“whatever happened?”

-JFC

1. Them - Don’t Look Back

2. Bill Fay - We Have Laid Here

3. Judy Collins - Sky Fell

4. Pete Atkin - Beware of the Beautiful Stranger

5. Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra - Paris Summer

6. Jack Nitzche - The Lonely Surfer

7. Faces - Debris

8. Buddy Holly - Maybe Baby

9. Atlas Strategic - Smooth Nights

10. Spirit - Soldier

HERE

Thanks to Clint for these. As per some old press release I dug up, these two sessions lead to 4AD taking an interest and eventually releasing PREFECTION in 2005. I don’t know who the hell sings on “Guilt-Ridden Man,” or if it’s a cover, because the singer doesn’t sound like Cass and the audio quality is different from the other XFM sessions on here.

If anything, though, listen to the live show, which Clint described as the period “when everyone started doing Fleetwood Mac arrangements of their songs.” It has the second live version of “I Went to the Hospital” I’ve ever heard, and it’s way better than the version with Cass and Oxes. I think he even had this on his website once upon a time. Also I hope I divided the Peel and XFM sessions up correctly from Clint’s CD. Enjoy!

Peel Session

1. A.Y.D.

2. Not The Way

3. Aids in Africa

4. Your Mother and Father

XFM Session

5. I Cannot Lie

6. City of Brotherly Love

7. A.Y.D.

8. Guilt-Ridden Man (?)

I Cannot Lie 7”

9. I Cannot Lie (Studio)

10. A.Y.D. (Studio)

Live at the Hideout (Chicago)

11. Your Mother and Father

12. Subtraction

13. I Went To The Hospital

14. Equinox

15. City of Brother Love

16. Bobby, King of Boys Town

Sacred Heart B-Side

17. Twins

HERE

So the Barnes & Noble location right near my house is closing (closed?), here’s a “photo” (blackberry) of them taking down the last letter. But B & N is a gross megastore like Borders, Virgin, or Tower Records, and it’s great that it’s closing, right?

Dix Hills, the town I grew up in on Long Island, is a sad place to spend one’s formative years, there really isn’t anything in Dix Hills besides a bunch of fancy real estate, though some cool people lived there (Walt Whitman, John Coltrane, Ralph Maccio, 50 Cent, etc). Mainly, though, because it’s a Sprawlin’ Suburb, there is no culture, arts scene, music venues, anything, just a bunch of strip malls and sad people * … (((( I know, I’m describing a zillion other suburbs including the one you grew up in, and I know Arcade Fire are wack for capitalizing on the same gimmick I’ve been writing about for 10 minutes now, I know, I’m sorry I’m sorry…  )))) —-> also Huntington (nearby) is a little better…

Anyway, the closest thing I’ve had to anything “local” in my entire life was this fucking Barnes & Noble, that’s actually 2.0 miles away from my house ** (or a 40 minute walk, which I did, once) - I’ve just spent a lot of time there, so I figured upon it’s closing that I would share some precious moments with you.

1) I used to read a lot when I was younger (sadly, a lot more than I do now…), and I would go with my dad once every couple of weeks and get the new Goosebumps book (they came out once a month, right?), I was sad when the series eventually stopped, and sadder when R.L. Stine stopped writing them himself…

2) John McCain was interviewed there sometime in the 90s. I must have been young because I remember running through people’s legs, and it was really crowded / in an awkward part of the store…he looked OLD

3) I didn’t have many friends on Long Island until right before I graduated high school, in January of 2008. I befriended three people sitting next to me at the Starbucks cafe in B & N, which was the friend chain reaction that led to me meeting Lauren and Martin and Nick and Kubra most of the people I’m friends with today…

4) My last time in the store was earlier last month, but I didn’t realize it at the time. Like if this store were The Giving Tree, this is the point where it’s just a stump and I’m just sitting on it as an old man (21), and all I did was start reading Martin Eden before I bought it and left the store for the last time. Which is probably what I would of done had I had known anyway.

Nobody is buying books anymore, and Tower Records next door closed a few years ago as well (speaking of culture I mizzed out on, those punx back in the day used to play kickball in that parking lot every weekend). Soon even CDs will cease to exist! 

It makes me happy when unsustainable things like warehouses full of books / plastic CDs on major roads can’t sustain themselves, and that someday, in a Planet of the Apes scenario in 2080, Charlton Heston will dust off a dusty wall and see “THE WALT WHITMAN MALL” written on a crumbling abandoned building…

I just hope Book Revue isn’t next 

*NOTE, there WAS (is?) a punk scene that my brother tapped into pretty well about 10 years ago. But I couldn’t do the same and we grew up in the same environs! So maybe this is my fault…

**since there aren’t any stores in Dix Hills, it’s technically ‘Huntington Station’ anyway!

***pity party

1. Terry Allen (8)
2. Phil Ochs (7)
3. Charlie Rich (2)
4. The Heptones (2)
5. Grandaddy (2)

Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz

pretty unbelievable

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Season’s Greetings to All,

As the year comes to pass, I would like to send my love and gratitude to those who’ve made it such a beautiful ride. Pardon the clichés, my feelings are genuine: Bless You. From you, my friends and loved ones, I gather all my strength and peace. Which is why when a…

1. The Velvet Underground (9)
2. Lux Perpetua (1)
3. Anna Dirkx (1)
4. Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli with the Quintet of the Hot Club Of France (1)
5. Cass McCombs (1)

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