KOALA SLEEP ON Leon Fallon Outback Aussie Caspian Productions : 2007 [Buy it] KOALA LA LA The Wiggles Wiggly Safari Koch Records : 2003 [Buy it] RETURN OF THE PANTHER (ft. Mustafa Akbar) Thunderball Cinescope Eighteenth Street Lounge Music : 2006 [Buy it] PANTHERS (Tony Galvin Remix - Instrumental) Tony Galvin from Panthers [...]
I'm as surprised as anyone to find myself still living in North Carolina. Without a doubt, one the main things that's kept me here for so long is the vibrancy of the poetry community around Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Durham and Greensboro. My coterie, the Lucifer Poetics Group, has been invaluable to my growth as a writer and a person, and when I leave this place, it's the one thing I'm truly going to miss. I salute these friends and collaborators, and in particular I'd like to salute three good friends in Lucipo who've published three outstanding books over the past [...]
NO COMPUTE Funkadelic Cosmic Slop Westbound : 1973 [Buy It] COMPUTER COWBOY (AKA SYSCRUSHER) Neil Young Trans Geffen : 1983 [Buy It] WE HAVE A TECHNICAL Gary Numan Replicas Beggars UK : 1979 [Buy It] MISS CLARKE AND THE COMPUTER Roy Wood Boulders EMI : 1973 [Buy It] [...]
STOMP DOWN SOUL (SON OF A SON OF A SLAVE) Larry Darnell Instant : 1968 Available on: The Instant & Minit Story Charly : 2005 [Buy It] The kick-ass "Stomp Down Soul," by Larry Darnell, is one of the very, very few songs, sung by an African American, which references "the peculiar institution" directly (rap's a different story, which I'm not going into today.) Lately, I've been hitting the history books, trying to figure out why.... Visiting a Georgia plantation in 1839, the British actress Fanny Kemble [...]
FIDEL CASTRO Lord Invader Calypso Travels Cook/Smithsonian Folkways : 1959 [Buy It] Bye-bye.
DECIBELS AND LITTLE PILLS American Music Club The Golden Age Merge : 2008 [Buy It] A MAN NEEDS A WOMAN OR A MAN TO BE A MAN Bill Callahan Woke on a Whaleheart Drag City : 2007 [Buy It] TENNESSEE Silver Jews Bright Flight Drag City : 2001 [Buy It] The recent publication of a collection of Franz Kafka's [...]
ANTI LOVE SONG Betty Davis Betty Davis Light In The Attic : 1973 [Buy It] DON'T RENEGE ON OUR LOVE Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out The Lights Hannibal : 1982 [Buy It] THINGS Loudon Wainwright III Here Come the Choppers! Sovereign Artists : 2005 [Buy It] BARON OF LOVE, PT. 2 Alex Chilton [...]
PLEASE SEND ME SOMEONE TO LOVE Percy Mayfield Specialty : 1950 Available on: Poet of the Blues Specialty : 1990 [Buy It] WILL YOU STILL LOVE ME TOMORROW The Shirelles Scepter : 1961 Available on: 25 All-Time Greatest Hits Varese : 1999 [Buy It] LOVE GOES TO BUILDING ON FIRE (DEMO) The Talking Heads CBS : 1975 CBS Demo Recordings [Unreleased] TEENAGER IN LOVE [...]
Anyone got invites to Waffles or What? If so, moistworks at gmail dot com, and many thanks!
ALABAMA BOOGIE John Lee Federal : 1951 Available on: Rural Blues vol. 1 1934-1956 Document : 1995 [Buy It] ALABAMA MAN Earl Scott Chascamp c. 1960 (?) Available on: Nashville Rockabilly Stomper Time : 2004 [Buy It] THE STORY OF ALABAMA BOUND Jelly Roll Morton c. 1938 Available on: The Complete Library of Congress Recordings Rounder : 2005 [Buy It] The great state [...]
THIS IS WHERE I BELONG The Kinks 1967 Available on : The Kink Kronikles Reprise : 1972 [Buy It] THIS IS WHERE I BELONG Bill Lloyd Set To Pop East Side Digital : 1994 [Buy It] THIS IS WHERE I BELONG Frank Black Headache 10" 4AD: 1994 [Buy It] THIS IS WHERE I BELONG Ron Sexsmith Available on : This [...]
FIVE SCENES PERIPHERAL TO A WAR BOMBS ON THE WAY Promute Dark Moving Blondena Music : 2006 [Buy It] I. Yesterday morning, I sat outside a cute coffee shop in an ugly strip mall. North Carolina starts to thaw in February, and it felt good to sit outside. Even though I was essentially sitting in a parking lot, I had a little table and a fresh cup of coffee, and my first cigarette of the day smoldered in my [...]
SUPER BOWL SHUFFLE Chicago Bears Shufflin' Crew Red Label Records : 1985 [Buy It] SUPER COOL Black Heat No Time To Burn Atlantic : 1974 [Buy It] SUPERGROOVALISTICPROSIFUNKSTIC ATION Parliament Mothership Connection Universal : 1976 [Buy It] SUPERFUNKYCALIFRAGISEXY Prince The Black Album Warner Bros. : 1987 [Buy It] THAT'S [...]
COME HOME Dismemberment Plan Change De Soto : 2001 [Buy It] THE SCIENCE OF YOUR MIND The Comas Conductor Yep Roc : 2004 [Buy It] ANOTHER THOUGHT Arthur Russell Another Thought Orange Mountain Music : 2006 [Buy It] MOISTWORKS ESSAYTIME CORNER PRESENTS: An excerpt from "Changes of Mind" by Nicholson Baker [...]
Folks, Brian's on deadline today, so I'm pinch-hitting with a few songs I've been meaning to post for, well, for a few years now. Pop songs, about American history. Which, you'd think there'd be more of - and if you do think of more, I'd be happy to post a follow-up. Whoever comes up with the most gets a copy of our New Year's mix (not to be confused with our xMas mix, which you can still download from last month's post). Which, a question presents itself: Does Neil Young's "Cortez, The Killer" fit the bill? [...]
Folks, Brian's on deadline today, so I'm pinch-hitting with a few songs I've been meaning to post for, well, for a few years now. Pop songs, about American history. Which, you'd think there'd be more of - and if you do think of more, I'd be happy to post a follow-up. Whoever comes up with the most gets a copy of our New Year's mix (not to be confused with our xMas mix, which you can still download from last month's post). Which, a question presents itself: Does Neil Young's "Cortez, The Killer" fit the bill? [...]
FLORIDA Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank Sony : 2007 [Buy It] FLORIDA Vic Chesnutt West of Rome Texas Hotel : 1992 [Buy It] FLORIDA The Shazam The Shazam Copper : 1997 [Buy It] FLORIDA'S ON FIRE Superchunk Here's to Shutting Up Merge : 2001 [Buy [...]
NORTH TO ALASKA Johnny Horton Columbia : 1960 Available on: Greatest Hits Columbia : 1987 [Buy It] WHEN IT'S SPRINGTIME IN ALASKA (IT'S 40 BELOW) Johnny Cash Personal File Sony : 2006 [Buy It] ROCKIN' LITTLE ESKIMO Bobby Swanson Igloo : 1959 Available on: Nashville Rockabilly Stomper Tome : 2003 [Buy It] THE MIGHTY QUINN Solomon Burke Bell : 1960 (Unreleased) Available on: Proud Mary: The Bell Sessions Sundazed [...]
NORTH TO ALASKA Johnny Horton Columbia : 1960 Available on: Greatest Hits Columbia : 1987 [Buy It] WHEN IT'S SPRINGTIME IN ALASKA (IT'S 40 BELOW) Johnny Cash Personal File Sony : 2006 [Buy It] ROCKIN' LITTLE ESKIMO Bobby Swanson Igloo : 1959 Available on: Nashville Rockabilly Stomper Tome : 2003 [Buy It] THE MIGHTY QUINN Solomon Burke Bell [...]
CHECK THE RIME A Tribe Called Quest The Low End Theory Jive : 1991 [Buy It] GIMME THE LOOT The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die Arista : 1994 [Buy It] IGNORANT SHIT Jay-Z American Gangster Roc-A-Fella : 2007 [Buy It] CHINESE NEW YEAR Clipse Hell Hath No Fury Re-Up Gang/Star Trak : [...]