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Friday Random Ten
Mar. 23rd, 2007 10:49 amBusy day ahead, to my surprise. Lots of tiny things just piled up until I had to deal with them today, and no later.
But first, a cup of coffee, check the email, and shuffle the iPod (now at 20,140 songs - just added the 10 songs of the most recent Sparks album, Hello Young Lovers - which is GREAT, this morning). Hope it's some exciting music this morning, I need to get pumped . . .
1. "Don't Start Me Talkin'" - New York Dolls - In Too Much Too Soon
For just a moment, I thought it was "Pills" from their first album. Okay, they pretty much have one sound. But it's a great sound and no one else has got it quite right since.
2. "Il Est 5h. Paris S'eveille" - Jacques Dutronc - L'Essentiel Dutronc
Love that Jacques. What odd stylistic range he goes through . . . hard rock to the lightest of pop fluff to folky ballads (like this) to strange electronica. I like that his lyrics are usually in simple enough French that I can follow over 50% of them, and struggle at the rest -- makes me work at trying to get my French better.
3. "My Body" - General Strike - Obey The New Wave (1980 and all that - UK DIY etc.)
Great little percussive/electronic/odd vocal track from a great little comp of similar Brit post-punk singles from mostly unknown groups (The Flying Lizards are about the most famous on there). Too short, maybe - just feels like it's going somewhere and just stops -- giving a great transition, though, into--
4. "Chris Cross" - Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk
Slick with rough patches. Funk with dirty electric piano. Kind of obscurity that will show up in a Tarantino movie someday before I get to do anything with it. Gotta remember this for party dance mixes.
5. "Computer Alarm" - Neil - Neil's Heavy Concept Album
"And now, another in our series on people who've totally sold out to the media and gone all commercial and heavy -- this week, Neil!"
A little link track from the comedy album starring that dirty, filthy, stinking hippie from The Young Ones. Here, he smashes the evil computer alarm clock his brother gave him that he hates, but not before he hears the newscast that mocks him.
6. "The World's The Arrow" - BPeople - Petrified Conditions
No idea who these people are, when this is from, or where I got this (downloading drunk again?). It's good, cool, dark, slow, crawling rock. Vocalist a little . . . off and icky when he gets loud on the chorus though. Not so bad, just breaks the mood a bit.
7. "White Lightnin' (It's Frightnin')" - The RPM's - Pebbles Volume 10
Oh, this is some great snotty teenage garage punk. Got some kind of horn in there, too. Trombone? Odd.
8. "With Our Love" - Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
Oh, nostalgia. High school. Alt radio. Used to not like this track and this album that much. Very different now.
9. "I Witnessed a Crime" - Johnny Cash - American Outtakes
Low-fi, but stereo, bootleg of unused tracks from early Cash/Rick Rubin sessions. This, a great reading of a song I don't otherwise know, featuring one of the Z.Z. Top guys (Billy Gibbons, is that his name?) on good, solid rockabilly guitar, very Sun Records. Nice reading, but feels like a tentative run-through in a bunch of ways. I can see why it wasn't used.
10. "Inner City Blues" - Sarah Vaughan - The Trouble With Modern Girls
Sarah goes funky 70s in a great soul track. From a WFMU DJ premium.
Okay, still have emails and postings to deal with before getting out to errands . . . gotta hit it.
But first, a cup of coffee, check the email, and shuffle the iPod (now at 20,140 songs - just added the 10 songs of the most recent Sparks album, Hello Young Lovers - which is GREAT, this morning). Hope it's some exciting music this morning, I need to get pumped . . .
1. "Don't Start Me Talkin'" - New York Dolls - In Too Much Too Soon
For just a moment, I thought it was "Pills" from their first album. Okay, they pretty much have one sound. But it's a great sound and no one else has got it quite right since.
2. "Il Est 5h. Paris S'eveille" - Jacques Dutronc - L'Essentiel Dutronc
Love that Jacques. What odd stylistic range he goes through . . . hard rock to the lightest of pop fluff to folky ballads (like this) to strange electronica. I like that his lyrics are usually in simple enough French that I can follow over 50% of them, and struggle at the rest -- makes me work at trying to get my French better.
3. "My Body" - General Strike - Obey The New Wave (1980 and all that - UK DIY etc.)
Great little percussive/electronic/odd vocal track from a great little comp of similar Brit post-punk singles from mostly unknown groups (The Flying Lizards are about the most famous on there). Too short, maybe - just feels like it's going somewhere and just stops -- giving a great transition, though, into--
4. "Chris Cross" - Jimmy McGriff - Electric Funk
Slick with rough patches. Funk with dirty electric piano. Kind of obscurity that will show up in a Tarantino movie someday before I get to do anything with it. Gotta remember this for party dance mixes.
5. "Computer Alarm" - Neil - Neil's Heavy Concept Album
"And now, another in our series on people who've totally sold out to the media and gone all commercial and heavy -- this week, Neil!"
A little link track from the comedy album starring that dirty, filthy, stinking hippie from The Young Ones. Here, he smashes the evil computer alarm clock his brother gave him that he hates, but not before he hears the newscast that mocks him.
6. "The World's The Arrow" - BPeople - Petrified Conditions
No idea who these people are, when this is from, or where I got this (downloading drunk again?). It's good, cool, dark, slow, crawling rock. Vocalist a little . . . off and icky when he gets loud on the chorus though. Not so bad, just breaks the mood a bit.
7. "White Lightnin' (It's Frightnin')" - The RPM's - Pebbles Volume 10
Oh, this is some great snotty teenage garage punk. Got some kind of horn in there, too. Trombone? Odd.
8. "With Our Love" - Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
Oh, nostalgia. High school. Alt radio. Used to not like this track and this album that much. Very different now.
9. "I Witnessed a Crime" - Johnny Cash - American Outtakes
Low-fi, but stereo, bootleg of unused tracks from early Cash/Rick Rubin sessions. This, a great reading of a song I don't otherwise know, featuring one of the Z.Z. Top guys (Billy Gibbons, is that his name?) on good, solid rockabilly guitar, very Sun Records. Nice reading, but feels like a tentative run-through in a bunch of ways. I can see why it wasn't used.
10. "Inner City Blues" - Sarah Vaughan - The Trouble With Modern Girls
Sarah goes funky 70s in a great soul track. From a WFMU DJ premium.
Okay, still have emails and postings to deal with before getting out to errands . . . gotta hit it.
