Never-Nude Music Tuesday

Much like Tobias here, I've got a problem and I deal with it in my own way.

Artist of the Week: King Khan and The Shrines












What They Are (in five words or so): Garage, Rock, Funk, Soul, Kickinthefuckinshorts

Album of Choice (as in you have no choice but to buy it): "The Supreme Genius of King Khan and The Shrines"--This is the only album available in the U.S. currently. It collects the very best of their European releases.


What Makes Them So Fucking Special?: King Khan and The Shrines have found a way to resurrect the best parts of James Brown and Eric Burdon into something so original and filthy and rockin'. They will redeem your faith in the fusion of soul and rock while still giving you that dirty feeling that makes you turn the sound down when your mom comes in the room.

Album Review From a Non-Rob Source: All Music Guide


Music Video of the Week: "Why Don't You Lie?" by The King Khan & BBQ Show
Album: "What's For Dinner?"

In keeping with the King Khan theme for the inaugural Never-Nude Music Tuesday, here's a video from King Khan's other primary music project, The King Khan & BBQ Show. Shot in black and white, filmed in Germany, performed by two Canadians, and sounding straight off of a 1960's jukebox, the KKBBQ Show fuses garage rock with 50s and 60s doo-wop and records their music with the type of equipment that makes their music sound timeless and perfect for vinyl. The vocals on this song are performed by BBQ (A.K.A. the great Mark Sultan) who sounds like his vocal stylings were plucked straight off of a Motown sampler platter about forty years ago. "Why Don't You Lie?" is a classic sentimental doo-wop slow dancer (a fact not lost and consequently mocked by Khan in the video) yet finds a way to rock with one of my all-time favorite guitar interludes performed by the great King Khan himself. The video is kinda strange, kinda cheap, kinda gay, and kinda great. Enjoy.

Twenty Great Songs For You to Ponder, Find/Re-discover/Rejoice That You Have Rob's Taste in Music Since You Are Already Listening to This Song Right Now, and Thank Rob for This Week (at least thank him for highlighting them since he didn't actually record these)

A quintessential summer playlist for the incomparable taste of Miss Benson:

1. "Mardy Bum" by Arctic Monkeys
2. "My Struggle" by The Black Lips
3. "Futures & Folly" by Blitzen Trapper
4. "Magazines" by The Hold Steady
5. "Torture" by King Khan and The Shrines
6. "Rage in the Plague Age" by Les Savy Fav
7. "Drop It Doe Eyes" by Los Campesinos!
8. "There She Goes, My Beautiful World" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. "Song For Today" by Pete & The Pirates
10. "Bros" by Panda Bear
11. "Do the Panic" by Phantom Planet
12. "Old Friend" by Rancid
13. "Money in the Afterlife" by Saturday Looks Good to Me
14. "Mountains" by The Spinto Band
15. "Vans Song" by The Suicide Machines
16. "Trouble" by The Rakes
17. "This Is How We Kiss" by Throw Me the Statue
18. "My Time Outside of the Womb" by Titus Andronicus
19. "Right Hand On My Heart" by The Whigs
20. "Soldier's Grin" by Wolf Parade


Song of the Day: "Flushed From the Bathroom of Your Heart"

Artist: Johnny Cash

Album: "At Folsom Prison"


Lyric of Possible Relevance:
"From the backdoor of your life you swept me out dear
In the bread line of your dreams I lost my place
At the table of your love I got the brush off
At the Indianapolis of your heart I lost the race
I’ve been washed down the sink of your conscience
In the theater of your love I lost my part
And now you say you’ve got me out of your conscience
I’ve been flushed from the bathroom of your heart."