Saturday Morning Meltdown Vol 1
A video salad of where I'm at (and you could be too!)
Hello internet pals of music. Today we’re just sharing. Because sharing is caring. Not everything in my life is music related.
It may seem like I’m sharing my leftovers with you in the break room, except I don’t even have an office job, so there is no break room. But even if times are lean, when I eat, you eat.
Let’s get into it.
Armor—Afraid of What’s to Come EP (2024)
Killer recent EP by Tallahassee hardcore band that understands that most people know them from Youtube…so here’s an upload from Youtube. Completely rips, just like their last one. Hardcore is getting played out and needs the uglier side to pull it down again into the crummy backyard shows and deserted parking lot generator gigs.
Aphrodite’s Child — The Four Horsemen (1972)
Prog classic although it’s not all that proggy, and the song they’ll always be known for. Apparently this was used in a car ad, because the four horsemen were definitely Death, Famine, War and Ford. Cool that they put a little video together, and for a song about impending Armageddon, it’s fun and jams hard. Not getting political, just asking questions.
Su Tissue — Salon de Musique (1984)
If you know the name Su Tissue, it’s either from her cameo in a Jonathan Demme movie or more likely, as the diabolical singer of art-punk weirdos Suburban Lawns. She released one solo album, the piano focused ambient album Salon de Musique and then vanished. It had been a while since I listened to it, so I put it the other night while trying to soothe my rattled nerves because in a few days it will both freeze / snow in Houston1 and the nation’s worst herpes sore will be reappearing.
Propaganda Techniques (1949)
“That’s what we call card stacking”…
I think the US could use a refresher course from this 10 minute public announcement on navigating propaganda. AGAIN…I’m not getting political, I’m just asking questions.
Protest (1981)
Nine minutes of public discourse about obscenity and censorship, filmed on Granville Street, Vancouver, British Columbia in 1981. One, the televangelist that gets a little pop in the mouth feels like Tony Clifton played by Joe Flaherty and two, he fully deserves it—but that’s just the devil coming out of me. By the way, they’re protesting the screening of Caligula, which is mostly offensive by being bad and wasting a good cast, although there are some great beheadings.
We should end this with some music—here, all televised broadcasts. Apparently, I still haven’t determined why people keep subscribing to this, and continue to think it’s because of my top shelf music recommendations:
Stark Reality — Acting, Thinking, Feeling (Late 1960s)
Goblin — Profondo Rosso (1975/1976)
Al-Balbul — The Two Occupants of My Heart (1980s)
Jonzun Crew — Pack Jam (1983)
Repulsion — Decomposed (1990)
Not sure if this made it on air, but it was filmed for television.
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Lots of folks are nervous—last time Texas got frostbitten like this, the power grid failed, because that’s the New Texas Way™ and a lot of people died.