Insomnia is a terrible thing, but if you're going to suffer, you might as well turn your bleary-eyed, twitchy lemons into musical lemonade. That's why, last night, somewhere between an optimistic 2:00am and a cranky, defeated 4:30am, I made my girlfriend another mix. The reason is simple. Rebecca is leaving her job, and this, my friends, is a VERY good thing. For Rebecca hates her job. Loathes it. And now, she gets to walk away. Tossing her "I live for caffeine" coffee mug into the trash and tearing down the "Get Fuzzy" cartoons off her beige [...]
EVERY SHOEMAKER The Badgers Ardent : 1968 I GUESS THINGS HAPPEN THAT WAY Terry Manning Ardent : 1970 I WALK THE LINE The Hot Dogs Ardent: 1973 LOVELY DAY (STROKE IT NOEL) Alex Chilton/Big Star Ardent : c. 1974 DON'T WORRY, BABY Alex Chilton Ardent : c. 1974 All available on: Thank You Friends : The Ardent Records Story Ace : 2008 [Buy It] [...]
(from left: Michael Crow, Channing Lewis, and Alex Livingstone from Grand Champeen) Six Degrees ... as in Separation, Kevin Bacon , etc. ... was another idea that came to me during last weekend's brainstorm. OK, storm may be pushing it. But it was at least a fusillade and rain was definitely involved. Anyway, as a former college radio DJ and one of the premier mixtape artists of our time, there is a perverse pleasure in being musical captain of the S.S. Geek-Out. It's the High Fidelity [...]
Okay. It seems the "controversy" of Will's Chris Bell post has died down. So until I can find the time to do a proper post with records and such, I offer you this supplementary listening material from the excellent and newly released, Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story . Download: "Miss Eleana" mp3 by Sid Selvidge, 1969. available on Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story "Lovely Day" mp3 (early demo version of "Stoke It Noel") by Alex Chilton, [...]
by Will Rigby I am repeatedly intrigued by the short time frame within which things happened that seem so legendary and epic and life-changing. Like how quickly the Beatles went from yeah yeah yeah to "Revolution," Or how all of the following reminiscences happened in 1978. [In order to keep this to anything approaching a concise length I have to presume some knowledge on the reader's part about the music and people (myself included) involved.] The 45 shown here may well have been the first Big [...]
STOMP DOWN SOUL (SON OF A SON OF A SLAVE) Larry Darnell Instant : 1968 Available on: The Instant & Minit Story Charly : 2005 [Buy It] The kick-ass "Stomp Down Soul," by Larry Darnell, is one of the very, very few songs, sung by an African American, which references "the peculiar institution" directly (rap's a different story, which I'm not going into today.) Lately, I've been hitting the history books, trying to figure out why.... Visiting a Georgia plantation in 1839, the British actress Fanny Kemble [...]
ANTI LOVE SONG Betty Davis Betty Davis Light In The Attic : 1973 [Buy It] DON'T RENEGE ON OUR LOVE Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights Hannibal : 1982 [Buy It] THINGS Loudon Wainwright III Here Come the Choppers! Sovereign Artists : 2005 [Buy It] BARON OF LOVE, PT. 2 Alex Chilton [...]
Part Past Part Fiction - The Chills Life's A Gas - T. Rex Free Again - Alex Chilton Steppin' To The AM - 3rd Bass Cherry Blossom Girl - Air (Simian Mobile Disco mix) Scorpio - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five [...]
(Deel 266 hiero ) La herencia de los Munster #9 label: Munster jaar: 1990 kant a1: Alex Chilton - New Girl in School kant a2: The Hellcats - Going Donw South kant b1: Raunch Hands - Man Needs a Woman kant b2: Tav Falco - You're 16 www.munster-records.com La herencia de los [...]
Hey man, whered ya get that lotion? Ive been hurting since Ive bought the gimmick About something called love Yeah, something called love. Well, thats like hypnotizing chickens. Well, Im just a modern guy Of course, Ive had it in the ear before. I have a lust for life cause of a lust for life. - Lust of Life, Iggy Pop. . " It was the 70's " 01. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life [...]
Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Nobody Beats The Biz - Biz Markie Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymi stic - Isaac Hayes Seven Nation Army - The Flaming Lips Can't Find Love - Giant Sand Dance To The Drummer's Beat - Herman Kelly [...]
Diamond Jim Genre: Bedroom Music From: San Francisco, California, United States Diamond Jim is one of a group of artists spearheading the "bedroom music"genre. His fellow bedroom conspirators include Trevor Childs and Herman Jolly who will be featured on the Devil's blog in the next few days. This is the [...]
Chez Interprétations Diverses , on aime bien les petits jeunes alors on offre des CNE comme ça, pour la beauté du geste. Introducing Alexandre Pedro, éditorialiste fougueux du webzine Foutraque , fan de pop anglaise et de belles autrichiennes. Il signe ici son premier post. The Procession - Don't hesitate (MP3) The Procession - Major minor (MP3) Pour 0,49 euros par mois, je reçois MTV2 dans mon salon. Si j'en avais le courage, je [...]
Alex Chilton, 1985. © Ted Barron In 1978, Alex Chilton entered Phillips recording service in Memphis Tennessee, with Jim Dickinson, Sid Selvidge, and few other friends to record his first post-Big Star LP, Like Flies On Sherbert. The results of these sessions were mixed over the following year and released on the small Peabody label in a pressing of 500 copies. The record is made up of mostly covers, including these two singles below. It's [...]
Fat's Domino is sick and tired of being sick and tired. It's blue Monday here at the Flu. Sorry if I've been a little lax around here with the posting, but what started as a mission is starting to feel like a burden. Don't get me wrong, I love sharing this stuff, and Google Analytics tells me people from Siberia to South Africa are digging the flu. And not to sound like a Jewish mother or something, my dear readers, but would it hurt you to use the comments? Send me a love letter. Tell me you [...]
Resumes and snapshots, Photoshop and caffeine: welcome to my life. I'm holed up in an alternately muggy and freezing basement with little to do other than to search for jobs (to try and come up with creative ways to point out how creative I am). Anyway, I'm taking a 10 minute break to drop a few more songs with little fanfare. Hopefully someone'll contact me soon with the job of my dreams and I will be able to update semi-frequently again. Until then, enjoy the new music. Cheers. Dr. Dog [...]
MBUBE Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba RCA : 1960 Available on: Africa Novus : 1991 [Buy It] MBUBE Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds Gallotone : 1939 Available on: Mbube Roots: Zulu Choral Music from South Africa, 1930's-1960's Rounder : 1990 [Buy It] MBUBE [ALTERNATE TAKE] Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds Gallotone : 1939 Available on: Secret Museum of Mankind : Ethnic Music Classics 1925-1948 vol. 4 [...]
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