Category Archives: vintage jams

vintage jam (star edition)

Posted on March 27, 2009 | Leave a comment

Primal Scream. Star.

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vintage jam (guilty pleasure edition)

Posted on March 14, 2009 | 10 comments

Like anyone with a soul, I was never too impressed by Tupac Shakur. But this evening I watched a TV show that used his hit “Keep Ya Head Up” as incidental music. I always secretly liked this one telling myself that its success has as much to do with The Five Stairstep’s “O-o-h Child” as it does Tupac’s lyrics. Whatever. It’s good stuff–shame about the quality of the video below but I guess that’s what one expects from a Tupac fan.

And how weird is this?

nine three shit

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vintage jam (ole 184-7 edition)

Posted on February 14, 2009 | 1 comment

Guided By Voices just before they went irrevocably down hill. The first single from their Under the Bushes, Under the Stars LP.

nine six shit

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vintage jam (one hit (and it isn’t this one) wonder edition)

Posted on January 6, 2009 | 4 comments

ashcroft

I think I was only slightly aware of The Verve’s existence before they scored a near top ten hit in the States with Bittersweet Symphony. I dug that song and I bought the album, Urban Hymns, assuming that there would be songs similar to Bittersweet Symphony on it. There weren’t. Instead there were a handful of decent ballads and a handful of shitty mid tempo rock numbers. It was pretty average stuff.

Seeing as how the album sold over one million copies in the United States alone, I doubt I was the only one disappointed by the lack of more bittersweet symphonies on it. I for some reason seem to recall subsequently owning their first LP too. Maybe I thought that there was a Bittersweet Symphony-a-like on that. There wasn’t. If I recall correctly (and I don’t even care if I am correct here or not) that one featured almost jammy mid tempo rockers.

From what I understand, the band put out a reunion LP last summer. I doubt that has the follow up to Bittersweet Symphony that I was looking for and I don’t even really care about Bittersweet Symphony anymore anyway.

There was a diamond in the rough on the otherwise tedious second half of Urban Hymns, the song Lucky Man. This one actually charted in the States and I think that it got some play on MTV. Play it loud. It’s hot stuff.

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Oh, and I should mention that I thought that The Drugs Don’t Work and Sonnet were pretty decent songs as well, and that I think that Ashcroft looks every inch the rock star (see photo above).

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vintage jam (manufactured imposter edition)

Posted on December 22, 2008 | Leave a comment

Acts like Massive Attack and Portishead at one time had a lot to answer for. While they were between LPs, a batch of imitators were ready to stand in for them. This was at a time when the American music industry was trying to convince a mostly uninterested public that “electronica” was the next big thing. That never happened but a few of these trip hop and drum and bass acts made it big-ish for a few months circa 1997. With a terrible name like The Sneaker Pimps, a lack of career longevity should be expected. They made a minor splash though with this song.

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