I just went off at the local used cd store for no apparant reason. $87 worth and not one was over 6 bucks. When the girl checked me out she asked "are you going to listen to all these?". I said yes. She started putting them in their cases from the drawer behind the counter and one by one I started inspecting them for scratches. She said "the cd player is over there if you wanna listen to them". I realized what she had meant. Did I want to listen to them to check for quality. I said, "Oh, I thought you meant was I going to listen to them all EVER."
I haven't listened to all of them, but boy enjoy filling the empty "Cracker" and "Super Deluxe" void in my life.
Anne, I'm wondering if I could work a trade out with you.
I've been wanting to write about the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks for the book but haven't been able to track them down. Would you be willing too burn what you've got in exchange for...whatever I've got really. We can talk about it in detail offline. My profile addy is good. I'd need to get it pretty soon though since I have to wrap up the book by the end of this month.
Eggs Pierre Noire
...and I just got back from Amoeba having spent Too Much Money. But I got:
The Triplets of Belleville
soundtrack (playing now - I like it quite a lot).
Resurrection of the Bayou Maharajah
by James Booker, the legendary New Orleans pianist. I'm thinking about writing about this for the book. He's a really interesting figure. Probably the greatest piano talent to ever come out of New Orleans - which is saying something about a place that produced Professor Longhair and Dr. John - gay, junkie, mentally disturbed, got his eye put out in an attack (so he wore an eye patch).
Songs of the Pogo
which I already had on LP, but now it's finally been reissued on CD. Walt Kelly himself sings on this. It's pretty fun.
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
- These are not the original records released in the sixties (which I already own and are stellar spy jazz - some of the very best). As was often the case in those days, spy jazz/crime jazz soundtrack often included all kinds of tracks which
were never actually used as cues on the show.
So it was with Man From U.N.C.L.E. But Film Score Monthly has released the actual cues from the show in a very limited edition. Psyched to have this. It's got Lalo Schifrin, Morton Stevens (Hawaii 5-0 theme), Jerry Goldsmith, and others.
The Atomic Basie
- also thinking about doing this for the book. There's a whole interesting history of big band music continuing through the fifties and sixties (well past its heydey), and this is one of the classics. All the songs are written and arranged by Neil Hefti (who wrote the Batman theme). Swings like a mojo, of couse.
And I nabbed
Another Mellow Spring
by Mellow out of the cut-out bin for $2.95. They're the band that did the soundtrack for CQ (which is one of my fav soundtracks of the last few years).
Here's a great description of James Booker's style from the liner notes by Scott Billington:
And sometimes he'd play the most compelling music you'd ever hear, a dark magician tearing sheets of sound from the keys slamming the low notes so hard they sounded like a plucked bass. He'd play impossibly beautiful melodies against syncopated bass and chord patterns -- his own mutant version of stride -- that left everybody in the bar breathless and with every sadness in their hearts exposed.
Speaking of Duck Dodgers, I taped the Green Lantern episode last night just for any Buffista (looks at Jon) who might've missed it.
It took like a week, but I finally managed to download the thing. Then last night, I got home flipped on the TV and caught the last 30 seconds of it. TiVo to the rescue! My TV had been tuned to Cartoon Network, so I could rewind 30 minutes and catch it all on TV. I've still got the download, but there's something more satisfying about seeing it on the boob tube.
Hec, what's on the Triplets of Belleville soundtrack?
signed,
just got home from that movie 10 minutes ago
Hec, what's on the Triplets of Belleville soundtrack?
There are about four or five different versions/arrangements of the theme song "Belleville Rendezvous" (under the bridge with the trashcan lids and junk, French, English, Cabaret version, also one that's more instrumental with bits of vocals). Some jazzy underscore with a Django vibe. The chase scene music at the end, the french rock and roll song playing at the beach shack, the musette/accordion stuff during the Tour De France.
Before I forget, my Amoeba scouting report with special alerts for Hayden and Jilli.
Jilli, I saw an advance promo copy of the new Rasputina record - due out in March. Also there's a box set of Cure b-sides.
Hayden, have you seen the Rough Trade Postpunk 101 collection? The Rough Trade Rock and Roll collection is also unbelievable. Here let me track down the links for you...
Postpunk 101
Rough Trade Rock
Being compiled by hipster record store guys, this leans (expectedly) to punk, indie rock, and garage rock, but within that framework the contents are pretty diverse, spanning from pre-punk pioneers the Modern Lovers and Rocket From the Tombs to currently hip troublemakers the Dirtbombs, the Von Bondies, and the Hives, with all kinds of stops in between. In short, if you dig your rock & roll fast, wild, and noisy, this is the ideal soundtrack for your next shindig — after all, how many albums can you name that offer you choice cuts by the Pixies, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Pere Ubu, the Saints, the Beatings, Clinic, Thee Headcoats, and Guitar Wolf along with 38 more slabs of genius? (One of which, by the way, is the first authorized CD release of Crime's ultra-rare "Hot Wire My Heart.") Get it, crank it up, and if your neighbors don't complain to the landlord, they'll certainly thank you. — Mark Deming
Also, another cool postpunk comp In The Beginning There Was Rhythm with Slits, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire...
