Friday Videos: Mix Tape Edition
My sister and I grew up listening to hardcore, metal, and OMFUG. I’ve drifted more into country music, and lost track of quite a few of my old tapes and records (yes, records, those shiny black slabs of grooved vinyl: how I love them and miss them).
My sister on the other hand seems to have held onto a lot of older stuff, at least until two weeks ago when she dumped a boxload of tapes on my mom. Here in Philadelphia, I tape the WRDV country music show off the internets, so I was glad to take the tapes. And while a lot of them are certainly going to turn into country music collections, there were quite few gems in this motherlode. The Red Hot Chili Peppers’ last good album, Mother’s Milk. Queensryche! The Descendents!
So in honor of (or more appropriately, despite) our long relationship, I offer you the Kate SKwire mix-tape edition of Friday Videos.
Queensryche, “Revolution Calling”
Queensryche, “Operation Mindcrime”
RHCP, “Nobody Weird Like me”
I remember when “Mother’s Milk” was released: compared to earlier albums like Uplift Mofo Party Plan, I thought the production was too slick, but soon came to see this would be the last good album the RHCP put out. Here are two songs from UMPP on Spanish TV.
Organic Anti-beatbox Band/ Me and My Friends
And then there’s the Descendents, one of the first (the first?) hardcore bands to incorporate liking girls into the rest of the teenage angst. And here’s one of their best songs, “Suburban Home”. “I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified.”
Descendents, “Suburban Home”
I Don’t Wanna Grow Up
And then you have The Queers, one hell of a punk band. If you don’t like the Queers, then fuck you.
Don’t Back Down
I Met Her At The Rat
Like Ms. Sweeney, who wrote the article on The Rat, I got to go to a few all-ages shows at the famous Boston dive as well. It was in pretty bad shape when BU finally bought up Kenmore square and robbed it of its character back in the late 1990s, and it was sad to see a rock-n-roll landmark turn into a Gap or whatever the BU folks thought would be better than rock-n-roll.
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March 23rd, 2007 at 12:00 pm
[...] Original post by Brendan [...]
March 23rd, 2007 at 7:40 pm
In the spirit of Friday videos, I learned today that Darkbuster’s video “Skinhead” is officially out in web land. Awesome tune by the tightest punk rock band in Boston today.
Here’s the Youtube link in case I am unable to get the code to properly embed: