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A little video my friend Matt and I made. This is me.


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-Erik

Best of the Week: March 16-20

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Have a Great Weekend,
Erik

Day 40: Wu-Tang Clan

Today we're on that '93 shit. This artist spotlight is more of a nine-artist spotlight:

The RZA
The GZA
Ghostface Killah
Masta Killa
Method Man
U-God
Raekwon
Inspectah Deck
Ol' Dirty Bastard

This week's list is a tribute to these rap pioneers. My list includes primarily their collective work, but it also draws from their first round of solo albums (with the exception of Ghostface, because I wanted the song I wanted and not a song from Ironman). Also, if it seems like there's a lot of Enter the 36 Chambers; that's because there is. Do not adjust your computer screen.

YouTube:
All songs by Wu-Tang Clan, Unless Noted
01. Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthin' Ta Fuck Wit
02. Careful (Click Click)
03. Unpredictable
04. Ghostface Killah - Buck 50
05. Ol' Dirty Bastard - Brooklyn Zoo
06. Can It Be All So Simple
07. Hollow Bones
08. Radioactive (4 Assassins)
09. C.R.E.A.M.
10. Gravel Pit (Great Video!)
11. Triumph
12. Raekwon - Ice Cream
13. Dogshit
14. Bring Da Ruckus
15. GZA - Liquid Swords
16. Protect Ya Neck
17. Method Man - All I Need
18. Uzi (Pinky Ring)
19. Rushing Elephants
20. I Can't Go To Sleep

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Day 40: Wu-Tang Clan

Protect Ya Neck,
Erik

Lol, Mad Delirium:


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Day 39: Boxing

On this day in 1954, Joey Giardello knocked out Willie Tory in round 7 at Madison Square Garden. This was the first televised boxing fight shown in color. In honor of this event, I've compiled a short list of my favorite songs about boxing. Enjoy.

YouTube:
01. Who Killed Davey Moore? (Bob Dylan Re-Vox) - Colin Munroe
02. Bruce Springsteen - The Hitter
03. Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
04. Ben Folds - Boxing
05. Warren Zevon - Boom Boom Mancini
06. Mark Knopfler - Song for Sonny Liston
07. Sun Kil Moon- Salvador Sanchez
08. Bob Dylan - Hurricane

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Day 39: Boxing

KO,
Erik

And!


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Day 38: Wildcard (8)

Wildcard Time! There appears to be a lot more alternative this week than usual. What can you do?

YouTube:
01. Head East - Never Been Any Reason
02. Spoon - The Underdog (one of my favorite videos of all time)
03. Supergrass - Lenny
04. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver
05. Bush - Glycerine
06. Butthole Surfers - Pepper
07. Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
08. Okkervil River - Plus Ones (Great song!)
09. Feist - I Feel It All
10. Grüvis Malt - Filling In A City (N/A)
11. Snoop Dogg - Gz and Hustlas (with intro!)
12. GZA - Shadowboxin'
13. Stevie Wonder - Uptight (Everything's Alright)
14. MOP - Ante Up
15. Lauryn Hill - To Zion
16. Beck - The New Pollution
17. Abigail Washburn & the Sparrow Quartet - A Fuller Wine
18. Suicide - Cheree
19. Joe Cocker - The Letter
20. Busta Rhymes - Don't Touch Me (Throw the Water On 'em)

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Word,
Erik

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Day 37: Drinkin' Songs

It's St. Patrick's Day! It's a time for all of us to cut loose and join the ranks of the Irish, a people who couldn't escape the stigma of alcoholism if they drunkenly killed everyone else in the world with broken bottles, enabling them to be the only people left who could possibly remember that such a stigma ever existed, despite the fact that most of their brain cells have been killed in a similar microscopic bar fight within their brains by tiny alcohol cells holding proportionately small broken bottles; even with such limited brain capacity and the rest of the world dead, these ginger-haired, freckled bastards would carry the mark of generation upon generation of inescapable dependence on alcohol.

Which brings me to today's list. Drinking songs. Enjoy! (Note: This drinking song list does not include rap. That's sort of a different ballgame. Rappers don't write songs about drinking, they write songs about partying, for the most part.)

YouTube:
01. Flogging Molly - Drunken Lullabies
02. Old 97's - Melt Show
03. Big D & the Kids Table - Little Bitch
04. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
05. Guns N' Roses - Mr. Brownstone
06. Dropkick Murphys - The Dirty Glass
07. The Pogues - Sally MacLennane
08. Sublime - 40oz. to Freedom
09. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - You and Me and the Bottle Makes 3 Tonight (Baby)
10. Billy Joel - Piano Man
11. The Hold Steady - Massive Nights
12. Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time
13. Reel Big Fish - Beer
14. Gogol Bordello - Alcohol
15. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard
16. Catch 22 - Chasing the Moon
17. Garth Brooks - Friends in Low Places
18. George Thorogood - One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer
19. Metallica - Whiskey in the Jar
20. Johnny Cash - Sunday Morning Coming Down

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Day 37: Drinkin Songs

Stay Drunk,
Erik

Video!


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Day 36: Pre-1980s Punk

This week's genre tour was a little tough to define. I wanted to do a strictly Roots Punk list coming off the heels of The Clash list. But the genre definitions within the punk movement are shady at best. So I decided that I'd limit the list to songs released before 1980. This sort of narrows down what's fair game. On one hand there are Protopunk bands that set the ground rules for punk (The Stooges, The Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground), more straight-up Punk acts (Dead Boys, Ramones, Sex Pistols), alongside the first wave of Post-Punk bands like Gang of Four. Overall the list is just a collection of some of my favorite songs from this era. The attitude, message and relentlessness of the music encapsulated the movement. Enjoi Oi Oi!

YouTube:
01. The Velvet Underground - I'm Waiting for the Man
02. Patti Smith - Pumping (My Heart)
03. New York Dolls - Personality Crisis
04. The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
05. Iggy & The Stooges - Search & Destroy
06. Ramones - Judy is a Punk
07. The Clash - Janie Jones
08. The Jam - The Modern World
09. The Damned - New Rose
10. Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
11. Sex Pistols - God Save the Queen
12. Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device
13. Wire - Ex Lion Tamer
14. Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict
15. Gang of Four - Ether

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Day 36: Pre-1980s Punk

Hey Ho! Let's Go!
Erik

Video:


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