One of my good friends mentioned listening to The Epoxies in a Facebook post today. Since Maura (not to be confused with The Other Maura) lieks the Epoxies, I thought I would lay down a little Portland Punk Rock history and talk about The Automatics.
The most direct connection between the Automatics and The Epoxies would be FM Static. In a previous life, FM Static was known as Jesse Kimball, bass player extraordinaire for The Automatics, one of the better Pop-Punk acts to come out of the early to mid 90’s.
They seem to be somewhat overlooked, which is a shame as The Automatics turned out a lot of great suburban Punk Rock anthems that deserve to be heard.
To that end, enjoy some prime cuts from The Automatics:
The Automatics – Mommy is a Commie
The Automatics – I Just Wanna Kill Myself
The Automatics – I Just Wanna Be With You
The Automatics – Don’t Come Between Us
The Automatics – Hate Your Generation
The Automatics – Will You Go With Me?
The Automatics – I Don’t Love You
If you can’t play the mp3 filesI have come up with a few ways for you to play the songs:
1. You can download and run an exe file that has all the songs and a small mp3 decoder wrapped together. Just download and click to play.
2. Click play on this:
After an embarrassingly long break, I’m back in the blogsphere.
Got a new look, new functionality but the same old crappy attitude.
I decided to nuke everything in the old blog so if you posted a comment or actually liked anything in there…tough crap.
Since I am at work and have already wasted more time than I should setting up the blog, I’m just going to post some quick thoughts.
- I’m glad I don’t have the swine flu (I want my mommy!)
- One should not lose their head and ingest an entire can of regular flavored Pringles® Potato “Crisps”
- If the asshole in the cube near me doesn’t shut up, I’m going to give him a stapler catheter.
That’s all for right now.