Everything Is One, You Have Nothing To Do with It: Transmission 457, 2019 March 27

2019-05-24

Welcome to the second night of a back-to-back engagement. No doubt, I must have been tired. But unlike the previous outing, this was "my" shift. Accordingly, this time around my mistakes were fewer (I think) and more routine (I think). So this is a typical program, I guess you'd say, and typically good too, though once again I've heard it way too much since. That week people were really worked up about this (trolling?) retrospective of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. Maybe it is a generational thing, but I didn't regard that album as any good at...

That week people were really worked up about this (trolling?) retrospective of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. Maybe it is a generational thing, but I didn't regard that album as any good at the time and I don't think it has improved with age. It was certainly on "heavy rotation" on local corporate "alternative" radio--this did not endear it to me, but in fairness it didn't stand a chance when Liz Phair's Exile In Guyville was totally already out there (and which, incidentally, has aged well).

It got me thinking about a couple of things--first, the 90s, the total memory of which makes me shudder. I have issues with self-disgust in general, but I really don't like the person I was in that decade. How inconvenient it is that many of my life-defining experiences happened then. Coincidentally, or maybe not, I don't find myself liking a lot of music from that period, either, though I mostly still enjoy now what little I did then. Maybe it's just me but I feel like, collectively, we need to have a talk about what went on during that time.

Second, that nihilistic (and rightly loathed) critique is exactly the sort of thing I might write had I remained in the "various businesses" that paid me to do so. My own flawed decision-making and the pointless and cruel interventions of others have spared us all that fate. But, however late I am coming around to it, I daresay that I am finally learning to distinguish between the harmless and the harmful. Most of the time it is ok to let people like things--this must be what the kids mean when they say "just keep scrolling." But punk-style negation is very hard to unlearn. I am working on it, dear friends.

BOMBAST playlist, 2019 March 27, 2100-2300:

"Dusty Fingers - Metrik Remix" | S.P.Y. | Sick Music 2019 | Hospital
"Everything In Colour" | transmission 13 | The Edge Of The World | self-released
"All Men Are Dogs" | Harlem | Oh Boy | Female Fantasy
"I Feel Better All Over" | Ferlin Husky | The Other Side of Bakersfield, Vol. 2 | Bear Family
"Goku" | Taylor Graves | Brainfeeder X | Brainfeeder
"Chapel O' Love" | b l u e s c r e e n | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
"Skunk" | A Certain Ratio | Mind Made Up [reissue] | Mute
"We Are the Snare" | Spare Snare | Sounds Recorded by Steve Albini | Chute
"God Bless You" | Sone Institute | Where Moth and Rust Consume | Front and Follow
"Sanity Starts At Home" | The Claim | Boomy Tella | A Turntable Friend
"Wolfbane" | The Orb | No Sounds Are Out of Bounds | Cooking Vinyl
"Real Eyes" | NNYz? | Aetiology | Kahvi Collective
"Another the Letter" | Wire | Chairs Missing [reissue] | Pink Flag
"Join The Dots" | Dragon Welding | Dragon Welding | A Turntable Friend
"They Kept Walking" | Frieder Nagel | Distract Robots | Infine
"Heroes" | A Merge Group | A Merge Group Plays "Heroes" | Merge
"Harry" | Bauhaus | The Bela Session | Leaving Records
"White Star Liner" | Public Service Broadcasting | White Star Liner | PIAS
"Hold Me, You Idiot" | b l u e__ΔCID | Eternal Spring | Virtual Soundsystem
"It's Over" | CTMF | SQ 1 | Damaged Goods
"Help Me Mary" | Liz Phair | Girly-Sound to Guyville | Matador
"Blissos" | Lauer | Power | Running Back
"Split" | Cosey Fanni Tutti | TUTTI | Conspiracy International
"Champion of the Arena Dub" | Jah Division | Dub Will Tear Us Apart...Again | Ernest Jenning Record Co.
"Day Tripper" | Pom Poko | Birthday | Bella Union
"Want You" | Tight Knit | Too Hot | Not Unloved
"Ballare Sulla Tua Tomba" | Futuropaco | Futuropaco | El Paraiso
"Stranger Than Kindness" | Curl | Death is not the end... A Tribute to Nick Cave | The Blog That Celebrates Itself
"The Other Light" | David Vassalotti | Guitar Dream | Wharf Cat
"Bartender's Rag" | Thin White Rope | The Ruby Sea [reissue] | Frontier
"Soundtrack to the Daily Grind" | Graham Day And The Gaolers | Damaged Goods (1988-2018) | Damaged Goods
"She's a Girl" | The Amps | Pacer | 4AD
"Night Time Diamonds" | Brian | EJOG | self-released
"Smooth False Foxglove" | Express Rising | Fixed Rope (II) | Numero Group
"Sing a Song - Live at Clouds Hill" | Tom Allan & The Strangest | Sing a Song (Live at Clouds Hill) | Clouds Hill