#lifter puller

and think about what you've got, compare it to what I've got and ask yourself:

What do you think my girl wants?

In anticipation for the release of my The Price Of Salt EP tomorrow, I’ve added another playlist to the previous one that delves a little deeper into the literal and figurative influences that went into it all. Enjoy.

1997 (a playlist) - listen on Spotify

Every year since 2014, I've made a playlist of my favorite jams from 20 years ago. Here's the 2017/1997 volume. I used to put them on 8tracks, but now that 8tracks has the listening limit, I’m putting them on Spotify. Because of not being able to upload from my own library, there were a few super obscure releases that I couldn’t find, but the playlist is 66 tracks long as it is, so that’s okay. Once again, this is not comprehensive, it’s simply my all-time faves + some guilty/nostalgic pleasures. A little bit mainstream, a little bit indie. Some of this music is genuinely terrible, I realize that. Whatever. (Cover image is a photo of me n' my bestie circa '97.)

(If you’re curious about the previous volumes, I’ve made Spotify versions of those, too: 1994, 1995, 1996.)

Old 97′s - Streets of Where I’m From (from Too Far to Care)

16 Horsepower - My Narrow Mind (from Low Estate)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - West Country Girl (from The Boatman’s Call)

Radiohead - Exit Music (for a Film) (from OK Computer)

Blur - Beetlebum (from Blur)

The Verve - Bitter Sweet Symphony (from Urban Hymns)

The Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth (from The Dandy Warhols Come Down)

Everclear - Everything to Everyone (from So Much for the Afterglow)

Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life (from Semi-Charmed Life)

Harvey Danger - Flagpole Sitta (from Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?)

Guttermouth - Bakers Dozen (from Musical Monkey)

Slapstick - Almost Punk Enough (from Slapstick)

Agent 99 - Back to the Underground (from Ska Down Her Way)

The Silencers - Policeman (from Give Em the Boot)

The Toasters - Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down (from Don’t Let the Bastards Grind You Down)

The Pietasters - Out All Night (from Willis)

Save Ferris - Under 21 (from It Means Everything)

Hepcat - I Can’t Wait (from Right On Time)

The Slackers - Rude & Wreckless (from Redlight)

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Rascal King (from Let’s Face It)

Cherry Poppin’ Daddies - Dr. Bones (from Zoot Suit Riot)

Spice Girls - The Lady is a Vamp (from Spiceworld)

Erykah Badu - No Love (from Baduizm)

Missy Elliott - I’m Talkin’ (from Supa Dupa Fly)

The Prodigy - Breathe (from The Fat of the Land)

The Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun (from Dig Your Own Hole)

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha (from When I Was Born for the 7th Time)

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping (from Tubthumper)

World/Inferno Friendship Society - Incendiarism (from The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League)

Bis - Rebel Soul (from The New Transistor Heroes)

The Donnas - Get Rid of That Girl (from The Donnas)

The Mr. T Experience - The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful (from Revenge Is Sweet, and So Are You)

blink-182 - Dammit (from Dude Ranch)

U.S. Bombs - Her & Me (from War Birth)

Shotwell - Libertyville on the Rocks (from Celery, Beef and Iron)

Lifetime - Turnpike Gates (from Jersey’s Best Dancers)

Subincision - Kerouac (from Subincision)

Blue Meanies - I’m A Have Not (from Full Throttle)

Furious George - Take My Life, Please (from ...Gets a Record)

Lunachicks - Missed It (from Pretty Ugly)

L7 - I Need (from The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum)

The Cramps - Super Goo (from Big Beat from Badsville)

The Geraldine Fibbers - California Tuffy (from Butch)

Veruca Salt - The Morning Sad (from Eight Arms to Hold You)

Helium - Lady of the Fire (from The Magic City)

Sleater-Kinney - Jenny (from Dig Me Out)

that dog. - Hawthorne (from Retreat from the Sun)

Future Bible Heroes - Real Summer (from Memories of Love)

Jonathan Fire*Eater - No Love Like That (from Wolf Songs for Lambs)

Pavement - Shady Lane (from Brighten the Corners)

Modest Mouse - Polar Opposites (from The Lonesome Crowded West)

The Dismemberment Plan - The Ice of Boston (from ...Is Terrified)

Lifter Puller - The Gin & The Sour Defeat (from Half Dead & Dynamite)

Dead and Gone - Trainwreck (from God Loves Everyone But You)

Hot Water Music - Translocation (from Forever and Counting)

Discount - Soup (from Half Fiction)

Pohgoh - Friend X (from What’s Mine Is Yours: The Emo Diaries - Chapter One)

Rainer Maria - Sickbed (from Past Worn Searching)

Mineral - Parking Lot (from The Power of Failing)

The Get Up Kids - Stay Gold, Ponyboy (from Four Minute Mile)

Tuesday - Disappear (from Freewheelin’)

The Promise Ring - Forget Me (from Nothing Feels Good)

Ben Folds Five - Fair (from Whatever & Ever Amen)

Elliott Smith - Rose Parade (from Either/Or)

The Mountain Goats - Weekend in Western Illinois (mislabeled as “Twin Human Highway Flares”) (from Full Force Galesburg)