Monday , November 16, 2009
Heavy Rotation: Monorchid, Roxy Music, the Hollies + More
Monorchid, "X Marks the Spot: Something Dull Happened Here"
Spastic-fantastic post-punk madness, Monorchid blazed a brief but beautiful trail, putting out some stuff on Dischord in 1997 and even one record on Touch and Go in 1998 before breaking up weeks later. It's all guitar shrapnel, off-kilter rhythm and barked-out lyrics, but probably way more simultaneously crazy-joyous AND angry-young-dude than many other groups of their ilk. These fellows were intense and their live show rocked. This song features the only lyric I ever quoted in earnest in my life: "Every time I wanna talk to you -- TOO MUCH STATIC!!" (Kat)
New Order, "True Faith"
Just because it popped up on my headphones the other day and made me wish that I could be twelve again so I could hear this for the first time. Was there a more perfect band for the 1980s? (Kat)
Roxy Music, "My Only Love"
Guess what, guys? I've been commissioned by an imaginary record company to assemble a slow-jamz-for-aging-alt-rock-fans compilation that I'm tentatively titling Love Songs After Dark, after some lite-and-easy radio show out of Salt Lake City. It'll be available on four cassettes or four CDs and sold only on TV, and I really want the ads to show a really suave-looking couple drinking Chardonnay on the sofa and then slow-dancing by the fireplace while wearing a tweed blazer with corduroy elbow patches (him) and cashmere sweater, pearls, and feathered bangs (her). Track 1 on the second side of the third cassette will be "My Only Love," which, incidentally, was used really nicely in a bedroom scene between Frances McDormand and Alessandro Nivola in Laurel Canyon. (Liz)
Neil Young, "Unknown Legend"
And this'll be, let's say, track 9 on the first side of the fourth cassette of Love Songs After Dark. I'm really into Harvest Moon this week; it's such a perfect mid-October record. And "Unknown Legend" is featured prominently & gorgeously in Rachel Getting Married - definitely one of my favorite moments in a movie that sort of drove me batty all throughout. Anyway, you should also know that Love Songs After Dark would juxtapose this track with Bruce Springsteen's "One Step Up" as performed by a pre-Pearl-Jam Eddie Vedder and a cheap Casio. I was gonna post that one here too but then I didn't so go download it yerself. (Liz)
The Hollies, "Would You Believe?"
If somebody wrote this song for me, I would not fall in love with him, even if it was Graham Nash, the second most structurally perfect male of the 1960s (trumped only by George Harrison, which barely even counts). After giving it a listen, I would say, "Graham Nash/Dude, you need therapy. I think you are channeling a debilitating inferiority complex into an obviously unhealthy obsession with yours truly. Those strings are really beautiful, though!" (Laura Jane)
Sandy Salisbury, "Goody Goodbye"
This is my favorite bubblegummy pop song of all time. It is incredibly catchy, cloying, annoying, overly-saccharine, stupid, rips off The Beatles, amazing, the best song of all time, lame, loserly, and perfect. This is probably the best time I can think of to apologize to my former roommates for having to listen to this song fifty times a day every day for a year. I'm sorry, guys. (Laura Jane)
Tags: bubblegum, George Harrison, Graham Nash, inferiority complexes, Laurel Canyon, Monorchid, Neil Young, New Order, nostalgia, quoting lyrics, Rachel Getting Married, Roxy Music, Sandy Salisbury, The Hollies
Share | 
| 
| 
|
|
Posted by Kat, Liz and Laura in Heavy Rotation |
Permalink |
Leave a comment |
Comments (1)
+ Contact Us
+ HOME
1 Comments!!
Say something so insightful and witty, it will blow us away. (No pressure.)
Got something to say? We'd love to hear it! Name, email and "type in the weirdo drunken text" thingie are all required to comment; don't worry, we won't email you or anything, we just want to make sure you're not an evil spambot. Keeping in mind the good-times mentality we like to keep going here, we've worked hard to keep NOGOODFORME.COM as fun as possible. We welcome all kinds of comments, but insults/abuse/general bitchery are not tolerated. In other words, we put the smackdown on evil troll posts. If you want to be a hater, please go elsewhere. Now, as Salt 'N Pepa say, "Only the sexy people..."
i LOVE monorchid. good selection as usual!
By melanie on October 17, 2008 10:54 AM