Be Thankful Every Day For Everything And Pray

Bonde Do Vinho “Mexe, Remexe” – If anyone can provide information about this extremely high energy hip hop/Baile funk hybrid, please let me know. All I know about this record is that it is credited to a Brazillian group called “Funk Cruel” (which might not even be the real name); that the album is apparently titled “10;” and that it seems to be of fairly recent vintage. The entire record is pretty hot, I would love to know more about this.

This just in from reader Lovefoxxx:

the name of this group is “bonde do vinho” there are few funk carioca’s group that goes after “bonde”, like “bonde das tchutchucas” (tchuchuca is like a hot-ass-lolita-chick) all that started was “bonde do tigrão” (bonde is like a train…) who even made some tunes after nelly’s beats! then “MC serginho e Lacraia” came… Lacraia is this ugly ass queer who ain’t a tranny… but dress as woman and dance with small shirts shakin’ the ass…

(Click here to hear more from Bonde Do Vinho.)

Robert Pollard “Dancing Girls and Dancing Men” (Removed at the request of the owner.) – There aren’t many surprises on Robert Pollard’s first post-Guided By Voices album From A Compound Eye, but then again, bear in mind that it was recorded while GBV still existed last year. For the most part, this record is business as usual for Pollard, though in the context of his discography, the songs are more similar to the material on Not In My Airforce, Waved Out, and Kid Marine than anything from the past few GBV records. The sequencing of the album is erratic and seemingly random, going back and forth between samey riff rockers and meandering psych-folk numbers, with an occasional brief poppy tune to lighten the tone. The good news is that Pollard is still making baby steps towards broadening his musical palette by adding more strings and keyboards to the arrangements, but it’s all so frustratingly tentative and cautious. Pollard seriously needs to work with an arranger who is not within his established pool of yes men; someone who will force him to try new things even if it seems scary to him at first.

“Dancing Girls and Dancing Men” is as close to an upbeat dance rock tune as you’re going to get from Bob Pollard. It’s a fine tune, though the vocals could stand to be a lot perkier. It sounds almost as though he was trying to write his own Strokes song, which is actually a very likely scenario for a guy who got his start writing his own Beatles songs as a kid. (Click here to visit the official Robert Pollard website.)