https://inujapan.bandcamp.com/track/gonna-crack
"Gonna Crack" by INU (h/t Melanie Thomas)

High-octane tour-de-force by legendary post-punk group, INU. Widely considered in Japan to be one of the all-time greatest punk records, 1981's Don’t Eat Food! remains shockingly unknown to the rest of the ...

My youngest brother died three weeks ago.
I am so very sorry, Mark. Sending love to you and yours.

my dad had a stroke this morning, and probably one of the worst days of his life. Have talked about it with a friend and my mom, or course, but it's some weirdness after a fairly trying week. Many ...

New Taylor Swift Album Mispressed as '90s Electronica Compilation



The "90s Electronica Compilation" in question:

Drive Like Jehu, "Here Come the Rome Plows" (Yank Crime, 1994). Next: the new album by Deerhoof, whose show I skipped last night out of sheer laziness.

My friend Josh from circa 1990 wrote:You want to take a shot at some lyrics? I am writing and recording a lot of music. I can only imagine what you might do.

Flattering. He sent a file of his music but I can't open the fucking thing. It's an .rpp-bak file? What the fuck? *googles*

rsmurphy wrote: Hey now! "Kerosene" is disco, "Stinking Drunk" is death-rock, and "Copper" is pop.

bisou

OK! And if The Fall covering a Sister Sledge song from 1979 ("Lost In Music," above) doesn't qualify as disco, I'll eat my damn hat.

I submit, from The Infotainment Scan (1993):

jakethesnake wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 10:02 pm I thought this would be stuff like Stones "Miss you" or Emotional rescue, Rod the mods "Do ya think im sexy" etc

These were mentioned in the [opens a new tab to check] first post.

Does this count? Or their cover of "Burnin' Up" with Mike Watt on vocals?

janeway wrote: Fri Jun 23, 2023 9:16 pm big deal my buddy's cat supported trump...

A classic, but is it dance music? That would be news to its author, is my guess.

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