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     Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 656 Registered: 09-2006 |
"2541" - Marshall Crenshaw version. Great song, I'm not disputing that...but one of the more depressing ever written. Reminds me of parts of my 20s that I'd rather forget. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 867 Registered: 08-2006 |
If I remember correctly, Allen, the number was both Grant Hart's address and the address of the Husker's management concern, or something like that. It really is a classic break-up song. Me? "Radio Nowhere," by Mssr. Springsteen. It's kind of a trifle, lyrically, but the guy knows how to write a rock song. Looking forward to the CD, although I'm not sure whether I'd rather hear him do something along the lines of "Devils and Dust," which I think is his best recent record. The E-Street Band has turned into such a monolithic unit they don't leave room for much subtlety anymore. With any luck, "Magic" will mix things up a bit. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1760 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Blue Aeroplanes - Sixth Continent | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2228 Registered: 03-2006 |
Finally heard the Springsteen single, and I, predictably, think it's great. Sounds like a hit to me. Also playing a lot of Randy Newman this weekend, so in commemoration of the 2 year anniversary of Katrina (and in condemnation of the greedy louts who've managed to line their pockets while virtually nothing has been done), "Louisiana 1927". Songwriting simply doesn't get any better. Btw: in the Spike Lee documentary about Katrina, he talks to a few people who think the levees were dynamited. This is not widely believed to be the case, because the loud sounds people heard were simply the levees breaking... But there is an historical antecedent for the idea - the people who believe that the levees were dynamited probably have relatives who can remember when they WERE literally blown up, in the flood of 1927, which Newman's song is about! | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 503 Registered: 04-2006 |
the decemberists - leslie ann levine | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 17 Registered: 10-2006 |
Chase The Devil - Max Romeo Going through a catch up on reggae at the moment. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 687 Registered: 10-2004 |
Scott Walker - Rawhide | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1512 Registered: 04-2005 |
Okkervil River - Unless It's Kicks | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1764 Registered: 05-2005 |
Lolita - Black Francis | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1353 Registered: 03-2005 |
Long Time Gone -- Terry Walker with the Hi Five. Early sounds from Perth. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2229 Registered: 03-2006 |
Crepuscule with Nellie (take 2) - Thelonius Monk Sweet Potato - Imperial Teen | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1717 Registered: 05-2005 |
Bruce - Radio Nowhere. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1768 Registered: 05-2005 |
Horace Andy - Feel good all over | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 63 Registered: 03-2007 |
Love On The Vine by Machine Translations. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 667 Registered: 09-2006 |
Two of them: "Cryin' Love" - Robert F. "You Light Up My Life" was playing in a supermarket I was in, and I had to think of some other, ANY other song to replace it with, and thankfully it was a damn good one. The other: "Sammy Hagar Weekend" - Thelonious Monster "Well it's a Sammy Hagar way of life We're gonna drink some beers Smoke some pot Snort some coke And driiiiiive, drive over 55" Still hilarious after all these years. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2246 Registered: 03-2006 |
More tribute to summer (and all that's good about it): All You Pretty Girls - XTC Girls in Their Summer Clothes - Bruce Springsteen | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1773 Registered: 05-2005 |
LK, I love the Elizabethanesque drums in All you pretty girls! Keepers by Del Amitri (the original line up) | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 506 Registered: 04-2006 |
slade - cum on feel the noize ipod on shuffle mode. the first song it played was this glam rocking song. slade were my favourite band when i was around 10 years. this roarer blowed me away - and it still does. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 507 Registered: 04-2006 |
...and Pink Floyd's 'Matilda Mother' from PATGOD. Can't get it out of my head... | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 156 Registered: 01-2007 |
Impossible Germany-Wilco can't stop listening to the guitar solo | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 792 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, I just picked up Thelonius Monk "Live at The 1964 Monterray Jazz Festival. It's a really nice set. Trivia note, Bud Powell got beat by the police and his skull cracked in an afterhours joint stepping between the police and his dear friend Thelonious in 1946. Bud's personailty changed after the beating. Dexter Gordon's character in the movie 'Round Midnight is pretty much Bud's story. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 878 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Your Own Worst Enemy" - Bruce Springsteen. Harkens back to his more ambitious, Spectorish production tricks of yore, and that's a positive. With "Magic," Bruce seems to be leaving the Big Statements to the music, which is a relief. You could hear the E Street Band groaning under the weight of "The Rising." Here, they have a bunch of rocking (and, in some cases, uncommonly tuneful and beautiful) tunes, which aren't yoked to some huge national trauma or some other ponderous theme. They sound like they're enjoying the room to roam. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2248 Registered: 03-2006 |
Michael, that sounds great. Hard to have too much Monk in the house. Have you ever seen the doc about him, "Straight No Chaser"? Highly recommended. Horrible violence was done to black jazz musos in those days - it's a great shame. Your story reminds me of the one about Miles Davis, who was trying to enjoy an innocent smoke outside an NY nightclub during a break. So, a dickheaded, racist cop waltzes up and assuming that a black man on the street can't be up to any good, tells Miles to shove off. Miles being Miles tells him to f off, he has the right to stand on the street, and you guessed it, Miles ends up getting beaten about the head with a nightstick. He apparently went back and finished the set. Rob, he speak truth about the Boss. Bruce fans are going to be...how do you UK folks put it?...well chuffed with that new record that's coming out. Lean, mean and melodies out the ying yang... | ||
| Mark Leydon Member Username: Mark_leydon Post Number: 142 Registered: 05-2005 |
I'm On Fire - The Dwight Twilley Band A glorious slice of power-pop perfection from the mid-70s. Not to be confused with the Boss's song of the same name. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 795 Registered: 01-2005 |
LK, I'll have to check out "Straight No Chaser"! It was horrible what was done to the black jazz musos in those days. Some of them moved to Paris (Kenny Clarke and Bud Powell) or Copenhagen (Dexter Gordon)in the 50's and 60's where they were treated like heros instead of bums. If Bud would have returned to Paris after his Birdland stint in NYC in 1964 instead staying NYC, he would no doubt have lived a much longer life. He lasted less than two years in NYC, dying in 1966. Thelonious wrote the song "In Walked Bud" for his dear friend. If you want to read a great book about Bud, "Dance of the Infidels: A Portrait of Bud Powell" (Paperback) by his Parasian friend and onetime caretaker Francis Paudras. Bud lived with the Paudras's (Francis and his wife) for much of his stay in Paris. | ||
| Stuart Wilson Member Username: Stuart Post Number: 76 Registered: 10-2006 |
"Summer's gone, summer song, you've wasted every day..." Appropriate Buffalo Tom track from the spankingly wonderful guitar-crunching Sleepy eyed album, another group this board convinced me to latch on to... Summer doesn't fade out in Central Italy, it just vanishes overnight with a spectacular thunderstorm...well, autumn and winter are better for listening to music anyway... | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 1776 Registered: 05-2005 |
Genetix - The Stranglers | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 688 Registered: 09-2006 |
"What We Really Want" - Rosanne Cash and "This World" - Rosanne Cash Oh, and "Paralysed" - you know who That record's been getting a lot of play at my house lately since pulling it off the shelf and it sounds even better than ever... | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 889 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Grip Like a Vice" - The Go! Team. I'm a sucker for their formula, whatever it is. I guess it combines my post-adolescent interest in indie rock with my pre-adolescent interest in cheerleaders. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2268 Registered: 03-2006 |
"Backfield in Motion" - Mel & Tim, from the Wattstax soundtrack. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 515 Registered: 04-2006 |
"Grip Like a Vice" - The Go! Team. Despite I never had any interest in cheerleaders (simply because in Germany Cheersleaders were unknown) I'm a sucker for their formula, too! Cheers, Andreas | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 324 Registered: 01-2006 |
Razor Love - Neil Young | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 809 Registered: 01-2005 |
Marry Me - St. Vincent It's the title cut from St. Vincent's debut album. I love the album more after each play, and it's a definite entry in my Top 10 for 2007. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1525 Registered: 04-2005 |
Myriad Harbor - New Pornographers The song I keep coming back to on this very good (if maligned in some circles) album. The band may be Carl Newman's vehicle, but Dan Bejar steals the show this time. He has the most sublime vocal phrasing in rock, I'd say--doing the most with the least actual singing ability. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 811 Registered: 01-2005 |
I didn't enter one for last week, but if I did it would have been: Pour Le Monde - Crowded House, from their latest album "Time On Earth". I smell another sing-a-long Crowded House anthem in the making with this one. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2281 Registered: 03-2006 |
Hardly a new one, but Sympathy for the Devil, by the Glimmer Twins. What a bad ass song. I remember reading a description of the guitar solo from it as the menace of a knife fight and that seems to me to get it right. I also like the version on Get Yer Ya Ya's Out a lot... | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 698 Registered: 09-2006 |
"I Was In the House When the House Burned Down" - Wah-ren Z. "I had the shit, til' it all got smoked..." That's about right. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2283 Registered: 03-2006 |
Oops. Lemme change that: still the Stones, but I'm switching to "Monkey Man". | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 702 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Doubts Even Here" - New Order The one where it sounds like they patched in parts of an old Ian Curtis vocal, and then he begins to duet with Bernard...eerie. | ||
| Paul N Member Username: Pauln Post Number: 25 Registered: 10-2006 |
Perry Ballad - Lee Scratch Perry off the recently released UK album 'Panic in Babylon' | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1726 Registered: 05-2005 |
Loch Lomond - Dan Zanes & Natalie Merchant version. It's on a Dan Zanes & Friends CD of cool songs aimed at kids I just gave my daughter for her 6th birthday. She loves this song and so do I. And not just because I once did walk with my true love on the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond. I also played her the Marillion version from almost a quarter century ago. She loves that one too! | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 103 Registered: 02-2007 |
Desperados Waiting For a Train - Guy Clark | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 714 Registered: 09-2006 |
"Hope For the Best, Expect the Worst" (theme from Mel Brooks' "The 12 Chairs" Hope for the best, expect the worst Some drink champagne, some die of thirst No way of knowing, which way it's going Hope for the best, expect the worst I knew a man who saved a fortune, that was splendid Then he died the day he planned to go and spend it Shouting, live while you're alive, no one will survive There's no guarantee... Lots of big fat bits of wisdom in every line of that one...makes a great singalong, too. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 825 Registered: 01-2005 |
One Crowded Hour - Augie March | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2293 Registered: 03-2006 |
"(Are We) Breakin' Up?" and "The Angels Hung Around" by Rilo Kiley. I like their new record a lot, maybe just a smidge less than their last great opus. I think it's a cool and subversive move that they chose to thumb their nose at all their trainspotter fans by making such a blatantly commercial record. That you can dance to these songs in no way detracts from their inherent sharpness and depth. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 721 Registered: 10-2004 |
Stornaway - Sector 27 | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1377 Registered: 03-2005 |
Well, this morning I e-mailed off Ashtray Boy's "Shirley Maclaine" to a friend in NYC. It even has Liz Phair singing backup. So that's the song of week for me right now. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1535 Registered: 04-2005 |
Riot Act - Okkervil River Several years ago, my now-wife bought a comp of Elvis Costello cover versions by Austin-area bands. Not much of it stood out except for the cover of "Riot Act" by a band I hadn't heard of then. I rediscovered this CD recently and realized that OR, a band I'm very much into now, were the ones doing that great cover of one of Elvis's most searing, confessional songs. | ||
| Catherine Vaughan Member Username: Catherine Post Number: 249 Registered: 05-2005 |
How Long do I Have to Wait for you? - Sharon Jones. I had about 10 cds in the car on Monday evening, on the drive to Dublin, but Naturally was the only one that made it out of the case, and this track got repeated just a little bit more than the others. Traffic jams don't hurt quite so much, when you're grooving to this at a red light! | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 717 Registered: 09-2006 |
A sort of anti-favorite this week. I've been listening a lot to the Buffalo Springfield box set, but for some reason, out of all the great songs there that could get lodged in my head the one that does is my least favorite, "Sit Down, I Think I Love You," with the title line sung almost like a barked command. Uh, no thanks Steve...waiter, check please! Not a horribly constructed and arranged song by any means, just annoying. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 721 Registered: 09-2006 |
And so, to balance the above one out: "Wet Blanket" - Los Chills | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 920 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Jeff, I just noticed your Sector 27 mention above. So you picked it up? Where? And how do you like it? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1384 Registered: 03-2005 |
Wet Blanket is so glorious Allen! Structurally it's only a notion of a song and yet it's poignant and can stay lodged in your brain for many hours. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 722 Registered: 09-2006 |
Randy, I think it's one of those Zen songs, where every element has found its home, from the heavenly synth, to the foregrounded bass gently but firmly nudging it forward, to the simple but hardly simplistic lyrics, sung with sincerity. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 167 Registered: 01-2007 |
Oh, I like that Amy Winehouse/Mark Ronson cover of the Zutons Valerie. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 2307 Registered: 03-2006 |
Have you heard the Ronson-produced re-mix of Dylan's "Most Likely You Go Your Way and I'll Go Mine", featuring the Dap Tone Horns? It's tremendous! | ||
| Hugh Nimmo Member Username: Hugh_nimmo Post Number: 73 Registered: 03-2007 |
Wronger by Disaster Plan. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 925 Registered: 08-2006 |
"Close Call" - Rilo Kiley | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1831 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, hows Daddys Highway? | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1389 Registered: 03-2005 |
Kevin, "Daddy's Highway" is really impressive. I will undoubtedly need to pull out the other albums again to see if my impression is fair but at this point I think that DH has a more diverse set of songs and arrangements. Particularly the arrangements: my impression is that they exhibit more of the detail so beloved by our Jeff W and are more thoroughly worked out. You have songs with bass hooks! I suppose the songs were probably played by the band longer before they were recorded than was generally the case for most of the songs on the subsequent albums. That's the classic first album advantage. Prior to DH, I'd have to rate either "Silverbeet" or "Fear of God" as my favorites and at some point when I'm in the mood for sitting down in a proper disciplined way I'll have to compare them all but I really think DH is fingered by so many people as the Bats' best album for very good reasons. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 106 Registered: 02-2007 |
When The Stars Go Blue- Ryan Adams. Didn't see him live recently, but friends who did said they could hardly see him, he got shitty with audience, left the stage for a while, and generally appeared bored. But I love this song. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 726 Registered: 09-2006 |
Apparently he had another onstage meltdown that made the entertainment news too...seems that the booze and drugs aren't to blame for his personality. "Chick Habit" - April March The song that plays over the end credits of Tarantino's "Death Proof." A very Quentin song, but it's a very Quentin movie. Just got the DVD and am enjoying myself a great deal. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1751 Registered: 05-2005 |
Ashtray Boy - Wild Esky. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 729 Registered: 09-2006 |
Proof positive I spend too much time in the local Goodwill: it happened again..."Safety Dance," and then suddenly over the speakers there's Alex warbling "September Gurls." | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1753 Registered: 05-2005 |
Two awesome songs Allen. I used to work with Goodwill in Boston. Roxbury to be precise. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 519 Registered: 04-2006 |
robert wyatt - memories |