Angry Young Machines
This week’s song, “Angry Young Machines,” was inspired by a trip to the Art Institute that Lara and I took over the holidays. We checked out the new Modern Wing, which was beautiful. Some of the best real estate in the wing is the stairwell landings. Each landing frames a sculpture against a choice view … Continue reading
New Milk
This week’s track, “New Milk,” revisits the character who sang “Big Schools” on the recent Baby Teeth album, Hustle Beach. Because Big Schools is often reduced to “BS” on Baby Teeth setlists, let’s call this character B.S. Lewis. Mr. Lewis is a guy who can’t stop thinking about his glory days — he’s drifting through an … Continue reading
Diamonds
My reference points for this week’s song, “Diamonds,” are the Stones’ “No Expectations,” various Wilco slow jams in the vein of “Poor Places,” and “Estranged” by Guns N’ Roses. I’ve had a longtime love of the latter, the most ostentatiously epic track from the Use Your Illusion albums, and I was excited to find a … Continue reading
Space
Welcome back, 52 Teeth Nation! MC Don Quixote (yours truly) rides again. I hope you’re excited to take another ride on Space Mountain. Our track for this week, as fate would have it, is called “Space“. Lyrically, it’s a downer, and fairly self-explanatory. Suffice to say, I’m continuing my ongoing battle to take the poetry and … Continue reading
#12
Don’t be fooled by the misleading title of this week’s post, “#12.” It is no more and no less than the fifty-second song posted to this blog! School’s out for summer, my friends! As Kanye might say, “Welcome to graduation.” As my loyal readers — both of you — probably know, my enthusiasm for this … Continue reading
Record Company Man
This week brings us Part Two of our Pearly Sweets and the Platonics retrospective. At this point, the band was relocated to Chicago, and the lineup now featured Lance “Chance” Fabuloso (né Carl Lowendorf) on guitar, Stave Davidson (né Ben Schultz) on bass, and the ever-steady Brian Bosworth (né Brian Bosworth) on drums. “Record Company … Continue reading
Hot Potato Jr.
This week we hop back into the Delorean and travel to the year 1999, where we find my college band, Pearly Sweets and the Platonics, diligently recording our full-length album, Pick Yourself Up. In order to give the album a manly total of fifteen tracks, I supplement the full-band tracks with a few piano-and-vocal numbers. … Continue reading
The Part You Play
Greetings dudes, and sorry for the late post. Here’s a new song for you, tentatively titled “The Part You Play.” Lyrically, it falls well within my recurring motif of songs about showbiz/Hollywood/actresses (viz. “Celebrity Wedding,” “End of Actress,” “Bad Weather”). The opening couplet, a reworking of the opening line of “You’re So Vain,” was inspired … Continue reading
Good Gravy!
Yah! I completely spaced on doing a post for this week. As Fishbone once mused, “Am I going crazy, or is it just the world around me?” Please forgive my lackluster performance…. I am currently a bit swamped, or as Jefferson Starship might remark, I’m knee deep in the hoopla. Regular service will resume next … Continue reading
99¢ Ice
For this special Memorial Day post, we are taking it way back to the winter of 1994, when a legendary blizzard resulted in two weeks off of school for the lucky teens of Louisville. My first band, Mayhem Maybe (previously mentioned in the “Indian River” post), used this blip of found time to record our … Continue reading
52 Teeth: Baby Teeth On-Line 