Have a Merry Christmas and share some wicked randomness.
Best of 2012 next week? Probably. Definitely not this week, though. Keep yr tiger in its cage.
24 thoughts on “FMD: December 21, 2012”
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1. Head Held High - Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See
2. Trench Town Rock - Bob Marley - The Best of
3. Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash - The Essential JC
4. 54-46 Was My Number - Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston/In the Dark
5. Sao Paolo After Dark - Lalo Schifrin - Mannix
6. Natural Bridge Blues - Waterboys - Room to Roam
7. Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC - Oranges & Lemons
8. The Sweetest Taboo - Sade - The Best of
9. Jackpot - The Pioneers - Love of the Common People:Anthology 1967-1979
10. Let's Fall in Love - Diana Krall - Live in Paris
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1. The Very Best “We OK”* Daytrotter Session, 10/5/2012
2. Lateduster* “Milovanova” Five Easy Pieces
3. Tristen and the Ringers “Heart and Hope to Die”* Daytrotter Session, 2/1/2011
4. Sharon Van Etten “Magic Chords” Tramp
5. Tricky “Black Steel”* Maxinquaye
6. Kanye West “Who Will Survive in America”
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Bold as Love” Axis: Bold as Love
8. Dolfish “God Is the Loneliest of Lovers”* I'd Rather Disappear than Stay the Same
9. Conway Twitty “The Rose” Silver Anniversary Collection
T. The Tamlins “Baltimore” Baltimore 7”
E. Bonny “Prince” Billy “No More Workhorse Blues”* Sings Greatest Palace Music
*Notes:
1. Great start for the end of the world day.
2. Former Mpls band from Andrew Broder (Fog), Jeremy Ylvisaker, Martin Dosh
3. "Show me how your daddy and your mama made you!"
5. Do I prefer the cover or the original? Well, which one is playing this moment? I do need to praise Flava Flav's work on the original. Fantastic hype-man emphasis of points without stealing the scene. Actually focuses and claustrophobizes the whole thing.
8. Probably my least-favorite song on the album, a rewriting of Joan Osbourne's "One of Us".
E. Some Oldham junkies aren't fond of the overproduced re-recordings of this album, but some are just great, and give the song a different take. This one is one of my favorite reimaginings, with a David Berman's bass voice straining and rising as it intones the final repeated lines with Billy: "I am no more a workhorse. I am a racing horse. I am your favorite horse." Sounds like Eeyore (a workmule?) finally caring.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8
In reading "Our Band Could Be Your Life", the author talks a lot about the influence REM had on the music scene of the day. Maybe it's because of my age wherein REM has always existed and I can't compare things to pre-REM, but they just have never resonated with me at all.
pfft. Next you are going to tell me that you've never utilized Roxy Music's Avalon as make-out soundtrack music.
Who?
Sorry, they got old, didn't die ('cept for Keith Moon).
'Flying High Again' - Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
'At Least It Was Here' - The 88 Community OST
'David Watts' - The Jam The Very Best of The Jam
'It Must be Summer' - Fountains of Wayne Utopia Parkway
'Scattered' - Green Day Nimrod
'Street Fighting Man' - The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
'Still Lost' - The Features Some Kind of Salvation
'Black' - Pearl Jam Ten
'Emerald' - Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
'Christmas' - The Who Tommy
Is that the muse behind your avatar?
1. Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey) -- The Feelies
2. Think About Yourself -- Golden Smog
3. Girls Talk -- Elvis Costello
4. Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Alternate #2) -- Elvis Presley
5. Charity, Chastity, Prudence, And Hope -- Hüsker Dü
6. Black Mountain Rag -- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
7, Cumberland County -- Fred Eaglesmith
8. Ashes To Ashes -- David Bowie
9. Lincoln Town Car -- The Waco Brothers
10. Mining Town -- Whiskeytown
b1 Marchers In Orange -- Guided By Voices
b2 Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie -- Eddie Cochran
I got tired of looking up info part way through my list, so not all of these have albums.
1. "Madness" - Muse - The 2nd Law
2. "Ex-Guru" - The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
3. "Carbon Monoxide" - Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
4. "Dance Like A Monkey" - New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
5. "What Do You Do With A B.A. In English" - Cast Recording - Avenue Q Soundtrack
6. "Losing My Religion" - R.E.M - <i.Out Of Time
7. "Every Rose Has It's Thorns" - Poison
8. "Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac
9. "Dr. Worm" - TMBG
10. "Cologne Cerrone Houdini" - Goldfrapp
B. "Short Shorts" - Royal Teens
1. Though we're not yet discussing it, this is one of my favorite tracks of the year.
5. Fanfreakingtastic
Im not a big fan of the band, but that Muse song grew on me
I'm not either. There's a couple of their other songs I dig too though, so I'm starting to wonder if I should check them out more. Seems like a lot of effort though.
I wouldn't have pegged you for a Fiery Furnaces guy.
Poison and REM and TMBG I get.
Almost every single one of their songs that I've heard has grown on me. But they all needed to.
1. Soul Position – “1 Love” – 8,000,000 Stories
2. Barenaked Ladies - “Break Your Heart” – Rock Spectacle (Live)
3. Belle & Sebastian – “We are the Sleepyheads” – The Life Pursuit
4. Adele – “Don’t You Remember” – 21
5. P.O.S. – “Math-Head vs McNugget” – Ipecac Neat
6. Bruce Springsteen – “The Rising” – The Rising
7. P.O.S. - "Music for Shoplifting" – Ipecac Neat
8. Original Rent Broadway Cast – "Seasons of Love" – Rent: Original Cast Recording
9. Louis Armstrong – “High Society” – Laughin’ Louie
10. Brother Ali – “Love On Display” – Champion
B - Barenaked Ladies - "It's All Been Done" - Stunt
This seems like a good "End of the World" playlist. Love, society, shoplifting, then it has "all been done before..."
9 - Every time I hear a Louis Armstrong song I wish I had the opportunity to see him perform. My dad did. Lucky guy.
It's Short Track Day on streamingsoundtracks.com (Long Track Day if you live in the southern hemisphere) so I'm listening to that today.
1. “hearts” – i break horses – hearts
2. “oh! sweet nuthin’” – the velvet underground – loaded
3. “ruthie’s knocking” – throwing muses – limbo
4. “ballad of a flickering flame” – southside desire – songs to love and die to
5. “powder blue” – ween – 12 golden country greats
6. “red cave” – yeasayer – all hour cymbals
7. “inflammatory writ” – joanna newsom – the milk-eyed mender
8. “useful chamber” – dirty projectors – bitte orca
9. “candyfloss” – wilco – summerteeth
10. “hunter” – portishead – third
5. “powder blue” – ween – 12 golden country greats
Zack likes this. I was almost so happy I cried when they played "Fluffy" from 12GCC the second time I saw them. What a great album.
i originally ended up with that CD from a friend i eventually lost touch with (sorry, sarah!). it must have been one of the originals because it had the muhammad ali speech at the end. i think i lost that disc in a car break-in and it took me FOREVER to find another original copy of that song. the internets came through eventually.
My copy of the CD came without the clip, it's a horrible and jarring cut where the sample was supposed to be. The download I had of the album before that had it so I was really confused. I bought this on vinyl recently, and while I haven't had a chance to put it on my turntable, I want to say that one DOES have the sample. I hope so.
So I have a handful of things on my phone now, so I was able to pull a (not too random) ten.
01. Lil Ugly Mane - "Lean Got Me F---ed Up" from Mista Thug Isolation
02. UGK ft. Jazze Pha - "Stop-N-Go" from Underground Kingz
03. A$AP Rocky - "Goldie" from Long.Live.A$AP
04. Gorgeous Children - "Frozen Affairs" from Gorgeous Children
05. Gucci Mane ft. Future - "F--- the World" from Trap God
06. UGK ft. T.I. - "Hit the Block" from Underground Kingz
07. Lil Ugly Mane - "Cup Fulla Beetlejuice" from Mista Thug Isolation
08. Third Sight - "Baghdad" from Chillin' with Dead bodies in a B-Boy Stance
09. SpaceGhostPurrp - "Wholelotta Ice" from B.M.W. (Black Man's Wealth) EP
10. UGK ft. Charlie Wilson - "How Long Can It Last" from Underground Kingz
BT. 100s - "Brick $ell Phone" from Ice Cold Perm
I love mixtapes.
Wilco "Shot in the Arm" Summerteeth
Hawksley Workman "Dirty and True" Delicious Wolves
The Unicorns "I Don't Wanna Die" Who Will Cut Out Hair When We're Gone?
Fountains Of Wayne "Hotel Majestic" Traffic and Weather
eels "A Daisy Through Concrete" Dasies of the Galaxy
Neil Young "The Old Laughing Lady" Neil Young
Big Star "You Get What You Deserve" #1 Record/Radio City
LFTRPLLR "Mick's Tape" Slips Backwards
Townes Van Zandt "Colorado Girl" Townes Van Zandt
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band "Roosevelt Room" Outer South
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1. Head Held High - Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See
2. Trench Town Rock - Bob Marley - The Best of
3. Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash - The Essential JC
4. 54-46 Was My Number - Toots & the Maytals - Funky Kingston/In the Dark
5. Sao Paolo After Dark - Lalo Schifrin - Mannix
6. Natural Bridge Blues - Waterboys - Room to Roam
7. Garden of Earthly Delights - XTC - Oranges & Lemons
8. The Sweetest Taboo - Sade - The Best of
9. Jackpot - The Pioneers - Love of the Common People:Anthology 1967-1979
10. Let's Fall in Love - Diana Krall - Live in Paris
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1. The Very Best “We OK”* Daytrotter Session, 10/5/2012
2. Lateduster* “Milovanova” Five Easy Pieces
3. Tristen and the Ringers “Heart and Hope to Die”* Daytrotter Session, 2/1/2011
4. Sharon Van Etten “Magic Chords” Tramp
5. Tricky “Black Steel”* Maxinquaye
6. Kanye West “Who Will Survive in America”
7. The Jimi Hendrix Experience “Bold as Love” Axis: Bold as Love
8. Dolfish “God Is the Loneliest of Lovers”* I'd Rather Disappear than Stay the Same
9. Conway Twitty “The Rose” Silver Anniversary Collection
T. The Tamlins “Baltimore” Baltimore 7”
E. Bonny “Prince” Billy “No More Workhorse Blues”* Sings Greatest Palace Music
*Notes:
1. Great start for the end of the world day.
2. Former Mpls band from Andrew Broder (Fog), Jeremy Ylvisaker, Martin Dosh
3. "Show me how your daddy and your mama made you!"
5. Do I prefer the cover or the original? Well, which one is playing this moment? I do need to praise Flava Flav's work on the original. Fantastic hype-man emphasis of points without stealing the scene. Actually focuses and claustrophobizes the whole thing.
8. Probably my least-favorite song on the album, a rewriting of Joan Osbourne's "One of Us".
E. Some Oldham junkies aren't fond of the overproduced re-recordings of this album, but some are just great, and give the song a different take. This one is one of my favorite reimaginings, with a David Berman's bass voice straining and rising as it intones the final repeated lines with Billy: "I am no more a workhorse. I am a racing horse. I am your favorite horse." Sounds like Eeyore (a workmule?) finally caring.
Sorry, couldn't help myself.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8
In reading "Our Band Could Be Your Life", the author talks a lot about the influence REM had on the music scene of the day. Maybe it's because of my age wherein REM has always existed and I can't compare things to pre-REM, but they just have never resonated with me at all.
pfft. Next you are going to tell me that you've never utilized Roxy Music's Avalon as make-out soundtrack music.
Who?
Sorry, they got old, didn't die ('cept for Keith Moon).
'Flying High Again' - Ozzy Osbourne The Essential Ozzy Osbourne
'At Least It Was Here' - The 88 Community OST
'David Watts' - The Jam The Very Best of The Jam
'It Must be Summer' - Fountains of Wayne Utopia Parkway
'Scattered' - Green Day Nimrod
'Street Fighting Man' - The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet
'Still Lost' - The Features Some Kind of Salvation
'Black' - Pearl Jam Ten
'Emerald' - Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
'Christmas' - The Who Tommy
Is that the muse behind your avatar?
1. Everybody's Got Something To Hide (Except Me And My Monkey) -- The Feelies
2. Think About Yourself -- Golden Smog
3. Girls Talk -- Elvis Costello
4. Blue Moon Of Kentucky (Alternate #2) -- Elvis Presley
5. Charity, Chastity, Prudence, And Hope -- Hüsker Dü
6. Black Mountain Rag -- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
7, Cumberland County -- Fred Eaglesmith
8. Ashes To Ashes -- David Bowie
9. Lincoln Town Car -- The Waco Brothers
10. Mining Town -- Whiskeytown
b1 Marchers In Orange -- Guided By Voices
b2 Jeanie, Jeanie, Jeanie -- Eddie Cochran
I got tired of looking up info part way through my list, so not all of these have albums.
1. "Madness" - Muse - The 2nd Law
2. "Ex-Guru" - The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
3. "Carbon Monoxide" - Regina Spektor - Soviet Kitsch
4. "Dance Like A Monkey" - New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us To Remember Even This
5. "What Do You Do With A B.A. In English" - Cast Recording - Avenue Q Soundtrack
6. "Losing My Religion" - R.E.M - <i.Out Of Time
7. "Every Rose Has It's Thorns" - Poison
8. "Don't Stop" - Fleetwood Mac
9. "Dr. Worm" - TMBG
10. "Cologne Cerrone Houdini" - Goldfrapp
B. "Short Shorts" - Royal Teens
1. Though we're not yet discussing it, this is one of my favorite tracks of the year.
5. Fanfreakingtastic
Im not a big fan of the band, but that Muse song grew on me
I'm not either. There's a couple of their other songs I dig too though, so I'm starting to wonder if I should check them out more. Seems like a lot of effort though.
I wouldn't have pegged you for a Fiery Furnaces guy.
Poison and REM and TMBG I get.
I thought there were only two us.
Almost every single one of their songs that I've heard has grown on me. But they all needed to.
1. Soul Position – “1 Love” – 8,000,000 Stories
2. Barenaked Ladies - “Break Your Heart” – Rock Spectacle (Live)
3. Belle & Sebastian – “We are the Sleepyheads” – The Life Pursuit
4. Adele – “Don’t You Remember” – 21
5. P.O.S. – “Math-Head vs McNugget” – Ipecac Neat
6. Bruce Springsteen – “The Rising” – The Rising
7. P.O.S. - "Music for Shoplifting" – Ipecac Neat
8. Original Rent Broadway Cast – "Seasons of Love" – Rent: Original Cast Recording
9. Louis Armstrong – “High Society” – Laughin’ Louie
10. Brother Ali – “Love On Display” – Champion
B - Barenaked Ladies - "It's All Been Done" - Stunt
This seems like a good "End of the World" playlist. Love, society, shoplifting, then it has "all been done before..."
9 - Every time I hear a Louis Armstrong song I wish I had the opportunity to see him perform. My dad did. Lucky guy.
It's Short Track Day on streamingsoundtracks.com (Long Track Day if you live in the southern hemisphere) so I'm listening to that today.
1. “hearts” – i break horses – hearts
2. “oh! sweet nuthin’” – the velvet underground – loaded
3. “ruthie’s knocking” – throwing muses – limbo
4. “ballad of a flickering flame” – southside desire – songs to love and die to
5. “powder blue” – ween – 12 golden country greats
6. “red cave” – yeasayer – all hour cymbals
7. “inflammatory writ” – joanna newsom – the milk-eyed mender
8. “useful chamber” – dirty projectors – bitte orca
9. “candyfloss” – wilco – summerteeth
10. “hunter” – portishead – third
Zack likes this. I was almost so happy I cried when they played "Fluffy" from 12GCC the second time I saw them. What a great album.
i originally ended up with that CD from a friend i eventually lost touch with (sorry, sarah!). it must have been one of the originals because it had the muhammad ali speech at the end. i think i lost that disc in a car break-in and it took me FOREVER to find another original copy of that song. the internets came through eventually.
My copy of the CD came without the clip, it's a horrible and jarring cut where the sample was supposed to be. The download I had of the album before that had it so I was really confused. I bought this on vinyl recently, and while I haven't had a chance to put it on my turntable, I want to say that one DOES have the sample. I hope so.
So I have a handful of things on my phone now, so I was able to pull a (not too random) ten.
01. Lil Ugly Mane - "Lean Got Me F---ed Up" from Mista Thug Isolation
02. UGK ft. Jazze Pha - "Stop-N-Go" from Underground Kingz
03. A$AP Rocky - "Goldie" from Long.Live.A$AP
04. Gorgeous Children - "Frozen Affairs" from Gorgeous Children
05. Gucci Mane ft. Future - "F--- the World" from Trap God
06. UGK ft. T.I. - "Hit the Block" from Underground Kingz
07. Lil Ugly Mane - "Cup Fulla Beetlejuice" from Mista Thug Isolation
08. Third Sight - "Baghdad" from Chillin' with Dead bodies in a B-Boy Stance
09. SpaceGhostPurrp - "Wholelotta Ice" from B.M.W. (Black Man's Wealth) EP
10. UGK ft. Charlie Wilson - "How Long Can It Last" from Underground Kingz
BT. 100s - "Brick $ell Phone" from Ice Cold Perm
I love mixtapes.
Wilco "Shot in the Arm" Summerteeth
Hawksley Workman "Dirty and True" Delicious Wolves
The Unicorns "I Don't Wanna Die" Who Will Cut Out Hair When We're Gone?
Fountains Of Wayne "Hotel Majestic" Traffic and Weather
eels "A Daisy Through Concrete" Dasies of the Galaxy
Neil Young "The Old Laughing Lady" Neil Young
Big Star "You Get What You Deserve" #1 Record/Radio City
LFTRPLLR "Mick's Tape" Slips Backwards
Townes Van Zandt "Colorado Girl" Townes Van Zandt
Conor Oberst & The Mystic Valley Band "Roosevelt Room" Outer South