Friday Music Day

FMD 5-2-14: Lydia

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It's been more than a week now, but I'm still thinking of that show.  
She needs to get a guitar that stays tuned or something. There was so much momentum-draining dead time between some songs.
Maybe other venues have spoiled me, but the sound seemed really muddy.
She's a great performer with great songs, and that was a really good show. I don't mean to be so harsh, but it could have easily been so much better for me.

74 thoughts on “FMD 5-2-14: Lydia”

  1. I don't know about anyone else, but I like this list.

    1. "The Walrus"--Aureole Trio--Celtic Grace
    2. "Renegade"--Styx--Come Sail Away: The Styx Anthology
    3. "Whole Lotta Something Going On"--Terry & The Zydeco Bad Boys--Creole to the Core
    4. "Dawg's Breath"--Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder--Instrumentals
    5. "A Summer Song"--The Lettermen--EMI Complete Hits (Volume 2)
    6. "Rocket Man"--Elton John--Honky Chateau
    7. "Rowing From Ilsa to Uist"--Celtic Voyage--Celtic Voyage
    8. "Lookin' Out My Back Door"--Creedence Clearwater Revival--Cosmo's Factory
    9. "Boogie Shoes"--K. C. and the Sunshine Band--The Best of K. C. and the Sunshine Band
    10. "More Like Falling In Love--Jason Gray--Everything Sad Is Coming Untrue

  2. 'Kids' - MGMT Oracular Spectacular
    'All I Ask' - The Features Some Kind of Salvation
    'Stellar' - Incubus Make Yourself
    'Semi-Charmed Life' - Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind
    'Selling the Drama' - Live Throwing Copper

    'Little Black Submarines' - The Black Keys El Camino
    'Rhiannon' - Fleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac
    'Enjoy the Silence' - Depeche Mode Violator
    'Wave of Mutilation' - Pixies Doolittle
    'Dirty Work' - Steely Dan Cant Buy a Thrill

        1. A line-up of Third Eye Blind, Live, and Depoche Mode is hard for me to stomach but then top it off with that Steely Dan song? Also I've never admitted this but I think the Black Keys are overrated. I realize that's a hard minority opinion. In fact all my music opinions are probably in the minority and should probably just be ignored.

          1. In fact all my music opinions are probably in the minority and should probably just be ignored.

            Now hold on just a minute there, that's my thing.

            1. I thought it was my thing!
              Free, I've never gotten into the Black Keys either.

              2. Much of my music catalog has been built from suggestions directly pulled from your "minority" opinions. Keep 'em coming.

          3. I know exactly how hipsterish this sounds, but I prefer their earlier work over their more recent stuff. The new stuff sounds too polished.

              1. I don't always mind polish.

                I think the Meat Puppets sounded better when they worked on it (but it was driving them to hate themselves and their career, I understand why they gave that up after the 3 albums that broke them up and put Curt in jail).
                I was wary of Ha Ha Tonka's polished direction, but I think their songs grew into their desire for that sound, at almost the same time.
                I stopped liking the Knife as much when they stopped trying to make pop.
                Bonnie Prince Billy's "Sings Palace Music" has great shiny takes on his old raw sound. (His songs in the past 3 albums have been the problem.)

                But: Beck, Tricky, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Patty Griffin, my wife, and many others have sounded much better raw and un-perfected.

                1. Your wife??? (I know you have a wife; what I'm wondering about is her connection to music.)

                  1. She did a bit of a Christian singer-songwriter thing back when we had two or fewer kids.
                    She wanted to record and found a studio and producer and we had some money saved for something that we could put to it.
                    He polished her sound and made her sound radio and ruined things.
                    Then she was burnt out on the music thing and we were pregnant with #3 soon anyways.
                    (I can't remember the degree to which I've related these things here.)

                    1. Intermittently and usually without much context or timeline.
                      This was news to me.

      2. I admit, that is a terrible list.
        But, cant win every week *seligshrug.jpg*

      2. I have not listened in years. Loved that opening song, "Dam at Otter Creek" or something like that.

        EAR (then EAP) related to "Waitress" and we both did to "$#!+ Towne" (despite
        It was one of the few CDs we had duplicates of when we merged our collections. (Also: Weezer (Blue), Dookie, Lauryn Hill).

        I saw them in Somerset that summer with PJ Harvey and Veruca Salt.

  3. 1. Ingrid Michaelson - "Girls Chase Boys" - Lights Out
    2. Weezer - "My Best Friend" - Make Believe
    3. Wilco - "The late greats (live)" - A Ghost is Born
    4. Blitzen Trapper - "Stranger in a Strange Land" - American Goldwing
    5. Ha Ha Tonka - "Made Example Of" - Death of a Decade
    6. Jayhawks - "Queen of the World" - Smile**
    7. The Kinks - "Beautiful Delilah" - Kinks
    8. The Strokes - "80's Comedown Machine" - Comedown Machine**
    9. Drive-By Truckers - "Goode's Field Road" - Brighter Than Creation's Dark
    10. Jars of Clay - "Hymn" - Much Afraid

    **
    6. Has anybody here seen Gary Louris live recently? I have a chance to go in a couple of weeks.
    8. This album is growing on me.

    1. My best friend is a fun song. I think Make believe is an underrated [summer?] album. 1, 6 and 10 I have to check out, but this list is definitely in my wheelhouse.

      aside: The kinks show up a lot on citizen's lists, so I acquired their greatest hits album. I think I may be missing something.

      1. I would have missed out on most of Weezer's catalog if not for spotify. I just went with the conventional wisdom that there is nothing outside of the blue album and Pinkerton. I'm finding I like a lot of their other stuff too.

      2. Which Kinks greatest hits package did you get? Because they regenerated themselves multiple times (mod rock/golden age Britania/rock opera/stadium rock)

  4. 1. Happy When It Rains -- The Jesus & Mary Chain -- Darklands
    2. If You Think It's Easy -- Guided By Voices -- Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
    3. (The Moment Before) Everything's Spoiled Again -- The Wedding Present -- Tommy
    4. Acuff-Rose -- Uncle Tupelo -- Anodyne
    5. Anarchy in the UK -- Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bollacks
    6. Hey, Good Lookin' -- Ray Charles -- Modern Sounds In Country And Western Music
    7. Richard -- Billy Bragg -- Back To Basics
    8. Any Ole Way -- Otis Redding -- Live on the Sunset Strip
    9. Last Roundup -- The Feelies -- Good Earth
    10. Cold Gin -- Kiss -- Alive!

    B1 Either Way -- Wilco -- Sky Blue Sky
    B2. Paper Planes (Remix) -- M.I.A. -- Kala

      1. That one definitely gets to me too. I listened to the hell out of SBS when it came out, but I don't really anymore. I'm not sure I can. But, I'm doing the entire lap steel solo in my head right now.

    1. When I went to THS a couple of weeks ago there were some LP chants. An interesting experience.

      I can't name Little River Band songs to save my life, but I've listened to that GH album a lot. On vinyl. That Yellow Brick Road, and a Steve Martin Album were the records I listened to growing up. And Heart.

      Pretty funny to have the Keys pop up like that on shuffle.

      Also google's shuffle math could use some work.

  6. 01. Agent Steel - "Apocalypse (World Without Windows)", Order of the Illuminati
    02. Metalium - "At Armageddon", Incubus - Chapter Seven
    03. Darkthrone - "Raining Murder", Plaguewielder
    04. Vader - "Out of the Deep", The Beast
    05. Running Wild - "Powder and Iron", Black Hand Inn
    06. Candlemass - "Witches", Candlemass
    07. Megadeth - "Have Cool, Will Travel", Cryptic Writings
    08. Arch Enemy - "Dark Insanity", Black Earth
    09. Guns N' Roses - "My Michelle", Appetite for Destruction
    10. King Diamond - "So Sad", The Puppet Master

    1. Man, I made a Candlemass station on Pandora. Epic doom metal is something I've overlooked, lumping it in with drone/stoner doom metal. I need to fix that.

      1. There's an actual category of music called epic doom metal? That's fantastic.

        1. Oh, there's like, seven or eight variations of just doom metal. No one sub-categorizes like heavy metal.

          1. I've got some House Techno Acid Trance Jungle DrumNBass DrillNBass ClicksNCuts Breakbeat CriticalBeat Garage TwoStep Techstep BreakStep DubStep Dubtronica Electronica Intelligent Electronica Ambient Illbient records to annoy you with.

            Here's a start, but I've known and forgotten a few more subgenres. Something about Schaffel, maybe?

          2. PROGRESSIVE ROCK SUB-GENRES: Canterbury Scene Crossover Prog Eclectic Prog Experimental/Post Metal Heavy Prog Indo-Prog/Raga Rock Jazz Rock/Fusion Krautrock Neo-Prog Post Rock/Math Rock Prog Folk Progressive Electronic Progressive Metal Psychedelic/Space Rock RIO/Avant-Prog Rock Progressivo Italiano Symphonic Prog Tech/Extreme Prog Metal Zeuhl Various Genres/Artists Prog Related Proto-Prog

  7. 1. Don't Call Them Twinkies - The Baseball Project - Vol. 2: High and Inside
    2. Louie, Louie - Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston/In the Dark
    3. Guess Things Happen That Way - Johnny Cash - The Essential Johnny Cash
    4. So Young - Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Get Happy!!
    5. We Can Work It Out - The Beatles - Past Master, Vol. 2
    6. Lonesome Road - Julie London - Julie...at Home
    7. A Town Called Malice - The Jam - The Gift
    8. It's All in the Game - Van Morrison - Into the Music
    9. Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts - Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
    10. For You Blue - The Beatles - Let It Be
    B. Tengo Amore - Michael Nesmith - Loose Salute

  8. There's enough bird sounds this week for it to pay for me to leave them in.

    1. Grimes “Be a Body” Daytrotter Session, 5/23/2013
    2. Patty Griffin “Fragile” Silver Bell
          a. “Whimbrel Calls” Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds
          b. “Steller's Jay Calls” Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds
    3. Cypress Hill “Ultraviolet Dreams” Cypress Hill
          c. “Arctic Loon Yodel Calls” Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds
    4. Pan Sonic “Johto 1” A
    5. The Bottle Rockets “Suffering Servant” Zoysia

    6. Oval “Bakerman” Ringtones EP II
    7. Current 93 “Black Ships in the Sky” Black Ships Ate the Sky
    8. The Pharcyde “Devil Music” Labcabincalifornia
    9. Current 93 “The Autistic Imperium is Nihil Reich” Black Ships Ate the Sky
          d. “Brewer's Blackbird Song And Calls” Cornell Guide to Bird Sounds
    T. Burial “Street Halo” Street Halo EP
    E. Neneh Cherry & the Thing “Sudden Moment (Merzbow Remix)” The Cherry Thing Remixes

      1. Daughter of Don Cherry (the Jazz trumpet player, not the Hockey Announcer), Sister of one-hit-wonder Eagle-Eye Cherry.
        Scored a big hit in the late 80's with "Buffalo Stance" and used a bunch of that money to help Massive Attack record Blue Lines.
        Homebrew, which came next, was a big hit with 15-year-old AMR.
        Since then has been in and out of doing things that have been available.

        1. No relation to Nena, however.
          httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lur-SGl3uw8

  9. * Bathory Erzsebet - Sunn O))) - Black One
    * SuzieQ - Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer
    * The Warmth - Incubus - Make Yourself
    * Territorial Pissings - Nirvana - Live at Reading
    * Don't Cry No Tears - Neil Young - Zuma
    * Busted - The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
    * Walk On - Neil Young - On the Beach
    * Timber: Part IV - Michael Gordon - Timber
    * Some Dispute Over T-Shirt Sales - Butthole Surfers - Independent Worm Saloon**
    * Tattoo - Wye Oak - The Knot**

    ** Not a cover of "Jesus Built My Hotrod"

    ** New Wye Oak is ... different. I like it, but I'm not sure I need to have it.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMOcpGKTh84

    1. I saw this in the side bar and I was all like, "Whoa, Bathory!". But then it wasn't actually Bathory.

        1. I'd be completely shocked if it weren't the case. Also, this has led me to the wikipedia page for her.

    3. Not a cover of "Jesus Built My Hotrod"
      No it's not, but what is it? "Hotrod" was first released although I understand that the BHS played this in their live shows.
      Tricky did this with Massive Attack songs that he had rapped on: he recorded new songs with the same lyrics.
      I know I have several other examples but can't think of any.

      Pearl Jam took a Temple of the Dog song and Eddie Vedder sang and put new lyrics on it, so that's almost the same.

  10. 1 "Space Foam" - Planet X, Quantum
    2 "Transit" - Ira Stein, Transit
    3 "Slavonic Dances Op. 46: No. 7" - Antonín Dvořák, Slavonic Dances Op. 46 & 72, American Suite Op. 98B*
    4 "Closer to the Heart" - Rush, The Spirit of the Radio: Greatest Hits (1974-1987)
    5 "When It Rains It Snows" - They Might Be Giants, Miscellaneous T
    6 "How Much Is Enough?" - The Fixx, Ink
    7 "The Will of the Wisps" - Ozric Tentacles, Paper Monkeys
    8 "Devoted Friends" - Wang Chung, Points on the Curve
    9 "Zimzally Bim" - Roger Eno, Music of Neglected English Composers
    10 "Kobol's Last Gleaming" - Bear McCreary, Original Soundtrack - Battlestar Galactica: Season One

    *if you ever get the chance to see "Allegro Non Troppo" by Bruno Bozzetto, you should do so -- it's Italy's answer to "Fantasia"; Slavonic Dance #7 is at minute 22

  11. John Cale - "Graham Green" Paris 1919
    Sufjan Stevens - "Age of Adz" The Age of Adz
    Johnny Cash - "Would You Lay with Me" American III
    Coldplay - "42" LeftRightLeftRightLeft
    Son Volt - "Highways and Cigarettes" The Search

    50 Cent - "Back Down" Get Rich or Die Tryin'
    Santana - "Love of my Life" Supernatural
    Jean Knight - "Mr. Big Stuff" Pure Funk
    The White Stripes - "St. Andrew" Icky Thump
    The Damnwells - "No One Listens To The Band Anymore" No One Listens To The Band Anymore

  12. 01. Future ft. Drake - "Never Satisfied" from Honest
    02. Black Lips - "Waiting" from Underneath the Rainbow
    03. Thee Oh Sees - "Transparent World" from Drop
    04. +/- - "The Space Between Us" from Jumping the Tracks
    05. Tweens - "Rattle + Rollin'" from Tweens

    06. Temples - "The Golden Throne" from Sun Structures
    07. The Men - "Another Night" from Tomorrow's Hits
    08. EMA - "3Jane" from The Future's Void
    09. The Coathangers - "Derek's Song" from Suck My Shirt
    10. The Doppelgangaz - "Fall Thru" from Peace Kehd

    BT. Gucci Mane & Young Thug - "Bricks" from Young Thugga Mane La Flare

  13. Been a while since I've put together a list. My music listening in general has plummeted recently. Pandora today:

    1. "The Statue Got Me High" - TMBG - Apollo 18
    2. "Doorbell" - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan*
    3. "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" - Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness
    4. "In The Mood" - Glen Miller
    5. "Zombie" - The Cranberries - No Need To Argue
    6. "Too Much" - Elvis Presley
    7. "Home" - Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below
    8. "Sentimental Heart" - She & Him - Volume 1
    9. "Robots" - Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords
    10. "The Scientist" - Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head

    * Thinking about putting this one on my summer mix.

    1. "Zombie" and "BWBW" after I've already commented on Throwing Copper. You guys are just trolling* for music from my junior-senior HS years.
      No Need to Argue was in both our collections as well.

      *fishing meaning, not internet meaning

      1. J & I were up until 6 am on Sunday night watching Youtube videos of songs that we loved from the 90s.

  14. 1. As She’s Walking Away - The Zac Brown Band (feat. Alan Jackson)
    2. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys - Willie Nelson
    3. Dazed And Confused (Live 1973) - Led Zeppelin*
    4. Jackson - Johnny Cash & June Carter Cash
    5. My Ship - Johnny Hartman

    6. Believe - The Bravery
    7. I’ve Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra
    8. Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
    9. Something Good Can Work - Two Door Cinema Club
    10. Take Me Out - Franz Ferdinand

    B. Bad Blood - Bastille
    BB. The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade - The Joy Formidable

    *at about the 6:40 mark of this version, they break into a rendition of Scott McKenzie’s San Francisco, and then just go off jamming for like 10 minutes. If I could choose one band to go back and see live, at the height of their craft, it would have to be Zeppelin.
    httpv://youtu.be/ZQgYn23Xvck

    1. This.
      Although I'd be pretty jazzed about seeing Neil Young & Crazy Horse from back in the day too.

      1. Springsteen's '78 Darkness on the Edge of Town tour would be near the top of my list. I've got three different bootlegs from '78 and they are all incredible. Plus, Bruce hadn't bulked up yet, he looked kinda like a young Pacino.
        httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xab-th4ltU

  15. You do not mess with The Angels.

    Hey, he knows I wasn't cheatin'
    Now you're gonna get a beatin'

    What made you think he'd believe all your lies?
    (Aah-ooh, aah-ooh)
    You're a big man now but he'll cut you down to size
    (Aah-ooh, wait and see)

    My boyfriend's back, he's gonna save my reputation
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icXwhfIjOlw

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