Photo still: Hotel Chevalier Wes Anderson's long withstanding obsession with mellow, baroque pop and british invasion bands is fascinating to me. I keep uncovering my new, old favorite song every time I see one of his movies. I even have a playlist dedicated to his films, filled with songs and artists I discovered thanks to him and a few more songs that I think would fit in his next hypothetical movie. I've no idea what his next movie will be about but I've been thinking that his mostly muted, awkward characters would develop grandly in [...]
"Good morning, sunshine, you're all around my head, Good morning, sunshine, I'm ready to be led..." Or: I'm off for two weeks to catch some much-needed rays. ¡Hasta luego/see you later! Big Star - Watch The Sunrise MP3 Relatively Clean Rivers - Hello Sunshine MP3 Margo Guryan - Sun MP3 Peter Hammill - Sunshine MP3 The Halo Bit - When The Sun Hits Me MP3 [...]
Unlike previous months most of my random downloads this month were older songs (and country, too). But there were a few 2011 tracks that snuck into my craw—My Morning Jacket's newest, which has me excited for their album coming out in a few weeks, and Matthew Cooper's "Expectation," a lovely ambient track. This mix is thus a little strange but is nevertheless meant to be listened to in order. Enjoy. Barbara Lynn: You Can't Buy My Love (via the Adios Lounge ) Merle Haggard: [...]
Today's confection: Margo Guryan's 1968 platter of orchestral pop, Take A Picture. We've waxed on Guryan's excellent 25 Demos collection here in the past, but Take A Picture further succeeds in taking the singer-songwriter and placing her compositions within a smart pop context not dissimilar from the headspace Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks were [...]
Whou, ça faisait longtemps! Approuvé pour les plages, les champs et les espaces nocturnes. DAF - Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick Alain Khan - Clichés Prince - All The Critics Love You In New-York Erkin Koray - Estarabim Henri Salvador - J'aime Tes Genoux Riot Kid aka Manaré - Belly Dance (Femme En Fourrure Remix) Von Spar - Soarex (Ada Remix) Margo Guryan - California Shake [...]
Ablehearts_GetIt.mov Hayloft - Mother Mother Evol Intent - Paradize City Creep - Days (Deadboy Remix) James Blake - CMYK Rainbow Arabia - Omar K (Satanic Arcade 83- - Invisible Dread Mix) Ablehearts - For Signs Chairman Kato - Gemini Eyes Shackleton - Undeadman (Mordant Music Remix) [...]
SPOOK HILL :: SEPTEMBER MIXTAPE :: BOY ATTRACTIONS Walker and I have had this one in the works for a while. We decided a month or so ago (after our last mixtape) that we wanted to try something a bit different from our usual mixes. We settled on the idea of compiling our favorite songs recorded before 2000 that were relatively unknown or obscure (or at least if the artist was relatively known, one of their hidden gems). That was really the only restriction. Interestingly enough, there was a clear divide in the years [...]
Rainy swinging sixties California.
Margo Guryan: Sunday Morning [ purchase ] Margo Guryan's Sunday Morning - a pleasant sixties pop-fluff track from 1968's Take A Picture, which easily predates the Velvet Underground track of the same name - was the very first song posted at Star Maker Machine, two years ago to the Sunday. It was brought to us by our beloved founder, Paul, who described Guryan both aptly and tersely, calling her "a 1960's style Lilly Allen (but a bit more refined)." This coming week, in honor [...]
Scott Walker, television appearance The Walker Brothers The Girl I Lost In The Rain Margo Guryan Love Songs Julie London February Brings The Rain Richard Hawley Last Orders
Sylvie Vartan En Ecoutant La Pluie Margo Guryan Think of Rain James Carr These Ain't Raindrops Shout Out Louds Hard Rain Relentless caper for all those who step The legend of their youth into the noon Hart Crane [...]
When Margo Guryan heard "God Only Knows" for the first time, she dropped everything. Raised on classical music and steeped in theory and composition, by the time she graduated college Margo seemed prepared for a serious career in Jazz music. But a friend played her Pet Sounds, that spiritual hymn, and her interests suddenly [...]
My Troubled Mind —released digitally and on happily hostile 10" vinyl, as perfectly fits the world's only Dorothy Ashby fan with a SHUT UP STUPID BITCH! t-shirt—is nominally an instrumental beat record. But play it at Dub Club, at Mas Exitos, at Echo Curio or at Manimal Fest and it will fit like it was especially commissioned. In seven songs and snippets, he dissolves and resolves together again dub and psych and hip-hop and rock and kraut and electronics and if not now he'll certainly soon grab Pete Drake and his talking guitar and claw off a little piece of [...]
Margo Guryan: Sunday Morning From: Take a Picture [Bell, 1968] Doris: You Never Come Closer From: Did You Give the World Some Love Today Baby [EMI, 1970] Linda Perhacs: Parallelograms From: Parallelograms a [Kapp Records, 1970] It seems my rush to welcome in the summer sun was a little premature. The blazing [...]
Voici les deux premières chansons de l'unique album de Margo Guryan , Take a Picture , sorti en 1968 et qui fait aujourd'hui figure d'album super-culte. Elle l'a fait toute seule, des paroles à la musique, jusqu'à la production, ce qui, à l'époque, est très, très rare pour une artiste féminine. Elle décide de ne pas promouvoir ce disque et de ne pas faire de concerts malgré des critique élogieuses car elle ne se considérait pas comme interprète mais uniquement comme compositeur de musique. Peu importe, le disque allait lentement faire son chemin via le bouche-à-oreille et finalement [...]
Last week, I had part one of the 26-song, seasonally-inspired, massive clusterfuck mix. Guess fucking what! This is part dos, just in time to send March off like a lion (or a lamb, depending on where you are I suppose). Spring rules, and I want you to have the jams I'm cranking in my car with the windows down and rims still spinnin'. Below are 15 more songs that are one million times better than the new Phoenix or St. Vincent or Lykke Li albums (or whatever the other blogs are poppin' boners for). Fuck that shit. String Band, [...]
There's no real need for an introduction. Spring is here finally, and it rules. West coasters may not be privy to this, but on the east coast, we have this thing called February which really sucks the life out of you. With these new mild conditions and sunshine, I had the energy to pull together a rather massive springtime collection of music - sunny folk and psychedelia (with annotations!) that evokes the oft conjured imagery of the season that I won't waste time reiterating here. This gangsta-ass mix is so massive, as a matter of fact, that it will be [...]
Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning (mp3)
Margo Guryan: Sun [ purchase ] If you're into 60s sunshine pop like the Beach Boys, Free Design, and Nilsson, then you already know and love Margo Guryan. When she first heard Pet Sounds, Margo shifted gears from jazz composition to pop, offering the gorgeous and unique Take A Picture in 1968. This version of "Sun," a toned down, wurlitzer driven demo, missing the orchestral arrangements and psych touches of the original, is from the wonderful 25 Demos release. *Note: Margo was the [...]
Margo Guryan: Sunday Morning [ purchase ] The first theme for Star Maker Machine will be Days Of The Week .* Please submit a favorite song of yours that includes the name of a day of the week in its title. I've started with a favorite called "Sunday Morning" by Margo Guryan from 1968's Take A Picture . What do you think? If you like it, the whole album is pretty good. She kind of reminds me [...]
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