Friday Night Record Club

  The 17 Series: St. Vincent (Nick) Annie Clark is the real deal, an all-around cool art rocker with a voice like an angel and a one-of-a-kind guitar playing style. She has half a dozen solid albums under her belt and a resume that includes time with The Polyphonic Spree and Sufjan Stevens. Of the artists currently putting out music, she may be my favorite. Definitely top 5. 

  Live Set: Side One, Track One Stream the Show Download the files 01 Janes Addiction - Up The Beach 02 Beastie Boys - Sure Shot 03 Ugly Casanova - 2002 – Barnacles 04 Suede - Elephant Man 05 Meat Puppets -Up on the Sun 06 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell 07 Echo and the Bunnymen – Silver 08 Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing 09 Ween - Exactly Where I'm At 10 Todd Rundgren - Blue Orpheus 11 The Smiths - Is It Really So Strange 12 The Replacements - I Will Dare 13 The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now 14 Rage Against The Machine Testify 15 Radiohead - 1995 - Planet Telex 16 Ministry - The Angel 17 Black Sabbath - Neon Knights 18 The Cult - Wild Flower 19 Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show 20 Amy Winehouse – Rehab 21 Blur - 1997 – Beetlebum 22 Guided by Voices - Sleep Over Jack 23 The Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict 24 The Diggers – Circles 25 Devo - Girl U Want 26 The Cars- Let's Go 27 TOOL - The Grudge 28 Girls - 2009 - Lust For Life 29 The Medic Droid - Keeping Up With The Joneses 30 Ride -25 O...

  The 17 Series: Suede (Glen) I would like to state a few songs that I wanted to include beyond the 17 limit, that y'all can explore later.. My Heroine  So young  Barriers Daddy’s speeding  Elephant man We are the Pigs  Crack in the Union Jack  My Dark Star “she will come from India with love in her eyes” and a couple I already played in my past DJ sets (Indian Strings, HiFi) Outside the stunning songwriting and guitar work, Suede's music is soaked in Brit culture, operatic flash  and theatricality and seems to be an homage to Bauhaus, Bowie, mott the hoople and Oscar Wilde. Almost every album has a different theme, in the way that the 'Stones use a rock base and play with styles around that. Suede keeps their base in glam and plays with styles / themes around that anchor. Also, like the 'Stones they switched guitarists early in their career to their further success. Without a death though, lol. And themes of death, car crashes, chaos, fire,...

  The 17 Series: Public Enemy (Nick) Public Enemy is. of course, one of the great rap groups, although I don't really categorize them specifically as rap. I'm not saying to myself. "Gee, I'm in the mood for some rap music! I'm going to throw on some PE" No. They occupy the same zone and vibe in my mind as Jane's Addiction and other hard, aggressive moods. Chuck D and Perry Farrell are not that far apart (in my mind anyway) with the themes in their lyrics. Chuck D (and Perry) are in a group of about 10 or less songwriters and performers that are my inspirational and motivational heroes. Musically, they align with one of my other faves, Norman Cook/Fatboy Slim. The beats and samples that Terminator X weaves in layers and layers give me the same rush of energy and joy. Being the greatest hype man in rap music would certainly be enough - but Flavor Flav is a more than competent MC and leads on 3 tracks here.  I can think of no other band that can pick me up t...