Open Thread (the bloghost is on the bottle edition)
Being a child of the 80’s, shit like this just happens after a couple drinks:
It sounds really good with tequila.
*** Update ***
Never let you down with the stereo sound:
Rooster:
I just love the Talking Heads, but what is it about this song that just makes it so likable:
And just like Kaiser Soze, he was gone. I have so much yardwork and gardening to do tomorrow, I have no idea what I was thinking staying up this late tonight. I guess it just had to be done.
Off to spoon Lily.
May 28, 2011 1:00 am
Posted in: Assholes, Music, Open Thread
93 Comments
93 Responses
Comrade Mary - May 28, 2011 | 1:04 am · Link
John, when in doubt, blame it on the piano.
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:08 am · Link
love you John, really.
Martin - May 28, 2011 | 1:09 am · Link
Oh, don’t go get me wrong. Cole’s fine people, a good American. But he’s content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57, maybe kick back a cool, Coors 16-ouncer. He’s a good, fine person, Stuart. But he doesn’t know … what the queers are doing to the soil!
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:10 am · Link
@Martin:
oh stop it. he’s doing what he does, and we all benefit.
JenJen - May 28, 2011 | 1:13 am · Link
Apropos of 80’s shit, the other day, for the first time in years I was listening to Joy Division, a band I thought I used to adore, and couldn’t help but think, “Was I completely crocked the first time I heard this, or what?”
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 1:16 am · Link
Try this one on for size.
Best tequila song ever. Sing along.
Yuppers - May 28, 2011 | 1:17 am · Link
Joy Division requires a certain mood.
And I was really happy to hear some Dead Milkmen that wasn’t Punk Rock Girl on KEXP the other day (specifically, it was “At The Moment” from the long out of print Soul Rotation album).
WyldPirate - May 28, 2011 | 1:18 am · Link
That’s not important. Can you dance naked to it with a mop is the number one requirement.
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:18 am · Link
@kdaug:
oh my god, you are twisted, in a good way.
efgoldman - May 28, 2011 | 1:20 am · Link
Careful, John. You have trouble enough not hurting yourself when you’re sober.
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:21 am · Link
why is everyone yelling at John?
dadanarchist - May 28, 2011 | 1:21 am · Link
How prophetic was their song “Stuart”?
Gonzo - May 28, 2011 | 1:23 am · Link
I would’ve thought Right Wing Pigeons would have been the go-to Balloon Juice / Dead Milkmen song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hez0kgdyUAM
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:29 am · Link
so cold, so late. really.
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 1:34 am · Link
@Little Boots: Monday through Friday at 5:00.
Jewish Steel - May 28, 2011 | 1:34 am · Link
The 80s grooviest bass line finalist:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....&NR=1
Did you know the Campbell brothers are the sons of folkie Ian Campbell?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbaMjAnNqSY
freelancer - May 28, 2011 | 1:35 am · Link
It’d be great if more people in my RSS feed did posts like this. Could you imagine shitfaced, self-indulgent, fun posts from TNC, Steve Benen, or LGM?
Will - May 28, 2011 | 1:37 am · Link
Since I know she’s popular in these parts, I thought I’d share with you folks that I met Elizabeth Warren today. Got a handshake, a hug, and a photo. Plus some embarassing “I admire you so much…!” Didn’t get the nerve up to ask about her Senate intentions. Anyway, she is an extraordinarily friendly person. Also brilliant.
ruemara - May 28, 2011 | 1:37 am · Link
We used to crank the audio up on the Todmann Soundstage of Love back at NYU while Big Lizard in My Backyard played. While no one was filming, of course. Love that album.
@Will:
Oooo, kinda jealous. Congratulations.
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:38 am · Link
@kdaug:
I’ll be there.
Jewish Steel - May 28, 2011 | 1:40 am · Link
@freelancer: John humanizes this corner of the internet in that way.
I can almost imagine bender posts from Krugman.
Steeplejack - May 28, 2011 | 1:42 am · Link
My contribution: General Public, “Tenderness.” Always liked this song.
Bummed by the news of Gil Scott-Heron’s death. I’m out. Back tomorrow.
Suffern ACE - May 28, 2011 | 1:44 am · Link
@Martin: Now that I think of it, no one has ever told me exactly what I was supposed to do to the soil. They did tell me to buy Joy Division, but I only played it a couple of times.
Jewish Steel - May 28, 2011 | 1:45 am · Link
@Steeplejack: That is still an awesome song.
Little Boots - May 28, 2011 | 1:46 am · Link
@Suffern ACE:
well that’s a delicate question. Um,fertilize it.
Billy K - May 28, 2011 | 1:49 am · Link
Dead Milkmen fucking rule, but Beastie Boys are, and always were, worthless.
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 1:50 am · Link
@Jewish Steel: Agreed!
Billy K - May 28, 2011 | 1:51 am · Link
@JenJen:
I don’t see how anyone could hear anything but greatness in their music. I pity you.
Will - May 28, 2011 | 1:52 am · Link
@ruemara:
Thanks!
Zyla - May 28, 2011 | 1:58 am · Link
RIP Layne :(
John Cole - May 28, 2011 | 2:08 am · Link
Blasphemer. I will fucking choke you out with a strap-on.
Listening to Zappa now, though.
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 2:13 am · Link
@John Cole:
Whaaaaaaaaat? Am I missing an inside joke here or has Cole had way too much to drink? Either way, that’s highlarious…
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 2:19 am · Link
Since we seem to be on a bit of an absurdest punk bent tonight. I submit the following. Ah, misspent youth…
FlipYrWhig - May 28, 2011 | 2:20 am · Link
From memory…
“What’re you gonna do at the Shore?”
“Oh, ya know, play some video games, buy some Def Leppard T-shirts.”
“Don’t forget your Motley Crue shirt. Ya know, all proceeds go to get the lead singer out of jail.”
FlipYrWhig - May 28, 2011 | 2:25 am · Link
@Rihilism: Absurdist brought this to mind.
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 2:29 am · Link
@Rihilism:
Is this a joke? Have you not been paying attention?
What part of the Fat White Man+Pretty Feet++Tequila (and yeah, that ++ was intentional) equation did you miscomprehended?
(And for the record, I’m an utter and complete hypocrite, seeing as how I’m stuffing boiled bite-sized chicken/cilantro wontons down my gullet and can’t type worth a shit.)
Whiskey, not tequila, but at least I’ll feel better in the morning.
ETA: Ah-Ha! I CAN still properly unbungle a quote. Now let’s see if I can still properly find a pillow.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal - May 28, 2011 | 2:33 am · Link
@Gonzo:
i have to go with this one for bj’s official dead milk midgetanthem
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 2:48 am · Link
@FlipYrWhig: That was fun!
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 2:48 am · Link
Real punk rock from the ‘80s:
The Big Boys We Got Your Money
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 2:51 am · Link
Naked Raygun Surf Combat
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 2:57 am · Link
And now for the nuke from orbit:
Bangles, with Leonard Nimoy.
You have been warned. I take no prisoners.
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 3:00 am · Link
@kdaug: Well I assumed he might be wasted by now but I wanted to cover all my bases. Never been up this late on a drunk thread so I’ve never heard John say anything like that before. Live and learn…
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 3:05 am · Link
@Rihilism:
That’s OK.
Bangles, with Leonard Fucking Nimoy.
Full stop.
(Although, credit to her, if Spock turned off my radio, I don’t know I’d reach over the seat to turn it back on).
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 3:08 am · Link
@kdaug: Why is Spock sitting in a car with a group of transvestites?
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 3:12 am · Link
Vulcans don’t judge. They’re used to otherworldly life-forms.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal - May 28, 2011 | 3:12 am · Link
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
fuck purity, i am a conscientous objector in the what is real punk vs what isn’t debate…even though i can’t personally believe anyone thinks green day was ever punk, i let it go, and turn up the fugazi
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 3:18 am · Link
@kdaug: ETA: no offense to our local LGBT friends. I meant otherworldly.
Yutsano - May 28, 2011 | 3:19 am · Link
@kdaug: Meh. Half the time I wish I didn’t share a planet with you straight folk. You sure like to muck things up a lot.
Rihilism - May 28, 2011 | 3:20 am · Link
@kdaug: Fuckin’ Vulcans, always so damn non-judgemental.
Whelp, it’s rollin’ after 2 am here which is way past my weirding hour. I’m off. Night everyone…
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 3:31 am · Link
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
It’s not a matter of purity so much as it is that the Dead Milkmen were more of a novelty act than anything else. It’s like being in 1968 and thinking that The Strawberry Alarm Clock is psychedelic when there’s Pink Floyd around, being kinda ignored.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 3:34 am · Link
Angry Samoans Lights Out
Xenos - May 28, 2011 | 3:56 am · Link
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
What category is Green Day? I assumed they were some sort of California Mod, what with all the mid-60s Who harmonies on American Idiot. That is a long way from punk. I started listening to Green Day because my kids loved it when they were toddlers.
Xenos - May 28, 2011 | 3:56 am · Link
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
What category is Green Day? I assumed they were some sort of California Mod, what with all the mid-60s Who harmonies on American Idiot. That is a long way from punk. I started listening to Green Day because my kids loved it when they were toddlers.
Martin - May 28, 2011 | 4:14 am · Link
@Xenos: Green Day would be called pop punk along with Offspring and Blink (I had trouble telling the three apart years ago). Probably drop My Chemical Romance in that category as well.
Amir_Khalid - May 28, 2011 | 4:14 am · Link
In case anybody was wondering about me, I just spent a day in hospital for observation: a bad reax to the antibiotics they gave me a week ago, after my previously reported collision with a motorcycle (couldn’t hold down any food for five days because of the stuff; as you might guess, that can really weaken a diabetic with a bum ticker).
Still resting up at home, with feline overlady Bianca providing me TLC.
@Xenos:
Don’t sweat the question. In the end, categories matter far less than the music.
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 4:23 am · Link
@Amir_Khalid: Wasn’t before, am now.
Take care, friend. I enjoy the perspective from the other side of the globe.
kdaug - May 28, 2011 | 4:26 am · Link
@Amir_Khalid:
Wasn’t before, am now.
Take care, friend. I enjoy the perspective from the other side of the globe.
Martin - May 28, 2011 | 4:27 am · Link
@Amir_Khalid:
And the categories are fairly arbitrary, particularly for bands with longer careers as they tend to float around a fair bit. Personally, I think the most interesting bands are the ones that push at the edges anyway.
Hope you recover well. Getting over a case of shingles myself. This illness shit sucks.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal - May 28, 2011 | 4:34 am · Link
@Xenos:
at the time, i just considered them an alt-pop band. many minigenres had been punkified in some part. it just seems odd that now people are putting them along side bad brains, the misfits,the minutemen etc.
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again):
the dead milk midgets never sought, nor would they accept, if chosen, they would not run, if elected, they would not serve, the office of punk band.
JWL - May 28, 2011 | 4:35 am · Link
“Child of the 80’s”. Sheeit.
You fuckers should kiss the feet of the late ‘60’s and early ‘70’s crowd that gave you breath.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal - May 28, 2011 | 4:37 am · Link
@Amir_Khalid:
take care of yourself, that sounds like a rough week.
J.W. Hamner - May 28, 2011 | 4:45 am · Link
Wow, it’s late/early. Finally watched Kick Ass: Hit Girl 4evah.
As for music videos, if I were hammered, I’d go with Age of Consent.
Yutsano - May 28, 2011 | 4:52 am · Link
@JWL: Feel free to tell us when we should get off your lawn. We most likely won’t listen, but hey.
@Amir_Khalid: Tomodachi wa ki o tsukete kudasai. At least you’re listening to yourself ad hopefully they switched up the cocktail.
Amir_Khalid - May 28, 2011 | 5:09 am · Link
@J.W. Hamner: Kick Ass is a better movie than Ebert gave it credit for. It nails the inherent absurdity of comic-book superheroing without missing the point that comic books are supposed to be, above all else, FUN. (Ebert’s a good man, and his writing on movies is an ongoing education for the loyal reader, but you can’t really expect him or anyone to be hip to everything in popular culture.)
@Yutsano:
My late mother learned some Japanese in school during the Occupation of Singapore in World War II. Alas, she forgot most of it and didn’t pass on what she did remember. But thanx to you, and all BJers, for the kind thoughts this past week.
stuckinred - May 28, 2011 | 5:11 am · Link
sup?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 5:27 am · Link
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal:
Well, they were marketed that way. And therein the problem: They were marketed.
@Xenos:
I’m going to disagree with FPFWT. I thin Green Day, early on, was great melodic punk, harkening back to The Damned and The Clash. I think that at some point they just got bigger than the genre.
stuckinred - May 28, 2011 | 5:34 am · Link
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Still cold up there?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 5:35 am · Link
One before I go to sleep:
Black Flag Forever Time
Loves me some Greg Ginn guitar. Makes me think of Albert Ayler.
Man Utd-FC Barcelona at 2pm EDST. Gotta get some rest before they kick off.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again) - May 28, 2011 | 5:38 am · Link
@stuckinred:
Not cold, really. Lower 60s the last couple of days. We’ve hit 80 a few times already this spring. I’ve gone to and from work in shorts and t-shirt the last few days and been comfy.
Shit-tons of rain, though.
stuckinred - May 28, 2011 | 5:43 am · Link
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): Dry as a bone here until the storm hit yesterday.
jayackroyd - May 28, 2011 | 6:29 am · Link
At Cacapon State Park as part of a week visiting WV’s scenic wonders. Supposed to be in the 90s, which is not MY idea of the end of May.
Will keep peepers peeled for a black and white and dog streaking by.
Yurpean - May 28, 2011 | 7:03 am · Link
Interesting articles on Bradley Manning in today’s Guardian. It sounds like he was pretty mentally unstable (to the extent that they removed the bolt from his rifle while in Iraq because he was thought to be a danger), even before he got to Iraq and the army knew – the way the article reads he was an accident waiting to happen but due to the shortage of recruits the army didn’t discharge him.
Information security also seems to have been a joke. The common computer rooms had access to the classified SIPRNet network, and apparently access passwords were taped to the computers. People would watch videos on the network for entertainment in their downtime.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....ly-fragile
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl.....y-outsider
Steve M. - May 28, 2011 | 7:26 am · Link
I always thought “This Must Be the Place” was written with Al Green in mind. The Heads don’t do it the way Al would, but it sounds as if it was written as an Al Green homage. Try to imagine Al singing it and Al’s band playing it.
JPL - May 28, 2011 | 7:34 am · Link
I’m glad that McCain will be on a Sunday show. I was beginning to think he had vanished in thin air.
copied and pasted from The Page.
Amir_Khalid - May 28, 2011 | 7:41 am · Link
@Yurpean:
It boggles the mind that the US Army kept a mentally unbalanced man they couldn’t trust with a rifle, let alone that they gave him a job in intelligence with access to sensitive communications.
I guess the real story is that Bradley Manning is a canary in the coalmine: an indicator that the US military is broken in a number of ways not immediately obvious to people who look only at big-budget items like fighter planes and combat systems.
JPL - May 28, 2011 | 7:45 am · Link
@Amir_Khalid: What boggles my mind is that his commanding officer is not under investigation.
Linda Featheringill - May 28, 2011 | 7:57 am · Link
Completely OT:
For those who can’t or won’t pay ransom to the NYT, this is a place to get Paul Krugman:
http://www.sltrib.com/
Go to Opinion and you may have to search for Paul Krugman.
[thx to dkos]
zzyzx - May 28, 2011 | 8:27 am · Link
Naive Melody is the 3rd tier jamband cover song of choice. I’ve seen like 5 different bands play it and I love it every time.
gnomedad - May 28, 2011 | 8:56 am · Link
@Rihilism:
beltane - May 28, 2011 | 9:04 am · Link
@JPL: It’s not Sunday morning without John McCain being all over the TV. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz schooling Eric Cantor should be interesting, though.
Villago Delenda Est - May 28, 2011 | 9:29 am · Link
@Yurpean:
If true, this indicates some serious problems.
However, I find it difficult to believe a word of it.
piratedan - May 28, 2011 | 9:36 am · Link
ahhhh yes, caught these guys doing the southern bar circuit when I was in college. On the same bill as the B52’s and the dB’s:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRBFq6CPfp8
khead - May 28, 2011 | 9:56 am · Link
I promise to never make fun of the 60’s and 70’s again.
Ok, well, maybe never is too strong… at least until the last two threads are off the front page.
Ghanima Atreides - May 28, 2011 | 10:16 am · Link
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: Green Day is classed alternative. with a strong protest vibe.
American Idiot closed last month on Broadway, so now it will go to dvd/blu.
Rock opera/jukebox musical.
Remind you of anything?
American Idiot is emo/punk protest, where Hair was hippie/lovechild protest.
Ghanima Atreides - May 28, 2011 | 10:16 am · Link
@Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal: Green Day is classed alternative. with a strong protest vibe.
American Idiot closed last month on Broadway, so now it will go to dvd/blu.
Rock opera/jukebox musical.
Remind you of anything?
American Idiot is emo/punk protest, where Hair was hippie/lovechild protest.
Maude - May 28, 2011 | 10:20 am · Link
I tried to send a contact email at Wiley Cash’s website and ran into captcha fail. I got the letters, but the email wouldn’t send. I wanted to offer congrats.
Ghanima Atreides - May 28, 2011 | 10:24 am · Link
Since this is an openthread….
Have you seen the LoOGs latest offerings?
Beyond Unions: Lets get rid of those badbad baddie bad teachers unions, and btw any other unions dems belong to.
EDK Agonistes: The Convoluted Roots of Glibertarianism
if Sully is on the mock list, why the hell isnt the LoOG?
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal - May 28, 2011 | 11:14 am · Link
@Ghanima Atreides:
needs moar pat boone.
Bill Murray - May 28, 2011 | 11:33 am · Link
@JWL:
You mean by ending up sucking so bad that something had to be done to get music back on the right track.
@piratedan—I figured that was Pylon even before opening it.
One for John this morning Replacements I Bought A Headache http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....re=related
and one for me Zeitgeist (later became The Reivers) on The Cutting Edge http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVlL8hhiM30
DPirate - May 28, 2011 | 1:37 pm · Link
Balloon Juice has begun it’s death spiral of pets and music videos.
THE - May 28, 2011 | 4:45 pm · Link
Awesome video Loom. Fantastic animation.
Lojasmo - May 29, 2011 | 12:12 am · Link
John: “Home” sounds so good because of the weed.
Doo doo doo doo dooee dooee dooee dooo doo dooo.
Serious.
Ghanima Atreides - May 29, 2011 | 2:39 am · Link
and here it comes.
Elias Isqueef goes full frontal christian libertarian.
Alas, it seems he is the LoOG’s only convert to white christian libertarianism.
Is Balloon Juice an uninvadable strategy?