FAIL Out Boy

Fuck Fall Out Boy. Srsly, fuck them. Fall Out Boy, when yr old(er) and fucken burnt out and fucked up and shit, I hope you google yourselves and somehow find this. Remember, get fucked. Get fucked, alot. And I don't mean "get laid". That would be a blessing, not a curse. I mean GO AND GET FUCKED YOU ASSHOLES.

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What, you may ask, the hell are you on about, drinks-after-worker? Ok, let's do this in bullet-points:

• I love David Bowie. A lot.
• I hate your band.
• I love David Bowie's album Station To Station.
• In the opening, title track on Station To Station there's a lyric which goes It's not the side-effects of the cocaine / I'm thinking that it must be love.
• Fall Out Boy -- your band, whom I hate (above) (I mean, they're so bad it's comical) released an album (or was it an EP? Who fucken cares) in 2004 called My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue. Stupid, stupid name. It gets worse (what, you hadn't guessed?)
• On MHWABTBSTMY there is a song called It's Not A Side Effect Of The Cocaine. I Am Thinking It Must Be Love.

I don't really need to go on, do I?

Here is a "fan video" for the song, which is insipid crap (the song, not the video.) (Although the video is not shit hot either.)

This is much better. It's a (seemingly impromptu) a capella rendition of the section of Station To Station that is in question:

I've heard that if you so desire, you can download a copy of the Fall Out Boy release here: I appreciate comments left! DO NOT STEAL MY LINKS D: \

FAIL Out Boy, if you read this: Fuck You! Also don't forget to GO AND GET FUCKED YOU ASSHOLES.

Ta to Robyn for inspiration.

Tasmanian Devil sympathy

Awwwwwwwwww......

Poor little bastards are under threat of extinction due to a rare and mysterious cancer disease -- Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD). (story)

S.U.V. wheelcover & Tasmanian Devil misanthropy

Ah well, it's gotta be better than the standard Tazzie Devil ones, right?

The first Roxy Music album

Michael Bracewell has written a new book on Roxy Music. It's called Re-make/Re-model, published by Faber & Faber (London 2007) and Roxy's sensational, amazing first album gets the book (and book review) it deserves.

Unused album artwork for Roxy Music (1972)

I'd never seen or heard anything so clearly made for me and my art-school manqué world-view. The cover, with Kari-Ann Muller in classic 1940s' pin-up pastiche, all pink ribbons and silver platforms, was Big Biba Rainbow Room. The contents covered all the bases: the Warholian ones, the art history ones, the Ladbroke Grove, gay-friends-of-Hockney ones. Of course, Bryan Ferry looked fantastic and, despite all the unbearable cleverness, the music went like a train - plangent sax, driving drums - offsetting Brian Eno's synth weirdness. They played at the Royal College of Art that year and then at The Rainbow, a Low Deco kitschfest in itself. This really was Tomorrow Calling.

Check the essay; watch the videos; buy the book. Wowowowowowow

‘Do the Strand’ on The Old Grey Whistle Test

Glasses of happy

You may think that it sux0x being stuck in an office on such a lovely day as this; but let me tell you, you've no cause for disconsolance when you've a pair of Found Peach-Tinted Happy Glasses (TM):

There's no way anything can be wrong in the world with a pair of these wrapped around yer pies. Although I had to add the comedy LOLmouth cos I wasn't looking happy enough.

The Best 12 ANZAC War Stories EVER!

I may just have found the very most awesome book in the history of ever. Ever.

"Take that, cobber!" "Achtung!" "BANZAI!" "Donner Und Blitzen!" "Ye Gods!"

Hoo boy.

40,000 reasons

Cool. This morning at some point I've limped past 40,000 visits, so let's have a song to celebrate:

Orange Goblin - Hand of Doom (6.25 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Yep, it's a cover of the Black Sabbath tune.

Warning: Spoiler

Joy!

My 18-month-long self-renovation art-project -- making myself over in the image of the killer from Twin Peaks -- has almost reached fruition.

Mai new house, you should see mai new house

Ok, I moved house. And now I find myself in Newtown. Which is weird, because I quite literally have not lived more than a spit away from the heart of Wellington City for more than 15 years.

So this is my local:

I gotta be honest and say that I am not 100% sure what is going on with his right eye. Is he winking conspiratorially? (Hey, fellah, come inside and umm we can drink sum beer eh?) Is it a black eye? Has he been rucked in the face?

The Fall - My New House (4.84 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

But anyway that's a mighty fine looking tankard of beer he is brandishing. Makes me thirsty just looking at it.

New Brutalism

It's been an interesting month here at Drinks-After-Work. There hasn't been much blogging goin' on, that's fer sure. I've been on holiday for about a month and there's been no damn time, you know? There's been a hell of a lot going on which I'll cover off in another post, shortly, if I can find a dignified way of doing so. But suffice it to say that I've spent most of that time getting drunk, and the rest of the time sleeping.

Otherwise I've spent a lot of time looking at pictures of Brutalist architecture, inspired in part by Robyn (also see pic here).

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I thought we'd better have a song, so here's one* from Chris Whitley:

Chris Whitley - New Machine (3.80 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

It's off Din of Ecstasy from 1995, and his most-hated album/least well-regarded on Allmusic.com out of about a dozen efforts. For example, here's the Allmusic review:

On his second album, Whitley abandons the atmospheric acoustic blues-rock of his debut for a hard-hitting, grungy guitar attack. Appropriately, the songs are all about losers and hard times -- it's a dark, bleak album, twisting through its songs with a grim determination. The problem is, it doesn't always work. Whitley's lyrics are still rooted in the folk-blues storytelling tradition, while his music follows the rules of contemporary hard rock, complete with start-stop dynamics and thick layers of distortion. However, he can't write riffs that equal the best of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and Soundgarden, nor does he have melodies to rival theirs. His music works best a lyrical level and the musical approach on Din of Ecstasy obscures his lyrics, making the record a muddled affair.

See, aside from the first two sentences which are correct, that's complete and utter bullshit. It's a sensationally, exceedingly-cool record, and at some point I'm going to write about it a bit more.

And why does Allmusic.com have such trouble with awesome albums about being/getting fucked up?


* Anyone get the connection?

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There's also probably gonna be a few minor changes to DAW, too. In my 4th year, at well over 500 posts now, I'm approaching 40,000 reads and I decided to have a wee overhaul, both to the layout and to the content. Some of the changes are immediate -- for example the "tag-cloud" in the left side-bar (I can't have a real tag cloud because *cough* Blogger is a *cough* ass), and the broken archives navigation (sorry about that) -- and others will be coming as I find time to get them sorted out.

Separated at birth #4

River Phoenix and Heath Ledger:

What say you, savages?

New Stumps cassette album "Exigence" released

The Stumps Exigence C60 (Lady Garden, via Scumbag Relations, 2008).

Co-Stump Antony Milton wrote:

So the new Stumps album is out. It has amazing cover artwork by Yunico Uchiyma. This is some of my favourite Stumps stuff yet. Its basically a collection of the best of the stuff that we haven't been able to use on record or CD due to excessive digital distortion or whatever. On cassette this just doesn't seem to matter so much.. But yeah- I fully recommend this one- its the perfect blend of our more ambient studio stuff and the pull out the jams rock excess of the live shows...

Label-guy Eric once wrote:

cassettes of mind melting calibre with artwork by always crazy psychedelic artists
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this stuff ripped my mind apart.

epic and heavy heavy heavy. listening for the second time right now...seems a little more peaceful than the first listen which blasted me waaaay out !!

I love the change at the 13 minute mark on the A side. Reminds me a lot of Landfall at first before everything gets incinerated... Harsh as I've ever heard you guys!

puh

fully engulfed!

We should have copies soon but otherwise you can get it from Scumbag Tapes.

In the meantime you can listen to a couple of the tracks here.

Bea Arthur Porn Party

I wonder if Bea Arthur (TV's The Golden Girls, etc.) ever indulges in vanity googling (as well as every fucking one else).

I wonder if she's come across this, yet:

Intestinal Disgorge - Bea Arthur Porn Party (1.06 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Intestinal Disgorge is a porn/gore-grind band from Texas, USA. This track is from their album A Cock Work Whore Binge. (Get it?)

I found them here.



You might be tempted to dismiss them as a bunch of fucking sick monkeys, but I'm quite enchanted with the fresh viewpoint they bring to the increasingly commercial and transactionalised area of inter-gender power relationships.

"Women Lie Alot"

You have to give them a few props, though, cos the cute* baldy in the front row is wearing a t-shirt for Judas Iscariot, probably the best-ever non-Scandinavian black metal outfit.

*serial-killer cute

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I did another one of those radio shows. Here's the playlist:

David Bowie -- Black Country Rock from The Man Who Sold The World
Can -- Thief from Delay '68
Ghost -- Escaped and Lost Down in Medina from Hypnotic Underworld
Black Sabbath -- Under the Sun from Volume 4
Roxy Music -- Beauty Queen from For Your Pleasure
Polyphonic Spree -- Section B (It's the Sun) from The Beginning Stages Of...
Labradford -- Midrange from Labradford
Signer -- Building Memories Without You from Low Light Dreams
Velvet Cacoon -- Genevieve pt. 1 from Genevieve
Snapper -- Buddy from Snapper EP
Sting -- Russians from Dream of the Blue Turtles
Chris Bell -- Speed of Sound from I Am The Cosmos
Sneaky Feelings -- Waiting for Touchdown from Send You
The Terminals -- Uncoffined from Uncoffined
Bailterspace -- New Man from Nelsh EP
Stranglers -- Get a Grip from Rattus Norvegicus
Clean -- Billy Two from Compilation
Captain Beefheart -- I'm Gonna Booglarise You Baby from The Spotlight Kid
Big Star -- Thank You Friends from Third/Sister Lovers
Johnny Thunders -- Born To Lose from some compilation/reissue
Darkthrone -- Slottet I Det Fierne from Transilvanian Hunger
Jean-Paul Satre Experience -- Flex from J.P.S.E. EP
Only Ones -- Another Girl, Another Planet from The Only Ones
Thom Yorke -- Analyse from The Eraser
Radiohead -- Bodysnatchers from In Rainbows
Robert Forster -- Danger in the Past from Danger in the Past
Phil Davison -- Memorial from Songs for the Dead of Gandamek

Dance, dance, dance, dance, to the radio

Just a wee heads up: I'll be presenting the very first Wellingtonista Radio Show on The VBC tonight. The VBC is the student owned and operated/community LPFM radio station broadcasting on 88.3FM, based at the Kelburn Campus of Victoria University of Wellington, in New Zealand.

I've had little luck picking up their signal on my radio -- which is odd given that I live quite close to the transmitter (I think I'm in the shadow of a hill) -- but the streaming feed (http://202.50.176.139:8000/listen.pls) works just fine. The show will go from 7 - 9 pm, NZDT (GMT+13). The studio line is +64 4 463 9994 if you feel like ringing up and abusing/encouraging me.

Things is in they infancy, but expect the show to grow and grow and take on a life and form of its own over the early weeks of the year, with contributions from many of the Wellingtonista's writers.

Chrimbo hiatus

Xmas day was the culmination of about five days of solid drinking; details to follow.

However there'll be short hiatus while Drinks After Work goes here; hopefully they'll have booze.

Friday Farce: Leave me alone

Thie weeks Friday Farce is a real farce. Not one of these nice-fests we've been having lately. And don't get me wrong, I really rate Joe Pernice and The Pernice Brothers and and and and so on... Joe (and band) plays sweetly darkened melancholy bliss-pop like no other:

Pernice Brothers - Crestfallen (5.34 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Chappaquiddick Skyline is Joe's solo project. The name is something to do with the mysterious death in 1969 of Sen. Edward Kennedy. Unfortunately, Joe chose to cover a New Order song. (We love New Order, remember?):

Chappaquiddick Skyline - Leave me alone (3.03 MB mp3)

Here's the original, the closing track from Power, Corruption and Lies:

New Order - Leave me alone (4.29 MB mp3)

Oh Joe, Joe, what were you thinking?

Lemme hear ya say Fa-arce....

Why? He could have done so much better. I hoped for more, but its just.... meh.

What is and what should never be

The other night I dreamt that I was doing Led Zeppelin songs at a karaoke bar.

Not just easy ones, either. I was in some kind of competition, and I won it by getting somewhat intoxicated and utterly nailing What is and what should never be, from Led Zeppelin II. Drunken master indeed.

Led Zeppelin - What is and what should never be (3.46 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Not that this scenario would be in the least bit plausible IRL, because I can't sing to save myself. I do love that song, though.

I was a huge Led Zeppelin fan when I was a teenager, then I went completely off them. Recently I started pulling out all their albums, though, and was stunned by just how bloody marvellous most of their recorded output is. When I awoke it took me quite a while to find out what exactly the song was that I had been singing -- had no idea, y'dig -- and eventually I found it tucked away on the first side of II, between the twin towers of horror that are Whole Lotta Love and The Lemon Song. Which just goes to show... something...

Stumps, Khomet, Psychic Sidekick and so on

The Stumps are playing tonight with a couple of bands from Dunedin -- Khomet and Psychic Sidekick -- as well as the Mr. Sterile Assembly.

This is a lo-fi-ish compression of a song from The Stumps' recent Palindrone LP, Split Fleet Dodge (page):

The Stumps - That with the greatest mass (Will be indicated) (7.90 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

There is, however, no guarantee whatsoever that we will sound anything like that tonight.

Flex yourself and muscle me in like we're in this together

I really like this song.

The JPS Experience - Flex (5.64 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

I found it on KiwiTapes.

More Pink Metal

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.... how best to feature another track from CJA's Pink Metal.........

hmmmmmmmmmmm....

Like this, I reckon.

CJA - Hexperam (5.64 MB mp3: right-click and Save As to download; play using the handy little embedded player below)

Yep.