Special IDon'tKnowWhatTheFuckDayItIs Edition!
- Robyn Hitchcock - Groovin On An Inner Plane
- REM - It's The End Of The Blahblahblah
- Oscar Peterson - Mumbles
- Cream - Those Were The Days
- Unrest - So Sick
- Robyn Hitchcock + V3 - TLC
- Stones - Beast Of Burden (live)
- The Sunshine Fix - Sail Beyond The Sunset
- Fleetwood Mac - Sentimental Lady (which I always sing as "scented metal gentleman")
- St Vincent - Save Me From What I Want
Recommend: St Vincent.
Entertain us!
Back at work today. The only one who bothered as far as I can tell. Last day at Nokia on Friday and there isn’t much to do, so let’s randomise some choons.
1. Supergrass – Jesus Came From Outta Space.
2. The White Stripes – We’re Going To Be Friends.
3. Coldplay – Twisted Logic.
4. MGMT – Flash Delirium.
5. Pulp – Happy Endings.
6. Muse – Bliss.
7. Radiohead – Sail To The Moon.
8. Them Crooked Vultures – Mind Eraser, No Chaser.
9. Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor.
10. The Black Keys – I’m Not The One.
Got another £40 of iTunes vouchers from my parents for Christmas so am looking for new music to blow it on. Picked up MGMT, The Black Keys, The Drums and Vampire Weekend already.
1. A Tribe Called Quest – Butter
2. Susanna Hoffs – Something New
3. The Beatles – Get Back
4. Giulio Caccini & Paul Pritchar – Ave Maria
5. Cracker – Can I Take My Gun To Heaven?
6. REM – Sweetness Follows
7. The Quick – Pretty Please
8. Leonard Cohen – Like a Bird (Bird on the Wire)
9. The Hold Steady – Hot Soft Light
10. Deerhunter – Agoraphobia
Special TMK-heavy shuffle:
Let There Be More Darkness: Egyptians
“1”: The Modesto Kid (a series of attempts to play “The Red-Haired Boy”)
Closing Credits from “A Bloody Show”: John Wesley Harding
Picking Up Troubles: Los Shakers (Do you know Los Shakers? A Uruguayan Beatlemania band. Very boring in large doses but excellent seasoning for a shuffle.)
Behind That Locked Door: Mountain Station (TMK + John Hicks)
Oceanside: RH
Arms of Love: RH (My very favorite recording of, from Maxwells in 2004 with Deni. Me and John are trying to learn this one.)
All I have to do is dream: Grant-Lee Hitchcock
I’ll be going to heaven sometime: Flatt & Scruggs
Napoleon Jam: The Modesto Kid
Why There’s a Tear in My Eye: Jimmie Rodgers
I’m not sure what day it is either, and that is just the best.
1. Big Audio Dynamite – The Bottom Line
2. Dinosaur Jr. – Outta Hand
3. The Beatles – The Long and Winding Road
4. The Cure – The Perfect Girl
5. The Arcade Fire – We Used to Wait
6. Kate Bush – Experiment IV
7. Visage – The Damned Don’t Cry
8. The Police – Man in a Suitcase
9. The Smiths – The Headmaster Ritual
10. Sonic Youth – Mary-Christ
Happy New Year!
Does anybody really know what day it is?
Does anybody really care?
TMK shares marquee space with Bob Dylan and The Soft Boys in an afternoon shuffle:
It could be lethal, but it’s fun. Robyn Hitchcock opens the mix for us with a solo acoustic “Heliotrope”. Then he tells us he was born with something missing (perhaps it is electricity) as The Soft Boys play “Human Music”. (The twenty seconds of silence at the end of this track is almost an entity of its own.)
We get a nice snappy drumbeat and rocking melody in Dylan’s version of “Someday Baby” (from the recent and worthwhile Modern Times — nice commentary at that link). And the Shakers are back! Their (Tomorrow Will Be) “Too Late” is a really nice follow up to Dylan’s bluesy, swingy rock. As Maybelle’s old-time strum introduces “There’s Room in Heaven For Me”, you think about the loose distinctions between Country and Rock and Blues, a train of thought that continues into the next track as Lightnin’ Hopkins tells you you don’t know and, you don’t seem to realize: “I’m begging you.”
It all adds up to a good context for Jeremy and John to play some Gospel: Mountain Station’s version of “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”, with The Modesto Kid on fiddle and voice and John backing him up and holding the rhythm down. Jeremy and John chat for a little while until Ernie Tubb comes in singing “I’m Walking the Floor Over You”. (Funny! The title of “Tomorrow Will Be Too Late” made me think of Tubb.)
Hmm: What genre have we not got enough of yet? Aha: Jazz — Stuff Smith’s orchestra takes us out with “Sam, Sam the vegetable man.”