Sacha Distel has also taken the big sleep.
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Just sent to me by my friend Eliot, the White Light, White Heat tribute album. Downloading it now so have not listened yet but am very intrigued by the line-up:
Ergo Phizmiz plays Banjo, Bass Guitar, Ruler, Music Box, Violin, Toy Piano, Electric Guitar, Accordion, Squeezebox, Euphonium, Ukulele, Kazoo, Xylophone, Pixiphone, Uumskither, Mbira, Pod, Delay, Turntable, Percussion.
Update on the downloading: SSSLLLOOOOWWWWWWW. What will it sound like? What must White Light, White Heat have sounded like in 1968 to all those unprepared ears? Even the "prepared" ears (guys like Lester Bangs and Bob Quine who were steeped in both free jazz and feedback) were knocked on their butts. Bangs had a memorable line about the album, & especially "Sister Ray", "energies beyond the highest energies of all those Detroit killerboys," i.e., the Stooges & the MC5, both of whom Lester adored.
And was Sacha Distel Free French or pro-Vichy? Sorry, I'm having a Casablanca moment.
Thanks for the tip, Joe. I'm downloading Mr. Phizmiz' work as I write this.
Oh, can't wait to get home for that. Asuming downloading OC eps isn't choking all my bandwidth. Ergo Phizmiz rocks.
Is it really slow for you, too, Jon? The title track has been downloading for about 15 minutes -- and that's on the T-1 or whatever it is we have at work. Can't imagine how long it would be on the home dial-up.
I've been unable to download any of it, too. Apparently metafilter posted it first, so half the world is probably downloading it at this very moment.
Your crossword is quite the hit, Joe.
My download started at 2.0KB/sec. It was at 1.6KB/sec. when it finished with the first song. I started the second song--it's at 0.3KB/sec, so I don't think I'm gonna get it at this time.
We have a SDSL line that's roughly T1 speed here.
Years ago I compared notes with cathy (she posts here occasionally)--we both decided that White Light / White Heat was the album that had the biggest influence on us.
Your crossword is quite the hit, Joe.
I certainly enjoyed it.
Hayden, your millions of UK readers who don't use Bittorrent might not appreciate the honking great Sopranos spoiler on the High Hat homepage...
Great Sopranos piece, though.