I love The Cure and I love Robert Smith and so when I heard this track this morning I knew I had to share it on the blog.
Enjoy!
Friday, June 17, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Thick As Thieves At The Mint - 06.11.11
Before my son's band played this band Thick As Thieves played. They were pretty tight. Played a sort of accoustic hip-hop. Here are some picks from the show. They were a big hit with my 11 year old daughter when they played their mash-up or Airplanes by B.O.B. that also has a bunch of other pop songs mashed in there. It sounded great live. You can also check out the video for that on youtube below.
Lockjaw At The Mint - 06.11.11
Saturday night I went and saw my son's band Lockjaw play at The Mint. Here are a few highlight photos of their set.
Saturday, June 11, 2011
Title Fight, Touche Amore, The Menzingers, Shook Ones - Chain Reaction - 06.10.11
Just a quick photo post today. Went to a show at Chain Reaction tonight and got some photos. Here are a few selects. I'll also post a link to a flickr page with a whole bunch of photos of the bands and the fans.
Monday, June 6, 2011
The Dance - In Lust 12" - 1980
I've been gone for a while. I've been playing with my new camera a lot which has been taking up a lot of my free time which normally would have been spent with music. I didn't want this blog to get totally ignored so Ive dug into the archives to find something to post. This record is a pretty good dance record from the 80's. You can find it on other blogs and they may even be better rips than mine. I did this a long time ago before learning a few tricks here and there.
The track "In Lust" has a nice bass line. Reminds me of Japan or Duran Duran bass work. You can instantly check that out with the youtube video below.
Enjoy!
01 In Lust.m4a
02 Into The Black.m4a
Monday, May 23, 2011
SAP Music Too Much Stress Mix 2011
I finally got around to making some art and breaking up the tracks for this mix. I've been collecting these songs for a long time, throwing them in a folder whenever something grabbed me. There are a few that I threw in last minute, though. The whole thing came together in a Sunday afternoon. What that really means is that it doesn't get too fancy. A few edits here and there, some cross fades and bang its done.
The inspiration for this mix was music to listen to when life or people are driving you up the wall. You want to just scream. Sometimes having some lyrics and a song to scream can be good therapy. Sometimes just playing a few of these songs really loud will help. Maybe your boss is driving you crazy. Maybe you job feels like it is going nowhere. Maybe your love life has everything but love and you just want out. Whatever the case may be I think these songs may speak to you.
A little warning is that unlike most of my mixes, this one isn't family friendly. There are a few spicy sentence enhancers as Spongebob would say. So you may want to refrain from playing in this in the car on a family roadtrip. This is more of a mix to play when you're alone, stuck in traffic, heading to or from work.
As per usual with these mixes, I'm not typing up the playlist. Just click on the image with the track listing to find out what is on the mix.
I'd also like to take a sentence or two to plug my new photo blog Something I Saw Today. I just started it a couple days ago. The quick story is I got a new camera and I'm having a blast taking photos. So I thought I'd challenge myself to shoot at least one photo everyday. So I started a blog which I'm hoping will help me keep up the discipline. I say that, but so far it has been easy because it has been the weekend and I had a day off from work. We'll see if I can keep it up. Anyways, give it a look. Like I said, it is just photos. Hopefully interesting photos on some level.
Something I Saw Today
Enjoy!
Monday, May 16, 2011
Only The Strong 7" EP - 1990
It's been a while again. Busy at work, which is usually the case when I'm not posting.
I've also been working on a new mix which I should unveil on the blog soon. Need to do some artwork and break up the tracks.
I've also been getting take down notices, which has been driving me crazy. Sometimes I just shake my head. I'm wondering who is worried about some 12" record from the 80's which is clearly out of print. Why is some record company worried about it. I just don't get it.
Anyway, here is something from a completely different world. Independent punk rock from the heartland. No corporate crap with this. Just straight up blistering hard core punk. Clinch your fist and get ready to scream. This is one hundred percent adolescent testosterone.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
01 Essence - Life Cycle.m4a
02 Someday - Face Value.m4a
03 Silent Shore - Insight.m4a
04 One Life Drug Free - Confront.m4a
05 Final Word - Meanstreak.m4a
06 Darkness - Integrity.m4a
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Miguel Aceves Mejia - El Gallo Colorado
A little something for Cinco de Mayo. You gotta love a record with a cock fight on the cover. 'Nuff said.
Enjoy!
01 La Malaguena.m4a
02 Ni El Dinero Ni Nadie.m4a
03 Adorado Tormento.m4a
04 El Gallo Colorado.m4a
05 Homenaje A Pedro Infante.m4a
06 Eso Merece Un Trago.m4a
07 Fiesta En El Corazon.m4a
08 Amor Se Dice Cantando.m4a
09 La Cecilia.m4a
10 Esta Sellado.m4a
11 Prieta Linda.m4a
12 La Espiga.m4a
Miguel Aceves Mejia - El Gallo Colorado.zip
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Depeche Mode - A Question Of Time 12" - 1986
Quick post today. No real story. No real fuss. Just wanted to put something up. I got a bit gun shy after getting a take down notice for the Village People just a couple days after putting it up. I couldn't believe how fast that was. I was going to post 2 other of their records, but clearly someone is still trying to squeeze every last dime out of that catalog and is actively getting things taken off the internet. I guess that is why someone asked me about those records in the first place. I was surprised that they had not been posted a hundred times over. I guess I know why now. Well, I'm not exactly running the other way with some obscure record, so this too will only be up for a while. Hopefully it will last longer than the Village People.Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Village People - Macho Man - 1978
A few weeks ago someone e-mailed me asking if I had some of the Village People records. I did have some of them, but they weren't ripped. The request however was just the sort of thing I needed to prompt me to get on that. So I've ripped 3 Village People records which I'll share over the next bit. Because it is the Village People and you can find these on CD they won't be up long.The whole ripping was interesting because the records were kind of dusty, which meant I had to clean and clean. I would play and replay, rip and re-rip trying to get as clean of a rip as I could before running the tracks through some clean up software. What this meant was that I listened to these albums far too many times. It also meant that I got to really know some of the lesser known tracks such as "I Am What I Am" and "Sodom and Gomorrah". I found myself humming them for days afterward. By the time I got them fully processed and on the ipod I was sick of them because they were stuck in my head. Give them a listen and maybe they'll be stuck in your head as well. I'm sure you won't need to hear Macho Man anymore, but you might want to give it a listen. There a several different versions of this song, so perhaps this version is new to you. All the tracks on this record are long and not really single length. I think Macho Man runs over 7 minutes.
Enjoy!
01 Macho Man
02 I Am What I Am
03 Key West
04 Medley: Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody
05 Sodom and Gomorrah
Village People - Macho Man
Saturday, April 9, 2011
SAP Music Rain Mix 2011
I've been away for a few days. Sorry about that. I got really busy at work. About a week ago I had a Sunday afternoon that was relatively free and so I had my choice of things to do to relax. I could watch a movie. I could read some comic books. I could digitize some records. I could even take a nap. However what I decided to do was start up a new mix. This mix in fact. It has been a few years since my last rain mix so this is long over due. I had a whole lot of songs built up in my itunes folder for use on this mix. I of course didn't use them all, but needless to say I had plenty to choose from.This mix is the result of that free time last weekend. Unlike my previous mixes I did not aim to fill an entire CD. I got about 36 minutes done last week and when I listened to it I thought, there really isn't a need to add anything else. So I spent this morning tweaking levels, breaking up and labeling tracks. I threw the artwork together and voila I new mix for the world.
36-37 minutes is a good length. That's about what albums were back in the day. I figure it is also a good length for a morning commute for a lot of people so on a rainy day this may just hit the spot. Coincidentally it is also a perfect length to drive to Pep Boys and get your oil changed while songs are uploading to mediafire. Them Pep Boys are quick. Another bonus is that I could compress it at 320K and keep the one file under 100MB, so you don't have to download 2 parts. Mediafire has a limit of 100MB for their free service.
You'll notice that there are 25 track and I'm sure you are asking how I could fit 25 songs into just a little over 36 minutes. Well, the answer is simple. Almost none of those tracks are songs in their entirety. I tried to get in and get out on a lot of tracks. "Keep things moving" is what I say. So we start off gentle with the sound of rain. We ramp up to some rock, and some head knocking beats and even detour into some country and blues. It all ends how we started with the sound of rainfall. I hope it works for you.
The very last track actually goes out on the sound of rain and a church bell, which I took from the opening of a song. Can anyone guess what from what song I took that? Have a listen and see if you can guess.
Enjoy!
SAP Music Rain Mix 2011
Track listing is on the artwork.
The photo was taken at California Adventure on a rainy day in February 2010. I figured it had a nice contrast of the dreary against the "happiest place on earth".
SAP Music Rain Mix 2011 by SAP Music
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Chia Pet - Meha - 1993
And the music keeps coming.This is actually from a CD and not a record. Chia Pet was a band from Chicago in the late 80's early 90's. I saw these guys quite a few times as a kid because the drummer was a good skate buddy of mine. For those who have perhaps read everything I've written over the years you may have picked up on the fact that as a kid I was all about skateboarding. My friends and I had a skateboard team and we called ourselves Team SAP. If you ever wondered where the name for the blog came from, well now you have your answer. So below is a picture of Kurt Stevens who drummed in Chia Pet as well as another great Chicago band No Empathy.
I hadn't listened to this disc for quite a few years and I threw it on last week. It holds up great. The opening track is just fantastic. A song about Valerie Bertinelli, Eddie Van Halen and even a reference to Wolfgang Van Halen who was a child at the time, but is now part of Van Halen.
"Talk About It" is also a really big stand out. This song will get up and dancing for sure. And "Meat Beer And Chocolate" not only has a great title, but the song rages as well.
I've also included a scan of a Chia Pet matchbook that I've somehow managed to keep all these years. Came across it recently and decided it needed to be scanned. To tell you the truth, the matchbook is what kicked off my listening to the CD and deciding I should share the music.
Enjoy!
Chia Pet.zip
A little over a year ago Chia Pet got together for a reunion. Here is a flyer for that reunion. Palatine was my hometown, by the way.
Here are some Chia Pet videos.
Jump to about the 3:30 minute spot to get "Meat Beer & Chocolate".
And this one is super funky. Wish I had a record or CD of this song. It really gets the feet a shufflin'.
Here is a bonus track from No Empathy. There wasn't a lot of love for Ben Weasel amongst the people I hung around with.
And here's the great original.
And one more No Empathy track.
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