A Lifetime Of Defeats Official Drinking Songs

THE BOYS NEED AN ANTHEM

Cliff Richard- The Young Ones
The Replacements- Can’t Hardly Wait
Archers of Loaf- Wrong
Bruce Springsteen- I’m Going Down
Joe Walsh- In The City
The Clash- I’m Not Down
Creedence Clearwater Revival- Lodi
The Plimsouls- How Long Will It Take?
Surf City- Headin’ Inside
The Skids- Into The Valley
John Lennon- Bring On The Lucie
Thin Lizzy- Running Back
Beaver Brown- On The Dark Side
The Pretenders- Back On The Chain Gang
The Soft Pack- Answer To Yourself
The Black Lips- Bad Kids
The Soft Boys- I Wanna Destroy You
McGuinness Flint- When I’m Dead and Gone
The Bobby Fuller Four- Never To Be Forgotten
The Ramones- Life’s A Gas
The Saints- Messin’ With The Kid
Guided By Voices- Motor Away
Turf War- For The Last Time
INXS- Don’t Change

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if this blog was a movie it would be a teen melodrama

sometimes i like to pretend that my blog is a teen melodrama set sometime in the late 80s or early 90s in some boring suburban town. it’s kinda like a mix between the existential ramblings of Dazed and Confused and the dumb party scenes of Can’t Hardly Wait with maybe some class warfare stolen from the Outsiders for good measure….you know something that wouldn’t do well in the theater but would get a nice cult following on DVD.

there’d be a smart ass angsty kid who would be the hero, and a hot chick with the face of Rachel Leigh Cook and the ass of Blake Lively that our hero pines for, and his friends would be a nerdy sci-fi/horror loving guy, a punk rock dude, and a smart awkward chick who we all know he’s gonna end up with in the end.

and it would have a killer soundtrack

Sonic Youth- schizophrenia
The Verlaines- pyromaniac
The Undertones- teenage kicks
The Replacements- sixteen blue
The Strokes- barely legal
The Nerves- when you find out
The Beach Boys- girl don’t tell me
The Lemonheads- if i could talk i’d tell you
The Clean- i wait around
Teenage Fanclub- star sign
Lilys- will my lord be gardening
Shocking Pinks- emily
The Jesus & Mary Chain- happy when it rains
Velvet Underground- there she goes again
The Seeds- can’t seem to make you mine
Buzzcocks- love is lies
Thin Lizzy- romeo and the lonely girl
Neil Young- everybody knows this is nowhere
Tall Dwarfs- baby it’s over
Husker Du- i apologize
Turf War- cheers to the years
Johnny Thunders- you can’t put your arms around a memory

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I Am Made Of Sad

football sucks.

i need a Falcons win today....bad.

the JR Suicide's Auburn Football Makes Me Wish I Was Into Soccer Instead Playlist

1. the MASH THEME (Suicide Is Painless)
2. Black Flag- Depression
3. The Beatles- Yer Blues
4. Buzzcocks- Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't Have Fallen In Love With)
5. Justin Trouble- Stay Away Sadness
6. Another Sunny Day- You Should All Be Murdered
7. Crowded House- Don't Dream It's Over
8. Dream Syndicate- Tell Me When It's Over
9. The Wipers- Potential Suicide
10. Danzig- Tired Of Being Alive
11. The Jesus and Mary Chain- Everything's Alright When You're Down
12. The Who- So Sad About Us
13. Shocking Pinks- You Can Make Me Feel Bad
14. Beck- Lost Cause
15. Roy Orbison- Crying
16. The Walker Brothers- The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore

Positive Vibes Friday: METAL MAY

it's May 1st...the start of METAL MAY which essentially means i break out all my Sabbath and Sir Lord Baltimore records for a month and quit listening to the Smiths for a while.

METAL MAY PLAYLIST

and for more Mind Blowing Awesomeness, Lemmy has you covered.

Positive Vibes Friday: The Stones' Deep Cuts

It's friday, the weather is perfect, and I ain't got shit to do. A good day for drinking beer and hanging out while I listen to my top 25 Rolling Stones deep cuts.

ROLLING STONES DEEP CUTS

you're not punk and i'm telling everyone

fuck as punk

Being Old and a Curmudgeon isn't just a state of mind, it's a full time job.

living in a college town and being exposed to college radio gives you an appreciation for your ipod and you own taste in music. college radio has gotten really fucking bad in recent years...not that their aren't new bands making good music, you just never hear any of them on 90.5, anyways this playlist is a salute to 80s College Rock/Alternative.

they used to call it college r...

and just for the hell of it. MY TOP 30 '80s College Rock/Alt-Rock records.

1. Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
2. The Replacements- Let It Be
3. REM- Murmur
4. Pixies- Doolittle
5. The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead
6. The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses
7. Violent Femmes- Violent Femmes
8. The Jesus & Mary Chain- Psychocandy
9. Husker Du- Zen Arcade
10. The Cure- Disintegration
11. Sonic Youth- Sister
12. The Pixies- Surfer Rosa
13. Minutemen- Double Nickles On the Dime
14. U2- War
15. New Order- Power, Corruption, & Lies
16. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Tender Prey
17. Spacemen 3- the Perfect Prescription
18. Dinosaur Jr.- You're Living All Over Me
19. My Bloody Valentine- Isn't Anything
20. The Smiths- Meat Is Murder
21. Cowboy Junkies- The Trinity Sessions
22. REM- Reckoning
23. Gang Of Four- Solid Gold
24. Mission Of Burma- Vs.
25. Billy Bragg- Workers Playtime
26. Soft Boys- Underwater Moonlight
27. The Wipers- Over The Edge
28. Meat Puppets- II
29. The dBs- Stands for Decibels
30. Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth

Positive Vibe Fridays: Hip Hop Is Dead

Geto Boys- My Mind Is Playin' Tricks On Me



rap songs about freaking out on PCP that have videos featuring a midget doing a flying jump punch are the sort of thing that get me ready for the weekend.

it's a toss up for me as to which genre of music has lost it's way more...punk rock or hip hop. i guess Hip Hop is still relevant and shit like Fall Out Boy is what passes for punk nowadays...so it's probably punk. but besides Lil Wayne, what hip hop artist that's hugely popular (and by HUGELY POPULAR i mean shit that white people have heard of...Kanye doesn't count anymore because he's lost his damn mind...although one might argue that appealing to white folks is what ruined hip hop in the first place. just ask Nas.) is still worth a shit? i'm sure Kenniebloggins will have a lecture for me.

Hip Hop Is Dead

the internet finds new ways to eat up my less than valuable time

i was gonna spend today writing a long winded and pointless rant about Braves GM Frank Wren detailing all his various fuck ups since taking over for John Schuerholz. and then i was gonna work on my top 25 worst uniforms in college football rankings (i've got about 50 teams that i'm trying to wade through) and then finally i was gonna make a wish list of players that i'd like to see the Atlanta Falcons draft. luckily i don't get paid to write my blog and i can fuck off and do nothing all day and it's totally ok. so instead of being productive (if you call what i do here productive) i've been playing with my lala.com account and making playlists. last night i went Post-Punk crazy and today i'm all about some Garage Rock...a genre that is near and dear to me heart as i wasted several years of my youth playing in a garage band here in Athens (it's also where the stupid and confusing blogger nickname comes from...in case you were wondering). anyways lala is a little lacking in the garage rocker-y ans so i wasn't able to include a lot of my favorite songs. but still i think i was able to put together a pretty kick ass playlist all the same.

so if you are at work and fucking around near and computer then enjoy the tunes.

Shake & Shout

so i skipped out on last night's Auburn/UGA game thanks in part to fact that Athens was under Tornado watch when the game started. also noone wanted to go with me and watch the Dawgs lose. and thirdly i totally had forgotten it was Wednesday and that means LOST and no meaningless college basketball game stands a chance against John Locke.


i listened to most of the first half on the radio while my two dogs barked at the wind. about the time that Auburn had a 27 point lead i decided to turn and game off. i checked back in the 4th quarter expecting the Tigers to be 100-20, but instead UGA had decided to attempt and make a game of it. it was at this point that i was happy i hadn't gone because the stress of watching Georgia get within 6 points would have driven even an apathetic basketball fan like myself into a nervous breakdown. besides, LOST totally ruled last night. oh well, Auburn still won and they've got a winning record in the SEC. yeah, i know...that sounds totally weird. who know? maybe some miracle could get this team into the NCAA tournament thereby guaranteeing i blow 30 dollars that i don't have in a tournament pool.

Last Night A Book About Post-Punk Saved (ate up several hours of) My Life

what's more arty than trying to destroy art? that's a question and a central theme posed in the book Rip It Up And Start Again by Simon Reynolds, by far the most interesting thing i've read in a long time. it tells the story of the postpunk/DIY era from 1978-1984 (aka the greatest music ever made that no one fucking ever talks about in the established music media except when lazy dicked music journalists try to compare shitty douchebag cockgobblins to Joy Division or Gang Of Four). this book is as essential as Please Kill Me for fans of underground rock and roll or for people who are interested in the political and social climates of early '80s England and America (a time that is not unlike the one we are living in now...but instead of the fear of the Reds nuking us all to hell we get Islamic extremists shoved up our asses like a big fucking broomstick of neu-boogie man).

anyways do yourself a favor if you can pull yourself out from behind your Twilight book (you big fucking nerd) and check out this awesome study of the music scene that really saved rock and roll from itself.

if this book has done anything, besides kill a Tuesday afternoon for me it's made me wanna give a shit about music again and go out and fucking make some more of it...now if only i could sucker a couple of assholes into making some racket with me. regardless, i am declaring myself UN-Retired. so if you need an ego maniac lead singer who can dance around like a fool and will steal all the glory then hit me up.


ten essential albums from the postpunk era that every music lover should own.

gang of four-entertainment!
joy division-unknown pleasures
public image ltd.- metal box/second edition
the fall- live at the witch trials
suicide-suicide
wire-pink flag
pere ubu-the modern dance
the birthday party-prayers on fire
the slits-cut
magazine- real life

and if you are one of those types who doesn't really listen to albums (aka a douche) then here is a playlist of songs that you should download...

art school dropouts

anyways more snobbish music lessons to come with the long offseason underway and nothing to write about besides baseball.

69 love songs

Valentines Day 09 playlist

1. Kanye West- Love Lockdown
2. Panda Bear- Song for Ariel
3. The Byrds- Have you seen her face?
4. Yo la tengo- Somebody's baby
5. T Rex- Mambo sun
6. David Bowie- soul love
7. Billy Bragg- she's got a new spell
8. My Bloody Valentine- soft as snow (warm inside)
9. Jesus & Mary Chain- just like honey
10. New Order- temptation
11. Magnetic Fields- underwear
12. King Khan & BBQ Show- love you so
13. The Sonics- have love will travel
14. Neil Young- like a hurricane
15. Syd Barrett- love you
16. Lilys- will my lord be gardening
17. Zombies- I love you
18. The Beatles- if I fell
19. The Smiths- hand in glove
20. The Strokes- meet me in the bathroom
21. Roky Erickson- starry eyes
22. The Clean- I wait around
23. Husker Du- Green Eyes
24. Sonic Youth- genetic
25. Yeah Yeah Yeahs- Maps
26. The Walkmen- there goes my baby
27. Unrest- make out club
28. Roxy Music- more than this
29. Suicide- cheree
30. Stone Roses- this is the one
31. Big Star- I'm in love with a girl
32. Love- always see your face
33. The Replacements- I will dare
34. Van Morrison- straight to your heart like a cannonball
35. The Clientele- we could walk together
36. Echo & the Bunnymen- lips like sugar
37. Nico- I'll keep it with mine
38. Bob Dylan- I want you
39. Beach Boys- wouldn't it be nice
40. Neutral Milk Hotel- Naomi
41. Wilco- I'm the man who loves you
42. Velvet Underground- here she comes now
43. Joy Division- heart and soul
44. Iggy Pop- fall in love with me
45. The Church- under the milky way
46. The Rolling Stones- she's a rainbow
47. Brian Jonestwon Massacree- this is why you love me
48. White Stripes- my doorbell
49. Johnny Cash- I walk the line
50. Old 97s- jagged
51. Verbena- the song that ended your career
52. Rollerskate Skinny- speed to my side
53. Clinic- distortions
54. Wire- feeling called love
55. John Lennon- oh my love
56. Louvin Brothers- knoxville girl
57. Leonard Cohen- chelsea hotel #2
58. Donovan- colours
59. Joe Tex- the love you save (may be your own)
60. The Faces- stay with me
61. Teenage Fanclub- what you do to me
62. Air- playground love
63. Nick Cave- into my arms
64. Siouxsie & the Banshees- the last beat of my heart
65. Cat Power- sea of love
66. Mercury Rev- in a funny way
67. Radiohead- all I need
68. Spiritualized- any way you want me
69. Black Heart Procession- its a crime I never told you about the diamonds in your eyes