Everyone With Neon Laces

Citi “Can You Do It On Skates?” – This song asks some very important questions: Can you do it on skates? Will do it with me…on skates? I’ll be honest with you; I’m not sure if I have the kind of grace and balance necessary to pull off something like that. I’d probably just slip up and fall flat on my face. It might be worth the effort to try, though, since this song makes doing it on skates sound like the BEST THING EVER. This is taken from Citi’s first and only release, 1979’s Roller Disco.

Hockey Night “R.E.B.E.L. System” – In a vague way, this song continues today’s roller disco theme, if just for a stray lyric during this tune’s white-guy-rap section. This is a peculiar number – the aforementioned rap part is pretty brief, and is surrounded by a series of silly samples which sound as though the guy was desperately trying to work in every weird children’s record in his DJ crate. The keyboard sounds during the rap section are pretty great, and I really wish that I could just have that bit on its own as an instrumental. I can appreciate this song’s awkward charm, but this may be a bit too cutesy and twee for a lot of you.

Elsewhere: The newest issue of WFMU’s Blast Of Hot Hair online newsletter includes the debut of a new monthly feature – obscure MP3s selected by WFMU staffers. Be sure to check out the selections by Rev. Arturo Skinner and The Chevrolet Singers (yeah, that Chevrolet!), as well as a complete performance of “Rock N’ Roll Dreams’ll Come Through” by Barry Dworkin of The Gas Station Dogs taken from Scharpling & Wurster’s New Hope For The Ape-Eared.

Also: Please note that the new email address is perpetua @ gmail.com, and that I am phasing out the old hotmail account.

And: This week’s issue of the Onion AV Club includes an interview with Jon Wurster about the Best Show On WFMU! There’s not much revealed in the interview that wasn’t already said in the interviews that I did with Jon, Tom, and Andy a while back, but it’s a nice piece, and it’s wonderful to see them get some serious coverage in a widely read publication.