I've stopped worrying about wasting my office's bandwidth while I'm on their VPN. Bandcamp, Youtube, whatever.
I don't like leaving work in the basement sitting on the computer only to go the the computer upstairs to add different music to my iPod. And I need to keep searching for new things to listen to, even if they're old things. Like last week, I listened to a few records from the jazz saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders; all via Youtube.
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FMD: Response to Zack
To belatedly answer Zack's query from last week: I've been streaming less new music.
I'd often go to the album reviews on Pitchfork, and listen to the bandcamp selections, or get a song or two off YouTube.
Now, my speakers connected to my computer are the cruddy ones built into the laptop (I guess I could use headphones).
But more than that, I'm VPNing to my employer's network, meaning that streaming music (and, if youtube, videos I'm not even watching) is sucking the strained bandwidth we're all also using for our calls, video chats, meetings, etc.
I've got seven tabs now open in my browser that I'd like to listen to but may not ever. And I haven't even looked at today's new Pitchfork reviews.
FMD: WFH Week 1 (3-20-20)
Last year, Annika Norlin and Jens Lekman released Correspondence, an "epistolary album" where each song is a montly "letter" back to the other, over the course of 2018. I'm a huge fan of Ms. Norlin's work. She records in English as "Hello Saferide" and in Swedish as "Säkert!" (though there's an album by Säkert! in English... translations of some of her Swedish songs). As for Lekman... meh. So it's an alternatingly great/not album. Norlin's second-best song on it is "Hibernation" from April, fitting for the current moment of self-quarantine and social distancing. Except for the parts where she takes a train and talks to some youth [lyrics].
BTW, the best song is "'Silent Night'", maybe the best thing Norlin's written (at least in English) [lyrics].
Anyways, drop your lists of Random tens, or maybe point out some fitting songs for waiting out the rider of the white horse.
Best of 2019: Lana Del Rey “California”
https://youtu.be/inD9x_iCcUY
I find LDR's live performances hard to watch and her recent videos only OK. I think it's that her voice sells so much irony that her face doesn't convey.
But her record is fantastic, so here's a fan video (despite the "official" in the video title). Song selection driven in part by wanting to keep it clean.
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Loading... Marit Bergman – No Party
One of the few songs on my personal "Halloween Mix" that's actually topical.
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Loading... David Gray – One with the Birds
The original is one of my favorite Bonnie "Prince" Billy songs. Start 49 seconds in to avoid a few f-bombs in his banter.
Sounds like he bowdlerized these lyrics:
"Looks like Like so many seagulls / Like so many hawks
Like so many thrushes / And so many cocks
Well a swallow will tell you ..."
Replacing "cocks" with "storks". Which is a bummer, because that's highlight of Oldham's songwriting right there.
And if your stage banter is in cursive, why bother cleaning up the lyrics?
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Loading... Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Whipped
Solo, Acoustic. Live on KEXP (Seattle), 2012.
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Loading... Yui – Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWH2TizRWk
This is the opening theme from the first season of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.
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Loading... Fontella Bass – Rescue Me
Live, 1988 or 1989, on the Jools-hosted program "Night Music". This episode, #116, also had Carlos Santana, Lyle Lovett, and others.
I really know Ms. Bass more from her late-career work with The Cinematic Orchestra than her earlier career, although I was definitely familiar with this song.
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Loading... Gang Gang Dance – House Jam
Should have been a bigger hit.
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