03/another-day-another-letter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (DumpJack)0