18 thoughts on “Start Your iPods”

  2. cleek

    heh. that’s what i was thinking, too.

    the weakest spot (for me anyway) was that Beatles song – and even a weak Beatles song still beats 75% of everything else.

  5. russell

    A shuffle here and a shuffle there
    ipod is the place where they say
    hey babe, take a walk on the wild side

    1. Curtis Mayfield “I Loved And Lost”
    2. Bela Fleck “Misunderstood”
    3. Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos “Jaguey”
    4. Shakti “Happiness Is Being Together”
    5. Leonard Cohen “The Future”
    6. Donald Harrison Jr “Hu Ta Nay”
    7. Rebecca Shrimpton “Beatrice”
    8. Malang Mane “Cisse”
    9. Cachao “Controversia De Matales”
    10. Betty Carter “Just Like The Movies”

    bonus:

    11. Bjork “Show Me Forgiveness”

    If there ever was a cooler cat than Curtis Mayfield, I sure as hell never got the memo.

    Cool set cleek, and thanks for the links!!

  6. Rob Caldecott

    This is what it sounds like when doves cry.

    1. Oasis – Step Out.
    2. The Long Blondes – I Liked The Boys.
    3. My Bloody Valentine – I Only Said.
    4. Graham Coxon – Locked Doors.
    5. Public Enemy – Sophisticated Bitch.
    6. The Fall – Cruiser’s Creek.
    7. The Jam – Eton Rifles.
    8. The The – August & September.
    9. Blur – Trouble In The Message Centre.
    10. Spiritualized – Goodnight Goodnight.

    So Cleek, how can us mere mortals post proper links allowing us some youtube dazzle? :)

  11. cleek

    there might be a limit to how many links you can put in a comment before you get sent to the moderation queue. proceed with caution :)

    Bangers & Mash – cool! great sound for a youtube vid, too.

  13. russell

    Hey, links!

    Curtis. Stone cold old school, maybe gonna be corny for you young’uns. I grew up on this stuff, it’s like candy to me.

    Jaguey. Ribot puts the Cuban thing through the NY downtown shredder and it emerges undamaged but with bigger teeth.

    Shakti, not “Happiness Is Being Together” but “La Danse Du Bonheur”. No vid, just music. Stick with it past the crazy percussionist vocalizing that it begins with.

    Israel “Cachao” Lopez kicking it old school cuban style.

    Delicious.

    Cool set Rob, thanks for that!

  15. cleek

    Shakti… after a quick trip through iTunes… it hits me: this is a lot like “newgrass” fusion, but with sitars instead of banjos. Bela can probably play all these tunes.

  16. russell

    Yeah, that’s McLaughlin. Newgrass with sitars is not a bad way to think about it. It’s a fusion of jazz with Indian classical music.

    McLaughlin has reunited this same band for tours in the last couple of years. All the same guys, except the guy playing the big clay pot has been replaced by an Indian guy named V. Salvagenesh, playing kanjira, which is like a tambourine with only one jingle.

    My wife and I saw them a couple of years ago at Sanders Theater, at Harvard U in Cambridge. We had seats on the freaking stage, about 10 feet from the band. It was, really, un-freaking-believable. Like a timeless thing — an hour and a half passed by and it could either have been five minutes, or forever. Not to be too “mystical” about it, that’s just the way it felt.

    If you dig Shakti, I would also recommend some of the stuff Shawn Lane did with Jonas Helborg and V Salvaganesh. We have a recording by them called “Good People In Times of Evil” that is just freaking smoking.

    BTW in looking up the name of that recording, I found that Shawn Lane passed back in 2003. What a freaking shame, the man was such a beautiful player.

    Later –

  17. russell

    [i]Bangers & Mash[/i]

    Kicking! Rob, thanks for sharing this.

    Two drummers is a mighty mighty thing. It makes the overall density of the drum sound HUGE. More than that, though, it makes both drummers lock up with each other, so the actual time playing is like a machine.

    Just ask James Brown, or the Allmans.

    Cool man!

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