The Stranglers - Golden Brown
This song is probably the only one in The Stranglers’ canon that sounds like this. Even so, it lends basically anything you’re doing while listening to it a decidedly Wes Anderson-esque flair. The past three weeks, it’s helped to make my whirlwind life seem a little less serious, and more like it was written by Owen Wilson. Also, harpsichord FTW.
The Doors - Wintertime Love
snowy day here in durham, that calls for some wintertime love. my favorite song off this album is Spanish Caravan though.
The Mountain Goats - Snow Owl
recently, i finished reading Master of Reality by John Darnielle, a part of the 33 1/3 books series, where authors write short books about different records (hence the title of the series).
John Darnielle’s book tells the tale of a young troubled teenager name Roger who is sent to live in a mental institution, where he pines away in his journal for just one thing: to listen to his tapes.
the latter part of the book features a long letter that Roger writes to his counselor from the mental institution, essentially picking up where his teenage journal left off.
The Cramps - Don’t Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk
keeping in the vein of yesterday’s posting about the first 7” i ever bought, when i was in high school and just starting to get into music i met a guy named marty. marty was a lot older than me, and had gone to school in athens, ga. he also had one of the most awesome record collections i’ve ever seen. and yes, records i’m using here literally. so marty was really happy to let me borrow a bunch of records, and while my friends were all really digging the cramps’ bad music for bad people, i was much more into psychedelic jungle.
J Church - November
it’s a rainy dreary day in durham, which means it’s a perfect day to post one of my all time favorite rainy day songs. i think this may have been the first real seven inches that i ever bought, not counting stuff like the oak ridge boys’ “elvira” and lionel richie’s “hello” and random crap like that that every kid that had a record player would buy just because you heard it on the radio and thought it was fun..not really sure how “hello” could be considered a fun song…but anyway, go outside, punch the sky.
