I'm (not) mad

Hey! I don’t know if you noticed, but I changed the address of this crappy blog.

From now on the URL of this baby is gonna be kmatt45.wordpress.com. Learn it. Love it.

If you’re too lazy to change your reader settings, or if you’ve got the old address saved to your favorites (and if you have then maybe you should get a hobby or something) you will be redirected for a whole year. But the redirect service cost me $12, so don’t expect me to renew it next year. Cheers!

“Just Got Paid” by Rapeman

Yes this is Steve Albini’s band of Merry Pranksters with a lovingly bone-crushing deconstruction of the ZZ Top classic. I caught this tune on a college station while I was driving home from the grocery store and my daughter just could not make heads or tails of it.

P.S: I’ve been dying to post this song for ages. It’s rivaled only by “Kim Gordon’s Panties” for best song on the record (read: the song I like the best). Unfortunately Touch and Go doesn’t sell individual tracks and I don’t feel like spending $10 to download the whole album just to keep you amused.  So you get this lame YouTube link bullshit.

I’m sure you’ll live.

P.P.S: I actually Googled “die” to make sure I used the correct spelling of the past participle and it still doesn’t look right to me. Some words look misspelled even when they’re not.

Hey, remember when I used to write these on an almost weekly basis? Well the last one I wrote was back in September 2010. In my defense I don’t quite have the access to esoteric musical nuggets that I used to (Oh, how I rue the day that I cancelled my eMusic membership!), but it’s also true that I’ve become incredibly lazy about music lately. Aaaaaaanyway…

“Holdin On To Black Metal” by My Morning Jacket

All my imaginary friends ask me, “What is the big fucking deal with this band, man? What do you possibly see in this stoned-out hippie bullshit?” To which I answer: a sinuous bass line that will get stuck in your head for days, a children’s chorus (and really, what song wouldn’t be improved by a children’s chorus), and the cinematically lavish chords of the bridge. There are more brilliant bits in this one song than in the whole Top 40.

“Strange Condition” by Pete Yorn

I got this song stuck in my head recently while I was placidly enjoying a few pints at a local bar. The radio (or is it satellite radio, or do bars subscribe to some secret musical service) was playing “Down By The Water” by the Decemberists, and I sat there swearing up and down that the harmonica melody reminded me of another song. I was so bothered by it that I actually went outside and stood on the sidewalk humming the melody to myself hoping that it would trigger some kind of association. I finally narrowed it down to this Pete Yorn song. If you’re really into coincidences you should compare the drum intros to both songs as well. I’m not saying an alien intelligence is ruling the minds of singer/songwriters, but I am saying that YOU CAN’T BE SO SURE.

“Salsa Pilón” by ¡Cubanismo!

Perhaps influenced by the Dexter soundtrack Lisa and I have declared this to be the summer of  Cuban jazz. Last year was the summer of funk, and we spent a huge chunk of time listening to Parliament and Rick James and it was awesome. The funny thing is that after we decided on Cuban jazz I remembered that I have several CDs of the stuff. The funny thing is that I have no idea why I bought them in the first place.