2017-12-25/26: Throw your arms around the world
Merry Christmas and/or your holiday of choice, everyone
2017-12-12: The world turns
In the Ghetto - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
This week, have some Australians
GDT #20170457: A dog is barking @ The Moon - It is some strange addiction when you need to put yourself back in your eye
In honor of why I'll probably miss the end of tonight's tilt: 2/3rds of this band playing tonight as Poptone.
2017-10-18: Drinking beer in the hot sun
I Fought the Law - Dead Kennedys
I guess this week is going to be American Punk (maybe somewhat loosely defined) Week.
2017-10-10: Whatever you're looking for
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
2017-10-07: You can look to the future when you're confident
Late add. Original song I picked was yubtub blocked. Never heard this one before.
2017-10-06: If you want a doo-doo rhyme then come see me
Neo figured it out. All the songs have dogs in them. You can go back to your normal lives. How about all those goals that were scored, eh? Ooooweeee!
2017-10-05: Could we ever bring 'em back once they have gone
Continuing with the 'hidden' theme week, I'm thinking a hint is in order, though I suspect everyone will figure it out on Sunday if it's not guessed by then. I deliberately picked songs across a pretty wide time frame to demonstrate how common the unifying element is. It's usually, though not always, pretty subtle and yet it's not something anyone will miss once they know.
2017-10-02: And you're minding your own business
It's guess the theme week. This one gets easier as the week goes. If you don't get it by the last day, you're not trying, which, let's be honest, you're not.
2017-10-01: We got the power to do that
You live long enough, you see just about anything. Here, Brit Pop's bitterest rivals finally collaborate. See what Trump can do?
2017-09-29: Suffer the Little Cuties
I was wondering if shoecore was ever coming back. Not bad. Feels like floating in a warm pool the water from which may or may not be 100% composed of one's own urine.
2017-09-28: You could get the blues
What's new(ish) music week without Lana Del Rey doing her most Del Reyed version of Florence + The Machine? Something tells me it makes no difference. And yet here it is...
2017-09-27: I pack like a cat, skate like a rat.
This wasn't the AV Undercover I was going to use, but I know half the band and they do a serviceable job. T. Rex exists in a weird place where a lot of covers are not bad but also don't end up being quite as good as the original.
2017-09-26: Let it dissolve on your tongue
No doubt you'll recognize most of this lot. This was 'Cip's suggestion, btw. I was wondering if they were Gwen to put the past behind them...puns, etc.
2017-09-25: We all know this is nothing
It's apparently everything new is old again. I've noticed many new songs are steeped in the familiar sounds of yesteryear a bit more than usual. Kicking off the week is a song released this month but would fit perfectly within the Berlin-era of Bowie. If not for the Joy Division-derived songs, I'd say the whole album was an homage to the Berlin trilogy.
2017-09-17: Falschgeld
Turns out all my contributions to Einstürzende Neubauten Week have been from their first two studio albums. For me, the early "noisy" stuff is where it's at. --FFF
2017-09-15: Abfackeln!
"Abfackeln," depending on whose translation you use, means torch or burn off. --FFF
2017-09-14: Fiat Lux: A) Fiat Lux B) Maifestspiele C) Hirnlego
While Fs is off trouncing around in the first few albums, which are pretty great and innovative unto themselves (I would have posted tomorrow's song as well), there's just too much good stuff of all shapes and sizes throughout the EN catalog to not touch on some of the other highlights. This is the one I meant to post a few weeks ago. If I recall correctly, the crowd recording is a celebration as the Berlin Wall is being torn down.
2017-09-13: Steh auf Berlin
My contributions to Neubauten Week skew heavily toward the "industrial/noise." That's my favorite part. --FFF
2017-09-12: Seele Brennt
Neubauten week continues with a little soul burning. I'm pretty sure this is the first full song I heard by EN. Intrigued by the scream clip in the MTV 120 title sequence, went to Bill's Records and Tapes and asked for a recommendation, which I'm sure was delivered with pithy scorn. Which, in retrospect, is fine. Unlike James, BHH wasn't cool. BHH will never be cool.
2017-09-07: Ronnie Hawkins - Matchbox
As a reminder, this week is a Guess-the-Theme Week. There is a theme to the week and was submitted by someone other than myself or Fs. First person to guess who submitted it and the actual theme wins a free pat on the back. Everybody else will have to pay double for their pats-on-the-back. Really, it's surprising no one's got it yet. the answer is right in front of your faces.
2017-09-04: Clarence Carter - Road To Love
Just have a couple of weeks until preseason and then a couple of more until the games start mattering a bit. yay, hockey.
This week is a Guessed-the-Theme Week (YSWIDT?). There is a theme to the week and was submitted by someone other than myself or Fs. First person to guess who submitted it and the actual theme wins a free pat on the back. Everybody else will have to pay double for their pats-on-the-back
This week is a Guessed-the-Theme Week (YSWIDT?). There is a theme to the week and was submitted by someone other than myself or Fs. First person to guess who submitted it and the actual theme wins a free pat on the back. Everybody else will have to pay double for their pats-on-the-back
2017-09-03: For The Last Time
This song is so on point it hurts. Despite not watching much of the series during it's original airing, I actually bought the soundtrack CD, which wasn't great, but had a couple of songs that were iconic for the time. And when this song showed up in the 1st episode of The Return, I knew Lynch was not only back, but also better.
2017-09-02: soundtrack for maximum FX
A Lynch offering always comes with a carefully tuned sound design. It's often the case his sound content supersedes visual content. And he's not the kind of guy to stick with a folio team and a souped-up soundtrack, though he does those things, too. It's hard to find other creators so at home with manipulating sound at will and effectively bringing to the audience the weird and wonderful things recording artists happen upon but usually keep to themselves as results are just too jarring to fit within most artists' outputs.
The first here is a re-made version of "American Woman" by Muddy Magnolias, except slowed down and mixed into the show so that every kick/snare sounds like a gunshot with the vocals becoming the anguished demons escaping the wounds those gunshots create. Used at least 3 times in the series, this belly-crawl-through-the-slime is as equally effective a musical motif as Peter and the Wolf ever offered.
Including the source video for this next one would be too much of a spoiler, but even with the audio as evidence unto itself, I think it's pretty certain nobody else slows down Beethoven 5x and then drops it7 minutes into the season's rubber match for a good 3 minutes. Now imagine the fucked up visuals you'd need to see (if you haven't seen episode 8) so that the following "soundtrack" makes sense, and I tell you, truthfully, that is exactly what happens.
This last piece, Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima, needs no manipulation. It's been used many times since its composition in 1960 to soundtrack moments when humanity as a whole is perched upon the metaphorical precipice. And for good reason. Here, Lynch recreates Trinity with CGI and holy hell does it look real. I cut it at the end of Trinity here, but the musical piece and the Lynchian visuals continue for a full 10 minutes.
The first here is a re-made version of "American Woman" by Muddy Magnolias, except slowed down and mixed into the show so that every kick/snare sounds like a gunshot with the vocals becoming the anguished demons escaping the wounds those gunshots create. Used at least 3 times in the series, this belly-crawl-through-the-slime is as equally effective a musical motif as Peter and the Wolf ever offered.
2017-09-01: Chug-a-lug, Donna
(slightly NSFW) From 'Fire Walk With Me", the music to The Pink Room scene does more to set up the sinister than the visuals ever could. Just your typical guitar/drum/bowed bass house band.
2017-08-30: but you can't get the feeling back
My brother likes NIN. Me, I can appreciate what Trent has tried to do over time, but not the actual product so much. This NIN song, however, is the midpoint of what I consider to be the best hour of narrative television I've seen. It's so good, I even like this song. Seriously, Episode 8 of The Return is basically an hour of unequivocally engrossing WTF video. It's like two train engines colliding in the fictional town of Grease's Rydell High, except one engine is Jackson Pollack artwork and the other engine is Koyaanisqatsi. I think I just blew a metaphor fuse...
2017-08-29: It wasn't meant to be
Hard to miss how iconic this song has been. The instrumental is still used as the show's theme.
2017-08-28: Long afloat on shipless oceans
This is the final week of Twin Peaks: The Return. Music has played as much a part as anything in creating the TP aesthetic, so here's a week of musical standouts. The first one, however, was not used in Twin peaks, nor any other Lynch production. It was, however, planned for Blue Velvet but was not able to clear right$ for the film, so Lynch worked with soon-to-be Peaks composer Angelo Badalamenti and singer (& frequent Peaks musical act) Julee Cruise to create a knock-off of sorts called "Mysteries of Love", which was ok, but certainly nowhere close to this track. Written by Tim Buckley and performed on The Monkees, This Mortal Coil slated this number for their 4AD house bands compilation and essentially turned it over to The Cocteau Twins. In any case, it's pretty easy to see this song reverberates through most of Lynch's works.
2017-08-10: Feel the steering wheel
"Warm Leatherette," Trent Reznor, Jeordie White, Peter Murphy, orig. by The Normal
2017-08-08: They say everything can be replaced
"I Shall Be Released," The Police, Secret Policeman's Other Ball, orig. Bob Dylan
2017-08-07: It burns
Here are some more covers I like. I'm pretty sure I've posted this song before but I don't care because it's fantastic. Wall of Voodoo, orig. Johnny Cash.
2017-08-06: cooking by the book remix ft lil jon
This has been BHH's (I think) "This shit is lit" week
2017-07-31: Kazoo Kid - Trap Remix
It's "This shit is lit" week
A whole week of next level media dripping with shit that is lit (pretty sure I've never used that phrase before, which is good because it would have devalued this use).
I think this is BHH's theme but it says "bhs" so maybe not?
2017-07-30: Jive Talkin' - Bee Gees
From the album "Main Course" (1975) [One of the best bass lines in pop music ... good way to end, even though we've skipped some albums along the way]
This has been Not Chico's Chronologically-Ordered Pre-Disco Bee Gees Week
2017-07-28: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart - Bee Gees
From the album "Trafalgar" (1971)
The Bee Gees Before Disco
2017-07-27: Marley Purt Drive - Bee Gees
From the album "Odessa" (1969)
Chronologically-Ordered Pre-Disco Bee Gees Week
2017-07-26: I’ve Gotta Get a Message To You - Bee Gees
From the album "Idea" (1968)
The Bee Gees Before Disco
2017-07-25: Massachusetts - Bee Gees
From the album "Horizontal" (1968)
It's Chronologically-Ordered Pre-Disco Bee Gees Week
2017-07-24: New York Mining Disaster 1941 - Bee Gees
From the album "1st" (1967)
Too little is remembered about pre-disco-era Bee Gees, so I've taken one song from each of their first few albums (kind of) by way of introduction to their early sound.
I don't know whose theme this is, either.
Update: it's from Not Chico!
2017-07-17: Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan
This week's theme is "Name That Theme"
Also, name that submitter because I don't know who submitted this playlist.
2017-07-09: It's The End Of The World As We Know It
You tried to sing this, but never could.
(This would have been particularly appropriate about a week or so ago.)
2017-07-05: So. Central Rain
Reckoning not as good. Rockville good too
It's laaarmer 2.0's "R.E.M. used to be good" Week
2017-07-03: Radio Free Europe - REM
Late Night with David Letterman
According to laaarmer 2.0, "I know REM sucks, but they did not always."
2017-07-02: Roxanne
Secret Policeman's Other Ball
This has been Police Week by laaarmer 2: Electric Boogaloo
2017-06-30: Shadows in the Rain
Woke up in my clothes again this morning, don't know exactly where I am
2017-06-26: The Bed's Too Big Without You
I think Sting still uses this bass
Looks like it's time for laaarmer's (2.0) Police Week
2017-06-19: You don't know what is right
2017-06-18: Rubella - The Smoking Popes
I think they're still around
Waylon's "Chicago bands who deserved better" week
2017-06-17: Valerie Loves Me - Material Issue
Jim Ellison's suicide still makes me unbearably sad
Waylon's "Chicago bands that deserved better" week
2016-06-16: Stay in Time - Off Broadway
More Power Pop
Waylon's "Chicago bands that deserved better" week
2016-06-15: Tomorrow Night - The Shoes
Power Pop from Zion
Waylon's "Chicago bands that deserved better" week
2017-06-14: Stranger - The Ides of March
Much-imitated band regarding their horn section
Waylon's "Chicago bands that deserved better" week
2017-06-13: Sugar and Spice - The Cryan' Shames
one of many at the time
Waylon's "Chicago bands that deserved better" week
2017-06-12: This is a Smashing Pumpkins - Free Zone
Good pop group who were derailed by a pot bust
It's "Chicago bands that deserved better" Week, brought to you by Waylon.
Susan - The Buckinghams
2017-06-09: It gets stronger in every way
1971 Week, Part 2
River Deep, Mountain High - The Supremes and the Four Tops
2017-06-06: Don't leave me drowning in my tears
1971 Week, Part 2
Don't Pull Your Love - Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
2017-06-05: Hare Krishna
I guess I had enough songs jotted down for two weeks' worth of 1971, so here's 1971 Week, Part 2.
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
2017-05-31: Sittin' downtown in a railway station
1971 Week
One Toke Over the Line - Brewer & Shipley
2017-05-27/28: ¿Me frío o lo soplo?
1991 Week
Another 1991 re-release that did much better (at least in the UK) the second time around.
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
2017-05-26: I saw the crescent
1991 Week
While this song was released (and charted) in 1985, it was re-released in 1991 and charted much higher then.
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
2017-05-17: Just like a rainbow
1981 Week
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
2017-04-26: I am the king of the divan
Okay, this is definitely one of the relentlessly cheerful ones. Cheerful-sounding anyway because I have no idea what it's actually about (except his cat "Splash").
Ca Plane Pour Moi - Plastic Bertrand
2017-04-24: Don't it feel good
This week is songs that always cheer me up. They might not all be super chipper songs (most them are), but for one reason or other they brighten my mood when I hear them.
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
2017-04-23: The Bus Boys - Cleaning Up the Town
no idea why they didn't get more notice
The Days Before Rap by Waylon
2017-04-22: Dance Little Sister - Terence Trent D'arby
This guy was a thing.
The Days Before Rap by Waylon
2017-04-21: Dazz - Brick
Unfairly maligned (mostly because of the Bee Gees), Disco had some great artists
The Days Before Rap by Waylon
2017-04-20: When the World's at Peace - The O'Jays
Part of the Gamble and Huff "Sounds of Philadelphia" era
The Days Before Rap by Waylon
2017-04-19: It's Too Late to Turn Back Now - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose
They had a few follow up hits as well
The Days Before Rap by Waylon
2017-04-18: Stone Soul Picnic - The Fifth Dimension
Music and Lyrics by the legendary Laura Nyro
The Days Before Rap by Waylon
2017-04-17: Give Me the Green Light - Rufus Thomas
I basically loved all of the Stax Records Artists
This week's theme is the Days Before Rap, by Waylon
2017-04-14: You can't kill time without injuring us
2017-04-13: but there's no going back
2017-04-12: Mostly we were killing it
2017-04-11: Set your sights straight now, don't forget pain
2017-04-10: I hear that you wanna ditch me but you know I'm not such a bad seed.
2017-04-09: Велик - Грибы
Ukranian band. Kinda like 90s style club music with rapping about chicks and psychedelics.
Thanks to the Gatest Gamer, we all know how to party like a Russian now. (The Party is never really over.)
2017-04-08: Песня 404 - Время и Стекло
Ukranian pop duo. Fun club like stuff. Do your rolls and let's party.
Party like a Russian week
2017-04-06: Света и Олег - #дископровокация
Russian band. 80s thing. Video includes barbie like doll threesome.
Party like a Russian week
2017-04-05: ALTYN - TATARKA
Russian-Tatar trap. Tatarka(means tatar woman) lives in Russia, but raps in tatar.
Party like a Russian/Ukrainian Week
2017-04-04: Якутяночка - L'ONE
Pop music as it comes, but with one huge but. The song is about Yakut people, who are kinda like Inuit people of Russia. When was the last time Americans celebrated some of the natives of their land in pop music?
Party like a Russian/Ukrainian Week
2017-04-03: Город под подошвой - Oxxxymiron
Russian rap. Started off spittin grime in London. Now one of the biggest rap stars we got. He's pretty damn good.
It's Party Like a Russian Week -- Russian/Ukrainian pop from Gatest Gamer!
2017-04-02: Give me your money - Little Big
Basically Russian Die Antwoord. Pretty crappy music, but fun video. Don't watch it around your boss or your kids. Or don't watch it at all, you won't miss much.
2017-04-01: Кольщик - Ленинград
Probably among the most popular Russian bands of the last 20 years. Leningrad started off as a ska-ish band with a shocking (for Russia at at that time) amount of profanity in lyrics, while singing about lower class Joe Shmoe problems (Yes I'm an alcoholic; I thought you were an angel, but you're just a bitch etc). Eventually that got old and the singer started hiring different women to take over and drive the music style. This is its current iteration with their latest video, which is hell of a masterpiece. The name of the band is Leningrad, I expect all of you know what it means. If you don't, just google it.
Music of the Eastern Bloc, from west to east, from the Gatest Gamer
2017-03-31: Звери - Tequilajazzz
Ok we're within Mother Russia now. This is probably my favorite Russian band, creating a pretty unique style, with the rhythm section still mostly unmatched in Russia. This song is pretty simple musically, but the video is pretty good. Tequilajazzz means exactly what you think it means and is pronounced exactly the way you think it is pronounced.
Eastern Bloc, west to east, by the Gatest Gamer.
2017-03-30: Але - 5'nizza
Ukrainian, bi tri, however many language band. Started off as couple of stoner theater nerds jamming to various black music - reggae, RnB, hip-hop etc. They released 2 albums in early 00s and became massively popular in Eastern Bloc before breaking up in early 10s. They have now reformed and released a new album, where this song is taken from. It's in Ukranian and Russian, and it is about missed opportunities in life. The band's name is a stylized word "pyatnitsa" which means "friday"
The Eastern Bloc, west to east, by the Gatest Gamer
2017-03-29: Așa și așa - Cuibul
Not done with Moldova yet, because Gamer has a huge crush on the singer. Cuibul started off as a Russian speaking rock/funk fusion band in the 90s. Few years ago the band members realized they all got old and nobody wanted to look at bunch of old dudes playing loud music, so they found the current singer, allowed her to translate their songs into Romanian and rearranged them into this light acoustic lounge. Cuibul means "Nest"
2017-03-28: Nunta extremală - Zdob și Zdub
Now we move to Moldova, and crashing a wedding. Zdob si Zdub have been around since mid 90s, starting off as a hardcore band and gradually integrating more and more ethnic elements into their music and losing the hardcore element. This song is from 1999, just as they started getting into ethnic stuff. A fun fact: "Zdob si Zdub" is an onomatopoetic for a beating drum
Music from the Eastern Bloc, from west to east, from the Gatest Gamer.
2017-03-27: VARJÚ - Másfél
Music from the Eastern Bloc, going from west to east
We're gonna start off with the westernmost band on the list: Masfel, from Hungary. Masfel is a an instrumental fusion band, that's been around since late 80s, although it has been pretty quiet for the last decade or so. It's fun instrumental stuff. Masfel means 1.5, a word that's present in plenty of languages, but not in english. -Gatest Gamer
2017-03-26: Slip Sliding Away
You know the nearer your destination the more you're slip slidin' away
This closes out laarmer's Paul Simon Week
2017-03-25: Kodachrome
When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It’s a wonder
I can think at all
It's laaarmer's Paul Simon week
On all the crap I learned in high school
It’s a wonder
I can think at all
2017-03-24: Late in the Evening
The first thing I remember
When you came into my life
I said I'm gonna get that girl
No matter what I do
It's laaarmer's Paul Simon week.
When you came into my life
I said I'm gonna get that girl
No matter what I do
2017-03-23: Have a Good Time
I should be depressed my life's a mess, But I'm havin' a good time
It's laaarmer's Paul Simon week.
2017-03-22: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
The problem is all inside your head she said to me
(So far we like your plan just fine, Stan.)
2017-03-21: Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
It was against the law
It's laaarmer's Paul Simon week
2017-03-20: Old
First time I heard Satisfaction I was young and unemployed
It's Paul Simon week, brought to you by laaarmer. Lyrics, man.
2017-03-19: LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
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