So what should we call this one? Music Forever? Music and Robin?504 responses total.
Continuing from item #60, response 500... mcnally has been recommending those four 1970s era Eno CDs to me since about 1991, sigh. And I'm not sure why I never picked up on them, since I was a big fan of the Eno-collaborative Talking Heads projects. Now Playing: a disc by Ritmia, a contemporary Italian folk band.
Blues Traveller, "Optimistic Thoughts"
Cream -- "Disraeli Gears"
yes, I should check into those Eno CDs myself. I'm also wondering what Flood did before he became a producer. As I remember, he's had influence on current alternative music as well..
Led Zepplin, "Bron Yr Aur"
Am I misremembering or was Flood part of Killing Joke?
I *was* misremembering. *Youth* was a member of Killing Joke. I sometimes have trouble keeping my single-name record producers straight..
Porcupine Tree, "Signify" 'Tis sort of a cross betwixt _The Orb_,_Fish_, and _Marillion_-H. 'Tis Groovy.
Mix tape of favorite songs from R.E.M.'s albums GREEN and OUT OF TIME. (I seem to like half of each album.)
Adrian Belew -- "Twang Bar King"
La Ciapa Rusa, CD reissue of their first album. This just came in the mail, and it doubles the size of my collection of Italian folk music.
Ken, as a computer professional you should know how irresponsible it is to permit exponential growth, especially in your CD collection..
Gabriel Yacoub, BABEL, just arrived in the mail yesterday. (Yacoub is French, the former leader of the French folk-rock band Malicorne.) My first take is that this is much, much better than the last two Yacoub albums, BEL and QUATRE.
Anyone here like Wu Tang?
All I know about Wu Tang is some kids like to yell his name in a really idiotic voice. Lemme know if his musics any better.
"Wu Tang" isn't a "he", it's a hip-hop group whose whole name is "Wu-Tang Clan"..
Like I said, I don't know much about it.
Well, now you know just a little bit more.. Listening to Massive Attack's new album "Mezzanine." Not sure yet whether I like it or not..
the new Massive Attack is growing on me.. final verdict likely to be positive..
(I seem to be monopolizing this, everyone must be sick of the
"look, there's activity in the music conference" item.. :-)
Magnetic Fields - "The Charm of the Highway Strip" (yes, *again*)
"I was a travelling salesman.
I got lost on the backroads,
fell in with a crowd of drifters.."
One Fell Swoop, an alt-bluegrass EP.
Fugazi - End Hits.
Deaf Shepherd, SYNERGY; best bagpipe-based Scottish folk album I have heard in a while.
"Look In My Eyes" by the Chantelles <sp?> on the "Bone Conduction Music Show" on WEMU (89.1 FM, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti).
Def Lepeard's Vault. :)
Michael McGoldrick, MORNING RORY. Yes, the title is an oblique reference. Bought from our very own Twila Price, who was staffing the sale table at last night's Capercaille concert. Concert report to follow in Celtic music item. As for McGoldrick, he's a hot Irish flute player and I was quite surprised to see him playing with Capercaille last night.
Steeleye Span, LIVE AT LAST. Final album of the original band, from (ack) 21 years ago. Plays very nice loud.
Catherine Wheel -- "Chrome"
(the Space Jam soundtrack. right now, "Basketball Jones" is playing.)
RE #29 I didn't know that Cheech & Chong's "Basketball Jones" was included in the "Space Jam" soundtrack!
The Oyster Band, "Lie Back and Think of England." First LP I ever got from the band, over a dozen years ago now.
Julia Ecklar, "The Hymn of Breaking Strain", off a forgotten filk al....
re #30: (it is, but not by the original artists. the version I was
listening to was a remake by Barry White & Chris Rock.)
(Morphine. I think it's the _Yes_ album, but it could be _Cure For Pain_.) <carson is so excited that he's been able to listen to music *and* be on Grex two weekends in a row!>
I've gone thru about 30 new response items pilng up since mid May today listening to "Carnival", the new CD by Jimmy Buffet. Got his new book too.
Primus, "Brown Album".
i've been lissening to andy stewart's collection of burn's songs alot of late
THE PENTANGLE, my $2 art fair trophy... :) At the time most of the original Pentangle albums were reissued on CD by Germany's Line Records, I made a deliberate decision not to replace my old LPs. Ooops, bad call. Pentangle's open folk-jazz sound benefits a lot from the elimination of surface noise, and I could feel all sorts of wonderful detail in Danny Thompson's upright bass & Terry Cox's drumming. Sigh sigh sigh. I think the rest of the Pentangle catalog from Line Records has gone out of print, but I'll have to sniff around. There might be a few more stragglers like this copy.
Pick Whistle by KIBU from The Secret Life of Trance. Yep, just what it sounds like.
Lucinda Williams, CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD, which seems pretty good so far.
R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders.
Which one? I've got an EP with "My girl's pussy" (about a cat, I believe) and something about Christopher Columbus.
there are 2 cds in print, i think, and i have them... chasin' rainbows singing in the bathtub
A recital disk from Czech soprano Gabriela Benackova; a clearance item from Tower which we bought some weeks ago and just opened.
Well, guess what? Jimmy Buffett's "Don't Stop the Carnival" is playing again on the CD player.
Verdi's MASKED BALL, a recording with Maria Callas. Just dug it out of the basement in the process of rotating the CDs -- put away the stuff we're bored with, dig out stuff we haven't seen in a while.
Lucinda Williams, LUCINDA WILLIAMS, her breakthrough album from (ack) ten years ago.
Genesis; _We Can't Dance_ Album, "Living Forever" track.
Just finished Jimmy Buffett again, noow onto new Bonnie Raitt.
re #46: I'm interested in opinions on "A Masked Ball", that's one that Opera Grand Rapids is performing next season.. After a little over a month of travelling it's really good to be back home and one of the most appreciated perks (ranking just below getting to sleep in an actual bed..) is being able to listen to my music collection.. Now playing: Massive Attack's "Mezzanine".. one or two weak tracks but overall a fine album, recommended.
Nanci Griffith, OTHER VOICES 2. I need to start an item for Nanci and Lucinda and Gillian and their sisters.
Beethoven, "Emperor" concerto..
Mediocre Fred by the Smothers Brothers on Dr. Demento (time warped from so time in 1989).
Portishead - "Dummy"
Strictly Commercial - Frank Zappa.
I recently purchased Joe's Garage on CD. I have the vinyl versions
. 2 CDs instead of 6 vinyl sides is great.
Mike Cooper & Ian A. Anderson, THE CONTINUOUS PREACHING BLUES. Only been waiting about 12 years to get this one... it came in today's mail.
Hmmm.. Can't think of *any* albums that could live up to a 12-year wait..
Adrian Belew, "The guitar as orchestra"
Iggy Pop - "Lust For Life" I've been hearing the music in lots of odd places lately, mostly films and commercials (ever since "Trainspotting"), so I thought I'd drag this one out of the closet and indulge in a nostalgic visit back to the time when I heard it incessantly because it was the only music one of my friends would play. Those who were first acquainted with his work with the Stooges will doubtless have a vastly different experience with this album than I did -- anyone expecting the "Search and Destroy" or "I Wanna Be Your Dog" Iggy would have been confused at best by this slickly produced collaboration with Bowie but really this album has aged pretty well, much better than anything Iggy has done since.
zombie birdhouse was okie doke
Old Blind Dogs -- "The Battle of Herlaw". I got two albums at their last concert and have been listening obsessively ever since. I *like* them. I particularly like the saxophone (which I'd never thought I would! but it sounds Scottish. Don't ask me how they do that, but they do!) and the fiddle/border pipes.
right this minnit it's The Klezmatics: "Jews with Horns."
Pink Floyd, "Time"
Steeleye Span, ROCKET COTTAGE. A lot about this album annoyed me back when it was new in 1976, but 20+ years on, even the more dated Steeleye material seems to have a lot to offer me. Simple nostalgia, no doubt.
"Third Eye," Tool
"All In the Family," the album version, by Korn. Just came out yesterday.
Talking Heads, SPEAKING IN TONGUES. I've been on a nostalgia trip for my late-70s/early-80s college years this weekend.
Babylon 5 vol.2 Pat found it at the library and has listened to it about a hundred times a day. He's got the video on hold at the movie store.
(Village People are on in the background.)
Hmm. I think they escaped being consumed by Gwar. To see for sure, go to http://wwwfights.com and click on results at the bottom of the page. After this wednesday, you'll have to click on history and select "Village People vs the Spice Girls."
Brain Damage, by Pink Floyd, isn't playing but is running through my head on endless repeat. Spent the evening watching the Wizard of Oz and listening to Floyd.
No wonder you're plagued by brain damage! (sorry, couldn't resist the setup.. I don't actually have anything against the Wizard of Oz or Pink Floyd (in moderation..))
"Third Eye," by Tool.
Yo La Tengo -- "Painful" (a misnomer, imho..)
Buddy Holly "Everyday" Buddy Holly Sequel Records UK (BTW, Holly would have been 62 today had he lived)
My brother in the next room, playing a clarinet arrangement of somethingorother by Bach
The Buzzrats, A CURIOUS SPECK IN A RUTHLESS UNIVERSE. Local band with a nice retro guitar sound. I bought this some months ago and finally opened it today; Chris Goosman's name leaps out from the credits, as he mastered it.
Beacon Hillbillies, MORE SONGS OF LOVE AND MURDER. Another Blood Oranges spinoff, this one reflecting their pure bluegrass side. This was a cutout marked down to something super-cheap like $3 in the final Schoolkids sale.
Arrgh. I have to get some more info on who and what about blood oranges spinofffs.
"Picaddilly Palare" - Morrissey
Catherine Wheel - "Ferment"
Bach Prelude in C minor.
Strauss Waltzes. This is one of my very favorite disks.
RE#77 -- thanks for noticing! The Buzzrats sophomore effort will be out quite soon.
Finally got tired of commercials on The River, and put on the CD] player. With the backlog of CD to listen to, I am surpised I don't have it on more. One from the Schoolkids final days: Bubblegum Classics: The Voice of Tony Burrows, including "My Baby Loves Lovin'" by White Plains, on right now.
I'm listening to "This Strange Engine," by Marillion, the song at bat: "Estonia," which is a rather odd choice of a name, but there it is.
Kate and Anna McGarrigle.
Ruby -- "Saltpeter"
"Touch" - Sarah McLachlan
"You Might Win Some But You Just Lost One" - Lauryn Hill
Well, before I went to track down a high load avg., I was listening to the "Video Girl Ai" soundtrack (anime). I actually saw the series on Saturday...
Louis Prima *collectors edition* CD. This collection is again avialable on Capitol records due to the upswing of swing.
I've got "Last Worm in the Bottle," by Fish running through my head.
Nancy Sinatra: The Hit Years
years plural? :-)
65, 66, 67, 68, 70. Dunno what she was doing in 69... Actually, I like the last track, "Hook and Ladder." It`s folky. I may cover it...
WB Guide, August '98, promo disk from Borders.
"Triki 1: Diatonic Dynamite." A collection of trikitixia music, an accordeon and tambourine style from the Basque territory.
I'm listening to my cat, Hobbes, purr. Music to _my_ ears.
Luna - "Bewitched"
Bach - "Wachet Auf"
MAC UMBA "don't hold your breath" Scottish/Brasilian/Carrib blend. Lots of pipes, various drums whose names I don't recognise, a vocal thrown in once in a while.
(The MacUmba CD is a favorite in some homes around Grexland. I wonder if they will do a followup. We should ask maeve.) Puccini's opera TURANDOT, which I have been obsessing about for a few days. 1959 recording, with Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Bjorling and Renata Tebaldi; a glorious 1996 remastering.
Listening to my Spike JOnes Anthology CDs, thanks in part to the incentive of a later item.
(Smile!)
Sin E', IT'S ABOUT TIME. Mostly Irish-ish band with some Indian & African percussion influences, and a not-unpleasant whiff of New Agey-ness, led by piper and bodhran player Steafan Hannigan. "This record is a didgeridu-free zone. Unfortunately, we did use the odd djembe or two. Guilty as charged, your honour." -- from the liner notes.
Altan "Runaway Sunday"
Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto
Emmylou Harris,and the Nash Ramblers at the Ryman
Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper; from the many multi artist disks in ramdom Halloween eve play right now.
Les Charbonniers de L'Enfer, "Chansons a cappella." An acapella spin-off, sort of, from the Quebecois band La Bottine Souriante. Lots of call & response singing, and foot-tapping.
The River, Canadian radio station, no US political ads.
RE #112 There have also been no political ads on the NPR stations in the area.
Traffic - "John Barleycorn Must Die" an excellent album from a largely underrated group..
Ani DiFranco, "32 Flavors" live (on "Living in Clip").
"Love Cats" - the Cure
Ooh, good song!
Catherine Wheel - "Ferment" This one's been growing on me, I suppose I should go out and pick up "Chrome"
Gail Davies, "You're A Hard Dog to Keep Under the Porch"
"Home" - Depeche Mode
ooh, another good song.
(I'm listening to a public service announcement regarding phone slamming.) (oh, now I'm listening to the weather. PLAY SOME DAMN MUSIC ON THE RADIO ALREADY!)
Bach Magnificat, #7
Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground. Rain gray town, known for its sound, In places small faces unbound.
The Chieftains, "The Bells of Dublin", currently on the Jackson Brown track.
A weather report saying we may get "Sno-Cone Snow" during the night...how cute. Better than saying "Slushy Crappy Freezing Snow". ;-)
Radiohead, lots of Radiohead... (well, in my head I am... since that is what I fell asleep so)
Slowdive -- "Souvlaki"
Loreena McKennitt, "a winter garden"
"Crockett's Theme" - Jan Hammer
Various Artists -- "Time Warp Dub Clash"
Scott Joplin as played by Richard Zimmerman. "Stomptime Rag" This particular disc was procured from Meijer for a princly sum of $5. It contains some really good versions of Joplin's works. MY favorites on this disc are: Solace, The Fig Leaf Rag, Easy Winners, The Cascades, The Maple Leaf Rag, among others. There are no "bad" tracks on the disc, so it was worth well more than $5. The name of it is called "Scott Joplin-The Entertainer" An interesting note about The Entertainer and Solace. Both were featured in The Sting, and played by Marvin Hamlisch, who IMNSHO did a terrible job on both of them by editing the soul out of both pieces. It wasn't until I got this disc that my appreciation of Joplin's music rise to where it is played by Zimmerman.
A cd of countertenor David Daniels singing Scarlatti.
("Love Train," but I don't recognize the artists. I don't believe
it's the original.)
"Question of Lust" - Depeche Mode
the Magnetic Fields -- "Get Lost"
weaker than their best albums ("The Charm of the Highway Strip",
and "The Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees") but not without a
number of good songs..
Shawn Colovin, Holiday Songs and Lullabies
RE #134 I believe that the song "Love Train" was originally recorded by the O'Jays, and was a hit song in 1972-73.
(Re resp:132 - About 10 days ago I was sitting with Dick Zimmerman in a pub, listening to various folks (Zimmerman among them) play ragtime piano...)
"Que Rico," a $5 sampler of latin jazz from the Rykodisc people
any good?
If you like latin jazz, yes, it's a nice sampler.
re 139- Cool. I would dare say that Remmers plays about as good as Zimmerman.
Why is a carrot more organge than an organge? from an Amboy Dukes re-issue CD. I got it in the Schoolkids clearance.
What is an organge?
It's like a colour, only different.
perhaps a portmanteau of "organic orange"? after all, anyone who's looked at an organically grown organge can tell that they're not as deep a color as your garden variety Sunkist.. :-)
Gospel Christmas with Mahalia Jackson
Chicago 25; their Christmas album. "Have yourself a merry little Christmas".
Please! Not until after Thanksgiving..
Chicago 25? It that new?
Peter, Paul, and Mary, A Holiday Celebration (sorry, mcnally),
Aieeeeeee!!
Massive Attack -- "Protection"
Chicago 25 is new this year.
Last year I tried diligently to listen to all my Christmas music
between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I didn't complete the task.
"Christmas Time is here" from the 30 plus year old Peanuts Christmas
special, is only now showing up on a few Christmas albums.
Harry Belafonte, To Wish You A Merry Christmas. I have to learn lotsa stuff to sing. I`m booked all over the place this year.
Spiritualized -- "Live at the Albert Hall" (up next, tonight's other record purchase, the California Guitar Trio's new album "Pathways")
Sylvia McNair, in Ravel's "Scheherezade." I did not know that there was a vocal piece called "Scheherezade," or that it was composed by Ravel; I only know the Rimsky-Korsakov instrumental chestnut.
"First Cool Hive" - Moby
Genesis, "The Battle of Epping Forest". It's totally bizzare, and I seriously dig it.
Pete Townsend, "Psychoderelict".
"Let's Go to Bed" - the Cure
RE #160 Is that Genesis song from the pre-Phil Collins era?
("Jungle Brother [Stereo MCs mix]" by the Jungle Brothers. I was
listening to the _How To Be A Player_ soundtrack. I'm trying to
find songs that are suitable for airplay without editing.)
Simon & Garfunkel -- "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme"
Hoven Droven, GROOVE. Sometimes described as Swedish folk dances played by The Edgar Winter Group, with a brass section.
Rita MacNeil, Joyful Sounds - A Seasonal Collection. I picked it out of the picked-over Schoolkids stuff, on a whim, and it's very listenable. She has a great voice, and it's all originals except for 3 tracks. 22 tracks in all.
Re #165 - isn't that "Scarborough Fair"? Or did they make another song with that phrase in it..?
The Simon & Garfunkel song mentioned was indeed "Scarborough Fair." The song just happened to have the "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme" repeated several times in its lyrics. They also had an LP entitled "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme."
I generally don't post song names but the name of the album that's currently playing. The album is called "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, & Thyme" Now playing, Yo La Tengo - "Fakebook"
"The Prince of Denmark March" by Jeremiah Clarke from "In Gabriel's Garden" by Wynton Marsalis. Too cool for words.
OHHH...then I apologize, Mike. =) Mozart's "Requiem"
The Topless Dancers of Corfu - Dick Hyman from "Moog", the electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman, now on CD. A re-issue of a late 1960's LP that had one Top 40 track, "The Minotaur. I had to order thru http://www.borders.com .
My heavens, they reissued *that* on CD?
Cowboy Junkies, Miles From Our HOme CD
Did you happen to go to the show November 8th? If so, how was it?
Tocaata and fugue in D Minor by Johann S. Bach. performed by Simon Preston
Nope, I didn't, alas.
Avro Part, LITANY
Southern Culture on the Skids, "Ditch Diggin". (My fave for this band)
Morcheeba -- "Big Calm" I find myself listening to a lot of so-called "Trip-Hop" bands lately. There aren't that many good examples of the genre but I really like the ones I've found.. Massive Attack is the cream of the crop but this Morcheeba album is nice and listenable and very mellow..
the Mekons -- "Me" eventually there has to come a time when you admit to yourself that that band you like just isn't going to produce another classic album. ah well, I'll always have "the Curse of the Mekons" and "Rock 'n' Roll"
Katie Geddes and the Usual Suspects, Live at Green Wood (sample mixes from Fri's show, on CD. Have to go into the studio to start the mixing project).
resp:181 : Mmm, interesting... I heard the first Morcheeba album in a record store some time back, and I have flirted with buying it a couple of times but I always put the disc back.
which was the first Morcheeba album?
The new Bruce Springsteen box set, "Tracks". This is 4 CDs of mostly previously unreleased songs, going back to his early days. I'm on the first CD right now.
Listening to a box set myself -- in my case the "Citizen Steely Dan"
box set, which the BMG music club is currently selling for $12. Had
my brother order one for me, as he's a member of the club. At that
price it's a steal (even with shipping/handling, which brings it to
about $20) since it includes all of their studio albums ("Can't Buy a
Thrill", "Countdown to Ecstasy", "Katy Lied", "Pretzel Logic", "The
Royal Scam", "Aja", and "Gaucho" as well as several bonus tracks from
soundtracks, etc ("Here at the Western World", "FM") )
For those who've heard "Do It Again" and "Rikki Don't Lose that Number"
a few too many times and dismissed Steely Dan as just a polished and
pleasant 70s AOR act with a few big radio hits, take a closer listen.
Behind the shiny facade built up by the skilled session musicians and
the fanatic studio production the music is complicated and intelligent.
Every song is a three minute story about a fascinating and usually
unglamorous underworld peopled by liars, junkies, dealers, cheats,
and losers. There's an amazing amount of great music on these seven
albums, at $20 for the bunch I can't recommend them highly enough.
the new Tansads album, REASON TO BE.
Life, in a Nutshell, Barenaked Ladies it's a live version, from where, I can't remember... I got it from http://bnl.kosmic.org it's a HUGE archive of live and rare BNL mp3's anyone remotely interested in them *must* check it out.
(WUPX. I don't recognize this particular song, so won't identify.)
Bela Lugosi's dead, I forget who sings it. (it's on teh radio)
"Voices of Babylon" - the Outfield
Chris Buhalis, Kenai Dreams.
I believe "Bela Lugosi's Dead" is by Joy Division..
sounds farmilliar, mcnally... fly - Lenny Kravitz still have the radio on, but I'm thinking about popping in Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water soon.
The House of Love - "The House of Love" (not to be confused with their other albums, "The House of Love" and "The House of Love".. decent music but they need to work on their album titles..)
<lol> "Eponae" - Enya - from the "Celts" album
just turned on the radio U2 - with or without you. I was just thinking that I hadn't heard this song yesterday... I love this song.
I love to turn on 89X at 9p so I can hear Touch adn Go's "Would you"
Massive Attack -- "Blue Lines" the proto trip-hop album, it's much easier to see the relationship between "hip-hop" and "trip-hop" on this album than it is on later releases.. an interesting mix of hip-hop, dub, and a lot of other stuff. I prefer the later stuff but this one's got some interesting things on it.. "Safe From Harm" and "Unfinished Sympathy" foreshadow their later sound and "Five Man Army" develops in an interesting way from fairly straightforward toasting/rapping into an echo of Lee Perry's classic dub track "Satan Dub"
re:163 (sorry, old stuff, but I haven't been around in a while) No, "Battle of Epping Forest," which describes a territory battle between a couple of street gangs, was on Genesis's album "Selling England by the Pound," published (I think) in 1974, at the height of Peter Gabrial's era of band leadership, back when Phil Collin's just did drums and back-up vocals. Of course, Phil has split from Genesis too, and they have since found a new vocalist, but I doubt their ability to regain the popularity they used to have.
("Owner Of A Lonely Heart" by Yes. I'm coming off of an 80's Vinyl
Flashback show on WUPX.)
That's interesting, carson, considering that I just popped my copy of "Billboard Top Hits 1984," and I'm now listening to (you guessed it!) Yes doing "Owner Of A Lonely Heart," too.
"A Folksinger's Christmas." Wonderful CD with 14 selections from Joan Baez, Odetta, the Weavers, Erik Darling, and Jackie Washington. All cuts were recorded between 1959 and 1970.
re #201: That's interesting-- I hadn't heard Phil finally left Genesis. I thought that he was balancing the band and his solo work together-- he's done that for quite a number of years, but, well.. any press release as to why he left now and not earlier?
"Coolsville", by Rickie Lee Jones, off her first album.
That's a great album.
material girl - barenaked ladies (yes, that's right)
James Gang, GREATEST HITS. I seem to be on a 70s guitar kick.
Errr... Mustard's Retreat, 5 Miles or 50,000 years.... I love that album! But next up on the playlist is Moxie Fruvous' "No No Raja" from their Live Noise lp.
a very early version of Be My Yoko Ono (1989) - Barnaked Ladies
Orgy's version of "Blue Monday" (originally by New Order). I LOVE this, and I'm usually not one for covers. =)
A medley of old cheezy songs covered by barenaked ladies, titled barenaked rap. They do this type of stuff at their concerts.. they just finished up with that suzanne vega song that they put the beat to around 90-91... someone's diner, maybe? now it's that song "joy, and pain, sunshine and rain" I love it. It's such utter cheeze.
re #213: ("Tom's Diner." that sounds like a good album.) :^)
(G. Love & Special Sauce, "Cold Beverage" and "This Ain't Livin'".)
Billy Bragg, "Rumours of War" from a bootleg album...sold at his show...
"He said she said" by the Beatles.
re 214: yeah, that album would rule:) but it's just a bunch of downloaded MP3's... I have 80-some... wow, lots. (Barenaked Ladies MP3's alone). right now, Jenny Jones is on in the backround, I hardly call two people yelling at each other music.
_Lord of the Dance_ soundtrack and my cat purring like a pigeon
yellow submarine
trouble with tracy - BNL, just changed to Wishing Well - BNL
"Costa del Slough," from _Radiation_ by Marillion. re: 218: I hadn't the faintest clue that pigeons purred...
They don't, but his "I'm the happiest kitty in the world purr" sounds like a pigeon's warble. =)
Just finished: Desmond Dekker -- "The Best and the Rest of"
(one of the weaker entries in what I am prepared to
assert is Michigan's largest private collection of
Desmond Dekker "greatest hits" CDs.. :-)
Next up: Lush -- "Gala"
"Light" - KMFDM
As part of 5 CD mix going on now, Toolbox Christmas".
Talking Heads, REMAIN IN LIGHT.
(Amy Grant's cover of "Big Yellow Taxi.")
(Twiggy & Twiggy Ramirez, "Only Wanna Be With You." it's not a Hootie cover; I forget the original band.)
RE #228 I believe that "Only Wanna Be With You" was a song first recorded by Dusty Springfield in 1964 and covered by the Bay City Rollers and the late Nicollette Larson. There may be more covers as well.
The cover I remember most fondly is by The Tourists, the 1980-ish band which evolved into The Eurythmics. Annie Lennox is a pretty good substitute for Dusty Springfield.
"Sin" - Nine Inch Nails
Ride -- "Carnival of Light" (guitar-oriented British shoegazer band decides they want to be the Byrds when they grow up and records a loving tribute to their favorite sixties sound, pissing off large parts of their fan base in the process.. well *I* think it's a great album..)
Er, um, Irreverent Gay Carols by the Go-Go Boys...
"Slip Slide Melting" - Love Not Lisa (off _Crow_ soundtrack)
Ben Folds Five, "Steven's Last Night in Town"
Melanie, "Freedom Knows My Name"
"Summer Of Fair Weather," from the video _Saturday's Warrior_, originally a BYU production of the mid 70's. (Julie's watching movies.)
(something by Eric Clapton. [my knowledge of 70's rock is spotty at best.])
tom waits "the black rider"
The remains of my Mojave 3 CD, or at least the parts that could be salvaged to CD-R after my housemate's CD-changer scrathed it. Most of it was recoverable but there're a couple of tracks that have a nasty, speaker-rending burst of raw digital noise in the middle. I guess my next move is to try polishing out the scratch on the original but it's a pretty big gouge. The whole incident has made me realize how many hard-to-replace CDs I have that I really should be backing up..
Tori Amos - Winter I'm liking this song a lot lately.
"Come to my Window," Melissa Etheridge. Something that sounds nice and raging...
Ack. I can't stand Melissa Etheridge's music.
Really? I like her sometimes.
Not listening to anything here at the moment -- not a creature is stirring (myself excepted..)
Mike, liquid optical polish is the key. Go to an optometrist.
Oohh--can you be more specific, Christopher? Do you know the chemical by any chance?
When doves cry, the prince song, covered by the barenaked ladies. yay wow. they did this at the concert Sunday, twas awesome.
"Plenty" - Sarah McLachlan
Tony MacManus, "Pourquoi Quebec." Scottish folk guitarist; the disk is part of a severely truncated haul from a truncated holiday trip.
RE#247 -- Sorry I can't. It's been years since I've seen the stuff, but it came in at least two "grits" a "coarse" and a "fine." It's whatever eye doctors use on plastic lenses. I'm going to pick up my glasses later today, and I'll try and ask what their grinding guy uses.
I've always suspected that there was some chemical that could be used to polish poly-carbonate plastic, somehow. If you find out, let us know here.
Will do. The woman at the optometrist was going to leave a note for their lab tech and the doctor so I may get a call about it.
The Dear Janes, NO SKIN. Two women singers, pop-rock with faint folk influence, lots of harmonies and good melodies. At their best, reminiscent of the Tansads. Twila would like this, I have to remember to send it her way.
"Just You" by Sonny & Cher (BTW, today is the one-year anniversary of Sonny Bono's death.)
The Walkabouts, SEE BEAUTIFUL RATTLESNAKE GARDENS. Yee gods, this album is 12 years old already! Seattle band whose folk-rooted guitar rock with good singing and first-rank melodies got swamped in the grunge tidal wave. They moved their career to Europe, but they also lost their melodic gifts for quite a few years. However, this album, and its followup CATARACT, remain high on my all time favorite rock album list.
Paul Simon's "American Tune" coming from the TV in the next room - I guess it's background music for some movie.
Gentle Giant "The Power and the Glory," the bonus track from the One Way release of their album "Power and Glory".
Stuck in my head is a song off the Bruce Springsteen "Tracks" CD set (stuff from over the decades that didn't get on an album). Hmm... I really need to review that puppy.
Bonnie Raitt and Jackson Browne, "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine," from the CD "Where Have All The Flowers Gone - The Songs of Pete Seeger." Amazingly excellent 2-Cd set featuring everyone from Studs Terkel to Ani DiFranco.
Catherine Wheel -- "Ferment" (for a change.. I'm taking a break from the nearly non-stop Yo La Tengo kick I've been on recently..)
Pizzicato Five, "Happy End of the world".
Mojave 3 -- "Ask Me Tomorrow" (found a used copy at Encore to replace my ruined one. very happy not to have to pay $25 bucks. anyone heard their second album? (the one that wasn't released in this country, as far as I can tell..))
horseflies: "Life is a Rubber Rope"
June Tabor, A proper sort of Garden (Aleyn is the album name)
Just started up Dr. Demento's Basement Tapes #7, first track, Christine Lavin.
Air - "Moon Safari"
While I have a CD shuffle ready to go, I am listening in to The River, 93.9fm.
"The Power and the Glory" --Gentle Giant
California Guitar Trio -- "Invitation"
"Grazie Davvero" --Premiata Forneria Marconi. Does anyone here know Italian?
"Round Here" by Counting Crows (Live version #2 from Across A Wire. Yeah, I'm a bit of a Counting Crows junkie. So sue me...)
What for?
arabella speaks some Italian. I'll see if I can get her to peek in at this item.
Re #271: something like, "Truly Thankful"? Literally it means "Thank you really"
Ah. Any insites on the meaning of the band name- Premiata Forneria Marconi (Or PFM)-?
(while waiting for arabella, let me note: Dee Dee Bridgewater, KEEPING TRADITION. Jazz vocals. This was a two-dollar item from the charity box at Where House Records, but I'll look for more stuff from her at full price.)
Tunes from the CD: "Gorlilias in the Mix". Nifty insturmentals with natural sounds. More upbeat than the usual 'seaside' or 'forest' nature CDs.
Rhino's "Best of New Orleans Rhythm 'n' Blues" volumes 1 & 2.. there's some great stuff on these two albums; right now they've got me thinking that I should look for an album or two of Irma Thomas's stuff..
The Either/Orchestra's cover of "Red"
"Oh! Darling" by the Beatles
Currently playing -- "The Soul of Cape Verde", a very nice CD of songs from Cape Verde that I borrowed from the Ann Arbor library. I'd previously only heard the work of one or two Cabo Verdean artists (notably Cesaria Evora) but will have to go search out more if this collection is representative..
La Musgana, "La Seis Tentaciones" Spanish (mostly) contemporary folk band.
Emmylou Harris, "Miss The Mississippi and You," from "Roses In The Snow."
Television, "Marquee Moon." Time for a 70s binge, I think.
Sarah Brightman, "Just Show Me How To Love You," from "time to say goodbye." I love her voice. She sings classical/opera without that annoying heavy affectation that most female opera singers have - you know, the style that evokes the stereotypical image of Brunhilda. Give me a clear clean sound anytime.
Hedninarga -- "Mita Mina", from Karelia Visa, their new album. I think it's going to be my favourite one after Kaksi!, Ken... it's GOOD!
The new Jonatha Brooke. Absolutely delicious CD. I was peeved at her when The Story broke up. Wouldn't buy her solo album. But this one is beautiful.
Susan Tedeschi, "Just Won't Burn". I am in love with this album at the moment. She's midway between Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin....
I think that's the one Susan Tedeschi album we have. We stumbled on her through Dan Ackroyd's "House of Blues" radio show, while we were on a long car trip.
I think that's her one album, that's why. :)
There was a second album, possibly earlier, billed to the "Susan Tedeschi Band," which I saw at Borders this week.
Oh wow; I'll have to look for that one then. I asked at Schoolkids-In-Exile a while back and they could only find "Just Can't Burn" in Records In Print, but maybe the different name threw them off.
The "Susan Tedeschi Band" album was probably either self-released, or else on a such a small label that it did not rate coverage in Records In Print. I recall that the cover was yellow, if that helps you find it...
Now playing: Sarah MacLachlan "Plenty"
resp:293 :: I just checked at Borders, and the title of the Susan Tedeschi Band album is "Better Days," and it is a self-released disc from 1995. Borders had about five copies of it, so there's no need to make a crazed dash over there. In the regular Blues bin.
Now playing -- "Genius + Love = Yo La Tengo" (a B-sides collection; the name is a reference to a classic Ray Charles album..) Not up to the level of their regular stuff (but then what is?) but not without a few good tracks. I've mostly given up on proselytizing the virtues of Yo La Tengo, having made very few converts. At this point I guess I'll just have to go on enjoying them privately for as long as they continue to turn out excellent music..
Natalie Merchant, "King of May" from "Ophelia." It's a beautiful song that I can sing for Good Friday. Does anyone know the significance of the phrase "King of May"?
I thought I remembered a reference to that phrase in Ophelia's mad scene in _Hamlet_, but now I can't find it. Maybe I'm just imagining things. Pity, it would've been a nice connection.
Perhaps as a contrast to the Queen of the May? It's a very old Catholic tradition to use garlands of flowers to decorate statues of the Virgin Mary at the beginning of May.. Often (usually) there's some sort of procession of children involved as well..
"Eddie Walker", Ben Fold's Five.
Beethoven's "Choral Fantasy," conducted by Leonard Bernstein. In spots it sounds like a knock-off of the 9th Symphony. I heard this in a radio concert. The only way I could find to buy a copy was to get it as filler with a recording of the "Missa Solemnis."
"Trio II", with recurring snowmobiling noise coming in through the bedroom window.
Hmmm, I can't believe it's still snowing where you all are. Here in Ellensburg, we had some in spots since we're near the foot of the Cascades, but I guess more cold air is blowing over the Atlantic Ocean than the Pacific. I should be listening to something, but I'm not. Strains of "Romanza" sometimes float through my head since I'm practicing it for classical guitar lessons (it's a traditional tune that was featured in the French film "The Art of the Forbidden Game," I believe-- my father had trouble translating it because he kept remembering the title in French). What's the name of that Romantic tune that's in a slow-2-- very particular style of music-- that they play so often in Hollywood movies where the main character wallows alone in depression, sorrow, and regret? (The Carpenter's "Crescent Moon," a rare B-side gem for the group, is also in this style.)
Having read Cricket's post about Ben Folds Five, I've now got "song for the dumped" stuck in my head. That happens all the time to me with this album - someone mentions a song or a band that I know, and BOOM, I can't get it out of my brain all evening.
"Where I Want to Be" from the musical, "Chess" Whups, it just changed to "How Many Women"
Ugh. I hate that Ben Folds Five song about the girlfriend/abortion. Does anyone like that song??
"Brick", you mean? - that was their recent hideously overplayed hit, at any rate. It is far, far from the top of my list, but it does improve once you aren't hearing it every day on the radio.
Massive Attack -- "Mezzanine"
CD shuffle mix with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Bill Haley and Jack Scott.
Shania Twain, "Honey, I'm Home."
Sara Hickman, "I Couldn't Help Myself."
re: 307 I liked that song... It had a great melody. But it was overplayed. I prefered their other single "Battle of Who Could Care Less" more. I'm listening to "This Will Be My Year," by Semisonic. I just checked out the album from the library, and I have to admit to liking it.
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - "Penguin Cafe Orchestra" re #309: if you like "Mezzanine" at all you should check out their previous album, "Protection".. Great album, one of my favorites..
Horslips, "Ride the Nightmare", from _The Book of Invasions_. I *love* this album. In fact, you can blame this album for my presence on Grex, since I posted a query about it back in 1990 in alt.music.folk, which krj answered and which subsequently led to our friendship and his urging of Grex-visiting and music-conf.-posting upon me....
Yup, I remember that well. For a couple of years you had been contributing to the favorite album poll which I ran on usenet until about '93. I forget how we established that we both lived in Ann Arbor.
Paul McCartney, BAND ON THE RUN. I saw a Special 25th Anniversary Edition of this at Tower, complete with a second CD of outtakes, demos and interviews. Heck with it, I said, I'll dust off my ancient LP. The ancient LP was pretty grunchy, and it had picked up a white blob towards the end of side 1 which caused the stylus to skip. I couldn't dislodge that hard little piece of crud with anything more subtle than a fingernail. Ah, vinyl. But as a pop album it holds up pretty well, McCartney still had a good bit of the Beatles songwriting magic clinging to him in 1973.
Just finished: Elvis Costello -- "Armed Forces" About to start: Talking Heads -- "Fear of Music" I've been on a late-70s / early-80s kick lately and it's surprising how well some of the really good music from that era has aged (especially compared to average popular music from the same period...) I'd forgotten how fine an album "Armed Forces" is -- early Elvis at his bitter best..
Good calls on both of those Mike!
I'm listening to a Santana CD that one of my co-workers is playing. I don't know which one.
Don't know which CD, or don't know which co-worker?
Don't know which CD. She won't tell me when I ask. Now she's playing Jim Croce.
Betty Serveert -- "Lamprey"
I haven't thought about Betty Serveert in years. Where Are They Now?
Presumably Amsterdam.. I saw them at St. Andrews a year or two ago, not sure what they've been up to since then (except that they released an EP of Velvet Underground covers..)
Queensryche; "Speak" from _Operation: Mindcrime_ Bet you never thought you would catch me listening to a heavy-metal band!
Chuck Brodsky. NOt sure which album is in the player.
United Future Organization -- "3rd Perspective" semi-cheezy Japanese band I bought on a whim, dragged out of my closet for another chance. going back into the closet soon..
The Paperboys, MOLINOS. Western Canadian Celtic folk-rock band, with all that problems that implies. I think they have a show coming up at the Ark, unless I missed it.
WSCX, Sunday Morning over easy. earlier 'Acoustic Cafe' on the River, 93.9fm (Sunday morning at 8am).
Donald Fagen, "Kamakiriad". I'm listening to it, but I'm also putting on a tape for the car. Suddenly I find I don't like anything I have in my car, so time to take out a batch of tapes and give them new personalities from my CD collection. I don't even bother labelling the things any more; I just stick a post-it on the inside of the box with the latest thing written on it.
Paperboys show is April 9. I'll be there!
Fripp and Eno -- "No Pussyfooting" I've been meaning to get this one for a while. Great stuff, and just the sort of hyper-ambient drone you'd expect if those two got together.
I'm listening to Dr. Demento tonight.
what station? what time? details, man, details!
N.p. -- James Keelaghan's newest, _Road_, "Number 37".... Oh GOD, this is good! I adore Keelaghan, and I'd been awaiting this one since last September. On the to play list -- the Paperboys, _Molinos_, Cheb Mami, _Prince of Rai_, Christine Lavin's newest... Eddie from Ohio, and the American release of _Rant and Roar_ from Great Big Sea. (Ok. I got a package from Fleming-Tamulevitch of upcoming folk acts at the Ark. I *love* being a columnist!)
I'm assuming that "Eddie from Ohio" is no relationship to "Ed from Ohio".. now playing: the Mekons -- "I <Heart> Mekons"
Eddie from Ohio is a group. No other knowledge of them as yet (I still haven't put them into the player).
Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band -- "The Mountain". I piced this up at their show at the Mich Theatre. Great show and a very good album.
Linda Ronstadt, "In My Reply" (a Liv Taylor song)
Jews with Horns The Klezmatics
Cendrees by Iannis Xenakis. Excellent stuff.
"Ghost Train" by Marc Cohn, which is one of my favorite songs of his. Not to be confused with "Ghost Train" by Counting Crows, which is one of my favorite songs of theirs. What can I say, it's a catchy title....
Johnny Cash, "The Man In Black." There are probably a bunch of Johnny Cash collections with that title; this is a brand new one on Sony Legacy which seems to have most of the Johnny Cash songs I wanted.
The Golden Palominos -- "This is How It Feels" I think this is the album that convinced me that I didn't need any more Golden Palominos albums -- anyway I stopped buying them around this time. Not awful, but disappointing even considering that the Palominos' output was always uneven..
A Count Basie collection which was put together to cash in on the swing music craze.
"Savin' the Best for Last", Marc Cohn. It's what's in the CD-ROM drive at the moment, & I'm too lazy to change it.
Weather Report, "Birdland"
"The Temple," Andrew Lloyd Webber, from Jesus Christ Superstar. I dust off this album every year or so and listen to it.
I listen to it a LOT lately. It's one of the few albums that I realized I HAD to have during the big Skids blow-up, and I bought a copy and re- listen nearly every week... But on the player now is "Native American Odessey" by the Putumayo folks, np, Bill Miller's "GhostDance". BTW, he is coming to the Ark in April. Go see him.
"Sacred servace" by Ernest Bloch as done by the chipmunks (It's on double speed synchro-record on our tape-player)
Muddy York, "Scatter the Ashes," subtitled "Songs of Old Ontario." Very nice Canadian folk band from the 1980s which reminds me a bit of the Figgy Duff work of the period. Twila would like it, I think, there's some nice chorus singing. I should do a little web searching and see if these people ever did anything else.
Re #351, is it the old Bernstein recording with Robert Merrill singing the cantor part and Rabbi Judah Kahn saying Kaddish?
Yes, it is. We were making study tapes, 'cause our choir's gonna do it. I'm listening to "Bitter Suite" from _Misplaced Childhood_ by Marillion.
I've got "Sweet Home Alabama" stuck in my head, and I can't for the life of me remember who did it. Grand Funk Railroad, maybe?
Lynard Skynard, Dan. Grand Funk Railroad is much more above that, sorry.
Huh?
Oh yeah...We're An American Band, and The Locomotion are *sooooo* far above SHA. :-)
I think of that as late, crappy, sell-out Grand Funk.
Re #358: hahaha!
RE#359 Is there *another* GFRR? Seriously, I didn't know they were better in the early days.
They weren't
Man...and I'd gotten "Sweet HOme Alabama" _out_ of my head, too, and then I read this item again and there it is! Bleah!.
Free Bird!
re 334/335: I was listening to Dr. Demento on WIQB, 102.9fm. .... from my tapes of his show in 1989. Just got to the song about Exon Valdees in time for it's ten year anniversary.
"Henduck", from Medeski Martin & Wood's album "Shack-man".
Dead Puppies, on Dr. Demento
"Piney Wood Hills" from Katie Geddes' CD, "Live at Green Wood". Hadn't heard it before, and I am really impressed and excited. Good stuff!
"The Hissing of Summer Lawns," from the Joni Mitchell album of that name.
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"Spirit In The Sky - The Best of Norman Greenbaum." Given to me by a friend who hates it. It is truly awful. (Thanks, Twila)
(I mean, thanks for the kind words, not the awful CD. Twila is not responsible for the CD.)
I should hope not! :-) Though, of course, I do own some awful ones of my very own.
Emmylou Harris, SPYBOY. Emmylou also has the TRIO II album out with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt. And there are news reports that Emmylou and Dolly are going to do a duet album very shortly; I sort of wonder why Linda gets dropped from that project.
McNally, "This is how it feels" is where I also lost a lot of interest in the Golden Palominos. Call me partial to Syd Straw, I guess. Have you heard her 2nd solo albumn? I rather liked it, although it wasn't nearly as good as suprise, although IMHO not much could be.
Hmmm.. I haven't heard her second solo album but I have to admit that actually I didn't much care for her first one.. I was looking at a new-ish Golden Palominos disc in Tower today and was tempted by the fact that the vocalist they'd used on "This is How It Feels" and the following album had left and Bill Laswell and Nicky Skopelitis had returned.. Unfortunately Tower's prices are much too high for me to take a chance on an album I'm not pretty sure I'll like.. On the other hand, the disc I wound up with (the new "Tito and the Tarantulas" disc) sounded a lot better in the store -- I'm probably going to wind up regretting taking a chance on it. (however, it was only 2/3 the price of the Golden Palominos disc, which makes a difference..)
"The Half-life of Desire," by the Either/Orchestra
currently playing, a Kinks collection from the Ann Arbor Public Library.
"I wanna sail away to a distant shore
and live like an Apeman.."
love that song..
"Crosstown Traffic" by Hendrix. Oop, new song. Now it's "Castles Made of Sand"
Must be a greatest hits collection of some sort, those're from different albums, I think..
Bill Laswell is a genius. Have you heard any of his solo work?
I've got a bunch of his work, though honestly his solo stuff isn't generally my favorite -- I like his work with "Material" best, followed by his work performing with and producing many of the artists with whom he frequently collaborates. If you're a Laswell fan I assume you've heard Material's "Seven Souls" but if, for any reason whatsoever, you don't have it and aren't familiar with it you should run, not walk, to the nearest decent record store and pick up a copy..
I'm going to have to check out "Material" what label are they on?
Re#380: Yeah, it was _The Ultimate Experience_.
Material's albums are on a number of different labels. The re-issue of "Sevel Souls" is on Triloka. If you buy the re-issue, ignore the first three tracks -- for some reason when they re-released it they added three "bonus" remixes at the beginning (!) of the album. "Seven Souls" is a middle-eastern influenced album with spoken word lyrics by William S. Burroughs on several tracks and I *really* like it. Other Material albums that I'd recommend (which sound nothing at all like "Seven Souls") include "The Third Power" and "Hallucination Engine" (both on Axiom, IIRC.)
I'm listening to Mercedes Lackey Live, a filk tape. For those of you who don't know, she has written dozens of fantasy novels.
Ooh, how do you like it Otaking? And where did you get it? I love her books and have a few MP3's of some songs.
dragged out from the bottom of the CD pile and currently playing -- Roxy Music -- "Avalon"
You can get any filk tape at a sf convention. I also have several web sites that sell 'em, too. (I personally don't like Mercedes Lackey's voice, but I adore some others.)
An album I picked up at the library today called _The SUltan's PIcnic_ - it's jazz-meets-arabian-music, with a harmonica and a tuba thrown in for good measure. Cool stuff...
Listening to Titanic Monday,...
err, Manic Monday.
Northwoods Improvisors -- "Stargarden", free/improv jazz from a limited edition CD just out.
resp:390 :: "The Sultan's Picnic" is by Rabih Abou-Kahlil, who has quite a few albums on the Enja label. Abou-Kahlil was a favorite for in-store play at the old Schoolkids Records, and I got a copy of "The Sultan's Picnic" and maybe one or two other of his albums after hearing them there.
Runrig, IN SEARCH OF ANGELS. Brand new, the first album with new singer Bruce Guthro. First impression is generally positive, better than the last one or two albums.
Queensryche, Promised Land, from the album of the same name.
X-Japan, "Tears".... Sung in Japanese, the long (11 min.) version.
Re: 387 I bought the Mercedes Lackey tape at Contraption, a SF convention they had a few weeks ago. I know the dealer who sold the tape to me will be in Conclave as well. I think that con is in October.
A song by DJ Tricky from his latest album...I _think_ it's called "Eclipse", but I don't have the track list handy.
"DJ Tricky" =? "Tricky" (= "Tricky Kid") Assuming we're talking about the same person, I keep hoping I'll like his solo albums better and then keep being disappointed. I much prefer the stuff he did with Massive Attack..
Bruce Springsteen, "Darkness on the Edge of Town". I'm making a car tape, where I'll do the really heavy listening. But this is a really good album you don't hear much about anymore. No massive hits, I guess.
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resp:399 - Well, I managed to get _every single piece_ of information wrong... it was, in fact, Tricky (no "DJ") on the album "Angels with Dirty Faces", and the song was called "Demise", not "Eclipse".
Billy Joel - Innocent Man
Now playing: a Yo La Tengo mix CD I put together for the car, but that somehow found its way into rotation in the house.
A Chopin collection by pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Nothing. My work CD player seems to have bitten the dust. I feel bereft!
The Raincoats, THE KITCHEN TAPES. I can only play The Raincoats when Leslie is out of the house, as they are somewhat tuning-challenged. Unfortunately their reunion album from 1996, LOOKING IN THE SHADOWS, seems to have gone out of print, and their earlier CDs, which were reissued because of Kurt Cobain's influence, seem to be marked down for closeout.
Cat Stevens -- "Teaser and the Firecat"
dragged this one out and dusted it off after hearing the opening track
("The Wind") in a movie last night and realizing how long it'd been
since I'd given it a spin.
the essential bob wills 1935-1947
I've never figured it out, but there's something about Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys that keeps me from fully enjoying their music. I like a lot of other stuff in that sort of style and from that time period, and I suppose there's a fair amount of their stuff that I do like, it's just that I'm not wild over any of it..
Errr. Rammstein, "Du Hast", live from the Family Values Tour CD. (I admit it, I was seized by an irresistible impulse to buy it... gak!)
re410 that's ok, lil buckaroo.
"McCoy Tyner and the Latin Jazz All-Stars." A new release on Telarc. Leslie loves this stuff.
Red Sovine: Greatest Hits
David Byrne -- score from "The Catherine Wheel" had forgotten what an excellent album this is.. imho, the better of the two non-talking-heads eno/byrne collaborations (the other, which is nonetheless very good, is "my life in the bush of ghosts")
Whatever Thayrone is playing at the moment - something zydeco-ish.
Sugarloaf, on CD, the Green EYed Lady album and another one.
The Hosty Trio, "Chicken Bone". They're an organ-guitar-drums trio my dad found on a trip to Kansas.
"The Lurch Dance" by Lurch on Hollywood Hi-Fi CD.
really.
"Benjiamin Gigli sings Naples Most Famous Songs".
Sixteen Horsepower, "Sackcloth and Ashes." As a middling-level band on the A&M label, they'll probably get cut in the Universal Music Group merger. Damn. More rock bands need banjos.
A three CD set of Otis Reddding.
[Re #421: Pronounced "ben-YA-mee-no JIL-yee" Sounds like a great CD or LP.]
(_RZA As B.O.B.B.Y. Digital In Stereo_. I'm doing homework as well, so I needed background music that wouldn't distract me.)
Rage Against the Machine, "Evil Empire".
Bob Mould -- "Workbook" Used to listen to this one quite a lot when it had first come out. It's long been superceded in my regular listening rotation by subsequent finds but it still holds up as a very good album..
Aimee Mann, "Whatever". Wow, what a great set of songs. I got this several years ago after seeing Ms. Mann on Conan O'Brien (probably the rarest thing for me is to be so taken with a performer as to buy the CD after seeing them for the first time on a talk show), and I still think it will stay in my CD collection for a *very* long time.
Krypton - "Hangover" on Dr. Demento.
Julia Ecklar -- a parody of "Crane Dance" about bank balances.
re 430: Laurel Gugin, ne Mulendyke, re Mulendyke wrote that parody, I think.
La Galvaude, "La Danse Des Foins." First rate Quebecois CD which Mike McNally brought back for me from Quebec. The followup CD is even better.
Michael Hedges -- "Oracle" his last album before his untimely death, though an unfinished album was released posthumously. I like this one, though, because it features more of his guitar playing, less of his singing.. I'm glad I decided to see him on his last swing through Ann Arbor -- of course nobody had any idea at the time that it would be his *last* swing through Ann Arbor..
Hotel California by Big Daddy, on CD.
Nice to see a few Dr. Demento-played tunes in there..
Dream Into Dust "A Prison to Oneself" This is a wonderful 7" and tape of music inspired by The Prisoner TV series.
Frank Zappa, "Overnight Sensation".
(Jay-Z's _In My Lifetime, Vol. 1_. I pulled it out because nearly every song is crossed out [i.e., not suitable for airplay, but OK for late night vinyl filing].)
(my radio show on WUPX-Marquette. specifically, Insane Clown Posse's "Another Love Song." sounds kinda like Wolfgang Press' "A Girl Like You".)
"Let's Get Loud" by Jennifer Lopez in this room, competing with "Bugs on My Nuts" by ICP (speaking of whom) from the next room. What must the neighbors think?
Mogue Doyle's eponymous CD. Kind of like a local Pogues band.
Until it ran out a few minutes ago, I had the Beatles' "Rubber Soul" album on.
Been listening to that myself, lately, it was on top of the first box of CDs I opened when I was unpacking. After buying a bunch of "Nice Price" Columbia discs on sale at Tower the other day my listening has been heavily weighted towards jazz. Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" is getting the most play of the recent purchases (which were part of an experiment to find out what kinds of jazz I do and don't like..)
(Morphine, "Buena")
Tom Waits, "Mule Variations".
Holst, "Hammersmith"
Playing in my head, something by the Olivia Tremor Control - one of their "la-la" songs. (Their music is split between experimental/ambient stuff and Beatlesque whimsy - this song is from the latter category. Can't remember the name of it...)
The John Sebastian album, now on CD.
John Simon, "My Name is Jack."
REM, "Find The River"
Small Faces, "Ogden's Nut Gone Flake"
Natalie -- if you feel like entering an item about Olivia Tremor Control and other related bands in their Athens, GA, cooperative, I'd be interested in hearing more specifics about them. I've heard good things about several of them but haven't taken the plunge on an album yet..
Yeah, I'd be into that. How do I enter an item?
Type "e" or "enter" at an OK prompt and hit return. From there it's more or less like entering a response. NP: "Tea", by Richard Tillinghast and Poignant Plecostomus, from "My Only Friends were the Wolves". I just got it this afternoon - this album rocks.
Sarah McLachlan, "I Will Not Forget You" (live) It's an unreleased track that was left out of "Mirrorball," Sarah's new live album.
(Len, "If You Steal My Sunshine", club edit. we're debuting it on WUPX-Marquette.)
resp:455 :: so if the McLachlan track was left off the album, where did you get it from?
Robyn Hitchcock, "Don't Talk To Me About Gene Hackman," an unreleased track from a few years ago... and unreleased tracks come from bootlegs, just like the one I'm listening to now. :)
Spinal Tap, "Break Like the Wind" (courtesy of the Ann Arbor District Library).
(Eagle-Eye Cherry, "Shooting Up In Vein [T-Ray Mix]") (although I'm not listening to it right now, I did just play a song by Dido, a new artist from London. she's a "beautiful voice over electronic sounds" type that I usually dig. we have both an EP and the new LP at the station, and I've enjoyed every song so far.)
Not sure of the song-- I'm just listening to the Detroit soul station.
(which one?) :)
Beck, "Forcefield". It's on a mix CD my friend Bob made me, but I think it originally comes from his "One Foot In The Grave" album.
resp:462 don't know-- didn't make a note of the frequency-- it's a little further down the dial
Jefferson Airplane, "Jefferson Airplane Loves You." Anthology box from mumblety years ago.
(promotional copy of the soundtrack to _South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut_.)
Omigod! They killed Kenny! You bastard!
Some guitar noodlings by a friend of mine.
(promotional copy of Slick Rick's _The Art Of Storytelling_) (if it's not obvious, I'm reviewing new music for the radio station.) :)
Promotional copy of "The Soft Bulletin," by the Flaming Lips (I'm reviewing, too...)
re 469: Get the new "Weird Al" yet?
I just turned off "Super Black Market Clash". My tolerance for the clash seems to have gone down since two summers ago, when I decided I LOVED them.
Well, "Super Black Market Clash" uses up tolerance faster than, say, "London Calling" Such is the way of B-sides and bonus tracks..
Hmm, I wonder if I should toss my 10" vinyl of BLACK MARKET CLASH into the hypothetical resale pile... Afro-Celt Sound System, VOLUME 2: RELEASE.
Billy Joel in the living room, can't remember the name of the song.
Jefferson Airplane, AFTER BATHING AT BAXTER'S. The binge continues. Nobody does 10 minute psychedelic guitar jams any more.
Despite their disastrous post-Airplane careers ("We Built This City")
I still have a soft spot for Jefferson Airplane.
Lots of good stuff on "After Bathing at Baxter's". Since I rid myself
of my LPs long ago, I no longer have a copy, I'll have to go dig up my
copy of "2400 Fulton Street" (a 2-disc best-of from about 10 years ago)
"Take the 'A' Train," by Duke Ellington, in a 1960 stereo recording, rereleased this year for the Ellington contennnial. It starts with a long solo by Ellington himself that withholds a simple statement of the theme until the halfway point, in an "applause" sign manner. The celebrated opening riff doesn't appear until some time after that, and when it does, Ellington emphasizes it for another applause sign. Then the orchestra finally enters with what amounts to *another* applause sign. There are a few more of those scattered throughout the performance. 40 years ago, it was simply a grand old man showing off grandly for the crowd; now, it gives me goose bumps.
I didn't realize that "Super Black Market Clash" was a b-side collection. That makes sense, though, since the one song I recognized - Pressure Drop - sounded almost totally unfamiliar. Phish still do 1/2-hour psychedelic guitar jams, if you don't mind that they all sound the same.
I wonder how many times "Pressure Drop" has been covered since it first surfaced in Jamaica in the early 60s.. (at least that's where I *think* it originated, but come to think of it a lot of those early ska bands did lots of covers themselves..)
Spinal Tap yet again. Wow, this is a really good album, comedy aside.
Now that I replaced the cord to the CD player (I was only getting one channel) The Cars Greatest Hits on CD. It's one of the CDs I got returning the unopened vinyl version and asking if I could get the price back toward the CD.
Re #457: I got the unreleased Sarah McLachlan track through a special offer from CDNow. When I bought "Mirrorball," another company let me make a 4 song CD single using several choices of rare and unreleased tracks. Right now, I'm listening to Hagalaz Runedance "Winds That Sang of Midgard's Fate."
I'm not listening to it at the moment because I'm in a computer lab
(no phone line at home, so I don't listen to music when I grex anymore..)
but recent purchases from Tower included a used copy of David Byrne's
most recent, "Feelings", and a RealWorld sampler called something like
"10 out of 10" that was selling for $0.99
"Feelings" is OK -- better so far than any of Byrne's other post-Heads
solo work. It's stylistically mixed, though quite a few of the tracks
were done with the British trip-hop trio Morcheeba.
The RealWorld sampler is pretty good, it'll probably sucker me into
buying at least one or two of the albums by featured African artists.
For $0.99 it's a pretty safe bet you'll find *something* to like on it..
The Real World sampler looks very cool. I saw it tonight, but it was after Leslie had checked out, so I didn't want to wait in line again. NP: Ougenweide, "Liederbuch." A German folk-rock album in honor of Leslie's impending departure for Austria.
Tori Amos, "The Donut Song".
A Skatalites CD from the library.
The Great Luke Ski's song about Seinfield.
re #487: If you decide you'd like to hear more from the Skatalites and want to hear some of the stuff they did in their prime, I highly recommend some of the collections on Island that are not classified as Skatalites discs but most of the tracks either feature the Skatalites as the backup band for someone else or else are one of the various members' side-projects. My two favorites are "Scandal Ska" and "More Intensified" the quality of the recordings is not uniformly good -- these were low budget recordings done in Jamaica in the early-to-mid 1960s. but the music is flat-out excellent if you like original-style ska even the slightest little bit.
Thanks for the tip about the Skatalites. I do like the disc I was listening too, whic was recent enough to have a plug for their web site. Now playing: "Afro-Peruvian Classics" "The Soul of Black Peru". This was in a 50% sale bin at Borders, total cost $4.99! Cool stuff, too.
Danny Elfman, "Batman" soundtrack.
re #490: re -- "The Soul of Black Peru" were there any more? that's one of my favorites.. I might have to pick up a few extras to give as gifts.. by now I've listened to the $0.99 RealWorld sampler enough to highly recommend it. the only downside is it may well wind up costing me a great deal more than $0.99 if I get lured into buying individual releases by all of the artists on it I like. I *really* like the track by Somali musician Maryam Mursal..
Sorry, that was the only copy. A bunch of 0.5 * $16.99 Kodo discs, though.
That's the trouble with compilations. Good mix tapes are even worse: your friends give them to you free, and then they worm their way into your subconscious and force you to buy all the albums represented on them :)
Luckily in Ann Arbor we have Encore Records, which is almost certainly the best (for my tastes, anyways) used CD store I've been in in a long time.. I listened to the Maryam Mursal album, decided I wasn't as wild about the rest of it as I was about the track on the compilation, and decided instead to buy a CD by another artist on the compilation -- Ugandan artist Geoffrey Oryema. Granted, all of this stuff is on Peter Gabriel's RealWorld label so it's not especially obscure, but how many used music stores would have both discs in stock, as well as several discs by Cape Verdean artist Cesaria Evora (on Nonesuch) to fill out my CD purchase. (you can't just buy one CD, they get lonely..)
The Dr Demento show (8/11/91), "Too pooped to Pop", a definite oldie.
Once of the ways I justify putting mix tapes together is that sometimes, it is the way that poeple do sample enought to buy the whole album.
Olivia Tremor Control, "Black Foliage." Buy this album now. Buy it and listen to it till your head explodes. Then buy a new head and listen to it some more.
Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight, "A Bed of Roses." Lal's posthumous album, it was either complete or nearly complete when she died suddenly last fall. More detailed review coming to a folk item near you, i hope.
absolutely nothing - but couldn't pass up the shot at response #500! :-)
"Urban Aire" by the AfroCeltic Sound System, 2nd album.
Luscious Jackson, "Electric Honey"
Moody Blues - Slide Zone. Part of the 5 CD "Time Traveler" set. Last time I listened to all these disks, I was driving thru South Carolina.
I like to roll these items over at 500 responses. So this one is now frozen; the list continues in item:196
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