Bacon Just Got A New Best Friend…..Fudge!

Here are some MP3s for you all to try out til I write up a proper entry. I’ve got a few different topics that I’d like to write about this week, but I’m still thinking about things before I write them. I’ll definitely write something about Genesis’ The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway sometime this week, and possibly something about the film Human Nature as well.

This MP3 of a Bob Lassiter monologue from 1996 about fake mandated ‘friendliness’ in radio is for the people who’ve been hitting this site looking for information about Lassiter in the past few days. I wrote about Lassiter a few times over the summer, and you can read more about him here.

This MP3 of The Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps”, taken from their 2002 Peel session, is for all of the folks on Barbelith who haven’t heard it yet. I’ve also put up an MP3 of Helium’s “Trixie’s Star” because in the Barbelith thread that I linked, I compared The Yeah Yeah Yeahs to Helium because I think that the guitar player sort of sounds like a more bombastic Mary Timony. “Trixies’ Star” is an excellent bit of 90s indie rock from one of the best albums from that period, The Dirt Of Luck.

Finally, you can hear one of Guided By Voices’ lost classics, “Back To Saturn X”. The song has never been properly released, which is quite absurd considering just how many GBV songs are released every year. A snippet of the tune is included in a mash-up of demo tunes on the Propellor LP, but a proper recorded version has yet to surface. The band was playing the song live frequently for a few months out of 2001; and when I saw the band play at the Warsaw in Brooklyn last year they played a studio recording of the song over the PA before the band hit the stage. Aside from that, the song remains unheard by all but the most obsessive Pollard fanatics. It’s such a shame too, since this is one of the most instantly likable and accessable songs in the Pollard songbook.