I gotta drop love for some local talent especially when dudes like this are this damn good. Many distinct flavors of blues funk and indie rock in this track.

Phil Circle - No Cover Charge / Lyin' Again (Live@pha)

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Man it's dead in here. Where yall at?

RN

The Cure - A Forest (First Live TV Performance 1979)





^Wow, so cool and lo fi and not at all the Robert Smith look we're used to.

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RN a very groovy cover of Goldfinger

Al Caiola - Goldfinger (United Artists) 1965

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Snuff - Snuff Said...





Originally released in '89 on the Worker's Playtime label, this band gained some popularity in the 90s for their tenure on Fat Wreck Chords (the label also reissued this one). I never gave them much thought in the 90s but this album is really good, rough-edged, melodic punk - exactly the type of stuff that would've come out on Dischord in the mid-80s. Well worth checking out.

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Neil Young - Trans
Original release by Geffen Records, 1982 - this UK CD by Geffen Records, 1997



To say this album was not well received when originally released would be something of an understatement. The reviews were poor, and sales were abysmal. However, like most of Young's 80s output, it is well worth tracking down and deciding for yourself whether or not it's your thing.

There are forays into electronic music here, with Young using a variety of synthesizers and a vocoder on some tracks. The record was such a departure from his usual, albeit varied, music that when his popularity reached new heights in the post-grunge 90s, Geffen didn't even bother to reissue this particular album in the US, hence the UK notation for the CD above.

Personally, I love this album. It's great music for 2:00 AM cruising along the foggy beach roads around my house, and provides a surreal, retro-futuristic soundtrack for those late night drives.

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