Hope you can follow this....

Matthew Sweet
Live At The Belly Up Club
Solano Beach, CA
June 1, 1997

mp3 @320
10 tracks, 40.9 minutes

1] Come To California
2] Divine Intervention
3] Into Your Drugs
4] Girlfriend
5] Sick Of Yourself
6] Evangeline
7] Over It
8] Where You Get Love
9] Moonage Daydream
10] Do Ya

not sure anymore where this came from.  i probably got it from one of you!

RFC

***NOTE***
This is going to be posted on the And Your Bird Can Swing forum.  Blank Frank runs that place.  He kinda looks like Jimmy Stewart.

If you have troubles, drop me a line.  Or Frank.

The Official Reggie F Cat position on Matthew Sweet:


We like Mr. Sweet.  We would like Mr. Sweet if Girlfriend were the only thing he had done.  It isn't.

By combining close harmonies with classic grunge rock riffs ala Neil Young, Mr. Sweet is seldom unpredictable.  And seldom terrible.

His two collaborations with Susannah Hoffs are also fun listening, a nostalgic homage to great songs of the 60's and 70's.  The covers are pretty straight forward, without much re-invention, and adhere closely to the arrangements and spirit of the originals. Not amazing stuff, but enjoyable.

Plus: karma points for recording a cover of "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?"

I think it's really funny...

...that a New York Representative with the last name of WEINER...


yes, WEINER...

"I don't like the smell of this."

WEINER...


A man named Anthony WEINER...


...is embroiled in a "sexting" scandal for sharing pictures.

Pictures of his "underwear clad," yep, you got it...wiener.

Wiener.

I miss Bill Clinton.

finishing BF's BW Vigotone Project

Brian Wilson

Come Back, Brian

320 kbps

This is the stray BW release from Vigotone that eluded Blank Frank's prior post on AYBCS.

It's really a dog, for completists only.  The sound quality is often brutal, and the best material is actually better represented on Wilson's reissued self-titled 1988 debut.  Maybe I'm off a bit on the overall quality here, but I'd rather have you pleasantly surprised than how I felt when I listened.

And then there's the cover...

But I still want it.

1] Intro
2] Turning Point
3] Heavenly Bodies
4] Black Widow
5] In The Nighttime
6] Love And Mercy [live]
7] Walkin' The Line [demo]
8] Melt Away [live]
9] Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long
10] Little Children
11] One For The Boys
12] Up In The Sky
13] Meet Me In My Dreams Tonight
14] Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel [demo]
15] He Couldn't Get His Poor Old Body To Move
16] Someone To Love
17] Water Builds Up
18] Don't Let Her Know She's An Angel
19] Let's Get Together
20] Smart Girls
21] We Love You
22] Fantasy Is Reality/Belles Of Madness
23] Outro


Men, don't be embarrassed.  Solve your erection problems with new enhanced Tylenol, Boner Formula.  Tylenol: if those major losers in the Pos-T-Vac commercial can get a little, why shouldn't you?

Actual people you could never believe are having sex.

"Well I'll be. That lucky, old, son of a gun..."

Yep, that's passing for subterfuge here.

Brian Wilson
That Lucky Old Sun: The Demos
320 kbps

If you liked Brian's 2008 release TLOS, you'll love this studio demo.  Superb sound quality.   If you didn't care for that album, please try again, I think it has some serious charms.

It's not even a minute long snippet, but I really like that BW pulled the leftover stray, "Can't Wait Too Long," from the Smile era.  Sounds gorgeous.

1] That Lucky Old Sun
2] That Lucky Old Sun 2
3] Morning Beat
4] Room With A View [narrative]
5] Good Kind Of Love
6] Forever She'll Be My Surfer Girl
7] Venice Beach [narrative]
8] Live Let Live
9] Mexican Girl
10] Cinco De Mayo [narrative]
11] California Role
12] Between Pictures [narrative]
13] Oxygen To The Brain
14] Can't Wait Too Long
15] Midnight's Another Day
16] That Lucky Old Sun
17] Goin' Home
18] Southern California

I'm copping out on a full-length review here just so I can post this and move on to my next atrocity.  You can view the Wiki page on the finished product right here.

Let me know what you think?  Did you like this?

"Try me: Hot gay sex!  You'll never look at her...the same way."

Summer: let the sundrench begin!

June 21 is still seventeen days away, but for me, summer officially started today.

I spent several hours working outside today doing lawn work/weeding [no, not a euphemism] and felt for the first time all year, tangible heat.  Not just bright, direct sunlight, but heat.  It was marvelous.

There are certain albums I like to hear when it turns summer.  I played two of them today while working, along with one other.

Though not on my "summer commencement" list, the recently remastered SHM version of Exile On Main St. sounded absolutely stunning.  I stopped and flopped into a chair to soak rays while "Tumbling Dice" played.  Ditto "Sweet Virginia" and "Sweet Black Angel."

The Stones were in such a groove here, the tail end of a great run of four studio albums from Beggars Banquet [1968] to Let It Bleed [1969] to Sticky Fingers [1971]  and ending with Exile in 1972 that were as solid and satisfying as the four-record run of any band you'd care to name.  Seriously.  At their height, they were that good.

Note to whoever released the remastered Exile: lost opportunity.  I'd sure like to have gotten a cleaner sounding version of the track-only "Sweet Black Angel" than the ones I have on several boots.
 
I love hearing Pet Sounds at the onset of summer.  Very "summer-y"  Mono, stereo or session work.  Love 'em all.  Today, mono stood proud, though I honestly prefer the stereo remix: it roars!  More about Brian Wilson later.

If you only own one cd of Billy Joel, grab this one: Songs In The Attic.  I'm planning a full-length review/dl opportunity in a week or so, but a few comments anyway.  Absolutely terrific live album highlighting performances of some of his better "older material," which I think gives you a better sense of the artist than say, Greatest Hits.  Joel himself refers to the album in his liner notes as "a reunion with lovers past."  I like that.

The songs are rich with melody and perfectly produced, highlighting Joel's piano and acoustic guitars, all resting comfortably on a nice, solid, fat, low end.  I really like this one.  As good as live gets.


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Ok, this 20-year-old Spanish kid is supposed to be the savior of my wretched Minnesota Timberwolves.

Ricky Rubio.  Point guard.  Wunderkind.  What's that in Spanish: el Wunderkindo?

Personally, I'm excited to see him play.  Which leads me to this: did anyone reading this actually see him play?  Please tell me.  What did you think?

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Breaking Bad season premiere on the horizon.  [shrugs shoulders: sometime this month]  Great show that I'm afraid has just about run it's course.  But I will tune in to find out.  Victory: advertisers.


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In the next few week(s) or so, I'm planning to make available the following material for a brief time.

I am listing the content in advance.  If you have an issue with it...you know...a DMCA issue.  Please tell me in advance of my posting it and the post will not occur.  The listings are for educational purpose only. If you enjoy the artist, please support them.  Mail them a sandwich.  Or buy their officially released stuff.

I'm going to finish off Blank Frank's series of Brian Wilson Vigotone releases by making available Come Back, Brian.  It's dreadful, really a dog.  Even the best stuff here is better represented on the reissue of his 1988 self-titled solo debut.  But hey, 2TB for under $90, so pretty much everything is in play.

Before Brian released That Lucky Old Sun, a nice complete studio demo of it floated around the innerweb for a few weeks.  I don't see it around much anymore, so I'm going to post it.

I will also post an audio rip of the TLOS live DVD.

I will also post an audio rip of SMiLE live DVD.

The SMiLE live DVD also includes noted Brian Wilson jock-sniffer David Leaf's documentary about Brian and SMiLE.  The DVD is really a great package.  The documentary is great.  The performance kills.  I will be posting the fantastic isolated score from the documentary.  A very nice presentation I think BW nuts will enjoy.

If there is enough interest I have a few other BW items.

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Peter Gabriel's Passion, an album I will review eventually was just reviewed by Wardo on Everybody's Dummy.  Check it out, Wardo does nice work.  I wish I put his level of effort into my blog!

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Congrats again to Blank Frank and his super-duper new And Your Bird Can Swing forum.  It's invite only, but Frank's a good guy, seek him out.


All for now,

Reg