Friday Music Day

Friday Haggard Day: 7/19/2013

45 Comments

Freealonzo and I are seeing Merle Haggard tonight at the State Theatre. I wonder how much he'll play of the albums I know. I only have nine, covering much of 1965-71 and 2010-present. So there's basically a 40-year gap in his career that I've heard just a handful of songs from. He's had 40 #1s and I know like eight of them.

Well, time to share the lists.

45 thoughts on “Friday Haggard Day: 7/19/2013”

  1. 'Buried' - Family of the Year Loma Vista
    'Goodbye Stranger' - Supertramp Breakfast in America
    'Fortunate Son' - Creedence Clearwater Revival Willy and the Poor Boys
    'Darts of Pleasure' - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
    'Radioactive' - Imagine Dragons Night Visions

    'The Interlocutor' - Squirrel Nut Zippers Hot
    'The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight' - R.E.M. Automatic For the People
    'Seen Your Video' - The Replacements Let It Be
    'Black' - Pearl Jam Ten
    'Train in Vain' - The Clash London Calling

  2. Keep On Steppin' - Junior Wells - Best Of
    Rock The Casbah - The Clash - Story Of
    Icicle - Tori Amos - Under The Pink
    Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman - S/T
    Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah - Black Lips - Let It Bloom

    Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal - Taj's Blues
    Time Has Told Me - Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
    Moondance -Van Morison - Moondance
    Let Down - Radiohead - Ok Computer
    One By One - Billy Bragg & Wilco - Mermaid Ave

    1. Wow, I haven't listened to Under the Pink in a million years. I might have to do that.

  3. .
    .
    1. Hootie & the Blowfish - "Let Her Cry" - Cracked Rear View
    2. The Hold Steady - "Most People Are DJs" - Almost Killed Me
    3. The Joy Formidable - "Silent Treatment" - Wolf's Law
    4. Jose Feliciano - "Light My Fire"
    5. The New Pornographers - "Failsafe" - Challengers
    6. Dr. John - "Make Your Own Bed Well" - Zu Zu Soiree
    7. Sondre Lerche - "Mr. Bassman" - The Green Album
    8. Modest Mouse - "What People Are Made Of" - The Moon & Antarctica
    9. The Smashing Pumpkins - "Tales of a Scorched Earth" - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    T. R.E.M. - "Near Wild Heaven" - Out of Time
    B. Cake - "The Winter" - Showroom of Compassion

    4. Don't quite love this version.
    7. Love this version.

      1. I've got all of Cracked Rear View in iTunes, but none on the device at the moment. I did buy Rucker's One Tequila a couple of weeks ago, though.

  4. AMR, I have found that songs from artists like Merle Haggard are in your DNA. I'm thinking there will be a bunch of songs we don't have on our I-pods but once he starts singing them we'll go "oh yeah, I know this one."

    1. Hey Joe --Patti Smith -- No Thanks! The '70's Punk Rebellion
    2. Sister Ray -- The Velvet Underground -- White Light White Heat
    3. Grounded -- Pavement -- Wowee Zowee
    4. See You -- Dinosaur Jr -- Farm
    5. We're Desperate -- X -- Los Angeles
    6. Spanish Bombs -- The Clash -- London Calling
    7. The Mariner's Revenge Song -- The Decemberists -- Picaresque
    8. Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not -- X -- Los Angeles
    9. Game Of Pricks -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
    10. My Life Is Right -- Big Star -- #1 Record

    B1. Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus) -- Drive-By Truckers -- Alabama Ass Whuppin'
    B2. Privately -- Guided By Voices -- Isolation Drills

    Notes
    1. I have 4 versions of this song on my i-pod, this is by far my favorite
    6. I had to drive to and from Duluth on Wednesday and I listened to London Calling on the way. Album still holds up.
    9. In the high upper pantheon of GBV songs. I have 3 different versions of this song and have listened to all versions a total of 116 times.

    1. Oh I'm not worried about not knowing Merle's songs from 1972-2009.
      I'm not going in totally blind, like I would have at a George Jones show before he passed, or like I did at the Waylon Jennings set at Lolla '96 (Des Moines). I know what I know and I know what I don't. If I had unlimited time to listen and unlimited cash to buy CDs and LPs, I'd be familiar with the meat of his career, but I don't.
      I guess he'll play one or two from the early years, at least one off the last two albums, and three or four of the #1s not off those albums.

  5. .
    .
    1. The Night Before - Beatles - Help!
    2. Stupid Marriage - The Specials - The Specials
    3. Dark Streets of London - The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God
    4. Bessie's Blues - John Coltrane Quartet - Crescent
    5. Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
    6. John & James - Toots & the Maytals - Time Tough: The Anthology
    7. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles - Genius & Soul: The 50th Anniversary Collection
    8. The Afternoon - Moody Blues - Days of Future Passed
    9. Fallout! - Henry Mancini - The Music from Peter Gunn
    10. If I Could Be With You (One Hour Tonight) - Ella Fitzgerald - The Best of the Concert Years: Trios & Quartets
    B. People Puttin' People Down - John Prine - Great Days: The John Prine Anthology

  6. 1 Unforgettable - Nat King Cole
    2 We Can Work It Out - Tesla
    3 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
    4 The Ballad of El Goodo - Big Star
    5 Secret Smile - Semisonic
    6 Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
    7 Veronica - Elvis Costello
    8 Strange Condition - Pete Yorn
    9 We've Been Had - Uncle Tupelo
    10 Tonight, Tonight - Smashing Pumpkins

    Road trip to Rhu Ru land today. I made a playlist for the drive. I threw a few Haggard songs on there since I can't go to the show.

      1. It doesn't look good. Only in for a couple days and have FIL bday party tomorrow.

        Do you really think I can avoid sweating on this trip?

  7. After this, it's back to Hag...

    1. Schneider TM “Pac Man/Shopping Cart” Škoda Mluvit*
    2. Fever Ray “Seven” Fever Ray
    3. The Cinematic Orchestra “Dawn” Man with a Movie Camera
    4. Arvo Pärt* “Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten” Fratres
    5. Eels “Spunky” Beautiful Freak

    6. Barry Adamson “What It Means” As Above So Below*
    7. AMR “Queen6”* Beauty Queen
    8. Jurassic 5 “Action Satisfaction” J5 EP
    9. Lydia Loveless “Bad Way” Indestructible Machine
    T. Del tha Funkee Homosapien* “What Is a Booty?” I Wish My Brother George Was Here

    B. Merle Haggard “Bad Actor” I Am What I Am

    *Notes:
    1. English lyrics from a German artist (whose first album was instrumental), with a Czech-language title. He also had a Japanese girlfriend at the time, not sure if they're still together. (Hanayo, with whom I was independently familiar.)

    3. Pärt is the composer. Performed by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, conducted by Tamás Benedeck. A Naxos release (so you can buy it for like $8: great deal).

    6. Highly recommended album from the former (current?) Bad Seed. Jazzy, Cinematic, some could be songs from a rock operetta, concept album. Check out this song.

    7. One of my dissections of Tori Amos's song "Beauty Queen". I should put one up on soundcloud sometime. Not sure if this is the one though.

    T. Dilemma of iTunes entry. Del's first album billed him as "tha Funkee" which is appropriate for the sound, and he switched to "the Funky" for later albums, matching his switch in sound from Ice Cube's cartoony P-Funk. But do I really want him to be two artists in my library. Haven't decided anything yet.

    1. Škoda is a car manufacturer in the Czech Republic, but I don't know if it means something else. Mluvit is the infinitive verb for "to speak/talk" (Mluvím česky - "I speak Czech")

      1. From the label's press release:

        As SCHNEIDER’s Czech grandmother would say, “Škoda mluvit”, her way of dismissing a painful but tired subject. “It’s not worth mentioning”, it means, “move on.” The phrase became a motto as SCHNEIDER struggled to deal with the stuff that was going on in his life – standard post-tour tedium, relationship problems, a bad motorcycle accident - and he used the music as “a kind of voodoo”, he laughs.

    2. Everyone should listen to ”Fratres”. Even if classical/instrumental isn't your thing. It's maybe the most haunting thing ever. It was used in There Will Be Blood to great effect.

      I heard a version with cello and bass drum that was amazing, but it's been recorded in a huge number of arrangements. Find one, it's worth it.

      1. The Naxos CD has Six arrangements. I definitely prefer the arrangements with percussion. Pärt knows how to use percussion so sparingly to so heavily an effect. Also, on the choir, organ, & percussion piece "De Profundis". (Though I know we have different opinions on his choral works, Ghosty.)

  8. I've pretty much been listening to Parts of Speech, Dessa's new album, this week. I like it a lot, but I do agree with the reviewer who said that it's more like a short story collection than a novel.

    For added fun, I watched Dessa Deconstructed, an interview with her by David Campbell of The Current. I know very little about song writing, so I found the discussion very interesting, as Dessa explains how a number of songs on the album came about. There are also live performances of a number of songs from the album.

  10. 1. "Everything Will Be Alright" - The Killers - Hot Fuss
    2. "Jolene" - Dolly Parton - Jolene
    3. "Space Oddity" - David Bowie - David Bowie
    4. "Reptilia" - The Strokes - Room On Fire
    5. "Live and Let Die" - Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
    6. "Rhythm Of The Rain" - The Cascades - Rhythm Of The Rain
    7. "Her Pretty Face" - The Apples In Stereo - Look Away + 4
    8. "Lord, I'm Discouraged" - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
    9. "You Can't Steal My Love" - Mando Diao - Hurricane Bar
    10. "Wrapped Up In You" - Garth Brooks - Scarecrow
    B: "The Impression That I Get" - Mighty Mighty Boss Tones - Let's Face It

  11. So Riotfest added Pixies and Joan Jett (among others) but lost Motorhead and Bad Brains. Probably an even trade, even though Kim Deal has left the Pixies.

    1. Probably an even trade, even though Kim Deal has left the Pixies.

      hmm... I dunno. I think that would take away quite a bit from the dynamic. Frank Black is still a sight to behold, though, so you're probably right.

  12. It's been a while.

    01. The Wrens - "Per Second Second" from The Meadowlands
    02. Glass Candy - "Beautiful Object" from After Dark 2
    03. SpaceGhostPurrp - "Cum & Git Yah Some" from Black Man's Wealth EP
    04. The Field Mice - "It Isn't Forever" from Skywriting + Singles
    05. Gucci Mane ft. Young Scooter & Yung fresh - "Shooters" from Trap God
    06. UGK - "Swishas & Dosha" from Underground Kingz
    07. Lil Ugly Mane - "Bitch I'm Lugubrious (Cold Shoulder Edit) from Mista Thug Isolation
    08. mclusky - "To Hell With Good Intentions" from mclusky do dallas
    09. Rich Boy ft. Mista Raja - "Gangsta" from Break the Pot
    10. A$AP Rocky - "Angels" from Long.Live.A$AP

    BT. Cannibal Ox - "Raspberry Fields" from The Cold Vein

    This Can O album is still probably my favorite thing El-P has ever been involved with (well, considering it's one of my five favorite albums ever...). This is the track that made me totally fall in love with it. In the middle of a verse Vast realizes he rhymed a word with itself, collects himself, and starts the whole verse over. All while staying on beat. If you've never heard it, I definitely recommend it.

  13. If anyone wants to join AMR and me at Merle Haggard tonight looks like there are rush seats available:

    Student/Educator Rush will be available for Merle Haggard.

    Policy: 2 tickets per valid ID; $20 per ticket, cash only; available only at the State Theatre Box Office beginning 2 hours prior to the performance; resale of rush tickets is strictly prohibited and all tickets are subject to availability.

    Merle Haggard, often considered the single most influential singer/songwriter in country music history will make a special appearance with his longtime band, The Strangers. This return Minneapolis engagement follows Haggard's sold-out concert with Kris Kristofferson in July 2012 at the State Theatre. Merle's son Noel Haggard will open.

      1. Nevermind - 8 pm, tix on sale at 6...I'm in if I don't have to be a student/educator.

        1. You could always pull the "Hey man, I'm a veteran and fought for your right to sell rush tickets" card.

          Seriously, I'm always confused by that student/educator thing. You may want to call the box office, they'll give you the straight dope. If you get tix, AMR and I will be at The Depot at around 7:00p.

          2. Wish I still had my SBG Col. of Law ID in my wallet: valid ID get's you access to 2 tickets for $20 apiece. Otherwise, they're $54. Enjoy the show gentlemen.

  14. Pandora today but I’m doing something different. Only songs that I actually own made the list today.
    .
    1. Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer
    2. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Eurythmics
    3. Unforgettable Johnny Hartman
    4. Night Flight Led Zeppelin
    5. Howlin’ For You The Black Keys

    6. Flower Moby *
    7. Rich Girl (feat. Eve) Gwen Stefani
    8. Always Something There To Remind Me Naked Eyes
    9. Slave Silverchair
    10. Talk Coldplay

    B. 1957 Milo Greene **

    *How’s this for a blast from the past?
    **Do not own (yet), but really enjoy their sound.

  15. So Sheenie and I are planning to go to Tampa to visit her sister. The perk: we're going the weekend there's a music festival so we have tix to see The Joy Formidable, Fitz and the Tantrums, Passion Pit, Matt & Kim, and a few others.

  16. .

    * Breakfast - EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
    * Leave Nobody But the Baby - Emmylou Harris, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch - O Brother, Where Art Thou? Soundtrack
    * Eventually We Find Our Way - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network Soundtrack
    * Unknown Legend - Neil Young - Harvest Moon
    * Dirty - Korn - Issues
    * Death Letter - Son House - E-6 Presents: Blue Monday
    * Innervision - System of a Down - Steal This Album!
    * Ghosts 7 - Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts
    * Driftin' Back - Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
    * Sphere - Emptyset - Demiurge

  17. 01. Bad Moon Rising - Credence Clearwater Revival
    02. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross and The Supremes
    03. Easy To Be Hard - Three Dog Night
    04. Whiskey In The Jar - Thin Lizzy
    05. Hard Day's Night - The Beatles
    06. Too Late To Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
    07. The Streets of Laredo - Chet Atkins
    08. Gutter Cat vs. The Jets - Alice Cooper
    09. Theme from Shaft - Isaac Hayes
    10. Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress - The Hollies
    11. Gimme Some Money - Spinal Tap

  18. 1. "When I Was Young" - Nada Surf - The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy
    2. "Roll With It" - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
    3. "Where I Began" - Caedmon's Call - 40 Acres
    4. "Hang Loose" - Alabama Shakes - Boys and Girls
    5. "Tryin' to Throw Your Arms Around the World" - U2 - Achtung Baby
    6. "Jeremy" - Pearl Jam - Ten
    7. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" - The Beatles - The Beatles
    8. "I Belong to You [+Mon Couer S'Ouvre A Ta Voix]" - Muse - The Resistance
    9. "Do It Yourself" - Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
    10. "Dance Anthem of the 80s" - Regina Spektor - Far

Comments are closed.