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I guess it's probably a result of my upbringing and sweet, sweet FM radio (I hear they still have that), but I've got a soft spot in my heart for the Cars.

"Let's Go"


"Just What I Needed"

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George Harrison tops my ballot for most underrated songwriter.

"My Sweet Lord"


"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (I dig the arrangement on this one)


And... "The Pirate Song"


Yee-argh.

PRM: Inside joke edition

Perhaps you're not familiar with the musical stylings of Finnish death metal band Lordi. If that's the case, then believe you me, I'm doing you a favor. Consider it my contribution to multiculturalism.

"Devil is a Loser"


"Who's Your Daddy"


And what collection of Lordi would be complete if we neglected to add "Hard Rock Hallelujah"?

PRM

How about some of that particular ray of sunshine, Lou Reed?

"Heroin"


"Walk on the Wild Side"


And a funky "Sweet Jane"

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To atone for my recent nostalgia mongering (but really, if you can't wallow in childhood memories on your own blog, where can you?), I offer you the incalculable coolness of Radiohead.

"Subterranean Homesick Alien"


"Paranoid Android"


"The National Anthem"


Wow, that was satisfying.

PRM

Because some of us feel like wallowing in Gen X nostalgia this evening, I give you the Muppets

with REM...


with Tony Clifton...


and on there own, because there's nothing more Gen X nostalgic than "Mahna Mahna"...

PRM

You've been very patient with me.

"Whiskey River"


"Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain"


"Pancho and Lefty" with Bob Dylan

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The evening does really call for the World's Greatest Rock n' Roll band, caught in their dirty, dirty prime. Get busy.

"Carol" from 1969 (video will kick in @19 seconds)


"Starfucker" from 1978


"Honky Tonk Woman" from '76 (that's the spirit!)

PRM

This morning I offer up some Camper Van Beethoven, primarily because of the pleasant memories of adolescence that they evoke, but also because I could use a little cockeyed Santa Cruz living right about now.

"Take the Skinheads Bowling," "Wasted," and "Tania" circa 1988


"Pictures of Matchstick Men" from 2005

Groovy, huh?

PRM

In the late 60s and early 70s, Herbie's bands were so funky, it physically hurt.

"Chameleon"


This is just audio, but "Fat Mama" is so slathered up in indescribable funk it would be criminal not to share it.


And while it's easy to wallow in the nastiness of those grooves, you'd be remiss in not remembering that Herbie has a bop pedigree, playing, you know, with this guy:


"So What"


Be careful.

And by “punk” I mean…

After close to a year and a half of Punk Rock Mondays, I’ve decided to tinker with the format. First and foremost, quite honestly, I’m running out of punk rock to post. You’ve obviously noted that I try to dredge up some vintage performances, and the well on much of what I know is running dry (and I don’t want to insult your intelligence by posting “vintage” Third Eye Blind from 1999).

But also, I couldn’t possibly fit the 8th Wonder of the World, the Hardest Working Man in Show Business, Mr. Please Please Please Me himself into the old format.

“Out of Sight” and “Maybe the Last Time” from 1966, and holy shit is that man on fire!


With Fred Wesley, Bootsy, and Catfish Collins in the 1971 line-up, “Ain’t It Funky” – to which the answer would be “yes”:


And enjoy the white people as they are forcibly reminded that James Brown has not only licensed them to get funky, he demands it of them! “Sex Machine” and “Get on the Good Foot” from 1976.


So, as Kentucky Fried Chicken morphed into KFC after they started serving the public genetically-modified six breasted chickens, Punk Rock Monday has become PRM, a nod to its venerable past, an embrace of its bionically-enhanced future. More vintage vids, probably not as much actual punk.

You may now commence bitching about how Punk Rock Monday used to be cool.