A Taste of Saint Louis (A Choice Selection of Local Music)

NOTE : This is NOT a definitive or all-encompassing mix!

Most of it comes from albums/EPs I've purchased over the past year and a half and the rest is culled from free MP3 downloads off Myspace. That said, I still haven't bought some friends' CDs and some of my favorite local acts don't let you download songs from their myspace pages.

Even so, this is a pretty decent cross-section of the manic music scene here in St. Louis. We've got 80s-aping The Bureau, old-school Cali-style punks The Humanoids, riot grrls Bitch Slap Barbie, country hootnanny Strawfoot, Elvis Costello-ish John Hardy & The Public, my band The Orbz - a punk/funk/indie fusion, 90s-era alt-rockers Ashborne, shoegazy Stella Mora, rockabilly via the 7 Shot Screamers, funky rockers The Feed, Belly-esque indie rockers Goodnight Ghost (no longer around, sadly), the sonic stomp of PFIC, and the clunky indie messes of The Hibernauts and Tape Deck Sonata. A pretty good mix, given the cheap methods used to create it.

And yes, some of these bands I have had the good fortune to share the stage with (Stella Mora, Ashborne, PFIC and Tape Deck Sonata).




A Taste of Saint Louis


1. Bitch Slap Barbie - Don't Wanna
2. The Bureau - White Girls
3. Wooden Kites - Our Secret In The Orchard
4. PFIC - Of The Red Sea
5. Tape Deck Sonata - Dissolve It
6. The Hibernauts - People Better Than You
7. Goodnight Ghost - Whisper When You Tell A Secret
8. Ashborne - Future Millionaire
9. Stella Mora - Safe Word
10. The Feed - Leave
11. John Hardy & The Public - I Will
12. The Museum Mutters - South City Girls (Christmas on TV)
13. The Humanoids - Targets
14. 7 Shot Screamers - Confusion
15. The Orbz - Chicago Ted
16. Red Eyed Driver - Whatever
17. Grace Basement - I Don't Think I Love You (Live @ Off Broadway)
18. Strawfoot - The Sky Is Falling
19. HazardsForHeadlights - Modern Art
20. The Mad Titans - Triforce
21. Kentucky Knife Fight - I Don't Mind (Keepin' It Real)


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Sound Check

Sound Check



1. Me First & The Gimme Gimmes - On The Road Again
2. OK Go - It's A Disaster
3. Tegan & Sara - Walking With A Ghost
4. Gnarls Barkley - Who Cares?
5. Toad The Wet Sprocket - Something's Always Wrong
6. Harvey Danger - Wine, Women & Song
7. Black Eyed Peas - Don't Lie
8. Tenacious D - Friendship
9. The Killers - Bling (Confessions of a King)
10. Tom Petty - This One's For Me
11. The Donnas - Too Bad About Your Girl
12. Zwan - El Sol
13. Alkaline Trio - Dethbed
14. Weezer - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
15. Oh No! Oh My! - Walk In The Park
16. Rilo Kiley - Close Call
17. REM - Drive
18. The Dears - Who Are You, Defenders Of The Universe?
19. Glue - Catch As...
20. Red Elvises - Wild Man
21. The Strokes - Reptilia
22. Aimee Mann - Goodbye Caroline
23. Gorillaz - Sound Check (Gravity)

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Cigarettes Will Kill You

Cigarettes Will Kill You



1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Curse of Millhaven
2. Moby - Slipping Away
3. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
4. Freezepop - That Boy Is All About Fun!
5. Ben Lee - Cigarettes Will Kill You
6. Soul Coughing - Collapse
7. The Urge - Welcome To Gunville
8. Thom Yorke - The Eraser
9. System of a Down - Vicinity of Obscenity
10. Grandaddy - "Yeah" Is What We Had
11. Hawthorne Heights - Ohio Is For Lovers
12. Green Day - Saint Jimmy
13. Tricky - Abbaon Fat Tracks
14. Catherine Wheel - Judy Staring At The Sun
15. Marilyn Manson - If I Was Your Vampire
16. Ani DiFranco - Swim
17. Team Dresch - To The Enemies of Political Rock
18. Foo Fighters - Cheer Up Boys (Your Make-Up Is Running)
19. Sum 41 - Open Your Eyes
20. Strung Out - Ultimate Devotion
21. Wire - Mannequin

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Same Old Drag

Same Old Drag


1. Wired All Wrong - You're Freaking Me Out Girl
2. TV On The Radio - Wolf Like Me
3. The Apples In Stereo - Same Old Drag
4. The Sounds - Hit Me
5. Bayside - Walking Wounded
6. The Thermals - Pillar of Salt
7. Nine Inch Nails - The Warning
8. Clann Zu - So Complicated Was The Fall
9. Aqueduct - Living A Lie
10. Secret Machines - Faded Lines
11. The Raconteurs - Level
12. Mae - This Is The Countdown
13. Lupe Fiasco - Real
14. Aimee Mann - Going Through The Motions
15. Bright Eyes - Four Wind
16. Kings of Leon - Ragoo
17. The Rakes - Suspicious Eyes
18. Athlete - You Got The Style
19. Ambulance Ltd - Anecdote
20. Zutons - Havana Gang Brawl
21. The Honorary Title - Untouched and Intact
22. Cat Power - The Greatest

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Blame The Basements

Blame The Basements


1. Lifter Puller - Back in Blackbeard
2. Phantom Planet - JabberJaw
3. Refused - Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine
4. The Kills - At The Back Of The Shell
5. Blood Brothers - My First Kiss at the Public Execution
6. Rhett Miller - Brand New Way
7. Meshell Ndegeocello - Article 3
8. Sonic Youth - Incinerate
9. The Fratellis - Everyone Knows You Cried Last Night
10. Dead Poetic - Hostages
11. Interpol - Obstacle 2
12. Coheed and Cambria - Crossing The Frame
13. The Dismemberment Plan - I Love a Magician
14. Tin Machine - Video Crime
15. Sunny Day Real Estate - Theo B
16. Ultimate Fakebook - All The New Poisons
17. Outkast - Makes No Sense At All
18. Gay Dad - My Son Mystic
19. Team Sleep - King Diamond
20. These Arms Are Snakes - Big News
21. At The Drive-in - Pickpocket
22. Mindless Self Indulgence - Bullshit
23. Paula Abdul - U

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The Weather Report

The Weather Report


1. The Mountain Goats - Heritic Pride
2. The Raconteurs - Intimate Secretary
3. Kimya Dawson - Loose Lips
4. The Thrills - Don't Steal Our Sun
5. Paramore - Hallelujah
6. The Go! Team - Bull In The Heather
7. The Rapture - Heaven
8. Smashing Pumpkins - 7 Shades of Black
9. Taking Back Sunday - Number 5 With A Bullet
10. Toadies - Hell Below, Stars Above
11. Unwritten Law - Babylon
12. LCD Soundsystem - Time To Get Away
13. Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling
14. Fugazi - Long Division
15. The Promise Ring - Make Me A Chevy
16. Sia - Taken For Granted
17. The New Pornographers - Use It
18. Stone Temple Pilots - Coma
19. The Von Bondies - No Regrets
20. Imogen Heap - Daylight Robbery
21. Remy Zero - Over The Rails/Hollywood High
22. The Bravery - Fearless
23. Clor - Good Stuff


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Here's Your Future

Here's Your Future




1. The Thermals - Here's Your Future
2. Dropkick Murphys - Shippin' Up To Boston
3. Deftones - Mein
4. The Dears - Death Or Life We Want You
5. Fall Out Boy - Thriller
6. The Killers - Bones
7. Neutral Milk Hotel - Two-Headed Boy
8. No Use For A Name - Pre-Medicated Murder
9. The Mars Volta - Vermicide
10. Muse - Map of the Problematique
11. CSS - Art Bitch
12. The Vines - Highly Evolved
13. Thursday - We Will Overcome
14. Thrice - Between The End and Where We Lie
15. Nina Gordon - Kiss Me Till It Bleeds
16. Morrissey - On The Steets I Ran
17. John Vanderslice - Exodus Damage
18. Incubus - Light Grenades
19. The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Kingdom Of Doom
20. Everclear - Shine
21. Eels - Dirty Girl
22. Wilco - Either Way
23. VietNam - Step on Inside

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