The Breeders have a new album “Mountain Battles” coming out in the US on April 8th. To celebrate it’s release they had a Record Release Party where they played the entire album off of a vinyl test pressing at a V.F.W. in my hometown of Dayton, OH.

I listened to the first song - it's awesome! (Link goes to video of the party, with the album playing....)

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Thanks for the link!

I can't watch the video now - what's the title of the song?

So, I'm putting the final touches on my April Showers mix, and I was excited to find The Best of Burt Bacharach at the library, so I could get "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head". I get home, pop in the CD, and... it's all instrumental. This is marked nowhere. I know he's the composer part of the team, but really, who wants "Alfie" or "What the World Needs Now is Love" as an instrumental?

ETA: Oh god, it's worse than I thought, a couple of songs do have words, but they are sung by a chorus of women using a lot of ooh ooh oohs.

Oh god, it's worse than I thought, a couple of songs do have words, but they are sung by a chorus of women using a lot of ooh ooh oohs.

Among the lounge collecting crowd these are called "abstract vocals" which are parsed for signature vocalizations from "Zuu zuu zuu" for Esquivel to the Beach Boy-esque "Ba ba baaa."

They're really best on science fiction themes (see: "Star Trek") evoking a sense of soaring and limitless wonder. Or possibly tiresome muzak.

There are collections of Bacharach available with the original hitmaking singers, btw.

I'm going to put these in the tiresome muzak category.

There are collections of Bacharach available with the original hitmaking singers, btw.

I'm sure there are, just not at my local library. But they made up for it by having the Mighty Wind soundtrack.

Yes it’s blowin’ peace and freedom, it’s blowin’ you and me…

Dr Pepper Will Give Everyone* in America a Free Soda If Axl Rose Releases New Guns N' Roses Album, Chinese Democracy, In 2008

*Guitarists Slash and Buckethead Will Not Be Eligible For Free Soda

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Wow. Chris Cornell will include Israel as a part of a summer tour, as well as Dinosour Jr, Ian Brown, Bjork, and after Joe Jackson and Marianne Faithfull were here last month. And we're still in March, so I'm sure there will be others.

Which means only one thing. There will be war, just like every other time big list of names say they'll come, leaving only a big pile of cancellations.

(But wow, Cornell. Even though I'll probably won't go to that show, I'm still very excited!).

For those interested, I just finalized my "April Showers" Mix:

“Fatiguée d'attendre” by Patricia Kaas
“Rainy Days and Mondays” by Carpenters
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World” by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
“Come Rain or Come Shine” by Ray Charles
“Kathy's Song” by Eva Cassidy
“Isn't This a Lovely Day” by Stacey Kent
“En écoutant la pluie” by Sylvie Vartan
“Laughter in the Rain” by Neil Sedaka
“Singin' in the Rain” by Count Basie & Joe Williams
“More Than Rain” by Tom Waits
“Little April Shower” by Amy Lou Barnes, Sally Mueller, Mary Moder, Alice Sizer
“A Fella with an Umbrella” by Judy Garland & Peter Lawford
“The Rain, The Park & Other Things” by The Cowsills
“It's Raining on Prom Night” by Cindy Bullens
“Don't Let the Rain Come Down” by Johnny Rivers
“Five Feet High and Rising” by Johnny Cash
“Kentucky Rain” by Elvis Presley
“Runaway” by Bonnie Raitt
“Rain and Snow” by The Chieftains
“Red Rain” by The White Stripes
“Red Rain” by Peter Gabriel
“Cloudbusting” by Kate Bush
“Riders on the Storm” by The Doors
“Shadows in the Rain” by Sting
“Turn to Rain” by Mercy Creek
“So. Central Rain” by R.E.M.
“Natural Woman” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes
“Rain Street” by The Pogues
“Only Happy When It Rains” by Garbage
“Here Comes the Rain Again” by Eurythmics
“It's Raining Men” by The Weather Girls
“Sultans of Swing” by Dire Straits
“Escape (The Pina Colada Song)” by Rupert Holmes
“No Rain” by Blind Melon
“Sweetest Drop” by Peter Murphy
“Africa” by Toto
“Like The Weather” by 10,000 Maniacs
“Rainy Day Bells” by Neil Sedaka
“Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head” by B.J. Thomas
“I Can See Clearly Now” by Johnny Nash
“Après la pluie” by Les Negresses Vertes
“Year of the Cat” by Al Stewart
“Storms in Africa II” by Enya
“Heavy Cloud No Rain” by Sting
“It's Coming Down” by Cake
“Purple Rain” by Prince And The Revolution
“Stormy Weather” by Lena Horne
“Strange Weather” by Marianne Faithfull
“Rainy Night in Georgia” by Conway Twitty and Sam Moore
“Kiss at the End of the Rainbow” by Mitch & Mickey

Also, here is the "March Madness" Mix that is being retired today:

“Crazy” by Patsy Cline
“Mad about the Boy” by Dinah Washington
“Crazy for You” by Madonna
“Crazy Love” by Van Morrison
“Still Crazy After All These Years” by Paul Simon
“Crazy He Calls Me” by Billie Holiday
“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” by Stacey Kent
“The Windmills of Your Mind” by Dusty Springfield
“Ridiculous Thoughts” by The Cranberries
“Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Elvis Costello
“Excitable Boy” by Warren Zevon
“Under Pressure” by Queen & David Bowie
“Born Of Frustration” by James
“Love to Hate You” by Erasure
“She Drives Me Crazy” by Fine Young Cannibals
“I Don't Like Mondays” by The Boomtown Rats
“All In Your Mind” by Echo & the Bunnymen
“Crazy Little Thing Called Love” by Michael Bublé
“Crazy Like Mad” by Leslie Scott and Irene Williams
“Let's Go Crazy” by Prince and The Revolution
“Mad House Jump” by The Daylighters
“Imagination” by Erasure
“Lost in Space” by Fountains of Wayne
“Senses Working Overtime” by XTC
“Panic” by The Smiths
“Psycho Killer” by Talking Heads
“Crazy” by Gnarls Barkley
“They're Coming to Take Me Away”
“Crazy” by Me First & The Gimme Gimmes (Seal cover)
“I Wanna Be Sedated” by The Ramones
“Only” by Nine Inch Nails
“Crazy” by Andy Bell
“Destroyer” by The Kinks
“My Little Brother” by Art Brut
“Tear You Apart” by She Wants Revenge
“Go Insane” by Lindsey Buckingham
“Desperate But Not Serious” by Adam Ant
“Love Her Madly” by The Doors
“Love You Madly” by Cake
“Losing My Religion” by R.E.M.
“Left of Center” by Suzanne Vega & Joe Jackson
“Chill Out Tent” by The Hold Steady
“Crazy Baby” by Joan Osborne
“Crazy” by Tierney Sutton (Patsy Cline cover)
“Psycho Suite” by Bernard Herrmann