Cruel To Be 68Comeback, In The Right Measure

Tom’s back! He went away, but then he returned in time for the May 9, 2013 edition of the 68Comeback Special, during which we did a little something for the mothers, had a nice visit with Fish and Norm from the Golden West Music Fest, nominated Ted Wright for Poet Laureate of Edmonton and reminded Chad that Cruel to be Kind exists. Victory!

Sixtoo  -  Karmic Retribution

Charles Mingus  -  All the Things You Could Be By Now if Sigmund Freud’s Wife Was Your Mother

the Decemberists  -  A Cautionary Tale

the Knife  -  We Share  Our Mother’s Health

Mitch Matic  -  Discovering Pain

the Get Down  -  Dirty Power

the Get Down  -  Gut Feeling

Janitor Joe  -  African Necklace

Kurt Vile  -  Too Hard

Lemonheads  -  Ballarat

Sloan  -  Filler

Nick Lowe – Cruel to be Kind

Nevada Base – Foresight

Ghostkeeper – The Indians

Wilfred n the Grown Men – I’m in Love With the City

Supersax – Salt Peanuts

Free Energy – Get Ready

Babysitter – Angel of Death

Michael Dunn & the Moanin’ After – Brand New Shoes

Filipino Doctor – Lost Tribe of Manhattan

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A 68Comeback, A Broken Heart, And You’re Still On My Mind

On the May 2, 2013 edition of the 68Comeback Special, we (very royally) mourned George Jones, re-mourned Adam Yauch, celebrated Willie Nelson’s 80th birthday, counted down how many weeks until Neko Case breaks our daughter’s heart (15) and also cryptically observed a milestone in said daughter’s life. No Grade 6 Report because Gabe was on his way back from the Fort MacMurray fact-finding mission, but next week’s report, you do not want to miss. Tom’s back next week too, so that’s the very least of what next week’s got going for it, but this week was really good, too.

Beastie Boys  -  Time to Get Ill

Display of Decay  -  Eternal Agony

Shellac  -  The Billiard Player Song

Schlonk  -  God Made Buttocks for Spanking

the Master Musicians of Jajouka  -  El Medahey

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  -  Higgs Boson Blues

Neko Case  -  This Tornado Loves You

Cub  -  Life of Crime

Fruit Bats  -  Lives of Crime

Willie Nelson  -  Your Memory Won’t Die In My Grave

George Jones  -  You’re Still On My Mind

Les Soeurs Boulay  -  Ça Mouille Les Yeux

Carla Bruni  -  La Valse Posthume

Superchunk  -  Skip Steps 1 & 3

Fugazi  -  I’m So Tired

the Besnard Lakes  -  And Her Eyes Were Painted Gold

Joshua Van Tassel  -  Bottom of the Well

John Zorn/Cobra  -  Pendet

Boats  -  We Got Tables and Chairs

!!!  -  Fine Fine Fine

Stagmummer  -  Little Scratches

Cows  -  Mr. Cancelled

Pissed Jeans  -  Loubs

It Is Decided

By now, surely everyone who cares about Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore’s marriage, or lack thereof, have read Lizzy Goodman’s interview with KG in Elle. And, because it’s important to do this, even in cases where you don’t actually know the couple in question, many have decided who’s right and who’s wrong in that marriage and have chosen their side accordingly.

What many have NOT done, however, is given much thought to whom TM’s other woman is. If you are one of those people, you are sucking all the fun out of celebrity divorce. So – if I may – until it is proven otherwise, I am asserting that Thurston Moore is dating Kim Deal, and while there’ll be a tweak to the lineup, the band ain’t breaking up.

Slap ‘Em On The Back With A 68Comeback

Tom wasn’t present for the April 25, 2013 edition of the 68Comeback Special because we sent him abroad for a Spring semester of boarding school/cricket camp, leaving Craig all alone and, worse, unsupervised. Same goes for next week, in case you missed this week.

Girls Against Boys  -  If Glamour is Dead

Sonic  Youth  -  Total Trash

Feist + the Constantines  -  Islands in the Stream

Yo La Tengo  -  You Can Have it All

Les Soeurs Boulay  -  Ton Amour est Passé de Mode

Les Georges Leningrad  -  Lollipop Lady

Martha Wainwright  -  La Nuit N’en Finit Pas

John Lee Hooker  -  T.B. Sheets

Gang of Four  -  I Found That Essence Rare

Horses  -  Lay Down

Jim Carroll  -  Terrorist Trousers

Greg MacPherson Band  -  Numbers

John Jerome & the Congregation  -  Great Claims of Grandeur

Mincer Ray  -  OMM @12.3; Fouled Acme

the Mae Shi  -  Born for a Short Time

Come  -  Yr. Reign

Hot Little Rocket  -  Down With Safe

Marnie Stern  -  Nothing is Easy

the Moldy Peaches  -  Jorge Regula

Sharon Van Etten  -  We Are Fine

Richard Thompson  -  Stony Ground

Suuns  -  Powers of Ten

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds  -  Jubilee Street

Angels, Lay Your 68Comebacks Around

On the April 18, 2013 edition of the 68Comeback Special, we celebrated Tom’s triumphant return by talking shit about you behind your back. That’s not all we did, and shit-about-you-behind-your-back is not all that we talked about, but it’s what comes to mind now. Sorry.

D.O.A.  -  General Strike

Tom Waits  -  You Can Never Hold Back Spring

Zeus  -  Ignition (Remix)

Charles Bradley  -  Hurricane

the Dismemberment Plan  -  Onward Fat Girl

the Delta 72  -  Rich Girls Like to Steal

Suuns  -  Bambi

Lync  -  Pennies to Save

the Abigails  -  I’ll Be Waiting

Unknown Mortal Orchestra  -  Monki

John Jerome & the Congregation  -  She Speaks to Animals

Black Mountain  -  Angels

Boris  -  Afterburner

Nobunny  -  Never Been Kissed

Ford Pier – Of Course He Is a Magnificent Driver

Billy Bragg – No One Knows Nothing Anymore

Homeshake – Moon Woman

Replacements – I’m Not Saying

Jom Comyn – The Dead

Filipino Doctors – Vibrating Moon Over Ipanema

Mudhoney – I Like It Small

Dump – Secret Blood

Nu Sensae – Throw

A 68Comeback Life For Me

On the April 11, 2013 edition of the 68Comeback Special, we mourned Reveen, warned Margaret Thatcher and Ralph Klein to stay gone, promised the kids something very blecchy for supper (a lie; we fed them very well this evening), dedicated a song to Tom, who couldn’t come today because he was either facing Death or revelling in his bachelor’s life, and other stuff, too. If you missed the Grade 6 Report, well that’s really your loss because it was sooo good (he spoke a lot of French), and if you missed the whole show, then you’ve probably missed Sister Double Happiness for another decade. EVENTFUL.

War Baby  -  Eternal Life Insurance

Reveen  -  You Are Going to Relax

Fontanelle  -  Style Drift

Boats  -  Sad Legs

Cumstain  -  Bachelor’s Life

Thee Ahs  -  Pretty Girls

Firewater  -  Some Strange Reaction

the Kandinsky Effect  -  Left Over Shoes

Suuns  -  Edie’s Dream

Dump  -  Superpowerless

Bad Livers  -  Yearning

Ghostkeeper  -  Turn Up the Heat

Amy van Keeken  -  You in My Mind

Sister Double Happiness  -  Hey Kids

the Bicycles  -  Baby Boy

Iceage  -  Wounded Hearts

Mudhoney  -  What to do With the Neutral

Charles Bradley  -  Put a Flame On It

the Milk Carton Kids  -  Whisper in Her Ear

Peter Bruntnell  -  Jurassic Parking Lot

Jim Bryson  -  Sleeping in Toronto

Black Thunder  -  Doomed

Low  -  On My Own

It Was Our Song, It Was His Song, But It’s 68Comeback

On the April 4, 2013 edition of the 68Comeback Special, we gnashed our teeth at the weather, nearly interviewed a director, mourned Roger Ebert, celebrated both singular vision and collective action. If you weren’t there, you should have been.

Drew Danburry  -  Jennifer Connelly, or Fools Mock But They Shall Mourn

Kurt Vile  -  Don’t Get Cute

Suuns  -  Music Won’t Save You

Ghostkeeper  -  Walking a Hundred

Scud Mountain  Boys  -  Please Mr. Please

Shotgun Jimmie  -  North

Simply Saucer  -  Dance the Mutation

Pissed Jeans  -  Loubs

Pissed Jeans  -  R Rated Movie

Pascal Pinon  -  Somewhere

Eugenius  -  Oomalama

John Jerome & the Congregation  -  Great Claims of Grandeur

Beekeeper  -  Oh Hi!

Elliott Smith  -  Bled White

the Ramones  -  I’m Against It

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Strange Baby

Homeshake – Haters

Lad Mags – Lovers

Pharis & Jason Romero – Sad Old Songs

PVT – Evolution

Hilotrons – Venus at Your Back Door

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee – Heart in Sorrow

La Luz – Call Me in the Day

Matt Perri – The Laughter of Bad Men

Matt Patershuk – Swayback

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