For the second half of the Year 2000: the tedious, yet popular, item for listing what music you are listening to as you cruise through this conference. No cheating, now! To keep things interesting, try to write a line or two about the album or song you are naming, especially if it's at all obscure.391 responses total.
tom waits: take it with me big lump in my throat. damn.
Mozart's "Requiem" - it's at "Confutatis"...one of my favorite sections. The "Requiem Mass" is so passionate and powerful...I go between wanting to cry and wanting to sing. It's still one of my favorite pieces of classical music.
Pianist Emmanual Ax, on "A Prairie Home Companion." This week's show is from Tanglewood, so it has a classical music theme.
(I haven't quite gotten past the learning curve on all the songs on "Mule Variations" yet, but "Take it With Me" is a big favorite.
RE #3 That's funny, Ken. I'm listening to APHC myself right now.
More - J. Englishman
Darlene Zschech with the West Australia Symphony Orchestra - The Power of Your Love Symphony (and yes, I had to look at the CD to spell her name <grin>)
Bitchin Camero - Dead Milkmen
Tony Trischka "World Turning" Great album by an under rated banjo player who was Bela Fleck's teacher. Gues appearences by Peter Buck, Sid Straw, Alison Kraus, Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) and William Burroughs. Not your grandfathers Banjo music. :-)
Strange Days - Matthew Good Band
The Lovin' Spoonful "Daydream" Do You Believe in Magic And Other Hits Flashback Records
Primus, "Sailing the Seas of Cheese".
Hello Time Bomb - Matthew Good Band
Desmond Dekker.
"Oh whoa oh oh oh, the Israelites!"
Sarah McLachlan -"Posession"
(Actually, that one isn't on this Dekker album.)
Einstein's Secret Orchestra, "Jahffi Meets the Meteor Man" ESO's music has a lot of Sf influences in it.
Marvelous3. How Do YouFeel About That? or something like that... the CD's in the other room, so I'm assuming the title..
I'm back sucking on http://www.wen.com again. They fixed up Charlie Gillett's June World Music Charts show after I sent them mail pointing out that the links to it were busted. The Amadou & Miriam song which just played sounds like sort of an old Stax/Volt thing, filtered back through Africa. I've been playing almost nothing but www.wen.com shows for about a week now.
I'm listening to a character album from Fushigi Yuugi. A character album has songs devoted to the main characters from an anime. Right now, UI'm listening to Tasuki's song.
velver underground and nico-venus in furs
load me up - matthew good band.
Veruca Salt - "Seether". Having a chick-band kind of day. =)
Ian Anderson's show for June from www.wen.com, which I'm sure you're all tired of hearing about. The song now playing is a cover medly of "Wild Thing" and "Louie Louie" by a band named Bloco Vomit... not exactly the sort of thing I was expecting on a quasi-folk music radio show...
...just because you can sing them to "Alice's Restaurant"?
Stir it Up - Bob Marley and the Wailers
"Muskrat Ramble" being performed on NPR's salute to Louis Armstrong.
rolling stones- time is on my side
the ballad of buckethead
Ozric Tentacles - "Live Throbbe" This is good space rock. Too bad most of their CDs aren't available in this country.
eric clapton-before you accuse me take a look at yrself (the song just changed) tori amos-cornflake girl
Sarah McLachlan - "Posession"
give a little bit - supertramp
Arling & Cameron - "We Love to Rock"
Lard, "I Wanna Be a Drug-Sniffing Dog" (from "Pure chewing Satisfaction")
Kryptonite, by Three Doors Down If I go crazy then will you still call me superman?
Nirvana, "Nevermind". Never actually sat down and listened to this CD before.
June Tabor, "Aleyn."
Lucinda Williams: Big Red Sun Blues
Staind, "Mudshovel" Really, my music isn't all this tempo... I almost played Liberty Horses instead, and I've got Gomez, FSOL, and St. Etienne in my pile o' CDs at work... just, for some reason, when I log on to Grex, I have the heavy stuff polaying (bonus points if you've heard of Liberty Horses... it's a wonderful CD, featuring bits from sister Kirsty MacColl).
King Crimson, "the constrKction of light". New CD! I'm only on the first listen, so no real opinion yet, other than that I'm getting sick of all the weird capitalisation.
Lili Haydn - Mama. Pretty cool violin rock.. I still think she was great on the New Gidget TV show.
Barenaked ladies "gordon"
Tori Amos "To Venus and Back" the 2nd, live CD
Jimi Hendrix- Rainy Day, Dream Away
i'm hearing the opening theme to African Swim by John Lurie but only in my head.
Shannon Curfman-True Friends
Dinosaur, from the Young Person's Guide to King Crimson.Double live cd from Holland. My new KC purchase. All my favorites, plus a whole bunch I've never heard. The first disk is supposed to be one of those multi-media things, with a history of Kc by Rbt. Fripp, but I can't seem to make it work.
boston- peace of mind
Re #48: How is the Shannon Curfman CD? I've been thinking of buying it.
Beth Orton, "Trailer Park" Cd, "Tangent" is the track For once, I'm listening to something with a less-than-thrashing tempo while Grexing.
cornershop- funky days are back again shannon curfman is a-fucking-mazing. she's only 14 and you can tell that she *feels* every single note. her cover of the band's _the weight_ gives me shivers, and i HATE covers
Return to the Centre of the Earth by Rick Wakeman, narrated by Patrick Stewart with the London Symphony Orchestra and the English Chamber Choir. Justin Hayward has a track on this. Great find.
liz phair- shatter
Crowded house Crowded house
bloodhound gang- kiss me where it smells funny
The Clash, "London Calling." Picked up for $8 at a recent Tower sale. Haven't heard this in years; it holds up *very* well for a 21-year old album and makes me feel ancient.
"Seven Days" by Ugly Beauty.
The June "radio" show from Ian Anderson, from http://www.wen.com, again. Specifically the opening track, from Asian Dub Foundation. I can't believe I'm going to have to buy a copy of their CD.
Dr. Demento via .mp3 #3- Marvin the paranoid android by Marvin.
Tara Nevins, "Mule to Ride." Solo old-timey album from one of the two leaders of the band Donna the Buffalo. This is mostly a fiddle showcase for Nevins; I'm a little disappointed that she only sings a couple of slow ballads, and some other person sings most of the rest of the time.
Bob Dylan- just like a woman
resp:58 I would like to hear "London Calling"..
"London Calling" is an excellent album that successfully blends the Clash's punk, reggae, r&b (and many other) influences into their most consistent and powerful album. It's a phenomenally influential album and a definite must-listen.
I like "Combat Rock" too. That one gets a lot of play-time. "Overpowered by Funk" and "Know Your Rights" are MUCH better songs than "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" (blecch)
More http://www.wen.com, this time it's a show from Katerina Pavlakis which was done as part of the World Music Accordion Festival for www.rootsworld.com. It was a bunch of Real Audio accordion stuff put up on a number of places, back in June.
By all means, let's continue the Clash discussion, but take it to item 270 (or: item:music,270 for you Backtalk folks, I hope..)
Red Elvises - "Techno Surfer" After seeing them live, I just had to buy a CD from them.
"Roundabout" by Yes from my "Pepsi Choose Your Music" CD, which arrived in the mail this afternoon.
Phyco Killer by the Talking Heads on the radio (93.9fm). I wish they had the humor to play Pycho Chicken.
<falls down laughing>
I wish I owned the original "Psycho Killer" single. The B-side was the same song, arranged for autoharp and string quartet. I've never seen that reissued in any form. Somewhere I have a tape of my housemate's old 45. NP: Keith Jarrett, "Live at the Blue Note." This six-CD set was a completely insane thing for me to buy, a testimony to the selling powers of Jim Leonard. :)
I like the live version of "Psycho Killer" that they play on 96.3. There are some people in the audience whooping and making other noise, and it sounds *so good* with the song. Almost like it should be part of it.
Presumably that's the version on "Stop Making Sense", which was re-issued this year with many of the best parts of the movie soundtrack restored..
Pete Townshend, "Psychoderelict". This remains my favorite output from the failed "Lifehouse" projects, although "Who's Next" remains a close second. Incidentally, the live show at the Brooklyn Academy of the Performing arts (something like that) video that I got off of PBS "Great Performances" a few years ago is in fact available, as the Pete Townshend live tape/DVD. It's a great live show of Psychoderelict, actors and everything.
"Smoke Two Joints" by The Toyes, from Dr. Demento show of May 21, 2000. see ~tpryan/drd00.0521.txt
St. Etienne, Disc 1 of the Good Humor set (track 5, "Good Night")
Tom Waits, "Frank's Wild Years" (the album, not the song). How the heck does he pull this off? This CD should be terrible, but somehow it's great.
Re #71: Oddly enough, as i was reading that, I was listening to Psycho Killer by The Bobs.
my wife snoring in the guest bedroom at my folks'
yardbirds- a certain girl
Dire Straits greatest hits "Sultans of Swing" CD, song on now
is 'Calling Elvis'.
It does have 'Twisting by the Pool' but does not have 'Industrial
Disease'.
"Seven Years" by George Bedard and the Kingpins, performed live at the Ann Arbor Art Fair and broadcast live on WEMU (89.1 FM).
re #83: That's OK, it gives you an excuse to buy "Love Over Gold", which is their best album anyway..
Steve Miller Band- Serenade
The Go-Go's are about to play on the Today Show's Friday concert.
I'm not listening to anything at work, but I'm happy that "Waiting for Mommie" by Thrill Kill Kult is going through my head on repeat. =)
Tori Amos "Bliss"
Thomas Dolby, "The Flat Earth". My personal favorite, but of course not his big seller. I'm busy doing a Web search in another window to see if this is available again; for a long time his earlier stuff was out of distribution in the US and there was only a dumb compilation. (Yes! CDNew has it for only $12! Now what else do I need? Maybe Peter Gabriel's "Security", which is the other side of this old crusty cassette I've been listening to for years?)
I doubt it'd get enough traffic to justify it, but I'm sometimes tempted to enter an item where we can announce excellent albums that have finally come back into print.. "Flat Earth" isn't my favorite Dolby (I still like GAoW) but it didn't deserve to be deleted from U.S. catalogs, either.. I'm also glad to note that the (English) Beat's "I Just Can't Stop It" is once again available domestically.
Some late-night jazz program on 88.3 here in Snowmass Village, Colorado. Nice stuff, they haven't announced what they are playing in a while.
Ah, the last two tracks were Mingus' "Better Git It In Your Soul" (which I should have recognized) and a Charlie Hunter song, "Nothing But Trouble." I looked the album up on Amazon and will see about getting a copy when I get home. The station is Community Access Radio from Carbondale, a less pricey town downvalley from Aspen which is at least in part an artists' colony. After the long jazz set they switched over to rap and I switched over to a CD: "Tarentule," by the French 1970s band of the same name, which is a folk/early music blend. This was in a package of stuff which arrived today from Rockin' World.
led zeppelin-communication breakdown
Parliament, "The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein"
"Roam" by the B-52's
A Louis Armstrong greatest hits package. New on CD is Cristine Lavin's first LP a couple of slots away in the CD player.
i hate fast cars: the buzzcocks
(Does Dolby have enough to have an "early" period? To my knowledge, he only had four full-length albums, the last of which was a pseudosoundtrack.) "TheFlat Earth" struck me, frankly, as dolby trying to follow in Gabriel's footsteps, and failing. "Zulu" especially smacked of someone trying to be artsier than they were ready for (while on the other end, "Hyperactive" wasa decent addictive radio track, was an obvious attempt at "This record's gotta sell!") And actually, now that I think of it, Dolby had a total of six albums (four studio, two soundtracks), so I guess he did have an "early period" and a late period. =} Of course, my two favorites -- Aliens ate my buick! and the ST to Gotic -- aren't available domestically. And CDNow tells me it's "Mulu" not "Zulu." Oh, to the topic, I'm not listening to anything right now.
<robin leach voice>
"There was one room in her house that was always locked.
It was the garage!!"
</robin leach voice>
I think I'm one of the few people who liked "Astronauts and Heretix"
You ask me if I love you, does the pope live in the woods? Quad erat demonstrandum, baby. (Oooo! You speak French!) I like "Astronauts and Heretics," but acknowledge it suffers from the same disease that struck several of the early 80s New Wave lot -- Kenny G Disease. KGD strikes pop stars who are past their creative peak and begin to make music that's pleasant, artistic, and mostly harmless. New Wave sufferers of KGD include Thomas Dolby, The Fixx, Thompson Twins (aka Babble), Talk Talk (aka O'Rang), and ABC. While KGD has struck musicians from other ears (Manfred Mann's Earth Band and Alan Parsons Project come to mind), perhaps it was the dishonor of sitting in the Top Ten bins with Air Supply and Asia that caused New Wave bands to be especially hard hit. Even Peter Gabriel has come down with a severe case of KGD. Won't you please help? Give to the KGD Foundation, so that early 80s innovators can begin innovating again. Thank you. (eras, not ears)
I *LOVE* "Hyperactive". Now I have it in my head. =) <bounces around>
Caledon, THE NOBLE TROUSERS. Fourth band for the harp duo Mary MacMaster and Patsy Seddon; mostly a spinoff from the Clan Alba band with Dick Gaughan missing. Good stuff if you like harps and bagpipes. This copy, which I got this week, was a replacement for one stolen out of my car two years ago.
zeppelin-south bound suarez
diamonda galas and john paul jones "The sporting life"
wings greatest hits: mull of kintyre... speaking of bagpipes
"Look How Far," Bruce Cockburn, Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu. The CD case is, of course, green (points to the Musical Jeopardy item).
Pink Pearl by Jill Sobule is getting it's second listen after a month or so on the self.
Pink would seem more appropriate for a Cockburn CD..
pink? is there a good reason, or are you diswsing him? green because it's a Rykodisc CD, and we were caught up on that for a while in Jeopardy...
Tom Waits -- The Piano Has Been Drinking
I'm dissing his politics..
well, yes, I suppose he IS a touch communist-sympathetic ... Nothing now, but was listening to Prick, an odd piece I got used for $1 only to discover that Trent Reznor engineered and Chris Vrenna assisted engineering. It's got the mildest flavor of NIN, but is fairly far afield from it. (Prick being a fellow named Kevin McMahon, apparently.)
Thomas Dolby, "The Flat Earth", this time on CD! It's at Borders, for only $11.99, as is "The Golden Age of Wireless". OK, I'll admit "Mulu the Rain Forest" is kinda lame. But it's more than made up for by either the title track and/or "Screen Kiss".
Crystal Method "Busy Child" This is from the MTV Amp compilation. The whole CD is a good mix of techno music.
Dramarama, "Late Night Phone Call," from the 93 Hi-Fi Sci-Fi CD.
The Limeliters -- There's a Meetin' Here Tonight This Mortal Coil -- Barramundi
Bruce Cockburn's politics? Heh. You might take a listen to Dick Gaughan (banned from the USA during the Reagan & Bush administrations for being a Communist Party member), Leon Rosselson, or Attila the Stockbroker. Sally Barker, "Passion and the Countess." Most recent solo album from the original Poozies' vocalist. Unfortunately on her own she tends to goop up the arrangments; the Poozies always keep things clean and simple.
Peter Gabriel -- Shaking the Tree
I don't object to him being left-leaning, I object to him being so predictable and trite about it. I suspect I'd prefer the other artists you mention..
You object, perhaps, to lyrics like "If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die" in the midst of an anti-violence song, perhaps? Actually, Cockburns last few albums (including Breakfast in New Orleans...) have been generally not political, but just lots of artsy, existentialist stuff. Still trite, but prettier. =}
beatles- let it be
This Mortal Coil -- The Lacemaker
Right now listening to James Taylor's Fire and Rain. Someone in an IRC room is typing the lyrics to American Pie so I may have to put that MP3 on.
sugarcubes- deus
Folque, "Folque." 1970s-era Dutch band cloning early Fairport and Steeleye Span, in some cases right down to lifting the songs and arrangements, like "Twa Corbies." Commended to Twila and David Bratman. I think there are two or three more CDs by this band which have been reissued, I'll have to scoop them up.
Nine Inch Nails "The Day the World Went Away". Just finished listening to "Nordic Roots 2".
Mountain Stage on WDET.
Lounge Lizards Bob & Nico
The Who, BBC SESSIONS.
A series of CDs called The MOJO machine turns you on. A variety of artists. I take it these where attached to a British music magazine.
Nirvana, "Nevermind".
well why did you bring it up, then?
Prostectic Lips, now on CD!
fig dish- seeds i got the who's bbc sessions last week. its sooooo good.
Cibo Matto "Sugar Water" Nice and melodic. Love the video.
Is that off "Viva la Woman!"?
Cabaret Voltaire, disc one of "The Conversation." Track is "Night Rider," and I've got G-Force going as the WinAmp visualization... At the risk of sounding like a warez punk, I'd like to say that G-Force rawks with C-Volt.
People are Strange by The Jeggernaut Jug Band.
Re #137: Yes! "Sugar Water is from Viva La Woman! Right now, I'm listening to Genesis "Afterglow" from one of their live albums, "Seconds Out." When I first started buying tapes and CDs, I bought a lot of Genesis albums. The recent discussion about Peter Gabriel and Phil COllins compelled me to dig out my CDs and listen to them again. I still like most of the stuff from the 70's and 80's, although the 90's stuff was crap.
Higher Octave Is Smooth Grooves 2 - "Broders" by Craig Chaquico, a CD that will be going to my sister for her birthday.
"Birds of Prey" by Jordan Reyne, who is from New Zealand and describes her music as industrial with Celtic melodies. She has an awesome voice. (this was an mp3, but has now been converted to a mace file, probably losing some quality in the 2-hr process. mp3s and 680x0 macs just don't work well together :( ) (now it's onto "Gotham City," probably my favorite of the four tracks I downloaded. nice melodic bass line and vocals over a loop of assorted grinding and clanking noises. and wonderful lyrics, too.)
re #140: I know my chicken!
Brother, "The Crow", now changed to "Shadowman". Brother is this awesome indie rock band originally from Australia, now based in LA, who mix rock with dual bagpipe and digeridoo. Singing is not half bad, either.
Shona Laing, "New on Earth" CD... fading strains of "Hey"
Psychedelic Furs - "Heartbreak Beat"
Fairport Convention; the "Meet on the Ledge" 2-cd anthology from last year. I seem to be back wallowing in classic Fairport and Richard Thompson stuff for a while.
The "a la folie" soundtrack. Wonderful minimalist music by Michael Nyman.
White Zombie's Astro-Creep: 2000. Why? Because it's after 8, I'm still at work, and I have the flu. Anyone wanna hire a VB programmer so I can get out of this shit job? I'm already dead I'm already dead I'm already dead I'm already dead (not me, the sample in the song)
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin.
Some Real Audio samples from the web page of the Six Degrees record label. Ekova, and Kristen Braten Berg.
Sophie B. Hawkins, "The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty" (from "Whaler")
Jason Tracer, on a n untitled CD-R. This is a friend of a friend whose CDs I got in trade for a couple others. He's local, and does interesting somewhat classical and soundtract music completely on a PC.
"Six String Samurai" soundtrack. Mostly by the Red Elvises!
Saturday, noontime, time for WDET's "Folks Like Us".
Ardian Belew, "Young Lions". One of his (IMO) better solo CDs.
Beastie Boys "Get It Together". This is from their anthology, "The Sounds of Science"
Donovan's Greatest Hits in a CD shuffle with Heart, Tom Petty, Springsteen and Pat Benatar.
Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones
It's still going.
octopus' garden. ;)
"The Thistle and Shamrock" on WKAR-FM.
More Jason Tracer. I need to get a Web page for this stuff, since I was just given a couple unmarked CD-Rs by the guy who produced it.
OK, here's a website: http://menagerie.tf/~tracerj/notes.html
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb. This song is feeling so good tonight.
Diana Krall "I'm Just a Lucky So and So"
Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer - some track from the "Gladiator" soundtrack. Planet 96.3's "Big Sonic Heaven" show. I rarely miss it.
Tonight in the CD player (sequential mode this time): Arthur - The Kinks, Bette Midler Greatest Hits, Rock Spectacle - Bare Naked Ladies and around the campfire - peter, paul & mary. All from the Borders Tent sale.
Duncan SHeik - She Runs Away
Running Down a Dream -- Tom Petty
Alright, This Time, Just the Girls. Sympathy for the Record Industry records make decent compilations of their artists' works. This one is the creme de la creme of SFTRI's girlie groups, including early tracks from Lunachicks and Hole (and a whole bunch of obscure bands I've never heard of...). Just finished: Detroit Cobras, "Ain't Hittin' on Nothin'." The liner notes tell me that, yes, they're from Detroit. Right now: An exceedingly cute melange from an LA group called Candypants (a track calleed "Dishy"). Worth looking for if you like bizarre indy punk-ska-grunge-retro-surf. Or if you just like bizarre. =}
"Kooler Than Jesus" - My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (TKK for short). Groovy song, baby, and is making me HYPER!!!
"Something Good" --Utah Saints (sampling KaTe)
The overhead fan right this minute.
Serras, "Serras." Danish fusion-jazz/folk rock instrumental band. Too bad about the fusion jazz.
The Waterboys, "Old England"
Got a pair of odd collections yesterday. "Alright, This Time.." was one; the other was "New Wave Goes to Hell", a "tribute" of Cleopatra's stable (read: goth-industrial) doing New Wave covers. Right now, it's "The Whole of the Moon" covered by Human Drama... I recognize it, but they didn't bother to put band names, and I'm ashamed to admit I don't remember the original band (then again, there's another track on here -- "Fade to Grey" -- that I don't know at all). Anybody wanna identify the original on either of those? =} Now Eva O's singing Echo's Killing Moon.
Re: 177 Is the first cover in question, "The Whole of the Moon", the same as that by The Waterboys? //I saw the crescent // You saw the Whole of the moon// Great song, and strange synchronicity with what I was playing earlier.
Offhand I don't recognize the song "Fade to Grey" but there seems to be a track of that name that's anthologized on several 80's New Wave collections, performed by a band called "Visage"
"I like Chinneese" from Monty Phython sings.
Pink Floyd - Have a Cigar
Very cool ... That's Roy Harper doing the vocals on Have a Cigar, y'know... Sweeney's Men -- Dance to your Daddy
#178: Yep, that's it. #179: That's probably it, although I don't recognize the band.
Heh, this is intersting... Visage is one of the five bands Midge Ure belonged to before he joined Ultravox in 1980. RIght now, I'm auditing Slim Shady, "My Name Is..."
Pal Shazar, "Cowbeat of my Heart." Growing on me steadily, will write more about Ms. Shazar somewhere else in the conference later...
Nick Harper "smithereens"
"Alright, This Time, Just the Girls," CD #2, Earl Lee Grace singing a vaguely C&W broken-heart tune called "Together."
Joe Cocker Anthology - "Let's go get Stoned".
Leisure McCorkle, "Super Bossa Cassanova" Leisure was the first opener (Angry Salad being the second) for Cowboy Mouth at the Magic Stick last night.
I was at the Stick on Monday evening. It was dead, and teh music was way too loud for the number of people there...
Thunder'N Spice. The 80's hair compilation that I mentioned earlier. Great stuff. :)
Kid Rock, Cowboy. "Devil Without a Cause" is set to go diamond... it was cert'ed 9x plat in July...
WWBBD - from "South Park" soundtrack.
The Red Elvises, "Grooving to the Moscow Beat".
Gaelic Storm, "The Barnyards o'Delgaty" (not as good as Old Blind Dogs', but it's mp3s at random for me tonight...)
V.34 on the cordless phone...
Listening to MP3s downloaded from The The's website.
Babylon 5 Soundtrack: River of Souls
Kristi Stassinopoulou, again and again. Haven't gotten tired of it yet.
Marilyn Manson, "Dried Up, Tied, and Dead to the World." It's been a Marilyn Manson week at work.
Dar Williams, The Green World. Listening to the second song right now...
"rescue me" off of Dougie MacLean's "Live from the 2 ends of the earth" CD (a new one ... thanks to anderyn for telling me about this one)
"Ready for the storm" -- Dougie MacLean
Tortoise -- "TNT"
Depeche Mode, "Pimpf", on a homemade CD (dubbed from the LP)
Peter Gabriel, So. "Don't Give Up" has been worth listening to over and over again in my current state.
Still Dar....hasn't stopped playing...although its now on random...
rem - Californication. Glad I got it cheap.
"Back in Flesh", Wall of Voodoo anther LP-to-CD transfer
(I was listening to an Eazy-E EP, but it finished while I was trying to page through the responses.)
Chris Chown - not sure of the song. Listening off the stream from his site - www.chrischown.com semi-local guy (3 hours east or so). GOod stuff.
Kristi Stassinopoulou, "Echotropia," again and again. Actually this is the first time I have played it on the home stereo. Leslie approves.
Now playing, one of my favorite overlooked albums, Talk Talk's "Spirit of Eden"..
"All The Kings Men," music from the time of Henry VIII. A sale item from SKR Classical's partial liquidation. I'm not crazy about it.
And if Ken's not crazy about it, what prospects for the rest of us?
Well, Leslie said I had to keep it. She's much more into early music than I am.
currently playing -- one of two indistinguishable discs of electronic dance music that came with a magazine. they're reminding me once again how little I like most electronic dance music.
The Moon Seven Times - 'On a Limb' from the 7=49 album
Dar - Mortal City
"lakes of coolfin" -- Niamh Parsons (from her 2000 release, In My Prime)
me, some little Bach tune on my Takamine
"The Rough Guide to Congolese Soukous." This track is by Franco, I think. I am surprised to hear that Leslie likes this stuff; I thought she was allergic to African pop.
bohemianRhapsody.mp3
Alan Hovhaness, "...and God Created the Great Whales"
Martin Carthy, "Sir Patrick Spens"
Oysterband, "Granite Years: Best of, 1986 to '97." Brand new 2-cd anthology from their old label Cooking Vinyl. This came out at the beginning of September in the UK and my copy just showed up yesterday; just slipped it into the player. (The Oysters were probably my favorite band, or close to it, from 1985 until about 1992.)
Thomas Dolby, "Aliens Ate My Buick".
89X's techno show, X2K.
Chris Smither, "Live As I'll Ever Be." Singer/songwriter with a very good blues guitar style. He's coming up at the Ark. I got this at Borders tonight after hearing it in a play station.
Tori Amos, Boys for Pele. The only one of her cds that I truely like the bulk of the cd, instead of just a song or two.
ironically, thatwas the last CD of hers that I purchased for the opposite reason... couldnt stand most of it. different strokes...
That's what I heard from a lot of people. I just got her newest 2 disc set...one disk of new music, one disk of old live music. There is one good song in the new stuff...and I wasn't that impressed with the live disk. (sigh)
I really liked Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos but haven't liked any of her later albums. (I also have a copy of Y Kant Tori Read? which has my favourite of her songs on it.)
Japancakes, an all-instrumental band on the usually cutesy Kindercore label. Beautiful droney meanderings with steel pedal and violin.
Salon (I think) recently had an article about a Kindercore fest and some of the bands there; Japancakes was mentioned..
Pete Townshend, "Lifehouse Chronicles", disc 3 (themes and experiments). Still haven't quite gotten into the radio play in a while; I should just take it on my next long car drive (whenever that might be).
Yeah, I read that. It was pretty funny. Three guesses as to what I'm listening to now (hint: contains the words "69," "love," and "songs").
I have to say I was disappointed by the 6ths "Hyacinths and Thistles" (the latest Stephin Merritt-related project) It sounded too much like leftovers from "69 Love Songs", not having the even slightly broader range of topics found on the earlier 6ths album, "Wasps' Nests", which I much preferred. Which isn't to say that there aren't any good songs on "Hyacinths and Thistles", just that I expected more.. It does represent some sort of major band-relationship nexus for my record collection, finally connecting all of the various Merritt-related projects with the Mekons world (via a guest-vocal performance by Sally Timms..)
I haven't heard much good stuff about "Hyacinths & Thistles." I think I'll pass on it and start nursing my new Guided by Voices addiction instead.
The Gourds, "Stadium Blitzer." A low-key, shambling alt-country band I am rather fond of. I should get their last album; looks like a new one is due out later this month.
re #239: the review in this week's Onion AV Club pretty much sums up my feelings about "Hyacinths and Thistles".. If you're looking for more Merritt material, try the first 6ths album or the full-length Future Bible Heroes cd -- both are very good.
"Best of the Guess Who." "No Time" and "American Woman" are among my favorite radio pop songs, I guess that dates me rather badly.
Never date yourself. You get really disappointed if you spend a lot of money and just get a kiss on the cheek. Beth Orton, "Central Reservation (The Then Again Version)". "Today is whatever I want it to mean."
re #242: That's quite an admission, although it doesn't reflect on you the same way admitting to a fondness for BTO would.. In my CD player lately, but not at the moment - Tortoise's "TNT"
Black 47, "Home of the Brave" great band don't have much press though
I got two more Christine Lavin CDs on Sunday. I am now listening to Getting in Touch with My Inner Bitch. Next up, One Wild Night.
Adrian Belew, "Young Lions".
I love the song featuring "the Prophet Omega"
(Yeah... very cool. There's a followup on the "Coming Attrations" CD)
(Although my favorite song from that CD [and probably my favorite Adrian Belew song overall] is "Phone Call From the Moon")
Dan Ar Bras, "Live" (don't ask me which song ... I never get the titles spelled correctly. ;] )
Amadou & Mariam, TJE NI MOUSSOU ("Men and Women"). African pop heavily
influenced by Stax/Volt stylings, I think. From Mali.
Lo'Jo, BOHEME DE CRISTAL. Having seen the band live, I think I appreciate it much better now.
'Czy tak chcesz' by Varius Manx from their greatest hits album 'Najlepsze z dobrych' and yes, I have trouble spelling the titles too.. ;)
Adrian Belew, "Op Zop Too Wah".
Fairport, LIEGE AND LIEF. This is a new copy I picked up today as a loaner, a UK import (only $10 at Schoolkids-in-Exile!) and it sounds better than I remember previous editions sounding.
3 Doors Down The Better Life Smack (right now, track 10)
the new Maria McKee Ultimate Collection CD. if you don't have any Maria in your collection yet grab a copy of this one..
Joe Jackson, "Heaven and Hell". Fairly recent, not his best, but still pretty good. Interesting in that a fair amount of it is sequenced, but very carefully timed to breathe a fair amount. Supposedly Jackson went through every track measure-by-measure to tweak the tempos.
eddie from ohio - the three fine daughters of farmer brown. Yes I finally bought an EFO cd.. and now I must have the rest of them! I can see a good portion of my next paycheck disappearing already...
Bagad Kemper, "Battering Rams." Breton bagpipe-and-drum band, in a tradition similar to the Scottish one.
To Kati by Keti Garbi. I'm not even gonna try spelling the names of any of the songs on this one.. I gotta start uying more stuff in english..
I'm listening to a CD by AQUA, "Aquarius". 'Cartoon Heroes' is the track.
Charlie Gillett's "World Music Charts Europe" canned radio show from http://www.wen.com. The track currently playing is a long one from the Columbian/UK band Sidestepper, who have been getting lots of favorable press, and I can see why! I'm behind on getting the shows I want off of http://www.wen.com and need to get back to it.
David Bowie, "Ziggy Stardust".
New Paul Simon, "You're the One".
Just finished: Bruce Springsteen, "The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle". 2nd album, one of my two favorites. Just started: Van Morrison, "Moondance".
Staind, "Suffocate" (Dyfunction CD)
fela kuti: expensive shit
Salamander Crossing, Bottleneck Dreams. Five Days in May to be specific.
Dick Gaughan, "Both Sides the Tweed" in duet with Emmylou, from the T.V. program, "Transatlantic Sessions"
Lo'Jo, "Boheme di Cristal." One of the small handful of things getting played repetitively in the last few weeks. I haven't adequately written about Lo'Jo yet, have I?
Right now, Great Big Sea from the live CD, "Road Rage" (I don't know all the songs' names)
(Vincent LaGuardia Gambini, "Wise Guy"... at least when my sound card isn't crapping out. Two of the guys from Lyricist Lounge provided the lyrics; Joe Pesci delivered the vocals over beats from the Trackmasters [Poke & Tone] and a sample from Blondie's "Rapture." fun, campy stuff.)
A techno/rave sampler from Vicious Vinyl. Right now it's So Good by Aqua Lads.
Re:273 Were you at the concert the other night? Actually, I'm curretnly listening to Road Rage right now, too. Well, I have been most of the time since Saturday night. :)
Re:276 Nope, unfortunately I was not. (I live in Texas) I probably shouldn't say where I got the music. I'm really enjoying it, and should probably get the CD from their website. Strange, because I've been lukewarm with GBS's studio releases up until now. Now playing: "Carrickfergus" --Brian Kennedy (a dear song for me, and a beautiful voice to carry it to me)
It's not released in the US yet. Alas. (I talked to the Fleming Tamulevich publicity person about it -- I usually can request new albums if I knkow they're out.)
Kid Rock, American Bad Ass.
It comes out on the 30th.....but they had it for sale at the concert. *VERY* worth having...a lot of fun, fairly true to the concert that I saw, and they cleaned it up very well. There is still the crowd singing, clapping and interacting, but there isn't that "live backrground" to it. Very well done. And it has a new song on it, that has been released in Canada as a single. (I think it's called "Everything Shines"...I'm quite fond of it) OH! And Mari-Mac is a *LOT* faster live....and you can understand the words!
Runrig, "The Gaelic Collection." One of these days I need to put together a mix tape of this band's uptempo rock songs.
Cat Stevens "Foriegner" CD.
Peter Gabriel, "Shaking the Tree." Anthology from what, 1990? Too bad he's retired as a rock singer.
Dee Lite - Groove is in the Heart.
I JUST SAW THE NEW SOLAS CD!!!!!!!! Unfortunately, it was in the Borders window, and they weren't open. And I'm sure that Meijers won't be carriying it. But I will be finding a copy of it tomorrow!!!
It's been out for a couple of weeks now, megan. I'm looking forward to hearing it!
You know, my boss went looking for it a couple of days ago, and didn't find it.....
I found it at Borders a good two weeks ago now (Tuesday before my father died), but didn't buy it then since I was thinking of getting it at the concert, which I missed. (And, now, happily, Fleming-Tamulevich will send me a copy since they represent Solas.)
New Al Stewart CD - "Down in the Cellar".
Rokia Traore, "Wanita." Woman singer from Mali, one of the things which the www.wen.com radio shows introduced me to.
Al Stewart CD just came around on the CD player again.
Abra Moore. "Say it like that"
"Ghostbusters" by Ray Parker, Jr.
re:288 How do you manage to do that? Are you a part of some Flem-Tam thing that anybody can sign up for?
VAST's new one, "Music For People" (just started, so it's on track one, "The Last One Alive")
Terem Quartet: "No, Russia Cannot Be Perceived By Wit." The Quartet left the Real World label and so this, their third release in the West, has been hard to find in America. Russian classical musicians playing folk instruments.
Megan, nope. It's because I'm "the folk writer", aka, because I write the folk column for the Current, and so I get publicity stuff from them every couple of months or so.
I also get Flem Tam stuff, because they want to book people at Green Wood. (I *really* like Alice Peacock).
Mmm. I haven't played her stuff yet. But I got a CD of hers. Will have to check.
"The Creature From the Black Lagoon" by Dave Edmunds. A 5 CD mix of Halloween tunes and treats is playing. Oh wait, tune is ending. Lets see what it picks. Back to the classical disk. Wagner's "The Ride of the Valkres" (aka, the "Kill the wabbit" tune).
Lo'Jo, MOJO RADIO. Definitely an earlier version of the sound which was to evolve for the current album BOHEME DE CRISTAL. Worth having since I love hearing Nadia & Yasmina sing.
(Jurassic 5, "Quality Control." I'm in the midst of recording my show for tomorrow. BTW, we're broadcasting on the Web again, and sound quality is GOOD. www.wupx.com, courtesy of nibblebox.com.) (how's that for a shameless plug?) :)
Well, the Solas is in: The Hour Before Dawn. Pretty good, normal Solas stuff. It always amusedss me what they manage to name the songs that they write...this time my favorite name has to be "What's Up With Win". (Their fiddle player is Winifred Horan...makes me wonder if the guys wrote it when she was having a bad day or something. :) I really enjoy their version of "I Will Remember You". I always wondered what Seamus Egan would do if he redid the song, and am pretty pleased with the results. It does match "Weep Not For the Memories" quite a bit more. (the original song that was then turned into I Will Remember You)
Jaco Pastorious, "Jaco Pastorious". Recent CD reissue of original album from 1976. Jaco was a revolutionary bass guitarist in the 1970's (he died in the 80's at a rather young age) who influenced just about everybody.
I antici . . . .
. . . .pation of seeing Rocky Horror Picture Show
tonight, the soundtrack CD.
Pete Townshend, "Lifehouse Chronicles" box set, disc 1 (Lifehouse project demos).
Judy in Disquise, more songs in tune with the season.
(Insane Clown Posse, cover of "Let's Go All The Way" [cheesy track from mid-80s]. preparing for my 3-hour ICP broadcast while Grexing.)
Hey, I actually LIKE that ICP track, which is hard for me to admit, trust me. Then again, I liked that cheezy 80's track too...
NIN, I'm Looking Forward to Joining You, Finally (disc 2 of The Fragile)
(REM, "Driver 8." Marks Marvelous is playing it on his show [Fridays 10am-noon, www.wupx.com].)
Thomas Dolby, "The Flat Earth".
Caedmon's Call's latest, Long Line of Leavers. Pretty good.. they've got two new members, on bass and Hammond B3 / keyboards.
PJ Harvey, "Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea"
Is that worth my getting?
re: PJ. It's rockier and more "mainstream" than her other ones. I like it, but it doesn't stand out.
Lovin' Spoonfull. CD player is being used alot today to avoid radio like the political plague that has decended upon it.
Ute Lemper -- The Part You Throw Away (from Punishing Kiss ???)
oops. meant to include the url... Ute Lemper -- The Part You Throw Away (from Punishing Kiss ???) http://www.ums.org/real/part.ram
Another CD mix. I can wait to hear election results.
Rough cassette mixes of upcoming Nick Strange Trio CD. I'm playing bass on 4 of the tracks.
(Millie Jackson, "Love Doctor.")
Bruce Springsteen, 5 CDs on shuffle.
Beatles, "Magical Mystery Tour." 33 years old... gack, I feel like a tottering wreck.
Moroon, the latest Bare Naked Ladies CD.
An album of Monteverdi stuff for solo voice and small orchestra; an impulse buy at Borders tonight.
Alphaville's latest one, "Salvation," nearing the end.
big sonic heaven...
"Jackpine Savage" by Da Yoopers CD.
Waterson:Carthy, "Broken Ground." Their third album, I seem not to like it all that much. I think I'm having an Eliza Carthy Backlash.
Hevia, "Mermuradora" from the Asturian piper's newest release, "Al Otru Llau"
Iggy Pop, "American Caesar".
I got "Titan" by Elevator on for a test spin. Competent musicianship, but this techno-dance-latinio beat will probably got back to the free samples pile.
(we have that on 12-inch at the station, but I haven't listened to it yet.)
re 334: be wary of bad words and course language (that which is in English) if you have that concern for your station.
Kristi Stassinopoulou, ECHOTROPIA. Mentioned here many times, I'm sure.
Mustard's Retreat: "Sandy Raccoon" (I'm in a weird mood today, what else can I say?) (thanks Twila)
Marc and the Mambas, Torments and Toreros. It's on the third or fourth track.
This Mortal Coil - Meniscus Limeliters - Streamlined Cannonball
Both at once?
"Christina Deutekom Sings Verdi." A $5 album from Harmony House Classical. A live recording mostly of excerpts from Verdi's "Attila," which we hope to be seeing in Chicago in a few weeks.
"Last Christmas" by George Michael and Wham! Yes, I'm into listening to Christmas CDs. New ones I got this year.
(a loop from Kitty Craft's "Alright." kewl gurl music.)
The Moon Seven Times - Sunburnt
(Apotheosis, "O Fortuna." it's been *so* long... and, yes, it's still illegal.)
Thomas Dolby, "The Flat Earth".
That Celtic Christmas Caleigh CD I mentioned earlier.
Grant Lee Buffalo, "lone star song"
While in a very entertaining late-night/early morning party, I heard several brilliant songs by the Asturian group, Felpeyu. Playing now, "Quirosanu"
The wonders of the Internet. :) Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Rock Art and the X-Ray Style." It could probably pass for a good Clash album.
Peter Gabriel, OVO. Er, um. "The Weavers Reel" is nice, but most of the rest of the first five tracks are not essential.
(I'm at the North Wind offices, and they're listening to the D'Angelo
album [you know, *the* D'Angelo album <no, I'm not going to get up and
see what the name of it is; it's *that* one {for the love of... ok, it's
"Voodoo." are you happy now?}. if you don't know, ask someone else.>, the
new one.]. I'm not sure which track is playing. heck, I only recognize
something like three tracks off the album.)
On the way to work today, the radio station played Burl Ives "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas"...and it's in my head now. There were 2...well...3 christmas albums that were played in my house growing up a lot. Burl Ives, Ferrante and Teicher (please forgive the spelling if it is wrong...it's been y ears since I have seen it) with two women dressed as santa's helpers on the cover, and Jim Neighbors with "Go Tell it on the Mountain"...Burl Ives was perfect today...I'm gonna have to go find it on CD
A British Import CD call "Ultimate Christmas". A two CD set again packaging many tunes more popular in England. I like listeing to them. Strange though, this package has a lot of rather recent British stuff, plus some 60's Motown, and Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
We picked up a Burl Ives Christmas CD at Waldenbooks for 6.99....okey, so we got 9 cds all together that day, but......:)
Pete Townshend's "All the Best Cowboys have Chinese Eyes". Title aside, this is my favorite of his earlier solo albums.
I'd agree that it's the best of his earlier solo stuff, though I've never been a huge fan of his solo releases. (Actually, I think if you put all of them together you could come up with two or three really great albums but the classic to filler ratio on many of his solo releases is way too high for me..)
errr.. make that "the classic to filler ratio is much too low" in general I'd prefer more classics, less filler.
Out of all the songs on ".. Chinese Eyes" only one is annoying enough to make me usually fast forward to the next. Mike, would you care to contrast the average Who release with the average Townshend solo release around that period? ;)
well, um, i.. <mutter..> I respectfully refuse to answer that question on the grounds that..
(Sloan, "underwhelmed." I'm filling in for Nik in the Morning at www.wupx.com) <shameless plugola>
Maire Brennan - Rose of Bethlehem, from the One Silent Night CD, a nice collection of Christmas songs done by female artists.
Janacek's "Sinfonietta" and "Glagolitic Mass," conducted by Simon Rattle. Emerson Lake and Palmer grabbed a riff out of the "Sinfonietta" in one of their albums, but I can't remember which one...
re #361: Next time we negotiate a trade treaty with Canada, I'm all in favor of a clause demanding an "Underwhelmed" moratorium. It's an entertaining enough, if not particularly brilliant, song but I'd like to hear some other song by Sloan on the radio at some point. It's my understanding that they have entire albums of songs that *aren't* "underwhelmed"
The English Country Blues Band, UNRULY. Most of their two LPs, except for about four songs. One of the most beloved albums in the collection.
Dr. Demento on my DVD player what plays MP3s from CDs. Heard show segments from 1975, 1989 and 1999 thusfar.
WDET Something that sounds very Zappa-ish. Whoever is djing hasn't been back for a while. Lotsa horns, guitar... Oh, he's back. Yes, it's The Grand Wazoo. Anniv. of Frank's passing. On to a doo-wop song. You don't want me no more, but it's alright with me. Valarie.
resp:364 (wish I knew what they were.) :^) (Madonna's "Music", cuz it's on the bathroom stereo and I'm too lazy to get up and switch it.)
The extra gory version of "The night Santa Went Crazy" by Weird Al. From that MP3 collection.
Ceolbeg, CAIRN WATER. Scottish folk band.
"Kiss me where it stinks" by Barnes and Barnes, (Lenier will do a lot of penance for that one), from my recently accuired disk of MP3s of Dr. Demento shows.
("The Truth", from the Handsome Boy Modelling School release.)
(FWIW, I'm listening to the Liz 'n Leif Show on www.wupx.com.)
Santa Baby by Ertha Kitt Gabriel's Message by Sting Santa Claus is Coming to Town by Burl Ives Sleigh Ride by Ferrante and Teicher Ahhh...I'm in the mood for christmas NOW!!!!
Okay, I would just like to say that I love P.J's Records. For the record (no pun intended). I called them up looking for 2 possibly 3 christmas albums that MAKE christmas for me, and they're out of print. Every year we put up the tree listening to Ferrante and Teicher's "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", Burl Ives "Have A Holly Jolly Christmas", and the third is a christmas album by Jim Neighbors (yes, gomer). And while I can't find the Burl Ives album anywhere (I have napster, so I can get some of the songs I want off it like "Snow for Johnny" and "I heard the bells on christmas day") he found the other two. I CANNOT BELIEVE IT! I am SOOOOOOO happy! Thank god for me keeping that record player, eh? Woo hoo!
(Jim Nabors, I think you mean.) Have you looked on half.com for the Burl Ives? I saw a CD titled "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" on there, and it has the songs you mentioned. btw, is PJs Records a local A^2 thing?
Yes, but PJ's is on the internet and they do ship the albums if you like. I can't remember the url, but I'll find out when I pick my stuff up.
My boss got the Burl Ives cd at Waldenbooks for $6.99. :) Happy Meg. :)
Listened to most of Ravi Coltrane's "From the Round Box" while chatting in party. n.p.: "Consequence"
Last night the music of Jimy Hendrix played on banjo -- "Picking
on Hendrix"
Right now, Joel Mabus Christmas album "how like the holly".
A Prairie Home Companion, which features Susan McKeown this week. Sorry I didn't have any advance warning for Mickey.
(Mickey knew about this, at one time --- that didn't stop him from missing it, though. Ah, well. How did she do? I'd intended to post a notice about this, since Susan and Johnny Cunningham will be in Ann Arbor soon.)
(Eazy-E, "Merry Mutha****** Xmas." I'm making radio edits of "Xmas" songs for the radio station.)
(evan & jaron, "Crazy For This Girl." it's on VH1's Insomniac Music Theatre. I'm falling asleep already.)
More Christmas music than I have Christmas time for.
Runaway by Sylvia Tosun, actually an MP# sample from her website: www.sylviatosun.com sounds pretty good, julie flanders and emil adler of november project cowrote most of the songs with sylvia from what I can see.. oh bugger.. that # is supposed to be a 3. Anyway, if you like october/november project check this out.
Mozart's opera DON GIOVANNI, on PBS television. Coming up on the grand finale. Just tuned in for the last 40 minutes or so.
I'm still listening to Christmas music. Didn't get to enough of the collection. After this players worth of more pop stuff is done, I'll probably play the Cheiftans and another Celtic Xmas CD.
I didn't watch Muppets "Scroge" this year, so the soundtrack is on now. I put the soundtrack back into the bins because I was going to watch the movie. This about wraps up the Christmas music.
<"Light the lamp, not the rat, LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT! AHH AHH AHH!!">
Adventurous listening time. Rebirth of the Loud sampler is on now.
Out with the old year, in with the new! Six months seems to be a good lifetime for these items, so I'm closing this one. Tedious lists continue in item:289, see you there!
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