Been increasing my Will Oldham consumption recently.
Magoo, he has lots of songs about wives and marriage.
"Rich Wife Full of Happiness" "Werner's Last Blues to Blokbuster", others.
But rather than looking for more examples, I should just post this.
1. Lydia Loveless “Do Right” Indestructible Machine
2. Plastikman “Pakard” Artifakts BC
a. Purple Martin “Male 'Jeer' Song” (Cornell Master Set)
3. Tranquility Bass “Let the Freak Flag Fly” Let the Freak Flag Fly
b. Downy Woodpecker (Eastern subspecies) “Whinny calls” (Cornell Master Set)
4. Aaron Dilloway “After the Showers (Re-3)” After the Showers*
5. Zola Jesus “Go (Blank Sea)” Taiga
6. Tranquility Bass “The Bird (Harvey Keitel vs. the Creature Feature)”* Beep!!!
7. Lana Del Rey “Pretty When You Cry” Ultraviolence
c. Loggerhead Shrike “Song, 'Kleedle' Song, and 'Ku-leek' Song” (Cornell Master Set)
d. Alder Flycatcher “1-note Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
e. Black-throated Green Warbler “Song”* (Cornell Essential Set)
f. Sora “Soft 'Tug' and Coot-like Feeding Calls of Adult with Chick” (Cornell Master Set)
8. Dolfish “These Shoes Were Made For Walking (Live)”* Dolfish Live
g. Bobolink “Partial Song and 'Buzz' Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
h. Common Gallinule “'Yelp' Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
i. Pine Warbler “Type A Song” (The Warbler Guide)
9. Bonny 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang “With Cornstalks Among Them” The Wonder Show of the World
T. Kevind Drumm & Jason Lescalleet “Dawn”* The Abyss
E. Cinema Staff “Great Escape”* Great Escape
*Notes:
4. On Modern Jester, "After the Showers" is 4.4 minutes long and "Tremors" is 2.5 minutes. If that's not enough for you, pick up this cassette which expands the prior to five tracks totalling about 70 minutes and the latter to 12 minutes across two tracks. This 18-minute "AtS" is the longest song on the tape.
6. "If you'd a-gone up / Like you came down / You could've come down / Like you went up."
e. Often written as "zee-zee-zoo-zoo-zeet".
8. Nancy Sinatra cover.
T. A little pastoral field recording before the painful sheets of noise from the rest of Abyss hit you.
E. Maybe better known as "Attack on Titan" Season 2 ending theme. (It shows up as just one season on NetFlix, so Episodes 14-25).
* Dvrk Wvrld - Speedy Ortiz - Foil Deer
* Silent Treatment - The Joy Formidable - Wolf's Law
* Hitch - Speedy Ortiz - Major Arcana
* The Schism - Tool - Lateralus
* The Greatest - Alabama Shakes - WGOM 2015 Summer Mix
* Mr. Smith - Odonis Odonis - Hard Boiled Soft Boiled
* How it Was - Andy Stott - Faith in Strangers
* Powertrip - Priests - Bodies and Control and Money and Power
* 3 - Gabriel Saloman - Adhere**
* Pres: Third Movement - Kaija Saariaho - Private Gardens
** Half of Yellow Swans, one the better noise groups out there. (the other half was Pete Swanson, who also puts out good stuff)
I've forgotten to get the WGOM 2015 summer mix on my iPod.
One of my favorite concert memories was seeing Yellow Swans. At the time, the local shows were being booked in the old train depot downtown which had a fantastic brewery/restaurant. They had the shows on one end of the building, which was essentially a box with floor to ceiling windows on all three sides. Bands played on the floor as there was not really a stage. It was loud. Anyway, Yellow Swans were opening for Xiu Xiu who were touring after Fabulous Muscles came out and the college radio station had started again. Seeing as this was an all-ages show, there were a bunch of younger teenagers at the show, all sitting cross-legged on the ground waiting for the show to start.
Yellow Swans started and it was loud and awesome. All the teenagers got up, and there was a line of them trying to push their way out of the room. It was a hilarious sight. The remainder of us all huddled around the table Yellow Swans had their gear on and were WAY into it. It was a really fun show.
That's a great memory.
I remember the first time I heard Yellow Swans. I was working alone late in the lab and it came on my Pandora station. I stopped and searched out the album right there.
(I think I put At All Ends on my desert island list)
The only Oldham song I know is "I See A Darkness". I love that song, and I always think I should look more into him, but he's so prolific I have no idea where to start.
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Sings Greatest Palace Music packs some of his best early songs into one disc, but they're all recorded in a different, much more polished, Nashville-country style than they originally were. I love it, but many fans from before he was BPB were alienated. I couldn't be alienated as I started with this album and just the originals of the songs, which come from the Days In the Wake and Viva Last Blues albums, Hope EP, and Lost Blues and Other Songs compilation.
Beware is probably the most immediately appealing of his post-2005 albums, but I find The Letting Go and Lie Down in the Light to have deeper charms that keep me coming back to them much more often.
Likewise, I See A Darkness is highly lauded and very good, with one song you recognize and similarly great "Nomadic Revery (All Around)". Yet, I prefer the next album Ease Down the Road.
Other good albums are Master and Everyone and Superwolf (with Matt Sweeney).
After those meandering thoughts, I'll make a firm rec for you:
1. Start with Greatest Palace Music and/or I See A Darkness.
2. Depending upon what you like, follow them with the others I mention with them above, or go for Beware.
3. Follow the threads from there.
4. Until you are completely hooked, avoid There Is No-One What Will Take Care of You, Arise, Therefore, Joya, Wonder Show of the World, Wolfroy Goes to Town, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Singer's Grave a Sea of Tongues.
5. He's also collaborated a lot and released live albums and stuff, and except for Superwolf, you can avoid them, too. Though Funtown Comedown has its appeals: live in studio bluegrassy versions; nice, but inessential.
01. Sadus - "Torture", Chronciles of Chaos
02. Entombed - "Skeleton of Steel", Inferno
03. Judas Priest - "Some Heads are Gonna Roll", Defenders of the Faith
04. Dream Evil - "Evilized", Evilized
05. King Diamond - "House of God", House of God
06. Crown - "Are You Morbid?", Possessed 13
07. Overkill - "New Machine", Horrorrscope
08. Epica - "The Quantum Enigma - The Kingdom of Heaven Part II", The Quantum Enigma
09. Sonata Arctica - "Sing in Silence", Silence
10. Wretched - "Cranial Infestation", Cannibal