LynnFox shorts for Bjork's live shows

Sellout Watch:

Thomas Dolby, "She Blinded Me With Science", Pantene Shampoo

Sellout Watch:

Cro-magnon axeman, bowhunter, and defender of all-things-gruntworthy including the right to bear arms, bare chests and bare your barren intellect, Ted Nugent, has sold his only good song -- "Stranglehold" -- to Dodge for use in their latest Dodge Trucks commercial. Somehow, though, I can picture "the Nuge" riding shotgun with the pathetic caricatured meatheads who play foil to the calm cool contractor-type star of these ads as they try to keep up with the power and prestige of the vaunted Hemi engine.

Remember Watt's "Piss Bottle Man"?

Get caught tossing a bottle of urine and you'll pay $95. Poster (PDF link) | Story

Dero v. Adams


This is like over a month old now, and nearly two weeks beyond ripe for posting. But, just in case you haven’t heard about this… enjoy.

Jim Derogatis, current music crit for Chiccy G’s other paper and former “scenester” for my hometown weekly The Elmhurst Press (back when I was a young music fan hooked on hair metal, the Beatles and AM-radio-dominated Cheap Trick), wrote a not-so-glowing review of a Ryan Adams gig back in December. It seems Mr. Adams read a copy of said review, took exception, phoned Dero and left a vitriolic voice mail on his answering machine. The tape (Real Audio version here) made its way to the web and hilarity ensues! To wit (from the horse’s mouth):

can see why you are so bitter, but please, this is music...its about giving..........i hope you see the beauty and magic of music as a language where there are no wrong and right words or notes...
these are our storys......and they are meant to be heard.............
good luck jim/ art is the voice of god and he is always speaking and he is never wrong.

Charlie Brown and Co. cover "Hey Ya". This is good.
(Still bridging populations -- er, forging communities -- both real and animated...)

Sellout Watch:

50 Cent's "In Da Club" for Cingular wireless

SELLOUT WATCH:

The Flaming Lips' "Do You Realize??" is being used in a Mitsubishi ad.

This makes me want a Mac so bad. (Anybody know of something similar for the PC? Or how about "Virtual Mac" software for Windows??)

VH1 Classic is the shit.
I try to tune in to "We Are the Eighties" now and again because I know that they'll play a block of good videos at some point in the hour. They're really good at digging up the obscure. However, obscure sometimes means suffering through the Glass Tiger or T'Pau videos. But here's my remedy for coping while the crap videos play: put the TV on mute and play your own CDs. All too often you get that weird synergy between what you're playing and what's displayed on the screen. When it really meshes, it's downright thrilling, regardless of whether intended soundtrack is Warrant or the Steve Miller Band. Anyway, I was expecting this sort of thing when I switched over to VH1 Classic this evening. CD was already going...

But tonight I got lucky.

VH1C treated me to a solid half hour* of Smiths videos with commentary from Johnny Marr. Now I wish I could tell you that Mr. Marr said something really profound about the Smiths years or the breakup or whatever, but in all honesty, I can't remember what he said. The important thing is the video tracklist. Here's what I got to see:

Panic
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
Sheila Take a Bow
Girlfriend in a coma
This Charming Man
Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before
Shoplifters Unite
How Soon is Now?

So they didn't play my all time fav, "There is a light..." but a few months ago I had the pleasure of seeing it on said channel. One of these days I'll be able to put into words what that song means to me and how it affected me the first time I heard it and what it was like seeing Morrissey (too young to see the Smiths do it) play that song live but until then... I'm telling you this channel is the shit.


*For the most part, their commercial interruptions are few and far between, and more often than not they are VH1 self-promotions.

Deviated Septum 2003 CDR Box Set

Nine Ten* discs all told. A ridiculous amount of music sampling the year that was twenty oh three. While the whole of the compilation may include a few overlapping cuts, each disc was individually and lovingly tracked as each of us saw fit to satisfy our own standards of variety, balance and flow -- thus making each journey unique. Any and all of the following CDR’s are available for trade, sharing, or other such aural perusal –- please send me an email at the contact address listed in the left-hand column (vekmar AT msn.com) for further details. Feel free to copy and print these tracklists for your recordkeeping. Thanks for listening.

Kevin Keenan's 3xCDR:

Vol. 1 – Beat Me Senseless
01 Fischerspooner – Emerge
02 Stars – Elevator Love Letter
03 Ween – Transdermal Celebration
04 Ted Leo/Pharmacists – Where Have All the Rude Boys Gone?
05 Junior Senior – Move Your Feet
06 Lightning Bolt – Dracula Mountain
07 Broadcast – Pendulum
08 TV on the Radio – Staring at the Sun
09 50 Cent – In Da Club
10 Jerk With a Bomb – Among Thieves
11 Dizzee Rascal – Fix Up, Look Sharp
12 Outkast – Hey Ya
13 The Postal Service – Such Great Heights
14 Viktor Vaughn – Let Me Watch (ft. Apani B)
15 Sun Kil Moon – Carry Me Ohio
16 Radiohead – There There
17 M83 – Run Into Flowers

Vol. 2 – Mixed Marriage
01 White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
02 The Joggers – Back to the Future
03 The Constantines – On to You
04 Cursive – The Recluse
05 Coldplay – Clocks
06 George and Caplin – Railway Yearn
07 Outkast – Ghetto Musick
08 Tatu – Not Gonna Get Us
09 Luomo – Tessio (Moonbootica remix)
10 Clearlake – Come Into Darkness
11 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
12 The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
13 Justin Timberlake – Cry Me a River
14 Broken Social Scene – Cause = Time
15 The Royal We – Hot IQs
16 A Trillion Barnacle Lapse – Binary Roulette
17 The Strokes – 12:51
18 The Thermals – No Culture Icons

Vol. 3 – Love, American Style
01 !!! – Me and Giuliani Down By the School Yard (A True Story)
02 Twilight Singers – Son of the Morning Star
03 Manitoba – Hendrix With Ko
04 Justin Timberlake – Rock Your Body
05 The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
06 Beyonce – Crazy in Love (ft. Jay-Z)
07 Menomena – The Late Great Libido
08 Guided by Voices – The Best of Jill Hives
09 Songs: Ohia – Farewell Transmission
10 Out Hud – My Two Nads (Dad reprise)
11 Ms. Dynamite – Dy-Na-Mi-Tee
12 Sean Paul – Get Busy
13 The Shins – Kissing the Lipless
14 Grandaddy – Now Its On
15 The Pernice Brothers – One Foot in the Grave
16 Blur – Out of Time


Marnie Christenson's 2xCDR:

Disc One
01 Broken Social Scene – Almost Crimes
02 +/- (Plus/Minus) – I’ve Been Lost
03 Constantines – Insectivora
04 Menomena – Strongest Man in the World
05 Clearlake – Wonder if the Snow Will Settle
06 Radiohead – Where I End and You Begin
07 The Rapture – Sister Savior
08 Ellen Allien – Sehnsucht
09 TV on the Radio – Young Liars
10 King Geedorah – Take Me To Your Leader (Fazers)
11 Thermals – No Culture Icons
12 Ted Leo and the Pharmacists – The Ballad of the Sin Eater
13 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Maps
14 The National – 90 Mile Water Wall
15 The Unicorns – Child Star
16 Stars – Look Up

Disc Two
01 The Shins – Kissing the Lipless
02 The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
03 Menomena – The Late Great Libido
04 Deerhoof – Flower
05 Stars – Elevator Love Letter
06 Death Cab for Cutie – Expo ‘86
07 Califone – Vampiring Again
08 TV on the Radio – Blind
09 Constantines – Shine a Light
10 Twilight Singers – Son of the Morning Star
11 The National – Trophy Wife
12 Jim Yoshii Pileup – Birthday Cake
13 +/- (Plus/Minus) – Trapped Under Ice Floes
14 Sun Kil Moon - Pancho Villa
15 Sufjan Stevens – Flint (For the Unemployed and Underpaid)
16 Broken Social Scene – Lover’s Spit

Disc Three * - Marnie couldn't resist
01 New Pornographers - All for Swinging You Around
02 Broken Social Scene - Market Fresh (B-Side Single)
03 The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
04 The Wrens - This Boy is Exhausted
05 Sufjan Stevens - Romulus
06 Plus/Minus - Megalomaniac
07 Let Me Watch - Viktor Vaughn
08 Constantines - On to You
09 Outkast (Andre 3000) - Hey Ya
10 Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body
11 Ellen Allien - Trash Scapes
12 Radiohead - There There
13 Metric - Hustle Rose
14 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
15 The Shins - We Will Become Silhouettes
16 Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio


Nikhil Swaminathan's 3xCDR:

Disc One
1.. The Mars Volta - Son Et Lumiere/Inertiatic ESP
2.. Stars - Death to Death
3.. Cursive - The Recluse
4.. Calla - The Strangler
5.. The Postal Service - Such Great Heights
6.. Pinback -- B
7.. The Rapture - I Need Your Love
8.. Cat Power - Good Woman
9.. Metric -- IOU
10.. Folk Implosion -- Fuse
11.. The Libertines - Up the Bracket
12.. Mates of State - Ha Ha
13.. Kings of Leon - California Waiting (EP version)
14.. The Constantines - Nighttime/Anytime (It's Alright)
15.. The Decemeberists - The Bachelor and the Bride
16.. Broken Social Scene - Cause = Time
17.. !!! - Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (a true story)

Disc Two
1.. Fischerspooner -- Emerge
2.. Radiohead - 2+2 = 5
3.. Ted Leo/Pharmacists - The High Party
4.. Pleasure Forever - White Mare
5.. Outkast - Hey Ya!
6.. Calexico -- Quattro
7.. El Guapo - Glass House
8.. Rainer Maria - Ears Ring
9.. Paper Lions - Money Blanket
10.. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - No No No (edit)
11.. The Apes - Aboard the Ark
12.. The Fever -- Ladyfingers
13.. The White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
14.. Party of Helicopters - The Toucher
15.. Enon - Daughter in the House of Fools
16.. Panjabi MC - Beware (Jay-Z remix)
17.. The Strokes - The End Has No End
18.. The Delgados - Coming in from the Cold
19.. The Shins - Fighting in a Sack
20.. Outkast - The Way You Move
21.. Le Tigre - Deceptacon (DFA remix -edit)

Disc Three
1. TV on the Radio -- Staring at the Sun
2. Dizzee Rascal -- I Luv U
3. Clearlake -- Almost the Same
4. Adult. -- Glue Your Eyelids Together
5. Mink Lungs -- Awesome Pride
6. Beulah -- Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore
7. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks -- Do Not Feed the (Oyster)
8. Supergrass -- Rush Hour Soul
9. Kelis -- Milkshake
10. Manitoba -- Hendrix with KO
11. American Analog Set -- Hard to Find
12. Scene Creamers -- Wet Paint
13. The Unicorns -- Tuff Ghost
14. Britta Phillips & Dean Wareham -- Night Nurse
15. Maserati -- Wire Were Towers
16. Menomena -- The Late Great Libido
17. The Roots (feat. Cody ChesnuTT) -- The Seed 2.0
18. New Pornographers -- The Laws Have Changed
19. The Darkness -- I Believe in a Thing Called Love


Rod Waterman's CDR

1. Ginger Snaps - Britta Phillips and Dean Wareham
2. Caroline and I - The Go-Betweens
3. Reptilia - The Strokes
4. One Foot in the Grave - The Pernice Brothers
5. Mouthfuls - Fruitbats
6. Almost the Same - Clearlake
7. On to You - Constantines
8. The Simple Things Are Taking Over - Stratford 4
9. Georgia Vs. YLT- Yo La Tengo
10. The Ben Gibbard Suite
a) Home (from the Home EP on Post-Parlo)
b) Transatlanticism
c) Carolina (Post-Parlo)
d) Ioga (w/Ben Barnett from the Bjork tribute album Read: Interpreting Bjork)
e) Such Great Heights (Postal Service)
11. The Way You Move - Outkast
12. Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
13. Frontin' - The Neptunes
14. Weak Become Heroes (Royksopp's Memory Lane Mix) - The Streets
15. Jesus the Mexican Boy - Iron and Wine
16. Go or Go Ahead - Rufus Wainwright
17. Tom the Model - Beth Gibbons
18. Bring Me the Disco King - David Bowie

Last night I was in Cincinnati, home of the Afghan Whigs. The Whigs are no more...

(I wrote this bit of hyperbole, AMG regurgitation, and jarring blend of run-on/fragmentary sentences about a year ago. It's not very good, but it came from the gut and considering it's the Whigs we're talking about, that's really what counts. Besides, I think I made my point.)

Elliott Smith's suicide not a suicide?

In Praise Of...

I was listening to Duran Duran's Rio the other day -- top to bottom pure titties, anyway -- and sometime after "Save a Prayer" scribbled myself a note to worship at that altar way more often. Don't question, however, simply queue up your deliverance.

Deviated Septum - Best Albums of 2003


As Nikhil said to me when he submitted his list, “This year was an embarassment of riches, Kev.” Well said, Nik.

What follows is the cumulative ranking of our twenty favorite albums of the past year. A common theme among the contributors to the list is that so much of the ranking is dependent on mood or memory or just the general timing of writing ‘em down. All of our lists were in flux up until the moment they were posted and even as I type this I wonder if I shouldn’t have re-ordered my top three. Alas, this is the nature of the year-end list and part of the reason they’re so fun to make in the first place and then dissect later; they become a snapshot of our tastes at this exact moment in time.

One caveat: A few albums listed on the individual rankings were actually released in 2002 (Out Hud, Ms. John Soda, Justin Timberlake, Giddy Motors). There were reasons for this, but they are too numerous to list here.

Just as we did last year, Deviated Septum will be offering a CDR compilation of this year’s favorite songs. Expect a multi-disc series this time, with offerings from each contributor and maybe even a combination mix as well. (Tracklists to be posted sometime next week.)

Thanks for reading.

1. Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It in People
2. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
3. Menomena - I Am the Fun Blame Monster
4. The Postal Service - Give Up
5. Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
6. Constantines - Shine A Light
(tie) Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Hearts of Oak
8. Sufjan Stevens - Greetings from Michigan: The Great Lake State
9. TV on the Radio - Young Liars EP
10. The Rapture - Echoes
11. Clearlake - Cedars
12. Ellen Allien - Berlinette
13. Stars - Heart
(tie) The National - Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
15. Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
16. Cat Power - You Are Free
17. Calla - Televise
18. Four Tet - Rounds
19. Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
(tie) Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher/Extinguished: Outtakes


Individual Contributor Lists:

Kevin Keenan
Marnie Christenson
Rod Waterman
Nikhil Swaminathan