Listen Up: 10-31-12

1. Disco Boogie Song (Live) – Fuzzbox – This song is so good it is sick, a perfect introduction to the great band with a fuzzy lick stolen off a surf guitar track and a call to dance and the best lyric ever written ever ever ever; "and it goes arrrh… and it goes grrrrrh…" I worship it – Grade: A+

2. The Hurt – Cat Stevens – Heavy piano from 60s folkie – Grade: A

3. Some Jingle Jangle Morning – Mary Lou Lord – The guitar rings like a Byrdsy chime! – Grade: A

4. In A Big City – Titus Andronicus – It is like the curtain rises and there is Patrick days after driving back from Boston – Grade: A

5. Momentary – David Bronson – Comes on like a holding pattern before the big guns on the album and then the end blows you away  – Grade: A-

6. The Original Disco Man – James Brown – He wasn't of course, he was the Godfather of soul – Grade: B+

7. Headache – Metz – One of the best punk bands I've heard since Pissed Jeans, the drummer is a thing of beauty – Grade: A

8. Thirty-Three – The Smashing Pumpkins – Billy Corgan is proof that if you hang around long enough, you get cool again – Grade: A

9. Peace And Love – Cat Power – Best song off the newbie? Maybe, thisclose – Grade: A

10. Isis (Live)  – Bob Dylan – "What drives me to you is what drives me insane….?"  This Rolling Thunder version is awesome – Grade: A+

 

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