boat floating: Our Band Could Be Your Life

No featured band today. Nor any featured genre, or producer, or ...

I've been busy adapting to Vista on this new machine. I have to say audio processing on this dual core machine flies compared to the Pentium III machine I was using before, but the OS is another story in itself. I've at least smacked down UAC, but after 10 days still am lost at times. And I was an expert at WinNT/2000/XP! I administered my own WINS server for chrissakes (if you know about WINS, may god have mercy on your soul). I hear good things about the upcoming Windows 7, here's hoping it makes up for the many faults of Vista.

But that's not why you called.

Many moons ago - er, perhaps a couple years ago - a lil' group I'm a member of had a running theme of "what floats your boat" and shared with the group music that, well, floated one's boat. Your humble blogger, being of the alternative/indierocker sort, decided that rather than post full albums or individual songs, would make compilations based on some arbitrary genre.

Today's is entitled "Our Band Could Be Your Life" - which, if you know your 80's American alternapunkindie history, implies American underground music from the 80's. After all, the title is a line from the Minutemen's classic history-in-a-3-minute-song "History Lesson, Part II". If I were making such a compilation today, I might have some different tracks here and there, but it's fairly representative of the American underground scene back then. Minus the Paisley Underground scene and Black Flag, but SST Records is quite heavily repped here nonetheless. You may also note the complete lack of anything from Chicago (the city, not the artist) - that's because the first boat floating compilation I posted for that group was a collection of songs by Chicago artists. That'll see the light of day here, but I was listening to this particular comp today and decided to blog it.

So enjoy! Download links at the end, as usual, split into 3 RAR files (as usual, you gotta download all of 'em in order to extract the fileset...)

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01 HÜSKER DÜ / Flip Your Wig
From the 1985 SST LP Flip Your Wig

02 THE FEELIES / On The Roof
From the 1986 Coyote-Twin/Tone LP The Good Earth

03 R.E.M. / These Days
From the 1986 I.R.S. LP Lifes Rich Pageant
From the original vinyl

04 fIREHOSE / Brave Captain
From the 1986 SST LP Ragin', Full-On

05 DESCENDENTS / Silly Girl
From the 1985 SST LP I Don't Want To Grow Up

06 THE REPLACEMENTS / Color Me Impressed
From the 1983 Twin/Tone LP Hootenanny

07 HÜSKER DÜ / Makes No Sense At All
From the 1985 SST LP Flip Your Wig

08 PIXIES / Bone Machine
From the 1988 4AD LP Surfer Rosa

09 MISSION OF BURMA / That's When I Reach For My Revolver
From the 1981 Ace Of Hearts EP Signals, Calls And Marches

10 R.E.M. / Harborcoat
From the 1984 I.R.S. LP Reckoning

11 HÜSKER DÜ / The Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill
From the 1985 SST LP New Day Rising

12 FUGAZI / Waiting Room
From the 1988 Dischord EP Fugazi

13 THE FEELIES / Slipping (Into Something)
From the 1986 Coyote-Twin/Tone LP The Good Earth

14 THE REPLACEMENTS / Unsatisfied
From the 1984 Twin/Tone LP Let It Be

15 R.E.M. / Kohoutek
From the 1985 I.R.S. LP Fables Of The Reconstruction
From the original vinyl

16 fIREHOSE / Time With You
From the 1989 SST LP fROMOHIO

17 MINUTEMEN / Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing
From the 1984 SST LP Double Nickels On The Dime

18 THE CONNELLS / Something To Say
From the 1989 TVT LP Fun & Games

19 CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN / Take The Skinheads Bowling
From the 1985 Independent Project LP Telephone Free Landslide Victory

20 SONIC YOUTH / Expressway To Yr Skull (edit)
From the 1986 SST LP Evol

21 BREAKING CIRCUS / Driving The Dynamite Truck
From the 1986 Twin/Tone compilation Big Hits Of Mid-America Vol. 4

22 THE REPLACEMENTS / Answering Machine
From the 1984 Twin/Tone LP Let It Be

23 MINOR THREAT / Salad Days
From the 1985 Dischord 7" Salad Days

24 R.E.M. / Little America
From the 1984 I.R.S. LP Reckoning

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25 THE REPLACEMENTS / Left Of The Dial
From the 1985 Sire LP Tim

26 LEMONHEADS / Mallo Cup
From the 1988 Taang! LP Lick

27 R.E.M. / Driver 8
From the 1985 I.R.S. LP Fables Of The Reconstruction
From the original vinyl

28 THE FEELIES / The Good Earth
From the 1986 Coyote-Twin/Tone LP The Good Earth

29 FUGAZI / Merchandise
From the 1990 Dischord LP Repeater
yes, I cheated - but it was demoed in 1987! ;)

31 PIXIES / Where Is My Mind?
From the 1988 4AD LP Surfer Rosa

32 DINOSAUR JR / Freak Scene
From the 1988 SST LP Bug

33 SONIC YOUTH / Teen Age Riot
From the 1988 Blast First LP Daydream Nation

34 HÜSKER DÜ / Celebrated Summer
From the 1985 SST LP New Day Rising

35 THE FEELIES / When Company Comes
From the 1986 Coyote-Twin/Tone LP The Good Earth

36 fIREHOSE / Understanding
From the 1989 SST LP fROMOHIO

37 R.E.M. / Letter Never Sent
From the 1984 I.R.S. LP Reckoning

38 THE CONNELLS / I Suppose
From the 1987 TVT LP Boylan Heights

39 PIXIES / Gigantic
From the 1988 4AD LP Surfer Rosa

40 GALAXIE 500 / Ceremony
From the 1990 Rough Trade 12" "Blue Thunder"

41 SCRATCH ACID / Mary Had A Little Drug Problem
From the 1986 Touch And Go EP Berserker

42 DESCENDENTS / Suburban Home
From the 1982 New Alliance LP Milo Goes To College

43 THE REPLACEMENTS / Within Your Reach
From the 1983 Twin/Tone LP Hootenanny

44 MINUTEMEN / History Lesson Part II
From the 1984 SST LP Double Nickels On The Dime

45 THE FEELIES / Slow Down
From the 1986 Coyote-Twin/Tone LP The Good Earth

46 R.E.M. / Time After Time - Red Rain - So. Central Rain (medley)
From a live gig 14 Sept. 1987 Muziekcentrum, Utrecht, The Netherlands

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