Listen to: Capital Rock City #45
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Now I gotta fly… so this post is to the point. Please download the show and I’ll get on updating the DJ notes later.
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The War of 1812 was a crushing victory for colonial Canada AND a satirical play!
I had a chit chat with Morgan: and I think it’s worth your time.
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The latest social networking autobio exercise floating around the internets tubes.
20 (or some people write about 25) important records to them. So here are 20 important records to me.
01) Bruce Springsteen – ‘Born in the USA’
– not my favourite Boss record today, but when I was like 4, sorta a big deal
02) Chris de Burgh – ‘High On Emotion: Live From Dublin’
– the soundtrack to many a Baker family holiday. My brothers and I can sing along to the whole thing. Its kinda spooky.
03) Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Siamese Dream’
– one my earliest memories of being obsessed with a record.
04) Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness’
– I was now a Smashing Pumpkins fan and watched way too much Much Music.
05) Metallica – ‘…and Justice for All’
– I got a job at Subway and with my first paycheque I went CD shopping. I don’t listen to a ton of Metallica today, but as a snot nosed suburban kid, Metallica was played A LOT. Like a lot, a lot.
06) R.E.M. – ‘Green’
– Critically not the best REM record, but I was new to the band in high school and I must have bought ‘Green’ out of a discount bin. I played it every night in my discman before bed… every night, until I got…
07) Alice in Chains – ‘Unplugged’
– I don’t think any one record has gotten more play in my life.
08 ) Headstones – ‘Picture of Health’
– the soundtrack to my grade 12 year. Really their whole catalog got played, but this was the gateway album to my love of the Headstones.
09) Radiohead – ‘The Bends’
– this record has floating in and around my life for a long time. I remember being into it mildly as a kid when it was on the radio and Much Music… then it was the sound track to pretty much every house party at Rusty’s place. When Coral and I first started dating, she’d put this album on and we’d make out. awwwww, sick.
10) Propagandhi – ‘How to Clean Everything’
– started DJing at CiTR. The show before The Morning After Show was called Vengence is Mine. I was a mega nerd and hung out at CiTR all.the.time. I’d sit around the lobby, drink beer and listen to Trevor play all sorts of bizarre music that my suburban brain had never processed. Propagandhi was the band that cut through the noise. I loved it. I thought, “holy shit, anyone can make a record and get played on the radio…” then I heard…
11) Blink 182 – ‘Enema of the State’
– holy shit, ANYONE can make a record and some of them will even get famous. I better start a band… then I heard…
12) Tool – ‘Opiate’ ep
– and then things clicked… like even Tool used to be a sorta half decent bar rock band. And they practised and stayed true to their art and became the juggernaught they are now. But listen to Opiate… not “brilliant” in the traditonal sense. But my favourite Tool record. My old band used to jam on “Jerk Off.”
13) Braid – ‘Frame and Canvas’
– by now I had been a Vancouver hipster for a bit and was starting to get into post everything rock… I dunno what to call it. The CiTR monthy rag Discorder needed someone to interview Braid on like a Tuesday night and I was a glorified bum so I agreed to truck on down to the Starfish Room and hang out with Braid. There might, MIGHT have been 25 people there and it didn’t seem to bother the boys. They blasted through and unbeliveable set and left me a fan.
14) By A Thread – ‘The Last of the Daydreams’
-pretty much the bestest band I played on the Morning After Show. Had a pretty big man crush on By A Thread’s style of post grunge rock hipster emocore? sure.
15) Thursday – ‘Full Collapse’
– I was writing for an internet website, living in Burncover and later Commercial Drive. The website was based outta Cape Code and all the scenesters there were into this band called Thursday. And they were like, ‘Whoa, you’re form Vancouver, you know By A Thread! You’ll like these guys.” Yup I sure did.
16) Taking Back Sunday – ‘Tell All Your Friends’
– kinda the last major obsession I’d have with a band while in Vancouver. The style of music Iwas into now had swung back to pop. These guys are masters of pop rock and this record is a masterpiece IMHO. I still put it on and smile.
17) Mission of Burma – ‘Signals,Calls,and Marches’
-I moved to Victoria to work on the Zone. I bought a box set of 80 alterna rock and MOB had a song on there called “That’s When I reach for My Revolver.” Changed my whole world.
18 ) Jimmy Eat World – ‘Clarity’
-Started dating Coral and she was a huge Jimmy World fan. I said, “congratulations, ‘The Middle’ is totally awesome!’ She said, “wait a minute, you’ve never heard Jimmy Eat World’s ‘Clarity?’… for shame Jeremy Baker, for shame.”
19) The National – ‘Boxer’
– another game changer record. I think the National is the best. Tyson turned me onto the National on a pretty random day. He comes over and brings me some new music. A real shit mix of some of his favourite latest stuff. ‘All The Wine’ from the National was in the mix and it stuck with me. I had to get the new record “The Boxer” (new at the time at least) and it has remained my favourite record. If someone asks, “what is Jeremy Baker’s favourite band?” I say the National.
20) Grand Archives – ‘The Grand Archives’
– the soundtrack to my life when Madelyn was born one year ago (almost).
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Its just a trailer, but I love how this documentary is shot.
I love the colours of the graphics, I love how they tie into all the graphics and colours of the band. I love the sounds, I love the images. Its just a trailer and I watch it over and over. I would have bought the video right now if it was on iTunes but thankfully ( I am so broke and should leave my credit card in the wallet) it was not!
“One day I’ll get money, I’ll get funny again.”
The first 15 seconds or so of The National’s “All The Wine” sounds like the score music of Friday Night Lights. Being an old and busted Dad type guy means I spend a lot of Friday nights at home and lately I am all about that show. The musical score makes the hour pretty special.
Turns out a lot of the score is from the group Explosions in the Sky which oddly, has become a recent fave of mine… no wonder I was picking up on the musical score of the show.
Neat. They refer to their music as “cathartic mini-symphonies.” Cathartic, good word.
I know Huckdoll is a big fan of Friday Night Lights… but I don’t think its for the music.
Go with yourself.
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Just thinking about those silly nuclear subs that collided in the ocean the other day.
What were they thinking? How I imagined it played out.
The song at the end is Geggy Tah’s “Dumb Submarine.”
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—–Original Message—–
From: Ewan *** [mailto:***@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 7:02 PM
To: jeremy@TheZone.fm
Subject: sum 41
Hey,
Earlier I thought I heard you have a caller comparing a couple of
songs, saying one sounding like another. For the fun of it I thought
I’d send in my own comparison of two songs.
A few years ago Sum-41 released their album “Does This Look
Infencted?” with one single being ‘Still Waiting’. For some god
unknown reason, while listening to the chorus of the song (“So am I,
still waiting, for this world to stop hating”) I totally could hear
the theme song to Bananas in Pyjamas theme song.
Bananas in Pyjamas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHSIge21LM
Still Waiting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7W3Ahx05vg
I am not claiming that these two songs sound “totally the same”, but
now every time I hear ‘Still Waiting’, all I can do is picture two
giant bananas head banging along with the music.
Ewan
***
and then have a listen to Sum 41.
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Having a kid is good for a lot of things. Today, it is for healthy eating choices. This time last year… lunch would have likely been a a coke and salt (a sandwich with salty meats, fast food, chips… maybe just a spoonful of salt). But now, I need to feed the kid, so I just eat what she eats. Raw whole fruits and veggies. Never any pop (well I sneak her a sip but Coral has a hurricane like fit!).
We saw this documentary on Kentucky on the TV the other day. I guess it wasn’t a “documentary” in the truest sense, it was a Dateline or 20/20 or whatever the show is with Diane Sawyer. She went to the backwoods of Deliverance country and discovered that the hillbillies feed their kids Mountain Dew. Fucking gross.
My old man spends a lot of time in Kentucky for business, I’ll need to ask him about that.
Madelyn is eating, I am reading my music news. About to head to the studio. I am going to start playing around with a new show idea that I want to get put on the radio. It might not be done today, but if/when it is, I’ll post a pilot here for you to have a listen to. I’d love your feedback.
I saw this music video on A Morning, didn’t realize these girls were so cute.
That’s all I got. I need to get Madelyn out of her chair and tidy up before Nana comes to look after her this afternoon.
Go with yourself.
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bwoar, I want fight my toshiba. It somehow (well I somehow) toggle the French characters on, and I have no idea how I do it or any idea how to turn them off without resetting the computer! Now I want to fight technology!
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OK, I broke down a resetted the old computer. I really do need to learn to toggle the french characters off. I tried searching on google but didn’t find very much that was helpful.
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Its Friday the 13th! wow, spooky.
The top referrers to my blog this week are (not including The Zone dot FM or my social networks):
Drowning in Kids
Laura
PrettyMuchAmazing
Coral
Miranda
VanCityRockGirl
ZeroOutofFive
Thank you!
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Since we’re jibber jabbering (or I’m going on about lists) lets have a look at the first ever Jeremy’s Top Bands.
I signed up for Last FM last week so now I have my own personal chart of fave bands on my media player at home for the week.
01) The National
02) Propagandhi
03) The Killers
04) Bruce Springsteen
05) The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
and my write in vote is The Boxer Rebellion which I’ve been jamming out at work in the studio but I don’t have a Last FM scrobber thingy there.
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Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Coral says she doesn’t celebrate the day, but I do… so we do. Ha. I am hosting an event at Element tomorrow if you’re looking to party on a Saturday night. Bring your special someone or come with friends. We have all sorts of fun shenanigans planned!
Before the big day, I think we’ll cook up a scrumptious dinner. I saw David Fey and Rod (My aunt Melanie’s brother) on A Morning today cooking up something I’d like to attempt. But try finding a website with the details and you’ll be disappointed.
Should you be fortunate enough to get laid on Valentine’s Day… Kid Carson posted this neat-O! link on his twitter.
Devine Pleasure Poses? Yes please.
OK, I better get in the shower… its almost 11! I got a ton of work to do today.
Go with yourself.
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One of my favourite cities on the planet, subject of a new song by The Brighton Port Authority.
Dig it.
and Direct from the Queen City Regina, Saskatchewan, Rah Rah.
Pretty darn good, have a listen. I know right? Indie pop from Roughrider country… who’d h’ave thunk that!
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Cue up: The National – “Theory of the Crows”
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not enough money
to buy a PC
so i come in this weekend
asleep on my feet
and if i forget you
ill have nobody left to forget
i guess thats what assholes get
traded my day light
for a career
but i need you to disprove
my theory of the crows
pouring my fingers across the keys
will someone review my salary please?
im selling my time to the man who sells style
that time should be mine to waste on you
ill suck off investors
ill suck off VCs
im losing my posture from time on my knees
they treat me so well
cause i’ll do anything
its in my nature of service
***
I am jamming out The National which always makes me happy. “Theory of the Crows” came up and I went, “hmm.” Timely track.
Last night I guested at Lucky Bar for WTF! Lots of fun to DJ in a club that was A) full and B) the people were really into dancing to ANYTHING. It was cool.
There were three of us tagging in at the controls, Liam Lux, DJ Fatso and myself. I felt really old.
I plugged in my laptop and was using iTunes to DJ (lame I know). I was telling Fatso how much I’d love to get a proper rig one day (I’ve been talking about FOREVER) . Fatso said, what, you can’t drop $1,000 on Serato?
I said, “I’d love to, but my DJ money goes to the kid or bills or diapers or food.”
he looks at me oddly, “how old are you?”
“29.”
“Wow! you are one young looking 29 year old.”
He was cool, he apologized and said, “yeah I’m 22 and my DJ money is weed money so….” Then the dude turned me onto this program called Ableton. He said you can buy it at Long and McQuade or… um, download it off the internets.
Fatso was a good man and showed me what it can do. Requires no controller which was rad. He had a little channel mixer thing that he wasn’t even using but said costs like $80 is I wanted to go there and have a controller of some kind. Fatso was a real wizard with Ableton, so I think if I can get my hands on the program I might be able to elevate my game from “dude that pushes play on CDJs” or “Music Nerd that makes fantastical playlists on iTunes.”
It was sorta neat at Lucky, I saw a bunch of old regulars from my days playing at Hugo’s. It was odd, never thought I’d miss the weekday party kids… till they were gone. I wondered what became of them after Hugo’s closed. I’d hoped some would come to the Clubhouse for my new Tuesday but they are all at Lucky on Wednesday now I guess.
Coral and I are pretty excited to learn that Jimmy Eat World will be reissuing their brilliant record Clairty on vinyl.
I was never a big Jimmy Eat World fan before I met Coral. I had always thought they were a pop band that we played on the radio. Never really dived too deep into the lore. I met Coral and that all changed. She told me how amazing they were. I thought she was amazing, ergo JEW=Amazing.
Coral’s favourtie record is Clarity. One of those discs that is just so good but never meant for mainstream accolades. A record, that when enjoyed in the right context will change your entire perspective. Beautiful, challenging and hmmm… I want to say gliding? but I don’t think that is a word.
Coral and I like to collect our favourite records on vinyl. Not so much cuz we are overly snobby about our tunes (the record player is in Madelyn’s closet) but because we like displaying the album artwork on the wall (and I like to have the albums).
Clarity has always been high on our list of acquisitions but the dude at Ditch Records says it is a real collector and a challenge to track down. Until now. 10th year anniversary reissue! huzzah!
Now I don’t have the money to take Coral to San Diego or San Francisco for a 10th Anniversary show, but I can probably scrounge $30 for the LP.
She get an IOU on Valentines day… coming in the mail… your Clarity record.
That’s all I got.
Go with yourself.
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