VOTERS: Surely this is going to be your one and only 9/11-themed DC for the tournament.

ME: Actually…there are at least 2 more coming, and

This is the one where he pivoted to producing himself! (Jack Frost is a pseudonym…) It’s one more part of this album being a pivot to Dylan and his touring band simply doing what they do and sounding like themselves.

#Facts

Funny, I’d do it the other way—the band is all Gen Xers who made music Millennials dug. (I’m never clear how to think about this: like, Black Flag & the Minutemen were Boomers making music for Gen X kids…)

I dare you to feed all of the other DCs into an LLM and ask it to generate a new one.

Danny Thompson - Wikipedia

And that’s Danny Thompson of Pentangle & Richard Thompson fame (or at least renown). His bass playing can elevate any project in any language. Check out his rad discography. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny_T...

IMO, Beat Happening gets more & more control of their strengths as their catalog moves along. That final track on JAMBOREE is like a leftover from the S/T LP; by DREAMY & YOU TURN ME ON, they’re making more cohesive statements.

I’m seeing issues on several sites this morning—I wonder if it’s another internet security issue or some such.

I think I went to all of those! That’s the Mogwai show that was a triple bill with GYBE and Ganger, right? Hours of crescendos…

Tenacious D - Tribute (Official Video) YouTube video by tenaciousDVEVO

It’s just a tribute. youtu.be/_lK4cX5xGiQ?...

Dream of Life - Wikipedia

Just remembered that DREAM OF LIFE came out in 1988! I really connected with this Patti Smith record then, and I think it’s aged beautifully. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream_o...

get on loser we're getting outta tour commitments for the next 8 yrs.

Oh no, what happened to Special Sauce…?

Somehow I was in my 40s when I started getting into The Cure. 🐈‍⬛

That whole record slays. I find myself humming “In a Delorean” once or twice a month.

TRUTH & SOUL should have been bigger than BSSM, and I can prove it with science & magic & truth & soul.

A McDonald’s where the sign has been reduced to McDo.

There is no McTry.

These all feel like easy choices & I will learn quickly that I’m wrong about half of them.

Assume the questions are exclusively about Summer School and nothing else.

You fell into a burning bowl of fire…

It’s a FACT. And have you heard this sweet new Galaxie joint from Damon & Naomi? Lots of TODAY on it. damonandnaomi.bandcamp.com/album/whats-...

Maybe my favorite thing about this record is that Rolling Stone did a joint lead review of NOTHING’S SHOCKING and Randy Newman’s LAND OF DREAMS, pairing both records as coming from LA weirdos.

GUITAR is the only one from 1988 that I would still want to listen to. It was perhaps an overproductive era from the FZ camp.

Virgin Beauty - Wikipedia

Ornette Coleman got Jerry Garcia to sit in on this absolute cooker of a 1988 jam. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_...

I’ll also add, FWIW: TELEPHONO (and SOFT EFFECTS) came out on Matador in the mid/late 90s, and they VERY much understood how to pitch Spoon to their audience. It’s far from the coming peaks, but in the moment Spoon was in the right spot to build a fan base.

Yeah, those initial LPs were pretty good, but GIRLS CAN TELL is the pivot to great.

Two pictures of the pillsbury dough boy: once is on a purple background with the caption “he is risen! happy Easter!”, and the other is tan and brown, similar to a cracker, on a white background saying “he is not! Happy Passover!”

It’s time to post one of my favorite memes of the year.

What, I might ask, did my bracket ever do to any or all of you to make you want to hurt it so badly?

Lenola Lenola was Jay Laughlin, Scott Colan, Sean Byrne & Dave Grubb. 1994 - 2001. with Josh Brown & Jeff Scioli (2002) Art by Chris Laughlin contact: byrneoslyle@gmail.com “Lenola” was a section of Moor...

Lenola did some good repping for South Jersey for a good stretch. lenola.bandcamp.com