What are you listening to right now?

[compared2what?]

Still clubbng in the '80s.

Set It Off -- Strafe

Heartbeat -- Taana Gardner (Larry Levan Club Mix)

Sucker MCs Run-DMC, featuring mic battle w/ Kool Moe Dee and Special K (Background appearance by the young Vince Gallo. He's pretty fly for a white guy.)

Roxanne Roxanne -- UTFO

Roxanne's Revenge -- Roxanne Shante

Love Rap -- Spoonie Gee featuring the Treacherous Three

The Roxanne Battles -- couldn't find UTFO's answer-song, "The Real Roxanne" (featuring the fake Roxanne) or Roxanne Shante's answer-song-answer-song, "Bite Me." So I resorted to a summary.

ON EDIT: Because it's called Bite This

And here's The Real Roxanne. This website is incorrect in crediting Roxanne Shante, btw. Anyone can hear it's not. It's the fake Real Roxanne with UTFO.

P.S. -- Don't fuck with Shante:

Have a Nice Day -- Roxanne Shante

Big Mama -- Roxanne Shante

Go On, Girl -- Roxanne Shante

[barracuda]

Gustav Mahler - Symphony No. 4 (Sehr behaglich)

John lets the lambkin out,
and Herod the Butcher lies in wait for it.
We lead a patient,
an innocent, patient,
dear little lamb to its death.
Saint Luke slaughters the ox
without any thought or concern.
Wine doesn't cost a penny
in the heavenly cellars;
The angels bake the bread.

[barracuda]

The Weavers - Tzena, Tzena, Tzena

Buffy Sainte-Marie & Pete Seeger - Cindy
Buffy Sainte-Marie plays the mouth bow on this one. She gives a demonstration of playing techniques here.

Karl Denver - Wimoweh as performed on "Shindig". Incredible.

Solomon Linda And The Evening Birds - The Lion Sleeps Tonight (El león duerme esta noche) 1939 original version of what became "Wimoweh".

[barracuda]

I cannot decide which of these two great performances I prefer, so I leave it up to you. One of the most beautiful songs ever written, and a tango at that.
Kurt Weil - Youkali as sung by Tânia Valente, soprano

Kurt Weil - Youkali as sung by Teresa Stratas, soprano

On edit, maybe I love this one better, perfideous man that I am:
Kurt Weil - Youkali as sung by Ute Lemper

C'est presqu'au bout du monde,
Ma barque vagabonde,
Errant augré du l'onde,
M'y conduisit un jour.

L'ile est toute petite,
Mais la fee qui l'habite
Gentiment nous invite
A en faire le tour.

(Near the end of the world
My vagabond boat
Wandering at the whim of the waves
Directs me there one day,

This island is very small
But the fairy who lives there
Gently invited us
to take a tour...)


Frank Sinatra - September Song

Lotte Lenya - Surabaya Johhny

[AliceIs]

Paganini Variation

[compared2what?]

Oh, man. You turn your back for a few hours and all of a sudden everybody's classing up the joint, and discriminating against the baroque. Although I have to admit it's not easy to find satisfying baroque music on the YouTubes that sounds good enough that it doesn't automatically make you feel as if (a) someone is about to hand you a brunch menu; or (c) are trapped in a Milos Forman movie. For self-serving reasons, from now on I am going to argue the position that sure, Chopin is Romanticist, but not very.

Fantasie-impromtue Op. 66

[barracuda]

Francis Poulenc and Guillaume Apollinaire - Hotel

Ma chambre a la forme d'une cage,
Le soleil passe son bras par la fenêtre.
Mais moi qui veux fumer pour faire des mirages
J'allume au feu du jour ma cigarette.
Je ne veux pas travailler - je veux fumer.

(My room has the form of a cage.
The sun reaches its arm in through the window.
But I want to smoke and make shapes in the air,
and so I light my cigarette on the sun's fire.
I don't want to work, I want to smoke.)

[streeb]

The Heptones - Book of Rules

[compared2what?]

That's just gorgeous, and made me very happy, as if I had traveled back in time to an alternate dimension, where I had once spent the Saturdays of my childhood listening to Texaco Presents: Live from L'Opera d'un Nouvel Poetique, Double d'une Morale de la Revolte.

La Voix Humaine -- Francois Poulenc and Jean Cocteau

And: Encore!

Bravo.

ON EDIT: I was aiming to return the favor to Barracuda, and didn't realize I was running up interest on an as-yet-unknown debt to Streeb. I need Quicken for Pleasure Incurred software or something.

Thanks, Streeb! With my compliments:

Tenement Yard -- Jacob Miller, 1976

Love is the Message -- Jacob Miller, 1968

[streeb]

Thanx compared2what.

I felt a little bad breaking up the high culture party, but Leroy Sibbles was nice enuff to play in my city last night.

Happy Record Store Day, everybody

[tKl]

The voices of the people who hate me in my dreams!!!!!!!

[barracuda]

Don't hate!

Alice Cooper - the Ballad Of Dwight Fry

Alice Cooper - Is It My Body?

Alice Cooper - Welcome to my Nightmare

[streeb]

RIP Danny Federici

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Slomatics - Under Canopy

Love this band; this is ULTIMATE Sludgecore.

These guys cite my old band as a big influence on what they're doing today.

[Et in Arcadia ego]

Hard Hearted Alice

Life
Coast to coast
White hot as a ghost
When you live
In a countdown

Time
Is free as a jailbird
At least that's what I heard
When you live
In a hideout

Love
Comes cheap at a swapmeet
It all comes so dirt cheap
When you live
In a bedroom

Love
Cuts deep as a razor
But that ain't amazin'
When you live
In a cancer

Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah

Mind
Gets scrambled like eggs
Get bruised and erased
When you live
In a brainstorm

Noise
Seems logically right
Ringing ears in the night
When you live
In an airport

Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah
Ah

Hard hearted Alice
Is what we want to be
Hard hearted Alice
Is what you want to see

Hard hearted Alice
Is what we want to be
Hard hearted Alice
Is what you want to see