Alex Chilton Is My Nerd Boyfriend

• 2009-11-25

  In Defense of Ohio

  osmium:

  From a brooklynvegan comment thread:

  initial:

  Anyone who pays $250 to see U2 is a moron, that band is god awful. I mean if you live in Ohio and havent been exposed to anything else thats one thing, but if you are surrounded by other music there is just no excuse.

  smackdown:

  “I mean if you live in Ohio and havent been exposed to anything else”
  you mean like Rocket from the Tombs, Pere Ubu, Devo, Guided by Voices, Jim Shepard/V3, Breeders, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, Styrenes, Death of Samantha, Electric Eels, Bill Fox, The Mice, Great Plains, New Bomb Turks, Afghan Whigs? Yeah, a shame people in Ohio haven’t been exposed to that…

  Reason you stole my heart: Putting Rocket from the Tombs first.

  See also: Brainiac, The Black Keys, The Waitresses, Ass Ponys, The Cramps (sort of), The Raspberries, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (sort of), The National. And, if that’s not enough, dude: WOXY.

  (Comments like those are exactly why I can’t read BV anymore.)

• 2009-11-24

  Super Furry Animals - Nyth Cacwn

  I tried to teach myself Welsh when Mwng came out. I only ever got as far as Bore da! and diolch, but it’s still my favorite SFA album.

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  "It's remarkable that I can play a gig of Welsh language songs in South America and they understand what I'm singing about, even if they find the music a bit suspect," says Rhys, failing to mention that he performed much of it in a red spaceman's helmet while singing into an orange plastic cup.

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  Todd Rundgren - Love Of The Common Man

  Todd Rundgren and I have 1 friend in common on Facebook.

  (I can’t stop! Seriously! It’s like I’m rollerskating down a hill of power pop and the rubber stoppers on my rollerskates are totally worn down to the metal. I need to throw myself onto the grassy verge of Carol King’s Tapestry, into the hay bales of Grizzly Bear’s Veckatimest. Anything to spare you guys more TR.)

• 2009-11-23

  

  Like this.

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  Segue

  TR’s International Feel = SFA’s Into the Night

  (Because this place is starting to look a bit Mark Chapman-y, and I’d rather post pretty pictures of Wales anyway.)

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  I was not kidding.

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  osmium:

  lowindustrial:

  The first Apple Tablet … from 1979.

  At the time, the Apple II Plus was the latest and greatest desktop computer offered by Apple. Interestingly enough, one of the first computer paint programs ever created ran on the Apple II in conjunction with Apple’s Graphics Tablet. The software was titled Utopia Graphics System and, believe it or not, was developed by musician Tod Rundgren.

  More.

  Rebloggy for Zan.

  I was totally prepared to spare the world any mentions of Todd Rundgren today until I saw this. Does this mean I can post all those Todd Rundgren marionette pictures I have saved as drafts now?

• 2009-11-22

  

  Runday Gren

• 2009-11-21

  Todd Rundgren - Bread

  Who else but Todd Rundgren could have mimes as backup singers? And the acid trail video effect for the guitar solo, of course.