Well, Pitchforkmedia started a "best of the 60's" list yesterday, so I thought I'd make the songs available for anyone who is interested. If all goes well, I'll be updating throughout the week as more of the list is revealed. Hopefully. Pitchfork's 200 Greatest Songs of the 1960s (Part 1: #200-151) (rapidshare) 200. The Kinks: "Sunny Afternoon" 199. Nina Simone: "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" 198. Dionne Warwick: "Walk On By" [...]
Junior Boys - In The Morning So Junior Boys, who hail from Canada, are releasing a new album next month. But do Junior Boys even have a Canadian label? Well, not as far as I can tell. When I wanted to buy Last Exit in the local music store two years ago, I was told that I would have to pay to have it imported. I declined, considering I could just download the album for a lot cheaper, or for [...]
Lara Yule Singh - Most Angry Girl Lara Yule Singh's beautiful voice has garnered some media attention recently in Edmonton. She's been charming the locals with her guitar and songs by way of performances in bookstores and coffee shops. It's a really nice feeling to walk into a local bookstore and have someone play music for you, especially someone with as much talent as Lara. I wasn't sure about "Most Angry Girl" at first. It's a "cute" song, and I'm quite [...]
In his essay on Mulholland Drive, McGowan concludes that only through recognizing fantasy for what it is, and indulging in it wholly, and wholeheartedly, can we arrive at the experience of silence. Desire never reaches an ultimate conclusion. Nothing begins or ends in reality the way it does in a movie. There are never any real silences. In Wild at Heart, Lula exclaims: "This whole world's
The Walkmen - Many Rivers To Cross (via http://www.stereogum.com) For more go to: http://www.rollingstone.com/ne ws/story/11134448/hear_the_wal kmen_recreate_pussy_cats_a_197 0s_classic I have Jimmy Cliff's Wonderful People, Beautiful People on vinyl, and his version of "Many Rivers To Cross" is like ten times better. There's really no comparison, but hey, I like the Nilsson version as well. The Walkmen's cover doesn't deviate much from Nilsson's rendition. One might even mistake one for the other. Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross [...]
I played 'Crying' and then I played 'In Dreams', and as soon as I did, I forgot 'Crying'. ~ David Lynch I recently read a pair of essays by American film professor, Todd McGowan, on David Lynch's Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive . According to McGowan, the ambiguity of the films results because Lynch navigates between human desire and fantasy without [...]
Bobby Vinton - Blue Velvet I was watching television infomercials in bed again last night. You know, the ones that come on after all the channel's regular programming is over. I must be the one person in the world that doesn't find them mind-numbingly boring. There is something vaguely amusing about watching the actors try to sell me something that I'm never going to buy. They smile and say their terrible, scripted dialogue. I smile back, acknowledging that the "Lifetime of Romance Collection" is not available in stores, that [...]
Cee-Lo Green - Ophidiophobia Best part: "I'm tired of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane! I'm tired! I'm tired! I'm tired!" I think everyone saw this coming. Countless remixes are probably already in the works. This movie better be funny. from Snakes on a Plane: The Album
Posted on various music blogs . . . in no particular order: Barbara Mason - Yes I'm Ready (palmsout.blogspot.com) James & Bobby Purify - I'm Your Puppet (palmsout.blogspot.com) Love - Wonder People (I Do Wonder) [Outtake] (headphonesex.co.uk) Miriam Makeba - Mbube (moistworks.com) Nancy Jacobs and Her Sisters - Meadowlands (moistworks.com) Cibelle - Green Grass (saidthegramophone.com) [...]
Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Nowhere To Run Universal released an excellent double-disc compilation earlier this year for Motown's dynamo team, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, as part of their ongoing GOLD series. "Nowhere To Run" is a classic song, and one of my favourites. buy it
About a year ago, I came across an amazing blog, run by Myke Weiskopf, with music from around the world that he had intercepted via shortwave radio. His site was one of the most interesting I've come across, and I was quite disappointed when Myke stopped posting last winter. It doesn't look like his blog, shortwavemusic , is going to start up again any time soon, but as far as I can tell, all the music Myke posted is still available to download. Given the nature of the medium, most of the tracks aren't complete "songs", [...]
I really wish I had a digital camera so I could post some pictures. Edmonton's river valley really is quite beautiful. I carried Lucky (our dog) down there in my backpack, and let him run around down by the river. Whenever a stick would float by he would run out into the water almost up to his neck. It was really cute. I'll have to remember to borrow Tina's digital camera when she gets back from Taiwan, and take pictures next time. Solomon Burke - Down in [...]
Jim Guthrie - So Small Jim Guthrie gets points for being an amazing singer/songwriter, a Canadian, and playing on the new Islands album, Return to Sea , which I've been listening to a lot this year. He also likes a lot of the same music that I do, given the artists he likes to cover. So he gets extra points for being smart. There are almost 20 songs free to download from his website, which also makes Guthrie one of the most generous of Canadian musicians. Subtract [...]
The Edmonton Folk Festival is coming up fast. According to the website, the Blind Boys of Alabama and Bettye LaVette are playing, which I would really like to see. There are a few others that I'm familiar with: Linda Ronstadt, Feist, Hawksley Workman, uh . . . Chumbawamba. A quick glance at allmusic.com revealed that Chumbawamba have been quite busy in the UK since Tubthumper , and will probably not be playing their hit single "Tubthumping" over and over on the stage ad naseum. Of course, there is the Fringe Festival every [...]
Yesterday, I went down to the river valley, which is quite unusual for me. Normally I just sit at home in my nice cool basement. I usually don't get along too well with summer, so it's strange that I find myself opting to go outside more and more these days. I suppose the sun isn't so bad. You just have to work up a tolerance for it. It's like controlling your gag reflex. So this is going to be a music blog. I feel like I'm not quite [...]
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