Dive into the archives.
- “How Many More Years” – Howlin’ Wolf
Stolen from friend Erika’s fb post this morning.
Quite appropos (said the guy with 6¢ in the bank). Here’s Howlin’ Wolf, back in 1966. So get yer groove on, y’all!
- “A Motif Is Just A Riff” – Buddy Guy
Off of 1970’s Buddy And The Juniors, here’s A Motif Is Just A Riff (aka Riffin’).
Performed by Buddy Guy, Junior Wells and Junior Mance… it’s seven & a half-odd minutes of a single riff. And fresh the whole way through. Pretty fuckin’ cool, man.
Now I’ve got to get back to debugging another site. This is good work [...]
- “He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)” – The Crystals
1962… Marilyn Monroe goes, Spider-Man appears, and JFK promises the world a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
And Phil Spector produces a song by Carole King and Gerry Goffin for that superpower of early ’60s girl groups, The Crystals.
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss) is, well, an interesting [...]
- “The Mummy’s Eye” – Brian Tyler
Here’s another track from Brian Tyler’s soundtrack (score?) from the 2002 Coscarelli film Bubba Ho-Tep.
It’s a bookend of sorts to Sunday’s Let’s Go, Man, using the thematic elements of the Mummy’s, errr, theme.
Viva la undead, yo!
The Mummy’s Eye
- “Let’s Go, Man” – Brian Tyler
Sometimes I wake up in the morning with weird shit rattling around in my brain.
This was just such a morning. As I staggered back into consciousness today, Brian Tyler’s Let’s Go, Man, from the 2002 Coscarelli film Bubba Ho-Tep, was number one on the ol’ mental playlist. With a bullet, as they say.
So here’s the [...]
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