everybody self-distancing from COVID-19, what's on your playlist?

i'm not looking for themes. just looking for what music is soothing ya in this time...

right now it's

My Dying Bride-Turn Loose the Swans

it's putting me in the gloomy yet not desperate mode I need to be in.

Good call. I'm not feeling MDB's new one nearly as much due to the weaksauce vocals.

Anyway, Richard Skelton's LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM has been filling that void for me by expanding it.

weirdly that's the main issue I have with the new one too, even though I think I *like* it overall.

it just feels a little too, uh, by the numbers.

feel ilke Nick Drake is gonna happen before the night is out. Five Leaves Left is my go-to in strife times.

I have a list, of course.

lol at Gucci and M.I.A.'s "Bird Flu" making the list. good call.

Last 2 weeks:
All the Dr. Rob tributes to Andrew Weatherall on Mixcloud
Fort Beulah N.U. / Woodleigh Research Project 127 to Facility 4 / Stockwell Steppas EP / Various Weatherall 12" mixes
Rotla - Transmissioni
CFCF - Liquid Colours

I suppose it's just music I can lose myself in, rather than reflecting a particular mood. Suppose i'm resisting putting on A Virus With Shoes EP.

Also, uh, Burzum's latest, Thulêan Mysteries, is the kind of cinematic dungeon synth for failed fantasy writers that works especially well when you're self-quarantined in a basement.

anybody got any jazz to suggest for sleep times? I don't mean smooth jazz on upper 90s radio stations to ignore in the background, something with a beat that is interesting but nonetheless will make my limbs lose their tension

Throbbing Gristle only for the foreseeable.

Just finally started listening to it this minute but you could do worse than the new one by

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/arts/music/shabaka-and-the-ancestors.html

As mentioned here: London jazz wizard Shabaka Hutchings: Sons of Kemet / The Comet Is Coming / Shabaka & the Ancestors

much thanks

Oh, for sleep time? Never mind, sorry,

anybody got any jazz to suggest for sleep times? I don't mean smooth jazz on upper 90s radio stations to ignore in the background, something with a beat that is interesting but nonetheless will make my limbs lose their tension

ECM is the first word that springs to mind. Dunno, have you heard Collin Walcott's Cloud Dance?

xpost even if not for sleep time, man, it's good. i been looking for jazz anyway.

I have not pom, but i'll give it a go.

not jazz, but here's the entirety of 'world receiver' by tetsu inoue (1996) which i have fallen asleep to many, many times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grlYRK1aSus

Some Sinatra maybe. I’ll go with Sinatra/Jobim.

Rn: Horse Lords - The Common Task
Earlier: William Beauvais - Traces
Alabaster DePlume - To Cy & Lee
Also Joseph Allred, Hannah Lash, Kate Soper, Alcest, Jute Gyte,

Also Judicaël Perroy playing Bach

The Cure - "Grinding Halt"

Scott Walker - The Plague

If you're looking for soothing jazz, that Alabaster dePlume record is outstanding. I find Helen Merrill really soothing.

On the bedtime jazz tip - try Japanese pianist Hiromi, her recent album ‘Specturm’ is great and yellow Wurlitzer blues is getting lots of plays right now.

The Go Hirano album - that Tylerw linked to on his blog - is my go-to late-night Japanese thing at the moment. It's ostensibly ambient but it's almost got a backporch primitivism feel to it. It's fantastic.

https://gohirano.bandcamp.com/album/corridor-of-daylight

Police - “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”
The The - “Infected”

and Björk “Virus” obv

Mudhoney - Here Comes Sickness + Touch Me I’m Sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQICnj5pPKs

Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now (Baby Blue)

Sofia Gubaidulina - Feast During a Plague

Ventilator Blues

i'm alive in here
i'm alive in here
i'm alive in heee-eee-ee-ere

today i'm thinking "you know what, why _haven't_ i ever listened to the complete recordings of swamp dogg?"

we'll see how long that lasts. i have a tendency to be slightly overambitious in my music listening plans.

He was on NPR talking about his new album/career and was very funny. The host was cracking up repeatedly.

<3 imago

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szS23iiBdzU

Alien Sex Fiend, 'Here Cum Germs', 'Isolation'

down with the sickness

The Fall - Van Plague

Exit theme music from Lars von Trier’s Epidemic.

Guess it’s called “We All Fall Down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwyXbqN2tA

Love you all

today i'm thinking "you know what, why _haven't_ i ever listened to the complete recordings of swamp dogg?"

we'll see how long that lasts. i have a tendency to be slightly overambitious in my music listening plans.

Less Than Jake - Lockdown

Seriously if I can't go out, I might as well listen to Boulez' take on all 9 Mahler symphonies.

Oh and last night I listened to Dinosaur Jr - The Lung and didn't even think about it.

They Might Be Giants - The End of the Tour

Dylan - "High Water (For Charley Patton)"

I'm working on a not very cheery playlist

Isolation/Desolation

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/772qWSHZvL18n7EsyrLmdN?si=rrh7ZIyjSX6JbY3BoilbKA

A Silver Mt. Zion, "The World Is Sick (So Kiss Me Quick)"

Jimmy Witherspoon - “Times Gettin’ Tougher Than Tough”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKCHvpYq_8

Everything is Recorded - Close but not quite
Andy Shauf - Living Room
Sandro Perri - Changes
Jamie Woon - Night Air
Caribou - Home
Rival Consoles - Recovery
Caroline Rose - Do You Think We'll Last Forever?
The 1975 - Love It If We Made It
Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities
Grouper - I'm Clean Now

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Stay safe out there! “Hands... washing hands..” 🎶 <a href="https://t.co/QaRB1qZshp";>pic.twitter.com/QaRB1qZshp</a></p>— Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) <a href="

Stay safe out there! “Hands... washing hands..” 🎶 pic.twitter.com/QaRB1qZshp

— Neil Diamond (@NeilDiamond) March 22, 2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvZqHgFz51I

Lyric video for Chinofeldy - 'Bat Soup Pandemic'

https://www.facebook.com/joekanesradiophonictuckshop/videos/vb.1081657818542273/234769417909152/?type=2&theater

Currently listening to Afterbirth's Four Dimensional Flesh, a solid slab of brutal tech death, and it features a track titled 'Minimum Safe Distance'.

Riders On The Storm

Godspeed You Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
Health - Decimation

Portishead- Sour Times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAjU_6yw2Gs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bkcPS3GHQY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lMz2Xd5Wo

although the gun makes it more appropriate for the US

Pretty cursed list https://t.co/beEEnMcIeW

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) March 28, 2020

vladislav delay's rakka

dmx krew - panic stations EP
https://soundcloud.com/subwax-bcn-distribution/cv05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c631XiQknYI

A pretty recent song:

https://youtu.be/RIDgZadWYbQ

Mary Jane Girls - In My House

SXTN - bongzimmer (transl. "stoner room")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1d8EX8uE5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYaeHCAB0ks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk2oKltS88c

Blanck Mass - World Eater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8QMSMb-Bs

I love World Eater - on my list for today.

ambient punk

http://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/shared-hallucination-episode-i

Tommy James and The Shondells- I Think We're Alone Now

serious, non-joek response, this is basically most of what I"ve listened to in the last two weeks

Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 3
Ripped to Shreds - Luan
Lich King - World Gone Bad, Born of the Bomb
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Like Rats - Monolith
Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Thank Me, Neva Left
2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
Vader - Solitude in Madness
Cam'Ron - Purple Haze, Purple Haze 2
Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap
Danzig - Sings Elvis
Pusha T - King Push, Daytona, My Name is My Name
Tankard - Chemical Invasion
Anthrax - Among the Living
Slayer - Repentless Killogy (live), Hell Awaits
Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow
Sadistic Ritual - Visionaire of Death
Polo G - Die a Legend
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
Hirax - Not Dead Yet
Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness
Meek Mill - Championships
Migos - Culture
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis
Project Pat - Mista Don't Play 2
Bun B - Return of the Trill

Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd

song of the week has been “gentle man” by The Defaulters (discovered one floating points’ late night tales mix)

https://youtu.be/1lNXOdpNsmw

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Small Axe
Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim

Might as well add
Mott the Hoople - All the Way from Memphis
Paul McCartney and Wings - Rock Show

Aluk Todolo, In Solitude, Black Sabbath, Ulcerate, Autopsy

Did you know metal is an absolute lifesaver?

Aceyalone - Gimme Five Feet

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

Young Jeezy
Recession

the perfect song today for me is the dixie cups - iko iko

Good one.

Do you know the story of their debut single?

no!

Leiber and Stoller had left Atlantic Records to start their own record label, Red Bird. They had recorded a bunch of stuff but were running out of cash and needed to release something. They ran into George Goldner (at the Palm? Meeting with Hy Weiss?) who was once again down on his luck. Typically he would start a successful R&B or Latin label, then run up a gambling debt and have to sell it to Morris Levy. Jerry and Mike told him they would hire him on the spot, brought him back to their office, showed him the slush pile of recordings, left him the keys, went home to sleep, came back in the morning, to find him sitting there, still dapper, holding up the tape or acetate of The Dixie Cups version of "Chapel of Love," saying something like "On my very word" or however he would have said it. One of them, Jerry, no doubt, said "That PoS!?" but they put it out anyway and it was a hit and kept them alive for a while. They made Goldner a partner, and he eventually ended up selling out his interest as per usual, no to Morris Levy but to someone like him, so Jerry and Mike sold their interest as well, for a dollar I think.

Also came to post
CSNY - Almost Cut My Hair
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Burning Spear - Social Living

The Cowsills- Hair

Not The Palm, Al & Dick’s Steakhouse.

Which is even the name of the relevant chapter in Leiber and Stoller’s memoir, Hound Dog.

This started off as a kind of "end times" compilation but ended up somewhere else, with love and hope:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB

David Sylvian, My Bus, Piano Magic, Fever Ray ... that kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKGzcHfUl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs56ygZplQA

On the search for a vaccin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU

DO U SEE?

i'm sure this has already been posted but still please take me along when you slide on down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvg5mbM6FGs