What Are You Listening To?

I found this rare 10” at Leesburg Dig for $1 a few months ago.. couldn’t believe it

vansmack wrote:

Jewish wrote:
Hanna Montana didn't do too bad a job on this
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/28/961165626/miley-cyrus-tiny-desk-home-concert

Nope.  Did you not see how subtly brilliant Hope was in that other video?  There was nothing subtle about Miley's performance.

Jewish wrote:
Feels like Miley has been doing the modern version of the American songbook …some misses, but a few gems
I thought her Wish You Were Here* on SNL was great and timely

*obviously not an American band

Mediocre cover band with one trick - vibrato.  Excessive vibrato.  I'm a little over it.

Miley's "where is my mind" cover is as painful as you would expect it to be…

Juana Molina - Tres Cosas


Calming…


Calming is good

Unique album -as many are- in Dylan’s oeuvre primarily due to Scarlet Rivera’s violin…just colors the songs differently..

kosmo wrote:
Cornershop - England is a Garden Instrumentals

on an evil streaming service.. lazy or not this is really working for me… i.e the T.Rex influence comes shining through on "No Rock, Save in Roll"

I will say the three tracks in the middle are a solid jam
England is a Garden->The Cash Money ->(Mornin ben)->I'm a wooden soldier

I'm a wooden soldier is possibly better without vocals…what a freaking throwdown and Exile on M St homage with a little trippy vibe
Everywhere that Wog army roam (the vocal version) could be a outake from a 70s Jimmy Cliff session

Side-burbs wrote:
Maybe that was a bong in the Solar Power vid?!

apparently, even sidehatch is right twice a year

The music video for ‘Solar Power’, the title track, features Lorde smoking what looks like a bong made from a fennel plant. She later confirmed this to NZ Herald, saying, “Yes I am. I took your standard apple bong and made it a bit more chic, a bit more me. I’m sure if you hit it for long enough the fennel would begin to roast.

Dukes of the Stratosphere

and then the El Goodo catalog

Reefer songs were fairly common in the first half of the 20th century.. the record label Stash has like 6-7 LPs chock full of them…this collects a few of them

I think it became more taboo to sing about reefer post WWII

Babasonicos - Anoche


One of the best albums of past twenty years…

Toad the Wet Sprocket - Pale

it's national vinyl day and the band said show us your vinyl and of course i had to post a picture of my signed copy of this one.. i had put in the sleeve a flyer with scribbled notes about the show… i was able to decipher that this was when TTWS was on tour with Michael Penn in 1989 and i was trying to capture the Penn's setlist… the hit was "No Myth" and DJ Bonebreak was in Penn's touring band at the time…

Louis Prima and the Witnesses (Keely Smith)


The two cd ultra-lounge compilation that was released in the mid 90s I believe to cash in on Brian Setzers’s cover of Jump jive and wail when you had that brief lounge music revival


Tacky cover cartoon of Louis and Keely apparently grilling at a bbq notwithstanding (what is lounge about that?) this compilation smokes from first to last over two and a half hours!




Some of my favorite music and I think an under recognized bit of rock and roll…always sort of marginalized to the Sinatra/Nat King Cole section of the record store with which it often has nothing in common other than time period…more than vocal jazz this is r&b and rock and roll married with New Orleans music and jazz…a beautiful melting pot..at times ecstatic joyous music…oh and Prima was a jiver…almost a pre-rapper making up hilarious improv lines and introducing them in the middle of classic songs..listen to him turn Just one of those things inside out and upside down!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z22cDkABFsM


Of course Prima - largely forgotten-is the man who perfected the Vegas lounge act which wasn’t just about music but also comedy…

Prima deserves a good biography

Archers of Loaf
to see whether I want to go to the december 17 (friday) ottobar show.

ocean colour scene - moseley shoals

friday end of the work week jams…

Cd 2 of Andres Calamaro’s Honestidad Brutal

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWVo2tank-zyo3B98QdcQpDdGyJYSH8vk

My favorite album for almost 25 years -all 37 or 38 songs- alternating repeatedly with its 5 cd follow up El Salmon which has been my favorite since 2017… a 101 song absolutely crazy masterpiece

I get burnt out on stuff though so I am thankful for having misplaced cd for a year

Recently in Spain for RSD a few weeks ago they put out a record with half of these songs recorded in demo form in my neighborhood in Buenos Aires: Palermo. I picked up three copies and you know international shipping ain’t cheap.

I can’t believe he is turning 60 on the 22nd… Meeting Andres and getting to chat a bit about ten years ago after his show at Irving Plaza was a treat…I will always remember talking about how the Nobel Academy and Bob Dylan - a mutual touchstone who he has opened for many times- would he win? we both knew he would get it eventually and a few years later he did..People always criticize social media but a few weeks after meeting I was explaining how baseball worked over twitter to him back in Argentina watching..

The years are going too fast now…way way too fast… and this damn covid feels like it’s both slowing and accelerating things


“El tiempo pasa..nos vamos poniendo menos..”
A.C.

Mountain Goats- Dark in Here

Their jazziest to date

i.e. Lizard Suit

Bagley wrote:
Mountain Goats- Dark in Here

Their jazziest to date

i.e. Lizard Suit

So hoping they have Lizard Suits at the merch table

A personal favorite


Most will know her for being the female voice on Schoolhouse Rocks


Blossom Dearie is buried a couple of miles from here in Falls Church

Another personal favorite