The Great Leap Forward

AOTP:HGRNJ 79

AOTP:HGRNJ 79 - 25 Jan 2008 - Part 1 [80 min - start to Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers]

AOTP:HGRNJ 79 - 25 Jan 2008 - Part 2 [80 min - Caitlin Cary to Lewis Black]

The Bolshoi	Please	Lindy's party	Beggars Banquet	09:55 PM
Rush	Red Barchetta	Moving pictures	Mercury	09:49 PM
The Bad Plus	Tom Sawyer	Prog	Heads Up/Telarc	09:44 PM
Loud Family	Pop song 99	What if it works?	125	09:41 PM
Lewis Black	New Orleans	Carnegie Hall performance	Comedy Central	09:37 PM
The Teardrop Explodes	Colours fly away	12"	Zoo	09:32 PM
Hinterland	Handle me	Kissing the roof of heaven	Island	09:28 PM
Unrest	Make out club	Perfect teeth	4AD/Teenbeat	09:24 PM
Versus	Never be O.K.	Two cents plus tax	Caroline	09:20 PM
The White Stripes	My doorbell	Get behind me Satan	V2	09:16 PM
The Church	No explanation	Remote luxury	Arista	09:12 PM
New Marines	Stranger than a stranger	Bonfire	Dali/Chameleon	09:08 PM
Neil Young	Cinnamon girl	Decade	Reprise	09:02 PM
Neil Young	Old man	Decade	Reprise	08:59 PM
Neil Young	The loner	Decade	Reprise	08:56 PM
Jay Farrar	LIke a hurricane	Like a hurriance: A tribute to Neil Young	Uncut Magazine	08:49 PM
Pretenders	My baby	Get close	Sire/Rhino	08:45 PM
Everclear	Now	Welcome to the drama club	Eleven Seven	08:42 PM
Too Much Joy	Long haired guys from England	Cereal killers	Giant/Warner Bros.	08:39 PM
David Lindley & El Rayo-X	Texas tango	Very greasy	Elektra	08:33 PM
Dexy's Midnight Runners	Kevin Rowland's 13th time	Don't stand me down - The director's cut	EMI	08:28 PM
Caitlin Cary with Ryan Adams	The battle	While you weren't looking (bonus disc)	Yep Roc	08:25 PM
Caitlin Cary	Shallow heart, shallow water	While you weren't looking	Yep Roc	08:21 PM
The Folksmen	Never did no wanderin'	A mighty wind soundtrack	DMZ/Columbia	08:17 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Shadow of a doubt (complex kid)	Runnin' down a dream DVD	Warner Bros.	08:11 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	The waiting	Hard promises	Backstreet/MCA	08:08 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Refugee	Hard promises	Backstreet/MCA	08:04 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	I need to know	You're gonna get it!	Shelter/MCA	08:02 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Don't do me like that	Damn the torpedoes	Backstreet/MCA	07:59 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	American girl	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	MCA	07:56 PM
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Keeping me alive	Runnin' down a dream DVD	Warner Bros.	07:53 PM
Diagram Brothers	I'm not going to fight for oil	Some marvels of modern science	LTM	07:47 PM
Gore Gore Girls	Buried and dead	HearYa session at Shirk Music	Bloodshot	07:45 PM
Sia	Soon we'll be found	Some people have real problems	Hear Music/Concord	07:41 PM
Immaculate Machine	Jarhand	Fables	Mint	07:37 PM
Love Dance	Unsympathetic ways	Result	Marsh Marigold	07:34 PM
Office	Wound up	A night at the Ritz	New Line/Scratchie	07:31 PM
Robbie Fulks	The grip of our love	Couples in trouble	Boondoggle	07:21 PM
The Drifters	Up on the roof	The definitive soul collection	Atlantic/Rhino	07:19 PM
The Drifters	What'cha gonna do	The definitive soul collection	Atlantic/Rhino	07:17 PM
The Soul Clan	Soul meeting	Solomon Burke: The definitive soul collection	Rhino	07:13 PM
Solomon Burke	Can't nobody love you	The definitive soul collection	Rhino	07:10 PM
Otis Taylor	Looking over your fence	Definition of a circle	Telarc	07:06 PM
B. B. King	The thrill is gone	Gold	Geffen/Universal	06:58 PM

AOTP:HGRNJ 78

I decided that this would be a good time as any to resume posting episodes of All Over The Place as heard on HomeGrownRadioNJ.com.

Here's most of the 18 January 2008 episode.

AOTP:HGRNJ - 18 Jan 2008 - Part 1 [80 min - start to fIREHOSE]

AOTP:HGRNJ - 18 Jan 2008 - Part 2 [80 min - Matthew Ryan vs. The Silver State to Dave Edmunds]

And here's how it went down...

Idlewild	I don't have the map	100 broken windows	Capitol	09:57 PM
Riverside	Waterfall	One	Sire.Warner Bros.	09:55 PM
Dave Edmunds	Crawling from the wreckage	From small things	Columbia	09:51 PM
Rocky Votolato	Postcard from Kentucky	The brag and cuss	Barsuk	09:40 PM
The Rosewood Thieves	Cold in the country	From the Decker House	V2	09:35 PM
Jason Ringenberg with Steve Earle	Bible and a gun	All over creation	Yep Roc	09:31 PM
Elvis Costello	Country darkness	The delivery man	Lost Highway	09:27 PM
Elvis Costello	Psycho (live)	Almost blue	Rhino	09:23 PM
Elvis Costello	Why don't you love me?	Almost blue	Rhino	09:22 PM
Jim Gaffigan	Eat vegetarian	Beyond the pale	Comedy Central	09:14 PM
Tokyo Police Club	Be good	Daytrotter sessions	Daytrotter.com	09:13 PM
Maritime	Guns of Navarone	Daytrotter sessions	Daytrotter.com	09:10 PM
The National	Slow show	Daytrotter sessions	Daytrotter.com	09:06 PM
Voxtrot	The future, pt. 1	Daytrotter sessions	Daytrotter.com	09:02 PM
Radiohead	Everything in its right place	Kid A	Capitol	08:55 PM
Michael Brook	Ultramarine	Cobalt blue	4AD	08:50 PM
Genesis	Afterglow	Wind & Wuthering	Atco/Rhino	08:50 PM
Bryan Ferry	All I really wanna do	Dylanesque	Virgin	08:44 PM
Band Of Horses	No one's gonna love you	Cease to begin	Sub Pop	08:40 PM
Matthew Ryan vs. The Silver State	American dirt		myspace.com/matthewryan	08:33 PM
The Waltones	She looks right through me	You've gotta hand it to 'em	Cherry Red	08:29 PM
The Servants	The sun, a small star	Reserved	Cherry Red	08:27 PM
The Sharp Things	Don't hold out hope	A moveable feast	Bar/None	08:23 PM
Vampire Weekend	A-Punk	Vampire Weekend	XL/Beggars Banquet	08:20 PM
Yeasayer	Germs	All hour cymbals	We Are Free	08:17 PM
Minutemen	Paranoid chant	Introducing the Minutemen	SST	08:16 PM
fIREHOSE	Brave captain	Ragin' full on	SST	08:13 PM
Bruce Springsteen	Radio nowhere	Magic	Columbia	08:07 PM
Lindsey Buckingham	It was you	Under the skin	Reprise	08:04 PM
Arcade Fire	Ocean of noise	Neon Bible	Merge	07:59 PM
Calexico	Wave	Por vida (Alejandro Escovedo tribute)	Or Music	07:55 PM
John Doe	Lean out yr window	A year in the wilderness	Yep Roc	07:53 PM
Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons	Rag doll	The definitive pop collection	Rhino	07:47 PM
Harry Chapin	W*O*L*D	The gold medal collection	Elektra	07:42 PM
World Party	All come true	Private revolution	Chrysalis	07:36 PM
The Mamas & The Papas	California dreamin'	Creeque Alley: The best of TM&TP	MCA	07:34 PM
The Hang Ups	Comin' through	Comin' through	Clean/Restless	07:30 PM
Field Music	You're not supposed to	Write your own history	Memphis Industries	07:29 PM
Hank Mobley	The best things in life are free	Workout	Blue Note	07:20 PM
Joshua Redman	I'm an old cowhand	Back east	Nonesuch	07:14 PM
Andrew Hill	Violence (alt take)	Change	Blue Note	07:07 PM
Jimmy Smith	Yes sir, that's my baby	Straight life	Blue Note	07:03 PM
Stanley Turrentine	Blues for Del	A bluish bag	Blue Note	06:56 PM

Just noticed: Sexyloser.

First time I've seen this one crop up on the inbound traffic - a Germany-based music blog called Sexyloser. Thanks for the link, Dirk!

and now some Field Music.

A great band - have you heard Tones of town yet? You really should.

Here's the Field Music site. They're on an extended break right now.

"In context":

"A house is not a home":

"You're not supposed to":

"She can do what she wants":

"If only the moon were up":

oh what the hell more meat puppets

"Sam":

"Scum":

"Get on down":

"Up on the sun" (live version from 2007):

Meat Puppets - Backwater EP

Not sure how rare this one is, or if it's even rare at all. "Backwater" comes from Too high to die which is still in print, so I won't include it here.

02. Meat Puppets -  Open wide (from Forbidden places, which is OOP)

03. Meat Puppets -  Animal

04. Meat Puppets - Up on the sun (a rerecording of some kind)

05. Meat Puppets -  White sport coat

Here's the video for "Backwater"":

Owl and bear.

It's been a while since I mentioned Time to play B-sides, the blog of my old Iowa pal, Mike Roeder. In a recent post, he mentions a music blog I hadn't heard of before, The Owl And The Bear. O&B posts a lot of shows in the FLAC format - Tom Waits, Band Of Horses and Arctic Monkeys are some recent entries.

Had it all. Lost it all.

Read about the story of former Dallas Cowboy Clayton Holmes. He had a million-dollar contract, now he lives in a shack in Florence, South Carolina.

Boasting 4.23 speed and Carl Lewis-esque athleticism, he was the type of out-of-nowhere phenom that Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson prided themselves on. "Clayton was such a damn talent," says Darren Woodson, a former Cowboys safety who was selected in the same draft as Holmes. "As far as the guys I played with in my 13-year career, I'd put him in my top four as far as pure athletic ability. He could do anything. Everything."

And now, here is Holmes, back on the very streets he once escaped, trying to lie low atop a red bicycle that serves, unintentionally, as his calling card. More than 12 years removed from his last regular-season NFL game, Holmes is well versed in the inescapable hell that is the pity and scorn directed his way. He hears people whispering, sees them pointing, understands the joke is completely on him. When the football money rolled in, Holmes was quick to send $500 here, $1,000 there.

Clayton, my car is broken. Clayton, my son needs new shoes. Clayton, my house payment is overdue.

"He couldn't say no," says Lisa Holmes, Clayton's ex-wife. "He felt like he had to help everyone."

Now, those same people he aided look at Holmes as a cautionary tale: what not to do.

They consider it their right -- their obligation -- to tell him what a pathetic fool he is; to tell him that he had The Life and lost it; to tell him that he should be on TV with Deion and Emmitt and Troy and Moose, not slogging around Florence like a worthless bum.

You don't even have a car. You don't even have a cell phone. You don't even have a home. You pawned your Super Bowl rings. You have four kids with four women.

"Clayton has turned out to be a great disappointment," says Claudia McElveen, Holmes' mother. "There's no other way to say it."

The Republican debate according to a 9-year-old.

Here's a humorous diary from Daily Kos - the latest Republican debate as viewed by a youngster:

Beagle Eyes
Arrogant foreign policy
We need 400,000 troops
Don't let politicians get involved
Leave it to military with blood on their boots.

Carrot Face
President policy good
War good
Patriot Act good
Electric snooping good
Capturing Saddam mistake
Surge mistake
Clinton peace dividend bad
We need more troops
We need more ships

Wrinkles
Constitution has 10 Amendments
Immigration is bad
Secure border from immigration
 
Sarge
Bush right
America is safe
America is not safe
America is safe
Rumsfeld failure
Petraeus is good
Strategy was bad
Now it is good

Sarge is confusing

So who will you vote for - Wrinkles?  Carrot Face? Beagle Eyes?

Here's a follow-up diary on the subject.

Every morning, every afternoon, I will ride with you. I will ride.

Good news on the TV front - one of my favorite shows of the season, Carpoolers, returns from what looked like a near-certain cancellation. One of the (very) small positive things to take away from the ongoing writers' strike.

Tuesday night, 9.30 pm EST, PST/8.30 CST.

Here's the theme song (all 10 seconds of it), performed by The Features:

The Features - Carpoolers theme

[Courtesy of ComedyCentric.com]