Buddy Channel Podcast

2011-01-13T20:42:00.000-08:00

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2010-11-02T14:10:00.000-07:00

Clouser Portfolio

Security Theater

2009-04-04T08:36:00.000-07:00

Security Theater
00:00 The Cramps "Garbage Man"

03:31 from that movie with a bear.

03:41 Sebedoh "Flame"

08:33 Anton Karas, The Third Man theme song.

10:43 Wendy Carlos Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C

13:27 Desmond Dekker "Keep a Cool Head"

15:32 Terrence McKenna glossolalia

15:41 Mudhoney "The Money Will Roll Right In"

18:07 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Rufus Thomas "Chicken Dog"
"...The Blues Explosion turned instead to another musical legend: Stax/Volt star Rufus Thomas came into the studio, barked and crowed on "Chicken Dog," and was paid $500 for his troubles....Rather than Burnside and Thomas adding authenticity to the Blues Explosion’s sound, the band members prodded their would-be mentors into delivering shtick"
from "The Truth About The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion", Jim DeRegotis, 1997.
Well, I still like the song.
Rufus at Wattstax. See Wattstax.

21:00 07 Soul Love (ATOM's Pink Innards Mix)
from Ziggy Stardust Remixed, most of which is crap.

25:52 Staples Singers Respect Yourself (Live)
from Wattstax.
I liked Aretha's bigass hat like everyone else. And I love and respect Aretha.
But If you ask me- and you didn't-
Mavis Staples should have been the person to sing at Obama's inauguration.

30:15 Family Ties Milton Friedman clip.

30:59 Cypress Hill "Throw Your Set In The Air"

34:25 Shelley Duvall "He's Large"
from the 'Popeye' soundtrack.
Written by Harry Nilsson

37:58 The Clash "The Magnificent Seven"

42:18 Louis and Bebe Barron Forbidden Planet Theme
"The movie's innovative electronic music score (credited as "electronic tonalities", partly to avoid having to pay movie industry music guild fees) was composed by Louis and Bebe Barron. MGM producer Dore Schary discovered the couple quite by chance at a beatnik nightclub in Greenwich Village while on a family Christmas visit to New York City. Schary hired them on the spot to compose the film music score. The theremin had been used as early as 1945, in Spellbound, but their score is widely credited with being the first completely electronic film score. The soundtrack preceded the Moog synthesizer of 1964 by almost a decade.
Using equations from the 1948 book, Cybernetics: Or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine by mathematician Norbert Wiener, Louis Barron constructed the electronic circuits which he used to generate the "bleeps, blurps, whirs, whines, throbs, hums and screeches".[5] Most of the tonalities were generated using a circuit called a ring modulator. After recording the base sounds, the Barrons further manipulated the material by adding effects, such as reverberation and delay, and reversing or changing the speed of certain sounds.[7]
As Louis and Bebe Barron did not belong to the Musicians' Union, their work was not considered for an Academy Award, in either the soundtrack or special effects category."
from The Barrons: Forgotten Pioneers of Electronic Music

44:06 Bonnie Prince Billy "The Eagle and the Hawk"
from Take Me Home: A Tribute to John Denver

44:59 Brian Eno "Just Another Day"

48:44 Isao Tomita excerpt of "Saturn The Bringer of Old Age" from Holst' 'The Planets'

51:26 Japancakes "To Here Knows When"
from their 2007 album on which they cover My Bloody Valentine 'Loveless' album in its in entirety.

55:51 Painted Hills, "Texas"
Ben Jones on steel guitar.

Dusk Latitudes

2008-12-20T21:57:00.000-08:00

Early Morning Athletes

00:02 excerpt from The Best Show on WMFU
Tom_Sharpling and Trembling Eagle discussing a Rolling Stones song.

00:52 The Folksmen "Start Me Up"
from the A Mighty Wind soundtrack

03:10 Sleater Kinney "The Fox"

06:31 Department of Eagles "No One Does it Like You"
from "In Ear Park" The video for this song was co-directed by Patrick Daughters and Marcel Dzama.

10:10 Lalo Schifrin featuring Shirley Bassey "The Liquidator"
I suspect that that title sequence is the best thing about the film.
If I'm hearing this right, the lyric assures the listener that the liquidator is leathal,
is "a hell of a guy", while implying the rape of the listener's spouse.

12:22 Lady Sovereign "Tango"
Tango is a soda drink in England.
There, I've provided adequate subtext for a Lady Sovereign song.

15:10 Styx excerpt form "Lord Of The Rings"
This is inexcusable.

17:13 Tad "Stumblin Man"

from the ill fated 8 way Santa album.
This remains one of my favorite songs of all time.

20:45 Petula Clark "Don't Sleep in the Subway"

23:36 David Byrne and Brian Eno "The Carrier"
from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

27:03 Goldfrapp "Lovely Head" Half their songs are quite good faux Barry.
I love the squawk box solo.

The themesong for this last James Bond movie was a duet by Alicia Keyes and Jack White.
It's better to listen to it outside the context of the film, in my opinion.
Someone's flat, though.

Throughout the last half of the eighties it seems like there was a quest to recreate the Led Zeppelin sound. Perhaps it was the proliferation of cheap, low bitrate digital effects or just cocaine, but despite your Whitesnakes and your Cults, no one (despite all the hype - I remember one Rolling Stone issue devouted to convincing us that it was back) could really do it.
Meanwhile, that Jack White has carefully back engineered the whole schmear, with the punctured tweater and slow release compression on the cymbal and the Bonhamalike drumming and what is I'm sure, a transistorless signal chain. Since Plant (or perhaps more accurately, Plant's falsetto) isn't willing, maybe Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones should ask Jack White to sing and play drums.
He'd totally say yes.

30:32 Glen Campbell "Guess I'm Dumb"
recorded in October 1964 for the Beach Boys TODAY!-Album, but not used.

33:10 Will Oldham/Bonny Prince Billy "Wolf Among Wolves"
Will Oldham appears alongside Zach Galifianakis in the Kanye West video for Can't Tell Me Nothin'.
The man has range.

36:52 U2 "The Ocean"

the Dad zone.
38:24 The Temptations "Papa Was A Rollin' Stone"
The long LP version. Ten plus minutes.

49:43 Steve Fisk "Priorities"
from 448 Deathless Days

54:23 Iron and Wine "Waiting for a Superman" (Flaming lips cover)

58:42 Stars of the Lid "Don't Bother They're Here"

Yule Be Sorry

2008-12-06T08:30:00.000-08:00

Image: Biljana Vjurdjevic The Last Days of Santa Claus

Yule Be Sorry can be downloaded directly by clicking here.
Much in the spirit of the fruitcake, this is a regifting of last year's Christmas mix.
I think this is what is called a "Christmas Tradition".

00:02 It's a Christian Christmas version of the Brady Bunch theme song.
I don't remember who made this.

00:58 Mystery Science Theater 3000: Patrick Swayze Christmas
from Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

03:57 White Christmas mashup origin forgotten.

07:10 Ozzy Osborne and Jessica Simpson Winter Wonderland
rom a tv special, I think. Jessica Simpson is to singing as __________ is to ____________). Amazing.

09:13 James Brown Santa Come Straight to the Ghetto

12:08 The Ventures Jingle Bell Rock under-

14:05 Terence McKenna Santa Claus is a mushroom

14:42 Spinal Tap Christmas with the Devil.

16:19 The Who Christmas from Tommy

18:12 Richard Cheese Holiday In Cambodia

19:44 Mel Blanc Yah Das Ist Ein Christmas Tree.

22:46 Run DMC Christmas in Hollis.

25:33 Flaming Lips Christmas at the Zoo from Clouds Taste Metallic.

28:28 Midtown Bootboys Santa was a skinhead.
These guys were genuinely bad, racist, violent nazis. Ha ha. -ermh- Ho Ho HO.

30:27 AKIM & The Teddy Vann Production Company Santa Claus is A Black Man.

33:40 Sarah Silverman Give the Jew Girl Toys.
That's Zach Galifianakis as Santa.

35:55 Low Just Like Christmas

38:50 Beck Little Drum Machine Boy

41:53 Mark Vidler/ GoHome Productions Carpenters Christmas (Karen Meets Roots Radics Uptown)

45:33 Elvis Presley Blue Christmas into:

46:56 Joe Perry Blue Christmas from Merry Axemas.

49:00 The Kinks Father Christmas.

52:34 Patton Oswalt: Alvin and the Chimpmunks Christmas bit.

53:59 The Waitresses Christmas Wrappin.
Not rare. Not annoying. Notice faux Chic "Rapper's Delight"/ "Good Times" bassline and cadence this time.

58:10 Tom Waits Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis
Christmas is right there in the title. Fa la la la la!

62:24 XTC Snowman from English Settlement

67:17 Cocteau Twins Frosty the Snowman.

70:01 The Pogues Fairytale of New York

74:28 Jackson Five Give Love On Christmas Day

77:19 Jimi Hendrix Auld Lang Syne

Teflon Epiphany

2008-09-24T21:27:00.000-07:00

Teflon Epiphany can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Elvis Presley, Swing Low Sweet Chariot
One hobby that Elvis stuck with for almost his entire adult life was the martial arts, specifically karate. He had his first taste of the chop-socky in boot camp and would excitedly expound on its history and meaning to anyone who was forced to gamely listen. Karate's teachings and theatrics complimented his superhero obsession nicely and he devoured books on the subject. Elvis' voracious appetite for knowledge was matched only by his voracious appetite.
-from Beware of the Blog,

02:35 The Melvins, Love Thing
from "Ozma".
Tagentially related: Dimebag Daryl was buried in a Kiss Kasket.

03:41 Go Home Productions, Main Bloom
a mashup of "Main Chance" by Alan Parker and "In Bloom" by Nirvana

06:36 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, We Call Upon The Author

11:35 Chrome, Abstract Nympho

14:14 The Pogues, Thousands Are Sailing

19:18 Isaac Hayes, Never Can Say Goodbye

22:58 Miles Davis, remixed by Bill Laswell Black Satin
He buffed the edges off a little.

26:29 Fugazi, Closed Captioned from End Hits.

31:21 Genesis, Horizons.

32:57 The Jayhawks, Blue.

36:02 Camper Van Beethoveen, All Her Favorite Fruit.
Live with Orchestra. From their live album "Greatest Hits Played Faster"

41:29 Grizzly Bear, He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)
Live on KEXP 2-16-2007.

45:46 Thom Yorke, And It Rained All Night.

50:07 The Flamingos, I Only Have Eyes For You.

52:43 The Venus in Furs, 2HB.
From the soundtrack of Velvet Goldmine. The Venus in Furs were Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood, David Gray, Suede's Bernard Butler, and Roxy Music's Andy Mackay.
'2HB' is not a lead hardness reference, graphite enthusiasts. It instead translates as "To Humphrey Bogart", and is full of Casablanca references.
Which is much less interesting, if you ask me.

58:09 Neil Young, Don't Cry.

63:02 T Bone Burnett, It's Not Too Late.

67:28 Julie London, Mickey Mouse March.

Image: A sculpture of mine "Really Super Honesty" plaster, steel.

Badjacket

2008-07-22T23:09:00.001-07:00

Badjacket can be downloaded directly by clicking here.
Badjacket is a verb .

02:00 James Brown "People Get Up And Drive Your Funky Soul"
This song doesn't really need to end.
It could go on for a half hour.
And I'd be fine with that.

05:42 ZZ Top "Just Got Paid"

09:16 Tricky "Christiansands"

12:23 David Torn "Spell Breaks with the Weather"
from "What Means, Solid Traveler?"

16:47 Ned Beatty Excerpt from Network
To far too many people, Ned Beatty is best known for playing that character raped by toothless hicks in 'Deliverance'. Beatty was nominated for an oscar for best supporting actor for this sermon in the film 'Network'. Paddy Chayefsky gave him the content, but Ned provided the form.
Entering with a snarl, he descends to a song to seduce the righteous.
And invites us, by the end, to weep in exhultant delight.

20:44 Au "RR vs D" Lynn Shelton gave a presentation at work a while back. This song played under the montage she showed of stills shot during the making of her current film, "Humpday". I wasn't the only one struck by the song. Her film "My Effortless Brilliance" is available On Demand through Comcast. Look for it.

24:28 Cars "Since You're Gone"
made it to #42 of the pop charts in 1982. A questionable inclusion.

27:42 Fugazi "Arpeggiator"

32:04 The Rivieras "California Sun"
The Ramones didn't write this song after all.
The Rivieras are not recording to a click track, or doing second takes.

34:27 Isao Tomita's rendition of Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5/Allegro marcato.
Tomita was hot on a moog, but he was no Ed Kalehoff,

39:33 Black Lodge Singers "Disneyland"

43:09 Bruce Springsteen "Girls In Their Summer Clothes"

47:29 Patience & Prudence "Tonight You Belong to Me"

49:02 REM "Perfect Circle" From when REM would write nice songs.

52:14 Robyn Hitchcock "Trams of Old London"
from "I Often Dream of Trains", a perfect album that will still hold up in another twenty four years. It was released in 1984 -just like that Van Halen album.

55:39 Wilco "Radio Cure"
There's no excuse for the lyrics in the chorus, but the production is really nice.

60:40 A little thing I put together from stuff I stole.
Built with stuff like Elvis' "Run On" and Shatner's cover of "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

61:41 The Pogues "The Old Main Drag"
Handjobs and Tuinal.

64:37 David Bowie "America"
The opening song from "The Concert for New York City", October 2001.
Cover of the Simon and Garfunkel tune.
A sensitive, astute move with beautifully humble staging.

68:28 The Divine Comedy "Lost Property"
It is a terrible thing to love what can be taken.
This song sounds just a little like Radiohead in very good ways.
Maybe because Nigel Godrich produced it.

72:58 The Beach Boys interlude from "'Til I Die"

75:00 Low "Sunflower"

New Grief

2008-06-13T09:38:00.001-07:00

New Grief can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 The Blues Project "Flute Thing"

02:50 Mystery Theater opening

03:11 Missy Elliott "Work It"

07:03 Moog Cookbook "More Than A Feeling"
Um, (let's get ready to rumble...)

10:52 Elvis Costello "Hoover Factory"

12:29 Miles Davis "Black Satin" from On the Corner,
an album I was obsessive about for about a week.

16:22 Brian Eno "Wire Shock"

19:48 Jack Nitzsche "Rumble" (Arranged and Conducted)
Link Wray had one lung.

22:03 Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers "Roadrunner"
I love this version. It's clean and pure, and doesn't have a foggy overlay of keyboards. Greil Marcus' narration of this particular cut in Lipstick Traces is great.
This.
That.

Well, the highway was my only girlfriend
'cause I went by so quick
And suburban trees were out there
And consequently, it smelled like heaven

26:05 Sage Francis with Will Oldham "Sea Lion"

29:01 Wire "The 15th"

32:02 Sonic Youth "I Know There's an Answer" Beach Boys Cover

34:57 The Beach Boys excerpt from the Smile Sessions

37:08 Continuity of Government
Jack Brooks questions Oliver North during the 1987 Iran Contra Hearings and is stopped by committee chairman Daniel Inouye.

38:15 Erykah Badu "The Healer".

41:58 Shellac "Wingwalker"

46:56 Goldfrapp "Cologne Cerrone Houdini"

51:14 Ulrich Schnauss "Here Today, Gone Tomorrow"

55:30 T-Bone Burnett "Hefner And Disney"

59:13 Soulsavers "Revival"

Image still from "Play It As It Lays", a film that is just chock full of California ennui, the most silly form of ennui, Sontag aside. No really, see it (if you can find it). The editing is truly striking, and has yet to be effectively bitten by contemporary film (what do we call it now that it's done on a macbook pro?) editing.

Magenta Alert

2008-06-12T06:55:00.000-07:00

Magenta Alert can be downloaded directly here.

00:02 Scala Choir and the Kolacny brothers "Don't Break My Heart"

04:40 The Isley Brothers "Your Old Lady" A good friend.

06:46 Wolfgang Press "Kansas"

9:58 365 Days website 'Carry On My Wayward Son'

11:42 Cesar Romero Words to the Wise

-entering the hopefully humorous but morbid zone-

12:12 William Shatner "You're Gonna Die"

17:03 The Microphones "I Can't Believe You Actually Died"
courtesy of Lelah, of TacocaT.

21:06 Nick Cave "Lay Me Low"

-leaving the morbid zone. -

26:14 John Barry "Vendetta" mixed into

27:21 Fantomas "Vendetta"

29:04 Star Spangled Bologna

30:18 The Polyphonic Spree "Soldier Girl"

33:59 Sonic Youth "Within You Without You"

38:46 Kronos Quartet "Misiriou"

42:56 G Love and Special Sauce "Cold Beverage"
from his first "Yo", you know you're in for authenticity.

45:28 Tom Waits "Jesus Gonna Be Here" live. And yet Tom Waits gets a pass...

50:07 The Polyphonic Spree "Five Years"

54:00 Wiliam Shatner "Has Been"

56:11 Lyle Lovett "If I had a Boat"

59:08 A thing I found once, and cannot now identify

1:04:20 Bjork "Mouth's Cradle"

1:08:22 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "When I First Came to Town"

1:13:35 Beck "The Golden Age"

1:18:00 Sigur Ros from ()

Mink Woofer

2008-04-10T08:00:00.000-07:00

Mink Woofer can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Banana Splits Themesong

01:23 Bob Marley "Buffalo Soldier" snippet

01:34 GoHome Productions "Submusic"

03:40 Lyrics Born and Lateef "The Last Trumpet"

08:27 Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention "You're Probably Wondering Why I'm Here".

Mom, I put a big hole in the convertible

12:01 The Meters "Chicken Strut"

14:39 Tom Waits "Metropolitan Glide"

18:37 Dusty Springfield "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself"

21:33 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "The Hobo Church"

23:01 Chet Baker "Forgetful"

25:39 Ulrich Schnauss "Knuddelmaus"

31:47 I don't really know. There are some things even the internet does not know. Ethan, who gave me a mix cd with this on it, knows.

35:18 Dave Grohl "Arms Wide Open".

37:01 Fiona Apple "Angel"

41:49 Gohome Productions "LSD Forever"

43:40 The Beatles "Across The Universe"

47:20 Crispy (as Dangerous Chunky calls him) "I'm making my lunch"

47:36 Go Home Productions remix of U2's "Zoo Station"

52:06 Johanna Newsom "Peach, Plum, Pear"

55:30 Boards of Canada "Dayvan Cowboy"

60:02 Tuatara "Dark State Of Mind"

63:58 Cat Power "I Found a Reason"

Hack photoshopping of stuff by me. There it is.

Thug Caste

2008-04-05T10:28:00.000-07:00

Thug Caste can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant "Cracker Jack"

02:07 Disfunctional DJ "You're The One I Want In The Next Episode"

05:41 Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip "Thou Shalt Always Kill"

This I first heard/saw on Aaron McMaster's They Eat Their Own site.

09:34 Califone "Pink & Sour"

13:47 Jack Nitzsche "The Last Race"

15:58 Larry Adler "Jamaican Rhumba"

18:05 Ray coniff "Bolero de ravel"

22:41 Air "La Femme d'Argent"

28:51 Dusty Springfield "The Windmills Of Your Mind"

32:36 Bonnie Prince Billy/ Will Oldham "Love Comes To Me"

36:47 Beach Boys "Surf's Up"

40:12 Chet Baker "My Funny Valentine"

42:15 The Langley Schools Music Project "Space Oddity"

47:29 Genesis end of "Entangled"

49:37 Cat Power "The Greatest"

52:59 The Flaming Lips "The Big Ol' Bug Is the New Baby Now"

A mixdown of the four CD Zaireeka

58:00 Elvis Presley "Help Me Make It Through The Night"

Pinkerton eye image from Thrilling Detective.com

Fraggers

2008-04-04T20:07:00.001-07:00

Fraggers can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

I made this a while back. It's got too much Scala and too much Beck.

It doesn't have enough Little Milton.

00:02 Alan Copeland "Mission: Impossible Theme/Norwegian Wood" proto mashup?

03:00 Beck "Hell Yes"

06:03 John Barry Orchestra "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

08:25 Propellarheads "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"

12:55 Kyuss "Three Of Booceroony"

15:27 Jerry Reed "Amos Moses"

17:46 John Barry "The Human Jungle"

19:57 Little Milton "Grits Ain't Groceries"

22:34 Lee Scratch Perry "Justice to the People"

25:30 The Barry Sisters and Jan Bart with Sam Medoff and the Yiddish Swingtet "Samson and Delilah"

27:59 Osymyso "Lazy Phase"

30:34 Nick Cave "Hiding All Away"

36:54 Flaming Lips "Heavy"

41:12 Scala And Kolacny Brothers "Bittersweet Symphony"

44:32 Beck "Earthquake Weather"

48:19 John Barry "Lion in the Winter"

51:01 Chris Bell "Speed Of Sound"

56:10 Aphex Twin "Flim"

59:03 Mice Parade "Galileo"

61:00 Terence McKenna evolution scar tissue

61:24 The Sandpipers "Come Saturday Morning"

64:19 Elliott Smith "Because" (Beatles cover, American Beauty soundtrack)

66:26 Scala And Kolacny Brothers "Perfect Day"

Image of Angel of the North by Anthony Gormley

Shotgun Approach

2008-03-02T17:23:00.001-08:00

Shotgun Approach can be downloaded directly here.

00:02 Gene Harris "Put On Train"

04:03 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds "Dig Lazarus Dig"

08:13 Ofo the Black Company "Love Is You"

11:04 LCD Soundsystem "North American Scum"

16:21 The Osmonds "Hold Her Tight"

At least they ripped off the right Led Zep song. I hear the chorus as:

Hold her tight
in your magic underwear

19:24 Dread Zeppelin "Immigrant Song"

The chimpmunks background vocals adds precisely the right touch. The Smiths were fond of that effect as well. Another among many qualities Dread Zeppelin shared with them.

22:07 Brian Eno "I Fall Up"

25:30 Glen Campbell "Elusive Butterfly of Love"

This KIXI classic has the shimmering edges of windowpane about it. Tracers and folly, as though Glen has seen through time and tasted the Godhead. And that mention of "heavy breathing"...

27:45 Bluebob "Thank you Judge" Bluebob is David Lynch and John Neff.

33:25 Tom Jones "Not Responsible"

35:27 TacocaT "Bike Party"

I know two members through work. Funny, smartass and fantastic.

36:58 France Gall "Laisse Tomber Les Filles"

Serge Gainsbourg wrote this.

38:56 Gohome Productions "Safesurfing For No One"

41:36 Besnard Lakes "Devastation"

I think there are swears buried in there.

47:01 The Beatles "Blue Jay Way"

49:32 Ulrich Schnauss "Medusa"

54:56 Elvis Costello & Lucinda Williams "Wild Horses"

59:38 Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead "Subterranean Homesick Alien"

62:52 John C. Reilly "(Have You Heard The News) Dewey Cox Died"

It borrows the concept from Nick Cave's "Lay Me Low" - The self aggrandizing self eulogizing. It's supposed to be a joke song. But I think that it succeeds in being a genuinely beautiful little song, and touching.

65:13 Mark Lanegan Band "One Hundred Days"

Image from here.

War Tuba

2008-03-01T12:56:00.000-08:00

War Tuba can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Love "Seven And Seven"

01:58 The Flaming Lips "Fight Test"
From the Wikipedia: The song "Fight Test" is musically very similar to Cat Stevens's 1970 song "Father and Son." Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, is receiving royalties following a relatively noncontentious settlement. The band's frontman, Wayne Coyne, claims that he was unaware of the songs' similarities until producer Dave Fridmann pointed them out.

05:51 Ed Byrnes as Gerald Lloyd Kookson, III. "Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb)"

07:54 Elvis Costello "The Element Within Her"

10:35 GoHome Productions mashup of ABC ‘The Look Of Love (Part 4) vs. The Doors ’Riders On The Storm’

11:50 The Smiths "Last Night I Dreamt Somebody Loved Me"

14:42 Bobby Vee "Sharing You" Wow. The reluctant swinger's lament?

16:46 The Beach Boys "You Still Believe In Me"

19:04 Ennio Morricone "Magic And Ecstasy". Mocket covered this song on "Pro Forma" and that's who I thought wrote it until one day...

21:55 Legendary K.O "George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"

25:29 The Blind Boys of Alabama "Run On For A Long Time"

28:51 The Moog Cookbook "Cat Scratch Fever" Note the direct reference to Wendy Carlos' "What's New Pussycat".

31:51 Neil Young "Let's Impeach The President"

36:43 Jerry Vale "You Don't Know Me"

39:17 DJ Shadow "Midnight in a Perfect Word"

43:55 Pavement "Unfair"

46:25 Desmond Dekker and the Aces "Ah It Mek"

48:39 Air "Moon Trills"

52:33 Tom Waits "Clap Hands"

56:04 Leonard Cohen "Suzanne"

59:46 Steve Earle "Christmas in Washington"

65:41 Sigur Ros "Glósóli"

71:39 The Kinks "Don't Forget To Dance"

76:28 The Platters "Twilight Time"

Image from Douglas Self's webpage about Acoustic Sound Location and Mirrors.

Awkward Mind

2008-01-25T00:42:00.000-08:00

Awkward Mind can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Clip from a GI Joe Public Service Announcement commercials parody. A young man named Ethan (evidence of hope for tomorrow) once introduced me to these.

00:22 OutKast "Gasoline" with swears.

03:49 Merle Haggard "Okie from Muskogee" Proposed verse that didn't fit the song's meter: "We often ponder sustainable agriculture in Muskogee"

06:29 Moby "Honey"

09:56 Johnny Cash "I Guess Things Happen That Way"

11:38 Byrne and Eno "Help Me Somebody" I concur with this writer. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is "...on par with Never Mind the Bullocks".

15:31 Shonen Knife

18:02 Sly and the Family Stone "Underdog"

21:55 Modest Mouse "Bury Me With It"

25:40 GoHome Productions "Crazy Fool on the Hill" Mashup of Beatles / Queen

28:09 Beatles "Come Together" Outtake

31:40 Chuck Berry "Mabeline"

34:20 Wilco "Heavy Metal Drummer"

37:27 Erma Franklin "Piece of My Heart"

40:02 Gohome Productions "Wrapped Detective" "...A cheeky mash-up of 5 artists. Elvis Costello, The Police, Lionel Ritchie, Peggy Lee and Bob Marley"

44:13 Outkast "Ms. Jackson"

48:25 Liam Lynch "Fake Bowie Song".
"I'm making proteins in my body as I speak"

49:53 Phi-Mu Washboard band Love hurts

51:32 Moby "Natural Blues"

55:42 Modest Mouse "Bukowski Lyrics"

59:53 Julie London "Yummy Yummy Yummy"

62:45 Byrne and Eno

66:05 Beach Boys "Surfer Girl" live

68:17 Tom Waits "Take It With Me" Yvette and I played this recording at our wedding.

Images: chair, ice cream

Innocence Tube

2008-01-13T17:06:00.000-08:00

Innocense Tube can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:00:02 Blurb

00:00:11 Air "Alpha Beta Gaga" from Talkie Walkie.

00:04:45 Beck "Fume"

00:06:54 Commodores "Machine Gun"

00:08:41 Beastie Boys "Hey Ladies" from Paul’s Boutique

00:12:28 Radiohead "The National Anthem" from Kid A

00:17:57 The Jam "That’s Entertainment"

00:21:00 Scala Choir "I Touch Myself"

00:23:16 Air "Run" from Talkie Walkie.

Talk about Enya for hipsters, listen to the last minute of that one.

00:27:00 Shangri-las/ Phil Spector "He Hit Me (and it felt like a kiss)"

00:29:20 Low "Dinosaur" from Things We Lost In The Fire.

00:33:23 Gillian Welch "Dear Someone" from Time (The Revelator)

00:36:29 Morphine "Candyland"

00:39:39 The Breeders "Wicked Little Town" from Wig In A Box - Songs From And Inspired By Hedwig And The Angry Inch

00:43:00 Death In Vegas "Girls" from Lost In Translation Soundtrack

00:46:54 Peter Gabriel "Lead A Normal Life" from Peter Gabriel III

00:50:50 Gillian Welch "April the 14th Part 1" from Time (The Revelator).

00:55:57 Sebastian Tellier "Fantino" from Lost In Translation Soundtrack

00:59:03 Bill Murray "More Than This" Lost In Translation Soundtrack

01:00:30 Besnard Lakes "Disaster"

Mr. Burns costume available here. Halloween's coming up.

Bad Swipe

2008-01-12T08:27:00.000-08:00

Bad Swipe can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 April March "Chick Habit"

02:02 David Buttolph (music) and Paul Francis Webster Theme to "Maverick"

05:02 Aesop Rock "Fumes" (produced by Blockhead)

09:44 Elvis Presley "In My Father's House"

11:41 Bill Chase "Get It On"

14:37 Jacques Brel "Le Moribond"

Terry Jacks allegedly recorded an as of yet unrealeased version of this song with the Beach Boys before he recorded his own version. He also wrote "Put the Bone In", Dr. Demento fans.

17:41 The Jackson Five "I Want You Back"

(Z-Trip remix) from Motown Remixed

21:55 The Beatles "Flying"

23:37 Tom Waits "First Kiss"

26:00 Johnny Cash "What Is Truth?"

28:33 Bruce Springsteen "Your Own Worst Enemy"

31:44 Jackie Wilson "Light My Fire"

34:13 Malick Adouane Theme from "Shaft"

from La Musique de Paris Derniere: The Best Of

37:27 Mickey Hart "The Hunt"

from Planet Drum.

40:00 Kate Bush "Jig Of Life"

44:01 The Doors "End Of The Night"

46:49 Chris De Malfunkshun "Hey Ya" from La Musique de Paris Derniere: The Best Of

51:21 Mono in VCF "Masha"

I've had the pleasure of meeting Jordan, bassist of Mono in VCF, through work. That's Terry Jacks singing backup. And they cover one of his songs "There's No Blood In Bone" on their new eponymous album from which this cut comes. This song will allegedly perhaps soon be NPR's song of the day.

55:56"Electioneering" from Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Radiohead

60:50 Explosions in the Sky "Welcome, Ghosts"

David Danioth hipped me to this band.

66:19 Willie Nelson "Hallelujah"

71:06 Brian Eno "Spider And I" from Before And After Science

74:29 Five Blind Boys Of Alabama "Amazing Grace"

Corpsing

2007-12-31T23:41:00.000-08:00

Corpsing can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Sly and the Family Stone "Loose Booty"

03:41 The Beastie Boys "Electric Worm"

from "The Mix Up".

06:40 Sid Barrett "Octopus"from The Madcap Laughs.

10:04 The Orb "Little Fluffy Clouds"

That's Ricky Lee Jones talking. Didja know?

14:14 Merv Griffin "Have a Nice Trip"

16:24 Patti Drew "Hard to Handle"

The Black Crows were just covering this song. I am so mad at those guys. Fakers. BTW- this song is filthy. For shame, Patti Drew. (No relation to Nancy, I'll bet)

18:46 Mann "Ha! Ha! Said the Clown"

Where has this song been hiding my whole life?

21:15 XTC "Earn Enough For Us"

from Skylarking.

24:00 Annette Funicello "What's A Girl To Do"

26:40 David Bowie and Ricky Gervais "Pugnose Face"(my title)

from "Extras" -second season. Gervais is quite proud of the fact that he now shares songwriting credit on this with Bowie. And he should be.

29:34 John C. Reilly "Starman"

from the Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story soundtrack. Notice that "Boogie"ing is safer for the children than letting them "get high".

32:59 Hard and Phirm "Pi"

35:57 Sia "Breathe Me" remix by Ulrich Schnauss.

This is a version of the song with which they ended the entire"Six Feet Under" series. The best ending of a series ever. Gave me vertigo. Then, ten minutes later, I realized that the series had always been just a fancypants Soap Opera. Wotta Gyp!

40:12 Bruce Springsteen "You'll Be Coming Down Now"

This song is not a pleasant surprise. It's simply pleasant; no surprises. While the song is probably a metaphoric warning for our US of A, his new album Magic sounds like "Born to Run" all over again. It's like floating in Phil Spectors' amniotic fluid. (His hair is a uterus).

43:51 Joah Valley "In My Life"

If Greg Lake of Emerson Lake and Palmer was the Don Pardo of Rock and Roll, Joah Valley is the Mr. Ed. He must like peanut butter. And carrots.

46:34 The Kingston Trio "Norwegian Wood"

I grew up with this version and thought this was written by the Kingston Trio. I thought those upstarts, the Beatles, ripped off "the KT". And as a child, I thought that Norwegian wood was what the furniture extant in the apartment was made of. Therefore, the final verse- "so I lit a fire, isn't it good, Norwegian wood" -meant to me that the protaganist (Lennon), after his host went to work, burned up the woman's furniture in the fireplace. Honestly. Bright child.

But now as an adult, it is obvious that Norwegian wood is code for "Puff the Magic Dragon" and that while she went off to work an honest job 'in the morning', John 'rock star' Lennon smoked up the poor woman's stash of the devil weed.

Whatta dick.

48:48 Air "Empty House"

51:19 Steve Fisk and Ben Gibbard "Overture"

This and and the forthcoming "Indian Summer" are from the soundtrack to "Kurt Cobain: About a Son".

53:46 Antony "If It Be Your Will"

cover of the Leonard Cohen song from the documentary "I'm Your Man". A cross between Boy George and Van Morrison. It may be best seen while heard.

59:30 Pete Townsend "And I Moved"

from Empty Glass
At the time it was released, was seen as evidence that Townsend was coming out. He maintained that the song was written for Tina Turner. But can you really imagine Tina singing this song well? It doesn't seem well suited to her. Then again, neither was the Mad Max franchise, but that didn't stop her...

62:49 Willie Nelson "Cowboys are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other"

66:18 Ben Gibbard "Indian Summer"

69:06 Billy Ward and His Dominoes "Stardust"

Goodfellas soundtrack.

72:08 John C. Reilly "Royal Jelly"

from the Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story soundtrack. "You're a Liar!"

Enya For Hipsters

2007-12-09T21:31:00.000-08:00

Enya for Hipsters can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

This has been kicking around in some form or another for a while. The phrase came from a smarmy way of describing (to myself) Ulrich Schnauss' music. Now this mix seems more like an okay soundtrack for rehab.

Venn Diagram from a T shirt Design at deisel sweeties.com.
Enya image from the internet.

00:02 Jon Brion "Phone Call" From the "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" Soundtrack. Optigan.

00:56 The Polyphonic Spree "It's the Sun".

06:29 Ulrich Schnauss "On My Own".

11:45 Elliott Smith "Don't Go Down" from From a Basement On The Hill.

16:06 Sam Winch "Banter for the Common People" from The Lullabadeer -Themesong to the excellent Comedians of Comedy TV series.

20:06 Sebedoh "Pink Moon" from 1992's Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock.

22:05 Robyn Hitchcock "I saw Nick Drake" from A Star for Bram.

25:58 Tom Waits "Sea of Love".

29:37 Aphex Twin Remix of both David Bowie's and Phillip Glass' "Heroes". A Bonus CD single included in the 1997 Japanes edition of Heroes Symphony by Philip Glass.

34:31 Mohave 3 "Bluebird of Happiness" remixed by Ulrich Schnauss. I chopped out an offending portion right out of the middle of this song.

39:10 Gary Louris "Wanna Get High"

42:58 Joseph Arthur "Honey and the Moon"

47:22 Louis Armstrong "We Have All The Time In The World".

50:34 Jon Brion Theme from "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

52:40 Scala Choir and Kolacny Brothers "Fake Plastic Trees" Radiohead cover.

57:17 Antony "Mysteries of Love" Jay hipped me to this cat. Thanks.

62:41 Twink "Rosemarys Baby" theme.

65:44 Slow Poke "Sixth Sense".

71:24 Danny Gatton "Sleepwalk".

ALSO:
Three things for sharing:
1. I found this great interview with Steve Fisk on a podcasted radio show called "Some Assembly Required".

2. My favorite podcast is now The Sound of Young America
As is stated on its homepage, " The Sound of Young America is a public radio show about things that are awesome." And that's pretty much true. Interviews with Steve Albin, i. Podcast Feed.
The Archive is vast seeming, filled with interviews with a surprising number of my favorite people.

3. The funniest damn thing in a while: The Kasper Hauser Comedy Podcast. Podcast Feed. Check out the This American Life satire (two episodes!). Spot on.

Cinco De Mayo Clinic

2007-09-01T00:31:00.000-07:00

Cinco De Mayo can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

00:02 Sonic Youth "Drunken Butterfly" from Dirty.

03:01 Tammy Wynette "D.I.V.O.R.C.E."
Some jokester once called this a white trash spelling lesson.

05:50 Osymyso "Intro Introspection"
from Osymyso.com. Not just possessing a short one, there is simply no span of attention at all.
A singularity we've swum too close to. Effect precedes cause.

11:08 Angelo Baadalamenti "Pink Room"
from the soundtrack to "Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me"

15:01 The Fitness - "Chauffeur"
featuring Bree Nichols, a person I met through work. Brilliant, beautiful and bored. She'll be a star.

18:10 Radiohead "In the Aisles"
from the Airbag EP. Melodic, dubby.
I think this is one of the most amazing little pieces of music.

21:00 Gillian Welch "Elvis Blues" from Time (The Relevator).

25:49 Modest Mouse "A Life of Arctic Sounds".

28:15 Pulse by Steve Reich Remixed by DJ Pulse
from Reich Remixed

34:05 Ricky Gervais "Free Love Highway"
Back before the American "The Office" on NBC, there was the BBC TV show.

35:58 The Minutemen "Toadies"
from Double Nickles On the Dime.
With all his political songs, it seems like The Man might have had good reason to have D. Boon killed.
But unlike other rockstar's deaths, there is no puzzling evidence surrounding death.

37:36 Loo & Placido "Safari Love"
Aretha/Pixies/ Beatles Mashup of "Who’s Zooming Who?"(!), "Where Is My Mind", "Because" respectively, and some Elton John song. I listened to the original "Who's Zooming Who" recently and man, what a terrible thing. This mashup excavates that really great vocal hiding in there.

41:49 Le Tigre "Hot Topic"

45:26 Song from ‘Bonjour Tristesse’
See "From the Journals of Jean Seberg". Inexplicably, netflix doesn't have it. Excellent and heartbreaking.

48:00 Mark Vidler/ Go Home Productions."Jacko Under Pressure"

51:27 Theme song from ‘I Claudius’

52:27 Assagai "Hey Jude" Best Beatles cover. Ever. (Shatner excepted)

56:10 Pete Townsend "Begin the Beguine" from Scoop

1:00:10 Ricky Gervais "Spaceman Came Down"

1:00:51 Johnny Paycheck "Take This Job and Shove It".
Check out the chorus effect on that bass track.

1:02:21 Mashup of "My Dog’s Bigger Than Your Dog"
Original written by Tom Paxton. I dunno who who did this mashup.

1:04:00 Kiss "Almost Human" from Love Gun.
What makes me love this song?
Is it the retardo lyrics?
Is it the phlegmy growl of the now tiresome Gene Simmons?

It's the congas. Jimmy Maelin on congas.
Very metal.

1:06:33 Mr. Show "We Forgive You"

1:07:36 The Briefs "Kill Bob Segar Right Now"

1:08:42 Bob Mothersbaugh/ Wild Man Fischer "The Way We Were"

1:09:45 Aimee Mann "Wise Up"
From the "Magnolia" Soundtrack.
Is "Magnolia" the single instance of a great Tom Cruise performance?

1:13:04 Tomita "Preludes, Book I, No.10: The Engulfed Cathedral"
from Snowflakes are Dancing Someday soon, this guy's going to get his due.

Image: composite of Mayo Clinic photo and a photo of Mariachi Nuevo Sonido from Albequrque, New Mexico.

Ground Slap

2007-08-24T17:34:00.000-07:00

Ground Slap can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

Fallout shelter water tanks and septic tanks are extremely vulnerable to ground slap from a nuclear blast, and may crack or rupture during earthquakes

00:02 Slim Gaillard - "Potato Chips"
To translate Slim's lyrics here:
Though one wouldn't suspect it really,
potato chips can in fact be located in such places as a 'baseball ground',
as it's called
- by no one.
Oh, the price of a rhyme.
The people at Lay's should secure the rights to this song.

03:08 Pere Ubu - "Street Waves"
"Rock music is mostly about moving big black boxes from one side of town to the other in the back of your car." - David Thomas

06:02 Propellarheads - "Bang On!"

09:12 Jim Carroll Band - "People Who Died"

14:04 Beck "No Complaints"

16:54 Wire "Strange" among the snottiest of vocals.

19:40 Stereolab "Metronomic Underground"
This sleepy crew can really swing. This is a live version from ABC Music: The Radio 1 Sessions.

29:55 Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West - "Stratosphere Boogie"

32:02 Disney Songs "Whistle While You Work"

33:53 The Breeders - "Hag" from Pod.

36:33 Polyphonic Spree - "Lithium"
I recall the sense of elation I felt when first hearing the original. This cover seems to recapture that manic edge that has worn off.

41:51 Killing Joke - "Eighties".
Nirvana were pretty open about the fact that this was the source for the bassline hook for "Come As You Are".
Nirvana even had one of the Killing Joke guys onstage once.
Maybe money exchanged hands.

"Struggle!"

45:41 Ween

48:34 Paul Evans - "Seven Little Girls Sitting In The Back Seat"
(huggin' & kissin' with Fred)(1959)
Regardless of decade, this song is utterly filthy.
The "little" girls sound like church service special music ladies.
Fred is able to somehow erotically occupy seven of them in simultaneity.

50:49 Ulrich Schnauss "Stars"

56:48 Mark Lanegan Band - "Come To Me"
(Featuring PJ Harvey) from Bubblegum.
That guitar part from Radioheads's "Electioneering" and the harmony you don't know where it's gonna go...

60:28 Strange Country Mashup.
I did spot a sample from the Scott Walker song "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg". Admirably obscure.

65:38 Lorraine Ellison - "Stay With Me" Very doormat.

69:04 Scala And Kolacny Brothers - "Exit Music (For A Film)"

Image from Wikipedia, is of Operation Tumbler-Snapper, a series of atomic tests conducted by the United States in the spring of 1952 at the Nevada Test Site.

"The "rope tricks" which protrude from the bottom of the fireball are caused by the heating, rapid vaporization and then expansion of mooring cables (or specialized rope trick test cables) which extend from the shot cab (the housing at the top of the tower that contains the explosive device) to the ground. Malik observed that when the rope was painted black, spike formation was enhanced, and if it were painted with reflective paint or wrapped in aluminum foil, no spikes were observed – thus confirming the hypothesis that it is heating and vaporization of the rope, induced by exposure to high-intensity visible light radiation, which causes the effect. Because of the lack of mooring ropes, no "rope trick" effects were observed in surface-detonation tests, free-flying weapons tests, or, obviously, in underground tests."

Out The Gate By Eight

2007-08-18T07:06:00.000-07:00

Out The Gate By Eight can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

The title comes from a little guiding truism for the incarcerated and recidivist junky:

"Out the gate by eight,
in the spoon by noon,
back again by ten."

00:02 Harry James Orchestra "Teddy Bear’s Picnic". As a boy, my brothers and I had this song on a little yellow labeled 45. It's still among my brother Rick's favorite songs, and it reminds me of him when I hear it. This is from the soundtrack to the newer Hollywood version of "The Singing Detective". I've not seen it and probably won't. It may sully my memory of watching the excellent BBC version, much as I love Robert Downey, Jr., from whom I first heard the titular junky rhyme on Loveline.

02:54 Bob Log III "Drunk Stripper" from School Bus. In my mind, this latter day Hasil Adkins has a beard, aviator sunglasses, wears a wifebeater and a beer belly. But in reality, he's a skinny aging hipster in a Evil Knievel jumpsuit who wears a helmet with an old telephone handset epoxied to it. (I glimpsed the masked man's face
backstage at the Crocodile Cafe once.)

05:58 Fatboy Slim don’t remember

09:36 Esquivel "Sentimental Journey"

12:05 Mick Harvey and Anita Lane "Harley Davidson" from Intoxicated Man , Harvey's Serge Covers album.

14:45 The Triplets of Belleville Soundtrack "Belleville Roundezvous"

17:48 David Bowie "V2 Schneider " from Low

20:54 Perez Prado "Guaglione"

23:14 Ink Spots "Java Jive"

26:20 The Triplets of Belleville Soundtrack "Jazzy Bach"

27:36 Emile Ford & The Checkmates "On A Slow Boat To China"

30:06 Serge Gainsbourg "Je taime" original. Don't play this song in the vicinity of proper French women of a certain age. It can upset them. If you do so, tell them that you understood that it was a song about asthma.

34:17 Remix of same Serge Gainsbourg "Je taime" by... I can no remember.

38:36 Breeders from Last Splash

42:29 Ennio Morricone song

45:09 Mark Lanegan a song from The Winding Sheet

49:00 Ulrich Schnauss. It's Enya for hipsters. Or just more Enya.

55:46 Beck "Paper Tiger" live on KCRW with the Flaming Lips

60:18 Beach boys intro

60:42 Beach Boys "Don't Cry, Put Your Head On My Shoulder"

63:29 Tom Waits "Murder in a Red Barn"

67:43 Nick Cave "The Ship Song "

72:23 Les Paul and Mary Ford. Umm

Image from Antique Scientifica, an archive of medical, surgical and dental artifacts.

Sad Annointing

2007-08-06T08:32:00.000-07:00

Sad Annointing can be downloaded directly by Clicking here.

There's nothing really terribly sad about the cuts on this episode. The phrase stuck with me from an episode of Deadwood. Deadwood has lots of swears, and is not safe for work. My title doesn't and is.

00:02. Beck "Cellphone's Dead" Beck's a Scientologist again. L. Ron Hubbard was once a roommate of JPL founder Jack Parsons. Parsons was a rocket scientist and head of the Los Angeles chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis. The O.T.O. was Aleistar Crowley's occult organization. The Hubbard/Parsons "relationship lasted until 1947, when Hubbard defrauded Parsons of a sum of money and ran off with Sarah Northrup"*, "Parson's aeronautically named witchy poo girlfriend. Hubbard used much of this money from Allied Enterprises to promulgate and publish his book Dianetics, which later evolved into and was superseded by Scientology"*. The story would make a good movie.

* from the Jack Parsons Wikipedia entry.

Aleistar Crowley, meanwhile, might be George W. Bush's grandfather.

To quote Spinal Tap's David St. Hubbins,
"I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human, than someone who doesn't believe anything."

Now, who is Graham Parsons?

04:46 Missy Elliot "I Can't Stand the Rain"

08:02 Dinosaur Jr "Just Like Heaven"
cover of the Cure song. It ended abruptly, cut out mysteriously, remember?

10:46 Fergie "London Bridge"
There is the notion of "amateur culture" supposedly encouraged by and created through the Internet. There is also a strong reaction to it.
I'd like to point out the music of Fergie ("My Humps", that new sad song mentioning babies and blankets) is the stuff that the experts, not the amateurs are creating, so...
Fergie is the kind of quality, lasting celebrity who's going to be around for a long time. I like this song.

The shorty bus has a sub woofer.

13:56 Howlin' Wolf, Koko Taylor, "Wang Dang Doodle"

17:01 Louvin Brothers "Satan is Real"

19:46 Pavement "Range Life"

24:37 Neil Diamond "The Last Thing on My Mind"

28:10 Nat King Cole "Nature Boy"

30:43 Johnny Cash "If You Could Read My Mind"

34:51 Skip James "Devil Got My Woman"

40:01 Rolling Stones "The Last Time"

43:44 Pop Staples and the Staples Singers "This May Be The Last Time"
the alleged 'inspiration' for the Stones song.

46:10 Elvis Costello with Lucinda Williams "There's a Story in Your Voice"
I just love her drawl. What if she were secretly Australian?

49:48 Louis Armstrong "A Kiss to Build A Dream On"

54:12 Pavement "Stop Breathing"

58:38 My Bloody Valentine "From Here to Who Knows When"

63:41 The Verve "Bittersweet Symphony."
This song sampled an orchestral version of the Rolling Stones song -"The Last Time". One little bite, and there go the songwriting credits and perhaps the whole career. Perhaps this is the karmic reason for Keith Richard's deformed left index finger.

69:29 Andrew Oldham Orchestra "The Last Time"
the aforementioned song. Maybe that bite wasn't so small after all. I'd been looking for this for a while.

73:07 Yo La Tengo "I heard you looking"
This has been enshortened.

76:35 Roy Buchanan "Sweet Dreams"
I heard this first on the soundtrack to that last Scorsese movie "The Departed".

Samsonite Pretext

2007-07-27T21:00:00.000-07:00

Samsonite Pretext can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

It's been 38 days since I've last posted. I'll try to step it back up to every other week.
This one is pretty old to me, and to many of you. It's fairly abrasive in comparison to others I've posted. It has some of my favorite transitions and greater contrasts.
I often do not have many song titles, sorry.
I have, on the suggestion of Russ, included the start time for cuts. Thanks Russ.

00:00 Andy Williams "Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars"
Scatting can be heard near the end.

02:257 Fugazi from Red Medicine, I think.

04:58 Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant

07:17 Kinski "New India" from Be Gentle With the Warm Turtle.
Trudging with compassion towards a weighty resolution.

14:02 Ferrante and Teicher The Theme song to "Exodus"
This is the one song my dad can play on piano. If you gotta pick one, this one's not bad.

16:32 The Lemonheads "It's a Shame about Ray"

19:25 Will Oldham/Bonny Prince Billy "Joy and Jubilee"

22:06 Flaming Lips covering Radiohead song "Knives out"

26:27 Dead Kennedys "Kill the Poor"

29:32 Motorhead "Eat the Rich"
This song could use a shave.

34:25 Prince "The Beautiful Ones"

39:34 Mike Post Chips theme song

40:37 Kenny Rogers "You Decorated My Life"
One of the shittiest songsever. I've enbriefened it.
And invented a new word.

41:02 Fugazi another song from Red Medicine

44:50 The First Edition "Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)"
This song was produced by Mike Post, the man responsible for that Chips theme song.

47:57 Fatboy Slim "Acid 8000"
Read the lyrics here. Illuminating.

54:40 Knightrider themesong

55:10 The Breeders. "Happiness is a Warm Gun"

57:56 Wally Cox "There Is A Tavern In The Town"

60:19 Brian Eno "Baby's on Fire"
Arguably could have a place on that soundtrack, too.

65:38 Louvin Brothers "Great Atomic Power". Optimists.

68:10 Will Oldham/Bonny Prince Billy "The Way"

71:55 Caetano Veloso "Terra"
from 1989's Brazil Classics, Vol. 1: Beleza Tropical, curated by David Byrne.

Legoland Patsy

2007-06-15T10:20:00.000-07:00

Legoland Patsy can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

1. Darrell Sisters Studio Arts Dance Center - "The Sole Parade"
from the 365 Days
project. Excercise exhortation over Jean Jacques Perrey and Harry Breuer's classic THE HAPPY MOOG.

2. Motorhead "The Ace of Spades" Remember when they showed up in the Young One's house? Man, that was awesome.

3. Rolling Stones "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" I cut off the long Allman Brothers style dirge at the end. Not my scene, man.

4. Sego Brothers and Naomi - "Nineteen Candles" from the 365 days site

5. Isley Brothers It's Your Thing

6. Nick Cave "Brother My Cup is Empty"

7. Jurassic Five "I Am Somebody"

8. Nancy Sinatra "Some Velvet Morning"
What the hell is this song about? I've half a mind to post a mix of all the covers of this song I've found. It'll be called "Some Velvet Mornings"

9. Sonic Youth "Bull in the Heather"

10. from City of God Soundtrack

11. Beach Boys " Good Vibrations" out take

12. Frank Sinatra "The Look of Love" `"...those spacemen out in space". Live, you just know he threw a few 'kooky' s in there.
13. Song from City of God soundtrack
14. Sonic Youth Simpsons themesong cover
15. Luther Wright and the Wrongs "Comfortably Numb" Pink Floyd cover
16. Isley Brothers "Live it Up" I hear the origins of Prince's Purple Rain-era guitar sound.
17. Johnny Cash "Wichita Lineman"
18. Pavement "Here" from Slanted and Enchanted out take
19. Loretta Lynn "Portland"
20. Harold Budd/Eno "Foreshadowed"
21. Townes Van Zandt "Dead Flowers" Rolling Stones cover.
22. Sigur Ros "Olsen" live. I highly recommend the documentary "LoudQUIETLoud" to any serious Pixies fan for a variety of reasons beyond simple devout fandom. One of those reasons is the DVD extra featuring Charles Thompson and Kim Deal visiting Sigur Ros' swimming pool-cum- recording studio in Iceland.

Image of Ruby shooting Oswald from all kinds of places. Image of legos from Pix in Brix, a company which will turn your photo into a lego kit/puzzle deal. Christmas is coming up.

That's MISTER puppy to YOU

2007-06-12T21:08:00.000-07:00

That's MISTER puppy to YOU can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

1. John Barry "Highway 101"

2. Mashup Barry White/Beach Boys. GoHome Productions/Mark Vidler.

3. Quincy Jones "The Streetbeater" from the 1973 LP You've Got It Bad Girl

4. Wolfgang Press "King of Soul"

5. Hmmm, dunno.

6. Nick Cave from The Secret Life Of The Love Song & The Flesh Made Word: Two Lectures By Nick Cave. His Bible commentary combined with the soundtrack to a short film I'd like to see some day called Nutation by Myriam Bessette. I put them together and I like to think it works. And thus we enter the perverse contrast zone for the next three cuts.

7. Bright Eyes "When the President Talks to God"

8. Sgt. Barry "Ballad of the Green Beret"

9. Cocteau Twins "Ice Pulse". I like the Cocteau Twins, especially the late stuff. This I heard first on the soundtrack to the documentary film "Tarnation". A powerful film about Jonathan Caouette growing up with his schizophrenic mother told with his own home videos. Allegedly made for under $300 on a Mac (soundtrack budget aside, of course).

10. Song Poem Song of the Burmese Land. From 365 Days site.

11. Iron and Wine "Naked as We Came" A song about dying that isn't written by Tom Waits for a change.

12. Eno and Cluster "Steinsame" mixed with-

13. Laurel and Hardy From the beginning of the film "Beau Hunks".
I found it here.

14. The Gourds "Gin and Juice"
Snoop Dogg cover. Agreed example of cover surpassing original.

"yorn"

15. Scala Choir "Teenage Dirtbag"
I've new respect (well, not 'new') for this song with every listen of this version. Such lyrical economy.
"Her boyfriend's a dick - he brings a gun to school"
The original is unrecognizably terrible. This cover tears away the chiffon and spam and reveals the ingot self. A new iteration of the Wilsonion Teenage Prayer to God.

16. Beck "Do You Realize? "

17. Frank Sinatra "Stardust"

18. Ulrich Schnauss "Gone Forever"
from a strangely isolated place
He's due for another release. I look forward to it. My Bloody Valentine plus Cocteau Twins plus Eno minus Sonic Youth plus, plus...

19. Jill Sobule "I Love to be Annoyed by You".
Yvette found this gem.

20 The Flaming Lips "Life on Mars " Bowie Cover
(annoying, get it?)

21. Seu Jorge "Five Years"
from "The Life Aquatic" soundtrack

22. Rev. Al Green "How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?"
BeeGees cover. A slow burn, but he finally gets to it.

His clothes are all wet.

23. Cat Power "Sea of Love"
The Tom Waits cover of this song is so much better. Next mix.

25. Song Poem Green Fingernails.

Ancient Pixel

2007-05-25T15:28:00.000-07:00

Ancient Pixel can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

1. Willie Nelson "Hello Walls"

2. Beck "Diamond Dogs"
cover of the Bowie song from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack.

3. The Clash "Know Your Rights"

4. The Jarmels "A Little Bit of Soap" sampled on De La Soul's Three Feet High and Rising album.

5. Perez Prado "Perfidio"

6. The Residents "Bach is Dead"

7. The Eagles of Death Metal "Kiss the Devil"
I will kiss the devil on his tongue

8. Sammy Davis Jr., "Something's Got to Give"

9. The Beatles "Mother Nature's Son"
Alleged by an unkind music reviewer to contain the chord progressions Elliot Smith based his entire career on.

10. Zach Galifianakis and a doo-wop group
he hired off the street in the town he was in. "He Ain't Gonna Email You"

11. Police / Mancini, Henry And His Orchestra
"Every Breath You Take/Theme from Peter Gunn" [Mr. Ruggerio's Remix]
from Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs (Music From the HBO Original Series). Steve Fisk's band/duo Pigeonhed has a song on this album: "Battle Flag". Which means Steve Fisk's music is playing behind a scene in a Sopranos episode. I honestly hope it was a good paycheck.

12. Fiona Apple "A Better Version of Me"

13. John Barry Orchestra "The Girl With The Sun In Her Hair"

14. The Postal Service "Against All Odds"
After all the time since this song was once overubiquitous it's still excruciating. I had hoped this cover would redeem it. It was a mistake, a terrible mistake. And there's nothing we can do. Soon after posting this episode, Phil Collins was a key part of an episode of "This American Life". It was excellent and almost mitigated the misery to which he subjected our good country. Episode #339 found here.

15. Dusty Springfield "Have a Good Life Baby"

16. Bobby Bare "Dropkick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life"

17. The Meters "Cissy Strut"
Joe Perry of Aerosmith says that he was listening to a lot to the Meters before he wrote "Walk This Way". Learning that connects a dot or two, don't it?

18. Leadbelly "Hitler Song"

19. Daniel Lanois "Secret Place" from the Slingblade soundtrack.

20. The Pogues "Summer in Siam"

21. Brian Eno "Fractal Zoom"

22. Boards of Canada "Eno Test"
This might make up for that Phil Collins cover.

Image from Margareet Soltan's Blog University Diaries,
then altered by me. She got it from photocentralasia.com.
image Link.

Trust In Haste, Regret In Leisure

2007-04-29T15:09:00.000-07:00

Trust In Haste, Regret In Leisure can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

I can't remember exactly, but this truism must be from the movie "Brazil", from one of the propaganda posters.

Here's a picture of that cool little car those kids stripped in the movie. It's a Messerschmitt K something.

Trust In Haste, Regret In Leisure

1. Eartha Kitt "C'est Si Bon"

2. Sugar "Hoover Dam" from Sugar, the first album by Sugar.

3. The Chips "Rubber Biscuit"

4. Bertrand Burgalat "Ma Recontre"
from the Laurel Canyon Soundtrack. (There's a few cuts from that album here). I like how pleasant the song is, then at the end it's like the studio owner insisted his son play a clarinet solo. Only his son is horrible and nearly ruins the song. Like that one guy in the Sugarcubes whose dad owned the music shop they got all their instruments from.

5. Tom Waits "Big In Japan" from Bone Machine.

6. Sage Francis "CrackPipes" from Personal Journals

7. Mouth Sounds Tutorial from the 365 Days Website. I'm still looking for it...
"you will notice that it has an Africated release"

8. Segue into Stereolab "Metronomic Underground" from that Emperor Tomato Can Jalopey Frantic Misnomer album or whatever.

9. Gil Scott Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"

10. The Briefs "Come Dancing"
Subpop Kinks Tribute. Linoleum Blownapart hipped me to a live performance of The Briefs once. It was grand. I thought someone was maybe on speed. I have fond memories of the original Kinks song.

11. Mercury Rev "In a Funny Way"
from Laurel Canyon Soundtrack.
I love the movie. Even though there's legitimate problems with it I'm still fond of it. It can be lumped into the category of films that you could skip the last 10 minutes of
and still leave with the impression of a masterpiece. or something. Perhaps it's Frances MacDormand's character and performance, or just Laurel Canyon itself geographically and botanically, but I've not found a good reason to dislike it.

12. Sonic Youth "100% " from Jet Set, Trash And No Star.

13. Aretha Franklin "The Weight"
A cover of The Band song. Aretha respects the melody(unlike her "I Heard it through the Grapevine"), and nails it. Unfortunately, I can't find a version that's not pinned, distorted. Maybe a reissue someday. Tom Sharpling calls The Band "Canadian Civil War reenactors". Probably, that's not entirely fair. But it is funny.

14. Soundgarden "Fourth of July"
I, too, have heard "Spoonman" too many times.

15. Song praising the religion of Enkankar.
Read this before you listen. It'll maybe prevent you from being brainwashed.
"At The Grass Roots" from Song In the Key of Z.
Personally, I know I can recite the lyrics verbatim any time, anywhere.
Can you? Yes, that's a challenge, punk.
See you in Hell----------EKANKAR!
(Thrusts sword in air)
There's more where that came from, if you've got the stomach.

16. White Stripes "Seventh Son"

17. The DeZurik (Cackle) Sisters "Old Dan Tucker"
From 365 Days Website

18. Sage Francis
Can't remember the title. still looking

19. Leonard Nimoy "Highly Illogical"

20. Beat Farmers "Happy Boy"

21. Nick Cave "Lovely Creature"
from Murder Ballads

22. Erik Satie One of his greatest hits.
I need to find the title.

23. Robin and Crystal Bernard - "The Monkey Song"
from the 365 Days Site.

The Image is from the film Brazil.

Pouring Water

2007-04-25T19:33:00.000-07:00

Pouring Water can be downloaded directly by clicking here.
This mix is many years old. A pretentious common element runs through it. This element attempts to distract from its uncharacteristic lack of diversity of artists.
Can you find it?

This one goes out to the Water signs.

1. "I'm Wishing" from Snow White from Disney from America. I, like many good 'merican children, listened to this many times on a yellow labeled 45.

2. Mudhoney "Today is a Good Day" from My Brother The Cow. A powerful statement of optimism. And by powerful I mean sarcastic.

3. Britney Spears "Oops I did it Again" Mark my words - she'll be the ABBA of 2013. If we're all here still, I mean. No more of the song than necessary here. I gotta say, I have hope for her after her sarcastic diatribe to the press. Maybe someday...But enough about her, it's about the work.

4. The Troggs "A Girl Like You" Bamba Bah Bah Bah qualifies as lyrics.

5. Iggy Pop "China Girl" Iggy and David Bowie share writing credits. I believe Iggy wrote the lyrics. Another upcoming book I'll read. Because I do. Read every rock star book.

Here he is in 2001 on Letterman doing something fairly intense at age 54.
It'll take a snottier hipster than me to argue with it. BTW isn't the long gloves something Anthony Keidis ripped off in the last decade?

He's freakishly young looking, like "The Picture of Dorian Grey" except with a collar instead of a mirror. From the neck down...

Lastly, I highly recommend his interview on Fresh Air last summer. The dude is not dumb. The proto punk Mortimer Snerd.

6. Pavement " "In the mouth a desert" from Westing by Sextant and Musket. This was on a great mix by Linoleum Blownapart from like 1988 (on cassette called... I should remember. I still have it. I might just dig it out...) But the song, as with that mix holds up today. (Maybe it will appear on the exciting Linoleum Blownapart podcast?).
This song is epic, man. And I have no idea what it is about. Educate me, oh listener. Leave a comment, and educate us all. If it's just gibberish, it might be at least be suited for another, more political purpose.
Alls I'm saying is better people than I have tried.

7. Elvis Costello "Poor Napolean". I saw Elvis and the Imposters (the Attractions with a new bassist) on "Austin City Limits" supporting The Delivery Man. He was surprisingly vital and musically abrasive. He must have hired Marc Ribot's guitar tech because he sounded just like Ribot on some strange four stringed guitar. Jumbo electric ukelele? It was great.

8. James Brown "The Big Payback"

9. U2 and Brian Eno "Elvis Ate America" from Passengers

10. Serge Gainsbourg "69 année érotique " There's probably toilet talk going on in there...

11. Radiohead a song that bigger fans than I know the name of immediately.

12. Iggy Pop "Nightclubbing"

13. Serge Gainsbourg - I don't know the name of this cut.

14. U2 and Brian Eno "Always Forever Now". another cut from Passengers

15. Henry Rollins with Les Claypool and the Holy Mackerel "Delicate Tendrils" (1996) (cut from a not suprisingly not great album Highball with the Devil) I've become a homeowner since I first made this mix. I've stopped hearing this with much irony.

16. U2 and Brian Eno another cut from Passengers. There's a song with Johnny Cash on that album that is awkward and techno and should be heard once. It'll end up in a car ad soon.

17. Pavement "Here" from Slanted and Enchanted.

18. U2 and Brian Eno "Your Blue Room"another cut from Passengers. Yes, that makes four.

Image of Kim Novak's hair from the film "Picnic" from blog Sam's Place
I can't find where Sam got it.
Learn about the Mattel Aquarius at oldcomputers.net

Prayer Life

2007-04-16T21:59:00.000-07:00

Prayer Life can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

1. Arthur Brown "Fire".

Alice Cooper ripped THIS guy off - with the makeup and the schtick.

2. The Hold Steady "Chillout Tent"

"He looked alot like Izzy Stradlin"

3. Elvis Presley "We're Coming In Loaded".

It took me a long time to find this.
Sounds a lot like "God's Gonna Cut You Down" with a more fish related and less vengeful, lethally vindictive God theme. I'm pretty sure this is from one of Elvis' movies that involved boats.

4. "Fox Problems" by Pilchard.

A a mashup of Jimi Hendrix and um...

5. Califone "Chinese Actor" from Roots and Crowns.

6. GoHome Productions mashup

of Pinocchio - I've Got No Strings / Radiohead - Creep / The Beatles - Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.

Pinocchio or Ralph Wiggam?

7. "Karate"

You'll have to check back for a credit. I'm still looking.

8. Broken Social Scene

9. Stevie Wonder "Are You Sure Love Is The Name Of This Game?"

10. Benny Goodman "Bolero"

11. Beck "Nicotine & Gravy" from Midnite Vultures
"she looks so Israeli"

12. Dusty Springfield "Oh No! Not My Baby".

A cover of an original Motown song. Category: Doormat. A song in which stalwart denial is rewarded with an eternally stable relationship.

13. Air "Sexy Boy" from Moon Safari.

14. Bryan Ferry "I'm In the Mood For Love"

15. Lou Johnson "Always Something There to Remind Me"

The definitive version of this song for my money. "How can I forget you?" His phrasing actually sounds like a question. Shockingly, the Onion's writers gave the best cover version of this song to Naked Eyes.

16. Langley Schools Music Project "Desperado"
I, of course, grew up thinking that this was a song by the Carpenters,
and I still find the Eagles version a little "off". So this version recorded in 1976-77 sounds still less "off". This girl sings "a bull" instead of "able".

17. The Korgis "Everybody's got to learn sometime".

Not as good as Beck's cover,
but holds up okay. Thanks to Branan for the info.
If you have to, you can watch the video if only to admire the lead singer's odd pink bass.

18. Genesis "Carpet Crawlers"

from The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. Did you know that Brian Eno worked on that album? I didn't.

But Wikipedia says he did, and I shan't argue.

19. Will Oldham "Strange Form of Life" from The Letting Go

20. Robyn Hitchcock with Gillian Welch and David Rawling, "Television" from Spooky.

21. Radiohead "Subterranean Homesick Blues". I know. The voices that appear in the chorus is fake.

22. Beach Boys Pet Sounds title track. I imagine a credit crawl up the screen.

from Wikipedia:

the brittle brassy surf of the title track, "Pet Sounds." (originally "Run James, Run", the suggestion being that it would be offered for use in a James Bond movie).

The inevitable John Barry/Brian Wilson intersection. The circle is now complete.
In my mind.

image:

American Prayer 2000

213 cm x 187 cm

oil and acrylic on canvas

by Gottfried Helnwein
Helnwein was the artist who painted the cover of "Blackout" by the Scorpians. Really.

Champagne Unit

2007-04-07T14:20:00.000-07:00

Champagne Unit can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

George W. Bush allegedly
avoided the Vietnam Era
in a 'champagne' unit.
Yes.
An entire Era.
I mean entire war.

Never has such weasely
aristocratic behavior
sounded so poetical.

1. Little Anthony and the Imperials "Shimmy Shimmy Coco Bop"

2. Chemical Brothers "Playground For A Wedgeless Firm"

3. Loretta Lynn "Have Mercy on Me"

4. ? cannot remember Buloululba

5. Killdozer and Alice Donut cover "Aquarius"
from "Hair".
I know it's the same with all Killdozer covers, and this is no exception, but the cookie monster singalong
coupled in this case with the hippie feelgood vibe is nice, even if it does go on a bit too long.

6. Go Home Productions Chunk: Who, Stooges TV Eye

7. Ridiculous Trio "No Fun", Stooges cover. I think a kazoo might have been involved.

8. Mambo Kurt "Waiting Room", Fugazi cover.

9. Richard Hell and Voidoids "Blank Generation"

10. Wendy Carlos "What's New, Pussycat?",
Burt Bacharach wrote this song.
I'm afraid I'm becoming a fan of Burt Bacharach, like the middle aged woman
played by Eric Idle in Monty Python's Meaning of Life
who is choosing a topic of conversation in the restaurant in the afterlife.
And run on sentencing like an athletic judge.

11. Munsters theme song, seague way into

12. Go Home Productions
Chunk: Munsters Theme + that new york band I can't remember+LCD soundsystem+ Kaiser Cheifs + Pere Ubu - nonalignment pact+Beach Boys. And Peaches is in there too. With swears.

13. Marilyn Monroe Happy Birthday to JFK

14. Flaming Lips "The Big Bug is the New Baby"
recomposited from the four Zaireeka CDs. It's a bit overdriven, sorry.

15. Go Home Productions Mashup 10cc and Marvin Gaye

16. Brian Eno from Another Day on Earth

17. Brian Eno "Bone Bomb" from same.
I think this song is about a girl with an eating disorder, don't you?

18. Sebedoh "On Fire"

19. Go Home Productions Mashup of a Rod Stewartless "Maggie May" and Stevie Wonder's "Uptight"

20. Concert for George, Clapton, Billy Preston "Isn't it a Pity?"
The DVD is available. The Seattle Library has it. It seems like a great opportunity of grandstanding and maudlinisity. However, I found it quite genuinely touching. Except for the Ringo singing part. See it, and you'll know.

21. Beck "Debra" "Step inside my Hyundai"

There are a lot of mashups on this mix, maybe too many.
Image by David Wisecarver-
made with an image of me I foolishly furnished him with.

I'm not sure Photoshop's Liquify filter is useful in terms of design or art.
It appears (to quote the late, great Nan Cauthorn) to help you make bad art faster.
But I do think it could save lives and bitter confrontations.

Avoid those pesky court fees, restraining orders and prison time.
Work out your problems with an image of your ex wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend, boss, inlaw with Photoshop.
Pucker and bloat the pain, anger and resentment away!

Excuse me while I compose an infomercial pitch for Adobe:
"The new Liquify Aggression Abatement System costs only three easy payments of..."

I Wish God Was Alive To See This

2007-03-31T01:33:00.000-07:00

I Wish God Was Alive To See This can be downloaded by clicking here.

1. Elvis Presley "A Big Hunk of Love"

2. Kool and the Gang "Hollywood Swingers"
The Big Boys did an amazing cover of this song. I gotta dig that one up.

3. Blind Boys of Alabama "This May Be the Last Time"

4. Wonder Woman theme song. For the feminism.

5. XTC "Let's Make a Den"- Home Demo

6. Crispin Glover "Clowny Clown Clown"
Downright annoying, dammit.

7. Jimmy Dean "Big John"
Experts agree: this song is the ur- origin of this 'rap' thing the kids are into now.

8. Barrett Strong "Money (That's What I Want)".

9. XTC "Yacht Dance" live radio performance

10. Geoff Muldaur "Brazil" from the Brazil Soundtrack
His ex wife sang Midnight at the Oasis of "Waiting for Guffman" fame.

11. The Kinks "Where Have All the Good Times Gone?"
I'll never get used to this song not being written by Van Halen.

12. Charles Manson "I'll never say never to always"

13. Crispin Glover "Never Say Never To Always"

14. B-52s "Quiche Lorraine"

15. Steve Earle "Warrior"

16. The Damned Alone Again or?
cover of the song by Love.

17. John Barry theme to forgotten TV show, "The Persuaders"

18. Harold Budd with something called Zeitgeist "Breathless"

19. John Barry from You Only Live Twice Soundtrack.
I love this chord progression. If I wasn't getting cremated, I'd want my coffin lowered into the grave to this song.

20. Bjork "You Only Live Twice"

21. Michael Penn from Melvin Goes to Dinner soundtrack.
A play as movie directed by Bob (Mr. Show) Odenkirk. Breaks with most narrative conventions. Either that or it's hard to guess what will happen next. Recommended.

22. Ween the Mollusk.
This song was the bed music under a weekly feature on the now defunct Mark Maron Show on Air America Radio. Mark would recount his dreams and a clip of this song would loop underneath. It was funny.

23. RZA Ghost Dog Soundtrack

24. Sue Jorge "Life on Mars"
from The Life Aquatic Soundtrack

25. Mary Gauthier "I Drink"

26. Eno/Bowie/Glass "Heroes"

27. XTC "Your Dictionary" from Apple Venus Vol I.
The ending of this song seems slapped on. Like the original ending didn't test well. There's a lot of XTC on this mix.

Polluted With Delight

2007-03-16T11:54:00.000-07:00

Polluted with Delight can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

1. Earle Hagen "I Spy" from Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 7: The Crime Scene

2. John C. Reilly & Mark Wahlberg "Intro (Feel The Heat)" from the Boogie Nights Soundtrack album

3. The Monkeywrench "Notes & Chords Mean Nothing To Me" from Clean as a Broke-Dick Dog.

4. FlamingLips/BillHicks Mashup "It’s Just A Ride". I wish I knew where this came from.

5. Iggy Pop "Five Foot one"

6. Stereolab "Margarine Melodie" from Margarine Eclipse

7. Steve Fisk "Aviation Oakie"
from 999 Levels of Undo.
A puzzling, limping tumble down the stairs.
Like that rare great movie, you realize, 'I don't have a clue what's going to happen next'
And you actually give a shit.
Jeez, I love this song.

8. Unidentified Sharecropper Field Holler. It's not nice to not remember where this came from. But I don't.

9. The Pixies Nimrod’s Son Live 2004. One of the only legitimate song uses of the M-F swear. The other one is Kick out the Jams by a group of young impolite ruffians called the MC5.

10. Tuvan Throat Singer It's not nice to not remember where this came from either.

11. Dirtbombs/ Robyn Hitchcock Cover "Executioner of Love"

12. Steve Fisk "Where’s the Fire" from 999 Levels of Undo

13. Willie Nelson/Beach Boys "The Warmth of The Sun" the one good(?) thing from Stars and Stripes, Vol. 1, a Country Beach Boys Tribute/duet Album! No Volume 2 has been released since 1996, when this was released. Probably, there won't be a Volume 2, so don't hold your breath.

Guess which Beach Boy I blame for this mess (with a jingoisticalesque title): Mike Love. What is it with Transcendental Meditation? Practising doesn't seem to make anyone a better person, like you'd figure. It seems to allow the practitioner to sociopathically separate themselves from the feelings of others. Or something.

Andy Kaufman (I love Andy Kaufman the ur-Borat precisely for his most aggressive comedy), Howard Stern, Mike Love... At least David Lynch doesn't seem unpleasant. But his art isn't very nice seeming. Often ugly, actually. An ugly I love also. Anyway, TM folks are not blissed out or fully gruntled, it seems. Done musing- back to the task.

14. PJ Harvey/Bjork Live cover of "Satisfaction"

15. Halo Benders = Calvin+Built to Spill "Don't Touch My Bikini"

16. Righteous Brothers "Just Once In My Life" another Phil Spector gem.

17. Dolly Parton "I Will always Love You" the 1974 ish original. One of the many music crimes of the eighties was to tarnish the reputation of this fine song with Whitney Houston's caterwaul. I had no idea...

18. Doves/David Essex Mashup "Rock On"

19. Negativland "U2" . Not well placed in this mix, admittedly. But funny in a grueling kind of way. And there's that Steve Fisk connection...

20. Yes End of Starship Troopers. (It's actually called "Wurm"...with umlauts. I cringe.)

21. Beck "Totally Confused"

22. B-52s and everyone Mashup "Love Shack" .
Annoying. But funny.
This one and the Negativland cut might belong on another CD/Podcast/Mix,
perhaps one called "In a Timeout".

The "Polluted with Delight" image put together by me quite without permission from images by someone whose website is quite vague and has no contact info named tch Bart who sells dressing and marinade and is delighted.

Beefs

2007-02-18T14:59:00.000-08:00

Beefs can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

Said aloud, one might be amatuer diagnosed with a speech impediment.
It could be a variety of bovine based dishes.
Or multiple grudges.
Beef is another of the many words that should be pluralized more often.

1. Nick Cave "Red Right Hand"
from B-Sides and Rarities. This version with the orchestral arrangement is kool.

2. Andy Williams "Happy Heart"
Deja "Fly me to the Moon" vu.

3. TAD "Oppenheimer's Pretty Nightmare"

4. Fabian "This Friendly, Friendly World".
This was Andy Kaufman's favorite song.

5. Wilco "I am Trying to Break Your Heart"
from their live album Kicking Television.

6. Pastels "Illuminati"
Stereolab Remix. Mysteriously on an Up Records compilation also ibid too.

7. Brent Arnold "Sweetness"

8. T- Bone Burnett "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"
from Trap Door.

9. C.H.A.O.S. Productions Bootleg mix "My Other Car Is A Beatle"
( Gary Numan vs L'Trimm vs the Beatles). A trifle I truncated.

10. The Flaming Lips "Vein of Stars"
from At War With the Mystics

11. Steve Reich "New York Counterpoint"
for amplified clarinet and tape or 11 clarinets (1985).

12. Peter Gabriel "We Do What We're Told"
This amazing and disturbing story
reminded me of this song again.

13. Nick Cave "Jesum Transeuntum Et Non Riverentum"
[featuring The Dirty Three] from B-Sides and Rarities.

14. Neil Young "Ways of Love"
I heard this song again after many years at my friends Carolyn and Ben's wedding reception and thought it should be on the next mix. The wedding was sweet and sunny, by the way.

15. Thievery Corporation "Marching the Hate Machines into the Sun"
featuring the Flaming Lips from Cosmic Game.

16. Elvis Costello "Couldn't Call It Unexpected No. 4"
from Mighty Like a Rose.

17. Townes Van Zandt "To Live is to Fly"
from Rear View Mirror. The original cowboy junky. If you feel like licking an ashtray for a couple hours, watch "Be Here to Love Me" , the documentary about his miserable life and his beautiful music. I'd be totally cool with the multivalent incontinence in the lives of such artists (the beats, the rock stars) if they'd just refrain from fathering children...

18. The Postal Service "Suddenly Everything Has Changed"
a Flaming Lips cover from The District Sleeps Alone Tonight.

19. Something I put together.
"El Conquistador" by Daniel Lanois with a poem by Leonard Cohen.

20. Iron and Wine "Jesus the Mexican Boy"

Fraidy Hole

2007-01-05T22:22:00.000-08:00

Fraidy Hole can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

A fraidy hole is what tornado alley Texans call a cellar:

Fraidy Hole - [Slang] Term for a basement, cellar, or other supposedly protective location where people hide when the tornado shows up for a visit. No part of a mobile home should be used as a fraidy hole, better to find some below-ground protected structure.

1. Screamin' Jay Hawkins Frenzy

2. Yat-Kha: Inna Gada da Vida

3. The Louvin Brothers "Great Speckled Bird" Show me where there's a great speckled bird in the Bible. I've never heard of it, and I'm a preacher's kid.

4. Steve Fisk "Kennedy Saga(Chapter VII)" from 'Over and Through the Night', 1987

5. B-52s "Song for a Future Generation"

6. "Heigh Ho" from Snow White from Disney

7. Blood, Sweat and Tears "Go Down Gamblin"

8. Jon Spencer Blues Explosion "Can't Stop" from "Now I Got Worry".
Apparently, that's Money Mark on Piano.

9. Carrol Channing "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend"

10. Elliott Smith "Stupidity Tries" from "Figure 8".
A gratifying coda.

11. Roxy Music "The Main Thing"

12. Johnny Cash "What is Truth"

13. Tom Waits "Lord, I've Been Changed" from Orphans, Brawlers....

14. Mogwai "Nick Drake"

15. Gilliam Welch "Everything is Free" Surgically precise condemnation of online sharing. At least that's how I interpret it. I recently ran across this essay at the McSweeney's site that discuss the same subject. So it's not just me after all.

16. Radiohead "Paranoid Android"

17. Rod McKuen "Listen to the Warm"

18. Jon Brion "Revolving Door" from the "I heart Huckabees" soundtrack

19. Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant "Tulsa Twist" 1962. Strange bowed something moaning low behind...

20. Arty Fufkin – Crazy Logic (Gnarls Barkley vs. Supertramp vs. Rockwell) - Melbourne, Australia from Best of Bootie 2006 . My friend Branan hipped me to this cool bootleg comp. His great podcast can be found here.

21. Tom T. Hall "I Love" Giving Jonathan Richman a run for the shorty bus.

22. The Wolfgang Press "Birdie Song" and

23. Wolfgang Press "Dreams and Light"
from "Queer"

24. Roxy Music again "India" from "Avalon"

25. A thing I put together. Music from soundtrack to "Mysterious Skin", "Memories Returning" Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd. "Mysterious Skin" is an impressive, difficult movie I'm not about to recommend to anyone.
Spoken words: Werner Herzog from "Burden of Dreams" the Les Blank documentary about the making of "Fitzcarraldo". Watching him say this is much better than listening to it alone, with his sparkly dead eyes as he sneers at the rain forest.
"Burden of Dreams" is in some ways better than its subject.
It now is packaged on the DVD (you can get from Seattle Public Library) with 'Werner Herzog eats his (own?) shoe", a legendary movie that I thought I'd only read about for the rest of my life. It's not that the film is that great, but that I could only read about it in Film Comment in 1986, and now...

segue way into:

26. Elliott Smith "Bye" from "Figure 8"

Secret Halo

2007-01-04T18:13:00.000-08:00

Secret Halo can be downloaded directly by clicking here.

This list is incomplete. It's kind of a mess.
1. Iggy Pop: I'm Bored

2. John Lennon: Nobody Told Me. "There's nazis in the bathroom just below the stairs".

3. Go Home Productions/ Mark Vidler. A mess of mashuppity stuffs.
Elvis/Queen/John Lennon

4. Another Mashup a friend sent me a link to once, which I forgotten the details of.
Imagine/Take a Walk on the Wild Side/ George Bush mashup. I personally think it's not entirely George Bush' s voice. If at all.

5. the Seekers: Georgy Girl. And the Seekers were from Australia.

6. George Baker Selection "Little Green Bag". That song from Reservoir Dogs, but did you know that George Baker was Dutch?

7. The Futureheads: cover of "Hounds of Love" by Kate Bush

8. Portishead: Biscuit from Dummy

9. I can't tell you who this is

10. Cibo Matto About a Girl. Cover of the Nirvana Song

11. Go Home Productions Wings +Aguilara+Outcast+Wings again

I don't know again

12. Fiona Apple