Record Store Day was a complete and utter failure. At least for me, it was.

I was stuck with the kiddo until late afternoon, and I’m not one of those loosey-goosey “yeah, man, just take your kid along” parents.

I didn’t get a chance to make it out to Good Records or Bill’s Records or Forever Young to get some nice swag. If you did, grab what you bought and hug it long and hard — because you don’t know just how lucky you are.

So how did I spend my Record Store Day? Getting my heart ripped out by ManUtd and drinking Bacardi in the backseat of a Jetta on the way to Austin.

I suppose that’ll have to do.

Alright, let’s go to your suggestions! This week’s winner is none other than Buzzgrinder’s own Jay DiNitto with his suggestion, 1980. He’s provided me with years of snarkiness, and now he’s filling me up with new music goodness. Also, I couldn’t turn it down when he referred to his French band as “frogs.”

1980 is a French experimental metal band, I guess I would call them. Interspersed between the metal are fun beep-boop/jazz pieces that offer a good counterbalance. They call themselves “brutal jazz” (awesome!) and are influenced by Angelo Badalamenti of Twin Peaks fame (double awesome!). Plus I fucking love when metal bands have a self-titled album WITH A SELF-TITLED SONG! Motörhead being the most awesome example of this, of course.

So I thought my “10 Shows in ‘11” (maybe I should go to 11 shows, you know, for aesthetics purposes) was starting off a bit slow, because, oh damn, June is in two months! That’s halfway through the year (for those of you unfamiliar with Gregorian calendars)!

But it turns out that I’m well on pace. Notches on my belt so far are South by Southwest (I’m only gonna count that as one otherwise that’d be cheap!) and Dashboard Confessional, with tickets to Donald Glover/Childish Gambino (his rapping alter ego) and Manchester Orchestra already purchased.

Eisley is coming to town in June, but I’ve already seen them twice and their new album is eh. And I’m pretty sure if my “scene slut” crack got out, I’d be the victim of a Toms Stomp Party courtesy of a dozen or so waifish dream pop fans.

I was considering going to see The Go-Go’s later in the summer, but $40 is pretty steep for the chance to bang Belinda Carlisle in 2011. If it was 30 years ago, that’d been a fucking steal, though. Wikipedia says that some consider them to be the most successful all-female band, having sold seven million albums.

To put that into perspective, Silverchair has sold six million albums. Silverchair.

Just for shits and giggles, I might buy cheap tickets to Taylor Swift — because why the fuck not? Actually, there are a ton of reasons, the appearance of pedophilia being the most prominent among them.

Alright, little peanuts, make your suggestions. Even if you’ve already suggested it and I shot it down, Bon Jovi ‘Blaze of Glory’ style, there’s always second and third chances.

Also, my birthday is coming up next month. Hint hint.

3 Responses to “Old and Jaded: Ana’s Song Still Makes Me Cry (and Want to Throw Up)”

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   On 04/21/11 12:07 PM, Jay DiNitto said:

   I’m rather glad you caught the “frog” epithet. As a proud non-French but Anglo man I like to take unwarranted pot-shots at my forerunner’s ethnic neighbors from time to time.

   Regarding their name and album – do you know how hard it was Googling those beret-jockeys just on that info alone? I never tried harder at anything in my life.

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   On 04/21/11 1:23 PM, sammy said:

   I didn’t really care for 1980…sorry for my CYNICism.

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   On 05/1/11 9:08 PM, jonthegooner said:

   i feel your pain all too well. i got to ear-x-tacy pretty early and still only got to grab 1 of the 15 albums i wanted to pick up….and im an arsenal fan, so i was born for disapointment.

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