Swinging Singles Club MN

  Time passed.    Landfall (2010) And so it came to pass that nothing was heard of the adventures of Chuck Miller for lo, many years until one weird and magical day this album dropped from the blue sky and Ten Ton Bridge was alive again. Once again, of course, fate had it in for me. They played a few gigs, but I'd started back to school so that I could make a living rather than scrape by paycheck to paycheck. But there stood one final monument to Ten Ton Bridge to be reckoned with. I'll also admit that I haven't spent as much time with this one as the others. But no discography is complete without it. Let me know what your standout tracks are. I'm still listening to Milhaus while I type.

  Weird stuff happens.  Loaded (2000) The sophomore effort by Ten Ton Bridge. It's more of the same. Stripped down pop rock. The kind where there's only like an overdrive on the pedalboard and maybe a judiciously used chorus. A bit bolder and brasher, perhaps. (I mean, they used the same name as a Velvet Underground classic lp. That takes some balls.) I'm also listening to these as I type just to remind myself about them and because I genuinely really enjoy these albums. While I was doing this I found out that what I'd originally had in the file folder as this album was actually the first one all over again and tagged wrong and has been for over two years. So if nothing else, that's fixed and I get to be reintroduced to this one.

 I don't know anymore. I'm tired. I've been baking bread lately. It's easy as fuck and only needs five ingredients (flour, yeast, salt, water and a little sugar to get the yeast started). It also tastes great and having the oven on warms the apartment while making for a really pleasant aroma. Tonight I took some of the ends and a stale half a loaf and made bread pudding. I've also been digitizing another host of Lps this week. I started diving back into the Recent Arrivals for seven inches tonight too. Needless to say that as long as no one narcs on me and Google shuts me down I've got a whole fucking shitload of stuff that is on the docket for both blogs. It also seems like every time I leave the house and hit up a local record store I find something else local that I wasn't aware of on top of the huge list of things I'm still trying to track down. Eager to Please (1997) So it's the first post of the year. It's the kind of thing where for whatev...