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Yesterday was just one missed connection after the next. It was humorously uncanny.

The missed-connection-ness all came to a head when I was suppose to FaceTime with Dan in Cambodia at midnight, but I had fallen asleep moments before AND the wifi on my iPhone was turned off. Man!...

But, today is a whole new day. (And tonight is Taco Bell Night!)

That being said...

Yesterday [livejournal.com profile] audiosalvage hipped me to the Vanity 6 album.

I've been a huge Prince fan for decades, but I somehow never crossed paths with this one. I love it so much! It's like a lost, classic Prince album. Yay! It is funky as heck, and it has occasional appearances by Prince himself.

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My dear, sweet hus-cougar Mark and I love a local band called The Steely Damned. As the name implies, they are a Steely Dan cover band. When Mark found out they were doing a rare show at Humphrey's, he bought tickets immediately.

Fast forward to last night, show's at 6. We figured, "What kind of show starts at 6? We'll get there a little late." On the way from my truck to the show, we heard them playing Reelin' in the Years. Fuck, we're late.

As we walked in, we realized we were very out of place. We both had on t-shirts and Mark was wearing shorts and flip-flops. Everyone else was wearing corporate casual.

Corporate Casuals 1

Lucky us, with admission, we each got one free drink coupon and free food. Featuring Cheese!

Corporate Casuals Cheese!

Mark: Yay!
Mike: I'm so cheating on my diet tonight!

Corporate Casuals 2

The show was fun, we gained weight. Good times.

Amoeba!

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I spent some time yesterday listening to my new Amoeba swag. Did I mention I went to Amoeba in Hollywood this past weekend? :) Turns out I got some great stuff.

Randy Newman Songbook vol 1

Say whatever you want about Randy Newman, but I was way in to him for a time. Ironically, I got in to him around the time this album came out. The publicity for it worked on me. I didn't buy this one at the time, because it's sort of a hits album. He rerecorded some of his biggest hits as just himself and a piano. It sounds great.

Tori Amos - Crucify EP

Just like everyone, I'm over Tori Amos, but this EP is so great. It has a cover of Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, The Rolling Stones' Angie and Led Zeppelin's Thank You.

Plus, it was 50 cents!

Cornelius - Fantasma

I got this for a friend of mine. Cornelius is a Japanese electro-pop-weirdo-rock guy. I recommend checking out all his albums. This one is his debut.

Matt Morris - When Everything Breaks Open

This is the only one I haven't listened to yet. I met Matt Morris at a show at the Belly Up in Solana Beach. He put on a great show and was super nice.

Random Trivia: Apparently, he's Justin Timberlake's best friend.

INXS - Kick

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I've never really cared about INXS, but I have been aware that they are a decent band. My radar really stated picking them up when Beck and his "Record Club" band did a cover of the entire Kick album.
Then, before we went to Amoeba, Jebby was showing me his Amoeba swag, featuring INXS - Kick. I knew I had to have it.

It's great. Super dated at times and super timeless at other times.

M.I.A. - maya

This is my favorite album of 2010. I already own the cd, but at Amoeba, they had a vinyl version with 4 extra songs. Yay!!! I've already ripped them to mp3s.

I love Amoeba so much... sigh...

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Out of nowhere this morning, I thought of a song from the 90's called It's a Shame. I started to sing the chorus and looked it up on YouTube. Oh, that's right, Monie Love!

Remember this one?



I love this song. It's perfect.

Funny how the human brain works. The other day I was out meeting people, and with several of them, I would forget their name within minutes of hearing it. I put on this song and knew the entire first verse.
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I'm a big Prince fan, but I used to be a huge Prince fan. Through high school, I collected his entire catalog. That's a lot of albums. Plus, a bunch of very cool singles. Remember CD singles, omg...

Over time, of course, the quality of his work has diminished. The new album, 20ten, is meh to the max.

Very randomly this morning, I grabbed a Prince cd from my special Prince rack and listened to it in the car.

The Black Album

Quick history. The Black Album came out at the very end of the 90's. It was meant to be the follow up to his groundbreaking, post-Wendy-and-Lisa, Sign O the Times. But as legend has it, shortly before it was released, Prince had a spritual vision and shut down the release of the album. He instead released Lovesexy, which is all about "God is Love, Love is God, Girls and Boys Love God Above" but does retain one song from The Black Album, When 2 R in Love.

So, I was listening to it this morning, and remembering how funky and fun prince is capable of getting. Nothing grand or overly emotional like Purple Rain. Instead, there a song about wanting to have sex with Cindy Crawford (Hey, it was the 90's. Plus, this was back when Uncle Princey still had a sex drive.), a song called le Grind and a weird skit song called Bob George, featuring the lines "Prince? Ain't that a bitch? That skinny motherfucker with the high voice?" and "B-O-B, spell the shit backwards, what'd it say. Same motherfuckin' shit." (Note: Today's Prince doesn't even use curse words anymore.)

The Black Album immediately became the most popular and legendary Prince bootleg, eventually rivaled by Crystal Ball. Both albums, over time, were officially released (sort of) by Warner Brothers during the big Prince/WB publishing rights ordeal.

YOU should check it out some time.

I also listened to this, recently posted by Mr [livejournal.com profile] brunorepublic. Love it!

Oh, and I'm wearing black today.

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On most days at work, I listen to The Howard Stern Show. It's usually about a five hour show, and I can pause it, so it usually lasts me just about my entire work day. Don't get me wrong, I loves me some Howard Stern, but sometimes I feel like it's more of an addiction than a pleasure.

Last week, the show was on hiatus, so I was stuck listening to music. I listened to some great stuff. It felt so good for my soul. I wonder if I should cut back on Howie for a while.

Here's what I listened to:

M.I.A. - Maya

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Before this album came out, I could tell by the marketing for it, that it was going to be interesting. If I recall correctly, [livejournal.com profile] jpinsd posted a video for the first single, Born Free. It's a very wild video where Gingers are rounded up to be executed.

The album itself is indeed very interesting. It begins with a paranoid chant that connects your iPhone to Google to "The Government". I read an interview about the album. The producers freely admitted that M.I.A. has no discernible talent, and the album is all about production. I have no problem with this. The production is spot on. Maya is album-of-the-summer for me.

Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You

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[livejournal.com profile] cpratt gave me this one. I have one other Max Tundra album, and the two are very different from each other. Like most great albums, Parallax takes a few listens to get in to. It begins with a very dissonant chord progression and continues its weirdness throughout the album. But, under the surface, it's actually poppy and fun. There is one song where he talks about meeting girls through various social media sites. One is Friendster. Friendster?

The other Max Tundra album I have, Some Friend You Turned Out to Be, sounds like Tortoise's later albums... except it's good.

In the Heights - Original Cast Recording

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I saw this play a few weeks ago. I had seen a song from it performed at the Tony's this year, and I was very afraid. Broadway San Diego presents a lot of great plays, but they consistently present their share of stinkers as well.

It won me over quickly. In the Heights is basically a poor-man's Rent, minus AIDS and minus gay. What makes it unique is seamless inclusion of rap in most of the songs. I know what you're thinking, but the rapping works!

There are a few songs, like Blackout and When Your Home, that really move me. I got misty-eyed while listening to the cast sing about fireworks lighting up the night sky the other day. (Did I mention I'm a complete musical-fag?)

ceo - White Magic

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This album, came out of nowhere for me... well, technically, Sweden. I was playing White Magic for some friends, and they came to the concussion that ceo sounds like Pet Shop Boys. I'm fine with that. If you are super in to 80's music, I'm sorry to hear that. But if you want to hear some new stuff that kind of sounds like your old stuff, you might consider checking this one out.

Rocky Horror Picture Show

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This album haunts me. If I start thinking about it, I can't get these songs out of my head for days. The latest song stuck in my head is Sword of Damocles. "It ain't no crime!"

NOTE: I typed all of this while listening to Howard Stern. Oh well…
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Day 30. Your favorite song at this time last year

I always thought the Black Eyed Peas were lame. And, you know, when you get right down to it. They are.

However, there is an album that came out last year called The E.N.D. I just could not get enough of it last summer!

It really is a fun, dance-y album. The thing about it is it's very consistent without being boring. I would put it in and listen all the way through, then start it up once it ended. I was that in to it. I really liked what Will I Am did with the vocals on most tracks. Most of the time, they were either pitch-shifted or chopped up or distorted. It made the otherwise boring songs fun.

Mark and I had the pleasure of going to Street Scene last year. It was awesome because no one went, so it was really uncrowded. I think the producers (one of them being Tim Mays, the owner of The Casbah) lost a lot of money on it.

Towards the end of the night, Black Eyed Peas came on. They were kind of boring, but I did enjoy ending my summer hearing my summer jams played live.

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Day 29. A song from your childhood

Growing up, my brother, sister and I went to a tiny, little private school. I think I've already mentioned that, but what I haven't mentioned was that every year, we would put on a big, ultra-religious musical. Virtually, the entire school would be in it, but only a few people actually had lines. Most of us were in the chorus.

Looking back, they were so weird! For a few years, we did plays about a bible with arms and legs called Psalty.

He would show up in town, with some kind of wild car (in our plays, it was an ATV with cardboard all over it), and teach the kids about... morals or something. In the sequels, Psalty had a bride bible and children bibles, because everyone eventually gets married and has 2.5 children, right? I can't believe I remember this, but the children bibles were named Melody and Harmony.

Rehearsals were awful. The dress code at the school was slacks and polo shirts, and we would sit outside in the sun for hours. I passed out once from heat stroke. My childhood was frikkin' awesome.

I did enjoy the music sometimes, though.

This clip is relatively new, but it's along the lines of what were up to back then. If you can get through the entire clip, there is something wrong with you, but you must hear the guitar solo around the 2:30 mark. Lightning licks!

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Day 28. A song that makes you feel guilty

I listen to all kinds of music, but I'll be the first to admit that I occasionally choose bands or singers based on their looks. And, like some of you, I'm in to burly dudes.

I've discovered some great music this way, though.

Al Hirt:
He's a trumpet player from the 60's. I have almost his entire catalog. Amazing stuff. Al is known for adding extra notes to all of his songs. He's sort of the Eddie van Halen of trumpet players.

Pattern is Movement:
Super unique progressive-ish rock. It's just 2 guys (In interviews, they have referred to themselves as straight "bears"). Andrew plays keyboards and sings, and Chris rocks the drum kit. Check out "All Together", their breakthrough album.

and finally, Fucked up:
I'll admit. I got in to this band purely out of "Oh hai!" for Damian, the singer. I lucked out, because they actually are an amazing band. But still, fawning over the singer? Guilty!

I saw Fucked Up at the Casbah about a year ago. It was the scariest show I've ever seen there. Maximum mosh pit action. Not my style at all. But at the end of the show, I told Damian how great they were, and he gave me a big hug. (swoon)

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