Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
"Fragments From a Rainy Season," John Cale
For some musicians (Neil Young is one), my rules are:
1. Live beats studio
2. Acoustic beats electric
3. Solo beats band
And those rules certainly work for me in this case. A bunch of Cale's best songs (and one of Cohen's) performed simply and minimally. I love this album.
YMMV - some people get bored with Cale's piano playing.
One more thing: moonlit's Bonus Australian disk - LOVE it.
Not quite music-related, but: HEY! JOE! Marc Maron is listed as the primary host for the new progressive Air America's morning show, "Morning Sedition" on their website. AM 1190 in NYC, 6-9 AM.
Interesting Neil Young interview on Fresh Air yesterday. I'll take him electric, preferably with Crazy Horse, over acoustic any day.
It Takes a Nation of Millions... is astonishing, probably one of my "Desert Island Discs". Took a while for me to get into, but once it clicked it was mind blowing. Unbelievably dense. I'm tempted to advocate its status as Greatest Production Ever. The Bomb Squad (Chuck, Hank & Keith Shocklee, Bill Stephney, Eric Sadler) are the real stars. "Louder Than a Bomb", "Rebel Without a Pause" and "Black Steel In The Hour of Chaos" are favorites, although, the whole thing is great. Adore the back to back clips of Malcolm X ("It is time for us to do whatever is necessary to defend ourselves") and George Clinton ("Ain't nuthin' but a party, y'all!"); who says agitprop can't be fun?
Thanks, Misha. Spent yesterday afternoon listening to Robert Smigel's Fresh Air appearances (working hard the whole time, of course...) -- see the new tag. Had tears rolling down my cheeks, laughed hard enough to aggravate my asthma, but it was so worth it. For his most recent appearance search "Triumph". That's the one in which he parodied Bill O'Reilly's Fresh Air appearance.
Speaking of N.E.R.D.: Pharell Comes Alive! (but the Black Eyed Peas were better)
I'm tempted to advocate its status as Greatest Production Ever.
In close competition with Paul's Boutique for the best of last 20 years, I'd say.
I'll take him electric, preferably with Crazy Horse, over acoustic any day.
Saw NY & CH on the Year of the Horse tour. Long, interminable feedback-drenched codas on every song. Bored me out of my skull. Now the Rust Never Sleeps tour - solo acoustic at the start, then Crazy Horse. That was one to remember. My left ear's never been the same.
My favorite Neil, though, is on bootlegs of solo acoustic shows from '89 ( Freedom material), '92-'93 (not the Unplugged thing though) and one from the early 70's
Saw NY & CH on the Year of the Horse tour. Long, interminable feedback-drenched codas on every song. Bored me out of my skull. Now the Rust Never Sleeps tour - solo acoustic at the start, then Crazy Horse.
How I would have loved to seen him on the RNS tour. Sigh.
I have a great bootleg of NY and Crazy Horse from Farm Aid VII in 94. And a solo one I just got from a television concert on the BBC in 71.
And I've said here before that I thought the Greendale tour from last summer was fan-freaking-tastic. It was the first time I had ever cried at a concert - uhm from the goodness of the music that is. (Song that induced tears was "Bandit.")
Also hayden - I found a copy of a Knife in the Water four-track single yesterday - Crossposs Bells - I remembered them from you mentioning seeing them at SXSW and from your 2003 mix. Like them a lot.
off to catch up while praying that the 678 new messages in Bureau is not people adding stuff to the FAQ
off to catch up while praying that the 678 new messages in Bureau is not people adding stuff to the FAQ
Heh.
Heh.
(worth repeating)
Oh -- Hayden -- thanks for the NMH CDs. I haven't listened to them yet, though.