25 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: August 2, 2013”

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    1. Fiddler on the Roof Soundtrack (2004 Broadway Revival) - "Tradition"
    2. Ben Harper - "I'll Rise" - Welcome to the Cruel World
    3. Lissie - "In Sleep" - Live Current, Vol. 7
    4. Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals - "Two Hands of a Prayer" - Burn to Shine
    5. Billy Bragg & Wilco - "My Flying Saucer" - Mermaid Avenue, Vol. 2
    6. Tapes 'n Tapes - "The Iliad" - The Loon
    7. Damien Rice - "Volcano" - O
    8. Death Cab for Cutie - "Grapevine Fires" - Narrow Stairs
    9. LCD Soundsystem - "New York, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down" - Sound of Silver
    T. R.E.M. - "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight" - Automatic for the People
    B. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Scar Tissue" - Californication

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    1. "Pretending to Care" - Todd Rundgren, A Cappella
    2. "Sleepwalkers" - They Might Be Giants, No!
    3. "The Three Fates: Clotho/Lachesis/Atropos" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
    4. "Atmospheric Underslunky" - Ozric Tentacles, Sliding Gliding World
    5. "Stocholm" - Geoff Downes, The World Service
    6. "Nash Descends into Parcher's World" - James Horner, A Beautiful Mind soundtrack
    7. "What'cha Gonna Do?" - Pablo Cruise, A Place in the Sun
    8. "Winchester Diver" - Big Big Train, The Underfall Yard
    9. "Battle on the Asteroid" - Bear McCreary, Battlestar Galactica: Season One
    10. "Footprints" - Porcupine Tree, On the Sunday of Life

    pretty good live performance from Todd:
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4V4sXtUU9_o

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    1 My Back Pages - Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan
    2 Grand Hotel - The Explorers Club - Grand Hotel
    3 A Fine Romance - Dave Brubeck - Interchanges '54: Featuring Paul Desmond
    4 I Get a Kick Out of You - Frank Sinatra - Sinatra Reprise: The Very Good Years
    5 Like a Rolling Stone - Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
    6 Victory - Bond - Born
    7 Yes Baby - Kenny Burrell - Blue Lights, Vol. 1
    8 The Bridge - Sonny Rollins - Ken Burns Jazz
    9 That's Alright Mama - Elvis - The Sun Sessions
    10 The Sun - Burning Spear - Chant Down Babylon

  4. 1. Wu-Tang Clan “Wu-Tang Clan Ain't”* Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers (clean)
    2. Kanye West, Pusha T, & Ghostface Killah “New God Flow” Kanye West Presents: G.O.O.D. Music - Cruel Summer
    3. Tranquility Bass “Traveler” Heartbreaks & Hallelujahs
    4. Grinderman “No Pussy Blues (Electronic Periodic Radio Edit)”* No Pussy Blues (Remixes)
    5. The Knife “A Different Way” Hannah Med H (Soundtrack)

    6. Roger Knox & The Pine Valley Cosmonauts “Scobie's Dream”* Stranger in My Land
    7. Colin Stetson* “The End of Your Suffering” Daytrotter Session: Studio Paradiso 12/12/2012
    8. Whale “Pay For Me” We Care
    9. Merle Haggard “Leavin's Getting Harder” If Only I Could Fly
    T. Emiliana Torrini “Big Jumps” Me And Armini

    *Notes:
    1. The original version of this track has a 4-letter obscenity in its title and chorus. On this version, the obscenity is backmasked, so it sounds like "Wu-Tang Clan ain't nothing to oowf! with".

    4. Damn!

    6. With additional vox by Bonnie "Prince" Billy

    7. HPR is gonna be so bummed when Stetson finally comes here on tour and it's not an all-ages show. HPR, inspired by Stetson is getting better at using just his breath to get a variety of sounds out of the recorder, but he doesn't use much fingering. He's probably cut out more for a brass instrument than a woodwind.

  5. 'Otherside' Red Hot Chili Peppers Greatest Hits
    'Out Of My League' - Fitz and the Tantrums More Than Just a Dream#
    'Out of My Head' - Fastball All the Pain Money Can Buy ##
    'Paradise' - Coldplay Mylo Xyloto ###
    'Patience' - Guns N Roses GnR Lies

    'Lost in the Supermarket' - The Clash London Calling
    'Red Red Wine' - The Replacements Pleased to Meet Me
    'Somebody' - Bryan Adams Reckless
    'Milk Cow Blues' -The Kinks The Kink Kontroversy ####
    'Barton Hollow' - The Civil Wars #####

    # I was really excited for this album because I loved their last record, but boy was I disappointed. I think the last Grade A, 10 star, 3 thumbs up NEW album I bought was The Black Keys El Camino. That said, I sure do love this song.

    ## I swear this song only pops up on Friday mornings

    ### the video for this song is beautiful

    #### this song had been covered by hundreds of artist, The Kinks version is still my favorite.

    ##### I tried listening to other songs by this group, nothing really grabbed me.

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    01. Black Label Society - "Life Birth Blood Doom", 1919 Eternal
    02. Dimmu Borgir - "The Maelstrom Mephisto", Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia
    03. Judas Priest - "Grinder", British Steel
    04. Vader - "Dark Transmission", The Beast
    05. Symphony X - "Fallen", V: The New Mythology Suite
    06. Queensryche - "Suite Sister Mary", Operation: Mindcrime
    07. Skyclad - "Bombjour!", Oui Avante Garde a Chance
    08. Testament - "Agony", The Ritual
    09. Mastodon - "Trilobite", Remission
    10. Blind Guardian - "The Edge", A Twist in the Myth

  7. My wife declared that she really likes Mumford and Sons this week. I did a spot-on impersonation of the .gif in response, but she didn't get it.

    * I, Zombie - White Zombie - Astro-Creep 2000
    * When I Grow Up - Fever Ray - (self-titled)
    * Tourette's - Nirvana - From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah
    * Atlas - Monolake - Atlas
    * Brother - Alice in Chains - MTV Unplugged
    * Into the Black - Chromatics - Kill for Love
    * Playhouses - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
    * Die, All Right! - The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious
    * Tire Me - Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
    * I'm Still Trying to Cope With the Fact That Everyone I Know is Going to Die, But I Will Live Forever - Cloned Moor - A Friend is About to Take a Big Risk - Help Him Find Another Way

  8. Algonad had a neat query on his book d'face:
    Best and worst opening lyrics of a [] song?
    Any takers?

    First "best" to come to mind was "Horses" (Palace/Bonnie Prince Billy covers: unsure of original):
    "I'd be riding horses if the let me."

    1. "Your butt is mine; gonna tell you right"
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      "Please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of wealth and taste"

    2. Wow I don't know most of those.
      Except brianS and CanOMaize's second one, if I'm right. Is that the Stones' "Sympathy"?
      Here are some other potentials:

      "In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey."
      "You wired me awake and hit me with a hand of broken nails."
      "Is it depression or disease?"
      "It's great to see the people that you saw yesterday."

      Not much for worst openers, though. Maybe this:
      "Life is hard and so am I."

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