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Finally it’s here! An entire hour dedicated to the 90’s. well, lemme re-phrase that. An entire hour dedicated to “OUR 90′S.” I return to more of a talk show type feel and bring you the NNWRTZ: “OUR 90’s SHOW (PART 1)”
That’s right gang, come join me,ROB Z, and my good friend JENNIE SYKES-SCHWENK as we discuss and dissect “OUR 90’s” this is Part 1 of 2 of our 90’s memories, foggily re-hashed for your listening pleasure. In this episode, (part 1), you ‘ll hear us tell the tale of our first encounter, we discuss the joys of indigestion, we reminisce about the by-gone days of the cassette and much much more!
Tune in to THE NEW NEW WRTZ: OUR 90’s show PART 1.
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This show sounds like this:
1. “WHO WAS IN MY ROOM LAST NIGHT”- BUTTHOLE SURFERS- INDEPENDENT WORM SALOON
2. “FRENCH FRIES W/ PEPPER”- MORPHINE- LIKE SWIMMING
3. “POLLY”- NIRVANA- NEVERMIND
4. “LA VIE EN ROSE”- GRACE JONES- SINGLE
5. “CREEP”- RICHARD CHEESE- LOUNGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
6. “BIG WHEEL”- TORI AMOS- AMERICAN DOLL POSSE
7. “BIRDHOUSE IN YOUR SOUL”- THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS- FLOOD
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DELTRON 3030 RECOMMENDED: David Byrne & Fatboy Slim – ‘Here Lies Love’
I’ve said it in the past and I’ll say it again – I’m a sucker for David Byrne. I fell in love with The Talking Heads way back in high school when an art teacher gave me her beat up old copies of Fear of Music and Remain in Light. I listened to them non stop that night on my crappy stereo (that had a blown out speaker) and thought to myself that this teacher was the hippest woman alive. She turned me onto a cool NY sound that clearly meant she was spending some killer late nights down at CBGBs or The Elbow Room – no doubt searching out some new sounds that she’d surely share with her students the next day. It was the first time I ever thought of a school teacher having an interesting life outside of those cold lead painted walls and their “hang in there” posters. That hip facade soon faded away the next day when she asked for the tapes back. The one night parting clearly triggered some hardcore separation anxiety in her that I’d be foolish to fight. I would pretty much sleep during her class and she never seemed to care. Because of this I figured she had a lot more leverage than me when it came to negotiating for ownership. I needed my sleep. I dubbed them that day and continued sleeping during the rest of the year in her class. It was first period ceramics – we both had low expectations about what we’d be getting out of our time together. She was on the receiving end of some truly shoddy clay molding (“it’s a snake!”) and I took away a love for David Byrne and the Talking Heads.
Advantage: Del.
Since then I’ve been an avid listener of theirs. A few years later I would watch “True Stories” on a loop at the video store I worked at, much to the chagrin of all of my co-workers. I couldn’t help it. I thought (and still think) that the Talking Heads music was something special. After their break up the band toured as “the Heads” sans Byrne while he put out a handful of uneven records. It wasn’t till his last album, a collaboration with Brain Eno, Everything that Happens Will Happen Today that I came back to check out his sound. That album was a warm blend of folksy tracks, gospel tinges, and soaring Byrne vocals. It (along with his collaboration with the Dirty Projectors on Dark Was the Night) was everything I always loved about the Talking Heads..but yet oddly different. Obviously I became pretty giddy when today I realized that he would be releasing a new double disc album this April. I was hoping for more of the same sound from his collaboration with Eno. Big mistake. David Byrne likes to zig when you zag. Eno was gone. In his place was Norman Cook. You might know him better as FatBoy Slim. This didn’t scare me off. I know it’s not cool to say you like Fat Boy Slim…but I refuse to turn my back on the man who brought us “Praise You” and “GangsTa Trippin’.” Fatboy Slim, if anything, was a man of the people. He was just giving us what 1998 was asking for. Flash forward 12 years and ask David Byrne and FatBoy Slim what 2010 is asking for? You might be surprised with what the answer is. I know I was.
Q: What is the year 2010 asking to hear? (more…)
Interview with Adam Marsland
Adam Marsland and his Chaos Band have been around in LA for years, churning out intricate, melodic, literate power pop. On August 18, they will unleash on the unsuspecting public a magnum opus of sorts: Go West, a double album containing 23 stylistically varied songs. The album, which traces a loose narrative, is impressive and beautiful and I got an advance copy because I played viola on two songs. Which means I get to 1) snicker smugly about my prodigious connectedness, and 2) perform a journalistic feat which I believe is known as “breaking a story.” That’s right, this is an exclusive.
Having caught the interview bug last week, I decided to sit down with Adam and barrage him with ridiculous questions. Well, I didn’t really “sit down” with him; we were in completely different parts of town at the time. But we were both using computers, so I can pretty safely say that we were both sitting down. In celebration of the doubleness of the album under discussion, this column is over TWICE normal length! (OK, that wasn’t really the plan, but that’s how it worked out.)
ES: First of all, thank you for meeting me in this secret, clandestine location on the Internet, where dreams become reality and reality becomes a waking nightmare from which there is no escape. Now, from the “General Knowledge” category, for $200: How much training and slaving and practicing and heartbreak went into being able to play the various instruments you can play?
AM: It came out of growing up in a small town. There weren’t many musicians and they were into a totally different kind of playing. I remember trying to record my songs when I was 16… I brought in a drummer and he couldn’t understand how to play the part. So I sent him home and did the drums myself. I didn’t really know how to play, but I knew how it should sound, and it did come out better. So that’s how it started. I only had training on piano, the rest I just picked up as needed.
The real difficult part for me was the singing. I had a horrible singing voice, the worst ever. I had years and years of people “suggesting” I should let someone else sing before I was able to pull off a good vocal. I like to say if I can learn to sing, anyone can. I just really wanted to do it, and I just kept with it until I finally got good at it. The most fun thing about GO WEST was being able to lay down great vocals in the space of about a half hour. It was literally the easiest part of the process. I’ve wanted that since I was a kid.
ES: Additionally, because I am the sort of person who likes to know these things, what did you study in school?
AM: I dropped out of college early on. I graduated a few months after my 17th birthday and I was already in the music world and the working world by then. College was a distant third and I just couldn’t be bothered with it.
ES: My sources have revealed to me that you have some sort of dark and mysterious connection to the Beach Boys. Are my sources big fat filthy liars, or is there a grain of truth on the beach of their inane babbling? (more…)