Shuffle-up five songs from your preferred music containment system. Then describe them to us, so that we may learn.
- Elmore James - Look On Yonder Wall. All Elmore James songs sound the same. It's all "Sweet Home Chicago" with different words.
- Nod - Love Is On Fire. A low-key mumbly thing that turns into a bit of a noisy jam.
- Norah Jones - The Nearness Of You. Exactly what you'd expect from Norah Jones: a mellow soft-jazz ballad: piano and her soft whispery voice.
- Esbjorn Svensson Trio - Brewery Of Beggars. Modern Swedish jazz, with a bit of a rock feel (they count Radiohead as an influence): some interesting effected guitar feedback squealing here and there. It's not as dissonant or defiantly a-melodic as a lot of modern jazz can get. Listenable.
- Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Poisonous Angel. A quick-steppin, minor-key, country-flavored number. Pretty good for an unreleased track.
Now you try!
Thanks! I haven’t listened to that Poisonous Angel song enough yet for it to become, like many other Egyptians tunes, etched on my consciousness.
1. The shuffle begins with Viola Lee blues, a Dead tune with awesome instrumentals and ho-hum vocals. Thankfully most of the song is the former.
2. Vassar Clements has advice: if you don’t want to feel the hoof, “Don’t Stand Behind a Mule”. It is, like much of his Livin’ With the Blues record, corny but endearing, and not really blues. I can easily imagine hearing it on Prairie Home Companion. Clements is not much of a vocalist. Two for one: This track has two songs on it separated by about 30 seconds of silence. Not sure how that happened. The second song is a fast, jazzy instrumental that I don’t know the title of.
3. Dr. John sings “Such a Night”; backing him up is The Band. Straight up blues.
4. Malik Adouane covers the theme from “Shaft”. Straight up funk, with the added oddity of being translated into Arabic
5. The Modesto Kid covers “Prodigal Son”. One of my misguided experiments in multiple-take recording, I recorded a viola part and then overdubbed that with vocals and violin. Occasionally I get a very nice sound but the bulk of the song just sounds confused and out of sync and occasionally key.
“…the theme from “Shaft”. Straight up funk, with the added oddity of being translated into Arabic”
whaa…. ?
:)
“Prodigal Son”
love that song
whaa….?
dig it