Burl Veneer’s Music Blog

Gotta wash that snake right out of my head

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:04:00 -0700

Why oh why has Whitesnake's "Fool For Your Loving" been running through my head for the last week? It's not that I have any affinity for the lyrics: "A hard-lovin' woman like you just makes a hard-lovin' man." What the hell does that even mean, ...

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The Return of Skronk: Mojack

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:47:09 -0700

The posts I want to do keep getting bigger, and thus they are taking longer to prepare. Coming soon will be a post on UK Skronk, but in the meantime, Mojack brings us some brand new skronk from the US. Mojack is the current band of Greg Ginn (th...

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Filling in the gaps

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:50:54 -0700

Having had access to the college radio station record library during the 80s, not to mention the constant stream of new releases that came in, and then spending all my disposable income (plus future income, once I got a credit card) on imported Br...

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Erasing history

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:09:02 -0700

It always galls me when a new band takes the same name as an old band; for one thing it's an annoyance to have net searches mucked up with the pretender's name, and at worst they end up overwriting the history of the original band. How infuriatin...

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I'm still listening to Peter Hope (and Nine Inch Nails)

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:24:08 -0700

Since I've put up two songs from Peter Hope's post-Box career, I should really put up something from the band that put him on the map. (You know, my map.) The Box was formed by the original ClockDVA instrumental lineup after being fired by bandl...

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AOR addendum: New England

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:30:22 -0700

There was one more minor AOR hit I wanted to include in my last post, but there was no audio file to go into the Seeqpod player. "Don't Ever Want To Lose You Ya" by New England was one of many songs I taped off the radio in 1979, but never got th...

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Touch

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:27:14 -0700

The pinnacle of my used-record-store-owning career came when a guy from the next county called and said there was a song he'd been looking for for ten years, but nobody knows what it is, and the chorus goes "don't you know what love is," and-- and...

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Still wallowing in the 80s: Chrome

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:59:17 -0700

The big news is that my old pal Jeff has started his own music blog, at last. I've known Jeff since high school; he was into cooler music than I was, and lent me records and made me tapes to get me up to speed. All these years later (26!) we rar...

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Hold all calls, I'm listening to Nine Inch Nails

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:48:38 -0700

I'm a Nine Inch Nails fan from way back. I was hanging out with my pal $ean at the original Kemp Mill Records where he was assistant manager the day Pretty Hate Machine came out; I bought one right out of the shipping box. I listened to it and k...

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Ghostland Observatory: sometimes the hype is right

nobody@vox.com(Burl Veneer) — Sat, 03 May 2008 06:14:33 -0700

Ghostland Observatory seem poised to be this year's Big Thing, leading to overexposure and backlash, but a month after listening to their new album, Robotique Majestique, I still have several of the melodies and choruses running through my head. ...

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