Archive for the ‘Classics’ Category

Radio Kitchen

Posted on January 1st, 2012, by Monk 2! 4!

Mah bday mutherfuckers.   When you were 15 you were metal Pantera, Tool you wouldn’t settle You jammed with boys but they were good And you weren’t so you just moved on Plenty more trends where that came from   And now you’re just a cunt who’s 30 And you’re gonna go bald   When [...]

Covers

Posted on December 12th, 2011, by Monk 2! 4!

Three of the best covers ever right? The Man Who Sold The World – Nirvana (David Bowie) Hurt – Johnny Cash (Nine Inch Nails) Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (Leonard Cohen)

Elephant Sikkkkk and Mangum is Reborn!

Posted on November 19th, 2011, by Monk 2! 4!

I’ve recently discovered more Elephant 6 brilliance in The Olivia Tremor Control. Black Foilage: Animation Music Vol. 1 is fucking sick. Released in 1999 it’s a psychedelic mash up of experimental sound exploration and catchy pop. Interesting timing too – just the other day it got Best New Resissue on Pitchfork, along with it’s younger [...]

Wolfgang Amadeus Remix

Posted on September 21st, 2010, by Monk 2! 4!

Awesome. All the individual tracks. Get on it. http://www.wearephoenix.com/completemultitrack/

Life

Posted on September 15th, 2010, by Monk 2! 4!

Fitter, happier, more productive, comfortable, not drinking too much, regular exercise at the gym (3 days a week), getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries , at ease, eating well (no more microwave dinners and saturated fats), a patient better driver, a safer car (baby smiling in back seat), sleeping well (no bad dreams), [...]

I do love a good lyric

Posted on August 12th, 2010, by Monk 2! 4!

Listen to the lyric as the negative is shrinkin It’s shrinkin out your life when you decide to change your thinkin One of the first things we gotta switch around of course Is Jesus Christ, and him dying on the cross You’re looking at the cross, surrounded in it’s mystery With Jesus on the cross [...]

Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left

Posted on January 29th, 2010, by Monk 2! 4!

Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left – 1969 Nick Drake was a British folk artist who signed to Island Records when he was young and wrote three brilliant albums, despite never achieving any commercial success. He became a recluse, suffered from serious depression and died. His story is tragic and sad, and he was clearly [...]

My Bloody Valentine – Loveless

Posted on January 8th, 2010, by Monk 2! 4!

My Bloody Valentine – Loveless – 1991 My Bloody Valentine, born out of Ireland in the late 1980s, never achieved a huge level of commercial success with their two studio albums Isn’t Anything (1988) and Loveless (1991). But what they lacked in chart positions they more than made up for in critical acclaim, and more [...]