“Clash City Rockers,” The Clash.
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Bloodlessly Eponymous
“Bloodless Pharoah,” The Bloodless Pharaohs. From Marty Thau‘s classic NYC punk compilation 2×5. And for non-fans: the nattily dressed guy holding a plastic cup of beer is none other than The Stray Cats’ Brian Setzer!
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Monochromatically Eponymous
In listening to the 1980 John Peel show (I’m still wallowing in nostalgia, as noted previously), I became pleasantly reminded of The Monochrome Set’s entry in one of my favorite genres, the eponymous band song. (I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that the genre is a scourge of middlebrow critics — can you imagine a “Hey, Hey, We’re The Brown Eyes”? If such a thing exists, feel free to destroy it on my behalf).
“The Monochrome Set,” The Monochrome Set (1980)
As a lagniappe: here are a few more eponymous band songs that I love. I hope you’re going to be insomniacally surfing the YouTubes to find some of your faves too!
“(Hey, Hey) We’re the Monkees,” The Monkees
“Everything’s Archie,” The Archies
“Join the Professionals,” The Professionals (here covered by The Fabulous Stains, the titular (if not eponymously named) stars of Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (and yep, that’s Diane Lane. And also yep, you should Netflix this movie tonight).
“The Yachting Type,” The Yachts (a slight cheat, perhaps, but I love this song)
And a cheat:
“Jocko Homo (Are We Not Men?)”, DEVO
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Wallowing in Nostalgic Eschatology: Skeeter Davis
“The End of the World,” 1965.
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Happy New Year everybody!
“As Tears Go By,” 1965.
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Why move from side to side when you can jump up and down?
“Pogo Dancing,” 1977.
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Most Recently SansaClipped: The Outcasts
“Self-Conscious Over You,” from the band’s titular debut LP (1979). I stumbled upon it via an old John Peel show, archived at the mighty dieordiy.blogspot.com (NOTE: according to Google the site is unwittingly housing malware from http://slugisha.blogspot.com/, so you may not want to visit for a while).
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Most Recently SansaClipped: The Sonics
Can anyone let me know where this clip is from, or who the anonymous go-go dancer(s) might be? The song is by the proto-punk garage heroes of Tacoma, Washington, The Sonics.
Most Recently SansaClipped: Dirty Mittens
Dirty Mittens perform “Time Forgiver,” from the beautiful Portland-based music-video series The Penny Jam (from which you should expect to see more). Shot on location at SE’s Old Portland Hardware & Architectural.
Most Recently SansaClipped: Glorium
“Copilot, Keep Me Awake,” from the album Eclipse (originally recorded in 1995, released this year)
No YouTube videos that I could find, but you can check the track out here (and slip ’em a buck if you like it).
