A new item for the new century! This is 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.420 responses total.
Blur, THE BEST OF. I got the first Blur album years ago after hearing it at Chris Gooseman's place, but somehow I never really followed up with it. Heard this anthology in a used CD store in Maryland and bought it on the spot. Possibly the best mainstream rock band I've heard since the 1990 barrier which I usually can't cross. I wonder why these guys aren't more popular in the states? Well, they do have a car ad...
Rossini, LE COMTE ORY --- it's on OvationTV. An LSO performance, at the Glyndebourne Opera Festival. Very nice sound quality, though I haven't been watching too much of the production.
re #1: Blur were critical favorites and were constantly being picked as "the next British break-through band" for several years running during the 90s but they never did manage any substantial US success.. (this was about the time that pop-music pundits were looking for "the next Oasis") The only one of Blur's songs that I can remember charting in the US was the Pet Shop Boys remix of "Boys and Girls"
No, Song 2 off their last (?) album was a big hit, even though you couldn't understand most of it, and I also liked Bettlebum off the same album.
Abbey Road, by the Beatles. Relaxing my ears after lots of holiday-season new-album listening.
I just got the 1 album. :) Happy Meg....
Now That's What I Call Music #5. Today's hits. Recognize a couple. Maybe Al will parody one of these.
Kasey Chambers, "The Captain" - This Australian has been making quite an impression around Austin, and her CD of the same name was number 7 of last year's most popular CDs, as voted by KGSR listeners. I need to find a copy of this. It's in the Julie Miller / Iris Dement style of alternative country, so, obviously won't appeal to everybody.
Pete Townshend, "Lifehouse Chronicles" disc 2.
And now: Panorama by Craig Chaquico. Jazz guitar.
Adrian Legg, "High Strung Tall Tales." Electro-acoustic guitar instrumentalist. Don't know why I sort of lost track of Legg for a few years there. From 1994, this seems like one of his better albums on first listening.
rollie tussing III: Blow Whistle Blow
CSN: Carry On A two disc Best Of album. I gots it for Christmas. :) Actually, so did my big broher. :) It's got a lot of stuff that I know, and a bunch of stuff that I don't. They certainly did not skimp on songs...one disc had about 19 songs, the other 17, so they certainly give the most bang for the buck.
Mary Black: "Leaving the Land" from the 1987 release BY THE TIME IT GETS DARK. This is one of my favourite songs, because it reminds me of my grandparents. I believe it was written by Eric Bogle. There are several other splendid covers on this CD.
Hmmm.. Another cover of "By the Time it Gets Dark".. I really like the Yo La Tengo version; I'm going to have to look up the original sometime..
Kristi Stassinpolou, ECHOTROPIA, again. See "favorite CDs of 2000" item.
Gregorian chant, believe it or not.
"Clannad 2," the so-so transfer on the Shanacie CD. The dustup in item 67 motivated me to dig out all the early Clannad CDs.
The Albion Band, "Stella Maris." 1987; the era when they had ceased to be great but were still quite listenable. Sigh. What ever became of their singer Cathy Lesurf anyway?
Harry Chapin -- Taxi (mp3)
Hasn't she still been around at Cropredy concerts? (in re: LeSurf). I need to get a copy of Stella Maris.
Knots and Crosses - Come up For Air from the There Was a Time CD... yes Ken, I finally got it!
Yay!! I seem to recall seeing that Carol Noonan, their singer, is on her own again, label-wise. NP: Wicklow Records anthology, "Deep Roots and Future Grooves." Dance-oriented remixes from the excellent catalog of the now-defunct Wicklow world music label, which was run by Paddy Moloney of the Chieftains, who seems to have had exquisite taste.
Carol Noonan recently released a CD, and there is a tour date for her and Knots and Crosses listed for january 13. Now how can I plan a trip to Maine in 4 days? she's got a webpage too, www.carolnoonanmusic.com
The 4CD Disney classics set. Sounds great at better than 50% off, too.
I too have gotten out my early Clannad albums. Sigh. (So, Ken, what do you think of Fuaim now?)
The Beatles, "Help". I really need to rent "The Rutles" again soon.
The Rutles "All You Need is Cash" should be on DVD by March.
Oh good. I'd rather see the film again than listen to the Rutles album. The film is funnier.
"All You Need is Cash" is a different film from "The Rutles", isn't it?
Pink Floyd: _Wish You Were Here_. It's just a few minutes into the opening instrumental bit (my favorite part of the album, along with the title track).
Bjork, _Homogenic._ Eric left this disc at my apartment one day, and I loathed it the first time I listened to it. Somehow, I ended up putting it in the player a second time....and a third....and now I've fallen so in love with it that I really can't bring myself to return it to its rightful owner. (....so remind me -- why did I let myself take an ethical stance on copyright law?)
A sampler CD from a magazine.
Everclear, the old Van Morrison tune "Brown Eyed Girl".
eugene chadbourne & jimmy carl black: colorado koolaid
Kristi Stassinopoulou; the album ECHOTROPIA is moving into the play-daily category.
Sarah Harmer - You were Here. I saw her live a few months ago with GBS, and kinda liked her stuff, but thought there wasn't enough energy to it. Now, she's coming to the Ark next month, and we've been thinking about going to see her. So I figured that I'd get her cd, since I've been meaning to, especially since it would be worth finding out if she is worth seeing again. OH MY!!! I was expecting to be disappointed, and was deffinately not! The songs that I remember liking at the concert, came out with a lot more energy, and I like them alot more now. I recognize all of the songs from the concert, but enjoy them more. Sorry about the odd rambling....It's bed time. :)
Gwenc'hlan, "un peu d'air." Breton classic folk-rock band. Second album not as good as the first, I don't think, but the second half of it has really grown on me, lots of bagpipes & flutes & electric guitars & drums.
Eugene Chadbourne: The Bully Song
Waulk Elektrik, "Um Di Um." One of my birthday presents to myself. :) On first listening, this is exceptional and should appeal to Shooglenifty fans. More later in Celtic music item, I hope.
r. crumb and the cheap suit serenaders:
singin' in the bathtub
(The R Crumb, or just a R Crumb?)
The Mingus Big Band, w/ Kevin Mahogany -- [I don't know the name of the tune, but they're playing it right now]
r41 *the* r. crumb.
Mock my pain, why don't you, Eric? I had a ticket for that show, but I mis-read some e-mail from the guy who bought us tickets and I was expecting to show up tomorrow. :P
Capercaillie, "Tobar Mhoire" (Tobermory) from the 1993 SECRET PEOPLE album. I love the rhythm backing Karen Matheson's Gaelic chanting on this song.
she's got a great voice fer sure.
"Surfin the Spillway", a local surf-band compilation from a few years ago.
Bob Schneider, "Metal & Steel" -- The most popular song on KGSR from last year, as voted by the listeners.
shopping mall: r. crumb and the cheap suit serenaders
Shaving Cream - Benny Bell (from the Dr. Demento 25th Anniversary 2 CD set).
Kirsty MacColl, "Days" --- I finally replaced my old cassette of Kirsty's KITE release, and I'm very glad that I did. I'd forgotten how much I like these songs. "Days" is a cover of the famous Ray Davies composition, with Johnny Marr contributing electric & acoustic guitar. R.I.P., Kirsty.
Squirells by the Beasty Boy on a Dr. Demento disk.
Bob Brozman & Ledward Kaapana: Lepe `ula`ula
re #54: been a lot of good stuff coming out of Hawaii in the past few years.. Whether or not you like his music, George Winston is due a lot of credit for starting Dancing Cat..
"Dancin' Fool" - Frank Zappa
Recently pulled out a bunch of albums I hadn't listened to in a while, among them was the dB's "Stands for Decibels" I remember not particularly liking this back when I bought it in the eighties so I was quite surprised by just how clearly I remembered all of the songs.. It seems to have aged well compared to a lot of stuff from the same period..
"Moog" by Dick Hyman. Now on CD. It musta took a lot of work to make that electronic music back then. Today, one can MIDI on their PC.
On The Track: Leon Redbone
re: 58: Actually, today's PCs (even the ones from a year or two ago) are powerful enough to simulate all of that analog Moog circuitry in real time and make the same exact sounds... all in software. Wow.
So now, in addition to the "it's not the same without vinyl" people, we get to have "it's not the same on a PC" people? (Someone will claim Linux sounds warmer and less sterile.) (Apple will only let people play _happy_ music.) (It will take a certain grexer upward of five tries to type "vinyl" and "Linux" correctly on a regular basis.) Uh, wait. Where am I? I'm listening to Poignant Plecostomus, _Symphony of Eating and Shitting._ There's another Plecostomus fan in my co-op, and I was inspired to drag out my CDs of theirs.
"Cecilia" by Simon and Garfunkel, in my head. I have no idea why.
David Lindley, "El Rayo-Ex".
Bob Blackmun's Sunday night folk music show on WKAR-FM. Playing a Peter Bellamy song now, *sniff*. Bob says the shows are available for a week on the station's web site, if any of you are inclined to tinker with such things.
The Beatles, "Past Masters Volume Two," the late singles. Beatles songs seem to be cropping up all over with the release of the "1" anthology; I think that must have been the disc playing at the food coop Friday night and I'm sure the staff thought the old bald geezer singing along was slightly disturbed.
Re #62, gotta watch what gets in your head. Listening to GWB's inaugural speech (yes, I watch these things: I'd rather hear what he has to say than listen to Rather or Brokaw tell me what he said), in which he made several references to "The American Story" with heavy emphasis on the word "story" ... Was I the only person listening to start playing, in my head, "It's the story / Of a lovely lady ..."?
Some hip-hop song that features in its lyrics a variation of "Whistle While You Work" on 100 Jamz (radio station in Nassau, Bahamas).
Steely Dan, "Two Against Nature". Yes, the recent new Steely Dan release. Pretty good, and sounds much like their 70's work (supposedly Donald Fagen finds digital keyboards to be too out-of-tune [due to quantization of possible pitches] and so still uses Rhodes and Wurlitzer electric pianos).
I found "2 Against Nature" to be somewhat disappointing, but then I'd become a big fan of all of their previous work and had high hopes for the "comeback album." Although a lot of the classic Steely Dan elements are there, including my favorite aspect of Becker & Fagan's work -- the obscure and fragmented storytelling that gets scrambled into little three minute sagas about low-lives, losers, and creeps -- most of the songs just didn't work for me.. I do like "Jack of Speed" and "Janie Runaway", but they don't compare with classics like "Kid Charlemagne".. (I have a feeling I've written this all before when the album first came out, but in case I haven't, I'd recommend Fagan's "Kamakiriad" a supposedly-solo album produced by Becker.)
Someone practicing on the big organ downstairs. I don't know the tune, but it always permeates the entire building, even if we close all the doors between my office on the third floor and the stage on the first.
now spinning: "In the Red Zone: the Essential Collection of Classic Dub" "essential" might be overstating the case a little, but it is a decent collection with some nice cuts by King Tubby, Augustus Pablo, and Lee Perry, as well as a fun re-work of Black Uhuru's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" I realize they publish music from all over the world, and actually they've been been very good about keeping some classic dub albums in print, but it still feels weird to me to realize that this album is on Shanachie..
steely dan = tom waits performing elevator muzak
Exactly how, happyboy?
oh puhleeze!
Is that your *final* answer? ;)
Dangerous Heroes - Michael Longcor
Susana Baca, "Eco de Sombras."
For some reason, Susanna Baca seems to be the only one of the "Soul of Black Peru" artists to really benefit from that collection with decent distributuion in North America.
(Tom Tom Club, "Happiness Can't Buy Money (Handsomeboy Modeling School Mix)." it's off of a RykoPalm sampler.)
Miles Davis: Porgy and Bess Nice, mostly easygoing orchestral jazz.
Jesus and Mary Chain -- "Psychocandy"
One after 909 - The Beatles
Ry Cooder: Jazz
Linda Lay & Appalachian Trail, "The Tracks We Leave." Nice old fashioned bluegrass album. I picked this up at the band's appearance at the National Folk Festival in East Lansing last August. Hmm, I should do a web search and see what they are up to.
Out of the Past by November Project from their 5 song EP A Thousand Days. I just saw NP together with Grey Eye Glances the other night, what a combination..
Interesting. I've been listening to a lot of October Project lately. Who are November Project?
Dido, No Angel. A beautiful album, even though I can't say much more about it, except that it's beautiful. Dido's a big hit in the UK right now, as far as I know. Eminem sampled one song off this album in his song Stan. The sampled song is Thankyou. Anyway, hello, I'm new here.
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby on Planet 96.3fm.
Hi lasar, I'm glad you could make it! Kirsty MacColl, TROPICAL BRAINSTORM. Arrived on the porch a couple of hours ago; I probably wouldn't even have ordered it if she hadn't been killed. It's OK; I hear two songs which will go into Leslie's next mix minidisc, Real Soon Now.
Oddly enough, even though I generally have a pretty low tolerance for Dido and for Eminem, "Stan" really knocked me over the first few times I heard it. I suppose it makes sense: Dido could use more rough edges, and Eminem could use fewer, so they compliment each other nicely. Right now, Gary Lucas's _Evangeline._ Makes my fingers hurt just listening to it. This guy is a ridiculous guitarist....
orinoco asked who november project are.. basically, when October Project disbanded, the couple who founded them. Emil Adler and Julie Flanders reformed as November Project with vocalist Mary Anne Marino, bassist Michael Visceglia, who was with OP for their Falling Farther in CD, and was with Suzanne Vega for 14 years, and drummer Doug Yowell. They have out a 5 song EP, and a full lenght album is due out at any time. Also, Marina Belica has out a new CD, decembergirl (do I sense a theme?), and Mary Fahl has a new 4 song EP called Lenses of Contact. check out www.novemberproject.com and www.decembergirl.com next time: who is Grey Eye Glances? and now for what's playing, Anita Lipnicka's newest CD, Moje Oczy sa Zielone.
Reverence, the first album of Faithless.
just some songs in my head, I'm making cds from my mp3s and I just have assorted ramblings in my head
"Little Victories," Darden Smith
The "I'm Afraid of Americans" remix album. I can't decide whether it makes me want to shoot David Bowie or marry him.
Babylon, David Gray. A single release I found yesterday. Tracks: Babylon, Over my head, Tell me more lies. The CDs been playing for 6 hours straight yesterday, and is now spinning again.
Rock the Casba by the Clash on Planets 80's lunch thing.
Re: #96. That's a little strange, because I was playing WhiteLadder by David Gray earlier in the morning. Right now, Jo Dee Messina is singing "Burn." (Twila had mentioned this in party, and I picked it up as I was browsing through the alt.country section, looking for Kasey Chambers.)
Would someone who's been a Suzanne Vega fan for 14 years be likely to enjoy the new band of her bassist for the same period?
re #99: I'm not all that familiar with Suzanne Vega, but I would say don't expect a lot of similarity between her and November Project.. which is not to say you wouldn't like NP.. just expect something more along the lines of a modern version of Renaissance.. hard to describe in words.. there are samples on their webpage though..
re #98: (hmm. I just may have to listen to that Kasey Chambers CD
that's been sitting on my office shelf the past couple of months.)
re #99: (Bruce Thomas?)
(Ludacris, "Southern Hospitality," cuz that's what's on MTV at the moment.)
Beethoven violin sonatas, Gidon Kremer & Martha Argerich.
Page and Plant, _No Quarter_
"Try" from Janis Joplin's Greatest hits, the one with new bonus tracks and remastered.
Prairie Ceilidh, "Dry Island." From Calgary; review maybe later.
Patty Smyth doing Tom Waits' Downtown Train
Sally Timms, "Cowboy Sally's Twilight Laments for Lost Buckaroos." I ordered this from Bloodshot Records' mail order service to get the import version with the five tracks from the first "Cowboy Sally" EP, and also another limited edition Langford/Timms EP.
(R. Kelly, "I Wish," cuz it's on MTV.)
re106: now that's just sad.
re #107: hmmm.. how much to order the expanded version, and how are the five extra tracks? the U.S. version is a remarkably short album, but I like it fairly well..
$18, and the five extra tracks are the "Cowboy Sally" EP which Bloodshot says is now out of print, and which I never got around to getting. Can't really offer a quality assessment yet.
Adventerous listening this afternoon. I heard the tail end of a Osvaldo Pugliese CD of their hits of the 1940's - it was made in the Chezch Republic in 2000. Mostly instrumentals. Then another one from the dregs of CDs the buyers don't scarf up, "A Rubber Band Christmas". Yep, carols as played on rubber bands. Sammy Haggar's rock and roll screaming was a schock to hear next, but what a playlist. HIs 2000 CD is Ten 13.
When you wrote "A Rubber Band Christmas", at first I was thinking Bootsy's Rubber Band..
Boring in comparison, but still very enjoyable: Minor Earth Major Sky by A-Ha.
Michelle Shocked, "Short Sharp Shocked." This is a newly purchased UK edition. For years I've groused about the hiss in the original 1988 USA release and wanted to hear if the European versions were better. Some songs seem better, "Memories of East Texas" is still pretty hissy though. I'll have to dig out my 1988 issue and compare them.
Assorted songs, but really having fun with "Hip to be Square" by Hewy Lewis and the News, "too late for goodbyes" by Julian Lennon, and "Otra dia mas sin verte" by John Secada.
Ashley MacIsaac's newer album, _Helter's Celtic._ Caitlin finally returned my copy to me at this morning's walk. I can't say I'm much more impressed with the album than I was before I lent it to her.... too bad, really, since I had high hopes before it came out.
Cannonball Adderly, "Jazz Workshop Revisited." Got this on CD today after the Grexlunch. I have a sneaking suspicion I own this on vinyl. Yusuf Lateef and Joe Zawinul are in the band. This is from 1962.
Urga, "Urgasm." Pop-rock band from Sweden, with significantly less folk/roots influence than was promised by the catalog listing. This wouldn't have been out of place on MTV in the 1980s. Hey Twila!!!
"Fire in the Kitchen." Not officially a Chieftains recording, but it's most or all of the Chieftains playing along with a selection of Canadian maritimes folkies. I think it was Great Big Sea on the preceding track.
Earlier I was listening to Kirsty MacColl's "Titanic Days," and heard this
line: "I want someone up here beside me / To wake up with heaven with all my
worries behind me." :~{
Anyway, right now I don't have music because Lost Boys is on in the background
somewhere.
(TBS, I think.) (Ludacris, "What's Your Fantasy?", cuz it's on MTV.)
Ah hah. Okay, Ken... I guess I'll need to borrow "Urgasm". NP at the Price desk, "Seven Nation". Described at the Borders listening station as "the Dave Matthews band with bagpipes". I don't know if I'd go that far, but it's definitely pop-flavored.
"Piranha Women Of The Avocado Jungle Of Death" by Christine Lavin.
Yeah, they didn't strike me as terribly Dave Matthews-esque, except that the Dave Matthews Band is the only place you're gonna hear a fiddle on rock radio.
i call bullshit on the fiddle comment, junior.
On "rock" radio? I suppose you might get Jefferson Airplane/Starship on the oldies station, or maybe The Corrs. What else did you have in mind, happyboy?
He (almost) has a point, though -- I had to choose my adjective carefully so as to rule out country, jazz, folk, bluegrass, etc. My point was that, apart from the fiddle, the music on the album sounded entirely like mainstream (non-country, non-fusion, un-folk-influenced) rock, while Dave Matthews Band has a bit more of a distinctive (fusion-ish, folk-influenced) sound.
Ilgi, SEJU VEJU, their 2000 album, short (only 36 minutes) but sweet. From Latvia.
ken...beatles stones zep or are you gunna wax semantic all over me? :)
Alison Moyet, "Falling" (I've been listening to Ms. Moyet all morning, and I'm pleased to find so many songs about love: "Love Resurrection," "Is This Love?" "Love Letters," "Weak in the Presence of Beauty," and others. (don't mind me, I'm in a bouncy Valentine's Day mood....)
Better watch it man, or I'll play the Anti-Valentine mix: Love Stinks, J.Giles Band Love Kills, Def Leppard I Love You, Sarah McLaughlan You give love a bad name, Bon Jovi <giggles and wishes everyone a Happy Valentine's Day>
Happyboy: I dunno, do "All You Need Is Love" and "Got To Get You Into My Life" make the Beatles a brass band? You're naming bands which have used an occasional violin part as a special effect. NP: Hedningarna, "Tra."
ashley macissac. :P nerd.
Does Ashley MacIssac get played on any rock station not subject to Canadian Content rules?
Steely Dan, "Two Against Nature". This album is definitely growing on me.
re135
he did a cupple years ago. say his vid on mtv or vh1 as well
baldy! :P~~~
8D
Nothing now, but I bought Bruce a copy of Camelot for Valentine's Day.
Now playing: Mojave 3 - "Out of Tune" After a long period of dislike, I'm re-evaluating this one. Seems much better than when I first heard it, though I still prefer their first album "Ask Me Tomorrow."
"Debbie" by Throwing Toasters.
Barbara Striesand on TV, FOX. I do love her voice...
<gag>
Whaaaaaaaaaat? She CAN sing, and well.
Happyboy knows that, ashke. But he has trouble showing his true feelings, and his desperate, doomed infatuation with Babra is at the core of it. Just remember whenever you see one of his obnoxious postings that he's really trying to act out from a core of loneliness and fear.
i wanna dickslap barb!
I find it ironic that both people defending Barbra Streisand misspelled her first name. Although I assume Scott's was a typo. While I harbor no hostile feelings toward Ms. Streisand, I must respectfully disagree with Ashke on the aesthetic quality of her singing.
Truly? I like her rendition of "Memory" the best, I like "Evergreen", "you don't bring me flowers" and many others. I think on the whole she is a great singer.
Now playing:
King Crimson -- "Lizard"
Over the years, many of their albums have competed in my opinions
for the title of "favorite King Crimson album" but I think that
"Lizard" will remain the long-term winner for me, though that's an
opinion I don't expect any other Crimson fan to agree with..
"Lizard" is one of a small group of albums (less than 20, surely)
that I didn't like at first, in fact couldn't stand for months after
buying it. Then one day it was like someone filled in the rest of the
music I wasn't hearing and in no time at all it went from despised and
regretted impulse purchase to long-lasting favorite.
(For me, "Babra" isn't a typo; it's a dialect)
"Sad Song" by Elton John from the new CD of live performance at Madison SQ garden.
[re #149: perhaps "Bahbra" would be a clearer indication of your intention..]
Annie Lennox.
Live Wall. :)
151, 149> I concur, mostly on account of 151 is what I was gonna say. ;} Ashke> Hey, given Barbra's popularity and sales, as well as her concert prices, you clearly have the majority view. *shrug* As any good hooker will tell you, different strokes for different folks.
<bursts out laughing> ok. I just like her music. Mostly the earlier stuff, but I do like it. but I would NEVER see her in concert and pay for it because frankly, she's not worth THAT much. 150-1000 a ticket? Hell no!
John Hiatt, "Crossing Muddy Waters." Still opening up Christmas presents.
"Ode to Playboy" by Bob Ricci.
U2 - "All That You Can't Leave Behind You" Decent enough, but not as good as Zooropa or Achtung Baby. Whether it's better or worse than their early stuff or stuff from the Unforgettable Fire / Joshua Tree period will depend on your opinions of those periods respectively, but it's kind of an apples and oranges comparison..
Cassandra Wilson, "New Moon Daughter". Interesting CD... Wilson is considered a "jazz" singer, but this isn't exactly jazz. Some interesting covers (including U2 and the Monkees), some original tunes, all done in a rather sparse, mostly acoustic production. And the arrangements are closer to Tom Waits than anything else.
CBC Radio's Saturday night show, Radio Sonic. Now playing Smudge, by UNGIN (?). Sounds like electronic/jazz/trance??? They're giving away a cd by Ladytron to anyone who can make up "What a Ladytron might be". Some band from Liverpool. Didn't some other band come from there?
I rather suspect the band took its name from the Roxy Music song by that name. Of course that only pushes the question back a few decades. now playing: Beth Orton - "Best Bits EP" Does anyone know anything about Jazz vocalist Terry Callier, who sings two duets with Orton on this EP? I really like his vocals on the tracks they sing together..
This evening selection (okay.....all day) is Ute Lemper - Berlin Cabaret Songs. She covers a bunch of 20's cabaret songs, all done in German. I hadn't realized it, but there is an English version as well....which is the one that I had intended to buy. But I'm thrilled with this one! I will, however, buy the English one one of these days.
bob wills and his texas playboys: Hoopaw Rag
Tori Amos, "Past the Mission." Although really, I think I'd be better off listening to the Texas Playboys.
Adiemus IV - The Eternal Knot
"Batman" score, by Danny Elfman.
Blind Melon, "Tones of Home"
Emmylou Harris - "Wrecking Ball" checked this out from the public library, as I'd been curious about it for a while. I wasn't expecting it to sound quite so, ummm, Daniel Lanois, but I like it anyway.. I guess this is what Malcolm Burn is up to after Crash Vegas.
A CD of Grammy nominated songs.
(Eminem [f. Elton John], "Stan." this is the third time I've watched the clip, and I'm still not sure of how I feel about the performance.)
I'm sure that the vocal quality Elton John brings to the work does not match that of Dido in offering a tonal counterpoint to the foreground narrative offered by Eminem.
(that's part of my sentiment, in more words than I would have used to express that particular fraction.) ;) (Monica, some tripe off of her new album, cuz it's on MTV and I'm not sufficiently compelled to turn on the CD player and listen to one of my new Christine Lavin albums.)
I was in Border's the other day, looking to kill a few minutes. I ended up spending about half an hour listening to a CD called "Distillation" by Erin McKeown at one of the listening stations. I bought it, but I'm still baffled that I like it so much. It's alternately girly folk-pop (a la Lisa Loeb or Paula Cole) and old-style jazz (there's a Rodgers and Hart tune), and for some reason I haven't been able to stop playing it. So that's on right now.
Buster Poindexter (aka David Johannsen) singing "Screwy Music", as being played on NPR's "Fresh Air" program.
Charlie Gillet's show "World Music Charts Europe," October 2000; NP is Ruben Gonzalez. I'm getting back into the www.wen.com shows after taking some time away from them.
That Cassandra Wilson CD again.
I'm listening to "Wrecking Ball" again.. It didn't take long for it to move into heavy rotation.. How's "Red Dirt Girl"?
The living room ate my copy of "Red Dirt Girl" before I ever had a chance to play it.
(speaking of Dido, completely off-topic... I keep having the random thought that Dido's the sort of singer that people who are Eminem fans normally wouldn't like, and vice versa, and yet somehow Eminem's sampling of her has propelled her to stardom. Weird world sometimes)
Wasn't she in the video too, as Stan's girlfriend?
(she's in the video, sometimes shows up at his concerts, [finally] shot a video for her original version ["Thank You", which was featured a year earlier in "Sliding Doors", offering ammunition to any theory that Eminem might be more influential than Gwyneth Paltrow] and speaks favorably of Eminem in interviews. remember, it wasn't her experience in Faithless that put her over [she's the brother of Rollo and appeared on a couple of songs on their most recent album]. it wasn't her being on Arista that put her over [the same company responsible for Santana being all over the place last year]. it wasn't even having a song featured on "Dawson's Creek" that put her over ["Here With Me", a song for which I remember seeing the video late night on VH1 and thinking, "gee, she finally gets a video a year later."] no, it wasn't any of them; it was... the 45 King, whose previously best-known work was "The 900 Number", used as Ed Lover's theme music on early episodes of "Yo! MTV Raps" and sampled in DJ Kool's "Let Me Clear My Throat.") (Backstreet Boys, "Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely", because it's on the radio.)
The Gourds, "Bolsa de Agua." Got this last fall sometime and it sat around unplayed until Mickey mentioned it in party this afternoon. Sigh. Lots of yummy electric guitar and mandolins.
Fela Kuti, a rerelease CD containing the "Expensive Shit" and "He Miss Road" albums.
ishtar - "the voice of Alabina". I found this in a listening station at Borders. ishtar is from Israel, her parents are Egyptian and Moroccan. On this CD she sing mostly in French with a few songs in Egyptian and one with some English... a mix of dance, ballads and traditional styles.. very nice.. next time I'm CD shopping I'll pick up some Alabina, which is ishtar backed by a spanish gypsy band from what I understand..
Todays selection is Rush - Test for Echo. Their newest cd, and deffinately a keeper. It never ceases to amaze me how they manage to stay on top of what is going on in the world today. They have a song about the internet. :)
Ekova, "Heaven's Dust." Fake world music, but it sounds rather nice.
Runrig, "Live At Celtic Connections 2000." Runrig were always big crowd pleasers so this is pretty enthusiastic rousing stuff.
... and possibly the most enjoyable Runrig album I've heard in years.
Cibo Matto -- "Viva La Woman"
Martyn Bennett & Martin Low, "Hardland." Celtic folk techno, or something like that. Bagpipes, fiddles, and funny scratching noises.
Where did you find a copy? Did you have to 'import' it? Right now: Some slow bluesy guitar on WDET's night show.
I'm listening a great Pink Floyd bootleg. Miami 1994. Very great performance.
resp:191 :: the copy of Martyn Bennett's new album came from amazon.co.uk, their British shop. (and hi Luca, welcome back after a long time away!)
Bop (harvey), "Nation From Nation". This is an old local vinyl LP I finally got around to putting onto a more modern medium (using Linux to record to CD! I finally spent the time on figuring it out).
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. JCS on deck.
Justin Adams, "Desert Blues," the other CD in the Amazon UK package.
Donald Fagen, "Kamakiriad". Ya know, McNally was right. This *is* better than "Two Against Nature". I need to get a copy of "The Nightfly".
krj :-) luca_
Paul Simon, _Hearts and Bones._ Caitlin claims this sounds like kids' music, and she's sort of got a point. It's mostly cheerful, benignly synthy, and it's got songs about numbers and allergies and the moon. She partway retracted her opinion when she heard the end of the album, which is a song about John Lennon's death. Whatever. It's a great album.
ceredwen - the golden land
Emily Druce, "The Guilt Trip." English woman playing and singing acoustic blues.
the Clash -- "London Calling" a totally classic album which only seems to get better with age..
Orinoco writes: Paul Simon, _Hearts and Bones. well, if you can, you must see Paul performing the last album. One of the must emotional concert I've seen. luca
Julie Gold, her Try Love CD. She's one Bitchin' Babe.
That Cassandra Wilson CD again, after a few days of not liking it. Now I like it again. But the covers are getting annoying... I wish it was all originals.
I thought Cassandra Wilson mostly did other people's songs. NP: a new recording of Judith Weir's opera "A Night At The Chinese Opera."
The CD, "New Moon Daughter", has 6 covers and 5 originals.
("Dick Goes Down" from the Pornosonic sequel "Cream Streets". it's *great*
music for playing AOE2, which is what I was doing prior to conferencing.)
Bing Crosby's Irish collection on CD.
theme song for Dark Angel..
Right now, "Carnaval" by CORREO AEREO, a group playing South/Central American songs who now live in Austin. http://www.correoaereo.com
Archie Fisher, "All That You Ask Me" ... ah, yes....
Crash Vegas - "Red Earth"
Erin McKeown, _Distillation._ This album continues to rock my world, even though I still think it's pretty dorky. Oh well...
Clannad, "Two Sisters" from DULAMAN.
(The Verve, "Bittersweet Symphony", single version.)
(Erykah Badu, "Bag Lady [Cheeba Sac Mix]")
Television: "Gideon's Crossing" from last week.
(roomie is playing his _Pure Moods_ CD at an audible level while he goes along killing scores of people in whatever game he's playing tonight.)
I am hearing Phyco Killer right now, but I'm head humming Phsyco Chicken allong with it.
Gai Saber, TROBOR D'OC or something like that. Italian Occitan folk/ folk-rock band. I didn't know there *were* any Italian Occitans. More later. I might split a Eurofolk item out of the World Music item.
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(Gandharvas, "First Day of Spring." the American version [available on their album _Sold For A Smile_] SUCKS compared to the original Canadian version. luckily, I was able to find *2* of the Canadian singles while visiting Arizona. only a quarter each, too!)
The hum of computer fans.
Solas, performing live in the KUT studio ... I can't believe I forgot about their show tonight.
GAK! I'm so jealous! I'm listening to the pitterpatter of little kitten steps
King Crimson, "The Construkction of Light".
Ah ah ah! Forgot the funny KCapitalization!
FeKh.
Runrig, "In Search of Angels." OK, they're an arena rock band. I don't care.
Steeleye Span, "A Calling on Song/The Blacksmith" ... the only way to hear Blacksmith, as I see it. :)
the Kinks -- "..are The Village Green Preservation Society"
Billy Ocean "Caribbean Queen" Billboard Top Hits 1984 Rhino Records
hahahahhaha!
Page and Plant, "Gallows Pole"
(well, it was Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" on the radio, but that gave me a craving to see FDA's "Taint Of Love" video again, so that's what's playing now.) (http://www.newgrounds.com/fda)
Cake, "Prolonging the Magic." A favorite in my apartment in Chicago, and I've been missing it sorely since I've been in Ann Arbor again.
Jethro Tull, LIVING IN THE PAST. It's *clickity* *pop* Vinyl Night here.
An appropriate album title, then..
Now playing:
Spiritualized -- "Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space"
An excellent final studio album from the now-defunct successors to
Spacemen 3.. Has anyone listened much to the solo stuff from the
other major force from Spacemen 3 (i.e. the guy who goes by the
name "Sonic Boom")?
I'm listening to the organ accompaniement of a silent movie on Turner Classic Movies. I don't the name of the movie, though. Interesting color effects: it appears to be black-and-white, except that the torch flames are orange.
The Groovemongers' _Fresh Wares._ Fiddle tunes, mostly originals. They do a medley called "David's Bathrobe -> The Cell Phone," which should give you some sense of their attitude. Another tune is called "The Great Warthog Chase." They also do some traditional waltzes, though, and a set of Cape Breton tunes.
One of the many CDs I got at the funny music convention. This one is "In A Silent Drum" by Dan Hart. This folk artist sang only funny stuff at the convention, but the CD has a good mix of funny, fun & serious. A very competent musician. Good vocal range. Good musical range. I could guess danhart.com.
Djeli Moussa Djawara & Bob Brozman, "Ocean Blues," a African/Hawaii hybrid of kora & guitar. Djawara had his name anglicized as Jali Musa Jawara last time he had CDs for sale in the west, in case anyone remembers that.
That sounds kind of interesting, actually.. I quite like the sound of kora but I'm not sure how well it would go with slack-key steel guitar..
i like brozman a great deal. i'll bet he adapts just fine.
SOLAS: "A Newry Highwayman" (recorded live at the Flynn Theatre) I found these mp3s on Usenet --- I don't know if this is a bootleg, or if it's a released live album. Anyone?
I've never heard of it...but you'd better well bet that I'm going to go hunting now!!!!! (probably bootleg though.)
Something by Joe Kraus called ZatU. If I found this a Borders free CD pile instead of at the demenita convention, it would be going back.
Jethro Tull, "Jack-in-the-Green," from SONGS FROM THE WOOD
Adrian Belew, "Op Zop Too Wah", playing on a torn guitar speaker via a receiver I just finished fixing. Gotta test the sucker before I give it back.
Jon Anderson, the epic "Song of Seven" (pulled this one out of the vaults)
the great Luke Ski - Carpe Dementia CD http://www.lukeski.com
Deborah Gibson - In Blue from her new CD M.Y.O.B. Yes! New Debbie! Sorry... having one of those guilty pleasures moments..
McVicar CD, The Who production featuring Roger Daltry. Rates high on the 'listen to entire CD' scale.
(something from Debelah Morgan ["I Remember?"], on WMQT.)
Maddy Prior, "Tribal Warriors" from ARTHUR THE KING
waits: heartattack and vine
Kinks, "Victoria" CD. Another high on the 'listen to entire CD' scale. Previously heard, the rock opera "Tommy" by The Who. Can you tell I got into a long form kick after listening to JCS last week?
(Salt n Pepa, "Push It". it's on VH1's _Behind The Music_.)
Jethro Tull, "Living in the Past." Only $9 at Tower's closing sale. Been obsessing over it since I played the scratchy vinyl a few weeks ago.
La Galvaude, LA DANSE DES FOINS. Mike McNally brought this back for me from Quebec a few years ago. Among the best Quebecois folk albums I've heard. It's now available for web & mail order; for years the only way to get this and the followup albums were to make a trip there.
In search of the lost chord - The Moody Blues. Another "Whole CD" album.
Pearl Jam, "Ten". Still a very credible rock album, very well done. Somehow these guys brought the excitement back to rock, although they later lost it again.
Marlee MacLeod, "Vertigo," her 1997 album. Getting warmed up for her show at Crazy Wisdom tonight.
Marlee MacLeod, "There You Are," her new album, upon which I'll probably get an autograph scribble upon in a few hours.
the new Flight 180 album, "girls & boys". Think 'No Doubt' meets 'The Go Go's'. A girl trumpet player and a song about Wal Mart.. what more could ya want?
Sarah Harmer - You Were Here. Oh, and a yowling kitten. He's not happy with being locked up.
(locked up? uhoh, what'd he do?)
He was attacking me...with teeth. When he goes nuts like that, he gets locked up.
<nods in understanding> Mine get "confined", but in momma's arms, so they can't move, and until they calm down, they don't get let go. They learn really quick. The other method I used was ye ol water bottle...
He *likes* water. Doesn't work too well. And I cannot confine him without being bitten, so....
<nods> that was tanis's problem too. Precious, after a while, I POINT a water bottle at her, she ran. What I did was confine them in my arms, like a baby, on their back, with one arm under their back holding them to my chest, and the other, on their head holding their mouth closed. They can breathe, and the bearing of the throat and tummy is enough of a submission that they stop fighting after a while. While reinforcing "NO" when they mutedly yowl at you. When my female did that, she would try and fight me, I would move her head so she couldn't see me. That seemed to do the trick, she'd calm down except for the twitching of her tail, and I'd let her go for being good. She only once bit me while leaving, and learned that was more of the same. Tanis has only bitten me 2 times, but he was so scared, only precious could approach him without him freaking out. The only time I confined precious was because she liked to disrupt card games, espt Magic the Gathering games, with PRETTY glass counters that she could toss around! and cards to mess up! That and puzzles. I would give her 3 chances, and into the bathroom she went.
Dave Matthews, "Under the Table and Dreaming." My younger brother has turned into a read Dave Matthews fanatic, and I have to say I'm coming to like the guy myself. Oh, for shame... I feel so collegiate :)
Happy Rhodes' cover of Bowie's Ashes to Ashes.. in my opinion one of the best covers ever..
The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Another long form type of CD.
XTC - Skylarking. :)
Oh, good one! I wish I were listening to something equally interesting, but I believe it is Handel's Water Music No. 3, playing on digital cable
OOOOOOOOOOOOOO I LOVE THAT ALBUM.... <hums dear god...>
(the Michigan Lottery theme, inexplicably playing during an All Things Considered interlude.)
The Blasters: American Music
Danny Elfman, "Batman" movie score CD.
Charles O'Connor's Resolution Suite, ANGEL ON THE MANTELPIECE. O'Connor was in Horslips, but this is much more in "Chamber-Celtic" mode. All instrumental, so I'm not sure Twila would be too interested.
Cuilinn, "Cuilinn." I'd forgotten how much I like this Newfoundland folk-rock/electric-folk band.
The Crazy Wrold of Arthur Brown came around in the CD player again.
WKAR-FM (90.5) Friday evening jazz show.
the moon seven times - sunburnt
A few tracks of the new Faithless album Outrospective. Found on Napster.
The Who, "Quadrophenia"
Avalon - Make it Last Forever
June Tabor -- False, False (recorded off the SULT:SPIRIT OF THE MUSIC television programme)
Jethro Tull, BENEFIT. I suspect I should just break down and buy the rest of the Tull CD issues of the albums I loved as a kid: I need STAND UP, AQUALUNG, THICK AS A BRICK, and maybe PASSION PLAY.
Clam Chowder, _Salvaged_. (Clam Chowder is a filk band that does a lot of classic folk as well.)
Maria McKee - Jupiter & Teardrop
Happiness Emporium - That's Entertainment/Control Yourself (Double album -- past international champion barbershop quartet)
(I didn't realize Clam Chowder were still around...)
They sure are -- they give a benefit concert every year at Darkover Grand Council that I've gone to for the last two years.
However, Clam Chowder's two CDs (the only ones I know of) are not new, but remasters of tracks from their old LPs and tapes. Really nice to have, though admittedly their recordings sound a lot better if you've heard the group in concert. I've done so just once, 18 years ago, but that was enough for some very warm memories.
Eden's Crush - No Drama. okay.. am I getting too weird for y'all yet?
Sister Soleil - Soularium
1651, "Cast A Bell." This is a spinoff from the Welsh folk band Fernhill and it includes Tim Harries from the current Steeleye Span lineup on acoustic bass. Chamber-folk settings of Playford dance tunes. (This just came in today's mail.)
Wings pan.
The Police, "Ghost in the Machine". Dammit, why hasn't Stewart Copeland played in anything this cool since? I hope the upcoming Oysterhead album doesn't suck.
Happy Rhodes - Rhodes I
Cake, _Prolonging the Magic._ I finally tracked my copy of it down.
(Salt 'n Pepa, "Shoop," from their SNL performance.)
RE: #299, #304: Definitely not getting too weird for me, as I adore Rhodes I (and II, etc.) :-) Gurf Morlix, "With God on Our Side" (from the 'Austin Does Dylan' radio special) broadcast live
http://www.classicfm.co.uk again
I'm sure that this won't be much of a shock, but I'm currently listening to Stell Soleil. Pretty good, but not as good as I had built it up in my head. Think Madonna, circa Ray of Light or Rain. There are a few exceptions to that, and those songs are excellent. The rest are just fairly good. However, the Sister Soleil (her band a couple of years ago) CD Soularium has got to be in my top 5 favorites. :)
Steely Dan, "Two Against Nature". Better than I'd thought earlier. Takes some getting used to, I suppose. Tom Waits works the same way on me.
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, with guest vocalist Dolly Parton, "Knockin on Heaven's Door" What a treat for me, as this is my all-time favourite Dylan song, and I was completely unfamiliar with this collaboration. Once again, a treat from KUT and John Aielli.
Novalia, "Canti & Briganti." Italian folk-rock.
Norman and Saxon by Michael Longcor. He Kipples on this one.
Ellen McKeown, _Distillation._ She sounds rather like what would have happened if Rickie Lee Jones had a thing for Country & Western novelty tunes. This is less of an insult than it sounds like.
WAS the Kingston Trio, but now a history channel show on the Vikings.
Kingston Trio, eh? hmmm.... (meg starts rooting through the box she packed earlier) I've been meaning to pull a few gems off of my father's 3 disk set...
Sari Kaasinen & Sirmaaka, "Tshi Tshi." Sari was the original leader of Varttina until she left that band about five years ago. Her spinoff album is pretty good.
Five Hand Reel, "Sliave Gallion Braes"
Talking Heads, "The Warner Brothers Music Show," a 1979 live promo LP. Getting ready for a big vinyl binge this weekend. This obscurity is mostly of interest for a fast arrangement of the song "Electricity" from the FEAR OF MUSIC album, but there are a few other nice touches. Too bad it was already pretty scratched up when I got it, though a treatment with LAST record preservative in the mid 80s seems to have quieted it down somewhat.
Five Hand Reel, first album. Completely brilliant 70s Scottish electric folk band, now fading fast into the mists of obscurity because legal disputes have prevented any CD issues.
Saliva "Every 6 seconds" It's a great album, honest, just get over the name, and it's good!
kasia kowalska - 5
A highlights CD from Offenbach's opera TALES OF HOFFMAN, which we are seeing soon in its run at Michigan Opera Theatre.
CDs that I got this past weekend at MarCon
Michael Longcor - Kitchen Junk Drawer
Michael Longcor - Heartburn
Nate Bucklin - Rainbow's Edge
Barry and Sally Childs-Helton - Tempus Fugitives
Heather Alexander - A Gypsy's Home
ookla the mok - smell no evil
The first four contain a lot of material that is on out-of-print
cassettes that I already have. Michael Longcor has the highest percent
of 'new anywhere' of those. Heather and ookla are all new material.
Adrian Belew, "Lone Rhino". It's a CD I made from the vinyl copy I've owned for years. This album and the following "Twang Bar King" are *still* out of print and essentially moldering in the record company's vault despite Belew's attempts to get possesion.
Well, I'd like to cheat and say I was listening to LAIS, the Belgian group of extraordinary female harmonisers, but I'm not. :) What's more, I don't know who I'm listening to, since *whoever* sent this didn't bother to label the song or artist. ;-P I think it's in French.
Right now, "The Rhythm of the Goat" by Jim Fidler, from Newfoundland. This is off the Naciones Celtas IV compilation, which includes many diverse Canadian groups like Les Charbonniers de L'Enfer & Les Batinses from Quebec, Barachois from P.E.I., Gordie Sampson and Mary Jane Lamond from Nova Scotia, and Orealis and Rare Air from Ontario.
The Moulin Rouge Soundtrack. It has Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman singing on it, and they both have pretty good voices. I really dig Ewan's rendition of "Your Song", and a few of their songs are medolys of other stuff. My favorite has to be "Elephant Love Medely", which has about 9 or 10 different love songs, all tied together with some other stuff. Quite good.
"The Tichenor Family Album."
Ben Folds Five, _The Unauthorized Biography etc. etc._ I know this is the album of theirs that you're not supposed to like, but I've fallen madly in love with it. Typical. :)
Kirsty MacColl, "England 2 Columbia 0(*Nil*)" on the BBC programme LATER with Jools Holland. **sigh** I think I'm going to have to get TROPICAL BRAINSTORM.
The Tony Awards show, via videotape.
re #328: Any opinion on the Massive Attack / David Bowie collaboration
on the Moulin Rouge soundtrack?
Did nothing for me....but I think it's because I really didn't like the song all that much, so really don't pay any attention to it.
I'll have to seek it out somewhere, I guess.. It doesn't really sound like a promising match-up, but I like Bowie and love Massive Attack, so..
(Then again, I imagine Freddy Mercury and David Bowie struck some people as a bad matchup until they went and did it.)
are you saying that was a good thing?
EEEEP! Of COURSE it was a good thing!!! <faints>
(But thank you, jules, for proving my point)
Weezer, the new album, whatever it is. Leslie has decide she likes them.
BAJM - Szklanka Wody really good polish rock band
Some very competent Blues being played by Dave Hole. Another sample disk I picked up off the goodie pile at work. Track "Get A Job". This next track "Insomnniac" is sounding rather good.
Mara, "Songs with Mara;" the songs from a production by the Meryl Tankard Australian Dance Ensemble. All Eastern European songs this time, rather than the Eastern / Western balance which Mara usually does. Better than the last couple of Mara albums; I need to get an order off to Australia for the most recent ones.
Eden's Crush - The Glamorous Life
Stewart Copeland, "Rumble Fish" soundtrack. After getting the soundtrack (I had it on vinyl) stuck in my head enough to rent the movie again, I got it stuck even worse and went and bought the CD copy Encore had. Probably Copeland's best soundtrack work!
me: playing "I Truly Understand" on muh banjer.
Morton Subotnick, "4 Butterflies" (currently being recorded by my PC on its way to becoming a CD). Part of the records I got from keesan.
Rossini overtures. Forgotten how charming these could be, especially when well performed (Marriner-St Martin's).
Afro Celt Sound System Volume 3 Further in time. First listen, so far very good. Heard Peter Gabriel a few tracks ago.
Agreed, very good. (But I'm feeling a little underwhelmed by it, anyhow.)
Well, the 2nd one was hard to beat. I find myself humming a lot of it at times.
The Brothers Groove, "Clamp it Down". Bought the CD yesterday at TOP...
Mary Fahl - Raging Child
"Maurice and I" by the Flash Girls, while I wait for my copy of their new album to arrive.
jimmy dale gilmore: one endless night
Train: Drops of Jupiter.
Jacques Loussier plays Bach, the newish album from 199x and not really as good as his 60s stuff (the electric bass is a bit annoying, I find). But it is fun to listen to and was lying beside the computer, so.
The late Lal Waterson & Oliver Knight, "A Bed of Roses."
Stacie Orrico - Without Love
Enya - Watermark
Bjork - Vespertine
Beatle Brunch on WOMC, Sundays 9am, 104.3fm, Detroit.
Page and Plant, "Walking into Clarksdale." I'm really ashamed to admit this, but I'm liking Page & Plant much better than Led Zeppelin these days. The Arabic and British folk influences come out so much more clearly on their reunion albums -- especially on the more recent, "No Quarter," which features a kickass version of the British murder ballad "Gallows Pole" and re-orientalized versions of a few Led Zep classics.
Nigel Eaton, who played hurdy gurdy on some of "No Quarter," is a regular figure on the British folk scene; he became well known in the band Blowzabella, and these days he seems to mostly do one-shot special projects.
The Who, "The Kids are Alright" soundtrack. Looking for more guitar tunes.
Is that new Bjork? How is it?
"No Quarter" does have some pretty kick-ass hurdy gurdy.
Orin you are on the last couple of days, any sentence that contains hurdy gurdy and "kick ass," is a keeper. :-)
Makes sense to me, but I used to collect hurdy gurdy albums. NP: Runrig, "The Stamping Ground." Their new album, out for a couple months. Getting dropped by their major label (Chrysalis) seems to have done them a lot of good; as usual with Runrig there are a couple of slow ballads I can skip. (Ah, for those who don't know the band: Scottish arena rock band with a small amount of folk influence: some songs use bagpipes, and some songs are in Gaelic.)
Billy Joel, the Millenium concert, two CD set. I am glad I bought it at a discount price (look for it at Borders Outlet for $9.99) instead of the original $30 or more. Just not a treat for me as much as other live releases (CD/VHS).
"Triki 1: Diatonic Dynamite." Anthology of the accordion & tambourine folk style of the Basque region, with some pop influences on some of the recordings. Probably for accordion fans only.
(where is the Borders Outlet)
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Xose' Manuel Budino, "Paralaia." Spanish/Galician bagpipe player, with support from some Breton and Basque musicians I'm fond of. Part of yesterday's Big Box.
There is a Borders Outlet on Ford Road in Canton. In the mall with the Kohls in it.
((Usually I roll this item on a six-month cycle, at the beginning of the year and at its midpoint. But I completely forgot about it in early July! I'll roll this item over at the beginning of August.))
Kate Rusby, covering Iris DeMent's "Our Town" (which I've always fancied was a song about Austin. I know I'm probably wrong, but still can't help myself.)
Richard & Mimi Farina: "Pack Up Your Sorrows, the Best of the Vanguard Years" (which was all the years they had). Bought because I'm too lazy to dig out the LPs. Remastering is very good; about half of it is very dated.
The Dikanda MP3s I described elsewhere -- Polish band playing a range of Eastern European music. Exceptionally good, I really hope Leslie can find this CD for me.
A 2 CD set, Skiffle, as good as it gets". The print is so
small on the back though, I would have to get out the microscope
to see which title is on right now.
Skiffle is like an English version of Jug band music.
Ooooh! Where did you get that?? Skiffle was very important in the formative period of the British folk revival of the 1960s.
Yes, I appreciate hearing about this as well. Roy Harper began his career in music playing in a skiffle band, and I've always wanted to hear exactly what that sounded like.
Skiffle is also supposedly what some guy named John Lennon started out playing, and I too have always wondered what it sounded like.
<nods> It's interesting to hear Skiffle described as "folk revival" music, as I also always assumed it sounded like early Beatles.
Apparently skiffle was sort of the punk rock of its day. Not in attitude, but because it was so easy to play a whole lot of teens started forming bands.
Well, I wandered into RecordTown today, and rooted through their 1.99 bin. My current onplay cd is from that bin, a band that I had never heard of, but the name (and it was cheep!) persuaded me to purchase it. Mike Keneally & Beer for Dolphins. The name of the album is Sluggo! So far I'm only a couple of songs into it, but I'm really enjoying it. Scott, you would probably get a real kick out of it. I don't know how to describe the music exactly...deffinately rock, but the second sound was a real cool piano theme going, the lyrics are seriously wacked....I'll describe more later. Oh, and on the back of the book, it says "For Kevin Gilbert & John Coltrane". Needless to say, I know who the latter is, but nhave no idea who the former is.
resp:384 :: No, I wrote that skiffle was important in the formation of the British folk revival; skiffle has little direct folk music content itself. But lots of people who started playing skiffle moved into folk music after the skiffle craze -- which I think lasted less than two years -- burned itself out.
Nick Strange Trio, "Surrounded by Each Other". It's finally out!
Still Beer for Dolphins. I like this cd....it's rockish and jazzy, and really really whacked.
I found the Skiffle 2 CD set at Borders (Aborland, I think, so a copy might be on shelves downtown). The title is all lowercase "as good as it gets". It is a 2000 collection from Disky Communications Europe B. V. Artists listed (in print large enough to read) include Chris Barber, Johnny Duncan, Lonnie Donegan, The Vipers and Chas McDevitt.
Steve Earle, "Transcendental Blues." Liked the electric guitar bits when I heard it at Schoolkids-in-the-Basement last week.
A Perfect Circle - Orestes
Chopin, an album of polonaises, in honor of Leslie's planned visit today to Chopin's birthplace.
re 366: sorry, raven, I missed your resp -- Yes, it is the new Bjork album. You'll note that it won't be out till sometime next month. *wink* Harry Chapin - 30,000 lbs of Bananas
REM, "Fables of the Reconstruction." Needed something to motivate some heavy duty housework.
...or a nap.
<SNORT>
After listening to the new Neil Diamond, the Slim Shady single by Eminem came on...it's on the not clean track.
"Sam Mangwana sings Dino Vangu." Revival album of the Congolese rumba style, says the notes; I thought it was a revival of classic soukous, but I guess the styles are not far apart.
The GoNuts "dunk and cover" on lookoutrecords.com. They are definitly into food.
Nice Spanish Galician folk-rootsy thing. I think the band is called Piasaxes and the album title is "Galicia en Musica." I seem to be on a big Spanish kick this week. (Hey, that sounds like a bagpipe on track 2, jep!)
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, "Rock Art and the X-Ray Style." Hmm, I should look for an opportunity to hear their new one.
Ougenweide, SOL. German folk-rock album which Leslie dragged back from Austria for me two years ago. A little heavy on the synths and echoes. Includes a version of "Gaudete" which seems to owe a bit to Steeleye Span; about half the album is drawn from English and Scottish sources.
CHOUTEIRA, "Bassilisa" (with the voice of Uxia Pedreira)
The Dream Within from the Final Fantasy - The Spirits Within soundtrack, sung by Lara Fabian
Underworld - Everything, Everything - Juanita Kiteless (live)
Let Her Go Down - Portfolio - Steeleye Span
Tom Waits, "Mule Variations".
Julia Ecklar from "Minus Ten and Counting"; 'Only One Way to Go'.
Soig Siberil, DIGOR. Ex-Kornog guitarist, not really a solo album because it has ex-Kornog people and Molard brothers all over it.
Danny Elfman, "Planet of the Apes" soundtrack. Rather more like the first "Batman" soundtrack Elfman did.
The Best of Barbershop - Live Recordings of the World's Top Quartets 1990-92. (Current track: Basin Street singing The Gang that Sang "Heart of My Heart")
Kate Rusby, "Gulf Coast Highway" -- this, from the INTUITION CD featuring Kate, Kathryn Roberts, Kathleen & Rosalie Deighton, Julie Matthews & Pat Shaw. I really like this cover of the Nanci Griffith song, although hearing Kate sing about the Gulf Coast in her Yorkshire accent is amusing.
Bill Jones, TURN TO ME. First CD by yet another British woman folksinger.
Gjallarhorn, "Sjofn." Ho hum, another excellent Swedish contemporary folk CD. :)
Bill Hicks: "Philosophy".
Gurf Morlix, "Dan Blocker" from the album TOAD OF TITICACA (the lyrics are simply a roll-call of Bonanza characters, and the actors who played them, complete with Bonanza-style guitar licks. Fun. I guess the rest of the CD fits into that alt.country pigeon-hole we all love so much. :) )
Jungr & Parker, "Canada." British folk/cabaret duo with an exceptional woman singer, Barb Jungr. I thought this was long out of print but it just popped up on CDroots.com. I think this, and the album "Off The Peg," were the only duo albums before Barb Jungr struck out on a solo career.
Carla Ulbrich, her debut album, "Won't you please do something studid (so I can get over you)?.
Initial D soundtrack. Cool techno from a fun anime series.
Emmylou Harris, "Red Dirt Girl."
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