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Grex > Music2 > #289: NP #7: Music to Conference By | |
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happyboy
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response 50 of 420:
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Jan 16 23:10 UTC 2001 |
shopping mall: r. crumb and the cheap suit serenaders
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tpryan
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response 51 of 420:
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Jan 16 23:24 UTC 2001 |
Shaving Cream - Benny Bell (from the Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary 2
CD set).
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micklpkl
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response 52 of 420:
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Jan 17 14:58 UTC 2001 |
Kirsty MacColl, "Days" --- I finally replaced my old cassette of Kirsty's KITE
release, and I'm very glad that I did. I'd forgotten how much I like these
songs. "Days" is a cover of the famous Ray Davies composition, with Johnny
Marr contributing electric & acoustic guitar. R.I.P., Kirsty.
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tpryan
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response 53 of 420:
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Jan 17 19:45 UTC 2001 |
Squirells by the Beasty Boy on a Dr. Demento disk.
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happyboy
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response 54 of 420:
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Jan 18 00:11 UTC 2001 |
Bob Brozman & Ledward Kaapana: Lepe `ula`ula
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mcnally
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response 55 of 420:
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Jan 18 00:42 UTC 2001 |
re #54: been a lot of good stuff coming out of Hawaii in the past few
years.. Whether or not you like his music, George Winston is due a lot
of credit for starting Dancing Cat..
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tpryan
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response 56 of 420:
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Jan 18 15:34 UTC 2001 |
"Dancin' Fool" - Frank Zappa
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mcnally
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response 57 of 420:
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Jan 18 23:09 UTC 2001 |
Recently pulled out a bunch of albums I hadn't listened to in a while,
among them was the dB's "Stands for Decibels" I remember not particularly
liking this back when I bought it in the eighties so I was quite surprised
by just how clearly I remembered all of the songs.. It seems to have aged
well compared to a lot of stuff from the same period..
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tpryan
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response 58 of 420:
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Jan 18 23:17 UTC 2001 |
"Moog" by Dick Hyman. Now on CD. It musta took a lot of work
to make that electronic music back then. Today, one can MIDI on
their PC.
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happyboy
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response 59 of 420:
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Jan 19 01:50 UTC 2001 |
On The Track: Leon Redbone
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scott
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response 60 of 420:
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Jan 19 02:27 UTC 2001 |
re: 58: Actually, today's PCs (even the ones from a year or two ago) are
powerful enough to simulate all of that analog Moog circuitry in real time
and make the same exact sounds... all in software.
Wow.
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orinoco
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response 61 of 420:
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Jan 19 18:03 UTC 2001 |
So now, in addition to the "it's not the same without vinyl" people,
we get to have "it's not the same on a PC" people?
(Someone will claim Linux sounds warmer and less sterile.)
(Apple will only let people play _happy_ music.)
(It will take a certain grexer upward of five tries to type "vinyl" and
"Linux" correctly on a regular basis.)
Uh, wait. Where am I?
I'm listening to Poignant Plecostomus, _Symphony of Eating and Shitting._
There's another Plecostomus fan in my co-op, and I was inspired to drag out
my CDs of theirs.
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ashke
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response 62 of 420:
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Jan 19 18:35 UTC 2001 |
"Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel, in my head. I have no idea why.
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scott
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response 63 of 420:
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Jan 20 16:07 UTC 2001 |
David Lindley, "El Rayo-Ex".
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krj
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response 64 of 420:
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Jan 21 23:36 UTC 2001 |
Bob Blackmun's Sunday night folk music show on WKAR-FM. Playing a
Peter Bellamy song now, *sniff*. Bob says the shows are available for a
week on the station's web site, if any of you are inclined to tinker
with such things.
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krj
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response 65 of 420:
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Jan 22 02:20 UTC 2001 |
The Beatles, "Past Masters Volume Two," the late singles. Beatles songs
seem to be cropping up all over with the release of the "1" anthology;
I think that must have been the disc playing at the food coop Friday night
and I'm sure the staff thought the old bald geezer singing along was
slightly disturbed.
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dbratman
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response 66 of 420:
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Jan 23 23:43 UTC 2001 |
Re #62, gotta watch what gets in your head.
Listening to GWB's inaugural speech (yes, I watch these things: I'd
rather hear what he has to say than listen to Rather or Brokaw tell me
what he said), in which he made several references to "The American
Story" with heavy emphasis on the word "story" ...
Was I the only person listening to start playing, in my head, "It's the
story / Of a lovely lady ..."?
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bruin
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response 67 of 420:
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Jan 24 00:46 UTC 2001 |
Some hip-hop song that features in its lyrics a variation of "Whistle
While You Work" on 100 Jamz (radio station in Nassau, Bahamas).
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scott
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response 68 of 420:
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Jan 24 01:24 UTC 2001 |
Steely Dan, "Two Against Nature".
Yes, the recent new Steely Dan release. Pretty good, and sounds much like
their 70's work (supposedly Donald Fagen finds digital keyboards to be too
out-of-tune [due to quantization of possible pitches] and so still uses Rhodes
and Wurlitzer electric pianos).
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mcnally
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response 69 of 420:
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Jan 24 03:10 UTC 2001 |
I found "2 Against Nature" to be somewhat disappointing, but then I'd
become a big fan of all of their previous work and had high hopes for
the "comeback album."
Although a lot of the classic Steely Dan elements are there, including
my favorite aspect of Becker & Fagan's work -- the obscure and fragmented
storytelling that gets scrambled into little three minute sagas about
low-lives, losers, and creeps -- most of the songs just didn't work for me..
I do like "Jack of Speed" and "Janie Runaway", but they don't compare with
classics like "Kid Charlemagne".. (I have a feeling I've written this all
before when the album first came out, but in case I haven't, I'd recommend
Fagan's "Kamakiriad" a supposedly-solo album produced by Becker.)
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other
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response 70 of 420:
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Jan 24 03:58 UTC 2001 |
Someone practicing on the big organ downstairs. I don't know the tune,
but it always permeates the entire building, even if we close all the
doors between my office on the third floor and the stage on the first.
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mcnally
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response 71 of 420:
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Jan 24 04:53 UTC 2001 |
now spinning: "In the Red Zone: the Essential Collection of Classic Dub"
"essential" might be overstating the case a little, but it is a decent
collection with some nice cuts by King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, and Lee
Perry, as well as a fun re-work of Black Uhuru's "Guess Who's Coming to
Dinner"
I realize they publish music from all over the world, and actually they've
been been very good about keeping some classic dub albums in print, but it
still feels weird to me to realize that this album is on Shanachie..
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happyboy
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response 72 of 420:
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Jan 25 12:47 UTC 2001 |
steely dan = tom waits performing elevator muzak
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scott
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response 73 of 420:
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Jan 25 14:21 UTC 2001 |
Exactly how, happyboy?
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happyboy
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response 74 of 420:
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Jan 25 21:21 UTC 2001 |
oh puhleeze!
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