His hard by Blank Frank
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His junk 2011-2018

the totally tremendous video for my favorite track off This Is Happening

Belt - No One Is Addicted.mp3

A match a fire too many
Because they won't work under sheets
When a flashlight keeps you up at night
Then a flashlight keeps you up at night

Reading letters from they won't mail
No matter how much is stuck to it
He can't see through it
He saw right to it
You won't say who but you will say why
You can't make out the ending line
Can you cover your other eye

You prick to steal what is next
And I'm required of you
I'm close and closer still
Is this still between me and you

When a hidden list keeps you up at night
Because a flashlight keeps you up at night
Then a hidden list keeps you up at night
Because a flashlight keeps you up at night

Reading letters from they won't mail
No matter how much is stuck to it
He can't see through it
He saw right to it
You won't say who but you will say why
You can't make out the ending line
Can you cover your other, I can't

what do i do with the album we never put out?

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Belt - Written on a Shirt.mp3

The hair on your head's a sign
All your clothes are mine
Point to the exit and girls will take it
Maybe I'll even try

Coming from where I do
Some places are all bad news
No one will make it so everyone makes it
Leaves me to tell you

As your front, you put up
You stood up as you knew him
In the back of the stacks
We got a strap for anything new

So bring me back a different-named ship
Bring me back a dare
Bring me back that exact quotation
Well, you brought me the bearer

He broke into his own height
Overseas that night
Point to the exit and put him through it
Trying to save his life

But coming from where you do
Oh you're just passing through
Lips on lips are his all the time
Leaves me to tell you

As your front, you stood up
You stood up as you knew him
At the back of the stacks
We got a strap for anything new

So bring me back a different-named ship
Bring me back a dare
Bring me back that exact quotation
Well, you brought me the bearer

the 1st single off LP4 is Drugs

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wait for it.. kix in @1:06.

track from album 'lp4' released 08 june
no videos yet from the record
photo by i dont know

there's no act in music that strikes me as especially similar to Ratatat

they say a lot to me about living when+where i do

their style seems simple, but somehow it is not very easy to imitate

as previously promised, here is the mp3 to the song from which Look at My Hands takes its title. this song has a few of my favorite guitar riffs ever. in particular, i love the one that first starts at about 0:31 and repeats several times throughout the song.

right- or ctrl-click to save / 320kbps mp3 / ~9MB

Green Grow the Rushes by R.E.M.
on Fables of the Reconstruction, 1985 / lyrics

extra photograph
Michael Stipe 2002 -->

the title of Long May It Last comes from one of my favorite songs ever, i could listen to it every day

Why Don't You Find Out for Yourself by Morrissey [320kbps mp3 / around 8MB]
on Vauxhall + I, 1994 / lyrics

the album title is one of my favorite puns. Vauxhall is all kinds of things, including a make of car, a district of London, a British bar someplace [maybe also London], and a Tube stop. but also: Vox, Hall and I. yeahhh. go Moz.

also, the phrase 'Long may it last' is the best tattoo i've ever seen on anyone. if you're out there, Mary of Los Angeles [you know who you are], i would love to draw your tattoo if you would like to send me a picture of your arm.

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
sung by Scott McKenzie / written by Michelle Phillips
single, 1967

The Killing Jar [original album version]
by Siouxsie + the Banshees
on Peepshow, 1988

naturally, you can right- or ctrl-click to save.

One of my favorite Lou Reed songs, from 2000's Ecstasy. I'll label it an 'overlooked' masterpiece because no one has ever spoken to me about it.

Rock Minuet
by Lou Reed / lyrics
on Ecstasy, 2000

Most days, still kind of do.

Michael Stipe, 2003, photographed by?

One of the best live versions I have ever heard of ANY song by ANYONE is Harborcoat by R.E.M. from the 'Bochum 1985' bootleg. It makes me wish I could be Bill Berry as well, or rather play the drums the way he did back in 1985.

Harborcoat live in Germany, 1985
by R.E.M. / lyrics
album version on Reckoning, 1984

Too bad, isn't it, that the most recent R.E.M. album, Around the Sun, was such crap? Given that it was an overt response to 9/11 and the Iraq war, the impression I got was, 'OK, the war has creatively destroyed R.E.M.' I have high hopes for the next R.E.M. album, though. I found New Adventures in Hi-Fi and Up both subpar (the former, dreadfully so - why in hell does everyone call it their 'return to form'? it's SHIT!). But after those records, they made Reveal, their best album since Murmur.

Beat a Drum
by R.E.M. / lyrics
from Reveal, 2001

Their talent is not in music making, but in physical beauty.

Martin Tomlinson, Selfish Cunt

Authority Confrontation live in London, c. 2004
by Selfish Cunt / lyrics coming
album version on No Wicked Heart Shall Prosper, 2004

Tom Atkin, The Paddingtons

Tommy's Disease live in London, c. 2004
by The Paddingtons / lyrics coming
album version on First Comes First, 2005

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photos by Andrew Kendall

Carl Barât and Pete Doherty, 2003

photographs by the peerless Andrew Kendall

My favorite track by The Libertines, one of the best songs ever written, is Last Post on the Bugle from their second and final album.

Last Post on the Bugle
by The Libertines / lyrics
from their 2004 self-titled album

all other entries are in the directory. some questions are answered at return the ring.