Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Best New Cool Toy Of The Day
John Peel's ........ record archive: notes, pix, shows, cool nav & Spotify - still growing - go be there virrrrrtually.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Step inside Rosemary Clooney's shady nook
From either The Steve Allen Plymouth Show "Salute to the All American Basketball Teams" or The Rosemary Clooney Show.
Friday, June 17, 2011
Chop suey is restless tonight
Amateur ethnomusicologists, music historians and other allied partisans may be interested in reading "The Musical Cliché Figure Signifying The Far East: Whence, Wherefore, Whither?" for a closer look into the history of the familiar "oriental" riff.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
yeah, Yeah, YEAH!
Here's some more H&J tracks via the Internet Archive and a Green Acres-esque Corn Flakes commercial.
Sunday, June 05, 2011
news from Martinibomb
What?! Martinibomb is sharing their catalog for free!
Martinibomb (The 1998-2004 Collection)
via bloglio oddio
Dueling Tubas
In 1973, before becoming TV's Garth and Barth Gimble, Martin Mull's "Dueling Tubas" made the Billboard Hot 100 (well, the lower end) alongside popular hits of the day like "Walk on the Wild Side, a pre-Hallowe'en reissue of "Monster Mash" and the Dickie Goodman-produced "Superfly Meets Shaft" by John and Ernest.
Friday, February 11, 2011
Weird Nightmare
Directed by Raymond Douglas Davies in 1993, Weird Nightmare documents the making of the Hal Willner's 1992 Mingus tribute record Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus.
In multiple parts, just follow the numbers …
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Saturday, April 03, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Take him home and make him like it.
Dear Creator!
I am not referring to you very often. Maybe that's a shame. Maybe I would have gotten more out of life if I have had a stronger belief and faith in something. Maybe it was You after all.
My mother and my biological father had sex and I was created. End of story.
But now I know creation doesn't stop. The creation will not stop even after an magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake or by dictators spitting out things like "Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice".
After I was born I was a baby, then a bigger baby. Then a big lonely baby. I didn't turn to religion when I grew a little older. Music saved my soul. Yeah, I know, the story of many angst ridden teenage souls. But it is true nevertheless. I found something to reflect my anxiety in and I stumbled into a world of Heavy Metal. 80s Heavy Metal was a treasure for a 12-13 year old awkward shy little kid with more enemies than friends. Knights in armours and hot princesses and the gods of thunder and lightning. I felt secure in this world. Of course I knew that the world I had cut out for myself, amidst tight leather panted legs surrounded by outstretched delicate female hands begging for just one tiny moment of "his" approval, wasn't a real one or even something to strive for. But I was just a kid feeling alone and desperate for approval.
The metal phase turned into a love for hard music in general - and in the long run - a life-long relationship to music.
Some day in the end of my teens I found Big Star. Loved their two first records. I still do. But it was when I by chance bought Alex Chilton's "Bach's Bottom" and listened to the first track "Take me home and make me like it" I knew I had found my musical soul mate, my reflection, my distant and awkward friend willing to fight the battle for me.
Let's stop there.
Alex Chilton - Take Me Home And Make Me Like It (sorry about the lousy sound quality)
It would be useless gibberish to everyone if I continue to praise this song in a more poetical and philosophical way than that. It is indeed a song falling apart at times and a voice on the edge accompanied by what sounds like a drunk rock'n'roll band, some clowns, some guitar students, and a choir of male retards from the local football team and a couple of people Alex didn't know were there in the first place. As I said the song sounds like falling apart several times, like the energy vanishes. As many times the track goes straight through the roof and the whole band is alert and ready to deliver the best rock and roll ever. Sounds come and go. It's spontaneous. It's alive. It's life.
Life is what I'm looking for in music. Music doesn't always need to make me feel better. But music that doesn't make me feel alive suck. I need to FEEL life. We all need that.
This is music that wakes up on Saturday morning and doesn't care putting on clothes. This is music with a bad breath because it had a fantastic dinner yesterday with a lot of garlic involved and a few bears afterwards which probably lead to another thing and suddenly wound up in bed with the dinner hostess and ate her out long after midnight.
Life.
I need it. Alex gave it to me. I am afraid of life. But I still need it. Alex has covered for me soooo many times.
The whole third album by Big Star is an installment of life. Alex and Jody Stevens and friends.
"Kizza me", "Thank You Friends", "Holocaust", "Kangaroo", "Nightime". I could count them all in. Magnificent album, and by far their best. It's life. Up or down or even doomed. I have these moments. Alex apparetly had them a lot.
Big Star - Nighttime
"I've had it" and "Rock Hard" on 'Like Flies on Sherbert'. Magic moments.
Most obituaries today probably talks about a letter and the founder of power pop as we know it. Rightously so!
But this is also the man who produced "Human Fly" and deconstructed blues-rock on 'Behind the Magnolia Curtain' with Tav Falco for crying out loud!
This was a man who understood: It's the Singer, Not the song.
So, please, creator: Take him home and make him like it.
/Z aka mrdantefontana
I am not referring to you very often. Maybe that's a shame. Maybe I would have gotten more out of life if I have had a stronger belief and faith in something. Maybe it was You after all.
My mother and my biological father had sex and I was created. End of story.
But now I know creation doesn't stop. The creation will not stop even after an magnitude 7.0 Mw earthquake or by dictators spitting out things like "Humanitarianism is the expression of stupidity and cowardice".
After I was born I was a baby, then a bigger baby. Then a big lonely baby. I didn't turn to religion when I grew a little older. Music saved my soul. Yeah, I know, the story of many angst ridden teenage souls. But it is true nevertheless. I found something to reflect my anxiety in and I stumbled into a world of Heavy Metal. 80s Heavy Metal was a treasure for a 12-13 year old awkward shy little kid with more enemies than friends. Knights in armours and hot princesses and the gods of thunder and lightning. I felt secure in this world. Of course I knew that the world I had cut out for myself, amidst tight leather panted legs surrounded by outstretched delicate female hands begging for just one tiny moment of "his" approval, wasn't a real one or even something to strive for. But I was just a kid feeling alone and desperate for approval.
The metal phase turned into a love for hard music in general - and in the long run - a life-long relationship to music.
Some day in the end of my teens I found Big Star. Loved their two first records. I still do. But it was when I by chance bought Alex Chilton's "Bach's Bottom" and listened to the first track "Take me home and make me like it" I knew I had found my musical soul mate, my reflection, my distant and awkward friend willing to fight the battle for me.
Let's stop there.
Alex Chilton - Take Me Home And Make Me Like It (sorry about the lousy sound quality)
It would be useless gibberish to everyone if I continue to praise this song in a more poetical and philosophical way than that. It is indeed a song falling apart at times and a voice on the edge accompanied by what sounds like a drunk rock'n'roll band, some clowns, some guitar students, and a choir of male retards from the local football team and a couple of people Alex didn't know were there in the first place. As I said the song sounds like falling apart several times, like the energy vanishes. As many times the track goes straight through the roof and the whole band is alert and ready to deliver the best rock and roll ever. Sounds come and go. It's spontaneous. It's alive. It's life.
Life is what I'm looking for in music. Music doesn't always need to make me feel better. But music that doesn't make me feel alive suck. I need to FEEL life. We all need that.
This is music that wakes up on Saturday morning and doesn't care putting on clothes. This is music with a bad breath because it had a fantastic dinner yesterday with a lot of garlic involved and a few bears afterwards which probably lead to another thing and suddenly wound up in bed with the dinner hostess and ate her out long after midnight.
Life.
I need it. Alex gave it to me. I am afraid of life. But I still need it. Alex has covered for me soooo many times.
The whole third album by Big Star is an installment of life. Alex and Jody Stevens and friends.
"Kizza me", "Thank You Friends", "Holocaust", "Kangaroo", "Nightime". I could count them all in. Magnificent album, and by far their best. It's life. Up or down or even doomed. I have these moments. Alex apparetly had them a lot.
Big Star - Nighttime
"I've had it" and "Rock Hard" on 'Like Flies on Sherbert'. Magic moments.
Most obituaries today probably talks about a letter and the founder of power pop as we know it. Rightously so!
But this is also the man who produced "Human Fly" and deconstructed blues-rock on 'Behind the Magnolia Curtain' with Tav Falco for crying out loud!
This was a man who understood: It's the Singer, Not the song.
So, please, creator: Take him home and make him like it.
/Z aka mrdantefontana
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Mystery track
waldek has written to PCL LinkDump and wants to know more about this track (short snippet).
He says "Four or five years ago one czech music expert wrote me that it is a hungarian group, but he can't remember its name."
Anyone here who can identify this tune? Or have a good guess?
He says "Four or five years ago one czech music expert wrote me that it is a hungarian group, but he can't remember its name."
Anyone here who can identify this tune? Or have a good guess?
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Surrealism, beer and Mark E Smith
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
It's a Veritable Bulgari-a-thon!
The Mr. and I were just sitting around lamenting the total lack of availability of music from 1970s Bulgarian TV (I swear to God! You can ask him!) and --synchronicity alert!--guess what I found! Music from Й. Марчинков and И. Велчев and Мечо Пух and then a whole lot of other folks you may not be familiar with. But you soon will be, when you download the swell compilation from Bulgarian Originals!
Sunday, October 25, 2009
The Dan........OF DEATH !!!
Good ol' anonymous Dan, apparently a GlyphJockey regular reader, has returned with another splendid eclectic mix of Hallowe'en hits
Link at pickaxeinyourskull
Link at pickaxeinyourskull
Saturday, August 08, 2009
Песняры
Be sure to visit Skameikin for all your Russian disco and hair band needs....and the album below which is what Farfisa backed by a balalaika sounds like, sort of.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Lennart Persson (1951-2009)
Lennart Persson, the single most important Swedish music journalist passed away a few days ago.
US had Lester Bangs. England had John Peel. Us Swedes had Lennart Persson.
Now all these good and relentless passionate missionaries are gone.
The music and the art, though, lives on.
There's a tear in my beer.
Tack för Larm, Feber, skivtips, och ett alltid ungt och nyfiket sinne.
/Z aka mrdantefontana
Note: Lindsay Hutton's obit
Monday, May 18, 2009
Joyitas
Dirkk and Fake presents: "The Joyitas Collection brings you the very best songs in from Latin America and the Mediterranean, both by well-known singers such as Manolo Escobar, Celia Cruz and Miguel Aceves Mejía, and by forgotten masters such as Irma Vila, Rodolfo and Dora María. For each volume, a cd cover is designed to reflect the splendour of the songs.
The songs were collected and recorded from their vinyl originals. Please return to the Joyitas Blog for new editions!"
Joyitas Blog: Home of the Joyitas Collection.
Sunday, February 08, 2009
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Lux and Ivy's Favorites
" ... I'm the guy who compiles the Lux and Ivy's Favorites Compilations.
It started as a way to keep track of some of the songs Lux, and or Ivy, mentioned in THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC BOOK. It was never really intended as anything but a way for a friend of mine and me to have 2 really kick ass compilations.
So we went about the arduous process
of finding all the songs mentioned in that interview. It took a loooong time. We used the file sharing program, Napster, as well as our own personal collections. So, one thing lead to another and when word got around that these compilations were out there, they started being traded from fan to fan to fan. So, at some point I decided to put them up on Napster and let anyone who wanted them have them. As the years went buy, more interviews with Lux and Ivy kept popping up, and the list of songs they mentioned got longer and longer. This resulted in new volumes.
...
In the end, these comps are a tribute to my heroes, The Cramps."
Lux and Ivys Favorites - Volume 01-11, collected and shared by Kogar the Swinging Ape and now available thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog!.
Note from mrdantefontana: This is all music and sounds a human being needs. If you ever happen to get stranded on that deserted island you just need an mp3 player cooking with Lux and Ivys Favorites. You will probably also need a minimum of food and some water. But that is all. You will get by fine.
It started as a way to keep track of some of the songs Lux, and or Ivy, mentioned in THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE MUSIC BOOK. It was never really intended as anything but a way for a friend of mine and me to have 2 really kick ass compilations.
So we went about the arduous process
of finding all the songs mentioned in that interview. It took a loooong time. We used the file sharing program, Napster, as well as our own personal collections. So, one thing lead to another and when word got around that these compilations were out there, they started being traded from fan to fan to fan. So, at some point I decided to put them up on Napster and let anyone who wanted them have them. As the years went buy, more interviews with Lux and Ivy kept popping up, and the list of songs they mentioned got longer and longer. This resulted in new volumes.
...
In the end, these comps are a tribute to my heroes, The Cramps."
Lux and Ivys Favorites - Volume 01-11, collected and shared by Kogar the Swinging Ape and now available thanks to WFMU's Beware of the Blog!.
Note from mrdantefontana: This is all music and sounds a human being needs. If you ever happen to get stranded on that deserted island you just need an mp3 player cooking with Lux and Ivys Favorites. You will probably also need a minimum of food and some water. But that is all. You will get by fine.
Monday, February 02, 2009
I Am So F***ing Buying an Electric Guitar!
One of my fave live bands, Nashville Pussy, teach how to play guitar. Blaine and Ruyter teach all the secrets of the "no brown M&Ms" crowd.
Just to prove they can put their money where their NSFW mouths are:
Let the lessons commence. See you on stage.
Just to prove they can put their money where their NSFW mouths are:
Let the lessons commence. See you on stage.
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