Green Magnet School–Blood Music

Oh, awesome, someone’s posted Green Magnet School’s “Blood Music” album on the internet! This album is truly epic. It’s sort of like a mix of Sonic Youth, Big Black, Killing Joke, Voivod, Drive Like Jehu, MX-80 Sound, and King Crimson or something, perfect 90’s experimental postpunk noise rock. Good times.
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We Are Hunted: Coolest music site since Last.fm–or coolest music site ever?

Okay, I’ll say it, We Are Hunted is incredible. It scours the web, aggregating info and figuring out the 99 most popular emerging songs. Then there’s a cool interface where you can see images of the bands and play clips of all of the songs. Awesome. Like, I have no idea [...]

Neil Young does New Wave Vocoder Postpunk Circa 1982–Sample and Hold (live, Berlin 1982); Neil Young and Devo–Human Highway

Neil Young–Sample and Hold (live, Berlin 1982)
Awesome! From the album Trans from 1982. Way before the band Trans Am from the 1990s, Neil Young in 1982 busted out the vocoders and made Styx-Roboto-like new wave postpunk music with guitars, drums, bass, and vocoders!!! He was friends with [...]

David Essex–Rock On: Crazy 1970s Minimalistic Psychadelic Funk Rock

David Essex–Rock On
Yo, what’s up with this song–David Essex. It’s crazy good–catchy, minimalistic, funky, psychadelic. It’s like a weird distillation of rock and roll without noticeable guitars or typical rock drums! It’s aggressive and full of rock swagger, with catchy rhyming lyrics almost like a precursor to rap [...]

The Pixies and the Cure vis-a-vis Wire

Wire–the 15th
Could someone remind me what Pixies song (possibly off of Bossanova) sounds much like Wire’s amazingly good song “the 15th”??? Maybe the Bossanova album as a whole…here’s the Pixies song Veloria, which sounds in a similar vein:

Pixies–My Veloria
Also, here is an old song that sounds [...]

David Bowie: Moonage Daydream, I’m Only Dancing, Let’s Dance, Ashes to Ashes

Ah, David Bowie…check out the videos below. Defining moments of the 1970s and 1980s…

David Bowie–Moonage Daydream
Embedding has been disabled on the below videos, so you’ll have to click the lower-right corner of the youtube window in each of the videos to view the videos on youtube.com…

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The Cure’s “Fascination Street” is Based on Kool & The Gang’s “Fresh,” and The Dazz Band’s “Let it Whip” is Based on The Sweet’s “Love is Like Oxygen” (See the videos!)

The Cure’s “Fascination Street” is based on Kool & The Gang’s “Fresh” (video)
Okay, I’ve mentioned these before, that The Cure’s “Fascination Street” is based on Kool & The Gang’s “Fresh” and that The Dazz Band’s “Let it Whip” is based on The Sweet’s “Love is Like Oxygen”, but now you [...]