Writer: Count Bruga Born: 1964 Died: TBA Top 10 discs:
subject to change without notice
Yeah, I can count, I just didn't feel like it
- Miles Davis, Kind of Blue
- Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd, Jazz Samba
- Van Morrison, Veedon Fleece
- The Velvet Underground, everything they did
- Mike Enzor, Album Oriented Rock
- Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
- Donovan, A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
- Magnetic Health Factory, Don't Postpone Joy
- The Zombies, Oddessey & Oracle
- Alec James, The Quiet Party
- The Rolling Stones, Some Girls
- Nick Drake, Fruit Tree
- Artie Barsamian, Belly Dance A GoGo
- Kraftwerk, Trans Europe Express
- Gary Numan, everything through Dance
- Jim Morrison, An American Prayer
Bias Towards: Amateurs, Velvets-influenced bands, slow-to-midtempo songs, the obscure, my record collection Bias Against: Commercial Metal, Top 40, kiddie bands, singers with command of 3 or more octaves, 'celebrities', funk, hiphop, warmed over boogie, indulgent acid rock from '69, superproduced '70's 'rock', classic rock, progressive rock that isn't hilarious, techno Critical biographical information: First thing I heard on the radio was 'Crocodile Rock' by Elton John; it blew my mind, I thought it was great. Now I think it sounds pretty pathetic. I just listen to whatever comes my way - rock in the truck, instrumental music at home, mostly.
Father Eddie
Dear Blah, Blah, Blah reader,
My name is Father Eddie and I am co-editor or this most innovative of on-line music zines, Blah Blah Blah.
My co-editor/partner Count Bruga and I would like to welcome you to our little sorry-ass excuse for a legitimate music publication, and sincerely hope you will enjoy our rather pompous pontifications on all matters; mostly music we see fit to discuss.
You will be subjected not only to the opinions of the Count and myself, however. We encourage other armchair critics (like yourself?) to submit your own essays/articles/reviews for publication in Blah Blah Blah. From these submissions, we will select a precious few for publication in Blah Blah Blah. And don't start thinking you might actually make some money here. You're lucky we don't charge you for the privilege. (Note: send us links to your groovy rock webzines/fanpages/etc also, and if we dig 'em, up they go - CB)
But before you blow out a 10,000 word dissertation regarding the social significance of Grand Funk in late '90s Afghanistan, I should tell you a little bit about where I'm coming from. That way you'll know which ass cheek to kiss.
Writer: Father Eddie Born: 1956 Died: TBA Top 10 discs:
- Beach Boys, Pet Sounds
- Rolling Stones, Out of Our Heads
- Guided By Voices, Alien Lanes
- Sonic Youth, Dirty
- Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
- Alec James, The Quiet Party
- Mike Enzor, Album Oriented Rock
- Magnetic Health Factory, Don't Postpone Joy
- The Beatles, White Album
- Neil Young, Tonight's The Night
Fave Artists:
Guided By Voices - Fairly unknown band from Dayton, Ohio. Punk meets the Beatles and everything else in between. Accent on songs, songs, songs.
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)*: Incredible songwriter/producer/arranger. I can't get enough. If he had finished Smile, who knows how it might have affected pop/rock.
*(if you didn't know Brian Wilson was in the Beach Boys, find another webzine, little man - CB)
Fleetwood Mac: Don't know why I like 'em but I do. Peter Green was amazing. Danny Kirwan had unfulfilled potential. Lindsay Buckingham had great ideas and Stevie Nicks was cute. (and still is - CB)
Sonic Youth: The ultimate "screw convention" band. They do everything wrong and they do it very consistently.
Velvet Underground: I had no idea they existed while they were happening, but now I love them. All their songs are diamonds in the rough, just the way I like 'em.
Neil Young: A great prolific songwriter.
The Beatles: The ultimate.
Rolling Stones: The true essence of rock 'n roll.
Nirvana: Kurt Cobain was a genius (and Dave Grohl is one hell of a good drummer).
Beck: Take good songs and fuck with them in every conceivable way.
Bias Towards: Unfinished sounding 4-track recordings with tons of tape hiss underneath which you can hear the greatest song ever written. Simple pop songs with inventive, unforgettable melodies. Anything I haven't heard 3,000 times already. Good songs over high fidelity and flashy musicianship. Bias Against: Most of what is commonly known as "classic rock". Had enough. Whoever is to be nominated for next year's "best new artist" Grammy. New country music. Most new "urban contemporary" music. Ska. This new trend of big band music. Fuck all that shit. Critical biographical information: Didn't like rock until I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan (you've heard this story before), then went nuts. Knew when I was 9 that I would always love rock n' roll. Was into all the usual crap in the '70s including Grand Funk, the Doobies, Steely Dan, Zeppelin, Eagles, Chicago, Santana, Clapton, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and progrock like Yes. Of course, I just about totally disavow all this shit now. I was so glad when punk happened because rock had become corporate and awful. Was real glad when "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was a hit, because it meant punk had finally entered the mainstream consciousness, and real rock n' roll was back. I'll take the '90s over the '70s or '80s anytime. The '60s were great while it was happening, but I'm sick to death of it now (except when I discover something I'd never heard before).
(That's fucking enough)More to come, stay tuned...hey Anthony, Eric, Kirk, et al, when are you gonna write something for the Blah?
The Strangler
I like: Crazy women with nice asses.
Ice cream with no nuts.
The sauce packets in 'Lunchables'©
Pina Colada's and getting caught in the rain.
I don't like: Tequila in the morning.
Toothpaste tubes.
Expired 'Yoohoo'.
Civilized women with nice asses.
Writer: teen asian Born: 1970 Died: you wish top whatever discs:
in the infamous "no particular order", and subject to change by the time you get to the end of the list
- Mike Enzor, Album Oriented Rock
- Magnetic Health Factory, Don't Postpone Joy
- Alec James, The Quiet Party
- Guided by Voices, Bee Thousand
- Guided by Voices, Alien Lanes (it was very hard picking only 2)
- Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted
- Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
- My Dad is Dead, The Taller You Are, the Shorter You Get
- Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- Archers of Loaf, All the Nation's Airports
- Sex Pistols, Never Mind the Bollocks
- Morrissey, Bona Drag
- Belle & Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister
- Nirvana, In Utero
mission: to talk about bands and artists that are consistently ignored by "the industry", or who don't even show up on the industry's radar. to validate and perpetuate the belief held by we fanatical few that it is possible to maintain a thriving underground culture, separate from and independent of the vapidity of the mainstream world. biases: indie rock this has become a catch-all phrase for me, referring to basically any artist who makes music with a creative spirit and an independent flair. within the boundaries of indie rock, you'll find everything from ambient jazz-rock (tortoise, stereolab) to punk (pegboy, thomas jefferson slave apartments) to pissed-off chick rock (pj harvey, sleater-kinney) to more sublime chick rock (liz phair, beth orton) to lo-fi pop (guided by voices, of montreal) to avant noise (last days of may, ghost) to mellow pop (damon & naomi, alec james) to...well, you get the idea. if it's good, and it wasn't written with a radio station playlist in mind, then i'm there. other likes: jazz, some hip-hop (public enemy, a tribe called quest...no, not puff daddy!), classic soul and r&b (marvin gaye, etc.) dislikes: modern day "r&b" (mariah carey, r. kelly, etc.), ska, particularly wimpy folk, new age, major-label "punk" and "mall-ternative" bands, new country
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