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16 Oct 2002 — 8:50pm
16 Oct 2002 — 8:50pm
If you like the Strokes, you'll like The White Stripes even more. Happy and delicious.
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3 Sep 2012 — 11:57am
Marc,
By his own admission, Obama could have "passed" for white or black—except he really couldn't. He is a true African-American, but not a garden-variety, descendant-of-slaves person of color. Frankly, I bought his message of hope and change when he first started peddling it in 2004, but have since come to realize that he's just another crooked politician who used race to "redeem" the white man from his guilt.
So, sorry: Oreo holds. IMHO…
6 Sep 2012 — 2:54pm
Muse ...all.
n.
7 Sep 2012 — 6:55am
Nazareth.
8 Sep 2012 — 5:42am
The "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Pirates of Penzance", for the first time ever. Of course, that means I had no blimmin idea that Tom Lehrer's "The Elements" stemmed from this.
15 Sep 2012 — 8:56pm
Bob Dylan ...all.
16 Sep 2012 — 10:24pm
Beethoven's Ninth by Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic in 1962-63. They were playing for their freedom, they were playing for everyone's freedom. If you need to buy all the Beethoven symphonies like I did, I cannot recommend a better reading. The Ninth is beyond words.
pbc
16 Sep 2012 — 11:17pm
Django Django.
17 Sep 2012 — 9:55am
Paul, how does one identify the '62-63 recordings? The first result in iTunes is another recording of the Ninth in the '80s by the same conductor/orchestra.
17 Sep 2012 — 10:46am
Abigail Washburn. A woman with a banjo who sometimes sings in Mandarin. What's not to like?
The Uyghur jam session rocks.
17 Sep 2012 — 1:14pm
marcox - here they are on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Beethoven-9-Symphonies-Gundula-Janowitz/dp/B000001...
I had the set you are talking about and gave them away - this earlier set is the Berlin Philharmonic playing like Gods and Karajan Zeus-like.
pbc
17 Sep 2012 — 2:00pm
Thanks Paul.
18 Sep 2012 — 5:52pm
I am listening to the drier spinning some items with metal buttons.
Like a flat, tuneless gamalong symphony that's going to last another 20 minutes. Give or take.
19 Sep 2012 — 7:56am
It's well known (perhaps not so much these days) that when socks exit our world via the dryer vent, some socks enter into a kind of 'holding station' (sort of like a border crossing detainment room) depending on what acoustical properties they carry with them.
It seems to me that a tuneless gamalong symphony would be of great benefit.
Currently I'm listening to Moby...
Graciosa (Any Given Sunday)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbBxSNqwgOU&feature=BFa&list=AL94UKMTqg-9...
n.
19 Sep 2012 — 2:50am
While the word 'gamalong' sounds like 'gamelan', isn't the former just another word for arcade cacophony?
19 Sep 2012 — 3:06am
In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed are Kings by Dead Can Dance
21 Sep 2012 — 8:57am
Hi,
What did you think of the new Fugazi album? I say don't fix what ain't broken.
them's fightin' words! fugazi's new (year-old by now) album is arguably their best. deep, beautiful, aggressive, raw, organic, etc. or did you mean you liked it?
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21 Sep 2012 — 10:31am
Home-rendered MIDI version of Pachelbel's Ciacona in d minor played on a virtual pipe organ.
21 Sep 2012 — 1:59pm
The crickets out my open back door.
21 Sep 2012 — 10:34pm
Gamalan it is. I spelled it incorrectly
another
22 Sep 2012 — 7:34am
Cargo-Frakt with Apparat Organ Quartet.
Myndbandið with Sonus Futurae. It's about the video tape revolution.
22 Sep 2012 — 8:28am
@russelm:
Huh? Not gamelan? But that's just the most common English transliteration, and so other spellings may be acceptable (like Gayageum or Kayagum, depending on whether you use the new or old transliteration of Korean).
Ah - gamalan is how it's spelled in Bahasa Jawa.
22 Sep 2012 — 2:26pm
I'm currently listening to Konntinent - New Neo Tokyo_From the Beach, odaiba Bay. Check it out on Spotify
30 Sep 2012 — 10:14am
The new Grizzly Bear and Two Door Cinema Club albums, for different moods.
3 Oct 2012 — 3:42pm
Sky playing "Toccata". Definitely Bach on modern instruments.
13 Oct 2012 — 8:32am
Sweets Edison, Remastered
17 Oct 2012 — 1:55pm
Vivaldi's ... The Four Seasons.
n.
17 Oct 2012 — 3:54pm
Bachianas brasilieras by Villa-Lobos, a 1950s recording.
Conducted by the composer, sung by Victoria de los Ángeles.
The piece where she hums to a pizzicato accompaniment of eight celli—nº 5— is especially nice.
Of course I was influenced to buy it by the cover, with awesome photo of dude at work with massive cigar, and typography in tightly fitted Peignot capitals.
18 Oct 2012 — 6:12am
This is what I listen to when I don't want to be distracted by the lyrics:
Trentmøller
Sigur Ros
M83
Johann Johannsson
Jon Hopkins
Bonobo
18 Oct 2012 — 7:58am
PSY - GANGNAM STYLE (강남스타일) M/V
18 Oct 2012 — 10:26pm
Bryan Adams ...all.
Into The Fire ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7xqtLTBrHY&feature=related
n.
19 Oct 2012 — 5:27pm
Á sjó – and after watching this, I think you lot would rather deal with Beziers than breakers like these.
20 Oct 2012 — 10:41pm
Arrested Development ...all.
Everyday People ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEEINM01G7U&feature=related
n.
21 Oct 2012 — 1:01am
Girls' Generation (소녀시대) - Gee, their first hit.
Michèle Torr - Ce soir je t'attendais
Nana Mouskouri, Aliki Vougiouklaki - Mes s'afti tin varka (Μες σ'αυτήν τη βάρκα)
Deep Purple - Lazy
Var det du/Niin aikaisin
The Big 3 - The Banjo Song
Alizée Jacotey - À Contre-Courant
25 Oct 2012 — 6:20am
Ehren Starks — Lines Build Walls (Magnatune, Myspace)
3 Nov 2012 — 11:18pm
Depeche Mode, Tour of the Universe. Live in Barcelona.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vY_Ubj4U5lQ&feature=related
From 0:47:00 to 0:53:30 is pure magic.
n.
24 Nov 2012 — 12:42am
Rolling Stones - Star, Star (Starfucker)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=tZjxoZdWblI#!
You Can't Always Get What You Want
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OagFIQMs1tw&feature=related
Led Zeppelin - All of My Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0DAnu5Sq6k&feature=related
kashmir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4vduN6uodM&feature=fvwrel
n.
5 Dec 2012 — 9:41am
Rachmaninov, Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTohYK96DlQ&t=11m31s
Majestic!
5 Dec 2012 — 12:01pm
This nice little bit of organ jam (The Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want"):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWmMGCBYd4M
You'll stop noticing the pedals clacking soon enough...
10 Dec 2012 — 10:55pm
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water.
My parents gave this LP when I was just a kidlin' ... they also smuggled me into a Stones concert but that's another story for another time...
Simon & Garfunkel - The Boxer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzUEL7vw60U
In the clearing stands a boxer, and a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminder of every glove that laid him down or cut him
'Til he cried out in his anger and his shame
I am leaving, I am leaving, but the fighter still remains
Yes, he still remains ...
n.
11 Dec 2012 — 12:55am
Sam Lee's delightfully strange interpretations of traditional Romany and English ballads. Then I discovered the even stranger videos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it2M7-ME0Y
11 Dec 2012 — 4:24am
Here is a piece of music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96cGWQiHbKE
that I feel is worth sharing. A pipe organ performance of a beautiful forgotten melody, Vic Hammett's Sambalina.
11 Dec 2012 — 5:16pm
The Miami - Motherless Child
A very interesting take on an old spiritual from the days of slavery.
12 Dec 2012 — 4:23am
Godspeed You! Black Emperor 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Stunning.
12 Dec 2012 — 9:16pm
@Karl, awesome stuff!! I ordered a CD today.
n.
12 Dec 2012 — 10:13pm
Call me maudlin, but if I have a record by someone in the obits, I play it.
And this.
13 Dec 2012 — 1:52am
Glad you like. I am not a vinyl fanatic as such but they really do benefit from listening to on vinyl and generally produce very nice packaging. Some Grado PS1000 headphones and this studio to listen to it in would not hurt either...
18 Dec 2012 — 9:53pm
James Brown ...all.
It's A Man's Man's World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKPiBeZOkxg
n.
19 Dec 2012 — 1:25am
Páll Óskar – Sjáumst aftur (Pure f5g genius!)
25 Dec 2012 — 1:04pm
Eivør Pálsdóttir – Dansaðu, vindur (Another earworm.)
27 Dec 2012 — 11:52pm
Praetorius, 'Puer natus in Bethlehem'.
27 Dec 2012 — 10:49pm
Elton John ...all.
Texan Love Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RktysPeRP0
Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4GGfT_8s2o&feature=related
n.
10 Jan 2013 — 12:27am
Adele ...all.
Rolling In The Deep
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYEDA3JcQqw
n.
18 Jan 2013 — 11:19pm
The Rolling Stones ...late 70's stuff.
Miss You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDaC0hKzpmg
n.
19 Jan 2013 — 2:56pm
i listen to all sorts of things. Muse, Mumford & Sons, Train, Maroon 5, Matchbox 20.... but my iPod also houses Nancy Sinatra, Prodigy, Paul Simon, the Beatles. I love random goodness.
23 Jan 2013 — 12:54pm
Prince ...all.
Chapter & Verse from his latest LP...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5dB_Yylpc4
..crispy sharp soul funk.
Interesting New Yorker piece on Prince...
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/01/princes-new-web-si...
n.
23 Jan 2013 — 5:45pm
As a fan of 30 years, I personally feel that almost everything post Emancipation is garbage. Live, he still rips on guitar (check out his solo at 3:27 covering My Guitar Gently Weeps) but seldom show-boats like this on any of his recorded work.
NPG is by far the worst band he’s ever played with. Why he still carries their sorry asses around, I’ll never understand.
In my opinion, some of his better work includes:
This is Not Music, This is a Trip — B side of Alphabet Street 12" single (1st one on this list, crap quality)
Cloreen Bacon Skin — Crystal Ball (fantastic liner notes on this track with the original release)
Animal Kingdom — The Truth (A sweet bonus acoustic album that came with Crystal Ball)
Bob George — Black Album
Erotic City (dance mix) — I got this as a CD single import from France. Set me back $50.
More commercially:
Tambourine — Around the World in a Day
Starfish and Coffee — Sign “O” the Times
Pop Life — 1999
Figure 1: Did I mention that I had a $500.00 private stage-side VIP table when he came to Halifax in 2011?
23 Jan 2013 — 6:05pm
I was just wondering how... ...how I could un-follow posts to this thread, and then this. ^ Carry on.
23 Jan 2013 — 7:34pm
Be careful what you wish for ;)
Figure 2: Myself holding a rare, un-opened, un-read, mint condition Prince comic book “Alter Ego” published in 1991 by Pirahna Music (an offshoot of DC Comics) as a promo prior to the release of Diamonds and Pearls, a piece of jewelry I had commissioned fashioned after the symbol on the cover of the original release of Diamonds and Pearls (he had yet to change his name to the symbol at this time), and the afore mentioned VIP pass to his “Welcome 2 Canada” (2011) tour. I ate rice and lentils for a month to absorb that.
23 Jan 2013 — 9:33pm
@5star: I just read that article and reviewed the links. Thank you so much for sharing. I even learned that he ditched NPG for a new band! FINALLY!! Sadly, his latest video Screw Driver has crap kinetic typography, but the drummer sounds (looks ;) promising.
24 Jan 2013 — 9:53am
Nice collection!
Ya, and from what little I've heard from his new band (anything upped to youtube doesn't stay there very long) Prince has found some deeper sounds coming off his fret board. At times his musicianship reminds me of some of Mozart's stuff. Between the common 4/4 beat phrasing structure he adds soooo much color!! Not that Mozart composed to the 4/4 beat ... but you know what I mean. They both have the ability to play within the space between the pedestrian musical structure(s).
In that guitar solo with Tom Petty I wonder how many rehearsal takes it took timing the catch that Telecaster ... which was prolly borrowed ...lool!!!
n.
24 Jan 2013 — 9:52am
I went over to Prince's house when he played Coachella to develop some artwork. When I walked in there was a jam session going on. During my visit, he asked "Would you like to meet Larry Graham?" I immediately said yes. That was a treat.
Working with him was a pleasure, he likes very concise language and considers denim a "sloppy" fabric. The work was accomplished on my laptop very quickly.
pbc
24 Jan 2013 — 9:58am
Thanks for sharing that Paul :)
I'd love to see that art work!
n.
24 Jan 2013 — 10:59am
Paul, how on earth did you manage to get invited to Prince’s home?!? Backstory please.
24 Jan 2013 — 4:26pm
I am the AD for the concert promotions firm that put's on Coachella, amongst many other things. Prince was a late addition one year so we had to do something special. He gets along really well with creatives and not so much business folks. I am also a guitarist so we had plenty to talk about. Once in a while I get past all the people in the middle and work directly with the artist. It is always much faster, go figure…
pbc
24 Jan 2013 — 10:17pm
Song-collector Sam Lee's brilliant 'Ground of Its Own' album.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1it2M7-ME0Y
25 Jan 2013 — 6:28pm
Golly. Prince's house. Untoppable.
The best I can do is the time I helped Dave Van Ronk polish off a fifth of Jack Daniels backstage at a concert at Case Western Reserve University.
How the man could still make music after what we consumed was truly astounding. Played great, too.
I've been listening to:
Blues: Tedeschi-Trucks Band (As a slide guitar player, Derek Trucks has no peer. The man can raise the dead. His solos have, at times, brought me to tears.) As a vocalist, Derek's wife Susan Tedeschi is a cross between Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin and an accomplished blues picker on guitar to boot.
Theatre: A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd - Stephen Sondheim, music and lyrics. (Both librettos by Hugh Wheeler who, you can be sure, played a big part in supplying, uncredited, lyric ideas and song titles.) And with orchestrations by genius Jonathan Tunick - far and away the greatest orchestrator to ever work on Broadway.
(My parents started taking me to Broadway shows from the age of eight, but even still, this stuff is definitely 'acquired taste'. But what a wonderful acquisition it's been. I can't live without listening to Night Music or Sweeney at least a couple of times a year. For the uninitiated, there's Tim Burton's treatment of Sweeney as a movie with Johnny Depp, just a few years back, where one can see a terrific movie and get the characters and story line so essential to appreciating the full theatre scores. Moreso than any other theatrical songwriter I can think of, Sondheim's music and lyrics only fully come to life when you understand the larger narrative within which the songs function. Few people know that the lyric to 'Send In The Clowns' isn't just some loose theatrical metaphors pieced together - they are very specific to a character in a very specific situation within a larger narrative.)
Joni Mitchell: Joni's 'jazz period' which to me, means everything she did that had Jaco Pastorius playing fretless electric bass behind her. The studio albums 'Hejira', (Jaco plays on four of the tracks), 'Mingus', 'Don Juan's Reckless Daughter'. Also the live concert recording 'Shadows and Light', where the band includes Randy Brecker on sax, Pat Metheny on electric guitar, keyboardist Lyle May, along with Jaco on bass.
Also, my son's been playing a lot of Irish folk music around the house lately - from Pandora via iPhone piped to speakers via bluetooth. Quite infectious.
25 Jan 2013 — 6:36pm
I was in the Hollywood chapter of the AYF* with Serj Tankian.
That's all I got. :-/
* http://www.ayfwest.org/
hhp
25 Jan 2013 — 7:17pm
I partied with Jeff Beck in London. Is that a thing?
25 Jan 2013 — 9:03pm
Jeff Beck rocks. Definitely a thing, Chris. Did you know the man has actually built cars from scratch? Too much talent for one individual.
hrant - if I have to go Googling to have the faintest notion of what you're talking about, well, I don't know if that counts. ;)
Purple rain.........
28 Jan 2013 — 1:54am
Bruce Springsteen - Devils And Dust
All I'm Thinkin' About
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYDzkXBV0vQ
Matamoros Banks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=azleHkMUBzg
Long Time Comin'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7ObKmXlL28
All The Way Home
www.youtube.com/watch?v=giV7OguT3qc
...
n.
28 Jan 2013 — 9:34am
Golly. Prince's house. Untoppable.
Maybe toppable in some folks minds. Michael Jackson's house. Man do I have a sad story (which I shall not relate here) about this.
pbc
28 Jan 2013 — 11:35am
Devils and Dust was a fine album. Black Cowboys is an impressive piece of modern balladeering.
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I'm listening to the Old Crow Medicine Show. How have I only just discovered this band?
4 Feb 2013 — 6:56am
Too much time tinkering with fonts, too little spent with the cans ; )
4 Feb 2013 — 9:28pm
JH>How have I only just discovered this band?
I've been doing a lot of listening lately after many years of not seeking out new music and I get that feeling a lot. I didn't even own a pair of cans until recently.
The biggest "jesus-f-cking-aitch-christ-how-did-I-miss-these-guys-back-in-the-day?" feeling I've had so far is the band Little Feat. In the late seventies I was, mostly, into jazz and more jazz and stuff labeled 'swamp rock' just wasn't on my radar.
When leader and founder of the group Lowell George was still alive and at the helm there was no better rock band anywhere ever. The live album Waiting For Columbus is a masterpiece.
16 Feb 2013 — 12:54pm
Chris Dean: [Prince]still rips on guitar (check out his solo at 3:27 covering My Guitar Gently Weeps) but seldom show-boats like this on any of his recorded work.
Thanks again for that link, although I see it has now been blocked by YouTube. Remembering it prompted me, last night, to watch the London 'Concert for George'. I have to say that Eric Clapton's more restrained solo on 'While my guitar gently weeps' moved me more than Prince's. It's always breathtaking to see a virtuoso like Prince playing at the edge of control, but Clapton managed something that stayed relevant to the song itself. To make this, barely, relevant to type, it reminds me of the difference between being impressed by display typography that draws all sorts of attention to itself independent of the content, and that feeling one gets when typography just seems to perfectly fit the text.
The other highlight of the London concert was Anoushka Shankar conducting her father's composition while Clapton impressively handled the Indian time signature.
17 Feb 2013 — 1:32am
U2 Achtung Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dllIXF8slM4
n.
17 Feb 2013 — 11:56am
U2 - Achtung Baby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dllIXF8slM4
n.
24 Feb 2013 — 7:23am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv2lsyvR0ek – Chet Atkins playing Freight Train.
2 Mar 2013 — 1:20pm
What Up Steve? (02:50)
The Caravan
A local Halifax hip-hop group. Used to party with this guy.
3 Mar 2013 — 12:02am
sup Steve eh? ... neato cooly dooly.
The Rolling Stones - GRRR! (Full Album)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=D0hLGipbN2E&NR=1
...grab a listen quick before it gets nuked off of youtube!
n.
4 Mar 2013 — 5:49am
H.C. Lumbye:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB_uPSkNEoU – Københavns Jernbane Damp Galop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rZQRT7Zj6I – Champagne Galop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY_HsvqkKlU – Nordisk Fostbrødre Galop
4 Mar 2013 — 6:33am
Yo La Tengo, Last Days of Disco.
4 Mar 2013 — 11:20am
http://atomsforpeace.info
Something about Thom Yorke and Flea performing together intrigued me!
But it takes a while to get into (which is good).
11 Mar 2013 — 6:59pm
This one goes out to Jared for doing such a fine hob throwing down the hammer on all that spam.
(theres a few swears in this one ;)
((have I mentioned that I saw Prince live while seated at the #1 private stage-side VIP table?))
Figure 1: Photograph courtesy of 5star.
12 Mar 2013 — 2:16pm
Motor Man Keikyu VVVF by Super Bell"Z. Weird, nutty and fun.
17 Mar 2013 — 11:45pm
U2 ...all.
Sinead O'Connor ...all.
I am Stretched on your Grave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcwlCHSdGQ
Bob Geldof ...all.
Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
n.
18 Mar 2013 — 12:35am
Speaking of Prince, did you know he wrote Nothing Compares 2 U?
And where the heck did you find that photo 5star?
18 Mar 2013 — 1:51am
Look up, way up, up to the Heavens ... can you see your lucky star?
Even if you bet all that you have on that star, there ain't no way I'll ever give up my source.
n.
18 Mar 2013 — 9:36am
I'm trying to remember who it was who described Prince's appearance as 'like a permed sickbag'. I never really understood the comment until I saw that photograph.
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Sinead O'Connor ...all.
I finally got around to listening to her two most recent albums just this month, and am wondering what took me so long. VIP is extraordinary.
25 Mar 2013 — 8:14pm
Purple 1: Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze Live Beat Club Performance 1967