ad hoc.

In case you missed it, here’s #100-#71

#70 PJ Harvey, To Bring You My Love

#69 Madonna, Erotica
So misunderstood.

#68 Rufus Wainwright, Rufus Wainwright (1998)

#67 Mudhoney, Superfuzz Bigmuff
One of the best grunge bands that never got mainstream.

#66 Nofx, Punk in Drublic
All there songs sound the same, but there’s something charming and goofy about them.

#65 Skid Row, Slave to the Grind
Actually a masterpiece

#64 Prodigy, The Fat of the Land
Techno punk!

#63 Boyz II Men, Cooleyhighharmony
My first cd ever!

#62 Bikini Kill, Pussywhipped
Riot Grrrrrls are born

#61, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Californication
Actually kind of beautifully haunting.

SONG of the day

by request: The KLF, “Justified and Ancient” feat. Tammy Wynette

PERV of the day

Greg Laswell

BAND THAT SHOULD THROW IN THE TOWEL of the day

Weezer are possibly working on another album

Well, I’ve finally broken into the comic book world. Soon I’ll be going to Renaissance Fairs. I’m eight volumes into Ultimate X-Men right now. Lurve it!

Brandon made me a guide to superhero comics, which is pretty good.

In case you missed #100-81..

#80 Blur, Parklife (1994)

#79 Poison, Flesh and Blood (1991)

#78 KLF, The White Room (1992)
The tammy Wynette verson of “Justified and Ancient” is to die for.

#77 Queensryche, Empire (1991)

#76 Love Spit Love, Love Spit Love (1995)
How did they not achieve commercial success?

#75 Backstreet Boys, Millenium (1999)
Pop came back with a vengeance in the late nineties, and I thought BB were better than N’Sync. Deal with it.

#74 Neutral Milk Hotel, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (1998)
Most bands from today steal their sound.

#73 Soundgarden, Superunknown (1991)

#72 Blonde Redhead, Fake Can Be Just as Good (1997)

#71 Wilco, A.M. (1995)

RELIGIOUS PROPAGANDA of the Day

Evan Almighty panders to moviegoers

TREND of the day

Dumpster diving

REASON WHY WOMEN MAKES THEMSELVES INFERIOR of the day

College major choice may cause women to earn less

SONG of the day

Mando Diao, “Mr. Moon“

Out on dvd today:

Highlights:

• Paul Rudd as the lamaze teacher
• the return of Spanish Mike
• Deb & Leslie
• coporate sponsorship from Hottie’s
• Naked Trudy stuck in a cake

Following the fun I had doing the Top albums of the 20th Century, it makes sense that I would start a list for the 90s. This one will be harder, because I feel like it is such a wide range. In the same century, I bought both a Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch album as well as a Death Cab for Cutie album. Some of the albums, quite frankly, I didn’t really discover until after the 90s were over (my musical revolution began in 2001). I’ve basically taken a look at my collection and the albums I own that were released in the 90s and ordered them by enjoyability, quality of the record, impact on the music scene, and how much it affected me. You’ll also notice there are a lot more pop albums on this list, because that is what I listened to and I feel pop music was of better quality then. I’ve also included only one album per artist, because otherwise I would list all the Fugazi albums, Oasis albums, and Pixies albums and call it a day. I’ll shut up and start it.

#100 Nelson, After the Rain (1990)
Ok, I’ll admit this album is pretty bad. I had I had to find a way to squeeze this on the countdown because I listened to the shit out of this when it came out. Deal with it, I was twelve in 1990. The Nelson brothers are prettier than I will ever be.

#99 Cathy Dennis, Move to This (1994)
Uh, she performed at the 90210 prom, you know

#98 The Charlatans, Up to Our Hips (1994)
Yay Britpop!

#97 Spice Girls, Spice World (1997)
How can you not utter “nineties” and “Spice Girls” in the same sentence.

#96 Gin Blossoms, New Miserable Experience (1992)
Shut up, you know you probably own it.


#95 Baenaked Ladies, Born on a Pirate Ship (1996)
If you went to a state school on the East Coast it was required that you like the BNLs.


#94 Veruca Salt, Eight Arms to Hold You (1997)
Two Jewish women fronting an alterna-rock band: awesome!

#93 Trans Am, Surrender to the Night (1997)
One of the best from the DC scene.

#92 Tonic, Sugar (1999)
This was very underappreciated. “Mean to Me” is amazing.

#91 Portishead, Dummy (1994)
They are so much more than “Sour Times”.

#90 Warrant, Cherry Pie (1990)
If you ignore the misogynist anthem, Warrant write pretty good pop rock songs. I had to sneak this one home from the mall.

#89 Goldfinger, Hang-Ups (1997)
I miss ska/punk!

#88 Frank Black, Teenager of the Year (1994)
Frank Black was the singer for the Pixies, so this sounds like a Pixies album. I’m okay with that.

#87 Shakespeare’s Sister, Hormonally Yours (1992)
I think I am the only one who ever bought this album


#86 Saigon Kick, The Lizard (1992)
One of the best of the hair metal bands. Almost on the verge of grunge.

#86 Reel Big Fish, Why Do They Rock So Hard? (1998)
More ska!

#85 l7, Hungry for Stink (1994)
Riot Grrrrrl


#84 Shudder to Think, Pony Express Record (1994)
Another great DC band.

#83 Dido, No Angel (1999)
Along with providing the awesome theme to Roswell, there is not a band track on this.

#82 Enigma, The Cross of Changes (1994)
Remember when Gregorian chants were all the rage?

#81 Soundtrack, Clueless (1995)

I take this as another sign that New York has gone to shit. First, Bed Bath and Beyonds are popping up on the Lower East Side, and now this crap is invading Broadway. What. the. fuck. Legally Blonde comes to broadway. Stephen Sondheim probably wants to shoot himself in the face. I know I do.

This song is called “Ohmigod you guys”. For real.

“What You Want”

“Bend and Snap” Please make it stop.

For those of you living under a rock, a mashup is when someone takes two songs and combines them into one cohesive, new song. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts, however, because the mixing of the two songs should just blend together like they were meant to be and it makes a greater track than either of the original. Also, a clever blending of the titles is necessary. Sometimes I feel like amateur DJs just lay the vocals of one song over the instrumental of the other track and HOPE they go together. Not good enough. I’ve been a mashup junkie for years, and here are several of my favorites. Remember, right-click and save, or listen to them right from this page.

Supermassive Sexyback
Muse’s “Supermassive Black Hole”/Justin Timberlake “Sexyback”

Bootystition
“Destiny’s Child “Bootyliscious”/ Stevie Wonder “Superstitious”

Groovecopter
Madonna “Get Into the Grove”/Bloc Party “Helicopter”

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Remix
Cyndi Lauper “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”/MSTRKRFT (unknown song)

Requiem for Usher
Usher “Yeah”/ Requiem for A Dream Score

Humps Up
Black Eyed Peas “My Humps”/Madonna “Hung Up”

Gin Blossons, “Allison Road” YES THE GIN BLOSSOMS, OK. I used to love this song, and whenever I took the Addison Road Blue Like train in DC I would get this song in my head.

Manic Street Preachers, “Winterlovers” I totally didn’t appreciate MSP until recently.

Operation Ivy, “The Crowd“. Cause they’re from Berkeley. Wheeee!

I pulled these in one thought, so I may be forgetting something.

se7en: creepy!

Josie and the Pussycats: can I please be in this band? I also love credits that introduce characters

My Best Friend’s wedding: you know you love it!

Last of the Mohicans: also some of the best film music

Dawn of the Dead: scared the crap out of me

Mannequin: wtf

Fight Club: an obvi choice

• The Silver Surfer, which was completely CGIed creation, was a better actor and had more depth than anyone in the movie
• Sue Storm’s hair was the exact same color as her face.
• Sue Storm had better powers, and saved everyone multiple times in the movie, although all was mentioned was that she was hot and she was going to have a beautiful wedding.
• The Thing was dating a woman who was blind for no reason.
• When Mr. Fantastic’s arms stretch, so do his clothes. What the fuck? Inspector Gadget was more believable.
• It made me hate Chris Evans.
• He runs into someone coming out of the shower in his science lab. WHY IS HE TAKING A SHOWER AT THE LAB AND WHY IS THE BATHROOM RIGHT OFF A PUBLIC HALLWAY?
• Within three hours, Reed Richards created a planetary homing device complete with a lcd screen remote.
• An intergalactic cloud was threatening to engulf planet earth. The only people involved with saving it were the fantastic 4, and three miltary officials. All American, of course.
• They fly from New York to Siberia in a matter of seconds.
• Since they are in China, they decide to get married Asian-style. Sue Storm dresses like a geisha. There are giggling Japanese women as guests.

Seriously, I don’t even know why I saw it. At least I didn’t have to pay.

VERY SAD THING TO LOOK AT of the day

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. Please make this all a dream.

SWEET VALLEY HIGH REVIEW of the day

Troublemaker

AWESOME VIDEO of the Day

Mark Ronson ft. Lily Allen, “Oh My God”

BAD WHITE STRIPES REVIEW of the day

Not everyone has to agree with me.

SONG of the day

The Libertines, “Up the Bracket” in honor of the potential Libertines reunion

SONG of the day

Buffalo Tom, “Late At Night” I think I have been looking for this song for 14 years. If you watched My So-Called Life, you know why it’s awesome. If not, look it up.

WEIRD EVENT of the day

Crowd Kills Man After Car Hits Child

READ of the day

Queer in the Crib

AWESOME VIDEO of the day

The White Stripes perfoming Icky Thump and Effect & Cause on Conan

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Ok, so several people have have brought up the movie Mannequin in recent conversations (weird, I know!) so I decided to rewatch it, knowing it would be bad. But oh my god, the horrosity. Okay, excluding the costume montage, because that was obviously awesome. Ok, I need some suspension of disbelief, but thw creators weren’t even TRYING. So, Emmy was supposed to be an ancient Egyptian princess, but when they showed her in Egypt, she was wrapped as a mummy. As in, mummies are Egyptian, so everyone must dress like that. Come ON, people, look in the Encyclopedia Brittanica or something. Also awesome: James Spader and Andrew McCarthy are in the same movie, proving to me that they are not the same person. And, of course, they get married at the end of the movie, because it isn’t a happy ending until there is marriage. Also, it ended the way every movie in the 80s did: with a still frame underneath the credits.

Ummmmm, awesome fan mix!

Also, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle was much funnier than I expected.

So was Reno 911! Miami. Go figure. The extended scenes were about a thousand times funnier than any part of the movie or any of the shows.

SONG of the day

The Postal Service, “Nothing Better“. Screw “Such Great Heights”, this is the only good track on the album

AWESOME THING THAT BLOWS MY MIND of the day

The new video for The Go! Team’s “Grip Like a Vice”

GAY of the day

Dale from top chef interview. He seems pretty down to earth.

Brandi Carlisle, The Story

Hey, Dar Williams wants her music back! This is the kind of stuff I usually hate, but this album is really growing on me. It’s like Dar Williams if Dar Williams was a lil bit hardcore. [actual release: April 3]

Listen to “The Story“

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Metric, Grow Up and Blow Away

This was actually originally released before their fantastic Old World Underground, Where Are You Know in 2003. It’s pretty good, sort of a good prequel to that masterpiece. It’s being remixed and rereleased by their record label. Seriously, they ruined a good thing. The new way they’ve produced it sounds like crap. Stick to the original released in 2000. [actual release: June 26]

Listen to “Soft Rock Star“

I’ve updated my best of 2007 list. Several recent releases have shifted things around. Right now The White Stripes are on top. However, it’s still anyone’s game.

Perving Out is still growing strong.

I’ve officially unveiled my other blog about Sweet Valley High. After reading Claudia’s Room, I realized I wanted to do something like it. It turns out that four out of five women in their late twenties has read SVH.  I want to help everyone relive that melodramatic crap. Get the word out.

Get excited about this video of a VERY DRAMATIC GOPHER.

I can hardly believe that it has been 25 years since Daydream Nation came out. Sonic Youth is known for its experimental, sometimes nonmusical experimentation with using amp feedback. They are skilled in the abstract music as well as commercially compatible rock. Daydream Nation fits both those categories and is beyond amazing. I luckily was able to see them live in 1995 and it initiated me into music snobbery. There is also an extensive backstory in Our Band Could Be Your Life (which is essential reading). 1991: The Year Punk Broke, their tour documentary is amazing. I would say they can also be credited with introducing Nirvana to the mainstream. Sonic Youth’s bassist, Kim Gordon is also one of the few female musicians who have gained credibilty regardless of being female, and never been labeled as a “chick rocker”. She and Thurston Moore now have teenage kids, and I hope they appreciate how cool their parents are.

[SONIC YOUTH; Daydream Nation]

more essentialo albums

Update: I’ve uploaded the whole album because it needs to be heard. I’ll take it down in a day, so get it while you can.

01-henrietta.mp3

02-flathead.mp3

03-cuntry-boys-and-city-girls.mp3

04-whistle-for-the-choir.mp3

05-chelsea-dagger.mp3

07-doginabag.mp3

08-creepin-up-the-backstairs-1.mp3

09-vince-the-loveable-stoner.mp3

10-everybody-knows-you-cried-last-ni.mp3

11-baby-fratelli.mp3

12-got-na-nuts-from-a-hippy.mp3

13-ole-black-n-blue-eyes.mp3

Seriously, I cannot get enough of this band. [Eyes roll back and arms flail]. I just luuuuuuurve them. New video for “Whistle for the Choir”. Not my favorite track, but pretty stand up video.

STUPID IDEA of the day

Boy’s Family Upset At Unflattering Awards - Education News Story - WCAU | Philadelphia and I thought I hated children

TIME WASTING SITE of the day

strange maps

WHAT I’M READING of the day

Diabetics risk health to feed obsession with thinness Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me.

SONG of the day

Shannon, “Let the Music Play“

I’m trying to psych myself up about my move, so I’ve started a calendar, which you can access over on the sidebar, with upcoming shows in the Bay Area that I would like to/plan on attending. It’s a lil overwhelming, considering I have barely seen any live music in the last three years, whereas living in nyc I went 2-3 times a week. However, I am now three years older, which means…

You know you are getting old when you feel annoyed that shows go on too late. Doors usually open around 8pm, that means the opening act goes on about 9pm, plays for 40 minutes, there is about a 20 minute break in bewtween for set up, there may be more than one, and then your headline doesn’t get on until 10:30 or so, and it over after midnight. Then I first have to catch the subway/bus? I won’t be home until after 1am. Oy! If I have to work the next day, I will be spent. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if bands decided to play a matinee show? I think that would be fantastic. I’d be all energy and jumping around right in front. Or even start at 4pm. Teens are out of school by then. When I start my record label, I will require bands to play matinee shows. Fuck, I’m old.

Our Town: What Q101’s scuffle with the White Stripes says about the state of alternative-rock radio. About the radio station that leaked the White Stripes album and they threw a shit fit.

Arguing in Court Over a Work of Fiction That Was Written by a Fictional Character Fabricating JT LeRoy

2 new good videos from 2 of my faves.

Bloc Party, “Hunting for Witches”; it’s your basic performance video, but they are so fucking cool who cares.

Fall Out Boy, I think their cutesy videos are making them a little bit Good Charlotte-esque, but the song is damn catchy.

The Cribs, “Men’s Needs” I just mentioned their album earlier, and the video is pretty sweet. I think it was banned in some countries. I play the woman in it.