The Smittens - My Favorite Dream

The Smittens - My Favorite Dream A great video by one of my recent favorite bands, the Smittens.

Playlist for June 17, 2006

9:00pm New York Dolls - Jet Boy - New York Dolls - Mercury - 1973 C-Average - the Witch - Second Rekoning - Kill Rock Stars - 2000 Speaker Speaker - Statues/Shadows - Again & Again & Again - Self - 2005 Thee Emergency - Girl You Should've Known - Can You Dig It? - Blue Disguise - 2006 - *new* the Pointed Sticks - Out Of Luck - Part Of The Noise - Zulu - 1979 the Long Winters - Fire Island, AK - Putting The Days To Bed - Barsuk - 2006 - *new* XTC - Great Fire - Mummer - Virgin - 1983 Camper Van Beethoven - That Gum You Like Is Back In Style - New Roman Times - Pitch-A-Tent - 2004 Smoosh - Clap On - Free To Stay - Barsuk - 2006 - *new* Elephone - Let Go Of My Arm - The Camera Behind The Camera Behind The Camera - Three Ring - 2006 - *new* V/A - Elliot Smith - Division Day - Slaying Since 1996 - Suicide Squeeze - 2006 - *new* the Boy Least Likely Too - Be Gentle With Me - The Best College Radio Party Ever - Too Young To Die - 2006 - *new* the Polar Bodies - Anything - Test Pattern - Subtle Reference - 2005 10:00pm the Brian Jonestown Massacre - I've Been Waiting (alternate version) - Strung Out In Heaven - TVT - 1998 Oneida - Up With People - Happy New Year - Jagjaguwar/Brah - 2006 - *new* The Cars - You're All I've Got Tonight - The Cars - Elektra - 1978 Spoon - All The Negatives Have Been Destroyed - Telephono - Merge - 1996 & 2006 - *new* Nikki Corvette and the Stingrays - Please Don't Stay Away - Back To Detroit - Dollar Record Records - 2006 - *new* the Pixies - I Bleed - Doolittle - 4AD - 1989 Envelopes - My Fren - Demon - Brille Records - 2006 - *new* Spain Colored Orange - Persistant Intermission - Hopelessly Incapable of Standing in the Way EP - Lucid - 2006 - *new* Conner - Overflow - Hello Graphic Missle - Sonic Boom - 2006 - *new* Cassavettes - Everything Has An E - Funny Story - Headphone Treats - 2006 *new* Castanets - A Song Is Not The Song Of The World - First Light's Freeze - Asthmatic Kitty - 2005 - *new* Dead Low Tide - Navy Buttons - Dead Low Tide - Tiger Style - 2003 Constantines - Shine A Light - Shine A Light - Sub Pop - 2003 - *new* The Black Heart Procession - To Bring You Back - The Spell - 2006 - *new*

The Neats

I found this album by accident. I just watched "New York Doll" the night before, and wanted to play something on the show. No luck, but the album cover jumped out at me, and I saw that it was on the Ace Of Hearts label, which early Mission of Burma was released on as well. Here's what their AMG entry says:

Formed in 1979, the Neats were one of the great enigmas in Boston's fertile 1980s club scene. During these years, one did not have to look far for a bill that might include any combination of the roots-rocking Del Fuegos, the Nuggets garage rock-worshipping Lyres, and the drunken hardcore punk slamming of Gang Green. The Neats were yet another item altogether; a decidedly collegiate group of clean-cut, straight-faced brooding guys who played evocative and melancholy music that encompassed the pre-psychedelic1960s-era folk-rock of the Seekers, Baroque pop of the Left Banke and the Zombies, and the bluesy moods of the early Rolling Stones and Them. Their closest contemporary American cousins were bands like the Feelies, Dream Syndicate, and the band they often shared a national bill with, early R.E.M. They also had a kinship with New Zealand pop outfits like the Clean and even British groups like Echo and the Bunnymen -- though without the high level of romantic drama of the latter; the drama of the Neats was manifested in a more introspective and subdued manner. Like those bands, on their first EP, The Monkey's Head in the Corner of the Room (1982), and debut LP, Neats (1983), the Neats favored clean guitar swaths, ebbing and flowing washes of strummed rhythms, and single-note melody lines over traditional improvised soloing. Always there was a melancholy sort of punk rock edge shadowing the music, a feel and sound that somehow links to a Boston tradition that can be traced through such bands as Mission of Burma to Galaxy 500 and beyond. -Bill Janovitz - All Music Guide

Anyhow, I'm going to try to track down some New York Dolls for next week. They have a new album coming out on July 25th.