Portland's Jackie-O Motherfucker has been making records for a long time; they released their fifteenth, Earth Sound System, yesterday. (Note: they're from the Oregon Portland, not the Maine one. Do you think the residents of those cities have a visceral hate for each other? If there was another Cleveland Heights someplace, I'd be pissed.) To once again illustrate that I am a slightly inept (but totally honest) music blogger I have the following confession: the song below is the first song that I've heard from the band. I've had fifteen years to get on the bus, but I haven't until today. The good news: the Jackie-O Motherfucker bus is a really cool place to be. "Where We Go" grabs you by the scruff with that militaristic drum cadence, slaps you around a bit with that deeply distorted guitar and then gets better and better for five minutes. Pay attention to that drum bit, cause it's there the whole time, but flits about just enough to let you know that it's not a machine, which (it goes without saying at this point) is right up my alley. I'm going to spend the rest of the afternoon listening to the rest of this record. I'm not a completist (more on that later), but if Earth Sound System is as good as the single, I might even dip my toe into the back catalog.
Jackie-O Motherfucker – Where We Go
I've made the "some bands sound like places" argument too many times to count. When Stereo Deluxe popped into my inbox yesterday, I understood that I'd have to make it again. These dudes sound like the midwest. They've got the right blend of classic rock (something like "Smoke on the Water") and mid-nineties alt-rock (circa Siamese Dream Smashing Pumpkins, say), with the tiniest tiny dash of T. Rex (mostly "Get it On") for flavor. They sound like they listened to the same blend of radio stations growing up that I did. Granted, they're from Indiana, not Ohio, so the call letters were different, but it's the same idea, I'd wager. Stereo Deluxe have some New York dates on the schedule and are working on getting to Cleveland. More details on that as they become available.
Back to that completist thing for a minute to wrap up. I've written about this before, so I'll keep it brief. Kevin thinks that you need everything; I think you can get by with less than that. Kevin and I started this argument over The White Stripes and The Waterboys. It boils down to this: he has all The White Stripes songs ever made and zero Waterboys songs. I have two White Stripes records and one Waterboys record. I think Ted Leo is on my side on this one. (Note: this debate will be completely nonsensical for my kid in ten years, because everybody will have everything all the time. I don't know what that means. If everybody has all the records, how do we decide who's the coolest?)
Hi there long time reader and Flickr employee here,
Would you mind linking the main picture in this post back to the original link? http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/5890980020/
I’m guessing after our blog post a few days ago (http://blog.flickr.net/en/2011/07/05/photographer-in-the-picture/) the picture probably got grabbed and passed around something like Tumblr without any proper credit.
Thanks!
No problem. Just swapped out the picture for the photo over on your site. It was a coincidence that your blog post and ours were temporally similar; if I’m not looking for something super specific, I just wander randomly until I find something that catches my eye (no pun intended), which was the case here. We’ve been using Library of Congress images from flickr for a good long while. The copyright restrictions (none) make it seem like our use is appropriate. Are we working under a faulty assumption there?