joe and erinaceous - your emails will be out this weekend. I suck and forgot to bring in CDs.

I think I said it was the greatest Rock album ever recorded, but only since the reissue with extra tracks.

You'll like this, Joe. I made a Frankenmix of just jazz songs. This wont' be my actual mix so I'm not spilling the beans anywhere.

Sdtrk Life - Sophisticated Lady - Duke Ellington
Cur in Stero - Lullaby of Birdland - Sarah
1st Rec - Peter Gunn by Quincy Jones w/Roland Kirk
No Word - 12! - Sonny Stitt
Yr Born (1961)- Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am - Mingus
Name Exch - Rebecca - Lee Konitz
Not English - Naima - Les Double Six (this is a gorgeous french acapella version of the Coltrane classic)
CityState - Key Largo - Sarah Vaughn
RoadTrip - Route 66 - Nat King Cole Trio
Local - Take Five - Dave Brubeck
Color - Your Little Red Wagon - Anita O'Day
5am Happy - I was tempted by 5 a.m. Strut - Ezra Weiss, but will actualy take Little Tracy - Wynton Kelly
Not a Cover - Song For My Father - Horace Silver
(Steely Dan famously rip off the beginning of this song for one of their hits)
Book/movie - Jack Kerouac - Charlie Parker
Wildcard - Theme From the Wild One - Shorty Rogers
#1 Song -Cast Your Fate To The Wind - Vince Guaraldi
Little bit country - I'm an Old Cowhand From the Rio Grande - Sonny Rollins
Hate artist luv song - Red Top - King Pleasure / Betty Carter, I don't really hate Betty Carter but she's my least favorite of the acknowledged giants of jazz singing.
Wha? - Yep Roc Heresy - Slim Gaillard (fantastic mumbo jumbo from the coolest guy ever)
Guilty? - Soul Sauce - Cal Tjader (not so very guilty, but this is a serious groover. Not "serious" jazz)
TV Theme - Theme for Mr. Broadway - Dave Brubeck
Unrequited love - Willow Weep For Me - Billie Holiday (there's a movie with Jeanne Moreau where she listens to this song incessantly. So...existential.)
Love for Title - The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers - Mingus (Mingus always had the best titles)
Stump David & Jon - Come As You Are - Charlie Hunter (cover of the Nirvana tune)

Love for Title - The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers - Mingus (Mingus always had the best titles)

This was totally my song for that category on my actual mix! But - I can't fit it on there it turns out. But still, funny.

This was totally my song for that category on my actual mix! But - I can't fit it on there it turns out. But still, funny.

Heh! Mingus has great great titles. Harry Partch does too.

"The Cognescenti Plunged Into Hell While At Cocktails"

Also:

Titles of some sections are: "The Lost Musicians Mix Magic " ,"Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall " ,"Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual " ,"The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End" , and "Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges."

Technically I should have deleted the 20 Gig of mp3s on it, but I... forgot. Technically you should delete them too. I'll just assume that you did, OK?

Of course I did! Would I do something like that?

Okay, Shawn, I've decided to write about Klymaxx's Meeting In The Ladies Room. It lets me write about that whole early 80s era of electro funk that overlapped with dance pop for a bunch of groups like Shalamar ("Dead Giveaway" "Dancing in the Sheets"), Cameo ("She's Strange", "Word Up"), Gap Band ("You Dropped a Bomb on Me"), Mary Jane Girls ("In My House" - one my favorites), and the Pointer Sisters hits from that Beverly Hills Cop era ("Neutron Dance").

It's interesting because it's the last era of black dance music before hip hop drum loops completely change the sound and rhythm and get absorbed into pop (mid to late 80s, with New Jack Swing). Prince's synthesizers are the abiding influence with lots of Chic guitar too.

Not Shawn, but I am bouncing, bouncing, bouncing in anticipation!

Okay, Shawn, I've decided to write about Klymaxx's Meeting In The Ladies Room. It lets me write about that whole early 80s era of electro funk that overlapped with dance pop

YES! If not because of the legitimation, but just because it's such an 80s expression. Considering how hip hop drowned out most black women for the late eighties, Meeting in the Ladies Room is almost a bit rap.

Thanks to David I will now be singing Word Up for the next week or so. I am also craving the sight of a tall fade.

It's the code word.

So, does a cover version of a song have to have been originally performed by the writer?

I have downloaded three versions of a song from the very first album I ever bought for myself, and all three were duds. I have moved on to the next album...