I can't believe it has been 20 years since Blur released their Leisure album.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EsIe6Og7kc
(3 votes, average: 6.33 out of 10)
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4c9ffs8Huo&feature=fvst
1972
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Next up in the Race to the Bottom™, the 1997 Twins. From Wiki:
The 1997 Minnesota Twins will not be remembered as the strongest team the Twins ever fielded. Manager Tom Kelly's team consisted of a few solid players, but mainly past-their-prime veterans and never-to-be-established prospects. One of the few bright spots was pitcher Brad Radke’s breakout season. The team finished with a 68-94 record, good enough for fourth place in the league’s weakest division.
And to update that for this season
The 2011 Minnesota Twins will not be remembered as the strongest team the Twins ever fielded. Manager Ron Gardenhire's team consisted of a few solid players, but mainly injured veterans and never-to-be-established prospects. One of the few bright spots was Jim Thome's 600th home run. The Twins promptly traded him. The team finished with a 61-101 record, good enough for fifth place in the league’s weakest division.
Time to start reading Baseball America and get a feel for next year's draft, you guys.
Dan Bejar, of New Pornographers fame, is making some of the most enjoyable music out there today in my opinion. There isn't a ton of great materiel out there but I suggest picking up any of his/their albums.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36T-B256ODM
Live at Webster Hall in Toronto, 2011.
(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... Sometimes with late season baseball you struggle for reasons to watch. That will not be the case tonight as there is a pitching matchup for the ages in Bruce Chen against Carl Pavano. It doesn't get any better than this, you guys.
High School weeks comes to an abrupt end.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUk7uV2ua4o&feature=related
At the end of high school I started a summer "love" with a girl heading to NYU. It was one of those, "wait you thought I was good looking all this time? I thought you were a babe the past four years!" things that only comes in the summer after high school. Rather than trying to force it with me in Buffalo and her in New York we ended it before it we ruined out friendship. We would trade e-mails back and forth and on a Tuesday morning in September she sent me an e-mail saying how great things were going and how I should come and see her. A paragraph or so later she said that she heard some loud noises and that something was going on outside. She said she would e-mail me back later. The time stamp was 9:01AM on September 11th, 2001. A few days later she got back to me. She said words can never describe what it was like so I never asked. I figured it was the kind of thing that made you grow up too fast. She transferred the next semester.
Feel free to share your stories from ten years ago in the LTEs.
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... Sure, Frogstomp was a pretty big deal. But man, Silverchair really matured with their second record.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boXJfsuxiEY
Man, I used to say some stupid stuff in High School.
(5 votes, average: 6.40 out of 10)Loading... When Fountains of Wayne released their self titled album I remember hearing "Radiation Vibe" on the New Music show on CFNY. I was in 8th grade and fell in love with the band. Sadly, with it being high school, most people were listening to terrible music like Creed instead. I was in 10th grade when FOW released Utopia Parkway. The album itself wasn't as good as their first effort but man, this tune really spoke to a 16 year old Hitman. 1998 was still the sort of early days of the internet and I e-mailed Fountains of Wayne telling them how much this song ruled and how it should be a number one hit. A couple of days later I got a response telling me how their label released their record the same week as Creed released their album and the Creed disc got all the promotion while their album got no push. I was devestated and vowed to myself to hate Creed forever.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ECUrVVybwQ
It was a pretty easy promise to make to myself.
(7 votes, average: 7.71 out of 10)Loading... jobu e-mailed me recently saying we were about due for a theme week. After tossing around some ideas (shark week, nfl countdown week, and a week of albums that let down as much as the 2011 Twins) Michael Cuddiier helped us out and gave us a theme. With his High School like gossiping to reporters and it being back to school time jobu and I decided to crank tunes we loved while we were in High School. Pardon us if we show our age here.
Anyway, growing up so close to Canada I grew up on Canadian radio. Just like Geddy Lee I was cranking CFNY. What makes Canadian radio great is they have to play something like 2 Canadian bands every hour, or something like that. Because of this I got a steady dose of bands like I Mother Earth, Moist, Treblecharger, and OLP. This matured into Sloan, Broken Social Scene, By Divine right and other excellent Canadian bands. Anyway, here is one of my early most favorite bands, Our Lady Peace.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTruPmUtmuQ&feature=related
Toronto, 1995.
(7 votes, average: 7.29 out of 10)Loading... A little bit of Sweeden for AMR.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrjwqXwyzNU&feature=feedrec
2006.
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