Another wonderful thing given to us thanks to the internet

White trash rags 1993 = High end hipster fashion 2011

I've lost count of how many of Stockholm's desperate hipsters have stopped me on the street and offered to buy this t-shirt off my back right then and there. I of course tell them to take a hike. Right after I spill their beer and slap the Napoleon Dynamite glasses off their pasty face.

It's clearly a shirt than can only be worn un-ironically, and I'm not gonna let some skinny hipster get their skinny hipsters hands on it and ruin it with their skinny hipsterness. There's of course always a risk of being mistaken for a hipster yourself if you're seen wearing it, as everyone will assume you're being a ironic, but it's worth it. Totally worth it.

(mp3) The Grand Spectacular - Being a dickhead's cool

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #121

(mp3) Seeinred - Myth of Freedom (Man Lifting Banner cover)
Available on Split 10" w/ Shikari (2002)

(mp3) LOK - Natten till imorgon (den här är till dig)
Available on Naken, Blästrad Och Skitsur (1999)

(mp3) We Made God - II
Available on It's Getting Colder (2011)

(mp3) Asmodina - Another Golgatha
Available on Inferno (1997)

(mp3) Poison Idea - It's an action
Available on Pick Your King (1983)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #116

I know what you're thinking: "Holy shitballs, Batman, sixteen tracks?! That's a lot!".

It is indeed, but this mix is actually only 30 minutes long. That's because the songs are short. Yup, you're dealing with a math wiz. The longest song here is 2:48, the shortest is a mere 51 seconds. Short and sweet, condensed and to the point, all fat trimmed off. Sixteen tracks in 30 minutes and in four languages. No fannying around.

Perhaps this one will appeal to those who liked MP3 Shuffle #100. I have a hunch it will, and my ability to hunch correctly is unparalleled.

Lots of good stuff on here, but Spazm 151 deserves a special shoutout for carrying the Poison Idea torch like no other band. Sadly, they're not as active as they should be.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #116 (45 mb)

1. Cream Abdul Babar - Specialization is for insects (2002)
2. Cave In - Moral eclipse (1999)
3. Rolo Tomassi - House house Casanova (2010)
4. Will Haven - Baseball theory (1997)
5. Tree - Home front (1996)
6. Gluecifer - Evil matcher (1997)
7. Massgrav - Jävla fittor (2008)
8. Costum Made Scare - White and lazy (2002)
9. Spazm 151 - Blown away (2001)
10. Sista Sekunden - Tjugo minuter (2010)
11. The Hellacopters - I only got the shakes (1999)
12. Herätys - Heikon lenkki (2010)
13. Болт69 - Действуй! (2010)
14. Kill Your Idols - Can't tell no one (Negative Approach cover, 2001)
15. Mudhoney - Into the drink (1991)
16. Zeke - Roads ahead (2001)

Pay for your music, Holmes.

The sounds of my childhood

Last night I went weird and stayed up til 2:30 downloading old video game music. It was glorious.

Here's the deal: I was born in 1981, and quickly became a member of the Nintendo generation. I got the NES for Christmas in about 1987, which back then came with the classic game to end all classic games - Super Mario Bros. I also got the Zapper gun and three Zapper games - Duck Hunt, Hogan's Alley and Wild Gunman. Thank you, dad.

Over the next ten years I was an avid player, though my supply of games was limited. Except for rare occasions, my parents would only buy me new games for Christmas or for my birthday. Which meant spending most of the year planning and trying to decide which games to put on my wishlist. Sometimes you'd get what you wished for, sometimes they'd buy you Section Z or Captain Comic instead. Fuck you, dad.

In 1992 or 1993 I got the SNES for my birthday, though my dad insisted I'd pay for half of it myself. Thank you and fuck you, dad. The SNES is still my favorite console of all time. Then again, I haven't played many consoles since as I sort of dropped out of the video game thingamajiggy in the late 90s. Other interests (booze and boobs) took over I guess, though one day when I'm a millionaire I'm gonna buy every console made since 1998 and do nothing but play every game I can get my hands until the day I die. That's a promise.

Though I can't imagine any of them consoles being better than SNES in terms of games quality and pure joy. But that's obviously just my nostalgia speaking, so pay no attention the previous sentence.

I did get a Game Boy Advance for my birthday about five years later, in 2002 or so, and I love it dearly. And I bought a used Nintendo 64 not long ago, which I enjoy from time to time. Other than that I've managed to stay clear of any video games made since the turn of the millenium. It's not that I'm stuck in the past just playing the old games over and over, I don't. I still have my trusted old NES and SNES but they haven't been plugged in for years. Not sure what happened. I guess I prefer thinking back at the good times we had as opposed being stuck in the good old times, if that makes any sense.

I will always associate video games with that golden era of 1987 to 1997 when playing my beloved NES and SNES took up most of my time, and the rest of the time was spent pining for those precious games I might get for Christmas. Good times, people. Good times.

So, last night I sat down and downloaded the music for those old games I used to play. My favorites have been compiled for my own pleasure, though you might enjoy it as well.

Since most of this music was never given official names, you'll have to settle with sexy titles like Stage 1, Stage 2 and Title Screen Theme. Ooooooh so hawt.

(zip) Metal Bastard's Nostalgic Nintendo Mix (50 mb)

1. Super Mario Bros. - Underground theme
2. Castlevania - Stage 2
3. Kid Icarus - Stage 1
4. Wizards and Warriors - Title screen theme
5. Mega Man - Gutsman stage
6. Blaster Master - Area 1
7. Blades of Steel - Game start
8. Super Mario Bros. 2 - Stage 1
9. Tetris - A-type music
10. Batman - Stage 2
11. Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Stage 1
12. Duck Tales - Amazon stage
13. Little Nemo The Dream Master - Mushroom forest
14. Dr. Mario - Chill
15. Super Mario Bros. 3 - Overworld 2
16. The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants - Title & stage theme
17. Super Mario World - Overworld background music (Yoshi)
18. F-Zero - Big blue
19. Street Fighter II - Chun Li
20. Bart's Nightmare - Title & staff roll
21. TMNT: Turtles In Time - Bury my shell at Wounded Knee
22. Alien3 - Mission 1
23. Donkey Kong Country - Aquatic ambiance
24. Yoshi's Island - Flower garden
25. Donkey Kong Country 3 - Dixie beat

Random memories and recollections of said games:

Super Mario Bros - Immortal classic. Played it everyday for years.

Castlevania - I don't think I ever made it past the third or fourth stage. The controls completely blew ass, and the dude both looked and walked like a leper with a limp. I managed to kill the motherfucker every time he had to jump somewhere.

Kid Icarus - A game which I never actually owned until about 1996 when the NES was dying and some store was selling it for no money at all. Though back in the day I used to borrow it from friends who owned it and play it from time to time. Unfortunately they always wanted it back before I'd managed to get very far in the game. Just as well probably, as I'd always get turned into a fucking eggplant anyway. Somehow I could never avoid being turned into a fucking eggplant. But the consolation was the main character's name - Pit. Which sounded identical to "pitt", the Swedish word for "dick". That never stopped being funny.

Wizards and Warriors - Another game I bought after the fact when I'd half-abandoned the NES and was mostly playing the SNES. I bought it dirt cheap while on caravan holiday with my parents (good times) and had to wait about a week and a half before I could get home and try it. It wasn't really worth the wait, but the music was good.

Mega Man - Was I a retard or this game was fucking hard? Rhetorical question, don't answer it. I loved it and played it endlessly but I could never quite get the hang of it. The Fireman and Elecman stages always fucked me up. And the Iceman stage with those blocks appearing and disappearing? I could never figure that shit out. I probably would've done at lot better at this game if it hadn't taken me ages to realise you could actually use each boss' special power once you'd beaten them. Okay, I was a retard.

Blaster Master - Another game which I loved though I never quite got anywhere. I'd just go over the first two stages again and again.

Blades of Steel - Clearly the best ice hockey game ever made. The music ruled, the fights were awesome, and that polar bear at half time was kickass. I always picked the Minnesota team, the white and purple ones. Together we won every tournament. Yay us.

Super Mario Bros. 2 - By far my favorite video game of all time, I know every pixel of it like the back of my hand. I don't care if it's just a redesigned version of another game completely unrelated to the Mario universe, don't give a shit about the lack of koopas and goombas, this game fucking rules. It. Fucking. Pwns. It's perfection. The Lost Levels, you say? Ha! Don't make me laugh.

Tetris - I nearly wore out my Game Boy playing Tetris all day. Though I'm not as fanatical about it as many others; I must admit I always preferred Dr. Mario.

Batman - I was nuts about everything Batman when Tim Burton's movie came out the late 80s. The tie-in game didn't really live up to my expectations (the controls are somehow even worse than those in Castlevania) but looking back it had some utterly excellent music.

Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Yet another one I bought years after its release when I'd moved on from the NES, but I still got quite a few hours of enjoyment out of this one even though I could never quite get my head around the diagonal controls (those who have played it know what I mean).

Duck Tales - Another all-time favorite, probably because it was so easy. And also because I'd been watching the cartoon for years. I got nothing but fond memories of this one.

Little Nemo: The Dream Master - Another one that looked like a cute cartoon, so I liked it before I'd even played it. I seem to recall it being quite annoying to play as the whole thing would flicker every time there were more than five sprites on the screen at the same time, but I loved the riding the gorilla. The bee was cool too.

Dr. Mario - The world's #1 puzzle game in my book. I've played this so much I could beat you at it in my sleep. The only games I've owned on three consoles; the NES, SNES and Game Boy. It's that awesome.

Super Mario Bros. 3 - I remember the expectations for this were ridiculous. My dad and I went to some shady store to book a copy long in advance, though I got a cool SMB3 hat with the downpayment. Pretty sweet. Great game, clearly one of the best of all time, but I still prefer SMB2.

The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants - Fucking hell on earth. Impossible controls, antique graphics, and annoying music. Yet I loved it and couldn't stop playing it. I have no idea why, I must be a masochist in addition my retardation. I don't think I ever got past that fucking theme park stage. Just getting past the mall stage was a pain in the ass.

Super Mario World - My first SNES game. I'd say this is my second favorite game of all time, right behind SMB2. Sublime. The best thing about it? Pressing down repeatedly really fast whenever Mario was sitting on Yoshi, as that made it look like Mario was furiously humping Yoshi doggy-style. Yes, good times.

F-Zero - I was the KING of F-Zero! Seriously, no one could beat me. Even to this day I don't think anyone could beat me. I'd challenge any of you motherfuckers. Not a fan of racing games, but for some reason this one hooked me. I always picked the heavy, pink car/spaceship/hovercraft/whatever the fuck it was. A slower starter but once I got going: VROOOM! Watch my fucking backlights as they disappear into the distance, bitch.

Street Fighter II - I used to rent this game all the time at a local retailer until I realised I'd save money if I just bought a copy. I was always Guile or Zangief, them niggas were br00tuhl. Never Blanka though (fuck you, Slusk). Sometimes I'd pick Chun Li and just make her jump around to see if I could look up under her skirt. I couldn't.

Bart's Nightmare - Another Simpsons game. One time my final score was a B- but usually I'd just an F and have Homer and Marge scowl at me. I sucked at this game too, but remember the parts where Bart walks down the street to be quite fun, as it felt quite random and interactive. You could get gum stuck on your face, run into principal Skinner, get run over by a mailbox, get kidnapped by the bullies etc etc. The Bartzilla stage was the shit.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles In Time - Another favorite. I played it all the time and got the whole thing down pat. After a while I could do a perfect speed run like nobody's business. I always picked Donatello (obviously). Bo staff ftw.

Alien3 - I'm beginning to realise how crap I was at most of these games... I'd either pwn a game completely or get stuck in the first level. Alien3 was in the latter category. Fun game though, and the music was spectacular! Some of the best I've ever heard.

Donkey Kong Country - So far ahead of its time graphics wise that it felt like playing something from the future. I'd play this all day long with the Hassan prank call CDs playing the background - for me the two will forever be entwined. I also seem to associate this fame with Axe Musk body spray. Not sure why.

Yoshi's Island - One of the games I have the fondest memories of - the music, the crayon-like graphics, the bosses which were absolutely gigantic for its time... the whole thing is brilliant.

Donkey Kong Country 3 - I somehow missed DKC2 and went straight to the third one. I remember the SNES was coming towards the end of its run with the advent of the Nintendo 64, which also became the beginning of the end of my game playing run. Kind of sad in a way. Pretty ballsy to cut Donkey Kong himself out the game completely.

Okay, that's it. Download and listen.

Desert Sessions ♥ P.J. Harvey

I posted this on the other blog a couple of years ago and since I'm too busy to blog anything else today (I have a lot drinking in the sun to do) I'll just re-post it.

(mp3) P.J. Harvey & Desert Sessions - Powdered wig machine
(mp3) P.J. Harvey & Desert Sessions - A girl like me
(mp3) P.J. Harvey & Desert Sessions - Crawl home
(mp3) P.J. Harvey & Desert Sessions - There will never be a better time

Buy Vol. 9 & 10 @ Amazon.com.

The video for Crawl Home:

Demos from the new Mastodon album leaked!!!!11

Haha! Made you look!

No demos, just Brann Dailor talks to Noisecreep about their upcoming album:

Something dark, cerebral, and dizzying is gathering power in the streets of Atlanta. Four hyper-talented musicians are working together to create the ultimate combination of memorable riffs, jaw-dropping beats, mild-altering vocal harmonies, and unearthly guitar passages. Yes, Mastodon are writing the follow-up to their 2009 masterpiece 'Crack the Skye.' Right now, even the band members don't know exactly where the songs are going musically, but they're happy with the direction in which they're headed.

"We've got a ProTools rig set up and [guitarist] Bill [Kelliher's] been learning how to use that," Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor recently told Noisecreep. "We're recording bits and pieces and stringing up three or four riffs together and testing them out. It's super-heavy and it sounds killer, so it doing what it's supposed to do. It's doing what every other Mastodon song has done for us. We really just try to play music that we dig and that's bad-ass. Our approach has always been exactly the same, and we've learned that we need to do it that way. Otherwise, it's just not right."

Between earth-rattling jam sessions, Dailor talked to Noisecreep about the band's creative process, the sonic vibe of the songs, the tentative concept for the record, and how his feelings about religion, mortality, and mythology are factoring into the music. Dailor also discussed Mastodon's recent experience scoring the movie 'Jonah Hexx,' as well as his predilection for Spongebob Squarepants.

How much material have you written?

Brann Dailor: We've got tons of stuff. We've got too much stuff. We go in there every day and just work on it. It's coming out great.

Guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds seemed to take the reigns musically on the initial songwriting for 'Crack the Skye.' Is that the formula you're working with this time?

I think it's a little more collaborative, with everyone chipping in. Brent has a lot of great stuff. [Guitarist] Bill [Kelliher]'s got a lot of cool riffs, too. There are so many, it's hard to know which ones we're gonna use. But we go in and jam all the time and record stuff. Then we sort it out later.

Can you describe the general vibe of the material so far?

It doesn't seem as proggy. There's moments, but it seems more riff-oriented. It seems a little more stripped down. [2004's] 'Leviathan' was a little more stripped down, and it feels like that to me. Everything always changes once you go in the studio, but at the moment it seems like a really super-heavy Led Zeppelin or something. It has a lot of that [John] Bonham-esque groove to it, but really heavy and dark. I really like playing like that, and when it goes into those parts, I'm psyched.

Do you have a producer in mind?

We do and he said he'd do it, but nothing's finalized and we still have to meet with some other people just to make sure. But for us, we don't need that much production. We just need to get in a room with somebody and hit record, and if they have some cool ideas, that's cool too. But I don't feel we lack any vision as a band. We usually have everything mapped out, as far as how the story line goes and what the visual imagery looks like. And that kind of plays in your head along with the riffage. We're pretty good at arranging and making the parts flow as a song. We just kind of need somebody to put the mics in the right spots and make it sound great and feed our egos as we go along.

Is there going to be a concept for the record?

Yeah, totally. It's all worked out. I don't want to talk about it yet, though. It's not totally ready, but it's gonna be cool. I feel like it's a classic story about redemption. It's a mythology that's invented because we care so deeply as human beings for one another, it's hard to think that you just go into a hole [after you die] and that's it. So you want to see your loved ones be exalted in some way, or be a part of something that's much more grandiose.

Do you hold any spiritual beliefs yourself?

I think you go into a hole and that's pretty much it. It's depressing, so I don't want to think of life that way. As much as I try to fool myself that Bigfoot exists and there is a Santa Claus, and when I finally do pass away I'm gonna go somewhere awesome, I can't do it. There's just no evidence for it. I think we're just a bunch of f---in' animals and we live, then we die. But no one likes to think that way. If that's your best friend or your mom or your grandmother, you want to think that she's going to go to this amazing place, and that makes it okay for people, and that's a big part of why religion exists in the first place. Everything dies and everyone dies and the last thing you want to think is, "Oh, well, it's just over. There's just darkness and nothing." You want to think that Grandma is in a better place, and you say that to yourself to console yourself. And also, for people who are dying, it makes them feel better to think they're going somewhere else. They rationalize. They go, "Well, that was really good, and I'm ready to go to this great place, so I'm f---in' set. No problem."

On a lighter note, you did some music for the movie 'Jonah Hex.' Would you consider working on another movie score?

We're not working on any other films, but I thought that was a really cool experience. It gave us a chance to be spontaneously creative and write music on the spot, which I think has helped with our writing process with this record. We're writing things and then moving on and not dwelling too much on anything. And then we'll come back and visit it later and say, "Okay, what's great about this and what's not so great?" I would definitely do it again if anybody needed some riffage for their movie picture film. We'd be willing to create some. It was cool, it was fun and we made some great friends out of it.

Any other projects lined up besides Mastodon?

I'm pretty much knee-deep in Mastodon. Bill's got the Primate side project [with vocalist Kevin Sharp (Brutal Truth), guitarist Evan Bartleson (Hallows Eve), bassist Dave Whitworth (The Despised) and drummer Shayne Huff (The Despised)]. And Brent is doing Fiend Without a Face and West End Motel. This summer we're gonna go out on the European festivals. We'll be playing Sonisphere with Iron Maiden, Metallica and a bunch of other bands you've never heard of. We were scheduled to do the last Sonisphere shows, but we had to cancel them because of Bill's [recurring] health condition. That sucked, but he's much better now. So we're moving back to hitting it in this summer. We did it two years ago and it was crazy. It was a whirlwind to play in front of that many people and hang out with Metallica. Time of our lives. I can't wait to do it again.

You're a big movie buff. Are there any films that you've been inspired by recently?

I've been watching a lot of documentaries on streaming Netflix through my Xbox. I saw 'The Staircase' recently. It was a Sundance true crime miniseries program where this guy's wife supposedly falls down the stairs. And then you go and see it. And they show her and there's blood everywhere. And you're like, "How the f--- did a fall down the stairs produce that much blood? I don't see it." That was pretty incredible. I also watched one called 'The Suicide Tourists,' which was a PBS [Frontline] program. Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, so a lot of people with terminal illnesses have traveled there for assisted suicides. If you like to cry then you should watch that. It's pretty depressing. I like depressing movies, though. They work for me. But after I watched 'The Suicide Tourists,' I had to watch two episodes of 'Spongebob Squarepants' back to back or I wouldn't have been able to sleep.

Pretty sweet, and The Staircase is indeed amazing. You can (and should) watch it here.

One of the most awesome things I've ever seen

Die Antwoord fucking rules, and so does this.

Thanks for the tip, wickedmike.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #120

(mp3) Fireside - All criminals are us
Available on Get Shot (2003)

(mp3) Ebba Grön - Scheisse
Available on 1978-1982 (compilation, 1987)

(mp3) Vitamin X feat. John Brannon - Deal with it
Available on Full Scale Assault (2008)

(mp3) Red Dons - Pariah
Available on Fake Meets Failure (2010)

(mp3) Kix - She dropped me the bomb
Available on Blow My Fuse (1988)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #115

Death. Fucking. Metal.

Old school, new school, and new school that sounds old school.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #115 (81 mb)

1. Maim - Smoldering ashes (2009)
2. Monstrosity - Definitive inquisition (1992)
3. Tombstalker - Bleak (2010)
4. Entombed - When life has ceased (1990)
5. Napalm Death - Unfit earth (1990)
6. Pestilence - Chronic infection (1989)
7. Vomitory - Serpents (2009)
8. Skinless - The optimist (2001)
9. Terrorizer - Dead shall rise (1989)
10. Morbus Chron - The hallucinating dead (2010)
11. Order From Chaos - Blood and thunder (1991)
12. Zyklon - Terrordrome (2001)
13. Demonical - March for victory (2010)
14. Krisiun - Whore of the unlight (2008)

Pay for your music.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #119

(mp3) Mammoth Grinder - You're wrong
Available on No Results (ep, 2008)

(mp3) Dissection - Beyond the horizon
Available on Reinkaos (2006)

(mp3) Mr. Bungle - Desert search for techno Allah
Available on Disco Volante (1995)

(mp3) Portal - Omnipotent crawling chaos
Available on Outre (2007)

(mp3) Die Kreuzen - Fuckups
Available on S/t (1984)

My favorite shit of the first five months of 2011

I guess it would've been smarter to wait a month and post this at the halfway point of the year but fuck it, I couldn't wait.

I compiled some tracks from some of my favorite releases so far this year. I decided not to post the tracklist for fear of being gunned down by The Web Sheriff. The most recent the music you post, the trigger happier he gets.

So it's a bit of a mystery mix, I suppose. A mystery to everyone except those who download. The rest of you will have no idea. Although if you've followed this blog for a while and have a vague idea of my tastes and sensibilities, little of the music on here will shock you. It's what you'd expect me to like, and most of these are likely to be included when time comes to sum up the best albums of the year.

Check it out and let me know what you think. Something I missed that should've been included? Something that sucks and should never have been included?

(zip) Metal Bastard's best of 2011 (so far) mix (122 mb)

As always, if you hear something you like: Buy it.

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #114

I managed to catch myself by surprise with this week's mix.

The plan was to make a mix that was all rawky and stonery. It started off well enough, but towards the end it instead got grungy and Seattly all of a sudden. That's of course implying there's a difference between "rawky & stonery" and "grungy & Seattly", and I'd like to think there is, although perhaps to the casual listener it's all the same.

Willard and Gruntruck were two of those sadly overlooked bands that never went anywhere. They deserved to be at least as big as Soundgarden. At least.

Gruntruck was even called things like "a poor man's Soundgarden" or "Soundgarden's bastard twin" because their singers sounded alike. Do not heed such nonsense - despite the similarities, Gruntruck were a great band in their own right.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #114 (65 mb)

1. Freedom Hawk - Land of the lost (2008)
2. Pearls And Brass - The boy of the willow tree (2006)
3. Astroqueen - Crashlander (2004)
4. Gluecifer - I got a war (2000)
5. Valient Thorr - Visionquest (2010)
6. Kyuss - Size queen (1995)
7. The Obsessed - Neatz brigade (1994)
8. Willard - Fifteen (1992)
9. Gruntruck - Not a lot to save (1991)
10. TAD - Helot (1989)
11. Skin Yard - Watch (1989)
12. Soundgarden - I awake (1990)

Pay for your music.

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #118

(mp3) Drautran - Gebaren des sterbens in klanglosen spharen
Available on Throne of the Depths (2007)

(mp3) Visceral Bleeding - Perpetual torment commence
Available on Absorbing the Disarray (2007)

(mp3) Samael - Poison infiltration
Available on Blood Ritual (1992)

(mp3) Swans - New mind
Available on Children of God (1986)

(mp3) Danzig - Thirteen
Available on 6:66 Satan's Child (1999)

Look mommy, I made a shitty Opeth video!

Ridiculously early on Monday morning I went for a refreshing walk on the 10 kilometer woodland trail behind my house. It's an excellent way to spend a couple of hours if you want fresh air, exercise and no human interaction. I've literally never met a living soul on that trail, which can get quite creepy and Blair Witch-like. One time I walked the trail on a dark October night listening to Jeffrey Combs reading H.P. Lovecraft's Herbert West: Reanimator. I nearly shit myself, I kept turning around to see if there were zombies following me.

Anywho: Every now and then I'd take my cheap little camera (a Sony Cyber-shot DSC-S40) out of my pocket and shoot little snippets of random and pointless stuff along the way. Including horse shit, ants and bulldozer tracks from where some douchebags tore half the place to shreds.

When I got home I piled all the little clips together in chronological order in VideoPad Video Editor (rubbish freeware ftw). All together they added up to ten minutes and ten seconds, which also happens to be the length of Opeth's Nectar.

It was inevitable. A music video had to be made. I took the sound out (throughout most of the raw footage you could actually hear Devin Towsend's Deconstruction blaring very loudly out of my headphones) and just slabbed Nectar right on top of that sucker, with no additional editing or any effort whatsoever to make the images match the music.

Fuck yeah, I'm a regular Chris Cunningham up in dis muddafugga.

So tired/Of getting up in the morning/For that long uphill walk/To the methadone clinic

Today I was writing a post about spacerockers U.S. Christmas and how it totally eats balls that more people don't listen to them. The post went nowhere, so it's on hold for the moment.

At one point though Spacemen 3 got namedropped, which got me thinking of Mudhoney covering Revolution and snidely changing the lyrics to include a throng of drug references just to annoy the junkies in Spacemen 3.

As the kids say: Pwned.

(mp3) Spacemen 3 - Revolution

(mp3) Mudhoney - Revolution (Spacemen 3 cover)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #117

(mp3) Rolands Gosskör - F.B.U.
Available on Pigs Part One (1983)

(mp3) Nine Inch Nails - Hurt (feat. David Bowie)
Available on Closure (1997)

(mp3) Anal Thunder - Let go
Available on Time Of Your Life (2010)

(mp3) God Macabre - Spawn of flesh
Available on The Winterlong (1993)

(mp3) Kiss - Do you love me?
Available on Destroyer (1976)

The Friday MP3 Shuffle #113

Congratulations, Craig. You get more Hårda Tider.

Congratulations, everyone else. This mix rules. Am I brain damaged or is there something vaguely Burzum-ish about the last minute or so of Yersinia's Krigsidyll? The first one, most definitely.

(zip) MP3 Shuffle #113 (50 mb)

1. His Hero Is Gone - The unwanted child (1997)
2. KEN Mode - Batholith (2011)
3. Yersinia - Krigsidyll (2008)
4. Hårda Tider - Området (2009)
5. The Fucking Hotlights - Lip service (2011)
6. MUCC - Forty six (2006)
7. Truckstop - No space (1995)
8. Plows - Vicious cycle (2007)
9. Genocide Superstars - Final descent (2003)
10. Heiress - Tomb it may concern (2009)
11. Thomas Giles - Medic (2011)
12. Baroness - O'Appalachia (2007)
13. Burst - Rain (2003)

Pay for your music, hombre.

Cinco de Mayo

May 5th - a Mexican holiday and the only good song on Marnie Stern's latest album.

What was once fun is now tiring. Time to get a new schtick, lady. And quit wasting Zach Hill's time.

(mp3) Marnie Stern - Cinco de Mayo
Available on S/t (2010)

Oh goddamn fucking shitballs

I was gonna post this last weekend for obvious reasons, but I guess I forgot. I must have, since I didn't. Crap.

And it's not like I'm gonna wait a whole year to post it again, so here it is. Better late than never.

(mp3) Patton Oswalt - Easter eggs
Available on Feelin' Kinda Patton (2004)

Songs That Get My Juices Flowing #116

(mp3) AC/DC - Dog eat dog
Available on Let There Be Rock (1977)

(mp3) Grails - Silk rd
Available on Burning Off Impurities (2007)

(mp3) Olde Growth - Cry of the nazgul/The second darkness/To the black gate
Available on S/t (2010)

(mp3) Mercyful Fate - At the sound of the demon bell
Available on Melissa (1983)

(mp3) The Templars - You're free
Available on Phase II (1997)

and POP! goes the weasel