Happy lazy #Caturday from Seamus, Gwen and Shel.

John Prine “September78” 2015 Oh Boy Records Live 9/23/78 at Chicago’s Park West. As a St. John Fisher School first grader, I couldn’t make it due to a standing bed-time conflict, but we caught up in ‘97 at Navy Pier. I forgave his lousy timing. We’re good now. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

www.bbc.com/news/article... “When the band finished playing, they howled out for more”

Fuzzbox “Bostin’ Steve Austin” 1986 WEA Fem quartet from Birmingham U.K. Dropped the most trippy, apocalyptic cover of “Spirit in the Sky” with Valley Girl aplomb. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #TheSixMillionDollarMan

Naked Raygun “Over the Overlords” 2021 Wax Trax! 2nd LP of this deluxe edition is a six-track, 45rpm EP. Dropped the needle on Ministry’s Paul Barker mix of “Living in the Good Times,” then got sucker punched into four great live Raygun classics … #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Johnny Carson “Here’s Johnny: Magic Moments from the Tonight Show” 1974 Casablanca Records The only Lenny Bruce bit I own with the first kid to get high on airplane glue. Followed by Billie Holliday singing “Them There Eyes.” #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Ramones “Mania” 1988 Sire I used to mow the lawn to this in high school on a Walkman cassette player. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Happy #Caturday to those who observe, from Seamus.

In the midst the of that protracted interpretive Olympic dance orgy in Italy, it’s entirely possible that I may have blurted, “IT’S THE BIG PEDDLE ON THE RIGHT! LIGHT THE DAMNNED CAULDRON!” … I’m not proud.

X “More Fun in the New World” 1983 Elektra #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

The Pogues “Rum, Sodomy & the Lash” 1985 WEA Records (2006 Rhino) “Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid, and you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids” ~ Sickbed of Cuchulainn 10 minutes Sounds like a solid night. #NowSpinning #NowSpinning #Vinyl #Pogues

The Pogues with Joe Strummer “Live in London” 2014 Rhino Saw the Pogues only once on the farewell tour with Shane. This captured a night in 1991 after Shane got the boot and Joe Strummer sat in. RSD exclusive on blood red vinyl. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Benny Goodman “The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert Vol. 2” 1956 Columbia Reissue of the 1950 release. I have Vols. 2 & 3. Murders’ Row of swing jazz. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Sex Pistols “Never Mind the Bollocks” 1977 Warner Brothers Forced commute/in-office day tomorrow. Aurally downloading my inner monologue. Also, an affirmation that we’re getting more #TedLasso. #GodSaveTheQueen #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #SexPistols

Frank Sinatra “Strangers in the Night” 1966 Reprise This was recorded six years before I was born. So I’m not anchored in it. But Sinatra and Nelson Riddle are like Brigadoon, endlessly lost in time in space and always current. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Maria Muldaur (eponymous) 1973 Reprise Spinning “Midnight at the Oasis” in honor of Catherine O’Hara. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #WaitingForGuffman

The Germs “(GI)” 1979 Slash Records “Don’t read the papers, we’re vision rapers” ~ Media Blitz #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Dropkick Murphys “Meanest of Times” 2007 Born & Bred Records Tonight’s soundtrack. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Pete Shelley “Homosapien” 1981 Arista Synth-heavy solo album by the Buzzcocks co-founder. Title track charted in Australia and Canada. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

End Result “Ward” 1985 Ruthless Records 12 in. 45 RPM EP of experimental/nocore from Chicago. Like a poison dart frog or a porcupine’s quills, this is the audio equivalent of Nature saying, “Don’t Touch!!!” Serial killer movie soundtrack material. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Flesh Eaters “Destroyed by Fire - Greatest Hits” 1987 SST Records Old school L.A. punk. #NowListening #VinylSky #Vinyl

George Thorogood & the Destroyers “Bad to the Bone” 1983 EMI America Fifth album. They opened for the Stones in the ‘81 tour and picked up RS sideman Ian Stewart on keys. They’ve been performing for more than 50 years. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Rifle Sport “Complex” 1985 Ruthless Records Unmarked test press of a 3-song EP by Minneapolis “post-punks.” Complex and Bedroom Full of ICE were recorded in Chicago. BoD in Minneapolis. Drummer/vox Todd Trainer formed Big Black with Steve Albini. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #F*CKICE

Muddy Waters “Good News” 1971 Syndicate Chapter Early ‘70s UK reissue of Chess recordings from ‘55-‘59. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Naked Raygun “Jettison” 1988 Haunted Town Some days you’re the windshield, some days you’re the bug. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #ChicagoPunk #F*ckICE

Social Distortion “Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes” 2010 Crime Don’t Pay Records (Epitaph) SD is set to release a new LP in ‘26, 16 years since this gem, their last. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

The Clash “Combat Rock” 1982 Epic “This is a public service announcement with guitar…” “You have the right to freeeee speech as long as your (sic) not dumb enough to use it.” #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

The Clash (eponymous) 1977 Epic Tunes to be bored to. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Cheap Trick “In Color” 1977 CBS #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Cheap Trick “Heaven Tonight” 1978 Epic In 1985, drummer Bun E. Carlos hatched a plan with some U.S. Marines to free his brother, Lt. Col. Kurt Carlson from hijacked TWA flight 847 in Beirut. True story. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Reservoir Dogs (Soundtrack) 1992 (2012) Geffen “Joe Egan and Gerry Rafferty were a duo known as Stealers Wheel when they recorded this Dylanesque, pop, bubble-gum favorite from April of 1974 that reached up to No. 5, as K-Billy's Super Sounds of the ‘70s continues.” #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Bruce Springsteen “Darkness in the Edge of Town” 1978 Columbia Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied 'Til he rules everything #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

The Vandals “Live Fast Diarrhea” 1995 Nitro Records 2020 reissue in “brown spatter.” So choice. I remember the X-Files episode with Giovanni Ribisi when he wore Vandals T-shirts. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Right at a time when we all need a miracle. RIP. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band “East-West” 1966 Elektra Word of the Day: Caryatid - a statue of a woman serving as a column. These are at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. More Chicago Blues genius fin the album credited with spawning acid rock. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (eponymous) 1965 Electra Butterfield on harp, Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop on guitars, Jerome Arnold and Sam Lay (From Howlin’ Wolf’s band) on bass and drums and Mark Naftalin on organ. Fearsome lineup. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Pete Townshend “Empty Glass” 1980 Atco Records Impulse buy at the music store where my kid takes violin lessons. In one little section, they’re slowly selling off some guys’s record collection. I don’t know his story, but I’ve made up a few. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Mussolini Headkick “Themes For Violent Retribution” 1989 Wax Trax! Records What the hell are we doin’ here? m.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ4z... #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Blues Brothers “Briefcase Full of Blues” 1978 Atlantic Today was my first mandated return-to-office day in Downtown Chicago. Worked remotely for at least 9 years. I carried a backpack on the train, but in my soul it was a briefcase full o’ blues. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

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Bob Dylan “Self-Portrait” 1970 Columbia Love his cover of “The Boxer.” He duets with himself using his Nashville croon and his “regular” voice (one pic for each). I’ll be soaking with this double album for a spell. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl #Cats #BobDylan

Bob Dylan “Masters of War” 2025 Lomax Archive (Universal) Recorded Jan. 1, 1963 in Alan Lomax’s apartment in New York City. Tired of covers, he worked on more original “finger-pointing’ songs.” This landed on Freewheelin’. So, tell me again how Dylan is irrelevant. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Roy Orbison “Greatest Hits” 1962 Monument Sparse Dylan on JWH left a lot of holes. So, I needed the only actual singer in the Traveling Wilburys to simultaneously chill me out and restore my faith and humanity. #NowSpinning #Vinyl

Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding” 1966 Columbia 🧵 just now, I heard the original “All Along the Watchtower” for the first time. I’ve never owned this album. So sparse. This is Bob’s intro to Nashville after the bike crash, but this wasn’t like “Blonde on Blonde” … #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Grock is what happened when they created an AI model on Drax the Destroyer and told it to deliver late night TV monologues.

Henry Mancini/Leslie Bruce “Blake Edward’s Victor/Victoria (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” 1982 MGM/PolyGram 🧵The “Main Title (Crazy World)” is the music that plays in my mellon whenever someone mentions France. Classic Mancini. There’s more … #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Viny

Game recognizes game.

Warren Zevon “Sentimental Hygiene” 1987 Virgin 🧵 This is the album that WZ recorded with 3/4 of R.E.M. Late night debauchery led to an album‘s worth of covers that WZ’s manager released as Hindu Love Gods, w/o the band’s consent, souring their friendship w/ WZ. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl

Led Zeppelin “Presence” 1976 Swan Song Snagged a well-preserved Zep disc. Doesn’t get the love it deserves. #NowSpinning #VinylSky #Vinyl