Kono Gulf Music

The Afghan Whigs 'Rebirth Of The Cool'

2012-02-13T17:03:00.001+01:00

Disco Whigs!!!

Hüsker Dü - Eight Miles High (Pink Pop Festival 87)

2012-02-12T03:13:00.000+01:00

Bobbie Gentry - Fancy

2012-02-02T16:34:00.001+01:00

In honour of my first booking to play a shitkicking country DJ set next Friday. Get some!

Stop (Jane's Addiction) - Cleveland School of Rock Headliners

2012-01-30T15:53:00.000+01:00

Anyone who doesn't think this fucking rules can suck it, check out the fucking bass player he's like 12 or some shit, besides these kids do it better than the current Jane's line-up... hurrah.

Joy Division - Atmosphere

2012-01-29T02:46:00.004+01:00

MOTHERFUCK

The Smiths - The Headmaster Ritual

2012-01-29T02:42:00.000+01:00

GET SOME, CUNTS!

Drive-By Truckers - Women Without Whiskey

2012-01-28T17:37:00.000+01:00

Ryan Adams - Sweet Black Magic

2012-01-26T16:11:00.002+01:00

Jarvis Cocker - Black Magic

2012-01-26T16:10:00.000+01:00

Stevie Wonder - We Can Work It Out

2012-01-25T19:53:00.000+01:00

Ike and Tina - Come Together

2012-01-25T19:50:00.001+01:00

Fats Domino - Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except For Me and My Monkey

2012-01-25T19:48:00.002+01:00

The Flaming Lips - I am the Walrus

2012-01-25T19:43:00.002+01:00

The Beatles couldn't do this live, neither could Oasis...

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part eight)

2012-01-23T22:48:00.001+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part seven)

2012-01-23T22:41:00.001+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part six) FUCK YEAH!

2012-01-23T22:34:00.001+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part five)

2012-01-23T22:28:00.002+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part four)

2012-01-23T22:23:00.001+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part three)

2012-01-23T22:17:00.003+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part two)

2012-01-23T22:11:00.001+01:00

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (part one)

2012-01-23T22:02:00.003+01:00

The Beach Boys - Forever

2012-01-21T16:49:00.001+01:00

Lee Hazlewood - The Night Before

2012-01-21T16:43:00.001+01:00

Walker Brothers - Land of a Thousand Dances

2012-01-21T12:38:00.001+01:00

Lacks the grit of the original but the moves! The fucking moves on those cats!

Mike Love Talking!

2012-01-18T20:36:00.001+01:00

Talking Heads - Heaven

2011-12-30T17:19:00.001+01:00

Mercury Rev - Coney Island Cyclone

2011-12-30T17:18:00.002+01:00

Shangri-Las - Out In The Streets

2011-12-30T17:17:00.001+01:00

Super Furry Animals - Run-Away

2011-12-30T17:14:00.002+01:00

Spiritualized - Come Together

2011-12-07T04:40:00.000+01:00

Smoke up in the garage, come inside, smile, have your doors blown off by J. Spaceman and friends.

Archers of Loaf - Web in Front

2011-12-07T03:59:00.000+01:00

Once upon a time when i was young, white and stupid... 17 years in and still fucking love this song...

The Misfits - Astro-Zombies

2011-12-07T03:48:00.001+01:00

I'm kinda hung up on the Walking Dead and even though i'm a grown man i'm sorta freaked out by zombies and shit and every time i watch that show i end up having zombie nightmares, i'm sure the drugs don't help either but you know gotta do something on a sunday night, so in order to be more zombie friendly i listen to the Misfits... and then i can sleep peacefully.

The Black Keys - Lonely Boy

2011-12-04T14:18:00.001+01:00

I saw these cats a few years back, maybe 5 or so now, in a tiny club in the burgh and they blew the fucking doors off the place, who would of thunk that they'd be playing arenas these days, the sound has changed a bit but really it's stayed the same and they're Ohio boys to boot, this song and video will get your feet a tappin' and most likely have you mimicking this beautiful man's dance moves.

The Soft Pack - Parasites

2011-11-28T19:05:00.001+01:00

Dig it motherfuckers.

Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader

2011-11-28T17:05:00.001+01:00

The Stooges - No Fun

2011-11-28T16:47:00.001+01:00

The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper

2011-11-28T16:36:00.001+01:00

In a very 60s mood.

Yardbirds - For Your Love

2011-11-28T16:32:00.001+01:00

The Len Price 3 - Pictures

2011-11-25T19:33:00.001+01:00

Top bombing!

The Len Price 3 - With Your Love

2011-11-25T00:28:00.001+01:00

I love this fucking band. And I have the slim opportunity to get them to work with us on the film what I wrote. Amazing!

Jimmy Rogers - Sloppy Drunk

2011-11-23T23:04:00.001+01:00

In honour of the filming of Pubmonkey kicking off.

NINE OF CLUBS REUNION

2011-11-20T15:54:00.000+01:00

Luna - Sideshow by the Seashore

2011-11-16T21:25:00.001+01:00

Small Faces - Universal

2011-11-16T21:22:00.001+01:00

Back to our irregularly programmed schedule.

Harry Dean Stanton features in masterclass in batshit in Wild at Heart

2011-11-16T21:20:00.000+01:00

I love this shit.

Harry Dean Stanton says BRRILLIANT in Pretty in Pink

2011-11-16T21:16:00.001+01:00

While we seem to be taking a break from songs and having a bit of a Harry Dean Stanton crush...

The Repo Code

2011-11-16T03:25:00.000+01:00

Bukowski - Love is a Dog from Hell

2011-11-16T03:13:00.000+01:00

Fear - Let's Have a War

2011-11-13T16:22:00.000+01:00

First and foremost this is posted for the Kid at his request and let's just state that the Kid has excellent fucking taste in music... and then last night as i was sitting on my couch i stumbled across the Republican debate on foreign policy and well, let's just say that this song fits those fucking muppets to a T, so much in fact that if i had the footage and the time i would make my own video by splicing their talking fucking heads and applying this song, listen to the words kids, they are spot on some 30 years later as the disciples of that fuckwit Ronald Reagan all try and conjure his rotten demented spirit from the pits of hell.... so as the song says...

UNKLE - Rabbit in Your Headlights

2011-11-13T12:19:00.001+01:00

Bright Eyes - Lua

2011-11-11T03:26:00.001+01:00

Shit cocaine, cigarettes, massive amounts of booze, driving home through deserted and wet streets at 4:30am with my nose running and my heart pounding and the pills just starting to make me woozy and a pain i couldn't shake, it feels like another lifetime but it wasn't really all that long ago... and this album playing in the car as i made my way towards a loveless bed to stare at the wall and listen to the birds welcome another day... sometimes i almost miss it.

Fear - I Don't Care About You

2011-11-09T03:34:00.000+01:00

Dedicated to the management of the Big World Bank Machine...

Ian Dury & The Blockheads - I Wanna Be Straight

2011-11-08T17:19:00.001+01:00

While the Stone Roses are busy wanting to be adored with their reunion tour, I'm just feeling like I wanna be straight. Sick and tired of taking drugs and staying up late...

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

2011-11-04T14:30:00.003+01:00

Brother Kono's clip is evidently taken from the infamous Spike Island show - known equally for its sense of occasion and scale and for its evidently shambolic organisation and poor sound. I've never heard any audio from it - or for that matter a live version of Fool's Gold. And although it's an interesting artifact and has an epic Squire noodling funk quality, Mani's bass and Reni's sublime drumming seem a little lost in the recording for my tastes.

To back up my rambling soliloquy in the Plastic Paddy last week, here is The Roses in their full pomp. Produced by John Leckie with sub-Woodstock home edited footage of the Blackpool show that was filmed (including long forgotten Bez-like dancer Cressa). This is the reason why it's okay that they are risking tainting their reputation by reforming.

The Stone Roses - Fools Gold (Live at Spike Island)

2011-11-04T03:04:00.000+01:00

Wendy Rene - Give You What I Got

2011-11-04T01:30:00.001+01:00

This might be even better. Doo-be-doo!

Wendy Rene - After Laughter Comes Tears

2011-11-04T01:28:00.001+01:00

Been one of my most listened to songs of 2011. Fucking mega. The idea that you have to record albums or be "clever" is totally disproved by these three minutes of soul perfection.

Van Morrison - Caravan

2011-11-04T01:22:00.001+01:00

Safer ground here.

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See

2011-11-04T00:20:00.001+01:00

Don't know what the "clean edit" shite is about, but for my money this is the best thing these northern clowns have done since their debut. Sounds like Echo and the Shangri-Las to my ringing ears.

Dream of the 90s (Portlandia)

2011-11-03T16:00:00.000+01:00

This says is all.

M83 - We Own the Sky

2011-11-03T03:00:00.000+01:00

The fucking Nazis at Vevo wouldn't let me post the official video for this song which is another homage to a Mr. John Hughes and i highly recommend checking it out, so since we can't have the first choice we'll go with this, it's really about the song anyway.

Swedish Fetish 2

2011-11-03T02:28:00.000+01:00

Swedish Fetish

2011-11-03T02:23:00.000+01:00

Jane's Addiction - Summertime Rolls

2011-11-02T02:46:00.000+01:00

This was the last song i sang Nick Disaster tonight as i put him to bed, the quality of the video may be a bit shoddy but these days that mirrors the quality of the band, at one time they were arguably the best and most important band on the planet, now 20 years and a few incarnations later they are nothing more than a shit nu-metal band with a hired bassist, they will never be the band they were without Eric Avery, he was the most important part, when you think of Jane's in their heyday the thing that sticks out is the bass lines, but Eric went out for one last tour and a big payday and realized that what was once in no more, now all you have in Farrell and Navarro posturing and acting like fucking imbeciles, doesn't mean i love them any less, Ritual and Nothing Shocking are fucking masterpieces, it's just that after that i like to pretend they never got back together, now it's like karaoke of the great stuff with lots of shit new songs thrown in, needless to say little Nick Disaster and his sleepy eyes enjoyed it, then daddy kissed his curly mop head and said good night.

Pulp - Help The Aged

2011-11-02T02:22:00.000+01:00

Hey Gulfboot remember when you came to visit last week? Damn that was a good time, i was gonna write this to you know like the general population but since no one reads this shit but us i figured i'd just address it to you, i was reminiscencing about last week and singing this song to Nick Disaster in the tub and thought it might be a nice addition to Kono-Gulf's library of hip and cool songs, besides we're not as young as we used to be and someday i'm hoping we get to hang out in the same old folks home like the bearded guys in this video. Who loves ya brother.

Frank Sinatra & Sammy Davis Jr - Me And My Shadow

2011-11-01T17:24:00.000+01:00

Lou Reed and Metallica - The View (go ahead I dare you to listen)

2011-11-01T13:43:00.000+01:00

This is fucking genius and by genius i mean like the biggest fucking train wreck ever conceived, i'm of the opinion that this is so awful that in 20 years or so rock critics will be talking about how brilliant it is when really it's just one heaping, steaming pile of shit, in fact the only really redeeming quality this album has it the amount of wickedly funny comments it has produced on any site that has reviewed it, someone suggested making a book out of them and i couldn't agree more, go find a site and read them, you'll be laughing your ass off.

Harry Nilsson - Me And My Arrow

2011-10-31T23:05:00.001+01:00

“I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.”

― Harry Nilsson

The National - Daughters of the SoHo Riots

2011-10-29T17:07:00.000+02:00

Rainy day music from my Ohio brethren.

Nina Simone - I Think It's Gonna Rain Today

2011-10-25T20:21:00.000+02:00

Flaming Lips - Waiting For Superman (Live at Ally Pally this Summer just gone)

2011-10-25T20:16:00.000+02:00

I wasn't there but I know some people that were.

Super Furry Animals - It's Not The End Of The World

2011-10-25T20:07:00.001+02:00

Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

2011-10-25T20:04:00.001+02:00

M83 - Kim and Jessie

2011-10-25T19:47:00.000+02:00

Anthony Gonzalez is M83, his new album in Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, his last album was Saturdays=Youth, it was an homage to the films of John Hughes that he watched as a kid, i think Mr. Hughes would like this video, i know i do.

Avenues - Whiskeytown

2011-10-22T02:38:00.000+02:00

It songs like this that makes it worthwhile to sit at home and drink, in the quiet and peaceful confines of the living room, far away from the noise and the smoke and the clinking of glasses, cuz you most likely wouldn't hear this on the jukebox and even if you played it you wouldn't hear it above the shouts of hip kids and indie-rockers and assholes all voicing their opinions on a myriad of subjects that i have no interest in, that's why tonight i'm sitting in my little room and watching my cats sleep and checking on the boyos and listening to some old favorites...

all the sweethearts of the world are out dancing in the places/ where me and all my friends go to hide our faces...

Gram Parsons - A Song For You (Live at Max's Kansas City)

2011-10-21T19:41:00.000+02:00

Wow. I just found a gem. Music starts about a minute in and you get a little banter from the man himself, The end is just flat out brilliant.

Sonic Youth - "Kool Thing"

2011-10-17T20:47:00.000+02:00

The soon to be single Kim Gordon, after 27 years of marriage she and Thurston are calling in quits, only 20 some years to late, i remember seeing Sonic Youth at some little club in the Burgh back in 91 or 92 and pushing my way front and center so i could ogle Ms. Gordon cuz we all know that if she woulda just talked to me both our lives would have been different, i guess the moral of the story is fuck that true love shit...

Amy Winehouse & Paul Weller - Don't Go To Strangers

2011-10-13T19:34:00.001+02:00

Drive-By Truckers - Daddy Needs A Drink

2011-10-11T04:38:00.000+02:00

Just back from the Kiddie Express Care where they wouldn't even fuck with the thing on Nick Disaster's cute little belly, they told me to wait until morning and take him to the ER so they can dope him up and lance it and what have you and while i'm there i get a message from his 5 year old brother that i couldn't listen to until i got home and if i could somehow put it up here it would break every one of your motherfucking hearts cuz though they may be young i've drilled into those boys that they have to look out for each other and i do believe it's already sunk in, so the I-mac called and left a message asking how his brother was doing and hoping he was alright and then he said i love you Nick D. and i love you Dad, you're the most fun Dad i know and you're the best Dad ever and god damn if his old man's eyes didn't well up just a bit cuz no one was around but sometimes Daddy's don't have the luxury of crying they just have to get on with things like taking care of their young sons and though i'd really love a drink tonight i probably won't get one til tomorrow when hopefully things have settled down a bit and until then i'll take care of Nick Disaster all day until i take the I-mac to his footie match tomorrow night and what has been a long day might turn into even a longer night followed by an even longer day but Mr. Hood sings a pretty good song and i know just where's he's coming from and if all goes well tomorrow at some point i'll have a glass of Power's and a pint of the black gold in front of me and ten minutes or so to relax...

John Lennon's Birthday Would Have Been Today

2011-10-09T16:42:00.000+02:00

Here you go:

The Beatles - Rain

The Beatles - She Said, She Said

John Lennon - Bring On The Lucie (Freda People)

John Lennon - Watching The Wheels

Four "Elvis" Songs Done by Other People

2011-10-08T15:13:00.000+02:00

Tony Joe White - Polk Salad Annie (Live on The Johnny Cash Show)

Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog ( Live At Oregon State, Muddy Waters Tour 1971)

Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind (Live 1982)

The Flaming Lips - Suspicious Minds (Live at the BBC 2002)

Sam Cooke - Bring It On Home To Me (Live At The Harlem Square Club, 1963)

2011-10-08T01:07:00.001+02:00

Astonishing! Can you even imagine what music would be like without this man?

Jacques Brel - Amsterdam

2011-10-07T19:56:00.001+02:00

Sing it Frenchie!

He was Belgian.

The Velvet Underground & Nico - Femme Fatale

2011-10-06T19:04:00.000+02:00

Lou's fro, Teutonic icy-ness, i like drugs.

Richard Ace - Can't Get Enough

2011-10-05T19:30:00.000+02:00

Fucking superb version of the Barry White classic on the amazing Studio One Soul compilation from the immortal Soul Jazz Records.

Modest Mouse - Polar Opposites

2011-10-04T19:53:00.000+02:00

Four Songs I'd Kill to Hear Elvis Sing...

2011-10-03T20:27:00.001+02:00

I've actually been having this fantasy, thinking about how he wasted that voice on some sub-standard song choices. If I could get me mitts on a time machine and kidnap The King in early '77, get him clean (after a few binges), take him to London and become his Svengali, I'd force him to cover late 70s early 80s UK New Wave / Indie shit before his voice gets shot and he eventually kills himself again. By around '83 I reckon.

But if you can open your mind and imagine these with Presley arrangements (I'm thinking 'Wonder of You', 'Suspicious Minds',' This Time You Gave Me A Mountai'n,' If I Can Dream, Kentucky Rai'n, 'In the Ghetto' type stuff) but with this English kitchen sink vibe going on.

1. Squeeze - Up The Junction

Although it might seem totally incongruous to have a Tupelo boy singing Difford’s seemingly humdrum tale of south London working class life, the themes of work, parenthood, failed relationships and personal demons is exactly the sort of thing the morose post-Priscilla Elvis should have been tackling in the late ‘70s.

To hear Presley singing about not seeing his daughter would have been easy in light of what was happening with Lisa Marie. I can hear him giving it some welly on the verse: “And now she's two years older / Her mother's with a soldier / She left me when my drinking / Became a proper stinging / The devil came and took me /From bar to street to bookie / No more nights by the telly / No more nights nappies smelling...” Maybe he’d have to sing diapers instead of nappies, but he would really get his fat larynx around that end bit.

2. Joe Jackson - It's Different for Girls
There was a bitterness and a lingering sense of self-pity that ran through much of Elvis’ late Vegas shows. Listening to the numerous bootleg recordings of shows in the mid- to late-seventies paints a picture of a wounded, maudlin, and often inebriated man wracked with self-doubt and a barely concealed resentment towards his estranged wife’s newfound happiness. This often informed some of his most emotional work. Versions of ‘Always On My Mind’ from that period display this sadness but I’d have liked to have seen him have a chance to be a bit more barbed. Jackson’s 1979 hit would give him that chance, with the opening lyric of, “what the hell is wrong with you tonight?” juxtaposing the laboured and over-familiar, “are you lonesome tonight?”. I’d love to hear that bitter baritone repeating the refrain of, “You're all the same / You're all the same / You're all the same...”

3. Joy Division - Atmosphere
As we know, Elvis never wrote shit. His choice of songs was, in turn, inspired in the 50s, seemingly plucked from an unending pool of factory line hors-dung during the Hollywood years, and then the bombastic eclectic mix of ballads, spirituals and bombast in his post-’68 Comeback incarnation. According to biographer Peter Guralnick it could be a source of conflict between Elvis and his manager and his hangers on. During one of his lowest periods in the 70s when feeling particularly alienated in the bubble he had created for himself, Elvis went through a period of listen exclusively to French tenor Charles Aznavour. It is during this time I find the King moniker, to be most apt; surrounded by a court of attendants, robbed of independence, anonymity or meaningful human contact, cocooned in a narcotic haze whilst his recently acquired and soon forgotten stable of prize horses went neglected. If Presley wanted to choose a song that expressed how he felt during this time, he could have done worse than pick Curtis as his songwriter. In Elvis’ hands Curtis’ hymn to a very different kind of alienation would take on a whole new dimension. And let’s be honest here, their voices are not too far apart here.

4. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Wake Up and Make Love With Me
The young Elvis by all accounts, sent chicks wild with his pendulum hips and snotty snarl. By the time he got to Vegas his pathetic giggly versions of Peggy Lee’s ‘Fever’, his karate-as-sexual-technique theatrics during ‘Burning Love’ and his flippant pastiches of his early material proved he was little more than a fat bejewelled parody of his former raw and horny self. Dury’s poetic description of the more authentic, explicit, unrefined, and dare I say funky aspects of love-making would reflect well on a man of the King’s more mature years and cultured girth. Specifically, who wouldn’t want to hear him get raunchy whilst grunting out the opening sequence describing, in near pornographic detail, the art of seducing your better half by subtly poking her in the back with your morning glory: “I come awake / With a gift for womankind / You're still asleep / But the gift don't seem to mind / Rise on this occasion / Halfway up your back / Sliding down your body / Touching your behind.”

Girls - 'Vomit'

2011-10-03T18:25:00.000+02:00

There is something beautiful that about this song that makes me listen to it over and over in the car while i'm riding around doing nothing or hustling or daydreaming or...

R.E.M. - Cuyahoga

2011-10-03T18:23:00.000+02:00

One for the place i grew up.

Wavves - "Bug"

2011-09-23T14:45:00.000+02:00

R.E.M. - Nightswimming

2011-09-22T15:27:00.000+02:00

It's not like years ago, the fear of getting caught... goodbye to another band from my youth, though i wasn't devoted to this band i listened to them enough, another reminder that i'm getting old...

Velvet Underground - Waiting for the Man

2011-09-22T11:39:00.000+02:00

Small Faces - Here Come The Nice

2011-09-22T11:28:00.001+02:00

The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist

2011-09-21T18:04:00.001+02:00

Indeed.

Run DMC - Peter Piper

2011-09-15T03:51:00.000+02:00

I was 15 when this album came out, right about the time i was making the transition from hip-hop and rap to good old hardcore, but let's face it, Raising Hell is a fucking brilliant album and this kinda shit puts the kiddies pretending to rappers today to bed...

Crooked Fingers - When You Were Mine

2011-09-15T03:39:00.000+02:00

One of my favorite cover of all time, from an EP of all covers i believe, now dig kids.

Circle Jerks - Golden Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)

2011-09-15T03:33:00.000+02:00

What happens when you can't seem to get your shit together to do a proper post on the lounge? well i come over here and fuck around for no one but The Gulfboot Johnson and I, fuck the lounge anyway it's all tripe, but here we have a fine tune from one of my favorite bands growing up, yep, The Circle Jerks, a fine cover medley, so come on now and sing along...

Little Richard - I Don't Know What You've Got, But It's Got Me

2011-09-13T20:17:00.001+02:00

Genuinely beautiful.

Girls - Broken Dreams Club

2011-09-13T15:28:00.001+02:00

When you wake up feeling old and blue.

Goldishack Guerrillas - Bulldozer

2011-09-13T15:09:00.002+02:00

Yeah so i found this horrible semi-soft core porn called the Suicide Girls Guide to Living (it started as a web site for tattoo'd and pierced girls who did pin-up type stuff) and they were playing this song while rolling joints and taking off their clothes and well let's face it i like joints and naked women so i watched but what really got my attention was this song, it made me want to go out and start flipping elbows again, it's the kind of song that should be playing while i stood at the bar at Anthony's Lounge back in the day winding down from business as i talked shit with my associates and various strippers stopped to bat their eyelashes at me, ah the good old days indeed.