Ack Phhht!

Following up on yesterday’s post, here’s the last of couple things I picked up in ’08:

The Replacements, Pleased to Meet Me – I wrote a couple posts about the reissues Rhino and Ryko were putting out of the Replacements Sire catalog, in anticipation of their late September release, but then due to various bullshit didn’t end up picking any of them up.  I got this one for Christmas, though — Pleased To Meet Me was always my favorite ‘Mats album anyway.  So far the bonus material hasn’t really caught my ear (except “P.O. Box” a.k.a. “Photo”, which I’d heard off bootlegs before), but I haven’t really listened to it much yet.

cargo, Morning Star – Although this blog has been devoted almost exclusively to guitar pop, I actually have developed a sweet tooth for silly dance pop over the past decade (I blame it entirely on Saint Etienne, my gateway drug).  I stumbled onto this Japanese dance pop group on JapanFiles the other night, and while again I haven’t had much of a chance to listen to it, lead track “For The Light”, at least, is great upbeat disco pop.

Pleased To Meet Me

Morning Star