I think that if the rift between Kim and Thurston is irreconcilable and that their musical partnership must be dissolved along with their marital bonds, the best way forward is for Kim to put her efforts into Free Kitten full time and for Sonic Youth to hire EMA to replace Kim. Check out her Daytrotter Session and her Nirvana cover (of "Endless, Nameless", the hidden noise track from Nevermind). She can play third guitar, and if she can't play bass, SY should just keep that guy from Pavement around, or some other bass player.
Then, as Thurston, Lee, and Steve each decide that as they age, they're ready to take some time off, find other similar talents to replace them in the band. Over time, we may have completely replaced the members of Sonic Youth while still keeping the band together. The band will actually have a chance at outliving its founders!
Do you think this will work? Will EMA fit into the band? Will SY drop Thurston instead, when there's no clear replacement for him? Can the guy from Pavement sing in place of Thurston? Will you give us your random ten?
dear AMR,
that was awesome. many thanks.
love, hungry joe.
Tracy Byrd -- I Love You, That's All
Daron Norwood -- If It Wasn't For Her, I Wouldn't Have You
The Beatles -- Day Tripper
Creedence Clearwater Revival -- What Are You Gonna Do?
Ben Folds -- Brick
Patty Loveless -- You Can Feel Bad
Ace of Base -- Voulez-Vous Danser
The Association -- Along Comes Mary
Barenaked Ladies -- Snowman
Kenny Rogers -- Buy Me A Rose
'Pumped Up Kicks' - Foster the People Torches
'David Watts' - The Kinks Something Else by The Kinks
'Hello Old Friend' - Eric Clapton The Cream of Clapton
'Dont Call Us, We'll Call You' - Sugarloaf
'French Navy' - Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career
'Who Can It Be Now?' - Men At Work Business As Usual
'Shakin All Over' - The Guess Who
'Dancing in the Dark' - Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
'Discotheque' - U2 Pop
'All Hands Against His Own' - The Black Keys Rubber Factory
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* Metastaseis - Iannis Xenakis - Iannis Xenakis: Orchestral Works
* Out of This World - The Cure - Bloodflowers
* The Gates of Ballard - Sunn O))) - White1
* Music Reach - The Prodigy - The Prodigy Experience
* Down By the River - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
* Tape Loop #2 (Introduction) - Bleak Russian Soundscapes - Belmont's Final Transmission
* Potassium - Kronos Quartet - unreleased live recording (M. Gordon)
* In the Dawn of Morning - David Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion
* Dive - Nirvana - Incesticide
* Mr. Jones - Counting Crows - August and Everything After
wow, that SoundCloud account you linked to could keep me busy for twice the rest of my life.
Then I say either "I'm sorry" or "You're welcome", whichever is appropriate.
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01. Mack the Knife - Ella Fitzgerald - The Complete Ella in Berlin
02. In the Jailhouse Now - Willie Nelson/Webb Pierce - Revolutions of Time
03. Double Indemnity - Jazz at the Movies Band - White Heat: Film Noir
04. Village Green - Kinks - The Village Green Preservation Society
05. You Are My Sunshine - Bob Dylan/Johnny Cash - The Dylan/Cash Sessions
06. Walkin' Bass - Henry Mancini - The Music from Peter Gunn
07. Valentine's Day in Juarez - Ike Rielly - We Belong to the Staggering Evening
08. Blame the Weather - XTC - Rag 'N' Buffet
09. Love Gonna Walk Out on Me - Toots & the Maytals w/Ben Harper - True Love
10. And She Was - Talking Heads - Little Creatures
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01. Bathory - "Through Blood by Thunder", Jubileum, Vol. 1
02. Immolation - "Fall in Disease", Dawn of Possession
03. Wintersun - "Sleeping Stars", Wintersun
04. Meshuggah - "Erroneous Manipulation", Contradictions Collapse
05. Rainbow - "Man on the Silver Mountain (live)", Live in Germany 1976
06. Iced Earth - "Prophecy", Overture of the Wicked
07. Running Wild - "Conquistadores", Port Royal
08. Brainstorm - "Into the Never", Metus Mortis
09. Twister Sister - "Burn in Hell", Still Hungry
10. Accept - "Fight it Back", Balls to the Wall
Just Another Broken Heart - The Carter Family - Can The Circle Be Unbroken
A-Punk - Vamire Weekend - S/T
Cherbourg - Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
The Avett Brothers - Famous Flower of Manhattan - Four Thieve Gone
Everybody Cares, Everbody Understands - Elliott Smith - XO
Run Through The Jungle - CCR - Chronicle
Airbag - Radiohead - OK Computer
The Angle Of Death - Hank Williams - The Ultimate Collection
Syeeda's Song Flute - John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Lil Wallet Picture - Richard Buckner - Devotion and Doubt
A little country, a little rock n roll.
I don't have a random 10 this week because I'm having a love affair with Spotify. It's so nice to be able to look for practically anything, favorite it, and check it out at work. Last night before bed, I had a hankering to listen to Rejoicing in the Hands to Devendra Banhart, and it was ready for me this morning. Now I'm finally going to listen to the new album by the awesome Italian band Larsen, Cool Cruel Mouth (AMR & DG, you guys may be into them, and should definitely listen if you have the chance). This is all so neat. I only wish my desk wasn't practically in a bomb shelter, since I don't get strong enough signal to stream.
Listened to "Ohm Avenue D". Yeah, I will definitely listen to this again. Thanks for the rec.
ABECEDA sounds like an interesting concert as well.
It really does, I should probably buy that with my coupon from Important! I like everything I've heard of theirs, but I haven't heard it all.
I'm listening to "Annie's Rap" (embedded in the review linked to at the bottom of that page).
Oh I need this. It's like an older, sober response to Coil's "Things Happen" (which featured a very, very drunk Little Annie Anxiety, some 20 years ago):
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3FdhAAO6x0
Hear you about Spotify. Like I said, I've really been groovin' on the King of Thrones lately, something I would have never exposed to myself without Spotify. Right now I'm listening to The Rain Parade which is a paisley underground band I loved in the early 1980's but is hard to find.
1. Schizophrenia -- Sonic Youth *
2. Time is Running Out -- Wendy Smith
3. Aginst Th' Law -- Billy Bragg and Wilco
4. I'll Wait and Pray -- John Coltrane
5. Let's Not Belong Together -- Paul Westerberg
6. Prove My Love -- Violent Femmes
7. Dead Souls -- Urban Guerrillas
8. The English Roses -- The Pretenders
9. Hey Jude -- Joe Anderson
10. Going the Distance -- Cake
At Odds with Dr. Genesis -- Guided By Voices
* This is the song that turned me on to SY. Appropriate it came up first given AMR's introduction.
1. They Might Be Giants - "New York City" - User's Guide to TMBG
2. Gorillaz - "Dirty Harry" - Demon Days
3. The New Pornographers - "If You Can't See My Mirrors" - Together
4. The BoDeans - "Good Things" - Best of the BoDeans*
5. John Legend & the Roots - "Humanity (Love the Way It Should Be)" - Wake Up!
6. Johnny Cash - "Rock Island Line" - Forever Johnny Cash
7. Bush - "Machinehead" - Sixteen Stone
8. The Beatles - "Yesterday" - 1
9. Sly & the Family Stone - "Everybody Is a Star"
10. Oasis - "Lyla" - Don't Believe the Truth
B: The Folksmen - "A Mighty Wind" - A Mighty Wind Soundtrack
*I suppose it could also be called "Good Things" and some songs you've never heard.
Not only does EMA have a Daytrotter Session, but my Album of the Year leader in the clubhouse, Colin Stetson has one, too. So if you want to hear “A Dream of Water” without the spoken vocals over it, head on over there.
Today in Hexadecimal! Songs
11-16B-10. were too good to not list.1. The Spring Standards “Bells and Whistles” Would Things Be Different
2. Plastikman “Oedipus Complex (Heartthrob Rework)” Arkives 1993-2010: Replikants 2 (Disc 14)
3. Ministry “Grace” KEΦAΛHΞΘ*
4. Tim Hecker “Harmony in Blue III” Harmony in Ultraviolet
5. Sonic Youth “Rain King” Daydream Nation
6. Marit Bergman “Julia” 3.00 A.M. Serenades
7. Andrew Belle “The Ladder” Ten out of Tenn, Vol. 4*
8. Soundgarden* “Slaves and Bulldozers” Badmotorfinger
9. Clams Casino “All I Need (Soulja Boy)” Instrumental Mixtape*
A. Ha Ha Tonka “Close Every Valve to Your Bleeding Heart”* Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
B. Alabama Shakes “You Ain't Alone” Alabama Shakes EP
C. Fatlip “What's Up Fatlip? (clean)” What's Up Fatlip?
D. Kenny Rogers “Buried Treasure”* Anthology
E. Animal Collective “Baby Day”* Who Could Win a Rabbit?
F. Tricky [Unknown, aka “Movies Don't Move Me”] (Live) Warfield, San Fransisco, 16 August 1998*
10. Zola Jesus “Trust Me (Live)” Daytrotter Session 8/15/2011
Notes:
3. I think I did this last week, but I didn't even look up the HTML, I just guessed that Phi was Φ etc... Hope I did it right, I am concerned that Λ has too many characters.
7. This is a free compilation from NoiseTrade, which I use way too much. When you download something from them, you get e-mails on all of their highlighted releases. And I sample lots of them and download them in packs and sort them out later. This song sounds like Coldplay and will be removed. Not bad, just not what I'm looking for.
8. <ramble>I have a standing promise with a former coworker that we will attend any Soundgarden reunion shows that ever make it to the Twin Cities. Is that going to happen? The only time I saw them was at Lollapalooza '96 (Des Moines). They played after Waylon Jennings (in the rotating slot that at other venues had Rage Against the Machine or Wu-Tang Clan or Smashing Pumpkins) and before Metallica. One of the cheapest foods per volume at Lolla were personal pizzas that came on little cardboard circles. When Soundgarden played “Blow Up the Outside World”, fans started flinging the circles up into the air and at one point there must have been hundreds if not thousands of pizza plates in the sky. At one point Chris looked up at it and broke character (serious/tortured) and smiled/giggled. That Lolla show was the biggest group we'd ever have go to a concert. At least three (it might have been four) vehicles full of 16-19 year olds piled out of New Ulm at about 7 a.m. and returned about the same time the next day. Temperature was at least 100F. I didn't wear a shirt that day, and was wearing big baggy shorts, and I salvaged used water bottles out of the trash, filled them in the bathroom, and stuffed all of my pockets with them. I think I filled six bottles at a time (two each in my front pockets, one in my back pocket that didn't have my wallet, and one in my hand). Had it not been for others' garbage bottles, I might have died: I didn't have the cash on me to stay hydrated.</ramble>
9. I think this was a free mixtape, maybe I pilfered it. The songs are instrumentals but each has an MC's name after it: maybe that's the vocalist for whom Clams Casino imagined he/she/they was
A. Making words like “Dostoyevsky” cool since 2007!
D. Rogers has two singles titled "Buried Treasure". This is the one with the lyric "I could love you all of my life / You are my wife / Haven't I let you know?"
E. The first time I saw Animal Collective live, Spring 2005, I had just learned that we were pregnant with HPR, which I was quite uncertain about. Watching them freak out with such verve on the song whose only lyrics are "She's gonna have a baby!", and joining in, helped me get over that.
F. I have dozens of bootleg cassettes of late 90's Tricky and Massive Attack concerts in my basement, but I think the only ones I have on CD are this one and the Massive Attack show at the same venue about a month later. I just imported them last night.
Chasen -- Bullet
Switchfoot -- Bullet Soul
The Allies -- Burden Down
Switchfoot -- Burn Out Bright
Tenth Avenue North -- By Your Side
White Heart -- Bye Bye Babylon
Anberlin -- Cadence
Stryper -- Calling On You
DC Talk -- Can I Get a Witness?
David Crowder Band -- Can You Feel It?
A tedious afternoon project made me decide to do a 10 as well.
01. USDA - "Pam" from Cold Summer: The Authorized Mixtape
02. El-P - "Deep Space 9mm" from Fantastic Damage
03. Boris - "Hand in Hand" from Attention Please
04. Guns N' Roses - "Welcome to the Jungle" from Appetite for Destruction*
05. Lil B - "Get It While It's Good" from I'm Gay (I'm Happy)
06. The Wrens - "Minion" from Silver
07. The Intelligence - "The Receptionist" from Deuteronomy
08. Killer Mike - "American Dream" from Pl3dge*
09. Lil Wayne - "Phone Home" from Tha Carter III
10. Hot Snakes - "Bye Nancy Boy" from Suicide Invoice*
BT. Rich Boy ft. Al Myte & Supa Villain - "Drop Top" from Pacc Man*
And while I'm at it, I'll do some notes AMR style.
4. While I really, really wish a less played out song from this album came up, I frequently find myself defending it since it gets lumped in with bad hair metal of the day. It's a really good record, and it holds up surprisingly well.
8. I wish this album had kept its original full title, I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind III.
10. One of the bands I'm the most crushed I never got the chance to see live. If I had more money, I absoultely would have flown out to San Diego to see their last show. I used to listen to this album every day to get through the last 35 minutes or so of work. If you've never heard it, it's worth listening to if you like straight forward, no B.S. rock.
BT. Every single time I end up hearing a Rich Boy song, I flip out. I absolutely love his delivery. He could rap names & phone numbers at me and I'd probably still be flipping out. Supa Villain does most of his production, and the guy is a great producer. I love simple, hard Southern beats. If I was better at rapping, and even remotely consistant on practicing, I'd want to get him to make a beat for me. I'll just have to settle for hunting down instrumentals online.