Invisible Jukebox

Well, since everyone seems to be ignoring my fabulous question, I'll just answer it first..;]

Mine would be Sun Ra, and I would play him the following:

1.) Faust - "The Faust Tapes" (an excerpt, of course.) 2.) King Tubby - "King Tubby The Dark Dub Ruler" 3.) Dick Hyman - "Give It Up (Or Turn It A Loose)" 4.) Nurse With Wound - "Nil By Mouth" 5.) Louis Armstrong - "West End Blues" 6.) My Bloody Valentine - "To Here Knows When" 7.) Duke Ellington - "Crescendo In Blue" 8.) John Cage - "Williams Mix" 9.) King Sunny Ade - "Eje Nlo Gba Ara Mi" 10.) A live tape of the new Arkestra as conducted by Marshall Allen (just to see what he thinks, of course. ;])

for Jean Genet ( more of a mix tape) :

1) Pansy Divison- Cocksuckers Club
2) Lou Reed - Candy Says
3 Behead the Prophet - No Lord Shall Live 7"
4 Momus- The Homosexual
6 Bikini Kill- Star Bellied Boy
7 David Bowie - Rebel Rebel
8 Blueboy - Marble Arch
9 Stephen Merrit - When my boy walks down the street
10 Jayne Country - Cream In My Jeans
11 Doug Stevens and the Outband- Missippi Boy
12 Tight Like Fist-Gender is what gender does
13 Morrisey- The Queen is Dead
14 Iggy Pop/Grace Jones- Night Clubbing
15 Madonna -Vogue
16 Frogs- Sailors board me
17 The Stooges - Cock in My Pocket
18 Rolling Stones- Cocksuckers blues
19 Rufus Wainwright - Somewhere over the Rainbow
20 Mary Gautier - Goddamn HIV
21 Leonard Cohen - Democracy
22 Billy Bragg - Sexuailty
23 Britney Spears - Satisfaction
24 Eminem and Elton John - Stan
25 Courtney Love- Violet

I wanted to show him a representive sample of queer music. I wanted to ask him what he thought about what is happening. Whether he still self identfied that way. How he viwed camp and subtext.

look my formatting worked !!

What is queer about #23?

A woman who is known for being a nymphett singign a hetrosexual song of conquest with out changing any of the lyrics.

I'd choose Pinefox to rate the records

Robert Johnson, and I'd play him: Rolling Stones, "Sympathy for the Devil"; Bobby Bland, "Lead Me On"; Public Enemy, "Welcome to the Terrordome"; Jimi Hendrix, "All Along the Watchtower"; John Lee Hooker, "Boom Boom"; B.B. King, "The Thrill is Gone"; Elvis Presley, "Mystery Train"; Tracy Chapman, "For My Lover"; the Beatles, "Yer Blues"; the Last Poets, "Niggers Are Scared of Revolution"; Patsy Cline, "Why Can't He Be You"; Nirvana, "Where Did You Sleep Last Night"; the Grateful Dead, "Deal"; Nick Cave, "Stagger Lee"; Sly & the Family Stone, "Thank You for Talking to Me Africa"; Blue Sky Boys, "Down on the Banks of the Ohio"; Eminem, "Kim".

How about...Cole Porter? Tom Waits, "Innocent When You Dream"; the Magnetic Fields, "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure"; Otis Redding, "Try a Little Tenderness"; Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, "The Tracks of My Tears"; Bob Dylan, "Like a Rolling Stone"; the Beatles, "For No One"; k.d. lang, "So in Love"; Frank Sinatra, "Soliloquy"; Warren Zevon, "Go on Without Me"; Suzanne Vega, "Marlene On The Wall"; Leonard Cohen, "First We Take Manhattan"; Randy Newman, "Sail Away"; Freedy Johnston, "Bad Reputation"; REM, "Nightswimming"; Randy Travis, "Forever And Ever Amen"; Yaz, "Winter Kills".

Sigmund Freud: Erasure, "Too Darn Hot"; Prince, "If I Was Your Girlfriend"; the Replacements, "I'll Be You"; Ohio Express, "Yummy Yummy Yummy"; the Doors, "The End"; Queen, "Bohemian Rhapsody"; the Who, "Pictures of Lily"; the Beatles, "Happiness is a Warm Gun".

GH , The Freud one is classic !!

Gershwin: "One in a Million" by Aaliyah. "Microphone Fiend" by Eric B and Rakim. "Bump 'N Grind" by R. Kelly. "Temptation" and "Say My Name" by Destiny's Child. "Can I Get a..." by Jay-Z. "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson. "Cryptology" by David Ware. "Unanka" by The Art Ensable of Chicago.

Thanks, Dave. (Or should I call you 'Q'?)

The Sex Pistols: "The Girl at the Rock Show" by Blink-182. That one song by Sum 41. "Warning" by Green Day. "Get a Job" by The Offspring. "Daydream Believer" by Smashmouth.

revive?

I'd like to play The Strokes tracks by Richard Hell, Television, Blondie, Talking Heads, etc. Better have that one published in The Onion than The Wire, though...

No Gowan, Anthony?

nigel tufnel: hung drone "shao lin boxette", shao lin boxette "goad on my wayward son", bright tines "big pickles", destro's "last stand", gunnag gun nag "desperate licking", gyro for jaime "pornos for pyros", shoelet gumleaf "noggin kockin", and ex-girl "pop muzik"

da rump

Paganini'd be fun to Invisibly Jukebox
-- well yeh, p'haps N'Kennedy & V'Mae 'd be played too, but also some Leroy Jenkins, Zoltan Lantos, Mark Feldman, Grappelli, certainly Ornette Coleman, the Moscow Virtuosos, L.Shankar

This was a great thread idea!

Charles Ives, how ya like-

The Animals - "House of the Rising Sun"
Luc Ferrari - "Strathoven"
Van Dyke Parks - "Vine Street"
United States of America - "The American Metaphysical Circus"
Public Enemy - "Welcome to the Terrordome"
Morton Feldman - "Spring of Chosroes"
Karlheinz Stockhausen - "Hymnen"
Red Crayola - "Ergastulum"
Art Ensemble of Chicago - "Oh Susanna!"
Paul Butterfield Blues Band - "East/West"
John Fahey -"America"

Larry Levan:

St. Etienne, "Alabama Blues (Todd Edwards Vocal Mix)"
Tori Amos, "Professional Widow (Armand's Star Trunkin' Funk Mix)"
Soulwax, "The Magnificent Romeo"
Chicago, "I'm a Man"
Sonic Youth, "Schizophrenia"
Isolee, "Beau Mot Plage"
Steve Reich, "Music for 18 Musicians" (excerpt)
Eddie Kendricks, "Girl You Need a Change of Mind"
Faze Action, "In the Trees"
X-Press 2 featuring David Byrne, "Lazy"

Umm Kulthum:

Mahmoud Ahmed, "Kulun Mankwalesh"
Eric B. & Rakim, "Paid in Full (Coldcut's Seven Minutes of Madness Mix)"
Chaba Fadela & Cheb Nahsouri, "N'Sel Fik"
Bob Dylan, "Idiot Wind"
Elvis Presley, "Tomorrow Is a Long Time"
something by Cheb Mami

Matos, Matos - why dontcha play Dame Kulthum any Sussan Deyhim, Ofra Haza or Natacha A?

...oh i kno, i myself forgot to bother Paganini with any Paul Giger, Billy Bang or Zbigniew Seifert

the Eric B. remix has Haza on it. I realized after I started it that I was out of my depth but felt compelled to post in case others had better ides--like you!

ideas, duh.
:-)

Beware the ides of March!

of March 12, at least

I think all the dead folk would have a bit of trouble guessing the records.

Having said that, I'm going to follow suit and pick Jimi Hendrix. And I'd play him:
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Chic - Everybody Dance
Butthole Surfers - Jimi
Public Enemy - Rebel without a pause
Isley Brothers - Who's that lady
Curtis Mayfield - The makings of you
My Bloody Valentine - You made me realise
Little Axe - Ride on
Sonic Youth - Silver Rocket
James Blood Ulmer - Timeless
something by Metallica or Slayer
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Voodoo Chile (slight return)
Prince - Sign 'o' the times
Spritualized - I think I'm in love

Jesus, there's loads of stuff I'd love to play him. I could happily go on all day.

Mr. Matos, I'm suing you for invisibly juekboxing Um Kulthum before I ever got to see this thread (just now).

Marvin Gaye:

Simon & Garfunkel, "My Little Town"
Aretha Franklin, "Respect"
Frank Sinatra, "Angel Eyes"
Chuck Berry, "Back in the U.S.A."
Charles Mingus, "Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me"
Andy Bey, "The Last Light of Evening (Blood Count)"
Hall and Oates, "Out of Touch"
Steely Dan, "Time Out of Mind"
The Rolling Stones, "Heaven"
Linton Kwesi Johnson, "Five Nights of Bleeding"
N.W.A, "Fuck tha Police"
The Swan Silvertones, "Saviour, Pass Me Not"
Al Green, "Belle"
Prince, "If I Was Your Girlfriend"
The Slits, "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"