Tuesday, October 26, 2004

Music blogging is still on

Sorry about the slacking--my mind has been way elsewhere for a couple of days. Couldn't even say where, but there you go.

To make up for it, I will direct your attention to one of my all-time favorite bands, The Slits. They are cool for a number of reasons, the two biggest being that they have Palmolive of The Raincoats for a drummer and a teenage Ari Up, who later became a dance hall queen, as the lead singer.

You can only get a copy of their album on import, but it's worth the couple extra bucks. It's fun, dance-worthy, reggae-inspired punk rock that's ahead of its time. And they do one of the best covers of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" I've ever heard. The best song is probably "Typical Girls", which has laugh out loud lyrics like:

Typical girls
Fall under a spell
Typical girls
Buy magazines
Typical girls
Fell like hell
Typical girls
Worry about spots, and fat, and natural smells

Also, I thought of them because they have a pretty popular Peel sessions c.d., and John Peel just passed and I couldn't think of much to say since I'm bad at these things. Ross pulls it together as says something decent.
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