BARON OF LOVE, PART 2 Alex Chilton Like Flies on Sherbert Peabody: 1979 [Buy It] LET ME GET CLOSE TO YOU Alex Chilton High Priest Big Time: 1987 [Buy It] DOWNS (demo) Alex Chilton 1974 Available on: Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story Big Beat: 2008 [Buy It] IT'S YOUR FUNERAL Alex Chilton A [...]
CRESCENT NOON Carpenters Close To You A&M : 1970 [Buy It] MR. GUDER Carpenters Close To You A&M : 1970 [Buy It] MY BODY KEEPS CHANGING MY MIND Karen Carpenter 1979 Available on: Karen Carpenter A&M : 1996 [Buy It] STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS Karen Carpenter 1979 Available on: Karen Carpenter A&M [...]
DON'T YOU SEE HOW THIS WORLD MADE A CHANGE Blind Wilile McTell 1932 Available on: The Complete Blind Willie McTell, Vol. 2: 1931-1933 Document : 1990 [Buy It] THE BIG CHANGE Big Mama Thornton 1953 Available on: Hound Dog: The Peacock Recordings MCA : 1992 [Buy It] TIME CHANGES EVERYTHING Johnny Cash Now, There Was a Song! Sony : 1960 [Buy It] [...]
YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING Wilson Pickett The Wicked Pickett Atlantic : 1966 [Buy It] YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING Sam & Dave 1969 Available on: Sweat and Soul Rhino : 1993 [Buy It] YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING Barbara Lynn 1966 Available on: Voices of Americana Edsel : 2009 [Buy It] YOU LEFT THE WATER RUNNING Dan [...]
THE GRIP OF LOVE James Brown Tom Verlaine Elektra : 1979 [Buy It] Over the years, here at Moistworks, we've considered love in all its forms, at least as seen through the prism of the pop song. This year, we are standing down. Our weapons are holstered. Orders from above: the topic has been designated as too tragicomic. The note from above read, in part, "Give it a rest. If you see it out and about, arrest it. If you see something about it, give it back." The [...]
WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN James Brown Hell Polydor : 1974 [Buy It] When I was fourteen or so, I went to a summer-camp-type-thing for kids interested in high school debate. I think that my parents were trying to find some way to make lemonade out of the fact that I argued all the time. When I was there, I met a girl from New Orleans. She was one of the first people I liked as a person, without reservation; she had what a hippie would call [...]
LENBA, LENBA SOU LEMO Unknown artist 1937 Available on : Alan Lomax in Haiti Harte Recordings : 2009 [Buy It] [Donate to Earthquake Relief] I was thinking about Haiti fairly regularly even before the earthquake this week. I have a friend who is working there, living and writing, and it hasn't always been easy for her, and sometimes this has resulted in frustration, and other times in measured analysis, and other times in resignation. Earlier this week she wrote me to say [...]
DANSE A LA MUSIQUE The French Fries Epic : 1968 [Out of Print] SMALL FRIES The French Fries Epic : 1968 [Out of Print] SKIN I'M IN Sly and the Family Stone Fresh Epic : 1973 [Buy It] No one needs to hear more about how Sly Stone's racially integrated, mixed-gender band, the Family Stone, fused the lean funk of James Brown to the kaleidoscopic pop of the psychedelic era and yielded some of the most [...]
IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE) R.E.M. Document I.R.S. : 1987 [Buy It] CROSSEYED AND PAINLESS Talking Heads Remain in Light Sire : 1980 [Buy It] ONCE IN A LIFETIME Talking Heads Remain in Light Sire : 1980 [Buy It] COFFIN FOR HEAD OF STATE Fela Anikulapo Kuti [...]
I GOTTA GET DRUNK Willie Nelson 1970 Available on : One Hell Of a Ride Sony : 2008 [Buy It] PUNKS IN THE BEERLIGHT Silver Jews Tanglewood Numbers Drag City : 2005 [Buy It] FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK The Pogues If I Should Fall From Grace With God Island : 1987 [Buy It] The other day, a friend commented on the [...]
EASY TO BE HARD Jennifer Warnes 1968 Available on : Love Lifts Us Up: A Collection, 1968-1983 Raven : 2004 [Buy It] HEAVEN HELP US ALL David Ruffin 1969 Available on : David: The Unreleased Album Hip-O Select : 2004 [Buy It] When I was first dating my wife, we used to get into fights because she cared about animals. That's a bit of a misrepresention. We got into fights because she cared about, [...]
THANKSGIVING DAY Ray Davies Other People's Lives V2 : 2006 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING DAY Johnny Dowd Wrong Side of Memphis Munich : 1998 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING Mary Gauthier Between Daylight and Dusk Lost Highway : 2007 [Buy It] THANKSGIVING Loudon Wainwright III Career Moves Virgin : 1993 [Buy It] [...]
TWILIGHT ZONE Dr. John Babylon Atco : 1969 [Buy It] Back in my teens, if you had asked me to dream up the ideal musician, I would have imagined an unholy combination of Sly Stone, Randy Newman, and Roky Erickson, and I wouldn't have known that the thing I was dreaming already existed, and that it was named Dr. John. There's an occasion for this post, a birthday, and as a result it isn't a post where I'll speculate endlessly on the reticulations of relationships or the finer [...]
BO MEETS THE MONSTER Bo Diddley 1958 Available on : I'm a Man: The Chess Masters 1955-1958 Hip-O Select : 2007 [Buy It] COSTUME MAKES THE CLOWN Shakira Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 Sony : 2006 [Buy It] HALLOWEENHEAD Ryan Adams Easy Tiger Lost Highway : 2007 [Buy It] THINLY VEILED DISGUISE Ron Sexsmith Other Songs [...]
LIFE AFTER DEATH Ian Hunter You're Never Alone With a Schizophrenic Chrysalis : 1979 [Buy It] DON'T GET EXCITED Graham Parker Squeezing Out Sparks Arista : 1979 [Buy It] STRETCH Ian Hunter Shrunken Heads Yep Roc : 2007 [Buy It] ALL BEING WELL Graham Parker Don't Tell Columbus Blodshot : 2007 [...]
ANGRY Paul McCartney Press To Play Capitol : 1986 [Buy It] HE MAKES ME SO MAD Hollywood Jills 1968 Available on : One Kiss Can Lead To Another: Girl Group Sounds Lost & Found Rhino : 2005 [Buy It] MADNESS Miles Davis Nefertiti Columbia : 1967 [Buy It] MAD Prince and the N.P.G. NPG Music Club : [...]
ANXIOUS MO-FO Minutemen Double Nickels On the Dime SST : 1984 [Buy It] This morning there was a weight pressing down on my mind. This morning it was windy. I mean there was wind, not that my mind wound, though my mind did wind. My mind wound because I heard, in quick succession, about a series of projects undertaken by friends and acquaintances: a book, a movie, a television series. All were being undertaken by people for whom I have fondness, so I was happy to hear that [...]
FEAR IS A MAN'S BEST FRIEND John Cale Fear Island : 1974 [Buy It] MY FRIEND GEORGE Lou Reed New Sensations RCA : 1984 [Buy It] BEST FRIEND Cheap Trick Special One Big3 : 2003 [Buy It] SEE MY FRIENDS Richard Thompson 1000 Years of Popular Music Cooking Vinyl : 2003 [...]
ISOLATION John Lennon John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Capitol : 1970 [Buy It] Last winter I published a limited-edition book/box that lamented the death of letter-writing, and when it came out, my wife sent a copy to Yoko Ono, one of her heroes, who she thought might appreciate an elegant object designed to collect and display worry over the lack of connection in modern humanity. We didn't hear back and after a while we assumed that it had been tossed. Maybe Yoko even ululated as she threw it away. [...]
RIGHT HERE NOW James McMurtry Where'd You Hide the Body Sony : 1995 [Buy It] Days of disconcertion, days of imbalance, days of rage. They happen less often than they once did, but they still happen. Once a wise old man told me that these days are a blessing, because they are a sign that vitality is still coursing through your veins. "Without these days, you have death in life," he said. I slammed the window on his beard. I stopped at a bar on the way back [...]
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