Swindle, “Airmiles” (from Airmiles EP, 2010)
Last couple weeks of music nerdery have been all Super Hits of the Seventies, so let’s snap back to the present day for a bit.
Black Sabbath, “Johnny Blade” (from Never Say Die, 1978)
This actually isn’t one of Black Sabbath’s better moments, but as Magazine songs go, it’s pretty amazing.
Focus, “Hocus Pocus” (originally from Focus II/Moving Waves, 1971)
One of those rare and precious songs that achieves the perfect 1:1 ass-kicking/ridiculousness ratio.
myjamrighthere the part of my brain that controls ironic distance has been annihilated
T. Rex, “Cadilac”
Yeah, I know, but that’s how they spelled it on the “Telegram Sam” single. With a riff like that they could spell it with a Q and a couple Hs for all I care.
Peter Thomas Sound Orchester, “Raumpatrouille”
This week’s “I’m gonna get amped, go out and run shit” theme.
(Thomas also composed this. Dude sure did know what to do with a horn section.)
Exuma, “Exuma, the Obeah Man” (from Exuma, 1970)
Today is 1970 Day on my iPod, and this is far and away the best thing I’ve heard from that particular year so far.
Ikonika, “Idiot” (from Contact, Want, Love, Have, 2010)
To quote YouTube comments (for the first and probably only time):
j0hnlemon258 - banger, big up dostoyevsky
I first heard this back in ‘99 on some Rhino comp of L.A. punk, and it has been a source of unceasing hilarity ever since. Holy shit, that guitar solo.
Dert Floyd, “Untitled 22” (from The Westside of the Moon, 2007)
Yes, that’s a hip hop reworking of “The Great Gig in the Sky”. Yes, there’s 33 more tracks of this.
(This one sounds kinda like an Ant beat.)
