Circle Jerks... Group Sex

Released 1980
Recorded 1980 at Byrdcliffe Studios, Culver City, California
Length 15:40
Label Frontier
Producer Circle Jerks, Cary Markoff
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Over the years when ever I feel like being obnoxious, drop in Circle Jerks Group Sex. Every song has that teenage obnoxious feel to it, everything I lived with back in the day. Like the song Deny Everything, seems like something I would tell myself back in the day to get out of something stupid. Yeah back in the day I could be hella obnoxious for the stupidest things.

The obnoxious feeling in that song, carries over for me in to Wasted… because every time I’d wake up from a crazy night or when a girlfriend would get mad at me for drinking. I’d just fade away into my head to play that song over and over again (Maybe because its only like 43 seconds long)… that always made me laugh, no one should ever try to change anyone, it’s just a waste of time and energy.

And as things have been going on lately Live Fast Die Young, seems appropriate. Not that I’m suicidal or anything like that, just that people in general are pretty stupid if you ask me. So when it comes to the line “I don't wanna live, to be thirty-four, I don't wanna die, in a nuclear war” it seems very appropriate given the madness of life lately.

With this little gem I would like to say to everyone to PASS IT ON and to listen to the Pinata Hour
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Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Deny Everything"	Keith Morris, Roger Rogerson	0:28
2.	"I Just Want Some Skank"	Circle Jerks	1:10
3.	"Beverly Hills"	Morris, Rogerson	1:06
4.	"Operation"	Lucky Lehrer, Rogerson	1:30
5.	"Back Against the Wall"	Circle Jerks	1:35
6.	"Wasted"	Greg Ginn, Morris	0:43
7.	"Behind the Door"	Circle Jerks	1:26
8.	"World Up My Ass"	Rogerson, Morris	1:17
9.	"Paid Vacation"	Circle Jerks	1:29
10.	"Don't Care"	Ginn, Morris, Brian Migdol	0:36
11.	"Live Fast, Die Young"	Morris, Greg Hetson	1:33
12.	"What's Your Problem?"	Morris, Rogerson	0:57
13.	"Group Sex"	Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Circle Jerks	1:04
14.	"Red Tape"	Morris, Hetson	0:57
Total length:			15:40

TSOL... Dance with me

Released: 1981
Recorded:1981
Length: 26:11
Label: Frontier Records
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Growing up the only sounds that I could get a hold of, besides Crap from Riverside was the Old school OC Punk, that I got from my uncle. I remember him always talking about TSOL and how they were probably the most experimental band in that scene also on a few occasions, he told me there were always fights and people getting stab or shot.  So this band always stuck with me because of those stories.

The song that was always obvious, that anybody ever talked about was Code Blue. I was a kid when I first heard this song (maybe 10 years old) and remember laughing at it, because it was so obnoxious and that’s what hooked me. Maybe it’s the season but these lyrics seem right “Middle of the night so silently
I creep on over to the mortuary”, gets me every time Lol.

Great lyrics and some of the subjects you didn’t ever really expect. Especially with the song The Triangle, it was all about secret agents and trying to get out of the Spy vs. Spy game. I never would’ve expected that after hearing Code Blue just before.

The best way to end the album was with a bang, and that’s how Dance with me comes off. Everybody always talks about Social Distortion being the greatest underground punk bands on the west coast, but I think after they went more Rockabilly, all their stuff started sounding the same... BORING. Yeah they get more play (mostly in Bro Bar), but TSOL is way more talented and more outrageous lyrics especially with this song.

So this is something that I've always Loved, so that's why I'm you should PASS IT ON and enjoy it... Also don't forget to check out Lee's show THE PINATA HOUR... if you miss it remember you can always download pass episodes
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1. "Sounds of Laughter" - 3:26
2. "Code Blue" - 2:08
3. "The Triangle" - 3:30
4. "80 Times" - 2:03
5. "I'm Tired of Life" - 1:51
6. "Love Story" - 2:05
7. "Silent Scream" - 2:46
8. "Funeral March" - 1:23
9. "Die for Me" - 2:02
10. "Peace Through Power" - 1:47
11. "Dance with Me" - 2:51

Brightblack Morning Light

Released:June 20, 2006
Length:52:49
Label: Matador Records
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OK I don’t really know where this one came from but I likes it. Brightblack Morning Light has an ambient jazz feel to it with some shoe gaze mixed in somehow. Sometimes I come upon music in some random places from the net, driving down the street, and my favorite way is through movies. Hearing a song at some point in a movie or just living is always a great feeling.

Everybody Daylight is a great way to open up the self titled album. There’s something hella sexy in that song, like if a teasing before the moment of getting close. Then when things look all is over, that’s when a second wind comes into slowly rock into it.

Ever hear a song that sounds like the beginning of a good day? It’ll stick with you all day, might even put a smile on your face. I don’t know that may just be me trying to be optimistic with my life. I can imagine myself humming along with this song Friend of Time while even just walking down the street, it’s slow but it’s got a great vibe.

When some days end you just want to have a hot meal and a cold beer, then melt into a chair till you fall asleep that’s how All We Have Broken Shines sounds to me. The day doesn’t have to be a bad one it’s just the felling this song invokes in me a long day done.

Make sure to keep listen to new music and keep reading this weekly blog From The Mess so PASS IT ON... also keep listening to my buddy Lee over there at the Pinata Hour
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All tracks by Nathan Shineywater

1. "Everybody Daylight" – 6:01
2. "Friend Of Time" – 6:30
3. "Fry Bread" – 1:46
4. "Star Blanket River Child" – 10:29
5. "All We Have Broken Shines" – 5:06
6. "A River Could Be Loved" – 4:03
7. "Amber Canyon Magik" – 4:54
8. "Black Feather Wishes Rise" 5:05
9. "Come Another Rain Down" – 3:16
10. "We Share Our Blanket With The Owl" – 5:39

PJ Harvey...Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea

Released: October 23, 2000

Recorded: March–April 2000
Length: 47:25
Label: Island
Producer: Rob Ellis, Mick Harvey, PJ Harvey
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With this album that I choose this week PJ Harvey’s Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea. I can say that this is the sexiest and smartest songwriter I’ve heard in my life. This woman has soul in her voice and lyrics that make you think about yourself and where you’re going.

Shit that’s how it made me feel, I remember when I first heard This is love from a music video she made. I was working a truly dead end job as a security guard during the graveyard shift, in some shitty industrial park somewhere, remembering some girl that I never got to love. With this song it made me think that I was giving up with this job and that I was only existing without a purpose. I soon quit the job to go back to school full time (which I later dropped out after 2 months lol). But it still has allot of soul in it to me and Pj Harvey is just fucking sexy in the video.

As I went through the album later on, and after I quit that job, I could see that my life was only beginning and there was still soo much more to do, than sit still watching everyone around me doing nothing as well. The song Good Fortune made me want to get out of my barrio to do something unexpected and that the pains that were to be would make the good parts even sweeter… that would be my Good Fortune. Hearing it again and listening to the lyrics, makes me think that I've never been in Love just Lust or Complacency... maybe one day I'd have that.

And from those days of lust or complacency I could hear myself waking to Horses in My Dreams. Picking up the pieces of myself that I let get tangled up in forcing things. I always felt like I was like a charging beast getting away, trying to hide feelings until they didn’t mean anything anymore. We all get a little dirty dealing with others and we got pull away. Well that’s what I got out of this song during the last 10 years.

This week before I cut you all lose, I would like to thank everyone, who has taken the time to read my thoughts and feelings about albums that strike me at the right time I appreciate it.

Also I would ask that you PASS IT ON (Meaning to share and make someone else read this) and to check out my buddy LEE's show the Pinata Hour
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All lyrics and music by PJ Harvey.

1. "Big Exit" - 3:51
2. "Good Fortune" - 3:20
3. "A Place Called Home" - 3:43
4. "One Line" - 3:14
5. "Beautiful Feeling" - 4:00
6. "The Whores Hustle and the Hustlers Whore" - 4:01
7. "This Mess We're In" (featuring Thom Yorke) - 3:57
8. "You Said Something" - 3:19
9. "Kamikaze" - 2:24
10. "This Is Love" - 3:48
11. "Horses in My Dreams" - 5:38
12. "We Float" - 6:07
13. "This Wicked Tongue" - 3:42 (UK & Japan bonus track)

2MEX... Over the Counter Culture

Released: April 19, 2005
Label: Up Above Records
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Every time I hear anything from 2MEX I’m always blown away by how crazy his beats are and how his lyrics are soo smart. I’ve been wanting write about 2MEX for a while now but I could never decide what album I wanted to write about. But I finally found myself in the right frame of my mind to do 2MEX justice with Over the Counter Culture.

The whole reason I picked up this album was just for the Everyday… great song, fucking brilliant lyrics that make me laugh, because they’re soo true. “If you were to keep a smile on my face, hit me up on my space, just end up at my place, I would love you everyday” that line is my favorite. Sounds like something I might say to a girl that I like.

Soo many more words is always awesome with the lyrics and beats. I actually first heard this song as a mash-up with Weezer as the beat. There’s soo much anger and frustration in this song I could use as my theme song especially with”saw you at the show, you pretended that you never knew me, I don't know I guess ill act like I rented you like a movie”. I had my time of funny stories of girls treating me like crap and everything that’s said in this song I can’t say are lies… this guy always hit the right spots with his music.

This album has a very frustrated sound to it, kinda depressing, but with truth about the feelings that come from relationships or the pursuit of one. I didn't mean to touch your hand says that in the title and when you listen to it, that’s what you notice about the whole song. straight raw nerves about everything in this one.

this is a great album that really comes alive quick, so that's why I'm saying to PASS IT ON

Also don't forget my buddy LEE's show the Pinata Hour
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1 Once Again
2 It's All 4 You
3 Minors into Fire
4 Gone 'Til Whenever
5 Big Beat Walkthrough
6 Love (Interlude)
7 Everyday
8 Dream Small
9 Love (Interlude)
10 So Many More Words
11 Interruption From The Lie Love You
12 I Didn't Mean to Touch Your Hand (Last Desperate Attempt)
13 Breath of a Salesman
14 S-S-Sorry
15 Everywhere Once
16 Songodsuns at Night
17 Over the Counter Culture
18 Don't
19 (Untitled Track)