I would not wear this but I *think* I appreciate that it exists?

Shout out to the good people at the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company for uploading Bob James' 'Touchdown' to YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoFqXAiJy3PJxtewgZbZ9bSIanlLAEBv8

I appreciate Randy Newman as a songwriter, less so as a vocalist (see also Bob Dylan)

Going to King Richard's Faire dressed as Steely Dan

every so often I poke my head into the r/genx subreddit and eeeeesh the energy is increasingly indistinguishable from circa 2010 boomer facebook 😬

"Remember THIS show?"

"Raise your hand if you had THIS toy"

"Wow remember how great deadly playgrounds were?"

Interspersed with sadposts about physical maladies and friends dying, etc

and yeah I feel *all* of that but come on, there's got to be a way to validate one another that's more than pointing at pictures of Evel Knievel toys and wailing

If I ever meet Deen Ween maybe we can bond over our hatred of this song

https://www.avclub.com/mickey-dean-ween-melchiondo-on-why-he-hates-4-non-blo-1798238547

Also, damn, Merchant's last gig with them was July 1993 and the unplugged album came out that October

I had a vague recollection of a "Natalie Merchant is an asshole" sentiment floating around but as far as I can tell that must have been sad 10,000 Maniacs fans and/or plain old "who does she think she is, going solo" misogyny

I guess it wasn't a surprise internally, she gave everyone a heads-up before the last album and tour

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2025/01/17/when-natalie-merchant-exited-10000-maniacs-it-didnt-kill-the-band/

Imagining a type of guy who is excited to learn there's a band called 10,000 Maniacs but is about to be very disappointed

I also need to look up a list of all the MTV Unplugged albums that were released and start keeping an eye out for them. I don't think I even own a copy of the Nirvana one

wowowow the 10,000 Maniacs unplugged album is great and I'm going to have to do a 10,000 Maniacs (and Natalie Merchant) catalog dive

Their big singles were endemic in the early-mid nineties; all over high school and college campuses and the radio, and I always liked them but I was still a "but I'm not into *that* kind of music" dipshit kid so I didn't delve.

'These Are Days' went to #1 on the Billboard "modern rock' chart in November 1992 and yeah, it was played to death everywhere but it never became one of those never-want-to-hear-it-again tunes for me

Damn, the unplugged concert was recorded almost exactly 33 years ago (April 21, 1993)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N85MTLySO3M

hell yeah library book (and other media) sale

#crateDigging

musicians stop using ai to make promotional graphics challenge 2k26

do literally anything else

The shittiest hand-scribbled sharpie flyer is a million times better than any lazy soulless yellow-tinged slop garbage

Fuck all of the haters

this goes incredibly hard with the riff starting at 4:56 and the drop at 5:24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgAX-IYlQoU

are people mad because it's complex/technically proficient instrumental math rock or are they mad about the goofy costumes and pseudonyms

:making the mistake of reading Angine de Poitrine discourse:

wow people sure hate fun

Man, I miss the hell out of Tower Records

Any attempt to revive the Tower brand is just going to be pure nostalgia pandering, even if they could somehow reanimate Russ Solomon and reassemble the long-time leadership team that made Tower what it was, they'd still have to pivot to the "40% records, 60% funko pops, nerd toys and novelty socks" model which is the only way any record chains have survived

wait what

https://tower.com

(I guess that's been around since 2020 and the current owner of the brand opened some boutiquey not-record store meet and greet space in brooklyn called "Tower Labs")

Chappell Roan has officially gone from the "am vaguely aware of as someone Kids These Days listen to," compartment of my brain to the "I am tired of hearing about this musician because when I do it seems like it's never about their music" compartment of my brain

That thing where every track on the overflow EP is (in one's humble opinion) stronger than some of the ones on the LP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ELysmdoScs