Looking to brighten up your day? I think i've got a solution for you. His name is Langhorne Slim , and while many of you will know him, I invite you to take this opportunity to revisit an old friend. Though there is one relatively new Slim track I would like to showcase, first let me draw your attention back to his third album, Be Set Free , released a couple years ago. With song's including I Love You, [...]
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cat stevens - "was dog a doughnut?" (download) I'm sure when you think of early electro innovators, you don't think of Cat Stevens , do you? While he's one of my all-time favorite musicians, hearing a song like this coming from the man who wrote "Wild World" is quite a surprise. Recorded in 1976, this instrumental is considered by some to be one of the first "electro" songs. buy
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Given the approaching end of year, I thought I'd be spending November catching up on records I missed earlier in the year, for maximal list-making capabilities. Not so, for whatever reason. I'm just as tuned out as ever, apparently. Only picked up two new-to-me albums this month. Sort of an odd pairing for a blog post, but so be it. Oneohtrix Point Never: Replica I spent most of November listening to this album over and over, trying to love it more than I did. Only in the last week or so have I finally [...]
Despite calling myself a huge Cat Stevens fan—his songs have been a part of my life since I was a child—I own very few actual Cat Stevens full-length albums. Rather, I grew up with two greatest hits albums, and sometime in my twenties acquired a third greatest hits album that had a bunch more songs. Why don't I own any outright albums? It goes back to my first record store job, back when I was 19 years old and a sophomore in college. I was able to check out used albums from [...]
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While Jonathan Visger is known as a member of the group Mason Proper , the singer/songwriter also releases music under his solo project Absofacto . I believe the songs will instantly make your day better as each release consistently feature s Visger's ability to write and record pop music, and usually includes some insight as to the inspiration for each track. For Absofacto's latest release, "If You Want", Visger included a story about how his family used to watch the movie Harold and Maude and how [...]
October means we're happily knee-deep in baseball, surrounded by seasonal pumpkin ales, and, regrettably, wrist-deep in the slimy insides of jack-o-lanterns. Music has been my quiet oasis. I figure it's high time I stop futzing over my autumn mix and share it already. The fall mix is one of my favorites to make. In addition to being generally hyperaware of everything around me in life, especially subtexts and undercurrents, I notice an acute sharpening of my senses every time the seasons change. It's why I make you guys these seasonal mixes: as everything in the natural world [...]
Stephen Farris is a producer and visual artist based in Houston, Texas. He's my favorite unsigned producer at the moment, with three outstanding releases to his name that display a unique understanding of composition and form. I didn't know what to expect when he agreed to send a mix our way, but this work features a broad spectrum of influences - including a track he's made exclusively for the mix - and serves as the perfect introduction to his sound. [...]
I'm especially excited for this weeks edition of Throwback Thursdays as it features an artist that I've loved for years, but actually never had the opportunity to share with you on TBT. Elliot Smith was an American born songwriter who despite being well received while he was still with us, battled depression, alcoholism and drug addiction before a controversial death at the age 34. Although inspired by many great artists including Pink Floyd , Modest Mouse , [...]
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It's been a tough few weeks, for body and spirit. Our inner city school is badly overstocked this year, with classes too full to manage, and hallways that ripple with energy we can barely control; the stress among the faculty is sky-high, and we're hard pressed not to take it out on each other. Limping into such an environment every morning puts me at a severe disadvantage, but limp I must: I seem to have torn something in my knee, trying to compensate for a flared disk in my lower back, and have grow accustomed to [...]
Four months after releasing "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun", Deram was ready to put out another release from one of their biggest stars, Cat Stevens. Released in July of '67, "A Bad Night" starts quietly, just Cat and a guitar, but then the bass comes in, the drums stumble in and Cat's delivery is suddenly much more urgent. This song seems to be about a relationship that just went south. It gets the full out production treatment, including some tasteful flanging, until the end when it seemingly pauses for a second, and then blasts back with Arthur Greenslade's full [...]
Deram DM 118 was Cat Steven's follow up to his huge hit "Mathew and Son" and it was a step backwards, frankly. "I'm Gonna Get Me A Gun". Not sure what he was thinking with these lyrics in the UK in 1967. I love early Cat so he gets a bye for this atrocious record (sorta). Released in March of 67, it did spend 5 weeks in the charts. Has the typical Mike Hurst production that Deram used for all of Cat's early records. This is taken from the June 24th airing of the German show [...]
Deram knew that they had a hot song writer in Cat Stevens, so they brought in producer Mike Hurst to record The Double Feature do a pretty straightforward cover of "Baby Get Your Head Screwed On" for DM 115. I have always loved a chugging cello, and this song delivers! The Brum duo turn it into a bit more of a soul experience than Cat. Nice use of a fuzzed up guitar. "Your paper daddy is in the house." Released March of 67
happy 64th bgay to the CAT STEVENS . the English he-singer was born this way July 21 1947. wotyougot
Here we are... I am thirty years old. A few days after the fact but still celebrating. I can't really believe it, where did the last 15 years go? I remember learning how to drive, my dad taking me to the CSULB empty parking lot. When I hit a parking space line he would say, "You just hit a car!" I would laugh. I think these life milestones can really fuck with one's head. I NEVER thought I would still be finishing school, unmarried, no kids and in career I never took any college classes for, [...]
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