girls gone wild: the musical?

So, I just ran out for a minute to the grocery store to pick up a candy bar because the fruit I'd packed for myself this morning was AWFUL and I had to apologize to my sweet tooth. So anyway as I was waiting in line and trying not to think when I noticed that the radio was playing a country music tribute to girls gone wild. Are you fucking kidding me? It's bad enough that these jackasses have totally hijacked what was otherwise a totally viable and entertaining genre of music, now they have to further advertise for THAT??? Oh hell no. Anyone who has ever half dealth with insomnia knows that their infomercials ruin the otherwise mildly spellbinding terrain of late night infomercials and programs about god. I'm not gonna go into this too much, because I think it's a pretty common opinion that this has more to do with esteem issues than the exploitation of women, and frankly i'm not really in the mood to complete more than a few sentences today.
This album was released over a year ago, right around when I was swearing myself off of the Canadian collective groups like Broken Social Scene and the New Pornographers. I probably should've tried to keep up a little, because the songs I've heard from this are incredible, and almost all feature people from these bands and sounds a lot better to my ears. No, I'm not hung over right now, but it's a good a time as any to be.

"Hangover Days" - Jason Collett
Buy Idols of Exile here.

As far as The Pogues, there isn't much I can tell you that you shouldn't already know. I could launch here into any number of diatribes about Shane MacGowan's teeth, or his appearance pogoing beneath the opening credits of The Punk Rock Movie, or the incredible documentary about the man's life (Oddly, I just deleted 3 more movie references to the Pogues here. I have never even started to consider them a band I associate with the cinema), but instead I just wanna post this song, which shows both the live capabilities of this band and the way the audience reacts to them. No wonder these guys are drunks. Maybe I'll post my favorite songs on here someday.

"The Sick Bed of Cúchulaínn" (live) - The Pogues
But the Ultimate Collection here.