great show at kung fu necktie for r5 productions with our friends like a fox & ava luna.
slow down
spotlight
rotten life
subbacultcha (pixies)
good intentions
breed (nirvana)
starting now
humpty
afternoon is better
butterfly
stock
it was a packed house for our second show in new york city at arlene’s grocery. we had a great time playing for a large crowd that had obviously been making the most of their st. patrick’s day.
final chapter
good intentions
lifeboat
infinite space
starting now
nutso
skin i’m in
undecidedly so
humpty
when i get home (beatles)
butterfly
stock
we were asked if we could play a one hour set of early beatles pop songs for a private party. we said sure.
yellow submarine
eight days a week
can’t buy me love
you’re gonna lose that girl
all together now
a hard days night
you can’t do that
she loves you
ticket to ride
when I get home
all my loving
please please me
hey bulldog
i want to hold your hand
twist and shout
for what it’s worse – you can read the most thorough review of any of our albums, and possibly any album ever, here. (thrift store music)
this was our 6th year (5th in a row) as the karaoke band for our friends at the abbaye and as always it was a great time. people were invited to choose from our list of 210 songs and come up and sing with us. we had more people than ever come up and sing without the lyric sheets and everyone did a fantastic job. for the second year in a row we got a late night request for the who’s nine minute mini-opera “a quick one (while he’s away)” which isn’t on the list but this year was performed perfectly by our friend joe from the band the marts. another highlight was meghan, one of the owners of the abbaye, surprising us by coming up and singing one of our songs “geometric mean”. no one had ever requested to sing one of our songs before and it was pretty awesome. she even had her own lyric sheet. we warmed up at the start of the night with three of our songs and then immediately turned the vocal duties over to the crowd. below is the list of what was performed for all three sets. the cover songs for karaoke have the original band’s name in parenthesis following the song title.
good intentions
butterfly
starting now
last caress (misfits)
be my baby (ronettes)
should I stay or should I go (clash)
just like heaven (cure)
can’t hardly wait (replacements)
our lips are sealed (go-go’s)
psycho killer (talking heads)
under pressure (david bowie & queen)
left of the dial (replacements)
mary jane’s last dance (tom petty & the heartbreakers)
wrong (archers of loaf)
fake plastic trees (radiohead)
fuck & run (liz phair)
academy fight song (mission of burma)
queen bitch (david bowie)
my name is jonas (weezer)
blitzkrieg bop (ramones)
glad girls (guided by voices)
slot machine (superdrag)
phaser (superdrag)
low (cracker)
basket case (green day)
a salty salute (guided by voices)
we (descendents)
geometric mean
game of pricks (guided by voices)
creep (radiohead)
here comes your man (pixies)
baba o’riley (who)
o valencia (decemberists)
cut your hair (pavement)
psycho killer (talking heads)
(what’s so funny ‘bout) peace, love & understanding (elvis costello)
bikeage (descendents)
surf wax america (weezer)
i will dare (replacements)
under pressure (david bowie & queen)
harnessed in slums (archers of loaf)
debaser (pixies)
teenage f.b.i. (guided by voices)
weed king (guided by voices)
lethargy (guided by voices)
highway to hell (ac/dc)
take the skinheads bowling (camper van beethoven)
(you gotta) fight for your right (to party!) (beastie boys)
i’m allowed (buffalo tom)
rockin’ in the free world (neil young)
motor away (guided by voices)
dumb (nirvana)
twist & shout (beatles)
a quick one (while he’s away) (who)
mary jane’s last dance (tom petty & the heartbreakers)
featuring the music of joe strummer, the clash, the 101ers & the mescaleros performed by the future unwritten, leland plumridge (of first capitol funk), tonight we strike, successful failures, lust2love, scarier area, mean streets and us. the proceeds were all donated to strummerville, a registered charity that gives support to aspiring musicians and help to projects that help change the world through music. set up by the friends and family of joe strummer in the year after his death, the charity seeks to reflect joe’s unique contribution to the music world by offering support, resources and performance opportunities to artists who would not normally have access to them. we performed four clash songs.
janie jones, career opportunities, safe european home, death or glory
critic’s pick: strummerville benefit – what better way to seize the seasonal spirit than by celebrating punk’s patron saint—joe strummer—and contributing to his namesake charity, which, naturally, helps young, broke musicians make their mark. the lineup’s strong, highlighted by taggart, a local fixture harking back to underground rock’s golden age during the half-decade leading up to nevermind. the guitars are sweet and crunchy like super sugar crisp, purveying tasty hooks coated in distortion and jagged edges with gruff, half-yelped vocals reminiscent of eric bachmann (archers of loaf). versatile trio mean streets’ medium is punk rock in the vein of acts like the adicts and toy dolls. it’s catchy, boisterous stuff you might describe as pop-punk before blink-182 came along. the successful failures specialize in blending melancholy jangle pop and alt-rock fury. The bill’s filled out by the groovement’s frontman leland plumridge, bloozy classic rockers the future unwritten, and high-energy pop-punkers tonight we strike. (Philadelphia Weekly)
much thanks to lazlo from blowupradio.com for listing “for what it’s worse” in his top 100 albums of 2011.
fun night playing three sets of almost all covers at murph’s.
you can’t do that (beatles)
tree house (buffalo tom)
butterfly
gun (uncle tupelo)
tractor rape chain (guided by voices)
outtasight (outta mind) (wilco)
finders
low (cracker)
throwing things (superchunk)
i need to know (tom petty & the heartbreakers)
your little hoodrat friend (hold steady)
burned (buffalo springfield)
nutso
tired of sex (weezer)
christmas vacation (descendents)
know your onion! (shins)
harnessed in slums (archers of loaf)
fabricoh (archers of loaf)
nostalgia (archers of loaf)
you’re gonna lose that girl (beatles)
anarchy in the u.k. (sex pistols)
keep it close to me (superdrag)
o valencia (decemberists)
the kids are alright (who)
the goldheart mountaintop queen directory (guided by voices)
here comes your man (pixies)
born to lose (social distortion)
psycho killer (talking heads)
rock your ass (supersuckers)
death or glory (clash)
safe european home (clash)
makes no sense at all (husker du)
angels of the silences (counting crows)
sunshine state (superchunk)
hey bulldog (beatles)
nu bruises (superchunk)
father christmas (kinks)
taggartrocks.com 