Tag: two tune tuesday

Hey, it’s Halloween week: a grrrl’s got to let her goth out sometimes.

Groovy, no?
Nice to hear the echoes of T.Rex in the Smith Westerns’ track.

Not transvestites — the other TV.

I’ve always thought of these songs as teenage lust flip-sides: hormone-charged, sloppy, full of angst but perfectly direct, too. (Must’ve been on my headphones when I was watching skater boys in high school.)

Sadly, this song is still a little too much the truth for LGBTQ kids of color.

(and here’s another from a couple of years ago which is typically groovy)

Me’Shell Ndegeocello – Leviticus: Faggot, The Sloganeer: Paradise

Old School Hip Hop for today. Does anyone else remember Shell’s Answer Man?

You can listen to Of Montreal’s False Priest until its release next Tuesday.

& here’s an older track, Suffer for Fashion, & some lyrics from it which amuse me:
We just want to emote till we’re dead
I know we suffer for fashion or whatever
We don’t want these days to ever end
We just want to emasculate them forever

Not all punk was serious or angry: here’s The Toy Dolls, who were insane live, a speedfreak’s dream. (The 1st song is dedicated to my NYC friends.)

After James Brown, their tracks have to be the most heavily sampled; some of you, I bet, will know snippets of melody from some other song. I’m regularly disappointed when I hear a Sly Stone riff and it turns out to be some song I’ve never heard and not the original.

“A pretty face / a pretty face / & oh what a gorgeous mind…”