Friday Music Day

FMD: WGOM Summer Mix in Progress

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I've made a playlist of everyone's nominations and I've started to listen to it.
Turns out we like a lot of widely different things.
Barring disaster or lethargy, I should have it sequenced and trimmed to 79:59 (or less) by next week.

Now, back to your regular random 10 business...

63 thoughts on “FMD: WGOM Summer Mix in Progress”

  1. Happy 20th Birthday Bee Thousand!! (well tomorrow 6/21)

    1. Hardcore UFO's -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    2. Buzzards and Dreadful Crows -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    3. Tractor Rape Chain -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    4. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    5. Hot Freaks -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    6. Smothered in Hugs -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    7. Yours to Keep -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    8. Echos Myron -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    9. Gold Star for Robot Boy -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    10. Awful Bliss -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices

    11. Mincer Ray -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    12, A Big Fan of the Pigpen -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    13. Queen of Cans and Jars -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    14. Her Psychology Today -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    15. Kicker of Elves -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    16. Ester's Day -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    17. Demons Are Real -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    18. I Am a Scientist -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    19. Peep-Hole -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices
    20. You're Not an Airplane -- Bee Thousand -- Guided By Voices

    Also saw Diarrhea Planet on Wednesday at 7th Street Entry with my 18 year old son. He was leery about going given their dumb name and all but the 4 guitarists won him over and his dad showed him how to get right in front of the stage. (see my pics on twitter). Pretty sure that's his arm in the picture on the 2nd page of this pretty good review.

    http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/2014/06/diarrhea_planet_at_7th_street_entry_61914.php

  2. 1. The White Stripes - "Rag and Bone" - Icky Thump
    2. Drive By Truckers - "Eyes Like Glue" - The Big To Do
    3. Rilo Kiley - "A Better Son/Daugther" - The Execution of All Things
    4. Nirvana - "Paper Cuts" - Bleach
    5. Modest Mouse - "Interstate 8" - Building Nothing Out of Something
    6. Regina Spektor - "Ghost of Corporate Future" - Soviet Kitsch*
    7. Wilco - "Rising Red Lung" - The Whole Love
    8. Del Amitri - "Here and Now" - Twisted*
    9. Kelly Clarkson - "Beautiful Disaster - Live" - Breakaway*
    10. Queens of the Stone Age - "Into the Hollow" - Era Vulgaris
    B. Bright Eyes - "Jejune Stars" - The People's Key

    *6 . For free (btw - did you see Diarrhea Planet?)
    *8. Aside from their big hit ("Roll to Me") I don't know of a Del Amitri song I don't like.
    *9. How did that get there?
    *B. Heh - the stars say they are very june.

  3. 01. Jag Panzer - "Take to the Sky", Mechanized Warfare
    02. Morgana Lefay - "Rumours of Rain", Past Present Future
    03. Iced Earth - "Greenface", The Glorious Burden
    04. Jag Panzer - "Fall of Dunsinane", Thane to the Throne
    05. Blind Guardian - "Turn the Page", A Twist in the Myth
    06. Angel Dust - "Follow Me", Bleed
    07. Bal-Sagoth - "The Epsilon Exordium", Atlantis Ascendant
    08. Jag Panzer - "The MIssion", Casting the Stone
    09. Grave Digger - "Valhalla", Rheingold
    10. Entombed - "Intermission", Inferno

    1. CT, last night at our neighborhood men's beer and bonfire night I got into this discussion with this guy about Metallica. At first I was just kind of listening but then he was going on about how their new albums were great but was worried that the outside stuff they were doing was leading them down a path where they were going to "jump the shark." That's where I had to say something. He was incredelous that I thought Metallica had jumped the shark with the Black album and that everything afterward was pure dreck. He was insisting that I had to see Metallica and when I told them that I had twice in the late 80s and early 90s he wasn't impressed. When I dropped the "well most people would agree with me that their early stuff was a lot better than their new stuff" argument he actually agreed with that statement but kept on going back to You gotta see them live. It was at that point that I politly excused myself to talk with another neighbor.

      1. Dang, I suppose they've been around long enough now that they've basically had two distinct careers. Maybe even three? I haven't thought about them in a decade outside of listening to something up through ..Justice. But yeah, if gifs were a thing in 1991, I imagine Lars's head would have been put on the Fonz's or, at the very least, a video of that with "Nothing Else Matters" playing in the background.

        Maybe by saying "you gotta see em live" he meant: "You gotta see em live because they play all of their old stuff."

        1. You gotta see em live because they play all of their old stuff.
          Well I saw them twice (or three times?) in the 1995-97 period. Load and (maybe) Reload. It was true then.
          I stopped paying attention immediately afterwards.

          1. Yeah, I saw them January 2000 and, if I remember correctly, it was somethinge like 70-80% Black Album and earlier.

            1. I should say that my stopping paying attention was also me drifting away from some of my teenaged tastes and not entirely because of the descent.
              Load had some good things, but they were over-Bob-Rock-ed. Reload had fewer, IIRC. My copy was stolen from my dormroom and I haven't really longed for a replacement. (Unlike the only other disc stolen then: Blow It out Your A$$ It's Veruca Salt. Reload in its case was sitting close to the propped-open door. I had the VS disc in the Reload case , so they probably didn't even want it. *Sigh*)

      2. ... I thought Metallica had jumped the shark with the Black album and that everything afterward was pure dreck.

        Does this mean you thought the Black album was okay? I have to admit, that was my first real exposure to them and I really dug it. Enjoyed almost nothing of theirs after and I had to come around to their earlier stuff, but Black was my introduction to 'Heavy' Metal.

        1. That's about how I feel about it. It's ok with some decent songs and at least one terrible song. I actually got introduced to metal through Re-Load but eventually grew to hate it when I realized there was good metal out there. (kind of like starting on Bud Light...)

          1. Would a stunt like playing with the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra be jumping the shark, or is that a whole 'nother level?

            'Spoiler' SelectShow

            1. I haven't listened to that in a long, long time, but I remember thinking the symphonic versions of the good songs (Master of Puppets, For Whom the Bell Tolls, etc.) were good. The orchestra kind of expanded the sonic palette of the thrash metal style that can sound a bit monochrome. But the symphonic versions of the dreck songs were still dreck.

              1. Agreed, I think (haven't listened to any of it in a long time, as well). I don't want to say it was jumping the shark because orchestras get used all the time in metal. I do remember that what struck me the most when that came out was just how awful Jaymz sounded by that time. Dude can't sing for sh*t, but kept trying to.

        2. It was okay, but it was a clearly the crest of their music and a few steps along the trail to the troughs.

  4. 1 Journey - Faithfully
    2 David Bowie - Rebel, Rebel
    3 Prince - Purple Rain
    4 Radiohead - How do you?
    5 The Cult - Sweet Soul Sister
    6 The Rolling Stones - Midnight Rambler
    7 T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get it on)
    8 U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
    9 The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
    10 Great White - Save Your Love

    Steve Jobs didn't feel like listening to anything from the last ten years, I guess.

  5. Oh I may have one, possibly two, Rock the Garden tickets for Sunday as the son's friends backed out. Will, I saw that you have two VIP tix for sale on Sunday too. Are you still going? If interested I'd get Will's tickets first as the VIP is a good deal (that's what I have). But let me know if interested in a non-VIP Sunday RTG ticket.

  7. "Lets Call It Off" - Peter Bjorn and John
    "I Second That Emotion" - Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
    "Aint Messin Round" - Gary Clark Jr
    "Go With the Flow" - Queens of the Stone Age
    "The Letter" - The Box Tops

    "Novocaine For the Soul" - The Eels
    "Better Man" - Pearl Jam
    "10 AM Automatic" - The Black Keys
    "Running on Faith" - Eric Clapton
    "Skateaway" - Dire Straits

  8. 1. Everything But the Girl “My Head Is My Only House Unless It Rains” Worldwide (Bonus Disc)
    2. Tim Hecker “The Piano Drop” Ravedeath, 1972
    3. The Bottle Rockets “Welfare Music (Acoustic Demo)” Bottle Rockets/The Brooklyn Side Reissue Bonus Tracks
        a. Canyon Wren “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
    4. Koяn “Faget”* Koяn
        b. Blue-winged Warbler “Alternate Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
    5. Pan Sonic “Lautturi” Kesto (disc 1)

    6. Ha Ha Tonka “Walking on the Devil's Backbone” Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
    7. Aphex Twin “Funny Little Man” Come to Daddy
    8. Eric Copeland “Tarzan and th Dizzy Devils” Limbo
        c. Cedar Waxwing “Song and Calls” (Ohio Division of Wildlife)
    9. Christian Falk feat. Robyn “Remember” Quel Bordel
    T. Nine Inch Nails “March of the F#¢&heads” Closer to God

    B. New Kingdom “Shining Armor” Paradise Don't Come Cheap

    *Notes:
    4. I think this is probably Koяn's best song. As it was written and recorded early enough in their career, there's much less self-awareness, and an naïveté that would have been impossible to recreate after they had even a limited amount of success (and ever the more so after TRL dominance).

      1. At that homeschool conference I attended a few weeks back, one of the speakers (who had a wonderful dry humor) talked about how he considered Homer's two epics to be two of the five things everyone should read ("preferably in the original Greek" he (probably) joked). He said that they were such singular works because "Naïve", according to my notes. And while certainly humanity is much more self-aware now and writers envision their stuff to fit in with everything else in some way, the idea struck me as something that does happen on a more atomic level with artists. At least some artists, anyways.

  10. * Cause and Effect - Nuel - Trance Mutation
    * Marked - EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
    * Winning Style - Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll
    * In the Evening - Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
    * Floor Stairwell - Demdike Stare - Elemental
    * So Much for the Afterglow - Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
    * Crystal Skull - Mastodon - Blood Mountain
    * Treat Me Like Your Mother - The Dead Weather - Horehound
    * Of Greetings and Goodbyes - AFI - The Art of Drowning
    * Walk - Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

    1. Was trying to finalize my trip to Albuquerque for the weekend to see EMA live, and went to check out the location of the show only to find the show wasn't listed at the venue. Hmmm.

      Turns out the concert is next Friday. Glad I hadn't got a hotel or anything yet.


  11. A little easy listening for your morning coffee--courtesy of John Zorn.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlQAmcW6ZYo

      1. His music is all over the place. Seriously, not sure if I have anyone else in my collection that covers as much ground stylistically. He's also been outlandishly prolific. I certainly don't love everything, but when it's good--it's great. Naked City, The Big Gundown, Spillane, and The Circle Maker are all terrific records. They couldn't be more different, either. Just about anything from his FilmWorks or Masada series are also worth a listen.

  12. I guess it's too late to add it to the playlist, but my official song of the summer is Strunk by Die Antwoord.

    vimeo.com/98208638

    I know that Die Antwoord are, um... well, they're, uh... hmm. They're interesting. But Strunk may be the only song of theirs that can be legitimately enjoyed without irony. It sounds like a really excellent Raveonettes b-side and I've basically had it on repeat for the past week.

      1. It does, but you need to use the right namespace (the httpv part, just like youtube). Edit: Annnnd it uses http by default, so have to do an unsafe reload (see url bar) unless it can be fixed to use https. Edit2: Fixed, but you can't embed it anyway:

        httpv://vimeo.com/98208638

      2. uhm ... probably add a NSFW tag to that one, but yeah "interesting" is a good way to describe that.

        1. How about "Far From Any Road" by The Handsome Family, otherwise known as the True Detective theme. It fits real well with the muggy heat down here, definitely had a summer feel for me.

        2. I've been working on this for almost a month (Four weeks ago, so this is day 22).
          You can take a day or two.

          Here were my instructions:

          Give me three songs, ranked. I'll use everyone's #1s and I'll select among the #2s and #3s will be based on how well it works and need for variety and multiple occurrences and how many songs we get together.
          I'll sequence and someone can probably make it a Spotify playlist or youtube playlist or whatevs.
          Heck, spoiler them so there's no discouragement for going later, hoping someone else will pick something so you can get in more of your faves.

  13. 1. Sierra Leone – Frank Ocean
    2. Thunderstruck – AC/DC
    3. Mississippi Saturday Night – Old Crow Medicine Show
    4. Origami – Capital Cities
    5. Partners In Crime – The Strokes

    6. El Manana – Gorillaz
    7. Lake Michigan – Rogue Wave
    8. Cardiac Arrest – Bad Suns
    9. Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High – Arctic Monkeys
    10. Tightrope – Black Taxi

    B. The Lemon Song – Led Zeppelin

  14. 1. "Napoleon" Ani Difranco Dilate
    2. "Mariel's Brazen Overture" Margot and the Nuclear So and So's Animal!
    3. "We'll Meet Again" Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
    4. "Even Dogs Dream" The Quavers Fell Asleep on a Train
    5. "No Money" The Tiny Close Enough
    6. "Many Moons" Janelle Monae Metropolis: Suite I (The Chase)
    7. "Your Ghost" Kristin Hersh Hips and Makers
    8. "Ghost of Corporate Future" Regina Spektor Soviet Kitsch
    9. "Old Numbers" Caitlin Rose The Stand-In
    10. "Don't Apply Compression Gently" Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas

      1. I've had Soviet Kitsch for a while now, but I just can't quite decide what to think of her. She's interesting enough that I did decided to keep her on my playlist when I revamped it a few weeks ago.

        2. I think I've said this before, but I go through phases with her. I haven't listened in a while, so I enjoyed it when the song came on during my run.

        3. I haven't listened in years, but her song "Edit" is great because it's exactly right about her music and everything good about it and everything bad.
          It works as self-parody, both of her but of the song itself. Like that camera that takes pictures of itself.

  15. NPR has a list of the songs of summer, as taken from Billboard charts for 1962 through 2014. Somehow I have a feeling the WGOM's summer mix will be pretty different from this one.

    1. Heh. I actually had "Am I Wrong" on mine...and many of the rest of what I see there are tunes I've enjoyed.

      I am not a snowflake.

    2. Toss out Neil Sedaka and the Doors and the '62-'69 Mix would be pretty groovy. (I also have all of those tunes.)

  17. 01. Swans - "Screen Shot" from To Be Kind
    02. Black Lips - "Do the Vibrate" from Do the Vibrate
    03. Bleeding Rainbow - "Out of Line" from Interrupt
    04. Big Freedia - "Y'Tootsay" from Just Be Free
    05. Wreck and Reference - "Corpse Museum" from Want
    06. Nux Vomica - "Reeling" from Nux Vomica
    07. Darkstar - "Spectre" from Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles
    08. Ai Aso - "Kamitsure no Ookina Mitzutamari" from Lone
    09. YG ft. Tee Flii - "Do It To Ya" from My Krazy Life
    10. Temples - "Fragment's Light" from Sun Structures

    BT. Boris - "Quicksilver" from Noise

  18. Also should be noted, Nick Drake would have turned 66 yesterday.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jxjv0HkwM

    1. Oh man, that is tempting. But turns out I have a Texas Cup match that weekend and my parents are probably going to come down for it

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