It's THR's birthday today. He had another surgery on his knee yesterday, this one of the "no-cutting" type where he was put under and then had his knee forced. There was a risk of a torn tendon or broken femur, but it sounds like he was pleased with the results.
I've forgotten his birthday so many times in the last 15 years, as it's three days after my anniversary. This year, I remembered and got the card in the mail on Tuesday. Last night, I found it still in the mailbox, shoved into the back by the two days' mail. Crap.
More on theme, Steve Reich's Drumming is pretty good, even if it lags when it shifts into a Music for 18 Musicians feel in part 3. Also, they could have fit "Clapping Music" onto the disc.
No time to mark down the 15 bird songs that filled in between these...
1. Samantha Crain “Cold Forgiver”* While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records
2. Baaba Maal “Souka Nayo (I Will Follow You)” Nomad Soul
3. Ha Ha Tonka “Surrounded” Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
4. Steve Reich* “Different Trains - 1. America, Before the War” Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
5. Black Dice “Cowboy Soundcheck” Load Blown
6. Wilco “More...” Star Wars
7. Hello Saferide “My Best Friend” Introducing...
8. Tylervision “Purdy Deyenol” Transmitting from Heaven, The Exist Dance Classic Collection, Vol. 1*
9. Andy Stott “New Ground” Passed Me By
T. The Bottle Rockets “Happy Anniversary” Zoysia
E. Outkast “Jazzy Bells” ATLiens (Clean)
*Notes:
1. Ha Ha Tonka cover.
4. Performed by Kronos Quartet
8. Never was or will be a Vol. 2.
I still haven't listened to Star Wars. My music listening to has taken a huge hit with my iPod dying.
I haven't listened either. Not sure if I like Wilco, but I'll give a free album a try, maybe...
I do need to give it another listen, but my hair wasn't blown back the first time through.
I've wondered lately if Tweedy is a little too prolific. With all the side projects going, it's seemed more quantity than quality to me these days.
I liked it. Not Sky Blue Sky, Ghost is Born, or YHF level but some real good songs.
No offense, Free, but I think you would like Wilco singing a phone book.
Well you have to admit that Nels Cline's guitar solo from Charles Mason to George and Linda Portis was pretty freaking amazing.
1. “The Waiting” Angel Olsen Half Way Home
2. “Mineshaft 2” Dessa A Badly Broken Code
3. “Desperado” Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
4. “Barton Hollow” The Civil Wars Barton Hollow
5. “Always Half Strange” Angel Olsen Half Way Home
6. “Out of the Woodwork” Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
7. “Alibi” Dessa A Badly Broken Code
8. “Paris Is Burning” St. Vincent Marry Me
9. “Poor Atlas” Dessa A Badly Broken Code
T. “Oh, Comely” Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
B. “Sylvia” The Antlers Hospice
No surprise that the new Joanna Newsom song is amazing. Drag City drops Divers on October 23.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky9Ro9pP2gc
Very cool video shot by Paul Thomas Anderson.
Where's that "Good Intentions" video, damnit!?
(gonna have to check this out later)
I've only seen stills from it. Looked like Instagram having a fever dream.
01. Goodbye - "We'll Be Free" from Goodbye
02. Thou & The Body - "Manifest Alchemy" from Released From Love / You, Whom I Have Always Hated
03. Mount Eerie - "(Something)" from Sauna
04. Father John Misty - "Chateau Lobby #4 (in C for Two Virgins)" from I Love You, Honeybear
05. Shana Cleveland & The Sandcastles - "Holy Rollers" from Oh Man, Cover the Ground
06. Speedy Ortiz - "Raising the Skate" from Foil Deer
07. Creepoid - "Eating Dirt" from Cemetary Highrise Slum
08. Natalie Prass - "Violently" from Natalie Prass
09. Young Thug ft. Birdman - "Knocked Off" from Barter 6
10. Girlpool - "I Like That You Can See It" from Before The World Was Big
BT1. HEALTH - "STONEFIST" from DEATH MAGIC
BT2. Chelsea Wolfe - "Iron Moon" from Abyss
Good release week last week, the HEALTH and Chelsea Wolfe albums are going to be very high on my year end lists.
I've liked some HEALTH that I've listened to, particularly "USA BOYS" off DISCO2. How does this compare?
Well, it's a bit more poppy than their previous work, but it's still pretty heavy, dark, and noisy. I like their other stuff, but really love this, for whatever it's worth.
I think the Chelsea Wolfe would probably appeal to you a lot.
01. “Thank You Baby” – Betty Wright – Eccentric Soul: The Ouskirts Of Deep City
02. “Snow” – The Staves – Dead & Born & Grown
03. “Belle” – Al Green – The Belle Album
04. “The Late Great Libido” – Menomena – I Am The Fun Blame Monster!
05. “Velvet” – Sun Ra – Greatest Hits: Easy Listening For Intergalactic Travel
06. “Dose Of Thunder” – The Replacements – Tim
07. “Tin Foil” – Urge Overkill – Exit The Dragon
08. “I Can’t Wait To Get Off Work” – Tom Waits – Small Change
09. “Cap Gun” – Lion Or Gazelle – Digital EP
10. “Things” – Frightened Rabbit – The Winter Of Mixed Drinks
I posted a link a few days ago, but I don't know if cheapie saw it: Kind Diamond LIVE at the Myth!
1. Ell Ess Two -- Pavement -- Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
2. Puttin' On The Dog -- Tom Waits -- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
3. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes -- Elvis Costello -- My Aim Is True
4. Summer Mood -- Best Coast -- Crazy for You
5. She Lives In An Airport -- Guided By Voices -- The Bears for Lunch
6. Soul Barn -- Guided By Voices -- Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
7. I Am Produced -- Guided By Voices -- Live At The Wheelchair Races
8. Shanty for the Arethusa -- The Decemberists -- Her Majesty The Decemberists
9. She Said She Said -- The Beatles -- Revolver
10. Cocaine Blues -- Johnny Cash -- At Folsom Prison
B1. Cows -- Suburbs -- Chemistry Set
B2. Garden Smarm -- Robert Pollard -- Lord of the Birdcage
Whoa, lots of GBV today, including the rare pure hat trick! B3 would have been another Guided By Voices song.
Really, how rare is it?
Please tell me the number of songs you have by GbV, and the total number of songs.
I have 712 GBV or related songs out of 7932 total songs.
No more Columbia House.
Now where will I get my new-ish
CDsDVDs?I mostly used BMG: their deals were decent (no obligations) as long as you refused delivery of the CDs they sent you.
Early on, THR at one point called them and got them to stop sending things automatically.
A problem with BMG is that they didn't carry any releases from Columbia, Warner Brothers, Sony, or related labels. (This included Cypress Hill and Pearl Jam.)
Also, their CDs didn't have barcodes (so they were obvious BMG releases) and often had crappy liners (Cover image and tracklist), though that seemed less common for albums released during the Bush and Clinton administrations.
The cruddy liners were more common on Cassette releases.
My first BMG shipment (tapes. split the intro offer with SNF, née R) was:
Phil Collins No Jacket Required (favorite: "Long Way to Go")
Paul Simon Graceland (favorite: "Homeless" ‐basically just Ladysmith Black Mambazo)
Lionel Ritchie Dancing on the Ceiling (I don't recall a favorite)
(Something else? I though there were four tapes.)
About a year later, there was a big shipment my folks organized, like 18 for the price of 5 or something.
As a teenager, I couldn't refuse the 15 CDs for $0.01, plus another 4 free after buying the first so I got on the Columbia wagon and then got myself to join with a different name, or something like that.
I know that's where I got Pearl Jam's first album. (I had bought Cypress Hill retail.)
Seems like our little Summer Mix was so popular that the President wanted to get in on the action.