Song(s) of the Night
I loved “Slip It In”, I’m sure I never quite realized what a ripping guitar player Greg Ginn was (is?).
The Led Zeppelin bootleg was awesome.
The Mothers of Invention song was great, hilarious, and wow, from 1966!
A final plug here for Grinderman: The 2010 record Grinderman2 is unbelievably good: dirty, nasty, heavy, powerful rock and roll. Gets a little syrupy even at times! I must now research Nick Cave’s entire back catalog, especially the Bad Seeds, which is the same group as Grinderman…

songs of the night: “broken home, broken heart”, “communication breakdown”, “hated”. not for nothing but i made a couple of made for blogging comments at the outset of the evening, “…its all pop music, i mean, its all 3-5 minutes long…” then i neatly equated michael jackson with PJ harvey, tight! i love some PJ, i really do, but “ABC”, really, does she have anything to top that? maybe they arent equals! just saying…
Once again Mighty Zep getting the most props…3-5 minutes is as much as most people can handle at a time I think, but I know hundreds of tunes that fit the pop music profile of 2 min 33 sec which are not pop music at all…”pop” does derive from “popular” of course…pick any song from PJ’s “DRY” record and I’d rather hear that than “ABC”…other than a few nuggets from the Jackson 5, MJ’s entire catalog is garbage, even with Eddie Van Halen or Paul McCartney or just a lotta skin bleach, it all sounds the same and I do not like it, never did never will.
Just to clarify: there are a number of ways to define “Pop” music, and “popularity” may or may not be a part of any given definition. But however you define it, it is a fact that PJ Harvey made a lot of really interesting music, and Michael Jackson did not.