Saturday, December 20, 2008

Dusk Latitudes

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"

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