Feel the Toadies

Today marks the day that the Toadies finally got Feeler Released (digitally & through mailorder). It doesn’t come to stores until August 17th, but today you can purchase it for $6.99 on amazon or through iTunes with a bonus beatles cover for $9.99. Ever since I heard about Feeler I had hoped that one day it would get released, the toadies have without a doubt grown to be one of my absolute favorite 90’s bands. I do have many favorites from the 90’s but they would be in my top 5. So today to celebrate the release of their sophomore album finally getting released I’m posting demos I found through a forum (the toadies forum?) only within the last year, enjoy!

Toadies – 1997 Feeler Demos

The blow you didn’t even ask for

The other day my friend Eric & I made a digital mix that I’ll be posting pretty soon, and we’re going to try and do them like every two weeks. We wanted to do a podcast but I was having problems with recording music and us and since I do all the editing it was just far too frustrating for me to edit. So instead I think we’re going to do digital mixes with vinyl records only. I’ll have that that posted this week.

So until then I have a couple of fun vinyl pieces that I haven’t seen around the net at all, and I swore I used to see the Parentheses EP on the iTunes store or something. So enjoy some exclusive blow remixes & B-sides.

Personal note: I like the parentheses remixes better then any of the ones from the 12” or Poor Aim re-release.

The Blow:

Parentheses EP The Love That I Crave 12” Maxi-Single Alphabet Single Series K

Jacked Up Meat

I love demo cassettes, I also love special cassette only albums or eps. I just love something that can make a release more unique. I don’t think that this album gained anything by being on cassette. However, for the time it came out (1996) it didn’t hurt it all that much either, I was definitely still listening to tapes up until 2001 and as much as possible beyond that. So this is a full length album only released on cassette from Baltimore metal crazies. Maybe their stoner rock, maybe their like the melvins and they don’t give a fuck. either way, they put out great heavy distorted pissed off  music.

Meatjack – Aim

also for metal lovers, this album was produced by Meatjack & Steve Austin

check out meatjack’s website, which is still operational and has tons of good info about them and their current projects

Boiling Man, Broken Man

Earlier today I mentioned on twitter Boiling Man’s “Roadkill Museum” EP. I always find myself coming back to, I don’t necessarily know why its nothing too special except just really good crusty punk songs. With lyrics I can get down with, I’m not one for drinking or getting high and I am vegetarian and I do believe in the straight edge ways of life. So really that's a lot of ground to cover.

In this zip file I included Boiling Man’s EP as well as their Split with Broken and two compilation tracks one from each band. I haven’t seen a whole lot of Boiling Man or Broken on other blogs so hopefully someone thats been looking will find this and enjoy it as much as I do.

Boiling Man “Roadkill Museum” EP & More!

For fun: the first 2 90's B-Side Mixes

I thought it was quite fun sharing my 3rd part to my b-side mix series so here's the first two.

Best of the 90's: The B-Sides, Disc 1

1. Beastie Boys "Mullethead" - Clueless OST

2. Soul Coughing "16 Horses" - X-Files OST

3. Elastica "Spastica" - Radio one Sessions

4. Sponge "Seventeen" - Mallrats OST

5. Toadies "Cut Me Out" - Escape From LA OST

6. Fountains of Wayne "Places" - Out of State Plates

7. Better Than Ezra "Circle of Friends" - Empire Records OST

8. Blind Melon "Hell" - Nico

9. Seven Mary Three "Shelf Life" - The Crow 2 OST

10. Deftones "Can't Even Breathe" - Escape from LA OST

11. Incubus & DJ Greyboy "Familiar" - Spawn OST

12. The Cardigans "Deuce" - The X-Files OST

13. Nirvana "Oh, The Guilt" - Jesus Lizard split

14. Veruca Salt "Stacey Please" - Seether Single

15. Beck "Fume" - Loser Single

16. Moby "In My Life" - Bring Back My Happiness Single

17. Lemonheads "Paint" - Favorite Spanish Dishes EP

18. Ben Folds Five "Leather Jacket" - Army Single

Best of the 90's: The B-Sides, Disc 2

1. The Prodigy "Molotov Bitch" - Firestarter Single

2. Slayer & Atari Teenage Riot "No Remorse" - Spawn OST

3. White Zombie "The One" - Escape From LA OST

4. Everclear "Hateful" - M.O.M. comp

5. Green Day "Descensitized" - Time of Your Life Single

6. Weezer "Jamie" - Buddy Holly Single

7. Pearl Jam "Yellow Ledbetter" - Jeremy Single

8. The Cure "Burn" - The Crow OST

9. Bjork "Play Dead" - Debut [Japan Bonus Track]

10. Silverchair "Untitled" - Anthem For THe Year 200 Single

11. Foo Fighters "The Colour & The Shape" - Monkey Wrench Single

12. Bush "Bubbles" - Mallrats OST

13. Nada Surf "Pressure Free" - Popular Single

14. Counting Crows "Einstein On The Beach" - DGC Rarities, Vol 1 comp

15. Smashing Pumpkins "Aeroplane Flies High" - Thirty Three Single

16. Filter "Thanks Bro" - X-Files: Songs in the Key of X

By Request - Part 3 of my 90's B-Side mix

I have 2 90's b-side mixes that I hold in a fairly high esteem, they have their blemishes but I still really love them. Today I finalized a third collection, about 2-3 years after the first two. I know I tried in the past to create new ones but I hated all the transitions and even some of the tracks.

I do have some guide lines for these types of mixes,

1. Must have been released in the 90's.

2. The mix should be around 60 minutes, like a mix tape. (i know some cassettes ran longer but standardly it was 60min tapes)

3. I don't think I have more then 2 rules for this one.

the past ones don't have any artwork or anything for them, because their for personal use so yanno I don't really go through the extra effort. However, I was thinking of making a "Boxed Set" version of them. I thought it would be fun.

I only included one source for each track but some of these definitely have multiple sources. Like "Burn" by NIN was also released on the Deluxe Edition of The Downward Spiral, also this is important, the version of Smash Mouth's "Sorry About Your Penis" is the fast punk rock version not the Lounge version released on the Orgazmo Soundtrack

Best of the 90's: The B-Sides, Part 3

1. Nine Inch Nails "Burn" - Natural Born Killers OST

2. Hum "Puppets" - Comin' Home Single

3. Archers of Loaf "What Did You Expect" - The Speed of Cattle

4. Queens of the Stone Age "Born to Hula" - Kyuss Split

5. Butthole Surfers "Pottery" - Escape from LA OST

6. The Melvins "Instant Larry" - Demon Knight OST

7. Violent Femmes "Color Me Once" - The Crow OST

8. Stabbing Westward "Dawn" - Escape From LA OST

9. Garbage "#1 Crush" - Romeo & Juliet OST

10. Presidents of the USA "Man" - Good Burger OST

11. Smash Mouth "Sorry About Your Penis" - Walkin' On The Sun Single

12. Sugar Ray "Rivers" - Scream 2 OST

13. Wax "Mallrats" - Mallrats OST

14. The Offspring "Mission From God" - Punk O Rama 10 comp

15. Bad Religion "Mediocrity" 21st Century Digital Boy Single

16. Sublime "Trenchtown Rock" Second Hand Smoke

17. Folk Implosion "Natural One" Kids OST

18. that dog. "I Invented A Head" Old Time Single

'Toneneca

Hey everyone, just poppin in for a moment, I've been playing around with tumblr lately and I wanted to post about two bands I've been listening to a lot lately that I had written shortly about over there.

Recently the Deftones released two new singles, one for a ridiculously titled song "Rocket Skates" & the title track follow-up "Diamond Eyes". Both of which are really freaking awesome, what these tracks and some other stuff I've heard the album seems like it might be the best thing since Around the Pony. As a teenager I really loved the Deftones angsty music & poetically drunk lyrics, they truely understood the loud-quiet-loud formula that nirvana perfected and added in a pinch of rap influence. So if you were ever interested in the Deftones, seriously.. check out the new album "Diamond Eyes". I think its going to be good. also much love to Chi, who's been in a coma since 2008 due to a car accident. I always loved Chi, couldn't really tell you why... I just liked what he played and how he presented himself. I didn't know him personally but I definitely appreciated him in any way I possibly could.

now onto a newer group, Saintseneca. I came across this group searching for old Reflector stuff from a label called Paper Brigade, apparently that label is doing stuff again... like putting out amaziny records from this group. They're super limited s/t 7" is curretly out of print but is still available for download from all the right venues (as well as the paper brigade website) and more importantly they just released a new EP called "Grey Flag" which isn't the same pace as the first ep but is just as catchy and addicting. Seriously, if you like acoustic music or music that makes you feel good or music that takes you and throws you into a group people singing for love and passion and music then download/purchase, listen, and repeat.

Enjoy Friends

Saintseneca "God bones" (youtube)
Deftones "Rocket Skates" (youtube)

Samuel, son of Hannah

I don’t know too much about Samuel, I haven’t even ever done any real research on them, just enough to know that they put out two 7”s, and one split with Texas is the Reason. They also did a CDEP version of lives of insects that had a couple of extra tracks (that could very well be the other 7” and track from the TitR split. However I do know that they have a lot of passion in their simple indie rock songs. They actually hailed from PA so a little home-state pride with this one, although I never knew that until after collecting their 7”s. I originally got interested in them after trading for the Texas is a reason split, the track on there is absolutely amazing and so addictive.

well, enjoy some Samuel,

Lives of Insects EP
Samuel 7 Inch
Split with Texas is the Reason

Foo Fighters vs Pink Floyd

I picked up the Mission Impossible 2 soundtrack yesterday. You definitely didn't read that wrong. It's a fairly horrible soundtrack however has one gem amongst the rough. An exclusive version of the Foo Fighters cover version of "Have A Cigar" with Brian May. I actually already have the Foo covering this track on a Learn to Fly single, however I never knew about this alternate version until yesterday. So I decided since it was a great surprise to me it would probably be a great surprise to many others, and also its a rather good cover. So for your enjoyment I posted both the soundtrack version & the single version.

Foo Fighters "Have A Cigar" from the Learn to Fly Single

& Foo Fighters "Have A Cigar" (featuring Brian May) from the M:I-2 soundtrack

Apples in Stereo are blasting through your radio

So it’s been a while, and I decided to come back with a pop rock bang. Really Apples in Stereo put out one of my favorite albums of 2008 and I had no clue until 2009. Helen & I were living near the Jersey Shore at her Grandmothers place and I remember it wasn’t too long after Helen started her Princeton job and she was so excited to not be trekking it to NYC every day from small town Belmar. So of course she wanted to blow some cash on some awesome records, and recently I had heard that Jeff Mangum played drums on this album and so we got that and probably 4 other vinyl records. This album is like a 24 song pop masterpiece (especially the first like 8 songs). Well everyone it’s time for Better Off Ted, so I’m gonna just get to the link already, enjoy this lil’ bit of pop awesomeness. and if you’ve got a couple bucks go get the record these b-sides are from (if you don’t already have it).

Apples in Stereo “New Magnetic Wonder” Bonus EP!

10:38pm
I realized I probably just rambled before without getting a chance to edit any of what I wrote before (not that i do a lot of that) so here’s a bonus treat from the Vinyl version of New Magnetic Wonder, and also one of my favorite Apples in Stereo Songs “Atom Bomb”