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collisionwork) wrote2006-11-10 10:01 am
collisionwork) wrote2006-11-10 10:01 am
Friday Random Briefly Annotated Ten
So, let's see what the iTunes drags up this morning as I cat blog in another window and Temptation blog in one more . . .
1. "Beware" - The Big Beats - Garage Punk Unknowns
Oh, a great 60s garage-rock single! Never listened to it on headphones before, and there's a saxophone in there! Never caught that. The lead guitarist is mildly inept, but he's playing a great, unique lead line-hook for the song. The "idea" of the hook may be better than the execution, but something about the descending, minor lead line on guitar backed by some dodgy-pitched backing vocals works in a young, loud, and snotty way.
2. "Drive My Car" - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Wow, does this sound poky and unenergetic now! The piano saves it. Not my favorite period of The Beatles, but on the upswing towards Revolver. I've gone back and forth over the years on whether the "Beep-beep-mm-beep-beep-yeah!" bit is great or embarrassingly dorky. Falling towards great, now, I think.
3. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" - Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Silly, trivial poop from late-70s Frank, but catchy and actually kinda lovely in it's way (especially the harmonies on the backing vocals). Nice "rock" vocal from Terry Bozzio. CD is mastered low-volume and compressed. Have to fix that in the iTunes EQ.
This song does feature one all-time-great Zappa phrase-coinage, which has become a part of Berit's and my regular vocabulary, contained in the line, "If Simmons was here, I could feature my hurt!" Simmons being Jeff Simmons, who walked out of The Mothers as they were about to film 200 Motels, deciding he needed to be taken seriously as a "rock star," but more importantly, "featuring one's hurt" is a great way to describe that aspect of some artists who enjoy the public showing of "Their Pain," or as Todd Rundgren once put it in an album title, "The Ever-Popular Tortured Artist Effect."
Hmmn. Suddenly I'm a little self-blog-conscious . . .
4. "Big Iron" - Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Great western gunman saga from the Man in Black. This is one of two bonus tracks on the 2-LP vinyl version of this album, the other being a good version of "Wichita Lineman," with guitar solo from Glen Campbell. This actually sounds more like something from one of Cash's earlier American albums rather than the kind of catchall group of songs that make up the rest of this one.
5. "Fourth of July" - Galaxie 500 - MOJO: Piece of Cake (20 Years of Ryko)
I know almost nothing about this except it's on a comp that came with a magazine, and it's a really great alt-rock song. Sweet and noisy, a combo I like. One of the many grandchildren of The Velvet Underground. Oh, great mournful dissonant instrumental break. Okay, gotta find more by this group, I guess, this is too good.
6. "Rainy Night in Georgia" - Ken Parker - Cover Your Tracks
Interesting reggae-flavored cover of a soul favorite, courtesy of a WFMU Marathon comp. Nice for a change-up, pleasant to come across in random, but not anything all that special on its own. The original would have been a downer to come across, and this one isn't nearly as depressing, so it fits the mood here better.
7. "Killer of Men" - The Royal Coachmen - Shutdown '66 - The World's Only 60's Punk Record
Oh, cool. Garage rock taking on "Dylanesque" and winning by a kick in the balls. Some snotty punk kid, once again spewing invective at some girl that done him bad. He's trying to be Bob, but it sounds more like Sam the Sham or Question Mark. The bridge lyrics: "Ah, you love to see blood and laugh at death! (laugh at death, cause I--) I ain't gonna be happy until you're paralyzed!" Genius. Then it just ends.
8. "Casanova" - Roxy Music - Country Life
Ow, damn this is loud! I have gone in and re-EQed all of the Roxy Music tracks in the iTunes, so they're all very very LOUD. Well, it deserves to be. Another classic from one of those first four classic Roxy albums.
9. "I Know What I Would Do" - The State of Mickey and Tommy - Tektites vol. I
Bubblegum psychedelia, pretty good actually. Well-done, nice sitar and organ stuff.
10. "White Sandy Beach of Hawaii" - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future
Maybe you know the big man's cover of "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" that seemed to be showing up all over for a while? Well, this is another pretty yet somehow sad and mournful ukulele number. Why does ukulele do "sad, memory" so well?
Okay, cats blogged and up, more on the show to come . . .
1. "Beware" - The Big Beats - Garage Punk Unknowns
Oh, a great 60s garage-rock single! Never listened to it on headphones before, and there's a saxophone in there! Never caught that. The lead guitarist is mildly inept, but he's playing a great, unique lead line-hook for the song. The "idea" of the hook may be better than the execution, but something about the descending, minor lead line on guitar backed by some dodgy-pitched backing vocals works in a young, loud, and snotty way.
2. "Drive My Car" - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Wow, does this sound poky and unenergetic now! The piano saves it. Not my favorite period of The Beatles, but on the upswing towards Revolver. I've gone back and forth over the years on whether the "Beep-beep-mm-beep-beep-yeah!" bit is great or embarrassingly dorky. Falling towards great, now, I think.
3. "Tryin' to Grow a Chin" - Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
Silly, trivial poop from late-70s Frank, but catchy and actually kinda lovely in it's way (especially the harmonies on the backing vocals). Nice "rock" vocal from Terry Bozzio. CD is mastered low-volume and compressed. Have to fix that in the iTunes EQ.
This song does feature one all-time-great Zappa phrase-coinage, which has become a part of Berit's and my regular vocabulary, contained in the line, "If Simmons was here, I could feature my hurt!" Simmons being Jeff Simmons, who walked out of The Mothers as they were about to film 200 Motels, deciding he needed to be taken seriously as a "rock star," but more importantly, "featuring one's hurt" is a great way to describe that aspect of some artists who enjoy the public showing of "Their Pain," or as Todd Rundgren once put it in an album title, "The Ever-Popular Tortured Artist Effect."
Hmmn. Suddenly I'm a little self-blog-conscious . . .
4. "Big Iron" - Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
Great western gunman saga from the Man in Black. This is one of two bonus tracks on the 2-LP vinyl version of this album, the other being a good version of "Wichita Lineman," with guitar solo from Glen Campbell. This actually sounds more like something from one of Cash's earlier American albums rather than the kind of catchall group of songs that make up the rest of this one.
5. "Fourth of July" - Galaxie 500 - MOJO: Piece of Cake (20 Years of Ryko)
I know almost nothing about this except it's on a comp that came with a magazine, and it's a really great alt-rock song. Sweet and noisy, a combo I like. One of the many grandchildren of The Velvet Underground. Oh, great mournful dissonant instrumental break. Okay, gotta find more by this group, I guess, this is too good.
6. "Rainy Night in Georgia" - Ken Parker - Cover Your Tracks
Interesting reggae-flavored cover of a soul favorite, courtesy of a WFMU Marathon comp. Nice for a change-up, pleasant to come across in random, but not anything all that special on its own. The original would have been a downer to come across, and this one isn't nearly as depressing, so it fits the mood here better.
7. "Killer of Men" - The Royal Coachmen - Shutdown '66 - The World's Only 60's Punk Record
Oh, cool. Garage rock taking on "Dylanesque" and winning by a kick in the balls. Some snotty punk kid, once again spewing invective at some girl that done him bad. He's trying to be Bob, but it sounds more like Sam the Sham or Question Mark. The bridge lyrics: "Ah, you love to see blood and laugh at death! (laugh at death, cause I--) I ain't gonna be happy until you're paralyzed!" Genius. Then it just ends.
8. "Casanova" - Roxy Music - Country Life
Ow, damn this is loud! I have gone in and re-EQed all of the Roxy Music tracks in the iTunes, so they're all very very LOUD. Well, it deserves to be. Another classic from one of those first four classic Roxy albums.
9. "I Know What I Would Do" - The State of Mickey and Tommy - Tektites vol. I
Bubblegum psychedelia, pretty good actually. Well-done, nice sitar and organ stuff.
10. "White Sandy Beach of Hawaii" - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Facing Future
Maybe you know the big man's cover of "Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" that seemed to be showing up all over for a while? Well, this is another pretty yet somehow sad and mournful ukulele number. Why does ukulele do "sad, memory" so well?
Okay, cats blogged and up, more on the show to come . . .