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Pearl Jam “Who Killed Rudolph?”

sfilzen — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 18:07:41 +0000

Pearl Jam “Who Killed Rudolph?” 1992. It’s Festivus and also Eddie Vedder’s 55th birthday (b. Edward Louis Severson III, 1964) so I’m spinning Pearl Jam’s limited edition promo ‘Christmas’ single – but it’s not really a holiday song at all. Rather, Side A is a fairly faithful cover, Vedder’d up, of Dead Boys’ “Sonic Reducer” (from the 1977 LP Young, Loud and Snotty though originally written during the Rocket From the Tombs days). Side B is “Ramblings Continued” (the first “Ramblings” from which these are “continued” appears as the flip side to their 1991 limited edition promo single “Let Me Sleep,” also a Christmas release), about 4 minutes of sound clips that include stuff from TV and movies snippets of Christmas carols, and badly recorded conversations.

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Dead Boys “Sonic Reducer”

sfilzen — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 20:35:26 +0000

Dead Boys “Sonic Reducer” 1977, 12″ single. Today, June 4th, is the anniversary of Dead Boys singer Stiv Bators’ death (b. Steven Bator, 1949), killed after getting hit by a car in Paris in 1980. (His ashes were scattered over Jim Morrison’s grave.) “Sonic Reducer” is one of the best early punk anthems ever. First written by Cheetah Chrome and David Thomas while they were in Rocket From the Tombs around ‘74-’75, Dead Boys reworked the track – with some lyrical change by Bators – and included it on their amazing debut Young, Loud and Snotty. The B-side of this 12″ has the cover “Little Girl,” performed live, originally by Syndicate of Sound (garagey psychedelic rock) from 1966 as well as “Down in Flames” written by Stiv Bators and Cheetah Chrome that also appears on Young, Loud and Snotty.

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