All Things Useless
  • Home
  • Jim’s Useless Ramblings
    • Podcasts
    • My new favorite thing in the whole of today
  • About this site
  • Contact Us
  • Tweet Feed
    • Twitter Favorites
All Things Useless

Music, movies, TV, comics, science fiction and a bunch of other crap. An encyclopedic knowledge of all things useless.

Top Posts & Pages

  • A Blue Line Tribute Mix
  • A Modest Proposal: Mowbray Allan edition
Menu

8tracks

Got 4 hours? Here’s some music

2014/05/09 by Jim Leave a Comment

A while back I asked my Facebook and Twitter friends to suggest songs over 8 minutes in length for a mix. And I got a ton of great suggestions in by far the longest Facebook comment thread that has ever appeared on my timeline. Then I largely ignored them all and put together this mix … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings, Music Tagged: 8tracks, church of misery, dan deacon, david bowie, disillusion, electric wizard, explosions in the sky, gil scott-heron and brian jackson, godspeed you! black emperor, headhunters, iron maiden, isis, janes addiction, local h, mastodon, neutral milk hotel, phish, polvo, prince, spiritualized, ulver, yo la tengo

A Blue Line Tribute Mix

2014/03/24 by Jim Leave a Comment

This morning’s CTA blue line derailment at O’Hare airport ( Chicago Tribune Breaking News, WGN TV, Chicagoist ) immediately brought to my mind the 2 songs I could think of about that particular piece of Chicago’s public transit system, which are Local H’s Blue Line and pinebender’s Simp Twister. I figured there must be more out … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings Tagged: 8tracks, blue line, boxcar willie, cta, doc watson, grateful dead, jethro tull, local h, love and rockets, mastodon, ozzy osbourne, pinebender, springbo, wesley willis

No Reason, No Conscience, No Understanding

2013/10/28 by Jim Leave a Comment

I’ve been threatening for years to make a non-metal Halloween mix, to contrast with the totally metal mix I made 5 years ago, “When churchyards yawn, and Hell itself breathes out,” which is completely excellent btw and you should listen to it too! Well I finally did it but I’ve been too damn lazy to … [Read more…]

Posted in: Jim's Useless Ramblings, Music, Podcasts Tagged: 8tracks, archers of loaf, band of skulls, bonnie prince billy, concrete blonde, david bowie, dead kennedys, dead milkmen, fugazi, mark kozelek, ministry, misfits, my goodness, oingo boingo, playlist, ramones, songs: ohia, talking heads, terror clocks, the blacks, the cure, the hookers, the meat purveyors, the sword, they might be giants, trailer bride, xtc

Blogroll

  • Emergent Radio
  • Sandwich Tribunal
  • The New Middle
  • TV And Ham

Tags

amon amarth andrew vincent and the pirates awesome beer bonnie prince billy brewing church of misery cloak/dagger clutchy hopkins dark lord dark lord day david bowie dinosaur jr. electric wizard elliott brood fishbone high on fire homebrew hops immortal iron brewer justin townes earle local h lucero metal midwest brewers fest music necrocomiccon podcast radio gen1us reel big fish russian circles shatner superchunk the cure the meat purveyors the pogues the protomen the slackers they might be giants three floyds titus andronicus turkish delight william shatner …and you will know us by the trail of dead

Copyright © 2025 All Things Useless.

Magazine WordPress Theme by themehall.com

 

Loading Comments...