Beyond listening to the 2007's Top 89 songs (opens in .pdf) and holiday music (not by personal choice) I've cracked out the following:
Let's enjoy a little Black Magic. The bright side of the holidays includes time with loved ones, lots of parties, and distraction from the long dark nights. The down side is time - often in shopping lines - with fussy ones, social obligations, and keeping crazy hours. All the duty of the holidays makes me want to rebel withwhat I call a pleasant vices party. That involves cranking up the thermostat, tossing a couple of cases of beer out on the back stoop, and call 10 people over for a party...the only condition is that they call 10 people and invite them too before showing up. And the music would open with Magic Sam, because no one can resist dancing. God, I love this album. *humming* "just an eeny weeny bit just a teeny weeny bit of your love" *getting good to dance*
Faith &Science, mix & match, chocolate & peanut butter. A very good friend of mine dropped some Shane Nicholson and I'm trying it out. His work has a particular feel...and I like his voice. Please don't call him a poor man's Michael Penn or Neil Finn. Just, don't, okay?
Heavy Rotation Fall 2007 The original DJ G compiled the songs that have been spinning for him...and once the list lands it spins for me. Here's the tracklist:
- Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Greg Laswell
- Back In Your Head - Tegan & Sara
- Right Moves - Josh Ritter
- Little Digger - Liz Phair
- Challengers - The New Pornographers
- Boy With a Coin - Iron & Wine
- And I Was a Boy from School - Hot Chip
- I Believe - Simian Mobile Disco
- Nude - Radiohead
- You Got Yr Cherrybomb - Spoon
- Jolene - Jeremy Fisher
- A Sunday Smile - Beirut
- Answers and Questions - Earlimart
- Shim Sham - Imperial Teen
- For You and I - Keren Ann
- Twilight - Dawn Landes
So. What's spinnin with you? Share what you're listening to here and I'll try it - or at least some of it, you folks have some crazy long lists - and maybe we'll all uncover the soundtrack of 2008.
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Zebra - John Butler Trio
Haha..JBT is quite talented..like some their songs..especially the guitar tunes..perfect..
yet..I am waiting for the releases of the some british bands like Oasis, Coldplay, U2, The verve, and many others..
Thanks to you too..:)
Some of them have already found their way onto "The Pod"
Frick's "Songs I Might Hear on the Bus, Depending on How the Shuffle Goes"™
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Nature Boy
• ELO – Don't Bring Me Down
• Queen – Dragon Attack (Remix)
• Teddybears – Ahead of My Time
• The Flaming Lips – The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
• KISS – Christine Sixteen
• Mates of State – What It Means
• Portastatic – I'm In Love (With Arthur Love)
• The Hold Steady – How a Resurrection Feels
• Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals – Fight Outta You
• Dwight Yoakam – What Do You Know About Love
• Tenpole Tudor – Wunderbar
• Stray Cats – Rock This Town
• Weezer – Buddy Holly
• The Holloways – So This Is Great Britain?
• Steve Miller Band – Swingtown
• Rob Zombie – Brickhouse 2003
• The Monkees – She Hangs Out
• Of Montreal – Art Snob Solutions
• Devo – Satisfaction
• The Hidden Cameras – She's Gone
• Persephone's Bees – Muzika Dlya Fil'ma
• Beck – Jack-Ass
• Thank U – Alanis Morissette
• Eels – Daisies of the Galaxie
• Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
• Eels – Novocaine For the Soul
• The Suburbs – Love is The Law
• Robert Plant/Alison Krauss – Polly Come Home
• Emmylou Harris – Red Dirt Girl
Ah yes, you might have mentioned an iPod, Frick ;-) That Brit Box (this one, right?) is just one massive love soundtrack. A good primer. Skips my beloved Gang of Four and Wolfgang Press, but to be generous in '08 I'll forgive. Say, speaking of an iPod, hope to see you in Tony's shuffle comments again this week. (I was out last Friday)
The Point At Which It Falls Apart--Mesh
Nightfall--Beborn Beton (who haven't released an album in nearly ten years!)
Waiting for: new album from Apoptygma Berzerk sometime this year;
Emigrate, to be released January 29 in the US (Rammstein guitarist's side project)
and best of all, those bad German boys Rammstein are in the studio recording their new album!
It looks to be a yummy year in music!
Here is a good link: http://www.stopcryingyourheartout.com/
Sometimes the URL says it all. Thanks for the tip-ola, Rima.
And would you believe, I just picked up my first Eric Clapton CD?
You've mentioned live music once or twice before, Susan ;-) A few questions on the Clapton: Which CD? Did you own any Clapton before?!
IMHO The question "Is Amy Grant considered a Christian musician anymore?" is a discussion unto itself.
1 to add is the new record by the band Far-Less "A Toast To Bad Taste."
I confess to you, Julia, that I am not a big fan of electric guitar; in fact I have left concerts when the show devolved (my word choice) into electric guitar licks that became seemingly endless.
Richard Watson, son of Merle (RIP), grandson of Doc, is a superb acoustic guitar player. Yowza! I heard him in concert at the Cedar Cultural Center a couple years ago, cameo-ed during a show with Doc Watson and David Holt and have been in awe since.
What I'm enjoying most right now is "Willis Allen Ramsey," which the rest of the world has known about for 35 years but I'm just hearing now. Go figure! I 'm always arriving at the Great Music Party decades after everyone else! Thanks to my friend who gave it to me for Christmas. :-)
listening for a story isn't different from other sorts of listening for me. I always have to stay open to what the music will teach me. that's a discipline in itself of course, depending on the circumstance.
I am still loving Lucinda Williams West from last year. Nominated for a Grammy. So was Patty Griffin's Horses Run THrough is absolutely beautiful, but anything she does falls into that category.
Hmnnn....
I got a song of my own out here:
http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSjY1SzYW4
Artist: Spiritualized Album: "Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space"
Funky and highly addictive, right from the first listen. Headphones are in order
Artist: Soulsavers (feat. Mark Lanegan) Song: "Revival"
Watch the video on youtube or whatever video server you like. It's beautiful - gritty, gospel and gothic all at the same time
Artist: Us3 Song: "Tukka Yoots Riddim"
Frick mentioned this song to me recently and I've been relistening to it with some frequency. When I bought the CD I think I was so blown away by "Cantaloop (flip fantasia)" that I'm not sure I ever really listened to the rest of the album.
Eels - All albums, but especially "Daisies of the Galaxy", "Electroshock Blues" and the "Rotten World Blues" EP. I've put together a 2-CD comp of Mr. E's Beautiful work, and it has been in my ipod and car CD player on a regular basis. Beware: A common side effect is a serious earworm infection. The dude can really write a pop hook (as well as a, by turns, wistful, funny, mournful, and uplifting tune).
Artist: Luna, Album: Best of Luna - The only song this CD is missing is Black Postcards from "Romantica", which I love almost obsessively. I heart Dean Wareham, but unfortunately he's already taken by a young blond bombshell. Figures.
Artist: Boiled in Lead Song: "Rasputin". Yup, it's a remake of that wonderfully cheese-laden 70s disco tune by Boney M. And it's good! It really is! I ran across it while looking at a collection of "Minnesota" music on iTunes and bought it immediately. Who knows, maybe disco will re-emerge as the next big thing?
That's all I have time to write now. Hugs!
Auntie
Susan, I love all forms of guitar but understand when people have a particular fondness for acoustic.
How many Dylan albums/works do you have Pamela? I'm just curious, not questioning your fan status, that's well established. p.s. You have good friends.
You're simply amazing, Kerry.
Ashmin C. are you down with the remixes of "Just a Ride" or do you play the original version?
Renee S. your own song is on my "to listen" list. Wasn't "West" a good 2007 soundtrack? A little bitter (teeeeeeeeensy bit *grin*) but it just keeps coming up.
Whooooooooooooooooooooo!
Rah Rah Ras-pu-tin! *clapclap* Lover of the Russian Queen, there was a cat that really was gone!
You've totally got me dancing, Auntie. That drumming in the beginning is so frickin' effective on me. Last summer Brett Baldwin had a friend's mix in hand that included a merged version of Nightflight to Venus / Rasputin - over 10 minutes of Boney M. Dang!
EVERYONE is always welcome to join in. This party runs all month long.
I've counted my Dylan CDs to answer your question -- I'm at 30 right now (and counting, on my way to getting all of them). Some of these are doubles or triples (like Bootleg 1-3 and Biograph), so technically I could probably say I have 40. Oooooh, that does sound so good!! :-)
Your comment to Matthew on what you gave to get a ticket to see C,S, & N is funny, Julia. I saw them in Oakland sometime in the 70s, right up close, third or fourth row. Can't remember what I gave up to do so (not blood, but tears may eventually have been involved), but it was worth it!