Every day at least one song - Week # 29 (August 11, 2025)
When I started Barstool Revolution I created a Facebook site and generated a daily thread where I would post at least one song a day. With social media sites increasingly useless for self-promotion to generate traffic to sites like this one - unless you are willing to shell out money - I decided to continue the “tradition” right here to add content and to hopefully generate more traffic to the site. As suggested, every day you will get at least one song, old or new that is, and of any genre. Stay tuned and check in daily!!!
Monday, August 11, 2025:
This week I decided to post songs that shall be dedicated to people I know in person and that have enriched my life in one way or another, mainly by just being good friends. I’ll start off with an Angry Samoans hit off their classic “Back from Samoa” LP. It’s funny as over the weekend I’ve read some FB thread where people said that in this day and age a record like that wouldn’t be possible to be released. I get the point, but tend to disagree. I just think people are less accepting of humor such as to be found on the Samoans LP, that’s all. Anyway, this song is dedicated to my buddy SuLee, someone I’ve befriended as an MRR pen pal all the way back in the early ‘90s and remained in touch over the decades. We hung out in Cleveland just very recently, and it was a blast. Never change my friend! Happy Monday!
Tuesday, August 12, 2025:
Today’ choice is an easy one as my good mate Alain back in Zurich, Switzerland is celebrating his 67th birthday. Alain has never changed, and I mean that in a good way. He lives and breathes rock’n’roll and with his band The Pukes he definitely got me stay up all night and party until the morning hours such as prescribed in today’s song “We don’t wanna go home”. Alles Gueti, Alain! On another note, today also marks the eighteenth anniversary of me moving away from Switzerland back in 2007. In said year it was a Sunday and just about at this time I recall being on the ferry between France and the UK as I was originally moving to London where I stayed a bit over five years before coming to the US, but that’s another story. And with that, have a great day everyone!
Wednesday, August 13, 2025:
When speaking of London, the city I lived from ‘07 to ‘12 and adore to this day, I have to think of my mate Marco. He is London through and through, North London to be more precise. I knew Marco a bit before I moved there and we have remained friends over the years after I have left. I will always cherish our in depth talks about punk rock from god knows where in the world and about the myriad of bands Marco has been in and has released on his No Front Teeth record label, now in existence for twenty five years (look out for an interview in Razorcake in the next few months). The world needs more people like him, full of passion and commitment for life. Here a song by the Gaggers, probably Marco’s best known band. Cheers mate, and have a great day everyone!
Thursday, August 14, 2025:
As mentioned earlier this week it’s been eighteen years since I left Switzerland for the shores of the UK, and back then I certainly wouldn’t have thought that in 2025 I’ll be writing these lines from Buffalo, NY. Well, via London and New York City my wife and I ended up here and have been living here since ‘20. I knew Buffalo just a little bit from way back in the ‘90s when I spent some time in Toronto and would basically just travel through here as it’s a border city. Moving here right at the beginning of Covid hasn’t been exactly easy, but I’ve made the most of it me thinks. Back in 2022 I saw a FB post with a young gentleman sporting a T-Shirt by Japcore legends Bastard and announcing that he’ll be opening a record store. I thought to myself that a guy with a band shirt like that can only be good so I checked it out a couple of months after Out There Records opened at its original location. Over time I’ve gotten to know Jerid better and I visit his store as often as the bank account allows me to. It’s always a great pleasure to talk to Jerid about music and life in general, but more importantly I just don’t take it for granted that a relatively small city like Buffalo is home to a record store of such high quality, that’s incredible. Thanks Jerid, we appreciate you! Happy Thursday!
