everybody self-distancing from COVID-19, what's on your playlist?

If you're looking for soothing jazz, that Alabaster dePlume record is outstanding. I find Helen Merrill really soothing.

On the bedtime jazz tip - try Japanese pianist Hiromi, her recent album ‘Specturm’ is great and yellow Wurlitzer blues is getting lots of plays right now.

The Go Hirano album - that Tylerw linked to on his blog - is my go-to late-night Japanese thing at the moment. It's ostensibly ambient but it's almost got a backporch primitivism feel to it. It's fantastic.

https://gohirano.bandcamp.com/album/corridor-of-daylight

Police - “Don’t Stand So Close To Me”
The The - “Infected”

and Björk “Virus” obv

Mudhoney - Here Comes Sickness + Touch Me I’m Sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQICnj5pPKs

Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now (Baby Blue)

Sofia Gubaidulina - Feast During a Plague

Ventilator Blues

i'm alive in here
i'm alive in here
i'm alive in heee-eee-ee-ere

today i'm thinking "you know what, why _haven't_ i ever listened to the complete recordings of swamp dogg?"

we'll see how long that lasts. i have a tendency to be slightly overambitious in my music listening plans.

He was on NPR talking about his new album/career and was very funny. The host was cracking up repeatedly.

<3 imago

:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szS23iiBdzU

Alien Sex Fiend, 'Here Cum Germs', 'Isolation'

down with the sickness

The Fall - Van Plague

Exit theme music from Lars von Trier’s Epidemic.

Guess it’s called “We All Fall Down”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZwyXbqN2tA

Love you all

today i'm thinking "you know what, why _haven't_ i ever listened to the complete recordings of swamp dogg?"

we'll see how long that lasts. i have a tendency to be slightly overambitious in my music listening plans.

Less Than Jake - Lockdown

Seriously if I can't go out, I might as well listen to Boulez' take on all 9 Mahler symphonies.

Oh and last night I listened to Dinosaur Jr - The Lung and didn't even think about it.

They Might Be Giants - The End of the Tour

Dylan - "High Water (For Charley Patton)"

I'm working on a not very cheery playlist

Isolation/Desolation

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/772qWSHZvL18n7EsyrLmdN?si=rrh7ZIyjSX6JbY3BoilbKA

I think T.B. Sheets should be on there.

I'm working on a not very cheery playlist

Isolation/Desolation

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/772qWSHZvL18n7EsyrLmdN?si=rrh7ZIyjSX6JbY3BoilbKA🕸

Alfred's list has it

Of course. One of the rare times I didn’t click through to one of his lists.

Les Savy Fav - Raging in the Plague Age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENp1ZrUtbCk&list=PLAKjQSBuXp4jtuTVyo8BDhSqLg_mZbQlE&index=251

There are dozens of recently created and terrible COVID / Coronavirus songs on spotify.

I slightly like this one

https://open.spotify.com/track/58Wqwa7c5Y3BBq0eymWdqo?si=r3Inq7raRma_CgryNv0gMA

And from the depths of 1993, here's Denmarks very own Nice Device with Cool Corona (Could You Be Like Elvis):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWtaxoIQeg

I've hardly played any music at all the past two weeks. I took Automatic for the People with me my last trip into the city last week, and "Try Not to Breathe" sounded poignant and apropos. I spend more time watching DVDs and reading, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4LtcagNWGk

Not on my playlist per se, but a persistent earworm these last days: Scott Walker, "Cue".

i've not even been in the mood to listen but it's pretty much all morose metal at the moment.

and watching Bojack HOrseman

Not on my playlist per se, but a persistent earworm these last days: Scott Walker, "Cue".

Honestly I haven’t been looking for funny or apposite choices (aphex “ventolin” would be one), I stuck on an official Spotify playlist titled “deep listening” that had a lot of faves - plight + premonition, cluster & eno, timeless (ecm not goldie) - plus a load of stuff I didn’t know but dug. It was absolutely the tonic

Today my connection started breaking up so I rebooted the firetv stick that I play music thru and played the first thing recommended by Spotify and it was Leonard Cohen, Everybody knows that the plague is coming/everybody knows it’s moving fast

Bad Religion "Infected"

Lol i was thinking of that one yesterday

William Beauvais livestream on Facebook.

Peggy Lee - Fever
Alanis Morissette - hands clean
The Verve - the drugs don’t work
The Police - Don’t Stand So Close to Me
Minutemen - Corona
Billy Idol - dancing with myself
Al Green - Tired of being alone
Snoh Aalegra - nothing burns like the cold
Mecano - perdido en mi habitación
C. Tangana, Paloma Mami - no te debi besar
Nelly - hot in here
Sean Paul - temperature
Outkast - so fresh, so clean
Berlin - take my breath away
Meat Loaf - bat out of hell
Billie Eilish - No time to die

Just walking around with a boombox playing post-Confield Autechre on shuffle super loud

honestly so many of their songs would accurately soundtrack a video of viruses multiplying under a microscope

The Mountain Goats - The Plague
The Mountain Goats - Thucydides II-58

you know you want to but you can't say yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwZAYdHcDtU&ab_channel=georgemichaelVEVO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk2oKltS88c

Blanck Mass - World Eater

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi8QMSMb-Bs

I love World Eater - on my list for today.

ambient punk

http://purelifetapes.bandcamp.com/album/shared-hallucination-episode-i

Tommy James and The Shondells- I Think We're Alone Now

serious, non-joek response, this is basically most of what I"ve listened to in the last two weeks

Benny the Butcher - Tana Talk 3
Ripped to Shreds - Luan
Lich King - World Gone Bad, Born of the Bomb
Black Curse - Endless Wound
Like Rats - Monolith
Gucci Mane - Burrprint 3D
Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race
Danny Brown - Atrocity Exhibition
Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Thank Me, Neva Left
2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
Vader - Solitude in Madness
Cam'Ron - Purple Haze, Purple Haze 2
Nipsey Hussle - Victory Lap
Danzig - Sings Elvis
Pusha T - King Push, Daytona, My Name is My Name
Tankard - Chemical Invasion
Anthrax - Among the Living
Slayer - Repentless Killogy (live), Hell Awaits
Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow
Sadistic Ritual - Visionaire of Death
Polo G - Die a Legend
Cardi B - Invasion of Privacy
Hirax - Not Dead Yet
Nifelheim - Servants of Darkness
Meek Mill - Championships
Migos - Culture
Oranssi Pazuzu - Mestarin Kynsi
Abysmal Dawn - Phylogenesis
Project Pat - Mista Don't Play 2
Bun B - Return of the Trill

Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd

song of the week has been “gentle man” by The Defaulters (discovered one floating points’ late night tales mix)

https://youtu.be/1lNXOdpNsmw

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Small Axe
Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim

Might as well add
Mott the Hoople - All the Way from Memphis
Paul McCartney and Wings - Rock Show

Aluk Todolo, In Solitude, Black Sabbath, Ulcerate, Autopsy

Did you know metal is an absolute lifesaver?

Aceyalone - Gimme Five Feet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byiFNxRCovk

Young Jeezy
Recession

the perfect song today for me is the dixie cups - iko iko

Good one.

Do you know the story of their debut single?

no!

Leiber and Stoller had left Atlantic Records to start their own record label, Red Bird. They had recorded a bunch of stuff but were running out of cash and needed to release something. They ran into George Goldner (at the Palm? Meeting with Hy Weiss?) who was once again down on his luck. Typically he would start a successful R&B or Latin label, then run up a gambling debt and have to sell it to Morris Levy. Jerry and Mike told him they would hire him on the spot, brought him back to their office, showed him the slush pile of recordings, left him the keys, went home to sleep, came back in the morning, to find him sitting there, still dapper, holding up the tape or acetate of The Dixie Cups version of "Chapel of Love," saying something like "On my very word" or however he would have said it. One of them, Jerry, no doubt, said "That PoS!?" but they put it out anyway and it was a hit and kept them alive for a while. They made Goldner a partner, and he eventually ended up selling out his interest as per usual, no to Morris Levy but to someone like him, so Jerry and Mike sold their interest as well, for a dollar I think.

Also came to post
CSNY - Almost Cut My Hair
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Burning Spear - Social Living

The Cowsills- Hair

Not The Palm, Al & Dick’s Steakhouse.

Which is even the name of the relevant chapter in Leiber and Stoller’s memoir, Hound Dog.

This started off as a kind of "end times" compilation but ended up somewhere else, with love and hope:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB

David Sylvian, My Bus, Piano Magic, Fever Ray ... that kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKGzcHfUl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs56ygZplQA

On the search for a vaccin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU

DO U SEE?

i'm sure this has already been posted but still please take me along when you slide on down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvg5mbM6FGs