Tonight, I started listening to St. Vincent's awesome video "Bad Girl" from Bob's Buskers from Bob's Burgers:
That led me to Sleater-Kinney's "A New Wave" -- in Bob's Burger style.
I moved on to Sleater-Kinney's appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman:
I kept listening to the rest of Sleater-Kinney's excellent new album No Cities to Love, which as my brother points out sounds like Pink Flag era Wire if it was sung by Geddy Lee. That's a pretty spot on description, if you ask me. From there, it was The War on Drugs' "Red Eyes" from Letterman:
Then I played some Wishbone Ash, a rather crap-tastic prog rock band from the early 70s.
Then I fell down a New Order rabbit hole. Well, it starting with two Joy Division songs, actually. "The Eternal" and "Decades" were among the first to use a big ARP 2600 modular synth and planted the seed for what was to come later with New Order:
I found a neat 1981 live performance of "Temptation", which New Order did in NYC on a tour of the States. It's ten minutes of synth greatness:
Then flash forward to 1987, when New Order cut the theme song to the English soccer show "Best and Marsh":
Their work on that theme song earned them the opportunity to write the best World Cup theme song of all time, 1990's "World in Motion". I was after the B-Side:
Then I watched nearly an hour of that same 1981 live performance, in a specially made video called Taras Shevchenko:
After that, I came crashing into the current era for 2013's New Order song "Californian Grass", which Bernard Sumner wrote with Iggy Pop in mind:
Then I watched Iggy join Barney at Carnegie Hall for a live performance of "Californian Grass":
And also "Transmission":
And of course "Love Will Tear Us Apart", which -- if I had to pick -- is probably my all-time favorite song.
