Crank em up. Talk about the first random five!
- Pentangle - I Saw An Angel. Pretty groovy, for an English prog-folk band. Bit of a harder sound than the rest of the album. Nice guitar work by John Renbourn.
- Beastie Boys - What Comes Around. Pretty high on the snotty & bratty scale.
- PJ Harvey - Oh My Lover. Oh how I love that old PJ Harvey sound.
- Caribou - Sandy. A delicious blend of early Lilys shoegaze and early Floyd psychedelia.
- Idyll Swords - Strawberry Airwaves. Some middle east-flavored acoustic picking - Istanbul meets Appalachia. Good stuff.
Can you dig it?
Louis Prima – I’ve Got You Under My Skin
Second time this track has appeared in SYiP. Still fun.
Pink Floyd – Not Now John
Lots of Floyd fans hate The Final Cut. Lots of Floyd fans who do like The Final Cut hate this track. I’m neither of those; I love this album in all its navel-gazing inglory, and I feel like the “Fuck All That” song is a good break from it.
Green Day – American Idiot
Very good album opener. Crank up the volume…
George Harrison – My Sweet Lord
… and leave it cranked. I’ve heard this track a hundred thousand times and am happy to hear it a hundred thousand more. And what other song can get a room full of ordinary Americans chanting “Hare Krishna?”
Little Richard – The Girl Can’t Help It
A hopping screamer of a record, with a bonus association with not one, but two dynamite dolls: Jayne Mansfield, of course, but also this was the song accompanying Kitten Natividad’s scene in The Wild Life.
I LOVE that Floyd song, from an underrated album. Then again, I like Waters solo stuff, so there you go.
1. Chris DeBurgh- Don’t Pay the Ferryman
I’m not even sure why or how I have this. It’s kind of meh now, but I recall LOVING this song back in the day.
2. David Sylvian and Robert Fripp – 20th Century Dreaming
Love this song. Love Sylvian and everything he does and who does not love Robert Fripp?
3. Frank Zappa – Heavy Duty Judy
The audio I heard was different than the video. A long guitar solo by possibly the master of the long guitar solo. Behind all the humor and weirdness I sometimes forget that Frank was a world class guitar player.
4.Me First and the Gimme Gimmes – Take it on the Run
Punk super group doing a fantastic cover of the horrible REO Speedwagon song. They are always fun.
5. Pearl Jam – Glorified G
Takes me back, this song does. Not the best song on that album but those first two albums were huge for me.
April showers.
1. Sonic Youth – Silver Rocket
Floor-stomping guitar monster. Where has this been all my life? Great start.
2. The Vines – Ain’t No Room
Glorious Australian indie guitar + stoned vocal = success.
3. Radiohead – Reckoner
In which Radiohead “dance for your pleasure”. Thom in falsetto mode – guitar in one ear, piano in another. The centre-piece of 2007’s “In Rainbows”.
4. Echobelly – King of the Kerb
1995 song about a man who likes to visit prostitutes (“kerb-crawler”). Another Britpop band who I haven’t heard of in a long, long time.
5. Massive Attack – Protection
Mellow with a hint of space-guitar echo and a lovely vocal by Tracey Thorn (from Everything but the Girl).
Hurry up please Friday.
Silver Rocket is awesome.
Wined and Dined — Robyn Hitchcock’s cover (with adjustments to they lyric) from the 2007 Games for May concert. Love me trippy. With a minute or so of introduction to “Reaction in G” at the end.
The Shape I’m In — Dylan and The Band, live. Thinking a lot about Levon Helm this past week.
Patter from Storefront Hitchcock — Robyn introduces Captain Keegan and says they are going to play a song that’s “unable to cause you any pain whatsoever” — it is going to be “Alright Yeah”, and now I want to be listening to that, but instead my shuffle is going to play for me
“Hesitation Blues”, the Reaves Co. Ramblers version of same.
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“Sitting on Top of the World”, the Grateful Dead version of same.