What (Music) Did You Experience on New Year's Eve?

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Here's what I heard:
1. Early morning, end of NPR featurette on Von Freeman's new album.Von, a known associate of Sun Ra, apparently blew the mind of his produder, who thought he was getting vintage canned bop from the nice old man. Von does talk about this like a nice old man, but themusic, has its own POV, seeping between CD edit and featurette's too.
2. "Jazz Set," also NPR: Terry Lynn Carrington's drums open herbie Hanck's canned bop via heat (explosion, or a least a long string of firecrackers and Happy Near Year Yall!)
3. "Funky Flashback Friday," same station, with "Papa Was A Rolling Stone," on my headphones: the longest and best hit single ever, next to "Like A Rolling Stone," except this might be longer (and better, re real-to-hyperreal emotions-to-imagery, verbal and sonic). Also: "Love & Happiness." original and several cover versions, most of them hits, to some degree, all with some of the original's eerie dynamism (another for my " 'Bandproof' Songs?" thread?)
4.Took a CD break with 52nd Street Blues Project's BLUES & GRASS. Charlie Burnham's violin-to-fiddle-and-back-again (and now mandolin, and even vocals).With Blood Ulmer's harmolodically tuneful-seeming drone (gtr.) And others, evoking restless Delta-to-Appalachia, China-to-North-Africa-to-China physical graffiti on the backporch, among other feeble attempts of mine to keep up. Send it to the Why Hasn't Jimmy Page Stolen This Yet? Because He *Can't? No That Can't Be It! Dept.
5. TCM shows ELVIS ON TOUR. E doesn't sound as good as I "remember," but I'm still quite happy with the overall Memphis-to-Vegas. Especially compared to the Band's pretty vacant runthrough of their hits in first part of THE LAST WALTZ, which nevertheless effectively follows the King, once the B's heavy guests finally start rolling in.(Okay, the shutupandplayerguitar putz Robertson's pre-skronk skronk does sound great on "Don't Do It," but that's a cover, a heavy guest of song, and why didn't they do an *all-Motown album, instead of wasting those horns on a trubute to themselves, ROCK OF AGES? Dylan still rips "Forever Young" a forever new one, via "Baby Let Me Follow You Down," no matter how well-rehearsed the wrestling-style "interruption might be, with Robertson rehashing his recent "Stage Fright" riffage ["wrestling": h'mmm, BD the Goregeous Goerge groupie in CHRONICLES VOL.1; so that's where he got this and a lot of other stuff I bet. Boy, Wally!]
What number should this be? Then TCM finished me off with awesomely beautiful (harmonies and the whole of Agnetha's law) ABBA: THE MOVIE. (Passed out during THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, but only after making it through HNYEastern, with NYC's Cyrus Chesnut Trio and guests Frank Morgan and Marcus Printup; Central Time Zone with Clarksdale's Jas Mathus and His Knockdown Society's not-that-well-sung-but-ably-played-clubland-boogie; Rocky Mountain Zone's Latin World Stars Or Soemething Like That [Page's Donner party got me 'fore I made it through the Rockies to California])

― don, Saturday, 1 January 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Resolution: swaer off typos. no caffeine til *after typing.

― don, Saturday, 1 January 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

can't remember anything until i was too happy to fall asleep so i listened to:

The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Hidden Cameras - A Miracle
Stina Nordenstam - Getting On With Your Life

and some toher things i cant remember

― Hari Ashurst (Toaster), Saturday, 1 January 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

cbs.nu as usual. in the evening generic but well-djed ibiza house plaeyd in the giant chrome-and-plexi foyer of a museum. danced. now hung over.

― :| (....), Saturday, 1 January 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

some boring ass 'jazzy' ninja tunes breaks stuff, i think. no-one was dancing anyway. then there was some early 90s hip hop lite (eg the pharcyde), but i did hear at least one great song, naughty by nature's "feel me flow".

― m. (mitchlnw), Saturday, 1 January 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Danced to sixties soul ska & reggae all night.Lat thing i remember hearing was Tainted Love by Grace Jones.I did listen to the latest Tower Recordings cd driving home.

― evan chronister (evan chronister), Saturday, 1 January 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

(corrections: THE LAST WALTZ is from '78, so JRR's "pre-skronk-skronk" is actually para-skronk, or just plain skronk, but don't tell him. The Giants of Latin Jazz is the actual name of that last radio blast I heard, from Denver's Jazz 89, KVUO. Veterans of Tito Puente's band, playing the music of Machito, Tito P., Tito Rodriguez, and, right now on the tape, Eddie Palmieri's just joined 'em! Gotta go!)

― don, Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

"Morning" - Gwen Stef and Andre Nickatina while taking a shit

Driving to lunch - More Gwen, Hot Snakes new one, the staff mix I made for my staff (geekishly reveling in how stupefied ppl must be by my godlike tapes).

Banquet - at first it was a mix from this rad Pat kid, it had "Chewing Gum" and old Outkast and Lady Sov on it and all the girls were chair/tabledancing between meal courses, then the hired Dj's showed up and were kinda sketchy (one of them was real attitudey and wouldn't even show me his tracklist - oh no no no no) and naturally ppl didn't dance as much.

Driving to downtown - the staff mix again, Kylie, Gwen again, Jedi Mind, Kanye.

Party - Envy Collective/Team Sheenan stuff, cocaine discostomp shit, I spent way too much money.

Driving to Kits - DFA !979 vetoed for more Gwen and Kylie.

Driving a girl home - Morrissey, and I gave her a clonazepam bcz she looked like she was in for a sk sk sk skeettttchy bedtime.

Driving home (daylight, snowing, beautiful) - Hot Snakes, radio for the last 5 mins (Usher "Confessions")

Right now - tinnitus, easily drowned out by headphones on blast - Rilkean Heart

Fuck with that

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:07 (twenty years ago)

The Gun Club, Disco Inferno, The Slits, The Sound, The Comsat Angels...but that was all my doing while at work. I tried to record some music, too, but I'm (as would be expected) having trouble adding ambience to the digital.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 1 January 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

Ugh. Nothin' good. Our host is big into bad colleigate hippy jam band crap ala Carl Denson's Tiny Universe, Widespread Panic, Phish and their vile ilk. It was awful. Still, the beer was free and flowed like a mighty river.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:01 (twenty years ago)

Morning/at work: Morgan Geist - Unclassics; Erlend Oye - DJ Kicks; Michael Mayer - Fabric 13; Anna Kaufen - Drive In / Drive Out

afternoon, playing Halo 2: Justus Kohncke - Timecode; a live set by Magda

early evening: Fabric 07, 8-Ball and MJG - You Don't Want Drama, Kelis - Milkshake

getting ready: DFA Compilation #2

pre-partying: I don't think they even had a stereo

party: the only song I remember hearing for sure, not because I was drunk but because the sound wasn't good and the songs totally unmemorable, was Hey Ya

post-party: Minor Threat - Complete Discography, I don't think anyone else wanted to hear it but I was drunk and in front of the CD player. My friend's girl was like wtf is this. Failing and air drumming, I looked the jackass.

today: Barbara Manning - 1212

― W i l l (common_person), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

our friend's ipod mysteriously chose mark langegan even though it was on shuffle so that was almost all I heard. Oh and Mr. Roboto by Styx.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

Just before our guests arrived, totally out of left field, my wife asked me to put on Led Zeppelin?!? A New Years Rockist Eve! Until the inevitable "uh, dad, can we please hear something else?"

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Houses of the Holy, BTW. After that, the Garden State sdtk, which is more in keeping with her taste. If we had some reefer and quarts of 3.2 beer to go w/Zep it could've been a nostalgia theme party. Damn.

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Saturday, 1 January 2005 20:36 (twenty years ago)

before going out - selected cuts from In The Zone by Britney Spears and Love Angel Music Baby by Gwen Stefani.

while at the house party - Warrior Queen chatting over these amazing dancehall sounds from The Bug, also Bananarama "Cruel Summer" at midnight, and at some point a whole load of grime inc "What Have You Done?" which I somehow managed to dance to. We tried to get Warrior Queen to chat over grime but she was having none of it.

afterwards - "Baby's Coming Back To Me" by Nancy Sinatra in my head, on a loop, all the way home until I passed out.

― The Lex (The Lex), Saturday, 1 January 2005 21:12 (twenty years ago)

Zzzang Tumb "Dans"

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 1 January 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Went to Making Time:
"Headliners !!!(Chk Chk Chk) play on the main stage at midnight. Also in the main room, both before and after the band, DJs Dave P, Dave Pak and Mike Z. dish out indie dance, cocaine sex jams, party train anthems and other bangers."

― Holly (an appletross), Saturday, 1 January 2005 21:44 (twenty years ago)

after the ball dropped, "house of jealous lovers" was the first song i heard at an otherwise kinda lame house party in manhattan, followed by the streets and ted leo. we arrived about fifteen minutes before midnight.

pre-heading out music: an elvis costello album. i forget which.

― joseph (joseph), Saturday, 1 January 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

i heard donna summer "i feel love" played 4 times last nite at 4 different parties

― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 1 January 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

It was strictly hawaiian music where I partied.

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Saturday, 1 January 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

Somebody kept playing that Killers (somebody told me?) song over and over and over again and people kept dancing, kept dancing!

― info, Saturday, 1 January 2005 23:45 (twenty years ago)

on t.v. last nite i heard: maroon 5, a simple plan, green day, earth wind & fire, josh groban, kenny g, billy idol, gwen stefani, fabulous, snoop dog, lennie kravitz, van morrison, muddy waters, the band, eric clapton, some stripper group - the pussycat something or others, ashlee simpson, and others that i can't think of at the moment. billy idol's face looked like a strange and compelling sculpture made of stone.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 1 January 2005 23:51 (twenty years ago)

Loads of Christmas covers at work during the day, plus Magnetic Fields' i and Elliot Smith's dead bloke album from colleague's iPod.

Various MP3s on shuffle at friends' for cocktails, including a bunch of indie covers oddly brought up in a row - Carter USM doing Hit, Arab Strap doing Why Can't This Be Love, the Divine Comedy doing Vapour Trail etc. Host aggravated to shouting by Britney's Toxic when deliberately selected by his girlfriend in order to prompt departure, his outrage enhancing everyone else's enjoyment of tune.

Then at Frigid vs. Popfrenzy a whole bunch of great stuff most of which I can't remember now but including Shimmy Shimmy Ya and In Da Club mashups, the Weatherall mix of Soon, Straight Outta Compton into M.E.T.H.O.D Man into Mama Said Knock You Out into Rude Bwoy Thug Life (into something else on the Cure riddim and then a bunch of dancehall), Float On, This Charming Man, something by Slayer... and, upsettingly, Never Tear Us Apart at midnight while balloons dropped over the dancfloor.

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 January 2005 00:21 (twenty years ago)

um Stand Up Tall too, I think the first half mixed over something else

― kit brash (kit brash), Sunday, 2 January 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

good lord, there are people that put on 'toxic' in an attempt clear the room.

― m. (mitchlnw), Sunday, 2 January 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

let's see.. various hip hop tracks on BET that day.. 50 Cent Get Rich or Die Tryin, PJ Harvey Uh Huh Her, more hip hop radio, some reggae (I don't know what it was), Disiz La Peste, Linton Kweisi Johnson, live reggae band @ the bar. fun!

next day, Depeche Mode Ultra, Pulp We Love Life, Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, Nick Cave Abattoir Blues.

― daria g (daria g), Sunday, 2 January 2005 17:24 (twenty years ago)

not to trump, but i was betw. the Caddy horseshoe and Coke sign in Times Sq. most of the crowd was wearing these retarded Discover card jester hats, but it created a sea of orange that made it look like a Yushchenko rally. i made my way through the crowd while blasting out Mastodon on headphones.
saw me some Lindsey Lohan, and from where i was, the street speakers served only to muddle the human voice and create massive echo in that neon canyon. she sounded like a reverb-happy Keith Hudson or something, all just washes of crumbling voice. she maybe did the song about paparazzi? couldn't tell.
just before the ball drop, they started pounding out The O'Jay's "Love Train." again, my placement above the speakers created this incredible effect, to where Earl Young's kick-drum sounded like diaphonous Godzilla steps, dissolving into this huge mass even as it thudded hypnotically, looping over and over again, just that chorus. it felt like something out of Theo Parrish's Ugly Edits or something, but x100 fold. and then the entire air started to shimmer with confetti and fireworks and somewhere in the roar came out "New York, New York."

― Beta (abeta), Sunday, 2 January 2005 17:40 (twenty years ago)

I was at a party in DC with a friend from college (whom I discussed at length in a wholly unrelated "mix tapes as confessions of veiled crushes" thread). Unfortunately, his friends, who are mostly government-types, had lazy tastes in music, and so we heard nothing but '80s Madonna songs for an hour. I evacuated for a karaoke club ("the Royal Lee," honky tonk and not ironically so) at about 1, where people did awful versions of "Take Me Home, Country Roads," "Paradise City," and "Bye, Bye, Bye," among others.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 3 January 2005 05:46 (twenty years ago)

a) how exactly did kenny g get that gig?
b) billy idol and axl rose are looking more and more ("more more more," you might say) like each other every day.
c) fuck, i missed gwen.
d) i loved how far off-key ashlee was singing, almost as if she was going out of her way to prove she really was singing. and since the show was taped in advance, she presumably had the chance to fix it up a bit. so it's that much more fascinating to me that she didn't.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 3 January 2005 06:03 (twenty years ago)

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