Adam's Music World

Welcome. Here you will find all manner of links, opinion, and photos involving my musical interests in the world. You can find links to N.I.L.8 at the bottom of this page.

So....what is Adam listening to these days?

Below is a list of the top five most likely CD's to be found in my CD player this week, in no particular order (updated 06 February 2002):

• Archers of Loaf, White Trash Heroes
• N.I.L.8, Live
• Tom Waits, Live in Paris (bootleg)
• Homemade compilation, Country and Gospel for the Clinically Psychotic
• Mike Watt, Ball-hog or Tugboat?

Just as in my bookshelf, there are ten albums everyone should be issued at birth:

• Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking
• fIREHOSE, Ragin', Full-on
• Police, Outlandos D'Amour
• Pearl Jam, Ten
• NIL8, Doug
• Archers of Loaf, Icky Mettle
• Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
• Billy Bragg, Back to Basics
• David Bowie, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
• Pixies, Doolittle

Great Shows

I have seen many, many bands, far more than I could ever remember. The following rank as the most entertaining live bands I have ever seen. I will tell you what makes them so great individually:

1. N.I.L.8 is, without a doubt, the most entertaining band I have ever seen perform. Musically, their sets are always tight. Lately, especially, there is a great deal of variety between shows (which was previously my only complaint). Just to hear Walnuts and Jeff between songs makes it a great entertainment experience. I have never taken anyone to a show, even if they had never heard of N.I.L.8 before, who didn't walk out loving them.


2. Morphine is another extremely entertaining band live. The drummer looks sooooo goofy, all smiles and bouncy, while they play songs like "Cure for Pain" or "Candy." It makes you wonder if he has ever heard the lyrics. Otherwise, to see Dana play sax is awe-inspiring, and Mark really sounds like he does on the records. The encore is something that I will leave for you to find out about. A truly great live band.


3. Love and Rockets, whom I saw at Metro in Chicago, are #3 on the list. Despite the fact that Daniel Ash came out with Bono hair, they were great. The punk rock version of "So Alive" was truly something to behold. Hopefully they will stick around and tour again so all of you can see them.


4. The Cure is the only arena concert you will find here. Despite the piss-poor sound quality at the Rosemont Horizon, the Cure put on a great show, and played forever. Notable songs at this show included "Like Cockatoos," which is in the top five of my favourite Cure songs, and "Killing an Arab," which gave me chills. To see them outdoors, where one could make out what Fat Rob was saying, would be even better.


5. Goldfinger played Mabel's in Champaign on 3 February 1998. Absolutely great show. They played everything (I think) off of the first record, even "My Girlfriend's Shower Sucks." They included the very hot ska tunes "Answers" amd "King for A Day," my two favourites from that record. Their encore was "Mind's Eye" and the supercool Ronnie James Dio version of Duran Duran's "Rio." Go see them.


6. Descendents played the Emerson in Indianapolis last year. Like Love and Rockets, they were a band I never thought I would get to see. They played a long time, lots of songs (a long time for them automatically means a lot of songs!). Milo looks more like Hank Rollins every time I see him. Eerily enough, their encore was a bunch of Black Flag tunes...

And....the finest live band in the world is back! They got a new Eric, and are back on the road; check them out at N.I.L.8dotcom!

The NIL8 Rock and Roll Party Show--Once again coming soon to a theatre near you...