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Grex > Music2 > #60: NP #2: Music to Conference By |  |
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scott
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response 225 of 502:
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Oct 11 23:54 UTC 1997 |
Joe Jackson, "Big World".
oops, it just ended, so now we have (pause for a change):
Thomas Dolby, "Golden Age of Wireless".
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senna
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response 226 of 502:
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Oct 12 05:45 UTC 1997 |
Hail to the Victors.
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mcnally
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response 227 of 502:
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Oct 13 01:04 UTC 1997 |
re #225: Sounds like Scott's been rifling through my CD collection..
now playing, the Byrds, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo". it's not
the greatest music ever recorded but somehow I never get tired
of this album..
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snowth
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response 228 of 502:
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Oct 13 03:07 UTC 1997 |
Cage, King Crimson
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tpryan
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response 229 of 502:
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Oct 13 03:15 UTC 1997 |
Sunday night and agian time for Dr. Demento, now playing the
theme from the new Weird Al" Yankovic show on CBS (Saturday mornings
at 11:30am, by irony channel 62, Detroit in this area, Ann Arbor cable
13).
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bruin
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response 230 of 502:
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Oct 13 12:26 UTC 1997 |
Yesterday, while at scott's house, I noticed his magnetic "ransom note style"
letters and underneath the part that read "John Tesh must die; also Yanni,"
I added "Weird Al Rules."
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senna
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response 231 of 502:
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Oct 14 03:28 UTC 1997 |
"Everything to Everyone," Everclear, which is doing a lot better than I had
expected it to.
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mcnally
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response 232 of 502:
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Oct 14 16:01 UTC 1997 |
Slowdive -- "Souvlaki"
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senna
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response 233 of 502:
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Oct 15 04:43 UTC 1997 |
Hitchin a Ride, Green Day, which is living up to my expectations
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orinoco
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response 234 of 502:
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Oct 17 19:25 UTC 1997 |
Loud irritating - and quieter, non-irritating - people in the FOS classroom
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senna
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response 235 of 502:
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Oct 19 05:45 UTC 1997 |
Exit Music For a Film, Radiohead
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krj
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response 236 of 502:
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Oct 19 17:03 UTC 1997 |
"A Morbid Taste for Ballads," a mix tape in progress for Maeve.
Supernatural abductions, illicit sex, murders of romantic rivals,
incest and infanticide. Guaranteed to have an average of >1
corpse per song, though the mining disaster songs inflate the total
somewhat unfairly. Steeleye Span, Oyster Band, Clannad, Richard Thompson,
Pyewackett, Albion Band, Anne Briggs, Cindy Mangsen, Judy Collins,
so far.
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mcnally
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response 237 of 502:
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Oct 20 14:28 UTC 1997 |
listening to the "Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru"
compilation a lot lately -- it's quite good. I think I'll probably
plan on seeing Celia Cruz at the Power Center in November, too..
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krj
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response 238 of 502:
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Oct 20 16:21 UTC 1997 |
Mmmm, I always meant to get that "Soul of Black Peru" album after
hearing it at Schoolkids eons ago. Guess I should get over my snit
at David Byrne and just buy it. :P
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orinoco
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response 239 of 502:
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Oct 20 16:31 UTC 1997 |
Snit at David Byrne? Por que?
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mcnally
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response 240 of 502:
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Oct 20 22:32 UTC 1997 |
Yes, that was a stumbling block for me, too.. I finally resolved my
feelings on the matter by pretending that the real David Byrne died in
a horrible car wreck just after the film "True Stories" was released
and that Sire(Warner?) and the rest of the band tried to hush it up
and keep things going by replacing him with an advanced clone of some
sort.. Of course things went horribly wrong and the clone developed a
mind of its own and ran amok, as tends to happen.. :-)
re #239: Ever since shortly before the end of the band Talking Heads
David Byrne has been on a Latin music kick, specifically mostly samba.
This has had two effects -- the release of a lot of bad Samba music from
Byrne himself and the exposure of lots of good stuff from South American
artists which likely wouldn't have seen US release without Byrne to
evangelize on its behalf..
Those of us who were really big Talking Heads fans have a hard time
with this. The latter point is of course a good thing but we still
openly begrudge the transmogrification of the greatest 80's Eno-puppet
into a mediocre samba musician..
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bruin
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response 241 of 502:
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Oct 20 23:14 UTC 1997 |
"You're So Square (Baby I Don't Care)" by the immortal Buddy Holly.
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orinoco
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response 242 of 502:
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Oct 21 01:05 UTC 1997 |
Hmm...my only exposure to Byrne was _My LIfe in the Bush of Ghosts_ with Eno,
so I don't know much about before or after that...
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mcnally
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response 243 of 502:
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Oct 21 07:36 UTC 1997 |
If you like "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" at all you should try
"The Catherine Wheel" (score to a ballet that David Byrne wrote and
recorded for Twila Tharp..) Of course the preceding advice should
not be taken to suggest that there's much, if any, resemblance between
"..Bush of Ghosts" and "The Catherine Wheel"
Also, for my money it's hard to beat the Talking Heads' "Remain in Light"
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scott
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response 244 of 502:
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Oct 21 11:16 UTC 1997 |
Not much to report here, my CD player is not back from service yet.
Yesterday at work (using the CD in my computer), I listened to Talking
Heads, Joe Jackson, Beck, and 19 Wheels.
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bruin
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response 245 of 502:
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Oct 21 12:40 UTC 1997 |
God bless whoever invented a CD-ROM drive that also plays audio CD's.
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krj
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response 246 of 502:
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Oct 21 15:05 UTC 1997 |
Mike covered my feelings about David Byrne pretty well.
From 1977-1984 I pretty much worshiped the ground Talking Heads trod upon,
from their first art-school album through to the "Stop Making Sense"
tour -- the Pine Knob show was even *more* exhilirating than what you
may have seen in the movie. I had this idea that Talking Heads would
turn out to be like the Grateful Dead, a band that one could get old
with, follow for years. (Back 20 years ago bands released an album
a year, on average, so there was this great groove cycle you could
get into, wondering what new curve Talking Heads would come up with...)
Anyway, the band seems to have foundered in large part on David Byrne's
oversize ego. Byrne was the principle idea man, but he needed the
rest of the band to help edit him, and he *really* needed the
Tina Weymouth/Chris Frantz rhythm section.
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orinoco
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response 247 of 502:
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Oct 21 16:46 UTC 1997 |
Poignant Plecostomus, "The Great Pancake"
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diznave
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response 248 of 502:
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Oct 21 20:48 UTC 1997 |
Herbie Hancock's _Speak Like A Child_
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krj
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response 249 of 502:
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Oct 21 21:18 UTC 1997 |
Rodgers & Hammerstein's SOUTH PACIFIC; the 1986 recording, with
Kiri Te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, Sarah Vaughan and
Mandy Patinkin. I don't know why,
but the overture to this show dug into my ears when I heard it on
WKAR's old-fashioned Broadway program Sunday afternoon, so I just had
to run out this afternoon and get a copy.
"Bali Ha'i", the track that's on now, is one of those melodies which
is fairly pervasive in the culture, and I never knew it was from
this show.
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