Deep Shuffle Cuts

This is a feature post for the Duty, known as The Sunday Cool Down Shuffle. We load up the iTunes, hit shuffle, and write about the first 10 songs that come up no matter what. Got it?


10. "Troubled Waters" - Cat Power - CrazySexyBoring.

9. "Drove Up From Pedro" - Mike Watt - Basslines too busy, fashion sense too sweet.

8. "Horror Business" - The Misfits - Maybe our top "Band We Used ta Love But Now We Never Listen To" band. Still cool. Whoa-oh-oh-oh.

7. "Pushing the Extreme" - The Wipers - Maybe our top "Band We Can't Believe We Haven't Posted About Yet" band. Perfect for these wintery days.

6. "L-O-V-E" - Al Green - Candles are lit and champagne's on ice. What time you comin' by, Sweet Thang?

5. "Rat Zombie" - Killer Tweaker Bees - We had this idea once to listen to every Greg Ginn solo record in a row. Yeesh. Glad we never did.

4. "Bus Station" - Dave Attell - The Duty's favorite funnyman!

3. "Strangers Die Everyday" - Butthole Surfers - We like the rock album best.

2. "Submersed" - Leviathan - Weird synth interlude from San Fran's croakiest one man black metal band. Even these Casio drones are scarin' us.

1. "Pennyroyal Tea" - Nirvana - What a way to end our deep shuffle cuts Sunday Cool Down Shuffle! Grohl's got great tone, Cobain's got a killer voice, and we've got some serious eighth grade nostalgia.

Deep Band Cuts: Jeff Beck Group

Man, where have we been on this one? We bought all them Zeppelin/Who/Hendrix/Strawberry Alarm Clock records ten years ago and somehow we whiffed on this one. Pops has been preachin' 'bout Jeff "Nigel Hair" Beck's bad-assery forever and for good reason. This shit is the Truth. Ha!

So with Jeff Beck Group, what do we get? Glad you asked. You get pre-lame Roddy Stewart beltin' the tunes like manimal, you get a pre-Stones Ronnie Wood slappin' the four string, some guy on drums, and Guitar Demi-God Beck makin' the guitar his bitch. Clapton and Page might be more famous to the regular folk, but anybody in the know knows that Beck is the master. He doesn't use a pick!

Tom Jones Helps Himself

So we were crusin' Amazon's new releases list looking for some cool new shit when we noticed the old-school Duty favorite un-guilty pleasure Tommy Jones was droppin' a new record called 24 Hours today.

Oh yeah. We've been big fans of the Sweater Chested Sex Crooner since we were wee lads dunkin' on 8 foot rims and ooglin' our Claduia Schiffer calenders. Everyone has there favorite microphone-in-one-hand-vodka-martini-in-the-other-vocal-stylings, and ours will always be The Thong Master himself.

So in honour of TJ unleashing his 28th! album and being The Duty's only choice when it's time for some drunk karaoke, blast some "Young New Mexican Puppeter" and maybe think about dancing now. Dig?

Where's Izzy?

So Axl finally got around to releasing Chinese Democracy and we reeeeeeally wanted to be excited about it. And we might have been at some point no matter what, but Jesus we bought Appetite back in '98! The Duty would have been stoked if we got a full length around that time. We've moved on to bigger and better things.

But as responsible journalists, we checked out the disc today. And it sounds like we thought it would. An overblown Axl solo record with very little of that made the band bad-ass in the first place. Not as terrible as other solo albums, but nowhere near the epic standard set of Appetite or Illusion.

But we're not surprised we're left a little cold 'cause the real hero's of classic G'N'R were Duff and Izzy for your Duty staff. They made that band, at least for what the Duty loved about them. Sorry Axl. Better luck next time. We'll see ya in 2025 and hear what you've got.

These Shuffles Are Making Us Thirsty

This is a feature post for the Duty, known as The Sunday Cool Down Shuffle. We load up the iTunes, hit shuffle, and write about the first 10 songs that come up no matter what. Got it?


10. "You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb" - Spoon - We almost love this band. Not sure how to bring it to the next level.

9. "Endless Apocalypse" - Gwar - We like "None But The Brave" waaay more for our mid-tempo Gwar.

8. "The Last To Know" - Faith No More - A boring song saved by a great atmospheric solo from Trey Spruance.

7. "No Way" - Pearl Jam - No thanks.

6. "Two Wheeled Horse" - Johnny A - Great chops, great tone, great beard.

5. "The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died" - Queens Of The Stone Age - Maybe the greatest song title ever.

4. "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)" - Beck - We have no idea how we feel about Beck anymore. Remember when he threw his shoe on MTV?

3. "What Would Roth Do?" - Dryfus - Our brother's old band. We miss the front row at 2Dogs coffee.

2. "The Right Profile" - The Clash - The Clash are a welcomed Cool Down staple.

1. "TurboNegro Must Be Destroyed" - TurboNegro - Sweet snare rolls and fuzzy bass.

Here In Our Car

So your crack Heavy Duty staff has been with out a sweet ride since August, our trusty metal steed had been actin' up so we decided to hoof it for the last four months. Well we had enough heel to toe transpo action, it was time to get the DutyMobile back in action. And how!

We can't believe how much we missed driving around crankin' the tunes! Some records are just flat out better albums when listened to at ear-bleedin' volume on the highway. We popped in Death Magnetic for the first roadie and it was a revalation. We were fist pumpin', steerin' wheel bashin', other driver pointin' all the way to Target. How could we forget so soon? Now we can listen to Dio again. Huzzah!