This is the 2003 edition of the tedious, yet popular, for listing what music you are listening to as you cruise through the Music 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 is at all obscure.189 responses total.
Duke Ellington, "And His Mother Called Him Bill." 1967 album which was a tribute to Ellington's collaborator, second pianist and arranger Billy Strayhorn.
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Hardly enough, since I never heard of him before.
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Thanks, mynxcat. Runrig, LIVE AT CELTIC CONNECTIONS 2000. Mostly it's the band's greatest hits, done this time with their new vocalist Bruce Guthro.
Joni Mitchell -- "Blue"
The CD Midnight Shift by Len Wallace. He injects his accourdian into the current track BTO's "Taking Care of Business" and gets it moving. This Canadian performer was seen at a Moma's Coffee house as an opening act. Impressed me enough to buy the CD from him.
Marvin Gaye, "What's Going On". Man, if there are any questions about soul music then this album answers them. 'Nuff said.
Journey, "Don't Stop Believing"
"What's Going On" is definitely a masterpiece. I'm happy tonight because today's record-shopping excursion led to the discovery of a Skatalites compilation I hadn't seen before. That's not particularly unusual -- I've already got at least 10 different collections of their stuff and know of a bunch of others that I haven't bothered with for various reasons. The unusual part is that this one was both very reasonably priced ($13 for two discs) *AND* had a high proportion of tracks I don't already have on other collections (at this point a lot of the remaining Skatalites issues I don't own have something like 80% overlap with stuff I've already collected, which is a real deterrent when you're looking at a $25 import..) Boy, I wish some collector-oriented label (i.e. Bear Family) would do a for-completists boxed set of their work but it's probably nearly impossible due to scattered ownership, lost recordings, etc...
Hem, RABBIT SONGS I really like this group. They're sort of folkie alt.country type of songs. There's something about Sally Ellyson's voice that makes the songs very personal, for me. I first heard Hem on BBC Radio Scotland back in Sept. (?) although they're from New York City. http://www.rabbitsongs.com
Cornershop, "Brimful of Asha" (FatBoy Slim remix)
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Camper van Beethoven, "She Divines Water" this is a live version from GREATEST HITS PLAYED FASTER.
Dr. Demento, 1/12/1992.
Eric & Suzy Thompson, ADAM AND EVE HAD THE BLUES. I just hauled this back from the storage locker this afternoon: six boxes of assorted crap into the locker, four CDs out. Eric & Suzy are working the byways of American roots music: "Old Time Blues, Cajun and Country Music," it says on the label. They also play in the California Cajun Orchestra, and a nice new band called The Bluegrass Intentions. This disc made my annual favorite album list back around 1989.
Heidi Berry, LOVE. Another retrieval from the storage locker. Very nice chamber-folk-pop singer; I wonder why I never pursued her other albums? Ian Keary (ex Oyster Band) plays bass on most of this album, and on her next album, according to the web, the bass player was the divine Danny Thompson. She did most of her work for 4AD and seems to have dropped out of music.
television: marquee moon finally replaced the vinyl that was stolen in the early 80s and the tape from the late 80's that wore out.
I found a Hammer Horror theme music compilation recently. Just finally listened to it today. I forgot how much I enjoed watching Hammer Horror movies when I was younger. The music brought a lot of memories back. I especially liked the silly "Moon Zero Two" track. Never saw that movie though.
Luar na Lubre, "Mull of Kintyre" from last years' ESPIRAL, which is now in my greedy little paws. This song is credited to Paul McCartney & Denny Laine. Sounds great in Galician.
My recollection is that "Mull of Kintyre" was a smash hit in Britain but it was barely heard in America. I don't think I actually heard it until McCartney's "Wingspan" collection of a year or so ago.
Thanks, Ken! I guess I should try to hear McCartney's version sometime. Nic Jones, "The Bonnie Banks of Fordie (Child Ballad #14)" Children were definitely exposed to some morbid lyrics in these "child ballads".
Blood Sweat & Tears - "Blood Sweat & Tears" (2nd album, the one with the hit "Spinning Wheel". Wow, I never really listened to this band before. Top-notch horn playing, organ stuff, everything is played by great (and then mostly unknown) musicians. What's also cool is that the lead singer has just about the same vocal range as I do, a bit between the usual ranges.
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Bruce Springsteen, The Rising CD. Joel Mabus will be coming up soon, Electric Bonsai Band CD just went past a while ago.
resp:22 I trust you are just making a pun, and realize that they're called Child Ballads because Child was the name of the guy who collected them. I picked up an LP titled "Wings Greatest" years ago. It had "Mull of Kintyre" on it, so I've heard it. I'm currently listening to the Rolling Stones' "Forty Licks". This is the first Stones album I've ever bought, and I did so in a desperate attempt to figure out why this band is so popular. I still don't get it.
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"Liberty Hall", Oysterband. I had never heard this song by them before. I really like it. I suspect that Ken is right and I'd like earlier Oysterband stuff better than newer Oysterband stuff, but I only got into them after "Wide Blue Yonder".
"Why Can't We Be Friends" by War on Launchcast Radio - Classic R&B. Ain't DSL grand? Thanx and a tip of the Hatlo Hat to Jim and Sindi for their help with the upgrade.
regarding resp:26 , the first of which was directed at one of my comments: No, actually I didn't realise this. Thanks for both educating me and making me feel very foolish at the same time. Sigh. NP: the "Anti-Valentine's Day" edition of "Eklektikos" on KUT. Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" just finished.
"Bolero Sonambulo" from MAMBO SINUENDO, the newest Ry Cooder collaboration with Manuel Galb n from Cuba. This CD has several inspired instrumental numbers, and I think this is my favourite of them. It's a slow, almost halting rhythm (hence the "sleepwalking/sonambulo"), interwoven with duel guitars and piano.
My tiny collection of early '80s singles, rescued from the back of the closet for the first time in, oh, 15 years. Damn, some of this stuff still holds up: "One Night in Bangkok", "Down Under", "We Built This City", "Angel of the Morning", "Eat It" (much better than the original), "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", and "Bette Davis Eyes" are the best.
"Fama Clamosa" by Mackenzie ... playing now on BBC Radio Scotland's Celtic Connections programme. This is quite wonderful --- 3 sisters (one of whom was in the band Seelyhoo, as I understand) singing a capella in Gaelic.
I have to agree, I do like "Eat It," not to mention the video as well. Hee hee. *sigh* I wish Weird Al had the glasses and the 'stache back.. that was kind of a trademark for him.
I'm so far behind, I didn't know Weird Al lost the glasses and mustache.
I think it was early 1998 when Weird Al got the lasik surgery. More on his timeline at www.weirdal.com, the official site.
Yep, I was aware Al had LASIK surgery to correct his nearsightedness. He shaved the 'stache and grew out his hair, too. Haven't you been to the Grex pictures site, dbratman? Tim's got a picture of himself with Weird Al and everything!
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The Saturday afternoon Met broadcast. I wish we could get a clean signal in stereo, but the local transmitters are in either Lansing or Windsor. Today's opera is Berlioz LES TROYENS, with Ben Heppner.
Shostakovich Quartets 5-7, disc 3 from the Borodin Qt's complete set.
"The Invisible Circus" soundtrack, composed by the former lead of Dream
Academy ("Life in a Northern Town"). It also includes some tracks from his
new group Trashmonk and Yo La Tengo. Overall, it's a fun album.
Hmmm.. I'll have to check out whether these are new YLT tracks or stuff that's available elsewhere.
Darn it, they appear to be non-album tracks. I'm falling behind with my Yo La Tengo collecting.. Now playing -- various selections from the Byrds' box set. It never ceases to amaze me how the classic elements of their sound never seem to go out of style. Seems like you could walk into the indie section of a good record store, pick a dozen albums off the shelves at random, and be pretty assured of finding at least one or two that owe a huge debt to the Byrds, either to McGuinn's jangle-filled Rickenbacker sound from their early albums or to the country/rock hybrid sound they developed later.
Blood, Sweat & Tears, (self-titled), side 1. Yup, side 1 is much better than side 2. I mentioned this to another old fogey friend, he mentioned having his "ten best sides" as opposed to "ten best albums". Back in the vinyl days there was the annoyance of having to flop the record over to get the other side, but on the other hand there was usually a really good side (often the first) and then the other one.
James McMurtry, "It Had To Happen." Didn't like this at all when I got it new (1997), but I seem to be appreciating it more today, possibly because I don't expect it to live up to "Where'd You Hide The Body?"
Martires del Compas, "Por el Centro" from the CD MORDIENDO EL DUENDE. I'd heard a couple of their songs on the Celtic Connections programme, and thought they might be fun to hear, even though flamenco isn't one of my most favourite types of Spanish music. This song has some wonderful guitar playing underlying the lyrics, which have an edge to them.
Dixie Chicks, HOME. We'd been thinking about maybe getting this for a while, and then Leslie made it a point to buy it after the recent flap started.
Progmatics, LETHAL COWBELL. Accordion-based Finnish band; Leslie picked them from the swamp of sound samples at cdroots.com. Fun stuff.
Ambrozijn, "Streepkes" from the 2002 release KABONKA. This is Belgian folk, sung in both French & Dutch, with guitar, accordion, bagpipes, fiddle.
Wanna hear! :-)
James Gang, "15 Greatest Hits." The Joe Walsh-era James Gang were one of the signature bands from my childhood. What I really want is a remastered copy of "James Gang Rides Again" but there's not a copy to be had between Ann Arbor and Lansing.
Weather Report, "Heavy Weather". I'm transferring some vinyl to MiniDisc before I move.
Last Wednesday's Late Junction show from BBC Radio 3, which just seems to be hitting lots of my buttons.
Led Zepplin, "Houses of the Holy". More vinyl being moved to minidisc.
Led Zepplin, "II". Part of a carton of CDs disgorged by the living room as we searched for a missing external floppy drive for Leslie's laptop. I'd almost bought a replacement copy last week; this disk had been missing for about two years.
Negativland/Chumbawumba "The ABCs of Anarchism". I like this CD better than most of Negativland's work. Anybody who is a fan of theirs, or a fan of sampling, would enjoy this CD.
A live set from jazz pianist Julian Joseph, from last November's London Jazz Festival, at the BBC Radio 3 website. A two hour show; the first set a small group, the second set dragging in an orchestra, singer and the kitchen sink. 64K real audio stream. Love.
Bidaia, OIHAN. Brand new Basque band and album. Hurdy-gurdy based, yum. One of the neatest things I've heard in a while.
Thea Gilmore, "Songs From The Gutter"
Today I'm listening to CDs I bought from the Sailne Celtic Fair. I don't have the jewel boxes with me at the moment though, so I'm not sure who I'm listening to at the moment (5 CDs at ransom can make that confusing.)
Well, you could write a little about Saline Celtic Festival, perhaps?
Wow. I only got one cd from there. (Bruce and I went early, to see parade, but managed to run late. :-( However, I managed to see Hoolie (maritime music, four members, guitar, whistle, fiddle, and step percussion from the 16 year old Nic Gareiss, who's been a festival standard for the last couple years -- he was doing step percussion with Jeremy Kittel last year); Robin Huw Bowen (Welsh triple harp); Step in Time and their accompanying band Tanglemere (trio of Celtic dance with an instrumental fourpiece band); Brian Pickell Band (Canadian, mostly instrumental, alas, imho); Liz Carrol and John Doyle (again instrumental, but very enjoyable); and Bohola (Irish, didn't see them as the tent was packed and I had to be on the hill -- lots of instrumentals, sounded like two or three modern folk writers' covered on the songs (Go, Move, Shift was the best of those)...) -- but I did also see the sheep dog demonstration, the piping march through the camp, and the gorgeous eagle-owl. All-in-all, quite fun. OT listening -- "Antiques Roadshow..." soundtrack.
"Everybody To The Limit" -- Strong Bad (a character of the Chaps Brothers at www.homestarrunner.com, a little guilty pleasure :) )
im listening to the white stripes. i met meg white this weekend. we chatted. it was very cool! i met her at a blanche show.
Some unidentified classical music on BBC Radio 3's "Music Through The Night" overnight show (it's 1:15 am there).
"Jailhouse Rock" by Elvis Presley on AnnArborAlive.com
I seem to only get this while I'm at work. Therefore: the disc on the way to work: Prodigy, "Dirtchamber Sessions, Vol 1" has there ever been a Vol 2? I've never seen any evidence of one. . .
Dusty - Holes on the Soles of our Shoes Pretty rad accoustic guitar bluesy/folksy stuff. Dusty can be found every Wednesday and Sunday at Aardvark's in Windsor.
Fading Out: "Gold Dust Woman" - RUMOURS/Fleetwood Mac
Does this band need an intro - ok, first a British blues band, (60s), most
popular w/ the addition of two new (American) members after departure of
founder Peter Green and guitarist (whose name escapes me). Most successful
period: Rumours, "Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac" (album before Rumours) Great
band. Recently resurfaced after departure of yet another member, Christine
McVie (not replaced, afaik)
NP: Mustt Mustt, by Musrat Fateh Ali Khan. Fusion of Western Rhythms w/
"Qawwali" (Sufi devotional music), Pakistani artist about whom it was once
apparently said, roughly "The wonderfulness of NFAK is the only thing Indians
and Pakistanis can agree on". See my pending review(s) of this CD, along w/
"Ride On" by Christy Moore and "Sweet England" by Jim Moray ("Murray")
Metallica, 'Bad Seed', RELOAD.
Cat stevens: Remember Cat Stevens - The Ultimate Collection. The most fullsome Best of Cat Stevens-type album i have seen to date (i say 'fullsome' rather than 'complete' because some of these aren't his best, imho).
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RE #72 Harry Chapin was the one who sang "Cats In The Cradle".
According to [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B88q3g4kttv3z] (All Music Guide), not only did Chapin write the song, but Stevens never has recorded it. My bad. Incidentally, Cat Stevens changed his name to Yusuf Islam when he became a Muslim in 1977; after he came out in favour of the death sentence against Salman Rushdie, some radio stations stopped playing his music, and the 10,000 Maniacs had his song "Peace Train" removed from their album "In My Tribe". [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=B88q3g4kttv3z]
I can't believe he did that. That's nuts.
John Hartford live at Mountain Stage CD.
re: Cat Stevens-- to each their own.
Rock stars and other pop musicians have a long history of being nuts.
Eliza Carthy's Big Band, from the Womad shows archived at BBC Radio 3. I wish they were 64K streams like last year, and like the London Jazz Fest; 44K sounds like AM radio, for the most part.
I seem to be wallowing in Vivaldi this afternoon. 20 minutes ago, the East Lansing NPR station had a Vivaldi double violin concerto which made me immediately ship off an internet order to cdconnection.com; now it's some other Vivaldi piece on BBC Radio 3 while I wait for the start of tonight's Proms concert.
RantRadio.com via iTunes
Billy Idol's cover of the Doors' "L.A. Woman"
David Brubeck's performance of Paul Desmond's "Take Five"
Johnny Cash, "The Sun Years" (current track: "I Walk the Line")
Robert Johnson, "Love In Vain"
snippets of various 80s tunes a la Time Life's "Sounds of the 80s" commercial
William Stromberg's re-record of "The Egyptian" soundtrack, bu Bernard Herrmann and Alfred Newman. It was the only time Herrmann and Newman worked together on a soundtrack. Stromberg did an excellent job of conducting in the styles of both composers. Earlier, I was listening to a Rose Chronicles sampler, since the lead singer did vocals on Delerium's Semantic Spaces CD. I much preferred listening to her do vocals for Delerium.
RantRadio.com again. Sister Machine Gun's "Metropolis" is in the discman whose battery I'm not wasting, however.
Ulla Pirttijarvi, "Ruossa Eanan," and there are a bunch of accent marks missing on both her name and the album title. She's a Sami singer who used to be in the duo Angelin Tytot. Eeek, I bought this older album of hers in March, after hearing her new one sampled on an FRoots Radio programme. Some very nice percussion set against the singing.
N 2 Deep, "Back To The Hotel"
One of the Seal albums, whichever one has "Crazy" on it.
I believe that would be "Seal," (1992)
Ray Charles, "The Complete Country and Western Recordings, 1959-1986" his version of "You Are My Sunshine" totally rocks and whoever does backup vocals on this track (I think it's Margie Hendryx of the Raelettes) manages one of the great soul-music growls of all time..
A live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Purcell's DIDO & AENEAS, from the Proms series at the Royal Albert Hall. This is the same work, at the same hall, where Leslie and I saw it on our 1995 trip.
Pete Townshend, "Psychoderelict".
Katie Geddes on WDET with Matt Wattroba on "Folks LIke Us". http://www.wdet.org
The "Fourtold" album, 1960's style folk singing quartet. Likely to be my favorite album of 2003.
"The Ghost of Frankenstein" soundtrack.
David Bowie, "Lodger". Goes back to library tomorrow. Didn't know Adrian Belew was on albums this early.
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, some kind of best-of CD set I found at the library.
Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love"
Steve Reich - Different Trains
Jane Siberry, "Bound by the Beauty". Another library loan. I could swear I've heard this one before, but that doesn't seem likely. Anyway, I like it.
I love Jane Siberry's music. We sing it at church all the time. (Yes, really. "False False Fly," "Calling All Angels," and various Christmms songs).
Bruce Springsteen, "The Wild, the Innocent, and the E-Street Shuffle". First album, and still one of his best.
Oops, that's his second album. First was "Greetings from Asbury Park", which is another atypical but still interesting album.
Christina Brano, "Corpo Illuminado". Portugese fado music! If she ever makes it back the Ark it's a show worth seeing.
Re #104-105: After reading the mentoin of Jane Siberry, I just put on "Maria"
Rodoin Shchedrin's "Carmen Ballet", an imaginative re-orchestration of
selections from the opera. ("Les Toreadors" on the xylophone, etc.) I
pulled this out after hearing a piece on the radio which was announced
as from Shchedrin's Carmen, but which was actually from the orchestral
suite of the original Bizet.
re #108: If you like fado you'd probably also like the related Cabo Verdean form known as morna. The Ann Arbor library has (or had) an excellent collection of Cabo Verdean music called "The Soul of Cape Verde", which I highly recommend. Meanwhile I'd be interested in any fado recommendations you might have..
I should look for that Cape Verde disc, Mike. I've gotten into checking things out from the library recently as I try to throttle back CD spending.
Been listening to a lot lately, probably due to trying to sort out my CD collection from the boxes it was packed in. Right now is Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue", earlier was The Police with "Regatta de Blanc" (mastered way too bright) and the Moody Blues "Days of Future Passed" from the library.
The RFD Boys, on a Minidisc I made last night when I did sound. Sounds better than I expected. My ears were sort of plugged up with a cold last night.
Youssou N'Dour, "Set".
Minor threat - Minor Threat This ia part of an old aircheck tape of a friend which I'm transferring to CD. It's WMHW-FM 91.5 circa 1987....lots of great memories....:-)
Dikanda, "Jakhana Jakhana." Fresh out of the package from Poland, which is covered in pretty postage stamps I should pass along to Twila. On first play, Leslie and I are quite happy with this, Dikanda's second album.
Richard Thompson, "1000 Years of Popular Music." Our hosts are impressed, we'll have to get a copy to send them as a thank-you gift.
Steely Dan, "Aja". I wish they didn't pan the drums randomly; it would be a lot cooler to hear Steve Gadd's stuff with a normal drumkit spread.
Hey, I remembered this item when I was actually BBSing. ;) Roseanne Cash, "Closer Than I Appear"
A CD collection called Stagedoor Canteen. Mostly 40's stuff.
The blues show on american public radio. Son House was just playing at the 1965 Newport festival. Bob went electric that year, too.
The Commie with a Cold. Cheating a bit here. Ken Livingstone was just on the radio. For those who don;t know, KL is currently Mayor of London, and in the 1980s he gained a reputation for being on the "hard left" of the Labour Party, and the nickname "Red Ken". On the negative side, he has a rather awful nasal twang, which, combined with his Cockney accent, makes him, to the Northern English, sound quite frightful.
Howe Home (actually Howe Gelb), "The Listener".
dock boggs: 1930's recordings with a couple other spooky folks singing as well.
I got the Revenant label reissue of the 1930s Dock Boggs stuff, but I wonder if I wouldn't have been happier with the Smithsonian Folkways package of his 1950s-1960s? recordings, just for the better sound quality.
i have both, the later stuff is better sound quality but he was a different singer all those years later, plus there are a few songs not included on the smithsonian discs.
I've been listening to The Chieftains, "The Celtic Harp" in the car. Just heared on WDIV that the Boston Pops' concert in Ann Arbor was this evening.
David Bowie, "Heathens".
Is that the new(est) one?
I think so... it's pretty good, at least so far. Needs a few listens to be sure.
He's back working with Tony Visconti again, the guy who produced some of his classic 70s albums, but although his last few releases have been fairly good they're not in the same class as his best stuff.
The Pogues & Kirsty MacColl, "Fairytale of New York". Constantly voted one of the best (aqnd often THE best) Xmas anthem ever in Britain. Tragically, Kirsty MacColl died when she was swimming on holiday somewhere, a few months back. Seems she had a hitherto undetected heart problem. What a waste :-(.
resp:133 - Kirsty died near Cozumel, Mexico, I think it was. Please go to: http://www.justiceforkirsty.org if you have more questions about this tragedy.
currently listening to KKCR (Kauai Community Radio) on the 'Net, the locally-flavoured "Kani ka Pila" programme (loosely translated as "Jamming," I'm told). http://www.kkcr.org (they use the Live365 business for their stream, and it's a pain, but worth it for some of the shows.)
Ann Arbor Board of Education President Karen Cross, on the proposal for a new high school and remodeling of several others. Not that this is really music, but some will call it "music to [their] ears." :)
Deffinately music to my ears. A2 really really needs it. Currently listeing to April March, Whoops, that just ended, and Chieftains started. I love my little random thing on my 'puter.
Homecoming Queen Got a Gun on Dr. Demento (6/5/1988) by Julie Brown.
"Stop it Debbie, you're embarrassing me!"
April Verch, maybe? Saw her at the Philadelphia Folk Festival last summer on a fiddlers' workshop; I think she's coming up at the Ark too.
April March is French Pop sorta stuff. Hard to explain, but you either really like her, or really don't.
Ah, not the same person at all then. April Verch is an Ontario fiddler who started out fairly traditional folk and is now moving towards that "new acoustic music" category.
BBC Radio 3, "Composer of the Week," this week featuring Charpentier, who I should listen to more.
Marc-Antoine or Gustave?
Marc Antoine, I think, but I didn't realize there were two of them.
Shinwa - "Twinkling of Paradise" This is a Korean pop CD that mixes rap and a boy band sound. In the title track, it even mixes in classical music. It's odd to hear this kind of music in Korean, although all the rapping is in English. Odd enough to keep my interest though.
(The Charpentier featured on the BBC is the one with the opera "Medee'", does that help?)
Marc-Antoine. I thought so. Mid-Baroque. Gustave was a turn-of-the-20th-century composer of schmaltz operas, best known for "Louise". Before the Baroque boom of the last couple decades he was much better-known.
Yeah, a number of random BBC baroque and early music things have been pushing my buttons lately.
Up early on a Sunday morning listening to Barnes & Barnes.
Talking Heads "The Name of the Band is Talking Heads" A really cool live album from their early days. Some if not all of it was recorded before their studio releases.
On LP or is that out on CD nw?
"smiling happy monsters" by r.e.m. who are on sesame street
Traffic -- "Hidden Treasure" (from "The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys")
Re #152: Unfortunately, I don't think it's been available for years. A friend of mine burned me a copy from his cassette tape.
Yep. I'd buy it if it were re-released but there haven't been any signs that that's likely to happen..
I don't understand the reluctance to put out THE NAME OF THIS BAND... I was never in love with that album -- I was a huge Talking Heads fan back then -- but it's not embarrassing. At the time it was just a placemarker to fill in the 3-year gap between REMAIN IN LIGHT and SPEAKING IN TONGUES. The live Talking Heads album which they should put out is a 1979? show which was officially recorded, produced by Ed Stasium, and promotionally released to radio; it's a killer show, and since the recording was made by Warner, there shouldn't be any problem in clearing the rights. NP: N.E.R.D., "She Wants to Move," via a replayed Tom Robinson show on BBC Radio 6.
Saturday, "Folks Like Us" with Matt Watroba on WDET-FM.
BBC Radio 2, "The Mike Harding Show," the weekly show for the British folk music establishment. Coming up: an interview/profile featuring Martin Carthy & Brass Monkey. This is available for a week if you wanna listen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/folk and grub around
"Sunshine Days" Volumes 1 thru 3, pop classics of the 60s set to random play amoung the three. A lot of rarer 45s from the top 40 charts of the 60s. includes Keith - 98.6 or Yellow Ballon by The Yellow Ballon.
A replay of Monday's "Late Junction" show, which I was gonna skip this week. Interesting ambient trumpet from Nils Petter Molvaer; folk from Salsa Celtica (wellll....), Shooglenifty & June Tabor; the Ukrainians; David Byrne, who I used to like a lot.
Tom Smith at PenguiCon MiniDisc.
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Meat Loaf, DEAD RINGER: "Peel Out"
To Touch The Stars.
Trancespotting - This is a cool collection of Trance and Dance music from the Hypnotic label. I found the set of 4 CDs for $15 at Media Play. So far, I'm in the middle of the second CD. I'll have to find CDs of some of these artists. I really liked what I've heard by Synaethesia.
L' Ham de Foc, "Canco de Dona i Home," which I think translates as "Songs of women and men." Lots of yummy hurdy gurdy and bagpipe and other interesting squeaky honky things.
The Crossing, "Standing Stones" Traditional Celtic music with some decidedly Christian lyrics in a few tracks. Normally, I feel the majority of Christian contemporary music sounds like annoying pop music, but this is a notable exception to that view.
Some very nice African acoustic stuff on a BBC Radio 3 "Late Junction" replay. Um, this is Kasse Madi Diabate, Kandia Kouyate, Bako Dagnon an Sekouba Diabate, from an album called "Mandekalou", and before that was Kaba Kouyate with a guitar instrumental from "Yilimato."
John Carpenter's score for "Christine"It's not as memorable a score as "Escape From New York" or "Halloween" but still interesting to listen to. It surprised me how many times he composed the music for his own films.
re #135: > I don't understand the reluctance to put out THE NAME OF THIS BAND... > I was never in love with that album -- I was a huge Talking Heads fan > back then -- but it's not embarrassing. At the time it was just a > placemarker to fill in the 3-year gap between REMAIN IN LIGHT and > SPEAKING IN TONGUES. OK, I don't live *under* a rock but I live on top of one, and a somewhat isolated one at that. But why didn't anyone tell me that Rhino issued a double-disc version of "The Name of this Band is Talking Heads" with bonus tracks almost a month ago?
My bad; I have had this for about a week, but haven't even taken the cellophane off yet. I can't remember how I heard about the release; it seems to have been done with a minimum of publicity.
Patti Smith, "Trampin'"
Not listening to WDET, "Folks like us" should be on now.
re #171: I only found out about the re-release of THE NAME OF THIS BAND IS... from an Entertainment Weekly article after the discussion on this conference. Sorry for not letting people know.
Tom Waits, "Alice". Finally bought it a few weeks ago, and it's gotten a lot of plays since then.
Afro Celt Sound System Vol. 1 - This is a great blend of African and Celtic music. I wasn't sure if it would work, but mixes very well.
Gerry Rafferty "City to City" CD, the one with "Baker Street" on it.
A replay of last Thursday's Late Junction from BBC Radio 3, with heavy folk music content in two of the three shows from that week. For my tastes, host Fiona Talkington has been on a roll for her two week term. (Fiona alternates with Verity Sharp every two weeks, and I usually find myself preferring Fiona's shows.)
a CD by Sigur Ros. I have no clue what it's called. There's no information anywhere on the CD or packaging except for the band's website.
That's probably "( )" I quite liked "Aegaetis Byrjun" (which I probably mangled, even without considering the character set restrictions..)
Ah,thanks Mike. That explains the "( )" on the slipcase for the CD. It didn't occur to me that it could be the title. Currently, I'm listening to Chateau Neuf "Stolen Goods" It's a good CD by a Norwegian traditional folk big band.
Not quite while "conferencing," since it's in the vehicle, but I've been listening to Josh Turner's "Long Black Train" today. Quite a voice. Reminds me of Johnny Cash and George Strait.
Marcia Ball, "So Many Rivers"
"Eliza Carthy & The Kings of Calicutt." This is from 1997, eek. If I remember the ads correctly, it's now going to be Eliza Carthy and the Rat Catchers.
new lost city ramblers
Beethoven's 5th symphony, live broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Just dug into this conf for the first time in a year or so, and saw someone mention folkalley.com, so I'm checking it out. Interestingly, almost the first thing I heard on starting up the stream, like within ten seconds of hitting play, was an ad for the naked folk alley calendar: folk artists baring it all for a good cause. o.O
Anne Hills, Cindy Mangsen, Steve Gillette, Michael Smith. "Fourtold," four great folksingers whose careers have intertwined for decades in a pickup group devoted to songs which tell stories. This was one of my favorites from 2003, and it has gone on to become one of those perennial CDs which make life richer.
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