sulli's Journal: 4 to Z

Numbers get sorted first, right?

4 Non Blondes - What's Up
AC/DC - Back In Black
Bjork - Aurora
Cake - End of the Movie
Def Leppard - Rock of Ages
Everlast - Blinded by the Sun
Fugazi - Furniture
Grandmaster Flash with Melle Mel and the Furious Five - White Lines
Haddaway - What is love?
Iggy Pop - Funtime
Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You
Kruder & Dorfmeister - Bomberclaad Joint
Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Detroit Rock City (cover of Kiss)
Newcleus - Jam On It
Orbital - Bigpipe Style
Pink Floyd - Have A Cigar
Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
Ramones - Do You Remember Rock & Roll Radio
Sisters Of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia
Three Dead Trolls In A Baggie - The White House Burned (The War of 1812)
U2 - Night and Day (Cole Porter tribute)
Various Artists - Kyle's Mom's A Bitch (South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut)
Who - Behind Blue Eyes
Xploding Plastic - Let's Pretend Desperate
Yale Glee Club - Bright College Years
Zero 7 - Simple Things

All from my iTunes. (Note, this is not necessarily the best from each, but what might make it onto a playlist.)

bostones

[blinder]

lol! i have a funny story about them.

an old friend of mine, who i have since lost touch with, used to do a zine. it was a pretty popular zine in the ct/boston area. taang records (i think it was them) sent him a bunch of records to review, one of those records was an early mighty mighty bostones record. well, this was a zine pretty dedicated to hardcore and while the bostones found a cozy home in hardcore back in those days (early 1990's) - we still thought they were absolute rubbish. the review my friend w

Fugazi

[sulli]

I grew up in the DC area in the 80s - perfect times to listen to Minor Threat and related bands (and I'm sure I did by extension when the skaters had it on their boomboxes outside my middle school), but for whatever reason I didn't get into Fugazi until years later when a friend of mine who's also a friend of Ian Mackaye told me to buy some Dischord. I've been a fan ever since.

Add DC punk to classic Go-Go funk (Chuck Brown, Trouble Funk) and you have a pretty damn good town for music. Miss the place.

Re:Fugazi

[blinder]

i came to fugazi from the beginning -- but it was through minor threat. i wasn't around during minor threat... but i got into government issue, rites of spring, egghunt, dag nasty in the mid-late 80's and then when i heard that ian formed this "new band" i was pumped, and the first 3-song 7" came out in 1989, i snatched it up the week it came out. i freaked out. it was one of the most intense musical experiences i can remember.

i've seen fugazi probably a dozen times, they used to play syracuse a lot in the