I spent a lot of my younger years hanging out at the video rental place near my house. One of the guys who worked there had a pretty vast collection of music and he turned me on to a lot of different bands that were really important in forming my tastes. Shonen Knife was one of those bands, so Let's Knife!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u25__HY4XwE
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Loading... I really liked Speedy Ortiz's last album, Major Arcana quite a bit, but it meant a hell of a lot more to me after seeing them last October. This was the first song released off their forthcoming record Foil Deer and I'm pretty sure I'm going to flip over that record if this is any indication.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7NBWQEVSeg
(4 votes, average: 8.25 out of 10)Loading... It's my turn at the controls, and I figure we'll start things off with a cut from one of my favorite records from last year. And to be up front, International Women's Day lost an hour to DST, so expect a focus on female artists this week as I do my part to make up for that. It's still Women's History Month after all!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7YUvHQH8NM
(4 votes, average: 8.25 out of 10)Loading... I haven't followed Kim Gordon very closely, but I'm intrigued by her new book. And there's no question she knows how to rock.
httpv://youtu.be/5cLijVT-j_0
In this 2014 performance, she plays with members of Nirvana at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
(3 votes, average: 5.00 out of 10)Loading... Like Sunday morning.
From the 1978 American Music Awards.
httpv://youtu.be/rQUZj57oljA
(2 votes, average: 7.50 out of 10)Loading... Sir Elton at Prince's Trust Concert, Wembley Stadium, July 1987, with the obligatory star-studded lineup.
Get a little action in.
httpv://youtu.be/Y5kWkPHMG88
(6 votes, average: 7.17 out of 10)Loading... When Mrs. Twayn and I started dating in 1987, I was trying to finish college in St. Cloud and she was working and living at home in Coon Rapids. Every other Friday, and eventually every Friday, she would drive up to see me after she got off of work. It's Friday, I'm (still) in love.
httpv://youtu.be/P3Bg7yDUVnI
(7 votes, average: 8.71 out of 10)Loading... Banned by MTV for 'controversial' lyrics and imagery (back when MTV actually played music), this song is how I imagine things must feel for the generations coming of age after 9/11.
All of the [redacted] time.
httpv://youtu.be/aAD6lJiHBdA
(7 votes, average: 6.86 out of 10)Loading... Is it Thursday?
I could have sworn it was Thursday.
httpv://youtu.be/5n95bGk6BVc
(5 votes, average: 6.40 out of 10)Loading... In June of 1977, just days before moving to Minnesota, I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd play at the old Mile High Stadium, one of the Colorado Sunday concert series gigs from back in the day. The one I attended also had The Marshall Tucker Band, Heart (they played two songs and in the middle of the third their gear went dead, sabotaged by another band's roadie), Atlanta Rhythm Section, The Outlaws, Foreigner, Dickey Betts and Great Southern, and Rusty Weir. My friends and I drove up to Denver the night before and slept in a park with a thousand other kids a few blocks from the stadium, across the street from a police station. The cops were pretty cool about the whole thing. Gates opened at noon and the music started about an hour later. Skynyrd came on as the sun was starting to set and just blew everyone away. That weekend was the crown jewel of my high school party days, and the last time I've seen three of the four friends who went, so it's a fairly treasured memory. Four months later I was trying to figure out my new life in L'Étoile du Nord when a plane crash killed Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie Gaines. So it goes.
httpv://youtu.be/_7p2ogicS1U
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