Let’s discuss any and all music here. Got a new artist who’s rocking your boat that you want to talk about? Post a video! Found out about that unearthed Coltrane album that has the jazz freak in you losing your mind? Lay it out for us! Have a theory about what your favorite band might do for their next album? Let’s hear it! Anything and everything music-related goes here.

This week’s discussion prompt: What songs or albums are inextricably linked in your mind with some event in your life?

This week’s prompt was inspired by that time I was driving down an empty road at night, and got pulled over for (allegedly) failing to come to a full stop at a stop sign by a cop car waiting in the dark specifically to catch people failing to come to a full stop at said stop sign. When this happened, I was listening to an old tape of songs from a Half Japanese/Jad Fair artist spotlight I taped off of CBC Radio back in the nineties, and a song I thought was called “Mosquito (Daddy-O, That’s Me)”. It’s a pretty wacky tune, so if you’re curious feel free to hit play on the video above and try to imagine that song playing as police sirens blare behind you and a police officer shouts through a loudspeaker for you to pull over immediately.

Many years after I LOST TWO points on my license and PAID THE PRICE of 7500 yen for a traffic fine, I found out it was the name of the group that was actually Mosquito, and that the group consisted of Jad Fair, Steve Shelley of Sonic Youth, and Tim Foljahn from Two Dollar Guitar. “Daddy-O, That’s Me” is taken from U.F.O. Catcher, the first of three albums the band recorded in the early nineties.

Oddly enough, a few weeks ago I was driving down the exact same stretch of road that I got popped on over a decade ago, and this song came up on one of my mix CDs. This time I came to a full and complete stop at that particular stop sign, in spite of no other cars (po-po or otherwise) being anywhere in sight.1Actually, I always come to a full and complete stop for a few seconds longer than is necessary at that particular stop sign in the middle of nowhere now, as when I told people where I got caught most of them laughed since that spot has long been notorious among locals as being a “mouse trap”

As always, any and all music-related posts are welcome. Have fun, rock out with yr guac out – and most importantly, be sure to drive safely!