Swinging Singles Club MN

 So much for this exercise. Twin Town High Volume 10 (2008) Final tracklist on Discogs Ok, not my favorite of the series, but the Laarks track came up on random play tonight and sounded pretty good and then there's the Jelloslave track. It's every  bit as good as that name is fucking awful. Cello, tabla, drums and double bass instrumental. That hits me just about right And so that concludes our little program of the Twin Town High School Yearbooks in order. A decade long overview of what was going on around the Twin Cities. I'm going to go do something else now.

 Nothing.     Twin Town High Music Yearbook Volume 9 (2007) Tracklist on Discogs Retribution Gospel Choir is one of Alan Sparhawk of Low's other bands. This is indie rock. Little Man (aka Chris Pericelli) is great live. Ice Palace. the Alarmists. etc....

  Blah blah blah    Twin Town High Music Yearbook Volume 8 (2006) Full disclosure at Discogs  Another grand mixed bag. Listen at your leisure. Decide on your own highlights. I've got shit to do.

 I like Irish whiskey too. Twin Town High Volume 07 (2005) Full tracklist on Discogs One I'd wish I'd gotten at when it came out and wasn't such a pretentious twat when it came to local bands at the time. Highlights are the Deaths (two great albums of neo-psych pop), Olympic Hopefuls (later just the Hopefuls) and Grickle Grass.

 I like coffee.  Twin Town High Yearbook Volume 6 (2004) Full Tracklist on Discogs Highlights are a lot of folks I've already posted because I like them Hang Ups (version 2), Superhopper, Midnight Evils blow out the jams, and if you need some rarities there's Low doing the Beach Boys "Surfer Girl" Dig it.

 The subtitle of this one is "Most Likely to Rock!" Twin Town High Volume 5 (2003) Full track list on Discogs Another one with some winners. Faux Jean, the Exercise track that made me hunt down their other stuff, local stalwarts Rank Strangers, more Kruddler, a tender and sexy song by Tulip Sweet plus plenty of bands that I may get to someday or never released anything else. A nice smattering of hip hop, rock and other stuff. It was a heady time to be young. Yeah.

 Well, it's later the same night and I finally killed that jug of local gin I'd bought this summer. Twin Town Music Yearbook Volume Four (2001) Tracklist at Discogs Another one where I don't know where to start. So I won't. Just listen already. Suffice it to say that this one has a number of things that have caused me to flip through many a local bin searching for long forgotten goodness and bunch of adds to the old wantlist.

 I need a drink. I'll be right back.... ... .... ... ... .. ... Ok, where were we. Twin Town Music Yearbook Vol. 3 (2000) Tracklist at Discogs This one is an embarrassment of riches. The Twin Cities scene was on fire around this time but all self contained and nobody outside of the area paid it any attention. Where to start on this one... You got a 12 Rods track. One by All the Pretty Horses. The Grotto song that got me to track down their disc. Other various bands that I've posted or will But for me the absolute highlight of this disc and perhaps the whole fucking series is Kruddler doing a version of Ricky Martin's "Living La Vida Loca" and just burning the whole thing to the ground. If you check nothing else out, this is the one thing. Great version. Great band. Good people. With a special mention for the Mammy Nuns because Rob Rule is an awesome human who ran the board at the Turf and playing a Tuesday night there with him and the Mammy Nuns was always a good ...

 Here we go again. I really need to reconfigure this room a bit. For whatever reason ever since we moved, I've developed a huge never ending knot is my left shoulder. I thought it was the new chair, but it's still here after switching back to the old chair. I just may be getting too old to sit for hours on end in front of a computer and type anymore.... Twin Town High Music Yearbook Volume Two (1999) Volume Two tracklist at Discogs Highlights: Lifter Puller with an obscure track of theirs a version of which appeared on "Soft Rock" Katastrophy Wife is a post-Babes in Toyland band with Kat Bjelland Love-Cars do " Even The Animals Have Realized That We Are Not Alone In This World" which is a personal favorite of theirs And another Lily Liver song is always welcome. A shout out also for the sole issued song by Roast Beast. That's one I forget about.

  Well kids, Here we are at the century mark for posts on this highly specialized, but nonetheless supremely interesting and beloved by a handful of anonymous internet users who'll download anything so long as it's not Total Fucking Blood. (which is generally a terrible shame because their music goes "Hurrdurrroarhurr" and everybody needs some of that now and again) But 100 posts. That's some crazy bullshit right there. I was already planning on setting this up this week before I noticed the number, but let's just pretend it's actually some kind of month+ celebratory thing anyway. (On a side note I will also pass on that after a year I've maxed out the free storage on this Mediafire account. I started another, but I suppose it means that this stuff won't last forever in the aether before I start deleting things to make space for other things. You have been warned.) Twin Town High Music Yearbook Volume One (1998) Here we are. Between 1998 & 2008...