Peter Tosh's Legalize It. I owe my owning of it to some anti-prohibitionist views held much more strongly in my youth (and The Nice Price discount), but leave aside the first track and you've got eight tracks that are some fantastic reggae, and I've been listening to this a lot more over the past few years than I have anything from Tosh's more famous former bandmate. I think Tosh has more character depth in his voice (tad more "this guy's lived something and really believes these crazy ideas" than "this guy is a good singer"). While his singing is clear enough, but with enough Jamaican patois and nonstandard grammar to make unpacking his lyrics a challenging but not impossible puzzle. (Earlier this week I mentioned to E-6 how I enjoyed parsing Boomhauer's lines on "King of the Hill", this is similar.)
The tracks behind his vox are probably the highlight for me, kindof sounds like the pinnacle of the early 70's reggae sound (is that "Roots Reggae"?). After this point, Bob's records showed some London polish and subtle disco influences leak in. Tosh, too. And there was a rise in groups with a later sound like Black Uhuru, or the American-influenced songs on Darker Than Blue.
(I'm not a reggae historian, this is just the feel I get out of listening to these things now and piecing together a timeline.)
But the tracks on Legalize It really have none of that overt influence, and I'd be happy with just the instrumentals alone. There's a "Legacy Edition" reissue that has a whole disk with "Tosh's Original Jamaican Mix" or something that hits me as even better (thicker drums? grittier bass?). I've basically blind-tested myself, when I have my iPod on shuffle and a track from the album makes me say "Dang!", I look at which version it is, and it's invariably one of the older unreleased mixes.
Anyways, if you're looking for branching out on some reggae past Bob Marley, you've now got my recommendation.
Now leave your random ten.
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1. Uncle Tupelo - "Graveyard Shift" - 89/93: An Anthology
2. Superchunk - "Digging For Something" - Live Current, Vol. 7
3. Death Cab for Cutie - "Long Division" - Narrow Stairs
4. Thom Yorke - "Cymbal Rush" - The Eraser
5. Gorillaz - "White Light" - Demon Days
6. Louis Armstrong & His Orchestra - "That's My Home" - Laughin' Louie
7. Billy Bragg & Wilco - "Feed of Man" - Mermaid Avenue 2
8. No Bird Sing - "Outcasted" - Theft of Commons
9. Led Zeppelin - "Whole Lotta Love"
T. Son Volt - "When the Wheels Don't Move" - American Central Dust
B. LCD Soundsystem - "Someone Great" - Sound of Silver
'Rosalita (Come Out Tonight)' - Bruce Springsteen The Wild, The Innocent, The E Street Shuffle
'Black Diamond' - The Replacements Let It Be
'Cruel to Be Kind' [original version] - Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool (bonus track)
'Oh! Ellin' - Gob Foot and Mouth Disease
'Y Control' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever to Tell
'Born Fighter' - Nick Lowe Labour of Lust
'Brief Encounters' - Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
'Graceland' - Paul Simon Graceland
'Shattered' - Rolling Stones Some Girls
'Take a Walk' - Passion Pit
Bonus: one of my favorite newer acts is Black Joe Lewis. They made a stop at The Current studios and performed a few songs. Here is 'Come to My Party'
1. Liar -- Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bullocks
2. On the Wall -- The Jesus and Mary Chain -- Darkness
3. Easily Fooled -- Pavement -- Wowee Zowee
4. The Thing I Like Best About Him is His Girlfriend -- Wedding Present -- El Rey
5. 4th Time Around -- Bob Dylan -- Blonde on Blonde
6. Horse to Water -- R.E.M. -- Accelerate
7. A New England -- Billy Bragg -- Back to Basics**
8. Silver -- Nirvana -- Incesticide **
9. Standing in the Rain -- Husker Du -- Warehouse
10. Jenny Take a Ride -- The Hypstrz -- Live at the Longhorn
B1. Dissident -- Pearl Jam -- Vs.
B2. Orizaba 210 Blues -- Jack Kerouac -- Jack Kerouac Reads On The Road
Note:
7. Back in the mid-80's this was a minor hit in Boston because Bragg sings I'm not looking for a New England... even though it has nothing to do with the region we know as New England.
8. I am sorry to admit that I just realized (literally today as I did the list) that the title of this album is not "Insecticide" but in fact "Incesticide." Nice play on words, had me fooled for over 20 years.
8. Huh. The artwork on the cover didn't tip you? Or the lyrics to "Sliver"? Also song is titled "Sliver", not "Silver".
Beat me to this.
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1. Busy Bodies - Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
2. Catapult - REM - Murmur
3. She's Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina - Kinks - Arthur
4. Cinema Paradiso - Charlie Haden/Pay Metheny - Beyond the Missouri Sky
5. Nevada, California - Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall
6. I Was Doing All Right - Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
7. Getting Mighty Crowded - Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
8. Some of Shelly's Blues - Michael Nesmith - Pretty Much Your Standard Ranch Stash
9. Fisherman's Blues - Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
10. Moonlight in Vermont - Ella Fitzgerald - At the Opera House
B. The Nearness of You - Nancy Wilson & George Shearing - The Swingin's Mutual!
There are some great tracks on Beyond the Missouri Sky
1. Einstürzende Neubauten “Stella Maris (Remix by Soulwax)”* Ende Neu Remixes
2. Big Boi ft. BlackOwned, C Bone, Killer Mike, and Rock D “Kryptonite (I'm on It)” Big Boi Presents... Got Purp? Vol. II
3. DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid “Heterotopian Trace Prologue” Necropolis: The Dialogic Project
4. Primal Scream “Living Dub” Echo Dek
5. The Bloodhound Gang “The Bad Touch (Rollergirl Mix)” The Bad Touch (single)
6. So So Radio “Moenjodaro” Dustcovers
7. Ryuichi Sakamoto “Untitled 01: 3. Prayer” Discord*
8. The Dynospectrum “Decompression Champer” The Dynospectrum
9. So So Radio “Our Feet Can't Touch the Ground” Dustcovers
T. F--- Buttons “Sweet Love for Planet Earth (Andrew Weatherall Remix)”* Colours Move
E. DJ QBert “Inner Space Dental Commander” Wave Twisters
*Notes:
1. Almost named one of the girls "Stella Maris R", but once she was born that was all wrong.
7. The album Discord consists of one piece, "Untitled 01" in four parts. The piece is not "Discord", that is solely the album title. That feels like writing a novel-length story, and publishing it as a book with a different title, a title for the collection of one story.
T. Hey! This almost sounds as good as anything on Tarot Sport
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* Lake Water - Husky Burnette - Facedown in the Dirt
* Weep Themselves to Sleep - Jack White - Blunderbuss
* Down By the River - Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
* Personal Jesus - Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget (The Best of Marilyn Manson)
* Love Interruption - Jack White - Blunderbuss
* I Was a Lover - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
* Set it Off - Audioslave - (self-titled)
* Them Eyes - The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
* Des Abends - Vladislav Delay Quartet - (self-titled)
* Triad - Tool - Lateralus
(and The Nice Price discount)
when i read that, this neon light immediately flashed in my head:
i'd forgotten all about those.
I almost put that in the post. The CD case still has that sticker.
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01. Dio - "Holy Diver", Holy Diver
02. Corporation187 - ""2nd Pain", Perfection in Pain
03. Iron Maiden - "The Clairvoyant", Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
04. Judas Priest - "Living After Midnight", British Steel
05. Black Sabbath - "Sabbra Cadabra", Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
06. Bruce Dickinson - "Gates of Urizen", Chemical Wedding
07. Opeth - "Karma", My Arms, Your Hearse
08. Gojira - "Born in Winter", L'Enfant Sauvage
09. King Diamond - "The Jonah", Fatal Portrait
10. Nevermore - "No More Will", Dreaming Neon Black
Did anyone see this the other night? It's... something
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXXn3-UpusI
Pretty damned impressive for an 80-year old woman.
A really nice version from their final show in Chicago, July 4, 1991.
Love it when PW ad-libs the line:
Never seen the Sox go 15-0
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3b4cFqlWSI
This is a solid performance of a great song and a really great clip. Should have saved it for an emeritus dj week. 10 out of 10 from me - thanks for sharing.
Not random, but a new playlist from my iTunes catalog: Early '70's Softies/Oldies/Goodies. Decidedly not stuff my parents exposed me to, but tunes that have caught my ear over the years that sort of feel like they go together. You're all welcome to pass along a critique, criticism, or any additions that could be made.*
1. Canned Heat Going Up The Country
2. Manfred Mann Mighty Quinn
3. The Band The Weight
4. Tommy James Draggin' The Line
5. Vanity Fare Hitchin’ A Ride
6. Al Stewart Year Of The Cat
7. Scott McKenzie If You're Going To San Francisco
8. Harry Nilsson Everybody’s Talkin’
9. Edison Lighthouse Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes
10. Lee Michaels Do You Know What I Mean?
B. Pure Prairie League Amie
*especially that last one...I'm sure I've missed about a hundred that flow with this list
I haven't been encountering much new music of late. My main source of new stuff has been the podcast Welcome to Night Vale. It's sort of a pseudo radio program from the fictitious desert town of Night Vale, and it's not focused on music except for the weather segment. (Yes, you read that right.) Thus far, my favorite has been "Closer" by The Tiny. (I'm linking to it because I'm just not cool enough to embed videos.)
For Pepper:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbDa2UnAO4
all I do is cut/paste the code and add a 'v' - as in 'video' - following the 'http_:/... so it looks like 'httpv:/...
Okay, that's just way too easy. Thanks!
Don't worry, there are still subtle ways to mess it up. If you don't need to link to a specific time, I found using the share link (http://youtu.be/....) to be the surest way of ensuring it works.
Phew, what a relief! (And thanks for that tip.)
I listened to Yeezus last night. It is weird, but oddly compelling at points.
I don't know how much replay value it'll have, though.
I've enjoyed it more on additional listens, but it's not an album I reach for all the time since it's so challenging. It's really good though. Probably my second favorite Kanye work. I'm one of those weird 808s guys though.
Have you listened to the new Danny Brown yet? It's really good.
I really enjoyed 808s as well...never purchased My Beautiful Dark and haven't heard much off of Yeezus. The Kanye autofellatio/cult of personality really turned me off.
I can't really rank Kanye's albums.
They need to be albums because they're cohesive, but I'm drawn to the songs as singles, I'm not listening to albums straight thru.
So while "Love Lockdown" and "Street Lights" and "Heartless" from 808s, but not the rest.
And the rest of the albums like that, too. Probably listen to more than half of Twisted Fantasy.
I still think my favorite part of Yeezus is "Blood on the Leaves".
When we tried our first Miley.
Listening to Ringo's greatest hits today, prior to the music of post season baseball.