Acetone - Louise

This is a great tune to listen to when suffering severe hangover, of the kind that can occur from over-celebrating World Cup match results. Enjoy.

Auteurs - Underground Movies

The Auteurs pushed a lot of my buttons. Whiney vocals? Check. Snappy lyrics? Galore. Attitude? My god, did they have attitude. Although despite the miserable misanthropic cynical bastard persona, Luke Haines actually came across quite friendly and cheerful on the two occasions I had to see them live. I've since been told, however, that I must have just caught him on a couple of (rare) good days. Whatever. The Auteurs were genius, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

I always wondered why he picked Baltimore as the location for this song. If anyone knows, do tell.

Acetone - 99

Acetone were sort of a successor band to the 1980s Paisley Underground scene: SoCal-based, heavily psychedelia-influenced, seemingly permanently stoned (and probably more appealing to listen to if you were, too. Not that I'd know. Ahem.) They put out a few decent albums that never really went anywhere; in truth the only reason I know them is because they were on Vernon Yard, who were very generous with their free samplers at the time. Damn, I miss that job.

This is one of the few kind of up-tempo tracks from their second album, If You Only Knew, which sounds like they were listening to early-70s Pink Floyd a lot.