staires!

an adventure in listening

Delivery - Baader Meinhof

Fine, we're keeping up with this week being "Australia Week", which is difficult because there's no way for me to search my music library for "bands from Australia", I just have to, like, use my fuckin' memory and shit. And that's hard, I'm like 40 now, and the amount of THC I pump into my system every day, gosh, it's a miracle I even remember I have a music blog. But, I do, miracles of miracles, and I remembered this great punk band.

I've listened to this song many times, but never watched the music video. It's a lot of fun. I love the microKORG being flung around and played acoustically, what a hoot.

They've released at least two albums I've listened to, and they're both real good. Check them out over on their Bandcamp.

Sour Worm - Okay

Man, I love a song that sounds like it represents being on the verge of a mental breakdown / total shutdown, and I think this song is that. It's mellow, but it's also overwhelming. It reminds me of those times where all you can do in an argument is start going, "okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay," because there's nothing left to do, you can't even think anymore, and submission feels like a form of release.

P.S. This is another band from Australia! Cool! Is this Australia Week?

P.P.S. I also think the singer looks a bit like if my wife and I had a son, which is fun.

Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice - Elephant In The Room

I'm assuming someone over at Dr. Sure's Incorporated made a mistake, because the album this song is from, Total Reality, has been yeeted off streaming services (as is the parlance of our times), along with essentially the entirety of their catalog. Let's hope it returns, because it's not fair for YouTube to have their music and not Spotify and Apple Music, they're all owned by same soul-sucking corporate bastards deep down, aren't they? Aren't we?

Dr. Sure's Unusual Practice usually sounds a bit more rambunctious, a bit more punk rock than this song is, but I just really dig the deep 90's vibe of this song. Thank god for Australia, churning out some good pop punk, I'll post a few more bands from that continent later on, I'm sure.