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Mondo Irlando and Blogcritics.org fling the first ever double-figure instalment of The Mondo Podcast Thing into the chasms of cyber-space.
Laugh! At various foul-mouthed "jokes" told poorly!
Cry! As The Duke dies ON AIR!
Feel Indifferent! As many tangents get explored, with little or no point.
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The Mondo Podcast Thing Episode 10.mp3
If you don't wanna know what music gets blared into your ear-caverns, then don't scroll down, since what follows is nothing less than a playlist.
Ice T - Home Invasion
The title track from one of the finest hip-hop records of all ever. Also the first of four title tracks this week. A title track extravaganza is what it is, don't you know?
Adam Green - Choke On A Cock
From Green's latest record, Gemstones, comes this tale of fellatio and Johnny Depp and shaking the hand of George W Bush. Glorious.
The Libertines - Up The Brackett
Title Track Number 2, and one that starts with the finest yell in all recorded music. This'll be the last Libertines track for a while, on account of too much Libertines, if such a thing is possible.
William Shatner - Has Been
Title Track Number 3, a stand-out from Shatner's fabulous 2004 record, produced by no less a motherfucker than Ben Folds. This has a sorta spaghetti western vibe, and has Shatner doin' the coolest "You talking to me?" since the fella in Taxi Driver. Brando, I believe it was.
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Ballad Of Robert Moore And Betty Coltrane
This is from the recent B-Sides And Rarities compilation, a thrilling murder ballad that sounds as deliciously sinister as anything the long-jawed genius ever put his name to.
Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
Title Track Number 4, and one of those "seminal" type tracks you hear about now and again. Before they went off to be Wilco, Uncle Tupelo were busy spear-heading the alt.country movement, and this is one of the definitive examples of such.
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Article comments
1 - Katharine Donelson
The Manic Street Preachers are never out of style! They're always cool! Always!
2 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Katharine, they are always wonderful, this much is certain, but the fickle masses tend to salivate over stuff for a time, and then abandon it soon after. note the massive wave of manics-inspired euphoria when A Design For Life hit the charts, and note the subsequent running to the hills of those folks some times around S.Y.M.M
Certainly they're rarely very far from my speakers.
3 - Katharine Donelson
Huh. Good point. As one of seven Americans who actually knows who they are, I'll admit that I'm pretty used to insisting on their coolness in front of perplexed hipsters.
4 - Eric Berlin
Count me in the Group of 7, though it may only be due to the fact that I lived in the UK for a spell during the late 90s.
Duke - I greatly look forward to taking in the full experience of X...
5 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Ach Eric, i think i liked it when i put it up here, but now, not so sure.
But no doubt you'll spy wahtever's amiss, that it might be remedied.
And if the manics are less well known in the US, surely it only increases their coolness. its only when loads a folks start catching on that the cooleness is challanged, and it takes a lot more time to regain the coolness than it did to squander it.
these are just my thoughts on the matter.
6 - Eric Berlin
Very true regarding the coolness factor. It's best when a band or whatever is just popular enough to make a living and pump out creative megapieces, isn't it? Without all the hype and media stomp-and-wrestle and so forth.
7 - Katharine D.
It could be the recent in flux of twenty-year olds into my life, but I've noticed that there is a distinction between "lesser known" and "unknown". But, I'd have to agree on the coolness factor in that I look hipper than all of them because I know a band from the UK that no one else does. Also, I look nerdier.
8 - chris gerald
X Rocks. Shit Duke, I've got to remind myself not to post in your guestbook when I'm drunk. That said, I look forward to your disco show.
Great show btw.
9 - Aaron, Duke De Mondo
Glad you liked it Chris. And continue to wax drunkenly, is my advice. Of course, if a disco show does show up, i'll have to pretend i thought of it all by myself, you understand.
10 - Eric Berlin
Great show, great tunes, Duke. Just listened and thoroughly enjoyed (as opposed to Thoreau-ly enjoyed, which is a different kind of enjoyment all together, or so I'm told).
That Shatner track is absolutely brilliant!
And I loved the return of the Scottsman and all the disco talk.
11 - Lorna
It's not important. ,
12 - Denae
haven't to been anything lately. up I ,