October 14, 2009

Nuggets


No, not of the pressed chicken variety.  The garage band, 60's psychedelic, hint of surf guitar, touch of New Wave (but not slick and sissy), bit of punk (with more melody) songs that make you go "Hey! I remember that tune!"-- that type of nugget...

Worth the price of admission just for the band names: The Spongetones, The Unclaimed, Laika and the Cosmonauts, The Dukes of Stratosphear, Vibrasonic, The Droogs, The Hoodoo Gurus, The Optic Nerve, The Aardvarks, and of course The Cramps -- it goes on and on!

10 minutes later...  

Ever notice certain music and books do not go well together?  Sat down to listen and catch up on some reading, but starting with Elmore Leonard's Tishomingo Blues (Blues or Civil War marches) my words and tunes were clashing.  Tried Griffin & Sabine but that needs something softer, maybe jazz maybe French? then attempted John Wooden's On Leadership but that definitely clashed with The Fuzztones and The Creeps...