memo to greta van fleet: _this_ is how you rip off led zeppelin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yia9pUvfEE
that's jan akkerman from focus doing his best jimmy page imitation
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
A Marianne Faithfull song I like came on random and I made a mix. I'm actually fairly pleased with this latest hour, enough to do a proper write-up on it.
Loona - Butterfly: The lead track from the just-released debut album by the latest hot K-pop sensations. Not my usual MO for openers, but my primary requirement for an opener is that it immediately grab the listener. This does.
Microbit Project - Song of Space Butterflies: Likewise, I usually don't get this weird this early on. This is a track from the early days of the lobit scene, focused around experimental analog synths. It does get slightly obnoxious, but on the other hand it only lasts a minute and a half, and the ambience is unbeatable.
Smile Down Upon Us - Butterfly Morning: A band I got into in the late '00s - a Japanese lady singing over ukuleles. Perhaps that's hopelessly precious and twee, but I do quite like it. What really sold me on them was the mondegreen in their version of Sandy Denny's "Two Weeks Last Summer" where she sings "laughter from an oven door".
The Four Tops - Elusive Butterfly: I really do believe that _Still Waters Run Deep_ is the best Four Tops album. No, I haven't heard every Four Tops album in its entirety, obviously.
The Toms - Elusive Butterfly: No actual relation to the Bob Lind tune. I am a complete mark for anything Tommy Marolda has done. Admittedly at his worst he can sometimes come off as landfill indie, but this song is definitely not Tommy Marolda at his worst.
Kevin Ayers - Butterfly Dance: Such a fantastic fucking song, isn't it? Considering my deep love of all things Canterbury, I'm a bit abashed at how little of Ayers' work I've absorbed.
When - Butterflies: Another one of those late '00s/early RYM obsessions of mine. I believe the story is something like that When was one of those Scandinavian black metal dudes who got really into the Beach Boys and avant-pop. It happens sometimes. Anyway "Trippy Happy" probably isn't an all-time masterpiece and I confess that I haven't really kept up with When's subsequent work after that fairly underwhelming Sun Ra tribute record, but I do still quite enjoy it on occasion.
Los Brios - Goodbye Madamme Butterfly: One of those overall solid comps I got into either from finding a track from it posted somewhere on Youtube or randomly on RYM. This is actually the closer on a 2005 comp called "The Spanish Trip: 23 Obscure Freak Artifacts From The Spanish Underground Scene". My big regret about the ridiculously fast pace of discovering new great albums over the past year or so is that I haven't had the opportunity to really absorb them the way I'd like.
Paper Fortress - Butterfly High: A failed Tandyn Almer stab at pop success. It's a fucking brilliant single, both sides, goddamn travesty that it wasn't a hit. Not necessarily surprising given how on-the-nose the drug references are for a '68 would-be pop single, mind, but just... am I wasting superlatives by calling it a "masterpiece"? No, I don't care, I'll live in the moment.
Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces, Book 3, Op. 43, No. 1, Butterfly: Once I hit the back half of things I do start stretching out a little. I get weird partly because I am weird, but in part because I can't reliably sustain a single mood over the course of an hour. Partly it's the lazy way I put these things together - doing a wildcard song title search on *butterfl* is a superficial grouping method which, predictably, returns superficially similar results - but the trick is no less effective for being cheap.
Anyway, at this point I go back to the lo-fi instrumental mill for four songs. Usually I try not to cluster a bunch of instrumentals together, but these are unusually amenable to being segued. This particular piece is lo-fi because, to the best of my understanding, that's actually the composer at the piano. I also have a very nice version from Ruth White's under-appreciated synthesizer classical record from '72, but this one fits the mood of things better.
Vic Mars - Butterflies, Bees, and Other Insects: I don't actually know who Vic Mars is. This was shamelessly cribbed by a very fine series of mixes put together by an RYM esotericist whose username I didn't write down anywhere. I also can't honestly tell if the opening is being played on actual instruments - it's very reminiscent of the Chamberlin on "Journey through a Thousand Meditations". Anyway it does get a bit repetitive towards the end, but again, we're talking about a two minute atmospheric instrumental.
Coleman Hawkins - Lazy Butterfly (Theme): Just the closing band theme from a Coleman Hawkins radio broadcast on the first Savory Collection archival release. I love the closing announcement, which is extremely "Theme Time Radio Hour": "From the Fiesta Danceteria, the world's first self-service nightclub, at the crossroads of the world, Broadway and 42nd Street in the heart of New York City, Mutual has brought you the music of Coleman Hawkins." Next week: The Butthole Surfers!
Raymond Scott - Beautiful Little Butterfly: An electronic miniature as heard on "Goobers: A Collection of Kids Songs". It's very... I don't actually have the musical vocabulary for it. Chromatic? Is that the word?
A.R. Kane - Butterfly Collector: In which shit gets real heavy, real fast. See my earlier comment about my inability to sustain a single mood. Personally I do like the variety and diversity!
Subvert Blaze - Butterfly: Shit got so heavy, in fact, that this track, which is again new enough that I have no idea where or why I picked it up (probably some RYM list) and which sounds like Guitar Wolf playing 21st Century Schizoid Man, actually lightens the mood up significantly. Not really anywhere else I could've put this song that it wouldn't have stuck out like a sore thumb in the other direction.
Marianne Faithfull - Southern Butterfly: Mix inspiration. I haven't really heard a lot of Faithfull's work outside of Rich Kid Blues (I think it was up on Beware of the Blog at some point). It's such a raw and intense record that I can't imagine listening to anything else she's done. Shit is back to being heavy, in other words.
Bilal - Butterfly: It took me a ridiculously long time and many mentions on ILX for me to come around to Bilal. I think it was the Strother sisters writing a song for him that finally clued me in. Too beautiful for me to meaningfully write about, so I'll only mention that this is keeping with my long-established pattern of sticking the longest track in a mix in the penultimate position.
Bruce Haack - Angel Child: There was that thread about how many lyrics I remember... well, not many, I guess, but some. I started thinking about the theme of "butterflies" and the only one that came to my mind was "Wasn't there a track on the Electric Lucifer about it?" The fact that I could actually remember that gives it a certain pride of place. A very sweet and kind song by a troubled man.
OMISSIONS:
I couldn't throw together an hour of this stuff if I didn't feel free to leave some songs out. Also under consideration, but ultimately excluded, were:
He Zhanhao and Chen Gang - Butterfly Lovers Erhu Concerto: This is fucking great! It's also half an hour long. Nope.
Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly: I like electronic music plenty, but an eight minute piece that starts with the kind of sounds convenience store owners use to keep kids from loitering around their store is not necessarily going to flow well in a mix context.
Pink Floyd - Butterfly: It's by Pink Floyd, which is a plus, and it's an utterly obscure Syd Barrett tune, which is also a plus, but it's also got basically the same theme as the A.R. Kane song except I'm pretty sure Syd isn't being disturbing and creepy here _on purpose_. So yeah this one can fuck right off.
Reading Rainbow Theme: Not actually about butterflies, admittedly, but mentions them in the first line. I love this theme and I omitted it because the only versions I had around are poor quality and riddled with a high-pitched Pauline Oliveros whine.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 8 March 2019 01:45 (five years ago) link
geez i need to get wifi at my house so i can jump in here more
― budo jeru, Friday, 8 March 2019 03:26 (five years ago) link
OK, as threatened here are the tracklists to my two one-hour "lonely" mixes. Had way too much good stuff for one, almost too many for me to wrap my head around at all, so I wound up doing two, with plenty of stuff cut arbitrarily on top of that. Of the two the first one has, generally, the friendlier stuff (though the Prince song is a B-side and the Beach Boys song an outtake), and the second one gets into the strange shit that I really get into.
The Police - So LonelyNorma Jean - Hold Me Lonely Boy (Long Version)Earl King - Those Lonely, Lonely NightsThe Fabulaires - Lonely Days, Lonely NightsThe Beach Boys - Lonely DaysCountry Comfort - To Be LonelyBola Sete - The Lonely GauchoEmitt Rhodes - Nights are LonelyFortune - Lonely HunterHank Wood and the Hammerheads - It's Lonely In This World All AloneThe Videls - Mister LonelyRusty Diamond - The Lonely SentryMorita Doji - I Become A Lonely Wind With YouKim Jung Mi - Lonely HeartPrince - Another Lonely ChristmasBlue Magic - Just Don't Want To Be LonelyZamfir - The Lonely Shepherd
The IVbidden - Sick and LonelyThe Steppes - A Lonely GirlEddie Kendricks - Let Me Run Into Your Lonely HeartA.T.C. - Never Leave You LonelyNariaki Obukuro - Lonely OneKevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause - Lonely ManNaked City - Lonely WomanSwamp Dogg - LonelyZoo Nee Voo - Lonely HighwayLeatherface - How LonelyJake Holmes - LonelyBob Drake - The Lonely ManorArthur Miles - The Lonely Cowboy, Parts 1 and 2Yohihito Yano and Saki Kabata - Lonely Rolling StarUNKLE - Lonely SoulPetra Haden - The Lonely Man Theme
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 10 March 2019 01:48 (five years ago) link
Double bass solos! I've been really into classical double bass music the past week or so. I can't actually remember why. Anyway here's a nice recording of the eighth of twelve waltzes(!) written for solo double bass by a composer named Domenico Dragonetti, which I believe is Italian for "Daryl Dragon", performed by a gentleman by the name of Tobias Glueckler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhE61Prw1c4
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Monday, 11 March 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
I read a book on requiems this week and have been trying to find some of the more interesting ones, without complete success. The requiem, for instance, of Renaud Gagneux, published in 1982. The introitus and Kyrie are here. The rest of it? Well, a third-party seller has it listed on Amazon for the entirely reasonable price of $600...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyraU4xL1kA
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Thursday, 14 March 2019 18:45 (five years ago) link
trying to catch up on my regular haunts after my vacation, i learned from ashratom that the french zeuhl band EVOHE reformed and released two of their compositions. this is really interesting, a demo tape of their composition "Ka" (no relation to the Magma tune!) from the late '70s/early '80s circulated on Dime, after a 2014 Magma concert it seems they got back together... Anyway this is not either of those, because one of the composers put up a Soundcloud with some of his new work. It is not "Zeuhl" like the earlier stuff but it is more original I think and very interesting as well.
https://soundcloud.com/user-756452695
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:07 (five years ago) link
ok now this is some pretty interesting '80s hungarian art pop, reminds me a little of maybe family fodder or something
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EgSo-lbReE
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:20 (five years ago) link
here's another nice one from my youtube subs, by the japanese band "circadian rhythm", probably would've fit in well on the "soft selection 84" tape, maybe a little bit of clammbon feel to it as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7Wiv5a8K4A
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Friday, 15 March 2019 20:33 (five years ago) link
This thread is great, thank you for doing this
― Dan I., Sunday, 17 March 2019 01:38 (five years ago) link
thanks for reading! i gotta talk about this stuff somewhere and most people don't really care (which is entirely reasonable of them certainly!)
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 17 March 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
canary records just released a new compilation of the recordings of the arziv orchestra, who were an armenian "kef" band of the 1940s. so recently actually that googling arziv orchestra doesn't put their bandcamp on the search page yet. what i did find was this interesting blog post from 2013 about the arziv orchestra.
http://keftimeusa.blogspot.com/2013/11/
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:26 (five years ago) link
anyway, great blog, those vosbikian band recordings sound very interesting indeed! hopefully some label will reissue those at some point
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 11:42 (five years ago) link
Sounds cool – I was not aware of this facet of Armenian music, which I'm mostly acquainted with via a handful of classical composers and the ubiquitous duduk. Speaking of the latter, have you heard Djivan Gasparyan's Endless Vision, with Iranian shurangiz player Hossein Alizâdeh? Meltingly beautiful stuff.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 March 2019 13:08 (five years ago) link
nah, i haven't! it's only recently i've heard any armenian music at all beyond, like, system of a down, not familiar with duduk at all really! i've heard those great zabelle panosian records, and there was a chapter on the armenian requiem in that really good requiem book i read a couple weeks ago, starting with the legendary komitas vardapet - i have the three songs he recorded and some other stuff he wrote. the other requiem recommended specifically by that book is the one by LORIS TJEKNAVORIAN (copied and pasted so i don't spell it wrong!)
it's good, obviously their requiem tradition is heavily influenced by the genocide, but it's not one of the ones i kept around. i'm checking out his guitar concerto now, i'd kind of like to hear his percussion concerto since i'm into percussion music but it doesn't seem to be online
thanks for the suggestion!
in the meantime (changing gears...) i ran across this record, "the deep" by soul scream, i'm not a real hip hop head by any means but this seems to me like a real nice japanese boom bap record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIcGxtuF_cM
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Sunday, 24 March 2019 16:50 (five years ago) link
polka! i think polka has an undeservedly poor reputation. it's no worse than any other kind of folk music, and the accordion is a fantastic instrument. anyway here's a polka from the american midwest, sung in finnish, about a lumberjack. i hope it's not too rude, i don't speak finnish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLh_QVzUras
i know wfmu has a whole show devoted to polka. there's something a little sad about that. it used to be when i was younger that polka wasn't a hipster thing, there were genuine old people from the old country that would spin their favorite polkas on the radio, and most of them were terrible, the kind of stuff pickup bands still will play to this day at midwestern oktoberfests populated largely by trump voters... well, maybe that's the sad part. never mind, wfmu, your hipster polka show is cool.
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Thursday, 28 March 2019 23:31 (five years ago) link
Vimeo is, I think, an underrated resource. It's particularly good, I've found, for academic and arts groups disseminating their archives. You can find there vintage performances (U-matic type stuff) from Julius Eastman, Hopper Dean Tippett Gallivan, Leroy Jenkins, Lol Coxhill, stuff frequently I'd never expect to look for or know existed. Today I'm browsing the Vimeo channel I ran across, in the semi-desultory fashion I do, of a Chicago museum I wasn't previously familiar with called "Town and Country". They've got a live set by the underrated group "The Zs" - interesting but they really aren't set up to record rock, a nice accordion jam by someone I don't know named Teodoro Anzelotti, and various musical improvisations in varying degrees of "you had to be there". One performance where you don't, I don't think, have to have been there is the below,a truly splendid solo performance by Frances-Marie Uitti on cello - not surprised that it seems to be one of their more-viewed uploads.
https://vimeo.com/38649952
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 30 March 2019 23:46 (five years ago) link
i've been listening to some late-period chet baker
most of the stuff that gets recommended is his early stuff, and honestly, having heard that live version of "my funny valentine" from the recording registry i feel like everything else from that era is superfluous
mostly i wanted to hear what his "comeback" recordings after having his teeth knocked out would sound like, and they are very different to my ears
what really strikes me is to what extent the sound of these late recordings is influenced by his collaborators. i don't mean to say that his presence is unimportant, but the collaborators often provide the compositions, the instrumentation, the context for chet's playing
so while chet is chet, "no problem", "leaving", and "peace", all from within a three year period, are all very different recordings, with "no problem" and "peace" in particular highlighting his collaborators - the former is a great duke jordan record as well as being a chet baker record, and "peace" is a very good showing for david friedman, who i mostly knew from his work with tim buckley... i will have to check out other works of his to see if any of them are up to this standard!
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Monday, 1 April 2019 13:28 (five years ago) link
i grew up on mod files and demoscene shit, but for me it was always a pc with a soundblaster - i never had a commodore of any stripe. so i have tremendous gaps in my knowledge of that music. never heard this set of tunes before, f'rinstance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG4kSGGZoN8
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 00:38 (five years ago) link
Today I'm browsing the Vimeo channel I ran across, in the semi-desultory fashion I do, of a Chicago museum I wasn't previously familiar with called "Town and Country".
oh my, was there some ancient ilx drama involving these folks that necessitated an autoreplace to be programmed in?
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
Finally finished that two minute Youtube playlist, found a lot of stuff I probably wouldn't have gotten around to otherwise! There's this song by an obscure Oi! band named "Skindeep" called "Football Violence", it's as straightforward and obvious as you'd expect but it sounds GOOD! Tremendously catchy. And it's not obviously Nazi. Which is nice.
So I got poking around, and you will hear people talk about Red and Anarchist Black Metal but nobody talks about left-wing Oi! Well, you know what, it exists, and it's better than the RABM I've heard so far. Here's a song from 2011 called "Transsexual Hooligan" by a group called "United Struggle".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDlsQY6pfvg
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:35 (five years ago) link
aside from fun facts about leonardo da vinci today i was reading about child prodigies. apparently the greatest child prodigy of the bagpipe was john d. burgess. personally, i mean, yeah, he shreds, but isn't there really more to piping than just shredding?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W28HVgZG-Jg
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 23:59 (five years ago) link
i am slowly but surely working away on my listening backlog, maybe at the end of this week i will check out the sub-2 minute poll results. in the meantime i'm trying to explore the brilliant lists put together by somebody on rym who has two reviews, one of which is the definitive statement on "zess" and its relation to fascism and the other of which i haven't read, and i'm also doing quickie playlists for temporary stress relief
my randomizer - itunes, very stupid - got on a hot streak today and once i realized it i added the tunes to a playlist. when it was done i'd gone through twelve songs with a total time length, to the second, of one hour (i've been very into these one-hour mixes for the past year). really uncanny. here's the playlist:
harry roesli - kebo jiroenvelope generator - emasculinethe motions - love won't stopseka kojadinovic - niko to nece zavoleti (somebody to love)rush - chain lightningboards of canada - nothing is realverma - salted earthbob & carole pegg - glass of waterseefeel - plainsongkimmo pohjonen - driving southkoffee - rapturesteve elliott - you touched me
maybe my musical taste is finally getting less shit
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Thursday, 11 April 2019 01:03 (five years ago) link
nah still as shit as ever
ts: "what love" by the collectors vs. "song of the marching children" by earth and fire
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 April 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
how can you say that your taste is shit? your own musical taste is always the best in the world. that's pretty obvious, isn't it? have you ever met anybody with a better taste than your own? i am still waiting for this encounter and the older i get the smaller the chance i will meet this person.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 13 April 2019 20:08 (five years ago) link
sorry, i'm trying to self-deprecate less, even if it does get me compliments :) learned reflex, i listen to a lot of weird stuff and in a lot of people's minds that automatically translates to "terrible".
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Saturday, 13 April 2019 22:09 (five years ago) link
i try not to dunk on easy targets no matter how tempting but i sometimes fail. the upside is that i can sometimes get something productive out of it. my last unprovoked clowning on fred b got me to thinking i should listen to more savage rose, and i found this great tv special from '74. i don't know enough about scandinavian languages to even say what country this is from - did denmark have colour television in '74? yeah i guess so, 1970, all i know about tv broadcasts of music in denmark is that zep was on danish tv in '69.
anyway! this is the rock band format of savage rose, playing lots of stuff from their great '73 record "wild child", shortly before packing it all in and becoming a folk trio for about 20 years. annisette in full flight here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzX6SYPyLg
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:02 (five years ago) link
the same channel also has a '72 german tv special featuring elis regina flying on a butterfly, quality is not so good but definitely check it out if you're into that sort of thing, man these high-concept '70s television music specials... also, the kinks shredding on "louie louie" in paris 1965. grainy, loud, sweaty. and there's another video of jimmy smith playing it cool on the organ!
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
here's a rocksteady instrumental about doctor who - apparently the first two william hartnell seasons were broadcast in jamaica in the '60s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRiq71MjVT0
at some point i want to put together an hour mix of "doctor who" themed jams, leaving out the shitty ones like "i wanna spend my christmas with a dalek"
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Monday, 22 April 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
ok, this is a weird one, even by my standards. i was reading about the wikipedia article on trobairitz, which were the distaff equivalent of the troubadors, the oldest surviving secular music documented as being written by women, and someone did a creative commons recording of the only surviving song by a trobairitz, the Comtessa de Dia. i liked the performance so much i followed the metadata to see who recorded it, who turns out to be the (now inactive) administrator Makemi, a specialist in early music with a bachelor's in performance. i'm far from an expert in early music but these recordings are really interesting and really good. some of these songs are fairly well-known - "scarborough fair", "flow my tears", "this land is your land" - others less so - a recording of andrew jackson's 1824 campaign song.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Makemi
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Sunday, 28 April 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
here's a song one of my friends shared, "Kiua" by Sexteto Do Beco from 1980, don't know where they came up with it but it's really nice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPy0hDaFAYI
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Friday, 3 May 2019 00:08 (five years ago) link
Have been taking it easy on the music lately, too much else going on, but I've been enjoying kicking back and spending a lazy Sunday listening to this jazz podcast. This episode is about Wilbur Ware, who I knew from his work with Sun Ra but whose work I never really delved into. It was a great listen. The newest episode is on Mal Waldron, which is also very nice,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4WUCEZd4mI
― Burt Bacharach's Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (rushomancy), Monday, 13 May 2019 01:22 (five years ago) link
pretty sure this guy isn't secretly louis farrakhan
as always i'm ready to be corrected though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHitAdHvAuY
really fucking good "yacht rock" tho, monster synth
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Friday, 17 May 2019 01:55 (four years ago) link
Fell into a Robert Wyatt hole after learning, more or less at random, that a demo recording of him singing Paul Weller's "Invisible" came out on one of those landfill Mojo CDs last year. Beautiful as you might expect. Couldn't find it streaming, though, so instead here's a trio called "Beauty is in the Distance" doing the little exercise at the end of the first Soft Machine record. The rhythmic performance is much more fluid here and Dave Newhouse in particular brings a melodic sensibility lacking in the original to this performance. Recommended.
https://soundcloud.com/luciano-margorani/box-254-lid-by-the-soft-machine-ratledge-hopper-arranged-by-beauty-is-in-the-distance
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 18 May 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
there's phases i go through, there's the exploratory phase and the integrative phase, i'm working on integration lately. random words pop into my head and i try to put together sixty minutes of songs that express my associations with that word. this one was inspired by octo octa and is actually a CDR-80 based on the word "need". ultimately that turns out to be a lot of '60s and '70s classic rock but fuck it, no apologies, you cut to the core of me and you'll find the beach boys, the beatles, the kinks, and the soft machine.
kathy heideman - needthe beach boys - you need a mess of help to stand alonethe four tops - baby i need your lovingthe buster browns - i need lovethe fall - what you need24 carat black - what i needtodd rundgren - you need your headkeith hudson - still need you dubjerry green - i finally found the love i needmetafive - i need youthe kinks - i need yousoft machine - that's how much i need youthe feminine complex - now i need youalec wilder - they needed no wordsthe eire apparent - yes i need someonethe stooges - i need somebodysylvester - i need somebody to love tonightocto octa - i need youmondo grosso - everything needs lovejohn potter - now, o now i needs must part
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 01:49 (four years ago) link
sylvester - i need somebody to love tonight
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 1 June 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
if you haven't heard the first song on that mix, please do! that one really cuts to the core imo
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 1 June 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
keeping the thread alive, here's a noise-rock japanese cover of "james brown is dead"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7PtW1CGrHo
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 14:39 (four years ago) link
Listened to Kathy Heideman (for real I mean, I’m not counting my earlier casual listen), and yeah, I get what you mean, I think.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 6 June 2019 18:48 (four years ago) link
how much $ for a monthly cd-r mix subscription
― budo jeru, Thursday, 6 June 2019 21:54 (four years ago) link
hell i'd love to have somewhere to upload random shit for free but usually what happens with these things is somebody hits it with a copyright strike
also half the cool shit i find is stuff i run across trying to find other cool shit some random person on the internet mentioned offhand, so i'm hoping that by just arbitrarily mentioning random stuff people will find even more than they bargained for in the looking
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Thursday, 6 June 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
Here's a fun enough experiment - wanted to see if I could do an hour of songs inspired by sea birds. I did manage it, though some of them are quite long. i feel like i should get credit for leaving off "echoes", though!
fleetwood mac - albatrossalessi brothers - seabirdlangford and kerr - seabirdsride - seagullkukl - seagullvespero - seagulls singchrissie quayle - the seagulls screampublic image ltd - albatrossiron maiden - rime of the ancient mariner
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
There's this song by an obscure Oi! band named "Skindeep" called "Football Violence", it's as straightforward and obvious as you'd expect but it sounds GOOD! Tremendously catchy. And it's not obviously Nazi. Which is nice.
So I got poking around, and you will hear people talk about Red and Anarchist Black Metal but nobody talks about left-wing Oi!
The classic left wing Oi! band is The Oppressed from Swansea, who also have a song called Football Violence, which isn't a cover of the Skin Deep song.
To further confuse matters there was another left wing skinhead band called Skin Deep from Yorkshire (the Football Violence band was Scottish) but they were more ska than Oi!
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 8 June 2019 14:57 (four years ago) link
awesome, i will check it out
my latest attempt at stress relief is an hour on the topic of silence
i'm assuming that all those romance words cognate with "silence" mean about the same thing, otherwise i will feel silly
portishead - silencemuna zul - voto de silencioceu - sobre o amor e seu trabalho silenciosolaura mvula - silence is the waystella - le silenceeldritch anisette - dissection of silencepetra haden - silencemarie laforet - le tengo rabia al silenciowild country - silent villagethinking plague - dead silencethat dog. - silentlyruth copeland - the silent boatmanthe revolutionary army of the infant jesus - le monde du silencetori amos - enjoy the silenceyoung marble giants - radio silents
i'm pretty happy with how this one turned out
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Tuesday, 11 June 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
hi rush, i posted this on the hendrix thread but almost immediately realized you wouldn't see it so i'm putting it here, hope that's okay:
just today i have been listening to the archival release from the avandaro festival which has armando molina doing the same thing. wild shit, btw.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Wednesday, January 3, 2018 7:28 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this appears to be the only mention of the festival on ilx, and also of the soundtrack 2xCD i'm trying to track down. do you actually have the discs or just files ? it's good ?
― budo jeru, Friday, June 28, 2019 1:01 PM (ten hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― budo jeru, Saturday, 29 June 2019 04:54 (four years ago) link
oh yeah thanks for putting it here, i haven't been really on top of the board lately too much else going on, i just have the files not the actual cds, also either the recording itself or the files are a little wonky and the track numbering i have is just strange, i don't even know if it's from the actual cds or just some weird bootleg. i think it's good! but you have to be into that whole hippie jam thing, particularly on the tracks by peace & love which is like half of it. lots of flute and drum solos, lots of energetically shouted vocals, horn sections, kind of janis-style soul singing, lots of heavy guitar, not the best quality recording (i think it was recorded by vicente fox for coca cola, the whole scene is just kind of weird. i do authentically love it though, and i say that as someone who is super not into flute and/or drum solos.
i literally have not been listening to any new music all week, just a lot of other stuff going on. last week i thought about posting a song by uncle earl here that i really liked, but i was worried it might be too controversial because of the cross-cultural aspects, i thought it was respectfully done but i recognize other people might feel differently
the other thing i've been doing is the local orchestra sent me the program for their next year so i've been listening to all the stuff i don't know (lots of it, the canon is a little small but there's still a lot of it) for stuff that strikes me, digging more into profokiev and schumann
i should check out the hendrix thread, i like hendrix
― Quilter Ray (rushomancy), Saturday, 29 June 2019 08:05 (four years ago) link
i guess one of the things i was listening to last week was "to have done with the judgement of god", the last radio broadcast of artaud. i don't speak a lick of french, but it was cathartic for me, just half an hour of artaud, who was absolutely well and truly crazy, screaming about americans and catholics and semen over occasional xylophones. i'm not that crazy at the moment but i could still relate!
― Quilter Ray (rushomancy), Saturday, 29 June 2019 08:18 (four years ago) link
A couple of months ago I was trying to remember the name of a killer psychedelic jam by a late '60s band that otherwise did fairly shitty old-timey music. Happened to run across it when I was consolidating my backups. It's "Jigsaw" by Dr. West's Medicine Show. Apparently Norman Greenbaum was involved, but this is way trippier than "Spirit in the Sky". Now if I can just figure out where I put that fantastic '70s South or Central American oil company jingle...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ_NBj_kI08
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:40 (four years ago) link
By the way I haven't been really listening to a lot of new music lately, been busy with other things, though I did happen to run across a nice version of one of my favorite Velvet Underground songs "Lady Godiva's Operation" by some nice young British men named Ulrika Spacek while fruitlessly looking for the "swan mix" (really just a different master AFAIK) of the song. Today I've just been listening to a bunch of songs that have the word "River" in the title. Most of them are fairly nice. I guess people will always associate that Dennis Wilson song with Doctor Who now...
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Wednesday, 10 July 2019 00:45 (four years ago) link
I have a tradition. Several, actually, like celebrating Earl Warren's birthday. But the relevant one here is that every year, I endeavor to celebrate July 14th by listening to the band Rush, because of the lead track off "Caress of Steel", which is a straight banger. Mostly I believe the '80s were the best decade for Rush, though. Stuff like "Red Lenses", "Chain Lightning", "Sobohla Manyosi", and this one, which straight out brings it. Enjoy "It's My Love". As Noburo, Shigeru, and Kazuo say, "The life was too simple -- we had to get out of there! At least we found our way of life there!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttMu_3ShjJY
― Un Poco Loco Moco (rushomancy), Monday, 15 July 2019 00:56 (four years ago) link