VIOLENT FEMMES
Hallowed Ground
2024 U.S. Ltd. Edition reissue
Orange Smoke #vinyl
40th Anniversary

Unequivocally the greatest record The Violent Femmes ever made, and I don’t think it’s particularly close.

It’s such an incredibly dark and fucked up record in comparison to their debut, trading catchy #folk #punk for #avantgarde and #gothic sounding #americana .

All of its ingredients; the #country , #goth and twisted religious underbelly makes for quite the unsettling musical experience.
In the BEST way possible.

For my money, there is no murder ballad in the history of popular music that is more wonderfully demented than “Country Death Song”.

Maybe Ween’s “Buenos Tardes Amigo”, but that one is way more tongue in cheek.

A near perfect fraying of the senses, this record.

#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #1980s #80s #80sMusic #theviolentfemmes #indie #alternative

Here's a previously unreleased track from Unbothered Radar

#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames

Was trying to think of something less obvious for today’s #TuneTuesday but struggled. I’ll just stick with what I know best…. #OverUnderThrough

The Jam - Going Underground

Two songs came on the iPod shuffle in the car last night and they were so good I had to share them. Both, as the kids say, absolute bangers*

*kids may not say this anymore.

XTC - We’re All Light: https://song.link/i/1828927766

Black Sabbath - Spiral Architect: https://song.link/i/1433939253

I know the discourse about the rest of the context around NASA and the Artemis program - people will trot out the classic old "we should spend the money on the poor" or "we should just send robots" or "it's USA propaganda".

Fact is, crewed space flight is just Cool. I've heard more about Artemis than I have any specific space related thing since some of the first Mars rovers. And I think it's worth doing things like sending humans to space, or remote parts of the Earth, or the ocean, or whatever, even IF a drone could do it. Because humans like seeing humans doing things and being able to sit there and think "I/someone I love could be there doing that thing".