NeffTunes MixTape April 2007 edition

Thanks to Marco Athie for the kick-assed cover art.
Tracklist:
01 - Small Talk By The Ponys
02 - Emily Jean Stock By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
03 - She Took All The Money By Black Francis
04 - Promises Like Pie Crust By Carla Bruni
05 - Need Some Air By Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
06 - Fans By Kings Of Leon
07 - Hidden Hand By Grant Lee Phillips
08 - Brainy By The National
09 - Steam Engenious By Modest Mouse
10 - L Train By Son Volt
11 - D Is For Dangerous By Arctic Monkeys
12 - Ironworkers By Warm In The Wake
13 - Fire In The Canyon By Fountains Of Wayne
14 - Westward Ho By Richmond Fontaine
15 - Been There All The Time By Dinosaur Jr
16 - Look At You Now By Golden Smog
17 - Got Up This Morning By Sage Francis
18 - Cannot Get Started By Handsome Furs
19 - The World Stops Turning By Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
20 - Ain't Never Been Cool By Lucky Soul
21 - Sickos By Harlem Shakes
22 - Stitch Me Up By Minus Story
23 - Spilt Needles By The Shins
Download from MediaFire
Enjoy these tunes and tell everyone where ya got it.

NeffTunes White Trash MixTape

i went to a White T party a coupla weeks ago, so i made us a MixTape with a buttload of kick-assed jams that rocked everyone silly like. Here it is for you, dear readers. Download it to your 'puter, then rock it yourself. Then share it with your friends, but make sure you tell 'em where ya done got it at, which is here.

MixTape track list:

01 - WhiteTrash By Southern Culture On The Skids
02 - Trailer Mama by Bottle Rockets
03 - KeepYour Hands To Yourself by Georgia Satellites
04 - You Shook Me All Night Long by AC/DC
05 - 8 Miles A Gallon by ScottMiller & the Commonwealth
06 - Where the Devil Dont Stay by Drive By Truckers
07 - Why Do I Need A Job by Bare Jr
08 - Country Honey by T Rex
09 - Okie From Muskogee by Merle Haggard
10 - Thousand Dollar Car by Bottle Rockets
11 - Dixie Chicken by Little Feat
12 - Polk Salad Annie by Tony Joe White
13 - I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide by ZZ Top
14 - Gas Girl by Bottle Rockets
15 - I Love RocknRoll by JoanJett & the Blackhearts
16 - Swamp Music by Lynyrd Skynyrd
17 - Country Honk by The RollingStones
18 - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down By The Band
19 - Free Man Now by Southern Bitch
20 - Rocky Mountain Way by Joe Walsh
21 - I Don't Know by Hank Williams III
22 - Fried Chicken & Gasoline By Southern Culture On The Skids
23 - Consevative Christian Right Wing Republican By Todd Snider

Uncle Tupelo last show May 01 1994 StL

Rodgers & Hammerstein...Lennon & McCartney...Jagger & Richards...Peaches & Herb...and then there was Jeff Tweedy & Jay Farrar. The Belleville, IL kids who, together with Mike Heidorn, formed Uncle Tupelo in 1988. Though they were only in existence for about 6 years, their influence is felt and heard far all across the world. Not bad for a band that was voted "4th Best Country Band" by the readers of the St. Louis alt weekly Riverfront Times in 1993.
Uncle Tupelo played their very last show on May 1, 1994 at Mississippi Nights in St. Louis, MO. While i was not at that particular show, i did witness their 3rd-to-last show at the Blue Note in Columbia, MO on April 29, 1994. Good times.
Last week, i stumbled across a recording of their very last show here. The file i downloaded was one long mp3, so i split it up for your convenience and pleasure, and i present it to you today, gentle reader. The file i uploaded contains 18 songs from that set. For some reason, the original file did not include the encore that included a raucous version of "Gimme Three Steps" with the Bottle Rockets who joined them on stage that night. Kind of a bummer, but you can go here to peep an historic video that documents the very last notes ever played by Farrar & Tweedy together.
Download Uncle Tupelo's last show here. The zip file also contains some pics that i found in various places on the internets. Please enjoy responsibly.
P.S., if any of y'all out there know where i can find a recording of the encore, please let me know and i will post it too. i believe the songs are "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere," "Whiskey Bottle," "Truck Drivin' Man," "Looking For A Way Out," and "Gimme Three Steps".

See also: Wilco Son Volt Jay Farrar Factory Belt Uncle Tupelo at Gumbo Pages Uncle Tupelo at NPR Legacy Rcordings

The NeffList 2006

At long last, i have compiled my 7th annual compilation of the best tracks from the top albums of 2006. Over the past 15 months, i have carefully reviewed 151 albums that were released in the US and A over the course of the year. Click here to download a txt file list of all eligible albums. After careful consideration, i sequenced my favorite 72 tracks - enough to fill up 3 CDs and kick your ass for over 234 consecutive minutes. Right about now, you're probably thinking, man that seems like a lot of work! Well, yeah. i have spent countless hours in front of my 'puter organizing all these albums, and an equally incalculable amount of time listening to each and every one of them very carefully, taking copious notes and scribbling drafts of track lists and composing journal entry after journal entry about what each song means to me and how each song fills a certain space in my previously cavernous soul. i have since lost all those notes. i guess i shoulda wrote all that deeply personal stuff on something more permanent than gum wrappers and Starbuck's receipts.

i also suffered a potentially catastrophic setback when my external hard drive made by Seagate crashed in November. All 150GB of my music was lost. after some self-administered grief therapy and a new hard drive, i was able to overcome this adversity and soldier on. It took lots of work and a little help from my friends, but i was able to reacquire most of my tunes.

i now present to you the NeffList 2006 in 5 FREE downloadable parts. Download the files and enjoy. If you don't agree that this is the awesome-est end-of-the-year compilation on all of the internets, i will gladly refund every penny, including sales tax.

Part 1[95,243kb]

Part 2[99,618kb]

Part 3[97,496kb]

Part 4[96,785kb]

Part 5[47,917kb]

The complete tracklist is in the comment section.

NeffTunes MixTape: December 2006

I know it's January, but [insert excuse about being busy during the holiday season here]. Here's the December 2006 edition of the NeffTunes MixTape. It features my all-time favorite band with a calendar-themed name, The Decemberists. Here are 19 of my favorite Decemberists songs for your pleasure. Purchase their kick-assed 2006 album, The Crane Wife at the band's very own website.

Tracklist:

1- Leslie Ann Levine
2- Los Angeles, I’m Yours
3- We Both Go Down Together
4- July, July!
5- Summersong
6- The Chimbley Sweep
7- Billy Liar
8- Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)
9- Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
10- Oceanside
11- The Infanta
12- The Soldiering Life
13- A Cautionary Song
14- 16 Military Wives
15- Song for Myla Goldberg
16- Grace Cathedral Hill
17- Angel, Won’t You Call Me?
18- The Legionnaire’s Lament
19- I Was Meant for the Stage
Download the Zip file here from Mediafire.com - no password needed, cuz that's how i roll.

NeffTunes MixTape November 2006

Here's the latest installment of tunes from kick-assed albums of 2006

01 - The Heart Bionic by Bobby Bare Jr's Young Criminals' Starvation League
02 - Red Wine, Success! by Cold War Kids
03 - Fake Tales of San Francisco by The Arctic Monkeys
04 - Everyone Gets A Star by Albert Hammond Jr
05 - Ain't That Strange by Rhett Miller
06 - Nausea by Beck
07 - Oversleeping by I'm From Barcelona
08 - Papa's Got A Brand New Liver by Bright Light Fever
09 - Walk In The Park by Oh No! Oh My!
10 - Traces by Built To Spill
11 - The Bank And Trust by The Elected
12 - Dirty Old Town by Frank Black
13 - Please Don't Talk About Murder When I'm Eating by Ben Harper
14 - The Needle Has Landed by Neko Case
15 - Bisbee Blue by Calexico
16 - Pilgrim's Progress by Kris Kristofferson
17 - Living Proof by Cat Power
18 - Oregon Girl by Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
19 - In Between Days by Ben Folds
20 - Scatterbraine by Ed Harcourt
21 - The Weakest Part by Yo La Tengo
22 - Islands Sink by Chin Up Chin Up
23 - Massive Nights by The Hold Steady
24 - Creepin' Up The Backstairs by The Fratelli's
25 - Sofa Song by The Kooks
26 - 15 Minutes by The Strokes
27 - I Saw The Light by Mudhoney
Download the "November 06.zip" file here. It's hosted by MediaFire.
Enjoy this rock 'n' roll sampler.
Support these hard working and talented artists by purchasing their records or merchandise and go see them live.
Lots of these folks are on tour as we speak.

Homecoming Weekend October 2006 Columbia, MO

St. Louis Cardinals: 2006 World Series Champs

The St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series!! And i was there...

...chillin' on my couch.

Nevertheless, it was exciting. The Cardinals, after a mediocre season put it all together in the postseason and came out on top.

And David Eckstein, with his timely hitting and stellar defense was awarded the MVP and an obnoxiously colored Corvette.

Wooo-hooo!!
Kick ass, Cardinals!

NeffTunes MixTape, October 2006

Here is my first installment of MixTapes. This one features some kick-assed tunes from the best albums of 2006.

Tracklist:
1-Centro-Matic: Calling Thermatico
2-Band Of Horses: The Great Salt Lake
3-The Raconteurs: Hands
4-For Those Who Know: Competition
5-The Black Heart Procession: GPS
6-Alejandro Escovedo: Dear Head On The Wall
7-Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins: Handle With Care
8-Slaid Cleaves: Like Poets Do
9-Norfolk & Western: A Gilded Age
10-Crystal Skulls: Treat It Well
11-Midlake: Roscoe
12-Morning Runner: Great Escape
13-The Flaming Lips: The W.A.N.D.
14-Wolfmother: Love Train
15-The Black Keys: Your Touch
16-Golden Smog: 5-22-02
17-The Handsome Family: Flapping Your Broken Wings
18-Curt Kirkwood: Beautiful Weapon
19-Greg Graffin: Cold As The Clay
20-Scott Miller & The Commonwealth: Wild Things
21-Jolie Holland: Moonshiner
Link to Zip file (no password required)

Enjoy these tunes, and support these artists by buying their albums and merchandise, or going to their shows at a rock 'n' roll venue near you.

Scott Miller & The Commonwealth Sept 29, 2006 All Good Cafe, Dallas

Scott Miller and the Commonwealth came and rocked out The All Good Cafe in Dallas, TX on September 29, 2006 and i was there.

He played songs like these:
Across The Line [link is dead]
Only Everything [link is dead]
Raised By The Graves [link is dead]

It looked like this:

And then...

...we took goofy photo booth pics.

Scott Miller's official page
Scott Miller's albums
Scott Miller's Y! Group

Album of the Week

From 1989. This artist was in the news lately gettin' busted in LA. Enjoy.

Flaming Lips, September 16, 2006 Arlington, TX

Album of the Week

Disciples of Agriculture: self titled 1995 album
Vintage twang rock from back in the day. Enjoy.

Pic of the Week: Another one of my hot rods

My 1940 Ford, parked in front of the house the other evening.

Pic of the week