Still shaking off the post-finals lethargy... But with Summer I starting today, it's time to shake things up and get cracking. And so... the "middle six" of the AL Central mixtape!
7. "Big Little Baby" by Reverend Horton Heat--A novelty track that can't help but give up the giggles itself from the opening line. This is from a freebie sampler CD from a Bloomie record store that itself is long gone... For the record, L is well under 6-feet tall...
8. "Madavu the Man" by Aki Nawaz--Another Bloomie-era track! I used to regularly buy the most-excellent British glossy world-music magazine Songlines to fuel my "Planetary Caravan" shows on WFHB. Digging around for info onNawaz, I stumbled across this super BBC series w/ the late John Peel, as he travels outside London Town to see the scenes...
9. "So Beautiful or So What" by Paul Simon--The closer / title track from last year's super super disc. Every track a winner. Essential.
10. "Home Cooking" by Tony Allen--Mr Afrobeat himself! More echoes of spinning global music on community radio... This is one of those songs that works on so many levels...
11. "All I Need" by Al Green--This is a record I played incessantly the summer we moved to Cape Cod. Also essential, beginning to end.
12. "Snatch It Back and Hold It" by Junior Wells--I read about Wells in an "essential blues records" kind of book, and dutifully picked up the record on the North Shore a few years back. Buddy Guy plays on this--I got to meet him last month briefly in Chicago at his blues club! High five!
Next time: Side C! Tracks 13-18 complete the cycle...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Mixtape CD Liner Notes...Side A
What's the knave's way to jump-start some writing? Liner notes, of course! Seeing as SJ was my only documented reader for William Gibson post, and seeing as I owe him liner notes for the mixtape I finally sent out this past week, that's what we're going to do...The videos are all different versions than on the disc--and the Devo video is off the rails altogether...but you'll figure that out soon enough...
~bpi
1. "Answered Prayers," David Sylvian--How's this for an atmospheric opener? My Sylvian fandom can be traced back to Gustavus days, with a dub of Gentlemen Take Polariods on a D-90 cassette. My first copy of this song was from the Minneapolis Public Library vinyl stacks in the early '90s--truth told, this tune has been kicking around on my end for two decades or so! Still, the Eno-esque waves of sheen never gets old. Not an official video, and a little happy on the fx, but it works...
2. "Laisvė tavyje," Andrius Mamontovas--At least song is from this century (I think). AM is the Lithuanian singer-songwriter--he's the whole package. He fronted Foje, the biggest band Lithuania has ever seen--and probably will ever see--until they hung it up in 1997. I should have gone to their farewell concert, but I blew it--and that's another story altogether. This was a "We Are The World"-type LT fundraiser--the video has no visuals, but a vocal mix of a number of big names in LithPop.
3. "Rudy With a Flashlight," Rainer Ptaček--super Tucson blues guitarist who died in 1997. Is it becoming clear that I'm not getting as much new music as I used to? Hmmm. I have a lot more to say about Rainer this summer--hence the blogging warm-ups! The clip has Evan Dando singing--this is from the tribute / fund-rasing CD The Inner Flame...
4. "If You Ever Go to Houston," Bob Dylan--The newest track of the lot, by the oldest singer of the lot! Go figure. I think this song could go on for an hour, and I'd be more than content to keep riding that hypnotic, accordion-fuelled chord progression. What does Bobby Z have left in the tank? We wrote him off too soon years ago... Here's a cellphone bootleg from from two years back:
5. "What We Do," Devo--The best part of their "comeback" release a few years back was their online marketing campaign. I still like to show my media research class their focus group research video...
6. "So What," Miles Davis--I'm pretty sure I've played this record more than any other I have since coming to Massachusetts. Lots and lots of grading...lots of grading. Miles makes it all go down just that little bit smoother, you know? I always play this for the first day of classes--a little playful antagonism never hurt anybody...
Thanks for stopping by! Next time: Side B...
~bpi
1. "Answered Prayers," David Sylvian--How's this for an atmospheric opener? My Sylvian fandom can be traced back to Gustavus days, with a dub of Gentlemen Take Polariods on a D-90 cassette. My first copy of this song was from the Minneapolis Public Library vinyl stacks in the early '90s--truth told, this tune has been kicking around on my end for two decades or so! Still, the Eno-esque waves of sheen never gets old. Not an official video, and a little happy on the fx, but it works...
2. "Laisvė tavyje," Andrius Mamontovas--At least song is from this century (I think). AM is the Lithuanian singer-songwriter--he's the whole package. He fronted Foje, the biggest band Lithuania has ever seen--and probably will ever see--until they hung it up in 1997. I should have gone to their farewell concert, but I blew it--and that's another story altogether. This was a "We Are The World"-type LT fundraiser--the video has no visuals, but a vocal mix of a number of big names in LithPop.
3. "Rudy With a Flashlight," Rainer Ptaček--super Tucson blues guitarist who died in 1997. Is it becoming clear that I'm not getting as much new music as I used to? Hmmm. I have a lot more to say about Rainer this summer--hence the blogging warm-ups! The clip has Evan Dando singing--this is from the tribute / fund-rasing CD The Inner Flame...
4. "If You Ever Go to Houston," Bob Dylan--The newest track of the lot, by the oldest singer of the lot! Go figure. I think this song could go on for an hour, and I'd be more than content to keep riding that hypnotic, accordion-fuelled chord progression. What does Bobby Z have left in the tank? We wrote him off too soon years ago... Here's a cellphone bootleg from from two years back:
5. "What We Do," Devo--The best part of their "comeback" release a few years back was their online marketing campaign. I still like to show my media research class their focus group research video...
6. "So What," Miles Davis--I'm pretty sure I've played this record more than any other I have since coming to Massachusetts. Lots and lots of grading...lots of grading. Miles makes it all go down just that little bit smoother, you know? I always play this for the first day of classes--a little playful antagonism never hurt anybody...
Thanks for stopping by! Next time: Side B...
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