Quick! What Are You Listening To Tonight?!

I listened to a lot of stuff today work.

But since I've gotten home:
palace - days in the wake
royal trux - thank you
heart of the congos

always shuffle

i heart the APP so much.

Were the last few..undecided on what will follow..

previously:
Girl Called Eddy, Girl Called Eddy
Sleep No More, Comsat Angels
Siberia, Echo and the Bunnymen
Stepping Out of Line, Au Pairs
Propaganda, Sparks
Wild Planet, B-52s
Coulourbox, Colourbox

No, I do have a Clean compilation on tape. And I've got a copy of Submarine Bells I bought when I was buying and selling stuff that I haven't listened to. I'll put it on.

It's basically the same thing as Nevermind, so it's great.

On the way home, with my wife, her brother, and her brother's wife, we listened to Ghostface's "Be Easy", Old Dirty Bastard's "Shimmy Shimmy Ya" and "Got Your Money", Outkast's "Last Call", and sat in the driveway with the car running to make sure that we heard all of Audio Two's "Top Billin'". Good times were had by all.

How did you like that Maxine Sullivan he started off with, Don?? Very nice! I added that new reissue to my Amazon wishlist.

Earlier today at the bluesfest:

Honeyboy Edwards
Homesick James
Henry Townsend
Robert Lockwood, Jr.
Super Chikan
James Blood Ulmer

Ulmer was phenomenal...

I'm so lonely!

and more later, probably starting with the hirax cd that compiles their 80s releases.

After that, while I was closing up shop, I listened to my demo CD on the store speakers, just cuz.

At this very moment I'm listening to The Mountain Goats - "The Sunset Tree," which is my current favorite album. After this, I'll probably continue drinking and listening to whatever other parts of the Mountain Goats discography catches my eye.

Damnation.

It's been a really smooth day, I guess.

Alan Parsons Project as good as Klaatu? I do like "Eye in the Sky" OK.

Now: The Acorn, an Ottawa band I caught at a festival today and liked.

Dead Milkmen - Big Lizard in My Backyard
Devo - Head Like A Hole
Moog Cookbook - Evenflow
Doctor Who Theme
Jean Michel Jarre - 0 Oxygene part II
a bunch of Fiddleheads songs (my bro in law)
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Aphex Twin - I care because you do
Rheostatics - Satan is the Whistler (live)
Sloan - Coax Me
Sloan - I got a thing for you
Sloan - People of the Sky
Talk Talk - After The Flood
Talk Talk - Taphead
Talk Talk - New Grass
Guided By Voices - Hot Freaks
Crowded House - Convent Girls (live)
Aztec Camera - Jump
Beck - Beautiful Way
Folk Implosion - Mechanical Man (acoustic)
Folk Impolosion - No Need To Worry
Inbreds - Prince
Neil Finn - Tokyo
Thrush Hermit - We Are Being Reduced
Ween - cover of Hot For Teacher
54-40 - Blame Your Parents
Bjork - More to Life Than This
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
Blue Peter - Radio Silence
Blur - Trimm Trabb
Blur - Sing
Cardigans - Been It
Daft Punk - Around the World
Depeche Mode - Home
Ash - Girl From Mars
Ash - Goldfinger

mostly alphabetical

I've been listening to the single tonight, and it's good. It's a little repetitive, but Mould's guitar riff -- and the surprising lightness of the song -- carries it along with a lot of energy. The clean, propulsive guitar sound is quite a contrast from the hardcore (albeit melodic) sound of Husker Du.

it's good..."It's All Good", in fact, is the new "Ooh Child"...

I will also listen to the Sickoakes LP...

Oh, wait: Change "nothing" to "nothing but the US and Canadian national anthems.

(OILERS WIN!)

"without Sara Jaffe's guitar"

This is going to be heartbreaking, I know it. Is "Dark Cruisin'" on it?

And before that on the way home I listened to:
Pavement - Terror Twilight

Heroin - Destination

Neurosis - A Sun that Never Sets (only like the 3rd time i've listened to this. i just realized what a brilliant fucking album this is. anyone else like this as much as i do?)

The Cure - Staring at the Sea

Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang

up next: probably Voivod - Killing Technology

Is It Any Wonder - Keane
It's a Hard Life - Nanci Griffith & Lucinda Williams
It's All in the Game - Four Tops
It's Garry Shandling's Theme
(It's Gonna Take a) Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson
It's Got to Be Love - Monkees
It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City - Broooce
It's My Life - Monkees (not the Animals song)
It's My Party - Lesley Gore
It's Not Too Late - Monkees
It's Only Make Believe - Kanye Twitty
It's the Same Old Song - Four Tops
It Hollows You Out - Bocephus King
It May Be Winter Outside (But in My Heart, It's Spring) - Love Unltd.
It Must Be Love - Madness
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue - Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs

hell yeah there is. me! i worship the parched cracked earth that it walks on.

Girlfrendo - Gives you a lovebite
Psapp - Rear moth
Shrag - Pregnancy scene
Faction - You've got the fire
Cravats - The end
Active Minds - I'm not a tourist, I live here
Bobby Soxx & the Teenage Queers - Hate in the 80's
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag nag nag

and then I think I'll stick My War by Black Flag on.

Larry Finnegan - Knock On Wood (Old Town Records. But not THAT Knock On Wood)

Joey Powers - You Comb Her Hair (Amy Records)

The Mighty Mustangs - First Love (Sure-Shot Records)

The Manhattans - Sweet Little Girl (Carnival Records)

The Racket Squad - Little Red Wagon (Jubilee Records)

The Marmalade - Reflections Of My Life (London Records)

Crazy Elephant - Dark Part Of My Mind (Bell Records)

Little Gino & His Jinks - Lonely Fool (.007 Records)

Ethics - Look At Me Now (Vent Records)

Pickettywitch - Maybe We've Been Loving Too Long (Janus Records)

Larry Verne - Mr. Custer (Era Records)

The Dreams - Inexperience (Smash Records)

Eddie Cooley & The Dimples - Got A Little Woman (Royal Roost)

Phil Bo - She Wears My Ring (Jin Records)

Roy Head - Get Back (Sceptor Records)

Tran-Sisters - Pull The Covers Right Up (Over My Head) (Imperial)

Big Dee Irwin - Another Night With The Boys (Dimension Records)

Gus Jenkins - Chittlins (Tower Records)

Tony Camillo's Bazuka - Dynomite-Part 1 (A&M Records)

The Neighbors - The Biggest Ride Since Paul Revere (The Ballad Of John Glenn) (MGM Records)

Cross Country - A Smile Song (Atco Records - Great single! Never heard of them. Almost 10 CC-ish. The b-side is a super-slow and dreamy cover of In The Midnight Hour)

The Neon Philharmonic - Brilliant Colors (Warner Bros.)

The Casinos - I Still Love You (Fraternity Records)

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds - Funk-In-Wagnal (Dunhill - OMG, so fucking phat!)

Doesn't that Marmalade song just kill you?

right now: Byzantium - S/T (1972 - Warner Brothers) (Chas Jankel's stellar rural prog band. I enjoy this album a great deal. their other stuff is supposed to be way better, but the original vinyl prices are completely bonkers, so i'll have to look around for some CD action someday.)

Sons Of The Redd Desert, that is a TOP song.

Tell me more!

Meanwhile, Kongas is funking me something seriously.

at closing time i was jamming some upsetters, double 7 action.
up next: boppin hillbillies.

letz watch ian's head explode.

dude listens to these two albums every day of his life.

now playing: mandrake memorial - medium (an album i have played at least 200 times. they are my gods.)

after this it is night-night for me.

mmm...

-- Sons Of The Redd Desert (louder...), June 16th, 2006. (later)

I only know the two big hits, "Don't Pull Your Love" and "Fallin' in Love," the latter being the bigger. But me being a trash-singles guy, it never occurred to me I should dig deeper with them. Should I look it up in my funkin' Wagnalls?

As for what I was just listening to that ended a few seconds ago, The Church, Uninvited, Like the Clouds.

my friend's ITunes is completely nuts.

So far tonight: Anthony Braxton/Richard Teitelbaum's Time Zones and Barbra Streisand's People.

Junior Kimbraugh - Sad Days Lonely Nights
Tim Buckley - Lorca
Ennio Morricone/Dario Argento Anthology
Incredible String Band - The 5000 Spirits...
Ahmed Abdul Malik - Jazz Sahara
Milton Nascimento - Clube Da Esquina
Brian Eno/David Byrne - My Life in the Bush reissue
Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds vol 1
Francois Rabbath - Bass Ball

Alvarus B *Alvarus B* (at least that seems to be its name)
Beuregard Ajax *Deaf Priscilla* reissue
Sonic Orchard *Sonic Orchard* EP
Variant Cause *Excavating - 1980s Pacific Northwest Volume 1* reissue
Dahlia Wakefield *Down This Road*

dahlia wakefield now replaced with *radio thailand: transmissions from the tropical kingdom.*

today at work
Miles Davis - Black Beauty
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

(right now)
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Filled with anticipation for a UO reunion!

Crimson Glory *Transcendence* (MCA, 1988)
Kinky Friedman *Last of the Jewish Cowboys: The Best Of* (Shout! Factory, 2006)
*Radio Algeria* (Sublime Frequencies, 2006)
*Spank Rock* (Bid Dada, 2006)
Thor *Devastation of Musculation* (Smog Veil, 2006)

Well, they cover "Iron Man" (badly), I think. What the album kept reminding me of was a worse version of early Was (Not Was), say if they'd made an album in between their great first one and their less great second one (which I nonetheless put in my top ten for some reason the year it came out). Anyway, Ozzy made a guest appearance on that second Was (Not Was) LP, so that's a connection too I guess.

That Mojo *Trash: The Roots of Punk* comp that Douglas mentioned above looks really cool (I just googled it.) How do I get one? Is it in stores? Or is it free with a Mojo subscription or something?

By the way, I'm having very mixed feelings about Kinky Friedman, the new Thor, and that old Crimson Glory (the latter of which I bought for 4 bucks at The Thing in Greenpoint last month, only time I've gone there. Didn't stay long since I wasn't alone and didn't want to be rude, but I need to go back and sort through their zillions of $2 albums in the basement once I buy a dust mask or something. Thought of going this evening, but I got lazy. Sometime soon, though -- hell, I can walk there, over the Newtown Creek bridge from Queens!)

I think you're basically right on the Spank Rock story; there was a thread here on it a while back. I like the record a lot, too, though. "Top Billin' From Far Left" is great.

The Mojo CD was attached to the June (I think) issue. If you can't find one, or don't want to be bothered, e-mail me.

mmm...

Wolfmother S/T
YYY's Show Your Bones
New Snow Patrol record
Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
Kayo Dot S/T
Gnarls Barkley
The Coup Pick a Bigger Weapon

There's also a few older staples I need a dose of: some Built to Spill, Remain in Light, Franz Ferdinand from last year, Tusk, live Ozzy from '82 (the one with the guys from Quiet Riot and Night Ranger as the band)

Xhuxk, I was saying this should have been in Stairway to Hell!

i think you can hear some of Intercourse (the tokens album) here, but i didn't try:

http://www.thetokens.com/mu_inter.htm

matmos the rose has teeth

matmos the rose has teeth - awesome. wonder if the larry levan tribute will get remixes?
siouxsie + the banshees the scream deluxxxxe ed. - nice surprise.
buncha chicken lips remixes.
james murphy's DJ set from beats in space a couple months back, lotsa disco in that one.

1. Lisa Germano "Slide"
2. Lisa Germano "Excerpts from a Love Circus"
(inspired by the thread)
3. Flamin' Groovies "Shake Some Action"
4. New Pornographers "Mass Romantic"
5. Various Artists "Masters of the 1 & 2"
6. Wilco "A Ghost is Born"

THE BAND WAGON Original Soundtrack (!!!)
The Kinks - Oklahoma USA
The Octopus Project - Rorel
Carl Orff - Gassenhauer
Sonic Youth - Neutral
Nina Simone - Revolution

currently: christina carter - "lace heart"

but this morning i got tired of listening to new CDs sent to me by forced exposure and cdbaby/myspace bands and played old CDs from my shelves by chrome, circle, faust, winterhawk, helios creed, hawkwind, and vertical slit instead. no idea what the heck got into me. (the most boring, by far, for whatever it's worth, was circle.)

(ps: *all shook up* is one of my favorite cheap trick albums.)

GRRARRRGGLLEEEEWHEEEEE!

currently: billie holiday - "the commodore master takes"

(Going out plans done in by stormy weather.)

right now: Nona Hendryx, *Nona*

currently: uusitalo - "tulenkantaja"

the duhks *migrations* (due out in september)
everclear *welcome to the drama club* (due out in september)
love/hate *wasted in america* (from 1992, and damn this is great)
fatt matt mccourt, *southern fried steel* (cdbaby page below)
tiga *sexor* (due out in late august, reminds me of new order)

http://cdbaby.com/cd/mattmccourt

1. Phoenix - North (5:03)
2. TodoSantos - 1999 (3:08)
3. TodoSantos - A Veces (2:11)
4. Tortoise - Four-Day Interval (4:45)
5. Mojave 3 - Bluebird of Happiness (Ulrich Schnauss Mix) (9:56)
6. Yo La Tengo - Beanbag Chair (3:02)
7. Sonic Youth - Incinerate (4:56)
8. Midlake - Bandits (4:04)
9. Gabriel Ananda, Cio D'or - Lauschgoldengel (8:44)
10. Betty Botox - Music is Music (7:29)
11. Sonic Youth - Do You Believe In Rapture (3:11)
12. Midlake - Head Home (5:46)
13. Burger Industries - Derby (6:41)
14. Guido Schneider - Quarta I (6:47)
15. The Stooges - No Fun (5:15)
16. Midlake - Roscoe (4:49)
17. Betty Botox - Dingered and Rothered (6:18)
18. dominik eulberg & gabriel ananda - harzer roller (8:42)
19. Gabriel Ananda - Raumtraum (9:29)
20. Gabriel Ananda - Life is steadily breaking my heart (7:34)
21. Gabriel Ananda - Heizkissen (6:48)
22. Midlake - Van Occupanther (3:16)
23. Helios - Bless This Morning Year (6:01)
24. Helios - Dragonfly Across An Ancient Sky (5:41)
25. James Figurine - 55566688833 (6:45)

i ought to turn one of them off - but which?

cactus - cactus v
damone - out here all night
hammers of misfortune - the locust years
kentucky headhunters - flying under the radar
phatt matt mccourt - southern fried steel (which has staying power!)

chuck, correct me if i'm wrong. but there ain't a guitar to be heard on the Weltenbrand album. Maybe there is later. but i don't remember any.

Sugababes - Freak Like Me (We Don't Give A Damn Remix) yay

Fair point. It's changed... at this moment it is Helios - Halving The Compass. Haven't made my mind up yet, although reminds me of Arovane's Tides.

i was listening to some swanky jazzy brazilian stuff from the 60's, *Elizeth Cardoso-Zimbo Trio-Jacob Do Bandolim*, and then I tried to listen to *Take This Bread - A Mass In Our Time* by *William Dumaresq & Galt Macdermot* but it was so terrible that I had to take it off. Not even Nell Carter could save it for me. Then I listened to some of the 1973 album by *Alan O'Day* titled *Caress Me Pretty Music*. Jaxon would dig it. Pretty cool and wacky Xian rock/pop with titles like "Heavy Church" and "Hello Tree" and "Crucifixion 2000 A.D." Produced by Dallas Smith. Then I listened to the first side of the one and only album I own by *Clout* from 1979. South African Abba/Boney M wannabes who cover John Kongos and Eric Clapton and who also do a version of "Since You Been Gone" and it may or may not be better than Rainbow's or Cherie & Marie Currie's versions. Then I listened to the 1973 album by *The Section* called *Forward Motion*. *The Section* was Danny Kortchmar and Russ Kunkel's fusion-y instrumental group. Great guitar album for guitar fans.

BUT RIGHT NOW, I'm listening to *Larry Jon Wilson* and his album *New Beginnings...* I dig it. 1975. "Canoochee Revisited(Jesus Man)" is great. So is "Broomstraw Philosophers And Scuppernog Wine" and "Melt Not My Igloo".

Mad Professor, Anti-Racist Dub Broadcast (so fine; probably my favorite by him)
Sonny Criss, The Complete Imperial Recordings

Axe Bahia *Positivo* (Fonovisa)
Fentanyl *Feeble Existence* (cdbaby)
The Left *Jesus Loves the Left: The Complete Studio Recordings* (Bona Fide)
Lucas McCain *New Horizon* (cdbaby)
Metal Church *A Light in the Dark* (SPV)

no, i live with three others. and a cat. and lots of spiders.

Now Playing: The Group Image - A Mouth In The Clouds (More Vinny Testa/Shadow Morton majik. "Hiya" kills me every time. So fierce. The greatest west coast psych album to ever come out of New Jersey. maybe. Featuring: Freddy Knuckles, Sheila Darla, Professor Leon Luther Rix, Dr.Hok, Black Doug, and William Guy Merrill. "Welcome...we're glad you've decided to shed your cloak of fear and reach for the Group Image torch that will lead you to a life full of riches and rewards experienced by few men and no animals.")

I'm about to go out dancing.

I remember a Lester Bangs Rock-a-Rama on either that album or the one after it ("Dance Your Ass Off"?), saying that if you dug the Ramones because all the songs sounded the same, you'd be into Bohannon for similar reason.

Dude was huge in my junior high.

Fleetwood mac – what makes you think you’re the one
Hazlewood & lizell – hey cowboy
Byrds – why
Canned heat – on the road again
Royal trux – map of the city
Minimal man – she was a visitor
Dead c – bone
Flower travellin’ band – satori II
Neil young – danger bird
Almendra – parvas
Cat stevens – baby get yer head screwed on
Bread – dismal day
The grodeck whipperjenny – wonder if
Kate bush – cloud busting
Sandy bull – little maggie

Minutemen – ALL OF THE PUNCH LINE
Gene clark – keep on pushin
Holy modal rounders – mr. spaceman
Charalambides – bankrupt
Skullflower – woodland death march
The shadow ring – fish and hog
The rza - domestic violence
Biggie – gimme the loot
Raekwon & ghostface – ice cream
odb & macy gray – don’t go breakin my heart
los holys – sueno sicodelico
gate – your face
les rallizes denudes – untitled (live 73)

OK, i understand the monkees. but cold war kids? that is ridiculously awful. no offense, pal. monkees are great though.

Grant Hart -- Run Run Run To The Centre Pompidou
Grant Hart -- Little Nemo
Alejandra And Aeron -- I Don't Know
Alejandro Escovedo -- Deerhead on the Wall
Syreeta -- I Love Every Little Thing About You
Sisters of Mercy -- Marian
Bob & Fred -- I'll Be On My Way
Lavender Diamond -- In Heaven There Is No Heat
Sun Kil Moon -- Carry Me Ohio
Linda Rodstadt -- How Do I Make You
Espers -- Widow's Weed
Hermann Baumann -- Perspectives
Toms -- House of Horrors

And "Roscoe," from Midlake. That one's not on my iPod yet, unfortunately. I'm anxious to buy the album, The Trials Of Van Occupanther, when it's released later this month.

black keys - magic potion (nonesuch advance CD)
jake owen - startin' with me (rca)
the pogues - red roses for me (rhino advance CD reissue)
randy rogers band - just a matter of time (mercury advance CD)
various artists - billboard top contemporary jazz: rock (rhino, 1999)

and i LOVE the track by passport, "loco-motive", on that jazz fusion compilation. i know nothing at all about passport, and next to nothing about jazz fusion in general, but this track is total train-rock -- it starts out like "trans europa express" by kraftwerk! so if anybody out there knows whether passport has other stuff like this, or what their best albums are, i am suddenly extremely curious.

Isolee "Wearemonsters"
DJ Food "Refried"
Spoon "Telephono"
Public Enemy "Fear of a Black Planet"
The Clientele "Strange Geometry"
New Order "The Singles" (Disc One)
The New Pornographers "Electric Version:
Royksopp "The Understanding"

during dinner, probably dillard and clark.

it pretty much sucks.

Jackie DeShannon – Dream Boy just listened
Alvin Robinson – Down Home Girl 4 minutes ago
The Miracles – The Miracles - Mickey's Monkey Jul 25 2006 23:20
Little Peggy March – I Will Follow Him Jul 25 2006 23:18
Johnny Cash – Ring of Fire Jul 25 2006 23:15
The Drifters – Up on the Roof Jul 25 2006 23:12
B.B. King – You're Gonna Miss Me Jul 25 2006 23:10
Eddie Holland – Jamie Jul 25 2006 23:07
Del Shannon – Runaway Jul 25 2006 23:05
Clarence "Frogman" Henry – (I Don't Know Why) But I Do Jul 25 2006 23:03
Bobby Parker – Watch Your Step Jul 25 2006 23:00
Ray Charles – One Mint Julep Jul 25 2006 22:57
The Champs – Tequila Jul 25 2006 22:55
Chuck Berry – Beautiful Delilah Jul 25 2006 22:52
The Coasters – Searchin' Jul 25 2006 22:50
Del-Vikings – Come Go With Me Jul 25 2006 22:47
The Heartbeats – A Thousand Miles Away Jul 25 2006 22:45
Frankie Lymon – Why Do Fools Fall in Love Jul 25 2006 22:42
The Cadillacs – Speedo Jul 25 2006 22:40
LaVern Baker – Tweedlee Dee Jul 25 2006 22:37
Daddy Cleanhead – Something's Goin' On In My Room Jul 25 2006 22:34
Billy Williams – Honey Dripper Jul 25 2006 22:32
The Davis Sisters – Rock-A-Bye Boogie Jul 25 2006 22:29
Hardrock Gunter – You Played On My Piano Jul 25 2006 22:27
Lucky Millinder – Chew Tobacco Rag Jul 25 2006 22:24
Wynonie Harris – Good Morning Judge Jul 25 2006 22:21
Tennessee Ernie Ford – Shot-Gun Boogie Jul 25 2006 22:19
Louis Jordan – Tamburitza Boogie Jul 25 2006 22:16
Louis Jordan – Beans and Cornbread Jul 25 2006 22:13
The Nelson Alexander Trio – Drink Up, Light Up Jul 25 2006 22:10
Forth Worth Doughboys – Sunbonnet Sue Jul 25 2006 22:07
Buddy Holly – Everyday Jul 25 2006 22:05
T.I. – What You Know Jul 25 2006 18:08
Christina Milian – Say I Jul 25 2006 17:30
Sticky – Golly Gosh Jul 25 2006 17:27
Musical Mob – Pulse X Jul 25 2006 17:25
More Fire Crew – Oi! Jul 25 2006 17:21
Danny Weed – Creeper Jul 25 2006 17:17
So Solid Crew – Oh No (Little Thing Remix) Jul 25 2006 17:12
The Horace Silver Quintet – Song For My Father Jul 25 2006 16:47
Herbie Hancock – Cantaloupe Island Jul 25 2006 16:42
Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder Jul 25 2006 16:34
Kraftwerk – The Telephone Call Jul 25 2006 15:59
Kraftwerk – Sex Object Jul 25 2006 15:51
Basement Jaxx – Red Alert (Steve Gurley mix) Jul 25 2006 14:54
The Artful Dodger – Movin' Too Fast Jul 25 2006 14:49
The Human Beinz – It's Fun to Be Clean Jul 25 2006 14:35
Golly Gosh – Sticky Jul 25 2006 14:30

On the subway I only listened to the subway. It was fine. I've begun to actively hate soundtracking commutes.

Here at work, I'm listening to Spank Rock's Voila! mixtape and a bunch of random crap, including "the most psychelic House release of the year." Which isn't.

Damn, I dig Pappa Wheelie's taste.

probably later:
of cabbages and kings - never too late
eighties matchbox - the royal society
ian nagoski - warm, coursing blood
new kingdom - paradise don't come cheap

Final Fantasy: He Poos Clouds
Romica Puceanu: Sounds from a Bygone Age Vol.2
Koby Israelite [John Zorn composer]: Orobas: Book of Angels Vol.4
Esma Redzepova: Chaje Shukarije

(All good, and more or less in that order of preference)

(Now:)

Fred Frith on Pandora Internet Radio. Earlier today I checked out xhuxk's station good until some metal kicked in--actually mostly Brazilian up to that, like you knew it was me or something), made a couple salsa stations and a NOW LATINO one, etc. Yeah, thanks pandora.com, because now I know I don't need to be in any rush to by this slowly unfolding Fred Frith thing.

http://www.pandora.com/?sc=sh123684599888936884

what the station has been playing today (with those songs i gave "thumbs down" to notated, thus ensuring they'll never be played ever again):

sister sledge - pretty baby
leon thomas - china doll
jason moran - gangsterism on stages (live)
trick pony - on a night like this
dna - 5:30
ideas without numbers - flood tide (yochannon remix)
rivera rotation - jericoracoara surf [THUMBS DOWN]
tarwater - across the dial
mark farina - dream machine (downtempo mix) [THUMBS DOWN]
lee hazlewood - summer wine
scott walker - hero of the war [PANDORA IS CONVINCING ME HE IS NOT AS BORING AS I THOUGHT. I THINK I LIKE THE WALKER BROTHERS STUFF THEY'VE PLAYED MORE THAN HIS SOLO STUFF THOUGH; BEST TRACK WAS A DIONNE WARWICK COVER -- 'MAKE IT EASY ON YOURSELF', MAYBE?)
conway twitty - you know just what i'd do
herman's hermits - dandy
falco - it's all over now baby blue [!?]
thompson twins - perfect day
yoko kanno - lithium flower [THUMBS DOWN]
glen miller - when you wish upon a star
benny goodman - for you, for me, for evermore (feat. eve young)
sarah vaughan - if this isn't love
keely smith - just a gigolo/i ain't got nobody'
louis prima - this heart of mine
bunny berrigan - under your window tonight
louis prima - percy have mercy
lavay smith and her red hot skillet lickers - everybody's talking about miss thing
classics iv - spooky
music machine - trouble
blur - i know
moving sidewalks - never me
tony joe white - san francisco
the band - strawberry wine
lynyrd skynyrd - gimme back my bullets (live)
marty robbins - i walk alone
smokey robinson - baby that's backatcha
betty wright - circle of heartbreak
dusty springfield - spooky
spencer davis group - i'm a man
rob togoni band - itty bitty mama
joe walsh - turn to stone
chicken shack - poor boy
aerosmith - seasons of wither
grupo exterminador - entre cobijas
cardenales de neuvo leon - como voy a olvidaria
los tigres del norte - la muerto a mi hijo
paula abdul - the way that you love me
carly simon - give me all night
the pointer sisters - neutron dance
olivia newton-john - soul kiss
the action - just once in my life
j. blackfoot - the way of the city
roberta flack - the closer i get to you (feat. donny hathaway)

john conlee - she loves my troubles away
alabama - getting over you (i've thought ever alabama track pandora has played has been bearable, though i've yet to hear a great one.)
mickey gilly - lonely nights
toby keith - me too
robert earl keen - i'm coming home
merle haggard - if we're not back in love by monday
ricky skaggs - crying my heart out over you
tompall glaser - gone, on the other hand
john michael montgomery - sold (the grundy county auction incident)
laura branigan - mama
heart - there's the girl
scandal - win some lose some
patti smith - paths that cross [thumbs down]
ruby vileos - bitter wine [thumbs down]
britney spears - lonely
nelly furtado - afraid
jennifer lopez - i'm gonna be alright [thumbs down]
faiport convention - matty groves
fotheringay - the sea
gene clark - 1975
the pogues - rainbow man (this is okay, but it sure as hell doesn't sound like the pogues to me. did somebody else replace shane for a while? i stopped paying attention after their first couple albums. anyway, the synthesized-sounding groove here is propulsive enough to pass, but the voice has no personality i can hear. how strange.)
simple plan - surrender (they get most of the words wrong! but oddly, i don't hate this like i hate almost all the '00s pop-punk pandora plays. the slackers covering bon jovi's 'wanted dead or alive' was tolerable too, but i guess they're supposed to be ska.)
deleted scenes - day off work (thumbs down)
chrome - perfumed metal
ciccone youth - into the groovy
big black - the model
suicidal tendencies - war inside my head (less clumsy than i'd've guessed)
randy brecker - score
weather report - gibraltar
stone alliance - georgia o'
miles davis - black satin
david allan coe - willie, waylon, and me
david ball - down at the bottom of a broken heart
dale watson - pretty girls
dale watson - you've got a long way to go
john michael montgomery - if you've got love
dwight yoakam - the distance between you and me

(It's almost scarey, too, how easy it is to hear all sorts of specific songs, as long as they aren't too esoteric. The salsa selection is weak though. It's like they have half the canon and the other half is completely missing.)

huh

definitely did not expect this!

http://www.pandora.com/?ext_lsfi=147317794878177402

http://www.pandora.com/?ext_lsfi=147491930029618185

Now listening to Tokyo Jihen: Adult (on my CD player). This is already a very familiar friend.

rockist and skot, i will check out your stations soon, i promise!

Yeah, I tried to add Rachid Taha, and was shocked he wasn't on there.

Labelle's "Can I Speak To You Before You Go To Hollywood" into Sly and the Family Stone's "Thank You For Talkin' to Me Africa"!! (Which I didn't add, though I just gave it the thumbs up).

I actually stole a few song ideas from you, although it should be pretty different. At the moment I am in the mood for my narrow salsa station.

just in case you are in the mood for tons of black metal and death metal though:

http://www.pandora.com/?ext_lsfi=147547274978194441

I mostly like Justo Betancourt's Pa Bravo Yo (with I think may also be Pacheco produced, actually). I like him with boleros in particular. I also really like his "Madrugada," a beautiful song which has some unusual bells (like church bell choir bells) in it, in his version. I remember "Pa Bravo Yo" came on during the intermission of a jazz concert I went to with a salsera friend, and we looked at each other like, "We're going to have to get up and dance to this right now, aren't we, even if we are the only people dancing, right in front of everyone?" but then the band came on. I wish they hadn't, that would have been an interesting dance.

(And of course I like Papo Lucca primarily as the leader of Sonora Poncena, although he worked a lot with other Fania people in the 70s, in addition to keeping his PR-based band going.)

yeah, i know, metal vocals. i don't even notice them anymore. unless they are really bad. i have to be vigilant about my metal station and make sure no lame american metalcore or nu-metal slips in to the mix.

http://www.pandora.com/?ext_lsfi=147735007998702601

Johnny "Guitar" Watson

http://www.pandora.com/people/al_sucar

Andy Montanez: Salsaton. Includes cameos by Daddy Yankee and Voltio. An uneven album, but still probably one of the best of the year.

Guayacan Orquesta: Xtremo. This has more of a countrified (in a Latin sense) vibe. It went Gold in Colombia and one of the songs did chart on the tropical music singles charts, but I am pretty doubtful about it's appeal to people who don't already listen to lots of salsa.

I guess it hasn't actually been that great a year for salsa albums after all.

I think the Bio Ritmo album that is due to come out soon is going to be very good, based on the three songs (all of which should be on it) they've already released as an EP.

(Ha, Michael Stuart's "Vengo Guapeando" just came on my pandora station. This is a GREAT album.)

I like the Rafaelito Cortijo/Ismaelito Rivera album La Nueva Generaction, but Orlando Fiol says that Ismaelito has horrible intonation and is a formulaic sonero, while my friend Nina thinks it sounds old "in a bad way." I don't think it sounds especially new, but I like it.

huh

That about nails it.

Me? A weird REM nostalgia trip tonight, soon to be followed by some good old Third Eye Foundation.

http://www.pandora.com/?ext_lsfi=147833186656121865

even if you aren't a big psych head, i guarantee you will hear cool stuff on here. for instance, the fairfield parlour song that is playing right now.

by the way, speaking of pandora's lack of middle eastern music, yesterday i added ofra haza and natacha atlas, but i've yet to hear them. i did hear both montgomery gentry and crazy frog today, though.

ha ha, iron maiden "run to the hills" follows armored saint. okay, i will listen for a minute before giving it thumbs down, i promise...

Think about that one for a second. (I swear they also say that some skye sweetnam song features "a distinctive male vocal" somewhere.)

Gary Glitter into Tangerine Dream -- nice segue!

http://www.vinilemania.net/vBIORITMO.htm

anyway:

Key Largo – Saner Days (Mercury – 1978) Not so powerful trio that nonetheless had some pretty nifty trad rock moves. Mostly breezy & easy. Cover shot: Old man and child searching for shells on the beach while another child peers at us with binoculars and a superimposed sunlit shot of palm trees behind them for no reason other than the band’s name is Key Largo.

Max Webster – Universal Juveniles (Mercury – 1980) Super hard-rocking Canuckrock fest with too many highlights to mention. “April in Toledo”, “Juveniles Don’t Stop”, “Battle Scar”. All wonderful. The Geddy Lee duet is just icing on the cake. Cover shot: Easily one of the most ludicrous album covers of all time. Kim Mitchell in unflattering yellow spandex unitard jumpsuit and flames coming from his guitar pick.

Allan Clarke – I've Got Time (Asylum – 1976) Workaday crooner takes on “Blinded By The Light”, and tunes by Janis Ian, Dan Fogelberg, Chinn & Chapman, and others. Nothing special happens. Bonus points for getting Jimmie Haskell out of bed to futz with the horns and strings. Cover shot: Photo collage of Allan smoking and smiling.

The Lydia Taylor Band – S/T (Passport – 1981) Not bad cutie pie whiskey-voiced singer and her nerdly band do hard rock a la Benatar. And they DO rock. Choice cuts: “Cut Throat” and a surprisingly strong cover of “Highway To Hell”. Cover shot: Colorful illustration of a shapely female robot shooting laser beams thru the heart of a male robot. But he’s loving it.

Robert Byrne – Blame It On The Night (Mercury -1979) SERIOUSLY smooth crooner makes a strong strong album that not even his mother would end up buying. This album is like butter on the other side of the pillow. It melts in your mouth AND your hand. Despite the tight fit of his white painter pants, Robert never sounds anything less than mellow. Use of the Aphex Aural Exciter at the Wishbone Recording Studio in Muscle Shoals may or may not have contributed to the overall warm vibe of this worthy addition to the 70's honky loverman canon of fame. Cover shot: Several polaroids. An ashtray, a glass of wine, the american flag on t.v., a foxy laydee, an owl, balloons tacked to the wall, a neon parking sign, red panties hanging on the wall, another shot of the stone fox, and a heart with an arrow thru it scrawled in magic marker on a hairy human chest.

Tantrum – S/T (Ovation – 1978) Tantrum were a groovy bunch of kids. Great smiles. Their formula was disco + rock, and you can’t beat that with a stick. Highlights: “Flash Commander”, “Kid Brother”, “Night On Main Street”. Tantrum would like to thank the Hilton Hotel staff at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Cover shot: A somewhat photorealistic illustration of a pink chair being thrown thru a window. There is a pair of pantyhose wrapped around the chair.

Mistress – S/T (RSO – 1979) Lite southern-style rock and pop. “High On The Ride” is some catchy stuff. One of these days I will listen to the second side to hear their version of “Cinnamon Girl”. Mistress would like to thank the Aphex Aural Exciter. Cover shot: Completely white cover with raised letters that spell Mistress. Wouldn’t you just know that the M in Mistress takes the form of long lovely legs in high heels.

Flower – Heat (MCA – 1979) Pure, unadultrated disco. Deep disco. If you cut this record it would bleed cocaine. Not for dilettantes. Cover shot: Foxy disco lady in fur and bathing suit.

Trefethen – Am I Stupid Or Am I Great? (Pacific Arts – 1980) Completely deranged piano wizard makes supreme weirdo move. What a record! Three cheers! This one ya gotta hear. Andre Crouch, Alan Parsons, Jim Keltner, kicking puppy guitars, plywood box & broken snare, bionic drumset, etc. Alternate title: It's All Mom's Fault. There were no synthesizers used to make this album. Cover shot: I don't know what's going on. Trefethen and some wet young woman riding a turbine? Some sort of giant instrument of mass destruction? I have no idea what it is. They are ready to go though.

Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls – S/T (Illusive – 1980) I don’t have much to say about this. Pauline’s voice is nice. I like the song “Screaming In The Darkness”. But then I fell asleep on the couch. I woke up and it was still playing. It was pleasant. Vini Reilly was involved somewhere. I will try to spot him next time around. Cover shot: Peter Saville body geometry.

Arlyn Gale – Back To The Midwest Night (ABC – 1978) What the fuck? How come you major dudes never told me about this guy? Complete missing link between Phil Lynott and Craig Finn. Springsteen wannabe? Yeah, so what? I’ve already HEARD all HIS songs. I dig this mightily. Cool band. Long rambling rock and R&B excursions tied together by Arlyn’s slick yawp. Check it: "I crashed on that crowd like my soul had a debt to pay/So those Hollywood kids braced up for a one man invasion/I pleaded hard wired blues, turned it all into cannon-blasted energy/I strut a mad man's fandango, reeled 'round that axis and rode out the night". Or this: "Indiscreet, bittersweet/It's her deal, give her the wheel/She’s in the driver’s seat/Dutchess of Earl, Mother of Pearl/She’s leaning on the off beat/Nylon hose, crossed-leg pose/So inviting, delighting/Got me reciting prose/Hypnotic, narcotic/A shape so melodic/I wanna know how it goes”. I know what you’re thinking, he's no Tonio K, but still...Cover shot: Arlyn standing in front of his ride at sunset. The headlights are blazing. The bridge behind him stands mute.

Honorable mention to these other albums I listened to today that I don’t feel like going on and on about:

Patrick Moraz –Um, the title is a symbol that looks like an upside down exclamation point. came out in 1976. deranged. schizo electro prog bombast fused with Brasilian percussion and carnival noises.

Gentle Persuasion –S/T (Warner – 1979) Sweet soul trio. Nice arrangements. Meco was involved. “Litterbug” is a highlight.

Glass Moon – Growing In The Dark (Radio – 1982) Nice power pop that actually rocks a little! Picks: “Simon”. “She’s On”, “Political Action”.

Alan Gordon – Alley & The Soul Sneekers (Capitol – 1978) Good soulful stuff. I dig it. Dude’s voice is unreal. You will swear he is a stone fox. But he’s a dude! Pretty epic in spots. Jack Nitzsche production.

Show Of Hands (Formerly Anthrax) (Elektra – 1970) Cool power trio. jazzy. Nice guitars. Hyperactive cover of “Moondance”.

Mike Corbett & Jay Hirsh with Hugh McCracken – S/T (Atco – 1970) Sweet folk rock. Some nice dreamy tunes. Sitar. Children singing. Great production. Awesome guitars.

Dudly records I played today:

Sherbet – Howzat! (MCA – 1976) These fluffy Aussie dudes in the too small satin jackets riding in the dayglo hot air balloon are no Rollers. They should have paid for some chinnchapman and/or vandayoung action.

David James Holster – Chinese Honeymoon (Columbia – 1979) One kinda interesting song, “Teenage Tragedy Queen”, and some decent session work from the usual suspects can’t hide the fact that this dude wrote some songs for Three Dog Night and John Denver and thought he could make a go at the 70's cool guy raffish loverman who can rock and be sensitive with the best of them a la Jackson Browne routine only he’s kind of a drip and I just keep staring at the weird Chinese finger thingys that David and his girlfriend (presumably Chinese) are wearing and the empty cartons of Chinese food and thinking that the dude had a shot but he kinda blew it and now his album just seems sorta racist and dumb.

Rob Carlson & Jon Gailmor – Peaceable Kingdom (Polydor – 1974) Even hippies weren't dumb enough to buy this album. Nice harmonies though. A couple of cool dreamy moments, but mostly curdled drippiness that even I can’t justify.

David A.Winter – Falling In Love (Able – 1977) This album is a monstrosity. So over the top. So cringeworthy. Words fail me. A spoken word tear-jerker called "The Letter”. Bad high energy bloat called "Wham, Bam Thank You M'am". Just...weird...and bad...and...not good. I don't even have the heart to tell you about the song entitled "Old Black Man". It's so wrong.

Haven't thought about them in about 25 years, and then the chorus to "Rather Be Rockin'" (the title track of their second album) came into my head last weekend as I was mowing the lawn! Saw Tantrum play in a club around 1979. Kinda Heart-wannabes.

hey Rickey, in the new issue of Ugly Things magazine that I bought today there is a feature on Willie Alexander & the Boom Boom Band! what timing. haven't read it yet though.

right now, i am listening to the new Hope Conspiracy album. Punk rawk!! I am digging it. recorded by my hardcore hero Kurt Ballou.

Rose Tattoo
AC/DC
Chain
Clem East
Supernaut
Flinn
Geeza
Stevie Wright

great write-ups for the songs he picks. i will admit to being clueless except for the obvious ac/dc and rose tattoo.

Six Organs of Admittance - Sun Awakens

The Braxton/Frith CD seems the most promising.

what i heard tonite instead (pandora.com is making me so lazy):

calhouns - 9 months / trina - it's your b-day / aceyalone- push / canton jones - birthday (montell jordan-like supposedly christian new jack r&b hoppamacallit)/ fatty koo - bounce / n2u - issues (thumbs down)/ steppenwolf- faster than the speed of life / aerosmith - somebody / t. rex - rapids / lime spiders - slave girl / village people - hollywood (everybody is a star) / vickie sue robinson - turn the beat around / sister sledge - thinking of you/ felix cavaliere - never felt love before/ waltham - hopeless / loser - without you (inside out)/ powderfiner - baby i got you on mind (thumbs down) / maceo parker - youth of the world / kid creole and the coconuts (really coati mundi, i think) - me no pop i / 311 --applied science (thumbs down) / nirvana (the '60s band of that name) - pentecost hotel / four tops - ain't no woman like the one i got / marvin gaye - where are we going / isley brothers - work to do (live) / new radicals - mother we can't get enough (thumbs down) / molly hatchet - let the good times roll / aerosmith - one way street / groundhogs - walking blues / zz top - tush / underworld - pearls girl (live) / photek - infinity / turtles - outside chance

Xhuxk, this is really none of my business, but *thanks*.

Willie Alexander and the Boom Boom Band [MCA, 1977]
I have hated these Beantowners steadfastly through independent singles, a guest shot at Max's, and Live at the Rat. White r&b with poor epiglottal hygiene, who needed it? Yet I've grown fond of this album. What seemed silly if not self-indulgent eccentricity in a failed thirty-five-year-old rock and roller is brave and funny on an honest-to-God major-label elpee. And "Lookin' Like a Bimbo" is an anthem for failed thirty-five-year-old rock and rollers. B [RW: I wanna say his original grade was B+.]

at work I'm listening to Comsat Angels - Sleep No More and the new Lupe Fiasco mixtape

tonight I'm listening to whatever they're playing at the bar

and corny britpop

later on tonight: robert fripp playing a solo concert in a church in my hometown :)

Get your horns up to the softness!

Now: not Pandora.com! Instead, in my five-disc changer, new stuff:

Cyndi Boste Foothill Dandy (Sound Vision)
The Fix At the Speed of Twisted Thought (Touch & Go)
The Heart Attacks Hellbound and Heartless (Hellcat)
Toby Keith et. al Broken Bridges soundtrack (Showdog)
The Modernist Collectors Series: Pt. 1: Popular Songs (Faith)

the deviants - nothing man / gang gang dance - stanton street (live) / rah bros - pancheera / octopus project - exit counselor / hella - famnail / redbone - the witch queen of new orleans / meat puppets - beauty / love - laughing stock / beach boys - ten little indians / cryan shames - dennis dupree from danville / the id - just who / the beatles - everybody's got something to hide except me and my monkey / wimple wench - i really love you / fad gadget - the box / legendary pink dots - no matter what you do / psyche - one last kiss / various artists: cordless recordings sampler - the rejection (i assume that's the artist's name; not really sure about the song title) / jason blivens and ian davis - cuskeel / derek bailey & jamaldeen tacuma - what it is / miles davis - directions / fred frith and ray lussler - fun in america / neil young - rockin' in the free world / stevie ray vaughan - love struck baby / graham parker - another grey area / little feat - heaven forsaken / towers of london - on a noose / tricky woo - pink thunder / the cops - don't take it personal dave / rufio - my escape / motorhead - live to win (bbc sessions 1980) / reverend horton heat - like a rocket / ac/dc - whole lotta rosie / black oak arkansas - hey y'all / quiet riot - slave to love / ozma - battlescars / scott weiland - about nothing / don henley - i will not go quietly / ancient winds - la samaratina / various artists: flute music - el condor pasa / conunto kollahura - el condor pasa / leon gleco - aguita de putina / little axe - take me back to the country / funeral for a friend - history (thumbs down) / the wallflowers - the distance (thumbs down) / olivia newtown-john - dancing round and round / bebo norman - back to me (thumbs down) / anne murray - a little good news / terri clark - she didn't have time / lee ann womack - the wrong girl / julie roberts - first to never know / shannon brown - these pearls / baby huey - listen to me / clarence carter - the feeling is right / isaac hayes - soulsville / jackie wilson - for your previous love / ranking joe - slave driver

(and then i tried to add u-roy, accidently hit the backspace key, and the station crashed, as happens way way way too often)

"make it easy on yourself," yes, one of the walker bros' two big pop hits, which are, not coincidentally, the two best things scott walker has ever laid his hands on. (the other one is "the sun ain't gonna shine anymore".) and i LIKE a lot of solo scott walker. it's a bachrach/david song, and jerry butler did it before either the walker bros or dionne.

Was out briefly and heard the "Ah-Ah/O-No" cover from that new album. It drifts into reggaeton, and while it ends up being a kind of funny novelty cover, it's still fun (and anyway, the original song is funny, even for those of us who have almost no Spanish--Hector Lavoe is just very amusing on El Juicio--great album, yes that's a recommendation), and I think I'm going buy a copy. Also, I mean George Lamond sings it! WTF?! George Lamond doing a salsaton cover of Hector Lavoe in 2006, when he hadn't been heard from for in salsa for several years? It's highly unexpected, but it works. (I guess this should have been on the salsa thread, but then nobody would read it.) And I heard that looooong cut from a live Marc Anthony recording (I think it's from a DVD actually) which builds up into the most incredible percussion soloing. Really powerful. Whatever you think of Marc Anthony, he usually is backed up by amazing musicians. And unexpectedly hearing Santana's "Oye Como Va"--great song, and all you posers who put it down need to stop hating.

(I need to buy a legitimate copy of this.)

Utterly amazing and rich: Marvin Santiago's percussion solo vocal delivery pummels you, and then the horn arrangements get really brilliant, and then he pummels you some more. I live and die by this music.

Rick Wakeman "Retro": Godawful and great in equal measures. Go Rick!

Rolling Stones (Glasgow, 8.25.06) : Keith does "Before They Make Me Run" and it sounds like the last time he'll ever sing it. Kind of heartwrenching. Plus, they do "Ruby Tuesday", "Tumbling Dice" and "Sway". Surprising show.

TAGO MAGO! all you ilm canaddicts have got me pulling out da can. haven't listened to this in, seriously, YEARS. wow, what was i waiting for? an engraved invitation? sounds like fucking god on a stick. wait, not actually FUCKING god on a stick. just god on a stick.

Just watched the BBC Fall Documentary on youtube. Brix is much more girlish than I expected (never saw her speak before).

Brix is a fox!

actually, i haven't seen Brix in over 20 years. Brix WAS a fox!

I'm playing and re-playing this!

Bouncing Souls.

A Joy Division boot of The Paradiso, Amsterdam, show from January 1980. Still pretty lukewarm after all these years on the studio albums, but damn they were awesome live.

Expo 70 "Psychosis" just arrived in the mail. So far I like it better than "Night Flights" but not as much as "Animism"

Virgin comp - Various - A Brief History Of Ambient Volume 1

Califone, Vamping Again.

Cristina - Doll in the Box

that new Bill Callahan live record. mesmerizing.

The Beatles - Please Please Me
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4

not trolling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu1aQvm5MrU

Andrew Liles - Monster Munch EP
Leslie Winer - & That Dead Horse
Night Control - Death Control

and an orange cat purring.

http://soundcloud.com/tpbsecretleaks/uffie-add-suv-feat-pharell-prod-by-mirwais

Heldon- Electronique Guerilla
White Hills

volcano related surf

Local bands Carnivores and Sunglasses are playing a house show. On the way to and from I'll probably be playing Harry Nilsson's "The Point" soundtrack.

can - flowmotion

Oh snap, a reason to go home early after that show: I just remembered I have 6 new discs of Smile outtakes to listen to!!

i just listened to that hour long sleep album dopesmoker, totally sober. it fucking sucked. no, it was cool, i just would much rather have been baked.

now i am listening to we've got a fuzzbox and we're gonna use it. i was reading alex in nyc's blog and he name-dropped like ten bands in a row here, so i downloaded something from a couple of 'em.