Went to the BK Record Riot today, which is named all counter cultural and social upheaval etcy but is actually just a bunch of bearded dudes crammed into Warsaw in Williamsburg. Going through the records I ended up buying I realized how much it all comes from learning about music through other people, so here's where I praise Jah (aka my friends) for teaching me about this many splendoured thing we call music.

10. THANKS TO Eli for turning me on to this Stevie Nicks jam (which is basically super obvious but I never heard it)

9. THANKS TO drunk white people for teaching me the true power of this song. Actually for dinner I had another revelatory moment where I was drinking a budweiser and eating wings at a bar and Bon Jovi came on the jukebox and I was like "I am literally the United State of America." It was not unlike the SNL sketch where Eddie Murphy gets dressed up in whiteface.

8. THANKS TO my high school friend Didi and kindlicious nugglings for making me aware that Pink Floyd is, while usually terrible, sometimes exactly what I want to hear. Even though record dudes will harp on and on about how Syd Barrett was a true Aleister Crowley dandy fop Gandalf wizard and See Emily Play is a psychedelic triumph of the senses, I still sometimes say "yeah but the Animals album is listenable occasionally" (I don't actually ever say this).

7. THANKS TO Final Destination for using John Denver as a recurring device for people who died on an airplane. This scene (at around 4:12) would have suffered immensely if James Wong had decided to use Buddy Holly or like Lynyrd Skynyrd.

6. THANKS TO Blu Jemz for schooling me on this amazing 80s disco smooth burner. SO GOOD

CHANGE ~ HOLD TIGHT

5. THANKS TO Rok One for showing me the YT clip of this truly awe-inspiring cringe festival.

4. THANKS TO Rok One again for schooling me that the OG to this mix is an old italo jam called "A Dog In The Night" by Mr Master.

KRIS MENACE ~ VOYAGE

3. THANKS TO Ms. Laura Lee for revealing to me that Battlestar is in fact the 2nd greatest show in the world (after the Wire duh). Actually, I only recently started watching the State and Freaks & Geeks so I guess I'm pretty much still smashing rocks together to start a fire.

2. THANKS TO Kyle for ummm I don't know being Jewish? I guess I would thank our relationship, which consists 90% of making fun of each others' ethnicity, that would actually prompt me to buy this record, so that I could give it to him as a joke? And that I actually kind of want to hear these songs? To understand the Jewish diaspora?

Good yontif?


1. THANKS TO the Japanese for releasing their edit of this on COMBI.

*bonus! Speaking of the Japanese, yay for Roger Yamaha, who I'm convinced is the reason I know this song:

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