Thursday Random Eight (04/16/2009)

Material Issue - Funny Feeling: Bouncy pop starting off the morning.

Dead Milkmen - Bad Party: Pretty silly song, even by the Milkmen's standards.

Marillion - The Web: In many ways this was the metaphoric song for the band. Appearing on their first full length album, this track summed up the misery of the early songs and was referenced often during the jagged breakup of the band's lead singer, Fish, from the rest. In retrospect, it all seems kinda silly now. Mostly it is just a good song from my favorite album of the band.

Lou Barlow - Open Door War: Another pretty basic lo-fi track, with out-of-place clipped screaming, from the early days of Barlows four-track recordings.

Cut Copy - Going Nowhere (Whitey Remix): The next-to-last track from the FabricLive.29 release that is a fun, bouncy, and slightly off-tune way to close out the recording.

Marillion - Lavender: A cheesy song from the Misplaced Childhood concept album.

Junkie XL - Merlange: Pretty good song from the Saturday Teenage Kick album.

Radio 4 - Enemies Like This: Title track from one of the better power rock bands producing music today. I first saw Radio 4 open for Poster Children a number of years ago and have been happy they have continued to release CDs since then. They are a super fun band to see live; they were very tight even as an opening act back then.