Videolog: Gone Daddy Gone


Violent Femmes
Gone Daddy Gone, 1983

You’ve never lived until you’ve heard this song performed in a small club across the street from a mid-size college in North Carolina, without the xylophone, because it was apparently lost in transit.

A few years later I saw a different band, the Flaming Lips, in Charlotte without their drummer. He, too, had apparently been lost in transit.

Videolog: Detachable Penis


Detachable Penis
King Missile, 1992

I vaguely remember meeting one of the members of King Missile on New Year’s Eve, 1993. I think it was at the Lone Star. I’m not sure, because I was exceedingly drunk that night, as was my customary practice at the time.

I’d loved the band ever since the first time I heard “Jesus Was Way Cool” several years before, and I thought it was really cool that they finally had something of a hit. At least on Live 105, back when it used to not suck.

Videolog: Hey St. Peter


Hey St. Peter
Flash and the Pan, 1979

Welcome to the Videolog.

This is a new experimental feature, and what I plan to do is include seemingly (but not really) random music videos from YouTube or other sources, based on my mood and on whichever obscure pop song I happened to find a video for that day.

I like to think that I’ll be presenting that song you hadn’t realized you wanted to hear until you stumbled on it here. It will be mostly songs that either never quite made it to the top 40, or made abrief appearance and were never seen nor heard from again. You’re likely to see anything from 1990s alternapop and grunge to 1980s indie and technopop to best-forgotten 1970s disco and TV themes. There may be commentary as well. And there may not.

Enjoy.