"like a bottle of chateauneuf du pape"

"i'm fine like wine when i start to rap"

what's that he's reading? ross mckibbin?

beastie boys - 'body movin'' (green lantern remix, with bits of gangstarr and ludacris, from ny state of mind)

"get my slippers, before i go gung ho"

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i've had my eye on these slippers for a while now. come christmas day, i might be in luck.

ghostface, predictably, says all that needs to be said about the lust, panic and envy of slippers. rrrrrremixx:

ghostface killah - 'hidden darts' (from hidden darts: special edition)

slang democracy

pavement - 'sebadoh'

the first rule of successful metal is to name a song after yourself.

in an ideal world, this song would appear on your eponymous debut album. i'm thinking, of course, of 'iron maiden' by iron maiden, off of iron maiden.

in cases of extreme largesse, bands even name songs after other bands. talking heads wrote 'radiohead' more than a decade before radiohead were even formed. but radiohead are profoundly important like that.

pavement did this several times, paying tribute to the likes of jon spencer and (hey!) polvo, as well as singing the priases of REM, smashing pumpkins, and stone temple pilots. if they don't release them on their super-deluxe-back-catalogue-10th-anniversary-domino-records-reissue-fandango-series-of-decade-long-pitchfork-reassessment-reminiscence thing, i might post some more. i, too, pratice, largesse. here's the best one:

pavement - 'sebadoh'

it would be cool if sebadoh were to cover this. yeah, cool.

fiddle interlude

no, not that kind of Test.

 

i’m fiddling around with my blog. don’t mind me.

 

if i like how it turns out, i might write some reviews of gigs that i’ve been to, by the dead kennedys, the gutter twins, built to spill, f***ed up and leonard cohen. would you rather i didn’t?

 

while i’m here, a video. this actually happened in england, which upsets the applecart somewhat:

SEMTEX TV: DELA SOUL, MOS DEF, NAS, WILL I AM, KANYE WEST, DAMON ALBARN ROC THE MIC @ THE G.O.O.D. MUSIC AFTER PARTY, LONDON, UK from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.

 

i like nas’ arran sweater, getting his clancy brothers on.

 

from the sound of it, i might get into trouble if i post an mp3. let’s see:

 

jelly roll morton - ‘dirty, dirty, dirty’

normal service presumed

hello american mp3 bloggers!

so, what are your thoughts on the inspirational candidacy of sanitor obama? do you think he’s got what it takes to win? leave a comment in the comments box, saying who you’re going to vote for.

speaking personally as myself, i haven’t yet adumbrated this forum to speak on senteror obama’s candidacy, with it’s themes of hope and change, or to articulate due hommage to his eloquence.

now, that drought can end.

advisedly, i live in a foreign country and am asleep while the American Nation has elections. but, as someone who has occasionally posted rap tunes, i feel it would go without saying to post an enormous picture.

time was, i’d had enough of all these politicians. like my man dizzee rascal, i thought they were all pretty much the same. do you know what i mean? that was, until i saw this:

the bullingdon club and it’s social wing, the Conservative party front-bench, is the true face-image of HOPE. hope that things will CHANGE. hope that CHANGE will work.

just as dentistor obama’s selection of joe budden as his running mate epitomizes and endorses his status as the hip-hop candidate, so the bullingdon’s decision to name themselves after Oxford’s indiest venue ushers in a vital new period of grass-roots DIY politics. heads are starting to recognise this shit, and rest assured, GMS will be in the vanguard of this particular sweep.

no great popular movement is the same without the endorsement of musicians. here, bonnie tyler has stepped up to the plate and given dap to the bullingdons in the webclip for her street anthem, ’total eclipse of the heart’. if you believe in democracy, you’ll stand up too, and make his thursday a total eclipse of the ballot box.

guacamole

i'm eating guacamole, courtesy of my fair companion, and goddamn it's doing me good.

according to the super furry animals, guacamole is a cure for insomnia, which is not something i'm in a position to confirm or deny. wikipedia is no help, although it does provide an extended digression about peter mandelson, hartlepool and mushy peas, if that's your sort of thing.

listen to the song, at least.

super furry animals - 'guacamole' (b-side to 'if you don't want me to destroy you', 1996)

sunday morning: jerk chicken, drum'n'bass

if any of GMS' readers are holding it down in the dirty south, may i recommend hudson's caribbean and good food restaurant, st mary's street, southampton? their jerk chicken runs the show.

i wonder if jason pierce had some?

spiritualized - 'sitting on fire' (live, boston, 2007; original on songs in a & e)

bobbies on the beat

favourite types of police:

1. natural pol-lice
2. murder po-lice
3. bad cops

and in pop:

1. dream police
2. karma police
3. jazz police

john vanderslice - 'karma police' (radiohead cover, from okx)

leonard cohen - 'jazz police' (from i'm your man)

cheap trick - 'dream police'

i had a friend who had a friend in jesus

babies know what's up. if i had the choice, i'd be one of those dancing babies, with an intense look of concentration.

what would i be dancing to? damn right:

richard & linda thompson - 'mole in a hole' (from hokey pokey)

RIP Cool Hand Luke

the flaming lips - 'plastic jesus' (from transmissions from the satellite heart)

the best thing GMS saw at this year's ATP festival was hud. think on, indie rockers.