February 2012
1 post
January 2012
1 post
“That’s Motivation,” from the...
December 2011
5 posts
“God Only Knows,” Ava Cherry and the...
Everything you need from 1984 (if you have... →
“When Balzac was working, he would get up in the middle of the night and write for 18 hours at a stretch, subsisting on water, fruit and, most famously, strong black coffee. Aided by coffee, he said, “great ideas swing into action like battalions in the Great Army on a battlefield.” He drank it…”by the potful, by the bucketful, despite the terrible cramps...
November 2011
1 post
Mrs Tsk *: Someone called Susan emailed me a link... →
mrstsk:
Someone called Susan emailed me a link to a fragment of colour film of David Bowie entering a building somewhere in London sometime in the 1960s. The scene, brief and looped, has the elusive appeal of a new Yeti or Bigfoot reel. Joe Salama, who posted the fragment, says: “This exceptional…
September 2011
3 posts
The Legend of the Harlot Evelyn Roe
When springtime came and the sea was blue (Her heart kept beating so) There came on board with the last boat A girl called Evelyn Roe.
She wore a hair shirt next her skin Which was unearthly fair. She wore no gold or ornament Except her wondrous hair.
“Oh Captain, take me with you to the Holy Land I must go to Jesus Christ.” “We’ll take you because we are fools and you...
“People Are Turning to Gold” (early...
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“We didn’t think anyone was reading, so we did a lot of things in a perversely...”
– “Jim Greer on selecting Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque as SPIN’s 1991 album of the year. (via vastandgrand)
Right now is basically avant le deluge. In another month, we’ll be awash with Nevermind personal memoirs, “I was there!” interviews and 4,000-word contextualizing think pieces. I’ve...
August 2011
5 posts
It's No Game
The Japanese lyric of “It’s No Game Pt.1” (via Stephen Ryan).
shirueto ya kage ga kakumei wo miteiru
(Sillouettes and shadows are watching the revolution)
mo tengoku no jiyu no kaidan wa nai (free [as in without restrictions] steps of heaven are no longer there/here)
ore wa genjitsu kara shime dasare (I [a ‘tough’ masculine ‘I’] have been excluded...
“It’s No Game Pt. 2” (earlier...
John Cale: an Early '70s Sampler
For those not familiar with Cale, here are some fine songs from Vintage Violence through Helen of Troy:
Fear Is A Man’s Best Friend Mr. Wilson Child’s Christmas In Wales Gideon’s Bible Hanky Panky Nohow Andalucia Buffalo Ballet Cable Hogue Dixieland And Dixie Ship Of Fools Adelaide Barracuda Leaving It Up To You Guts Big...
July 2011
2 posts
Mighty Sparrow, “Wanted Dead or...
June 2011
1 post
David Bowie, Marc Bolan, “Madman”...
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
11 posts
“Joe the Lion,” rehearsal (w/Stevie...
Iggy Pop, “Lust For Life,” all five...
Music Diary, 4/9/11
longish drive, AM: end of the ‘77 mixes
Hank Jones, “Oh What a Beautiful Morning”
Randy Newman, “Baltimore”
Tom Waits, “Muriel”
Noah Howard, “Creole Girl”
Kate and Anna McGarrigle, “Perinne Etait Servante”
Fox, “Living Out My Fantasies”
Abba, “The Name of the Game”
Vibrators, “Keep It...
Music Diary, 4/8/11
Various drives:
again this ‘77 mix i’ve been listening to all week:
Hawkwind, “Quark, Strangeness and Charm”
Rush, “Closer to the Heart”
Television, “Marquee Moon”
Earth Wind and Fire, “Jupiter”
Last Poets, “It’s a Trip”
Miguel de Deus, “Black Soul Brothers”
Maria Fumaça, “Banda Black...
Music Diary, 4/7/11
a fairly music-free day until the eve.
morning:
Iggy Pop, “Success” (8x). & “Success” is finally done.
Pop, “Lust for Life” (studio and live ‘77)
Bowie, “Lust for Life” live 1995.
Pop, “Fall in Love With Me”
brief drive midday:
Kinks, “Juke Box Music”
Blue Oyster Cult, “Godzilla”
at some point, a...
Music Diary, 4/6/11
morning, computer:
The Jam, “All Around the World”
Randy Newman, “Baltimore”
Air, “G.v.E.”
Iggy Pop, “Success” (5x)
Iggy, “Fall in Love With Me”
drive, 11:30 AM:
more ‘77 mix (see Monday)
Idris Muhammad, “Could Heaven Ever Be Like This”
Isaac Hayes, “out of the Ghetto”
drive 1:30 PM:
Marvin Gaye...
Music Diary, 4/5/11 (PM)
Noon-1pm. Heard on the PA system while getting food at the supermarket:
“Days of Wine and Roses” by someone. Andy Williams? Not Sinatra or Bennett. Not good.
What sounded like a Kenny Rogers cover of “Crazy.”
Sam & Dave, “Soul Man”
Seals & Crofts, “We May Never Pass This Way Again”
Honeycombs, “Have I the Right”
Duran Duran,...
Music Diary, 4/5/11 (AM)
9 AM to noon:
music (shuffle mode) on computer, while working:
Johnny Fortune, “Soul Surfer”
Alex Chilton, “The EMI Song (Smile For Me)”
Bill Withers, “Kissing My Love”
Jewel King, “3 x 7 = 21”
Eno, “Fullness of Wind”
Elvis, “Marie’s the Name (His Latest Flame)”
Bo Diddley, “You Know I Love You”
...
Music Diary 4/4/11 (pt 2)
mid-morning:
LCD Soundsystem, “All My Friends” (live, the ‘Last Waltz’ version).
LCD, “North American Scum” (live, the Last Waltz).
The Band, “Don’t Do It” (the real Last Waltz version).
Iggy Pop, “Success” (3 or 4x)
ca. noon, driving.
More ‘77 mix:
Crystal Gayle, “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue.”
...
Music Diary Project, 4/4/11.
This is the week of Nick Southall’s music diary project, so I will try to keep an accurate journal of what i’ve listened to.
Music during morning drive, 7:30 AM-8:00 AM:
one of the 1977 “year” mixes i’ve made as part of my endless research for the Bowie blog. This was a stretch of “hollywood” songs segued together, some fine, some quite awful (see, Meco):
...
March 2011
3 posts
“Tonight,” Iggy Pop with David Bowie,...
“Some Weird Sin,” Iggy Pop with David...
Iggy Pop, with David Bowie, “Turn...
February 2011
1 post
“Sound and Vision,” only live...
October 2010
3 posts
“After Today” (early take, frag.). 13...
“Young American,” take 3 (fragment),...
September 2010
2 posts
Young Americans Roots: Philadelphia Soul and Sigma Sound, Vol. 1: 1967-1972
1. Soul Survivors, Expressway (To Your Heart). Crimson 1010: August 1967.
2. The Delfonics, La-La Means I Love You. Philly Groove 150: January 1968
3. Jerry Butler, Never Give You Up. Mercury 72798: May 1968.
4. The Intruders, Cowboys To Girls. Gamble 214: May 1968.
5. Jerry Butler, Hey, Western Union Man. Mercury 72850:...
“Rebel Rebel (Mix 1)”
August 2010
2 posts
“1984/Dodo,” studio version (ca....
July 2010
2 posts
Pin Ups extras: “I Wish You Would,”...
Pin Ups bonus: “They Say You Found a New...
June 2010
1 post
“Panic In Detroit,” 1979 remake.
May 2010
2 posts
April 2010
1 post
“Changes” (demo).
March 2010
1 post
“Kooks” (studio demo).
February 2010
2 posts
“Hang Onto Yourself,” demo, ca....