Friday Music Day

FMD — Liz Phair

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Liz Phair was at the Turf Club this past Monday. Since the Turf Club only holds 350 people it sold out immediately and I was bummed I couldn't get tix (or was unwilling to pay $150 for a ticket). By all accounts a great show. This was a short little tour of smaller clubs (her L.A. gig was in a 150 seat bar) and is basically a warm up for a larger tour that will hit First Avenue in September (also immediately sold out). Phair has somewhat kept in the public eye and has done some touring, but for some reason has seemed to spark more interest lately than in the immediate past. Not sure why, but it's welcome.

Any other acts, still around, you'd wish would have a second half career resurgence?

Drop your lists.

26 thoughts on “FMD — Liz Phair”

  1. 1. Pharell Williams “Happy” Girl
    2. Rob Swift “Night Time” The Ablist
    3. Funky Porcini “123,3,4” The Ultimately Empty Million Pounds
        a. Gray Catbird “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
    4. Counting Crows “Anna Begins” August and Everything After
    5. Massive Attack “Karmacoma” Protection

    6. Paul Simon “Under African Skies”* Graceland
    7. Tracey Thorn “Swimming (Visionquest Remix, Ewan Pearson Re-edit)” Night Time EP
    8. Mix Master Mike “Sektor Five” Anti-Theft Device
    9. Baaba Maal “Souka Nayo (Fila Brazilia [sic] Remix)” Souka Nayo (I Will Follow You)
    T. The Wailers “Kinky Reggae (Original Jamaican Recording)” Catch a Fire (Deluxe Edition)

    *Notes:
    6. When I child, I thought this was a reference to St. Joseph in Egypt (which contradicts the "Southern Hemisphere" part).

  2. I see more than one KROQ cassette in that header picture ("K R O Q -- the Rock of the 80's"). It was one of several of my drive-time choices in LA back in the day. Bands like Oingo Boingo were right in its wheelhouse.

    1. I've got a bootleg cassette of an Underworld show broadcast by KROQ back in the mid-1990s, at some outdoor electronic music festival.
      The announcer pronounces the call letters as "Crow-Q". I've always assumed he was being ironic because it wasn't rock music.
      It's normally pronounced "K-Rock", right?

      1. Yep, "K-ROQ" usually. We're now just barely too far inland to get the signal, but when I lived closer that was my station.

      2. They used to pronounce it just like it looks, almost "K-rawque"

        They played a lot of alternate and indy, but weren't afraid to play the death out of hits just like any other station.

  3. The jalapeño had his last day of second grade yesterday, and his child care is closed today. The big music question is really how many times he will play the Imagine Dragons songs "Believer" and "Thunder" in the next 12 hours...

      1. Yeah, there are songs by Maroon 5, Portugal Period the Man, and Alice Merton he could be into as well.

        1. My kids love Alice Merton. We went to the Bottle Rock festival two weekends ago and she was there. Pretty sure that was their favorite part of being there. Well, maybe second place to snacks, but they still liked her a lot, and now get super excited when they hear her on the radio.

          1. All I know is "Roots" is in all four kids' regular rotation (for the radio stations that are their voices).

            1. That's their favorite, too. "Lash Out" is the other one we've started hearing on the radio, and it's also really good. Very much in the same vein as "Roots" without just being the same song redone.

              1. "Lash Out" made our family's summer mix this year. It is exactly what you said.

    2. I know this dilemma well.

      For fun, I looked at my last.fm recently to see which songs I'd listened to most this year.

      1. Mahna Mahna and the Two Snowths - Mahna Mahna
      2. Taylor Swift - Endgame (which he calls "fries and chicken" because of mishearing the words "biiiig reputation", so the song is also called "McDonalds")
      3. Feist - 1234
      4. Raffi - Five Little Frogs
      5. Imagine Dragons - Thunder
      6. The Pointer Sisters - Pinball Number Count (also known as "1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12")
      7. Mat Kearney - Face to Face
      8. Pentatonix - Pentatonix Counts and Sings to Five (a kind of cover of the Pointer Sisters song)
      9. Raffi - Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
      10. Raffi - Baby Beluga
      11. Sesame Street - Sing the Alphabet Song!
      12. Zedd & Maren Morris - The Middle
      13. Bebe Rexha - Meant to Be (feat. Florida Georgia Line) (this one breaks my heart a little)
      14. The New Pornographers - Whiteouts Conidtions
      15. The New Pornographers - High Ticket Attractions

      These are literally ALL Newbish favorites. The highest ranked one that is a "just dad" song is a Kendrick Lamar song at #16.

      1. You can do so much better than Raffi if you really want kids music. In fact, you almost can't do worse.

        2. It's about the only "traditional kids music" that he's ever really let us play.

          He wasn't a big fan of TMBG, which surprised me, given his leanings towards off-kilter stuff and the fact that he's OBSESSED with numbers and letters, and they have entire albums built around those things. Maybe a little too young?

          His newest thing is Homestar Runner. Been watching a lot of Strong Bad emails during breakfast.

      2. That Pointer Sisters one is pretty good.
        I assume you are aware of the DJ Food Remix (As a B-side to a re-issue of Larry Levan's remix of "C is for Cookie").
        (Though it's not a drastic remix... credited as a "re-edit", I see.)
        I also seem to remember a Terre Thaemlitz did a bootleg remix that she distributed (but maybe I have the wrong remixer).
        Also, Venetian Snares destroyed it as the first track here. (Aside: remember when "Drill & Bass" was novel? IMO, "Clicks & Cuts" has aged much better.)

      1. Probably. But I felt that satisfied the "has somewhat kept in the public eye and has done some touring", so I could hope for the "for some reason has seemed to spark more interest".
        Definitely not true for Balloon Guy. Monster Magnet apparently released a new album earlier this year: Mindf***er.

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