Astro-Travellin

sometimes i get so frustrated because i love madlib so much,
I'm not even joking...






I also don't know whether it is a good thing that Stones Throw Records
has taken all his shit off the interweb... but I am going to buy all his shit
on vinyl...on ebay.

need inspiration?

Nazi Dolphins

HOLY FUCK

Thee Oh Sees - Help

it's actually fucking rad.

a whole mess of stomping psych garage rock.

all you doubters and haters will shut yo' mouvz when you hear this shit.

you will be won over by John Dwyer's reverbed yelps and the harmonies with the chick.

but more to the point it's just fun and enjoyable music.

definitely one of my faves of two thousand and neinnnnn.

Thee Oh Sees - Help (stolen from ID Reverberations)

Unfair Top of 2009

Ahh shit. now for my top of 2009...

Firstly im'a gonna cheat a bit and mix my list with 7 inch's and albums
and don't hate, i already know thats really unfair...
but thats cause haven't really listened to much 2009 releases this year...
i would summarize this year as a "music history" because i have been
listen to more classic albums and old cult stuff than new stuff. But i have
found some good shit from last year too!!

Here it goes!

10. Sic Alps - Description of the Harbor (noise rock, all good
except first song)



















9. Ty Segall - Lemons (lo-fi surf rock)



8. Smith Westerns s/t (lo-fi, rocknroll)



7. Mazes - Bowie Knives 7inch (fucken solid)



Thee Oh Sees - Help (reverbed rockers)



5. King Tuff - Was Dead (60's fuzz made now)



4. Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin - Pop Song 7" (jzzzz)



Tyvek - s/t (pure sloppy garage rock)



2. Amen Dunes - Dia (great lo-fi folk/psych)



1. Emeralds - Fresh Air 7"

this is great great great ambient music... it's like
doves "gently had sex with my ears"...

Ty Segall - Gloria (live cover)

this was linked to me by a fellow Ty Segall lover... it's of good old singing Gloria which
has been sung by Patti Smith, Van Morrison and apparently (edit) many others!
the video is kick ass! and all thanks too OmiriamO! Ed looks rockin too!

ps. the guy at the beginning who turns around suddenly looking like he wants to
punch someone cracks me up!! in a good way! thanks to RMike for the correction as well!

Cluster - Zukerzeit

Don't worry, i am slowly generating a top 10 of 2009 list, i will post
it shortly...

but before i do, i have landed on some pretty good electronica yesterday!
The bands called Cluster and they were pretty influential in the ambient
and electronic department... Their album Zuckerzeit is said to be a bit
different to their other releases as they have clearly defined melody and
rhythms in most songs. Whatever they do, they do it well because this
album is pretty solid. I've only listened to it once through but i dig it..
and so should you!



Cluster - Zuckerzeit (stolen mediafire)

Best of '09

I'm forcing my opinions on you!
Suck it!

10. Leader Cheetah - The Sunspot Letters

9. Decoder Ring - They Blind The Stars, And The Wild Team

8. The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love

7. Japandroids - Post-Nothing

6. Atlas Sound - Logos

5. HEALTH - Get Colour

4. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm

3. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca



2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest



1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion



Not much thought except for the top 3, so 4-10 will
probably change in the next few weeks.
Especially Atlas Sound when I buy it.

*And a special mention to:
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
for making the most interesting electronica of the year.
Well done.

Yay!

Unauthorized

So back when i was in San Fran on holidays with the good old family,
i bought i few CD's from Amoeba records. One of them was a two disc White Sripes
The Document. I didn't know what it was but it looked interesting, i was taking
a risk though because it did look like some shifty bootleg..

Anyway the guy at the counter in Amoeba laughed at me for buying and so
that was the reason why i hid it in my cd collection until today when i was
reading some interviews and came across this unauthorized documentary
of the couple called Candy Colored Blued. So i decided to open up the shitty
bootleg and see if it had this doco in it... Turns out it did!!! and it has some
really good info on the band when they started and everything...












This is Toe Rag Studies where The White Stripes recorded "Elephant". I already heard
about Toe Rag before, but i got these goodies for you to look at!

check out all the equipment man!! and thats the Liam Watson the recording manager of
the album

Why? Too Many Questions

Last night i went to the WHY? gig at the Annandale Hotel...
I met up with Two guys from my school and some of my sisters friends.
Even though i wasn't a big fan of them i went for the thrill of getting in
again.. All of yesterday i listened to their album Alopecia a bit of
Elephant Eyelash. Luckily they did play a lot of songs from Alopecia

Anyway, so the first support was Kyu (two chicks) singing over keyboards.
Kind of reminded me of the cold mountain soundtrack remix with synthesizers.
thats not a bad thing by the way.. but i only saw a bit of them... then Seekae..




Wow! I mean i heard a bit of them at Newtown fest but last night showed me that
they are a really strong electronic act. I'm proud that they are aussie! The drummer
is tight, i kept wondering how the hell he can play beats to the keyboards. i mean
he was pretty funky but he didn't play funk...You understand?


Then it was Why? To be honest i liked Seekae better but that was because they didn't have
lyrics to the song so no one sang along. Everyone sang along with Why? and it made me
feel left out :(.. But they were pretty good. The singer also reminded me
of a young history teacher at my school...
Weeeeeiiird.. But then a friend said that i looked like the drummer (on the left).
The singer Yoni wasn't that talkative either. At first i though him arrogant.
but then he does look like he has never grabbed a females breast before so he could be a
nervous wreck..
Don't hate! I am most certain that he has had his fair share of the laddeeessh! its just the "nerdy
look" that he's going for.

Why? did the girls in front of me feel it was necessary to fucking talk through Why?'s whole
set.. I mean you'd think they would shut the fuck up in the middle of the songs... They just
were fuckin yapping their traps.. Argh i was so pissed. And they kept flinging their sweaty
hair in my face making me eat like a handful of rank hair... Ughh...

Anywayzz that was last night.. My music teacher's band ROSE OF YORK is playing on the
23rd at the Sandringham.. I am going!! You should too!

Christmas

The Doctor's Christmas Playlist:
(SPOILER: No X-Mas songs, just good ones).

1. Dinosaur Jr. - Forget The Swan
2. Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
3. Japandroids - The Boys Are Leaving Town
4. Yeasayer - Sunrise
5. Beastie Boys - Shadrach
6. Blue Cheer - Summertime Blues

Enjoy :D

Click hither

Merry Christmas...

But now back to the music...

As its the Christmas Season I'm a gonna give you a little compilation
that i found on the interweb of three American Garage Rock acts from
the sixties.

The Sonics
The Galaxies
The Wailers




this is the other sonic...

all these acts are singing christmas carols...pretty sexy.
and also whats sexy is i found out the Galaxies used to play at high school
dances all through the northwest! "How cool is that! now its a bit annoying
cause you have to add artist names and album. but this is were your creativity
can run wild!!! I have to say my favorite track
is "The Village Idiot"... its very politically incorrect to say the least...

Oh and "Christmas Spirit" perfectly explains why the christmas season is bullshit..
thats what the guy from another blog said...kinda true as well



Merry Christmas (mediafire)

A Streetcar Named Desire

I've been trying to switch the blog to a free url. table9mutants.
but right now it aint workin so i am going to stick to this for the time being...
I just watched "A Streetcar named Desire" with Marlon Brando at his finest.

He's pretty spunky. and so is the movie...

Eddy Current Suppression Ring w. Thee Oh Sees

Yeah, thats me at the Annandale with a few schooners in
the stomach surrounded by a packed room full of highly intoxicated
elders


(stolen, http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/gallery/13335/photo/725919/
Thee-Oh-Sees-and-Eddy-Current-Suppression-Ring.htm)


I don't know what got into me last night but whatever it was this
photo is proof that me (and tim) successfully "broke" (through the fence)
into the Annandale hotel last night to see thee
Oh Sees and Eddy Current rock out a awesomely sweaty set of garage rocky tunes...
no joke my ears are still ringing...

So after breaking through the fence of the hotel stumbling into the beer
garden and catching the attention of everyone in the vicinity, we walked
into the pub section of the hotel and after that into the free viewing section
standing next to the speaker (bad idea)

We got sick of killing our ears so we snuck into the venue and watched
the rest of thee ooh sees and all of eddy current. Squished up against
people that look the same age as my parents and helping up the poor
people that fall over in the mosh. Not wearing any shoes the whole time
i was in the mosh pit! i mean i could write a freaking belonging
story on this... and man were the women attractive!.. one more year...

We also asked a guy to
buy us drinks with some money we had... he did it! he's pretty cool!

it was awesome. it was great! you really had to be there.
but it was soooo sooooo much better then playing xbox!



Some chick squeezed my arse as well. that was pretty cool.
i bought thee ooh sees album "Help" signed by the keyboardist who
i had a little chat with at the end.

Overall man, that was a killer night! and you should all check out
the bands they are all amazing!

Feb/Mar 2010

I cannot wait for these two months.

First of all, February is when I shall be going away to Japan,
which will obviously involve a lot of "OMG SHRINEZ!"-ing
and buying Japanese albums like L'Arc~en~Ciel's "Smile" and
Boredoms' "Vision Creation Newsun" and Boris' "Pink" and most
likely a lot of gawking at women from far away.

Then when I get back, Yo La Tengo gig on the 18th. I'm hoping
Hugh is willing to see them again. Otherwise I'll be alone (assuming
Jeremy keeps his promise from the formal). But whatevs, Yo La
Tengo are just ABAP indie which I love and am excited to see regardless.



Next up is March. This will most likely be the highlight month
of my life, jus' sayin'. Let's see what's on the table, shall we?

March 4 - PAVEMENT! The iconic 90s indie rockers who did it
better than anyone else (zing, R.E.M. nahjokez, I <3 R.E.M.).
Pretty much predicting that this will be amazing because they'll
be fresh and ready to roll out the tunes. "Conduit For Sale!", plox.

March 11 - While it's mother's birthday, she doesn't mind if I
ditch it to see DINOSAUR JR.! I literally crapped my pants when
I first heard about this sideshow. I love Dinosaur Jr. a little too
much and seeing J, Lou and Murph will be complete and utter
aural pleasure.

March 15 - Fatty Francis, (Not quite as) Fatty Deal, Pedo Freak
Santiago and Dave Lovering should beat Neil Young as the best gig
I will have seen. Actually, that would be difficult, but I reckon Pixies
can manage. Yeah, Doolittle is the fucking bomb and seeing it live will
be better than listening to it at home, duhz. I cannot wait for some
TAAAAAAAAAAAME!

So I'm having an indie-rockin' good time early next year. The only issue
is paying everyone back for all of this. Sorry, mum's credit rating!

Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall
Pavement - Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era
Dinosaur Jr. - Forget The Swan
Pixies - Manta Ray

Oops

Okay sorry for the lack of posts lately... just been tired.

Okay so, you know all those shitty acoustic ballads that you
write on the late on Saturday night because everyone else
is out partying and you are stuck at home feeling sorry for your
self? Well, you know how your songs are always about angsty
bullshit and how shit your life is and all that shit...

well Jeffrey Lewis is one of those dudes... But he actually records
his "my balls haven't dropped" tunes and puts them on an album.
You dig all that anti folk stuff like Kimya Dawson and all that teenage
stuff on Juno, then you will probably love this...

honestly its really good and the lyrics are quite captivating..



Jeffrey Lewis - The Last Time I Did Acid I Went Insane (stolen mediafire)

Sexually Explicit

seeing as sophistafucks' posts are becoming more and more sexually explicit,

i thought we should follow suit.

so here is the XXX Hardcore Uncut video for Lust For Life by Girls.

it's pretty funny. get ready for hipster tits and dick microphones!

oh yeah, and the song is pretty good too.

Veckatimest

is this the best album of the year?

i think so.

Impossible

I am attempting to finish Final Fantasy X in a week.
Wish me luck. I am a mere 3 hours in.
Tidus, I has a feeling we will become good friends.

Also, the rendered cutscenes on a PS2 impress me,
I cannot wait to see the good cutscenes on Final
Fantasy XIII on Xbox 360. I will probably think it's real.

The Zutons - Harder and Harder

Ballertron 5000

The EP Con and I recorded turned into an album.
I don't really know what to say about it.
Pretty good artwork, no?

I have two uploads,
one ultra high quality
one just normal quality.
I don't know if there is a difference in sound though....

Cyborg Kids - Ballertron 5000 (High Quality)
Cyborg Kids - Ballertron 5000 (Normal Quality)