A bootley of Deep Purple at the California Jam 1974.
At this moment, University of Trent radio. A friend of mine has a radio show Thursday nights from 8:00-10:00 and I listen religiously online and usually the only online listener he has.
Aside from that, it’s been a 90s indie week for me:
Bee Thousand - Guided by Voices
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - Pavement
Slanted & Enchanted - Pavement
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea -Neutral Milk Hotel
OK Computer - Radiohead
Right now I’m listening to a Japanese singer named Aiko. It’s her latest CD, entitled “Yume no Naka no Massugu na Michi” (a straight road in a dream). It’s a really cool album that covers multiple styles. In an unusal move, the disc starts off with a slow ballad, “Aoi Hikari”. Other songs are outright jazz, including an interesting piece in 3/4 time featuring a violin solo. A few tracks later there’s an outright hard rock song called “BI-DORO no Yoru” with some very interesting guitar playing. Well I think it sounds interesting.
I laughed out loud when I recently discovered that one of her live concert videos is titled “A Singing Dog”. I think it’s a deliberate joke, not bad Engrish.
Neko Case, The Fox Confessor
Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Rabbit Furcoat
New Pornographers, Twin Cinema
The Cardigans, Long After Dark
The song is Whiskeytown performing “A Song For You” off this Gram Parsons tribute album.
I have such a totally hetero male man-crush on Ryan Adams.
Some of the Serenity soundtrack, Picturebook by The Kinks, You’re Beautiful by James Blunt, Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls, and a bunch of Santana and Miles Davis instrumentals.
I’ve really gotten into Radio Paradise on the internet lately. Listener supported, no ads, eclectic. They’ve turned me on to some cool tunes.
A selection from today’s playlist:
Richard Thompson - I Can’t Wake Up To Save My Life
California Guitar Trio - Beethoven - Presto Agitato, Moonlight Sonata
Cat Power - The Moon
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold
Rosanne Cash - Radio Operator
Porcupine Tree - Four Chords That Made a Million
Kings of Convenience - Surprise Ice
Amadou & Mariam - Sénégal Fast Food
I also dig their Listener Review Channel , where you can upload songs you’d like them to play, as well as listen to and vote on other people’s suggestions.
Right at this moment?
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - They Might Be Giants
There’s more new stuff in my playlist, but I’m too sleepy to look through it. I know I’ve been listening to *Funny Little Frog * by **Belle & Sebastian ** a lot lately. That’s about all I can remember at the moment.
“My Big Ten Inch” I’m listening to Alice Cooper’s radio show on KRFX Denver streaming online .
I’m sorry if this appears to be a hijack, but I just had to share…
I mentioned “Rock Me Tonite” by Billy Squier upthread. Since then, I went to allmusic to read about him, and it said his career was ruined by that video. I’d never seen it, so I Googled it, and it’s available at YouTube.com.
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He’s prancing around like a bleedin’ poofter and humping the floor and ::shudder:: skipping around his apartment! And ripping off his shirt! Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrgh!
I had to turn it off.
Until just now, that song gave me the impression of being ultra-guy and swaggering macho with drama and thunder and some of Jimmy Page’s “hammer of the gods.” In my mind’s eye, not having seen the video before, I would have pictured: night. Fog. A streetlamp. Billy and three guys come out stepping in time and snapping their fingers like the intro. I pictured dark, moody lighting and crane shots.
Instead, we get this early adopter of metrosexuality, wearing pastel sack pants in his pastel apartment with freeze-frame shots of him arching his back and thrusting out his crotch, and ripping off his torn shirt.
I’m not speechless, but I’m dumbfounded. I think he made great rock music. Then I read in another forum a comment, where a guy suggested you relisten to “Don’t Say No” album and try to find a reference to a girl. He’s right. There isn’t one.
Is he known to be gay and was showing it off in this video, or was this one of the most colossally bad moves in the history of show biz? Because after it, his career tanked. Ugh.
For the last 15 minutes I’ve been listening to my colleague three offices along, Mrs Ho, berating her Filipina helper in her broken English. This time, Maria forgot to test the temperature of the congee before serving it to Miss Eugenia Ho, who rang Mummy to complain that it was too cold. I take it that the sudden raising of the Ho voice (“I don’t care why it happened. Don’t do it again!”) means that Maria just tried to explain why she erred.
Oh, well, better than my boss, Ms Ho (not related), shouting at her latest office target down the phone. Beats me why she bothers to pick the receiver up and dial when the whole office can hear.
M.I.A. - Arular. It’s nothing I’d normally pick up, but I read a glowing review of it in a local too-cool-for-the-indie-school music magazine. It’s addictive music, and I’m thrashing ‘Amazon’ in particular at the moment.
I found Skeleton Key’s Fantastic Spikes Through Balloon in the bargain section of a CD store. I’ve been looking for it for about six years now, the band only ever got airplay on a tiny, short-lived alternative station I used to listen to. I’m actually putting off listening to it becasue there’s no way it’s going to be as awesome as my mind has made it…
The original Broadway cast recording of Les Miserables.
Right now, it’s Jake Johannson on XM Comedy.
Generally, though, it’s been Ethel, Lucy, SquiZZ, Big Tracks and Top Tracks. When the XM isn’t on, it’s been Metallica’s S&M, Green Day’s Bullet in a Bible and Alice in Chains’s MTV Unplugged.
The Avenue Q soundtrack.
The merciless tinnitus in my right ear.
Currently, it is Bowling for Soup, Last Call Casualty. Following “A Hangover You Don’t Deserve” is The Unforgiven–The greatest Southern Rock band ever
Check out the first Enon album, Believo. Two of the guys from Skeleton Key acted as the backing band for John Schmersal, who was in Brainiac, and it’s a brilliant record - the “Junk Yardness” of Skeleton Key with better songwriting.
I’m on eternal shuffle…but to give my most recent purchases:
Galactic - Ruckus
Arcturus - Aspera Hiems Symfonia / Constellation / My Angel
Boa - Get There
All of which are quite unrelated to one another.
So you missed the end, where he was playing a powder pink guitar (incidentally not a Fender Strat Squier), and then indiscriminately bumping into all the other men in his band, while the walls are plastered with awful 80s lithographs of men’s faces?
Pity. 