MEDICATION: A BUDDYHEAD BLOG

No Girl In My Plan

I'm feelin' this song right now... I swear there's something in the air. It's either that or Andy Weatherall and his band, Two Lone Swordsmen, are reading my mind again. "No Girl In My Plan" is gonna be coming out soon on their new record called "Wrong Meeting" (which is killer by the way). if you didn't check out the last full length "From the Double Gone Chapel" you might wanna get on that immediately, they cover The Gun Club's - "Sex Beat". These guy win.

(Download - "No Girl In My Plan")

More blah blah... Andy also just put out a solo record called "The Bullet Catcher's Apprentice" on the label Rotter's Golf Club, click here to buy it. If anyone's got that email me, I haven't heard it and I'm broke. Do it. Also hit up http://myspace.com/twoloneswordsmen. 

Kasabian - "Empire"

It took me a while to get into Kasabian and their first record (mostly because the singer guy kinda raps sometimes and for the most part rapping totally bums me out), but now I'm fully backing these brits. And after seeing/hearing their new video/single "Empire", I can't wait to hear their follow up record of the same name. If the rest of the record is only half as good as the single, it'll still slay that new pile of shit Primal Scream tried to pass off as a record. Supposedly these dudes kicked out one of the guitar players recently but I dunno if he was one of the main songwriters or not. At least the crazy tall dude with the weird hat is still in the band, not enough bands have dudes who can pull off the bizarre hat look. I guess there's a cd single out in the UK of this song but even if we do have that shit over here it's gonna be way too expensive so I'm gonna have to wait for the full length. If someone wants to email me the mp3s from the single, I'll post em up here. Either way, check out the video below below and hit up their myspace page to stream some more songs. DO IT!

(Download - "Empire" single edit)

Thanks to "Anshuman Iddamsetty" for submitting this mp3...

Kasabian - "Kasabian"

It took me a while to warm up to these guys, but I think Kasabian are one of the better new bands around now. Don't let the singer who kinda raps with his shirt tucked in scare you, these Brits are the real deal. One part Primal Scream, one part The Stone Roses and a dab of The Rolling Stones thrown in for good measure. This is their debut record that came out back in 2004, I'd be surprised if most of you haven't already heard this. The word on the street is that they are gonna record their second full length at the end of the summer when they're done playing a whole bunch of festivals. Check out the videos for "Reason Is Treason" & "L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever)" as well as "Club Foot" on Letterman.

(Download - "L.S.F (Lost Souls Forever)")

(Download - "Club Foot")

 

Depeche Mode - "Playing The Angel"

Depeche Mode's new record, "Playing The Angel", comes out on Oct. 18th in the US. After listening to this record for the past couple of days I think it's save to say that this record is one of the best of 2005 and that Depeche Mode is back. I really liked their older records "Violator" and "Music For The Masses"; this seems to be a return to that type of material. My favorite thing about Depeche Mode is that they go OFF! And I mean O F F! Want proof? OK... every song they wrote is either about heroin or 15-year-old girls?!! Now that's going off! Plus... add in the fact that these dudes acted a little gay from time to time, which scared away all the macho males and left tons of tang for themselves. And I ain't talking about the shitty orange space drink. These guys are borderline genius's I tell you!!! "Playing The Angel" turned out to be way better than I thought it was going to be. The only thing I'm not backing about it, is the retarded cover art... I'm guessing either a 4 year old drew it or the same douche bag that drew the last cover for The Cure is responsible. As for the music, I think the best introduction to the record are its first two songs. But seeing as how this isn't out yet I'm just gonna post the second song, "John The Revelator" and the single (which I'm not really that into, there are so many better songs on the record) which you've probably already heard, "Precious".  These jams will make girls get wet in their panties, plus you can headbang to them. Take my advice kids, get into this band! Or at least buy a few of their records so it looks like you like em, cuz I heard that works too.

If you like these songs, buy this record.

(Download - "John The Revelator")

(Download - "Precious")

Two Lone Swordsmen - "From the Double Gone Chapel"

This is Andy Weatherall's "band".  You might recognize his name from producing credits on Primal Scream's "Screamadelica" (and half of "Evil Heat"), and a shit load of remixes.  When we toured with The Scream a couple years ago, homeboy would DJ in between the bands.  He'd drink a bottle of cognac and spin "Abba Zabba" by Captain Beefheart and "Love Buzz" by Shocking Blue pretty much every night, not to mention tons of other rad shit I'd never heard of, it was awesome.  "From the Double Gone Chapel" tastefully blends electronica with rock n' roll that's influenced by the likes of The Cramps, Public Image Limited, Joy Division & The Gun Club.  They even cover The Gun Club's "Sex Beat".  It just don't get much cooler than that.  Here's my two favorite jams.  I guess they just put out an EP that's good too... but I don't got that shit yet.  Two Lone Swordsmen website: http://www.twoloneswordsmen.com/

(Download - "Kamanda's Response")

(Download - "Formica Fuego")

 

 

Primal Scream - "Vanishing Point"

This is the first Primal Scream record I got really into.  I heard "Screamadelica" and thought it was pretty cool, but it wasn't until I heard this one that I realized Primal Scream was one of my favorite bands.  In my opinion this is where they started getting good and then they just got better and better with their next two records "XTRMNTR" & "Evil Heat". Too bad no one in America, including their label, has taken notice. "Vanishing Point" was the band's 5th record, Mani from The Stone Roses had just taken over the bass duties and it was the follow up to their dumpy southern rock record "Give Out But Don't Give Up" which had pretty much bummed out all the fans they'd gained from the ecstasy fueled and chart topping "Screamadelica".   In a sense, this record was Primal Scream's return from sucking.  The band took the name "Vanishing Point" from a great cult movie made back in 1971 that you should check out if you like to smoke marijuana.  It stars Barry Newman as the mysterious Kowalski, who tries to deliver a supercharged 1970 Dodge Challenger from Colorado to San Francisco, California. He makes a bet with his drug dealer that he can get the car there in less than 15 hours and from then on it's a big car chase with the pigs.  Don't forget about the gay hitchhikers Kowalski has to kick out of his ride, hot naked chicks on motorbikes he hangs with & a soul brother DJ who has a police radio scanner.  The DJ let's our hero know where the cops are and keeps him amped with some pretty rad boogie rock while he's running from the pigs, eating speed pills and just being one cool motherfucker.  If you do rent this movie (Netflix has it), make sure to try this little experiment: press play on the Primal Scream album as the first scene fades in, it makes an even better soundtrack than the original and syncs up surprisingly well.  Really fucking well if you're baked.  As for the songs I posted... "Kowalski" opens with a sample of the blind DJ (which is a nod to the band's favorite, but definitely not sole, drug of choice) and then kicks into a dark dub flavored rock n' roll rave that's fuckin' hard.  Front man for "The Scream", Bobby Gillespie (who played Moe Tucker style drums on The Jesus & Mary Chain's "Psychocandy"), might not be the best technical singer as far as range and pitch go, but homeboy has got the art of timing down to a science.  Plus he's always got rad lyrics.  Speaking of, "Star" has some of the best lyrics on the album and it makes me wanna hold my lighter in the air.  "Medication" is the hidden pop hit of the album and it's been my theme song today since I ate shit skateboarding at the Glendale skate park yesterday morning.  I either broke my wrist or sprained it really bad.  All I know is it hurts like a motherfucker and I can't really use it. "Gimme medication to cure this hole!"  In other words... someone reading this better hook up the fucking pain killers!

(Download - "Kowalski")

(Download - "Star")

(Download - "Medication")