Bachata Roja/Vijana Jazz Band

the Clown DJ 4 oughta start a band (just sayin').

Yeah, Clown isn't tops. But Gatsby is feeling like life itself right about now.

Love Tim.  What I'm disappointed by is "Dose of Thunder" and, sorry, "Lay It Down Clown."

rstay: The thing is, I don't really want to avoid employment. What I want to avoid is bad work (and I'm sure many of my peers would agree). 

The Tusk accusation is accurate; we were fools for that album. A large fraction of my junior year of college was spent inside an ersatz fort (ping pong table + bedding), getting stoned/drunk and listening only to Fleetwood Mac. It was one of those perfect experiences that would be really pitiful were I to attempt to recreate it, even at age 24.5.

EDIT: Man, my weirdo internet made it so I typed up the fort story a million years before Jock posted it but NOW I'VE BEEN BEATEN TO THE PUNCH.

And for a (slightly) less insular comment, I'd like to join the people who, a while back, were listing their favorite musical moments/song appreciated of 2011:

- Crying to "Cruisin'" by Smokey Robinson during the false start breakup w/ ClownDJ
- A really, really good tape made by that guy ^^ (& a couple other would-be really, really good tapes that didn't record quite right)
- Watching Die Antwoord's catalog of videos in wonderment
- Realizing I knew how to rhumba to "Three Girl Rhumba" and could cha-cha to "Who Loves the Sun"
- Marianne Faithfull's "Hold On Hold On"  and subsequent discovery of original by Neko Case
- Various tunes: "Erotic City," Prince; "Lipstick," Imperial Teen; "The Word Girl," Scritti Politti; "Big Thighs, NJ," Low Cut Connie; "Having an Average Weekend," Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet; Patti Smith's cover of "Midnight Rider;" "That's Not My Name," Ting Tings; "Everybody is a Star," Sly and the Family Stone; "Moves Like Jagger," Maroon 5; Present Tense about 1000 times (ClownDJ)
- Cleaning the house/jogging while taking (prescribed) amphetamines and listening to Girl Talk
- Blasting "Don't Talk to Me About Work" while doing errands for my shitty ex-job
- Everything played during the Great Double Move-Out of 2011 (http://goo.gl/NfNdZ​,)
- Rediscovering Britney Spears and what a perfectly glittering concept she is

One result of my A-album finding labors since I initiated this format is that I'm even further from the pop charts and certain pop phenomena such as Friday and Move Like Jagger than in the past. I'm not happy about this, but it's not as if as I've slacked off on my listening except that I watch more TV and especially Netflix flix at night. I watched Friday once as I recall and it made little impression on me (little enough that I'm not sure I did). Heard Move Like Jagger once on a Now! comp and it seemed aces. Theoretically I'm in favor of such stuff as long as nobody takes words like "universal" literally, and also more than ready to assume it's pretty good. But once isn't enough with such stuff. Immersion is part of the experience.

"Ruby Vroom" is a great one: crack band, weird sound effects, dead pan vocals, and superb use of "Powerhouse" on "Bus to Beelzebub".  There are better places to declare one's heretical break with Xgau dogma ("Born in the U.S.A." anyone?  Those keybs are so grating.  Yeah, okay, I'll lose that vote.)