new Blues Explosion album

But yeah, Automator's 15 minutes were up a long time ago, and Shadow isn't even worth discussing.

I think this is a downloadable album, maybe. Gotta hear some of it to make a decision.

I strongly disagree with the second sentence of that post.

Shipping in Western Canada was delayed on it

According to an article on Chart's website, the Canadian release date is Oct 12 (we did get Acme a week before the rest of the world, so I guess this balances it out). As for the rest of the world, it's been out for 2 weeks in Japan, and came out on Monday in Europe, and this Tuesday in the US.

I think its more listenable than Fang (I only really liked the Werewolf song) but it's still a plop compared to Now I Got Worry and Orange.

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Which reminds me of a good memory re: JSBX. I was working at 120 Minutes, in the waning days of the show, when Acme was released and it was just before Christmas. Jon Spencer had been on in years previous dressed as Santa Claus and wanted to do this again. Harmless enough. So the band shows up in Santa outfits with bags full of Acme CDs and vinyl records, and are pouring whisky into their coffee cups (it's about 9am). Russell Simins, once he discovers they're hollow, wants to start the show with his guitar underneath one of the crates that Matt Pinfield & guests sit on, which sounds like a good idea but is hampered for all kinds of reasons. He wants to pop out but there's no where to pop out from. That plan is nixed. He wants to play a song, as he and Judah brought guitars. We weren't set up for that, it takes a long time to set up for audio on a tv set. They bring out these mini amps, the kind you wear on your belt, and we are worried about how it will sound on tv, that it might either be drowned out by speaking voices or drown out the voices.

We were trying to be flexible, though, as they had some good, smart & funny ideas, and were really working in a joyous Christmas spirit, and are nice guys. Besides, they would not sit still for the normal interview we had prepared for. So we just go with it, and try to make demands where we see fit.

With each taped segment things start really descending into choas. Russell & Judah stomping around with their guitars, Jon bear-hugging Pinfield, banging on the road cases, falling down and screaming "BLUES EXPLOSION". They're really boisterous and probably drunk now, running around the studio, the camera and light people trying as best as possible to corale these off-the-wall dudes and tape something that will be remotely useable on-air. It is a hilarious and off-the-rails scene in the studio.

The last segment it is decided that they will give out the Acme gifts from their big Santa bag. So we start rolling and Judah intros on the guitar and Russell & Jon in their Santa costumes are unpacking this bag, throwing CDs here and there, screaming "BLUES EXPLOSION" & "MERRY CHRISTMAS," tossing records like frisbees. One of the records, jacket-less, gets winged at the stage manager's head--HARD-- to the point where she is crying and looks seriously hurt. Everything stops. Complete silence, something terrible has happened. Russell runs over and starts to console the stage manager, and Jon follows, apologizing profusely. She is really freaked out, but insists it's ok. They give her all the records and CDs and we air the whole thing.

That's cuz he looked like an old man then.

Paul, what was the name of the second song the BX did as the credits ran? They cut it right before the chorus kicked in.

I put on the close captioning to see if I could get the song title, but no go. The CC on "Burn it off" is pretty funny, though. It reminds me of the JSBX Japanese discs I have where they got someone to write-up English lyrics, and just wrote whatever it kinda sounded like (ex; In "Talk About the Blues" to line "Rolling Stone magazine" became "Wanna stolen magazine")