Thursday Random Eight (02/19/2009)

Boredoms - Bite My Bollocks: Been a while for the Boredoms on the random eight. Quite the noisy way to start off the morning.

Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver: Probably the most well-known MOB song, and rightfully so.

The Byrds - Hungry Planet: My attempts to like the Byrds have pretty much failed miserably. It has, however, spawned me to make a new rule: no buying music that is over 5 years old. If it is older than that and I haven't bought it by this stage in my life, then it will simply not be part of my collection. I'm not sure if I'll be entirely faithful to this approach, but that is the goal.

R.E.M. - Crazy: A cover of an old Pylon song that they would play live often in the late 80's. If only briefly, it was cool that R.E.M. could pull up lesser-known indy (say, Athens, GA) bands with them by consistently playing songs like this (in fact, an R.E.M. cover was quite possibly the first time I heard MOB's "Revolver").

The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet: My "no buying music over 5 years old" rule apparently has some catching up to do as the 80's thrive today on the randon eight; this song came to my attention with The Replacements would often cover it live. In fact, once I bought an Only Ones release, I was surprised how many songs of theirs I had heard covered (Yo La Tengo appears to be a big fan of The Only Ones as well).

The dB's - Moving in Your Sleep: This is just getting weird now; the dB's are another one of those bands in the 80's that R.E.M. would hype and Peter Holsapple toured with the band when I saw them on the Green tour.

The Velvet Underground - Lady Godiva's Operation: Well, at least we are out of the 80's, although this is a band R.E.M. covered often (of course, who doesn't). Another nice thing about my 5-year rule is that I'll purposely not buy all the likely reissues of VU CDs...though hopefully the string of, "here is the same album recorded with background static" and "buy this CD cause we put in a picture of Lou Reed wearing a new hat" releases is finally over.

Butthole Surfers - Hey: Supposedly the Surfers burned an old tour van in Michael Stipe's front yard once. That could be a rumor, or flat out lie spawned by the band, but it does bring closure to a day of oddly related songs and bands.