QUICKIE George Clinton You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish Capitol : 1983 [Buy It] PASSIN' THRU Frederick Knight 1974 Available on : The Complete Stax-Volt Soul Singles, Vol. 3: 1972-1975 Stax : 1994 [Buy It] LIFE IS...TOO SHORT Too Short Life Is...Too Short Jive : 1988 [Buy It] RAPIDS T-Rex Tanx Reprise : 1973 [...]
PASSENGERS Stephen Emmer feat. Lou Reed Recitement Challenge : 2007 [Buy It] THE L TRAIN IS A SWELL TRAIN AND I DON'T WANT TO HEAR YOU INDIES COMPLAIN Out Hud S.T.R.E.E.T. D.A.D. Kranky : 2002 [Buy It] DOWNTOWN TRAIN Tom Waits Rain Dogs Island : 1985 [Buy It] Now Ben's gone and gotten me thinking about the train, the most [...]
THE MEMPHIS TRAIN Rufus Thomas 1968 Available on : Beg, Scream & Shout! The Big Ol' Box of 60's Soul Rhino : 1997 [Buy It] TRAIN TO TAMPA Sam Dees 1968 Available on : The Birmingham Sound: The Soul of Neal Hemphill, Vol. 1 Rabbit Factory : 2006 [Buy It] SAME TRAIN TWICE Swamp Dogg 1977 Available on : The Excellent Sides of Swamp Dogg, Vol. 5 SDEG : [...]
SWEARIN' TO GOD Frankie Valli Close-Up Private Stock : 1975 [Buy It] Too much historical import for me to take it all in, certainly in any kind of glib journalessayistic way, and because of that, I will resist the temptation to put This Label on That Thing or That Wrapper around This Event. Plus, highly orchestrated events that involve millions of people are, to me, troubling things. Still, I sent some spies. There seems to be a surplus of joy and optimism, along with a surplus of merchandise. [...]
MY LOVE FOR YOU HAS TURNED TO HATE Hank Williams 1949 Available on: Original Singles Collection Mercury Nashville : 1992 [Buy It] I'VE GOT REASONS TO HATE YOU Lefty Frizzell 1951 Available on: Life's Like Poetry Bear Family : 1992 [Buy It] HATE STREET DIALOGUE Rodriguez Cold Fact Light In the Attic : 1970 [Buy It] I HATE U [...]
EASTBOUND AND DOWN Jerry Reed 1977 Available on : The Essential Jerry Reed RCA : 1995 [Buy It] BUSY DOIN' NOTHIN' The Beach Boys Friends Capitol : 1968 [Buy It] TOO BUSY Louis Armstrong 1928 Available on : The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings Sony : 2000 [Buy It] I had a busy week back from vacation. Lots to do [...]
LIFE IS LONG Brian Eno & David Byrne Everything That Happens Will Happen Today Todo Mundo : 2008 [Buy It] October before last, I spent a few weeks camping my way through California. At the end of this week, I'm preparing to do it again. Funny how life repeats like that - funny odd, not funny ha-ha. For me, to be aware of this repetition is to experience a complex, even contradictory, mixture of feelings - it's a comfort, and a curse. The idea of reliving a positive [...]
STRANGER IN MY OWN HOME TOWN Elvis Presley From Elvis In Memphis BMG : 1969 [Buy It] GOIN' BACK HOME John Fogerty Eye of the Zombie Warner Bros. : 1986 [Buy It] One of the things about this time of year is that it involves lots of time in houses. For me, this year, that meant lots of time spent in one house, as a long-term guest, for a period that spanned from just [...]
BTWN YOU + ME Windy & Carl Songs for the Broken Hearted Kranky : 2008 [Buy It] THE THING WITH FEATHERS James Lavino The Woodpecker OST Brookhaven/TuneCore : 2008 [Buy It] TRACK3A (2WAYNICE) Keith Fullerton Whitman Playthroughs Kranky : 2002 [Buy It] Today appears to lack characteristics. Gray, blank sky. Leafless trees - it's winter. Houses washed clean by last night's [...]
COME FLY WITH ME Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me Capitol : 1958 [Buy It] IT'S NICE TO GO TRAV'LING Frank Sinatra Come Fly With Me Capitol : 1958 [Buy It] It's about to be vacation time. People will be flying everywhere, filing onto buses, packing up their cars. They'll be here and then they'll be gone. Poof. This time of year always fills me with some trepidation. Along with the nice [...]
KEEP A KNOCKIN' Little Richard 1957 Available on : The Specialty Sessions Specialty : 1990 [Buy It] IF YOU PICK HER TOO HARD (SHE COMES OUT OF TUNE) Little Richard 1972 Available on : King of Rock and Roll: The Complete Reprise Sessions Rhino Handmade : 2005 [Buy It] SLIPPIN' AND SLIDIN' (TAKE 2) Little Richard 1956 Available on : The Specialty Sessions Specialty : 1990 [Buy [...]
MANIC DEPRESSION (instrumental) Jimi Hendrix 1967 Unreleased SPANISH CASTLE MAGIC (instrumental) Jimi Hendrix 1967 Unreleased CAT TALKIN' TO ME (instrumental) Jimi Hendrix 1968 Unreleased ELECTRIC LADYLAND (instrumental) Jimi Hendrix 1968 Unreleased 51st ANNIVERSARY (alternate) Jimi Hendrix 1967 Unreleased When Mitch Mitchell died earlier this month I spent a few days listening to his music as tribute--and by his music, of course, I mean Jimi Hendrix's music. Mitchell was on the [...]
CUT YOUR HAIR Blake Miller Together with Cats Exit Stencil Recordings : 2006 [Buy It] My hair is getting long again. I get it cut maybe three or four times a year. The asymmetrical style I favor starts tight and slick, then grows shaggy and amorphous. There's always an awkward period when it just sort of hangs over my forehead, until it gets long enough to tuck behind an ear. Eventually I begin to roughly prune it with cheap scissors - hacking out a section of [...]
I AM THE UPSETTER Lee Scratch Perry 1968 Available on : I Am the Upsetter Sanctuary : 2005 [Buy It] GOOD ADVICES R.E.M. Life's Rich Pageant Capitol : 1985 [Buy It] ORIGINAL MIXED-UP KID Mott The Hoople Wildlife Island : 1971 [Buy It] WHAT WAS I THINKIN' IN MY HEAD? Sly & The Family Stone [...]
VOICES Cheap Trick Dream Police Epic : 1979 [Buy It] YOUR SWEET VOICE Matthew Sweet Girlfriend Volcano : 1991 [Buy It] I HEARD THE VOICE OF A PORKCHOP Jim Jackson 1928 Available on: Good For What Ails You: Music of the Medicine Shows, 1926-1937 Old Hat : 2005 [Buy It] Recently I've been doing interviews for my new book, which is [...]
HOW CAN I MISS YOU WHEN YOU WON'T GO AWAY? Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks 1969 Available on : The Most of Dan Hicks Epic : 2001 [Buy It] HOW CAN I MISS YOU WHEN I'VE GOT DEAD AIM? Ida Cox 1926 Available on : Complete Recorded Words, Vol. 3: 1925-1927 Document : 1925 [Buy It] Tiring week, no? Exhilarating, then exhausting, and the second part, maybe, because of the first. So, welcome, new President. [...]
TO ABSENT VOTERS : CHANGE GONNA COME , TODAY IS THE DAY , A MEANINGFUL MOMENT THROUGH A MEANING(LESS) PROCESS [ download tracks above ] TO ABSENT VOTERS The Lucksmiths Spring a Leak Matinee : 2007 [Buy It] CHANGE GONNA COME Otis Redding Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul Rhino : 2008 [Buy It] TODAY IS THE DAY Yo La Tengo Today [...]
REPETITION The Fall 1978 Available on : 50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong: 39 Golden Greats Beggars UK : 2004 [Buy It] JOY IN REPETITION Prince Graffiti Bridge Warner Bros. : 1990 [Buy It] You know when you tell someone the same thing over and over again? You know when you tell someone the same thing over and over again? I mean, really: You know when you tell someone the same thing over and over [...]
BAG MAN Conversion Party More No More self-released : 2008 [Download It] EAST RIVER Conversion Party More No More self-released : 2008 [Download It] HURRY, HURRY Conversion Party More No More self-released : 2008 [Download It] RON Conversion Party More No More self-released : 2008 [Download It] [...]
SHADOWS OF LOVE The Pearls 1955 Available on : Atlantic Vocal Groups Rhino Handmade : 2008 [Buy It] There is a common mysterious phenomenon I will now try to summarize for you. It involves two people. One of them should be you, because that way you can obtain direct experience of the phenomenon. The other one should not be you. In this phenomenon, one person (maybe you?) enters into a brief social interaction with another person (maybe you?). Maybe there is food. Maybe there is alcohol. Maybe scenery. Those [...]
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[LISTEN] Gotye (Passion Pit Remix)
Big Boi & Theophilus London (feat. TRE LUCE) - 'She Said OK'
