"I've always thought my soundtracks do pretty good, because they're basically professional equivalents of a mix tape I'd make for you at home." - Quentin Tarantino For this weeks Soundtrack Enthusiast we visit the world of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino who, in regard to his choice of music in his growing oeuvre, has been quoted as saying [...]
For The Love Of Towering and lovely, Dusty Springfield fell in love with Motown in the early sixties and went on to hugely blooming interpretations of songs by the likes of Burt Bacharach and Carole King. Her massive hit of the period was of course "Son of a Preacher Man." After a long fallow period spent in what sounds like obsessive self-doubt, she reemerged in the '80s at the urging of Elton John and Neil Tennant, to new and reinvigorated renown. Love Shine Down [...]
SON OF A PREACHER MAN Video Dusty Springfield Dusty in Memphis Atlantic : 1969 [Buy It] SON OF A PREACHER MAN Aretha Franklin This Girl's In Love With You Atlantic : 1970 [Buy It] SON OF A PREACHER MAN Mavis Staples Only The Lonely Stax : 1970 [Buy It] SON OF [...]
Song: Embrace Artist: Ignite Album: Past Our Means Comments: Ignite regrouped last year and released Our Darkest Days . This was there best outing since there one and only Revelation disc Past Our Means . This Song actually sounds a little like AFI . Although with a lot less make-up. Song: On The Rocks Artist: The Delta 72 Album: [...]

Aretha Franklin: I Can't Wait (Until I See My Baby's Face) From Runnin Out of Fools (Columbia, 1964) Dusty Springfield: I Can't Wait (Until I See My Baby's Face) From Where Am I Going? (Philips, 1967) First off, thanks to Hua for introducing me to Sonji Clay's version of the song (which started the ball rolling on all this). Far as I can tell, "I Can't Wait" was originally a song written for Aretha Franklin [...]

oddly, since its valentine's day, I heard from two different sets of friends who just split up with their respective long time beaus today. seems like sometimes there's just something in the air and sure, not everyone can be as ridonkulously loved up as certain bloggers i could mention, but it'd be a shame to ignore the fact that today is the internationally sanctioned panic buying of expensive tat during your lunch hour because you don't wanna get caught out looking like you don't care day. do i sound bitter? i do hope [...]

For Valentine's Day, songs from the L word . Dusty Springfield ~ Just A Little Lovin' Ladytron ~ Playgirl Martina Topley-Bird ~ Ilya Peaches ~ Boys Wanna Be Her Tori Amos ~ A Sorta Fairytale Prototypes ~ Je ne te connais pas [...]

Here's a mix CD that is full of romantic songs, both in sound and in lyric. And since The Duke loves the ladies, it is an all-female vocalist CD. I have given you ample time to download and burn as the 14th is a week and a half away. Throw this one on; and let the flames flitter in your loved one's eyes. 1 ~ Kaki King: Nails We begin with a warm instrumental that conjures up a romantic evening starting with some peppermint tea. 2 ~ Beth [...]

"The autumn leaves were turning to the colour of her hair." Dusty Springfield ~ The Windmills of Your Mind from Dusty In Memphis by Dusty Springfield , OBE
This is the first in the Encore! series of occasional posts from the Lessons archive. This series will be devoted to things that didn't survive the transition to the new URL. Dusty Springfield ~ Reste encore un instant (Stay Awhile) Dusty Springfield ~ Je ne peux pas t'en vouloir (Losing You) [...]

With the sentencing Tuesday of former CEO Jeff Skilling , the book on Enron is essentially closed , but it's worth taking another look at the thought provoking documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room , that revealed the dark truth of Enron's collapse and the 'New Economy.' The documentary closely follows CEO Skilling, Chairman Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow from the beginnings of Enron fortune through their incredible fall, and reveals that the latest wave of white collar crime was more then just a 'few bad apples.' [...]
The curiously pointless UK Rock and Roll of Fame - invented two years ago to fill a gap in the Channel 4 schedules - has announced the people being added to its, erm, famous hall for 2006. Going inside are Led Zeppelin, Rod Stewart, Brian Wilson, Dusty Springfield and George Martin. George Martin's prize will be a special one for knowing the most stories about how, if the Beatles did take hard drugs, they never did so in front of him. Brian Wilson is going to perform at them, um, enhallening (or is it [...]

[Download] Dusty Springfield - Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart [Download] Dusty Springfield - Love Power [Download] Dusty Springfield - Willie And Laura Mae Jones [Download] Dusty Springfield - Bad Case Of The Blues Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien became Dusty when she was a child growing up in London. Through her father's interest in Jazz she discovered Peggy Lee and just as Elvis inspired a generation of teenage boys to grab guitars and rock and roll, Peggy aroused Dusty's desire to sing. In the [...]
The French language version of 'Losing You' from the 1964 EP Mademoiselle Dusty. This song and 'Reste encore un instant' are available on Something Special. Je ne peux pas t'en vouloir I will re-post 'Reste encore un instant' eventually. I'm looking for the other songs from the EP. Any help greatly appreciated!

Our hyper picky parsing of Pitchfork's recent 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960's feature continues today as promised with the final two categories; Artists who were underrepresented by the epic list, and pet obscurities that we might have fought for if given the chance. Read part 1 here . Shafted: One of the strongest singer/songwriters in any decade, Leonard Cohen might have suffered for his longevity in the compiling of the list. His best song not included, "Famous Blue Raincoat", came from the [...]

Our hyper picky parsing of Pitchfork's recent 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960's feature continues today as promised with the final two categories; Artists who were underrepresented by the epic list, and pet obscurities that we might have fought for if given the chance. Read part 1 here . Shafted: One of the strongest singer/songwriters in any decade, Leonard Cohen might have suffered for his longevity in the compiling of the list. His best song not included, "Famous Blue Raincoat", came from the [...]
Play it: A Jacques Brel Sampler Play it: Jacques Brel Covers With blogger tools back up today, I can finally deliver on my promise for some Jacque Brel love. Rhapsody only has a second rate greatest hits collection , but a few songs from the collection can illustrate Brel's magic. Brel is widely considered the greatest French-speaking songwriter of his era, and is one of Belgiums' greatest exports in [...]