What are you listening to right now?

[streeb]

Suede - The Asphalt World

"Like big stars in the back seat, like skeletons ever so pretty..."

[IanEye]

Honky Tonk Angels Gone Wild!

The paranoid duality of Elvis' brain

I love my Rancho Grande, I love my L S D aaahhh...

[barracuda]

Meredith Monk - Gotham Lullaby

Meredith Monk - Walking Song

[barracuda]

Fred Frith & Evelyn Glennie - A Little Prayer

Fred Frith - Step Across The Border

Fred Frith & Camel Zekri - Improvisation

[barracuda]

Band of Susans - Paint it Black

Band of Susans - Now is Now

[kissing blarney]

Which came first...the Susan's or these 'eggs'? Probably just me, but this is the first thing l thought of when "Now is Now" started. Have to say my taste gravitates toward the darker edge of the Susan's.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTj4jgj1s0

Hard to believe it's been almost 30 years. This "back in the day" video has terrible sound...but the visual a hoot! Ah, the good old days.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztYTXd5d ... re=related

[Jeff]

It's U2 babies - Street Mission (1978!)

Jane Siberry - Ingrid and the Footman (for my old friend the footman)

Perth County Conspiracy - Crucifixion Cartoon

Max Webster - Toronto Tontos (and from a reunion show)

[MacCruiskeen]

Happy Mondays: Step On

"You know, you talk so hip, man ... You talk so hip, you're twistin ma melon, man... C-c-call da copsssss...."

(Thanks to AhabsOtherLeg for the reminder. Love the piano on this, not to mention the drums and everything else.)

Primal Scream - Movin' On Up, live at Glastonbury 2003

Roll over, Rolling Stones. (And Bobby Gillespie is purdier than Mick.)

[barracuda]

Hard to believe it's been almost 30 years.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I was at their show on 03/18/1981 at the San Jose State Student Union Ballroom in San Jose, California, where I was attending grad school. Here's the set list for the gig, which I found online:

The Ocean, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, I Will Follow, An Cat Dubh, Into The Heart, Another Time, Another Place, The Cry, The Electric Co., Things To Make And Do, Stories For Boys, Boy-Girl, Out Of Control
Encores: A Day Without Me, 11 O'Clock Tick Tock, The Ocean

The Ballroom venue was tiny, it should have held a thousand standing room only, but there were twice that many people in there. The room was on the second floor of the student union, so as the crowd jumped up and down to the music, the floor was noticably bending and flexing with the weight of the pounding to the beat. It's funny, though, because the over-capacity crowd was only partly there to see U2; they barely had a radio presence in California at the time. No, instead we had mostly come to see this band, which was riding very high at the time and were the headliner that night:

Huey Lewis & the News - I want a new drug

...and if you check out the above video, recorded ten years after the San Jose gig, I think you'll see that they were a pretty hot band, and indeed, they did rock that fuckin' place like a roadhouse. All in all, it was quite a show.

Huey Lewis & the News - Little Bitty Pretty One

[barracuda]

Mildred Bailey, who "discovered" Billie Holiday, singing a Fats Waller song, dedicated to AhabsOtherLeg.

Mildred Bailey & Her Alley Cats - Squeeze Me

Mildred Bailey and the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra - Snowball

Fats Waller - Aint Misbehavin'

Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big



Waller was in my estimation (and Al Capone's), among the quintessential geniuses of the twentieth century.

[barracuda]

Marie Devellereau - aria from Poulenc/Apollonaire, The Breasts of Tiresias

Roberto Accurso - from Poulenc/Apollonaire, The Breasts of Tiresias

[barracuda]

Yeah, yeah, 4th of July, Independance Day, I'm early, so what?!?

Ray Charles - America, The Beautiful

Elvis - America, The Beautiful

And I nominate this song as the replacement for that worn out Star Spangled Banner, which, even though I love to sing it, desperately needs an injection of reality to continue to be pertinent. Let's have a new national anthem for the 21st century,

Elvis Presley - Trouble

If you're looking for trouble
You came to the right place
If you're looking for trouble
Just look right in my face
I was born standing up
And talking back
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me

I've never looked for trouble
But I've never ran
I don't take no orders
From no kind of man
I'm only made out
Of flesh, blood and bone
But if you're gonna start a rumble
Don't you try it on alone
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery
Well I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me
I'm evil, evil, evil, as can be
I'm evil, evil, evil, as can be
So don't mess around don't mess around don't mess around withme
I'm evil, I'm evil, evil, evil
So don't mess around, don't mess around with me
I'm evil, I tell you I'm evil
So don't mess around with me

[annie aronburg]

The Cramps - Surfin' Bird

Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird

Silver Convention - Fly Robin Fly

Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing

Steve Miller Band -Fly Like an Eagle

Pharoah Sanders - Lazy Bird

The Beatles - Blue Jay Way

It's A Beautiful Day-White Bird

Miles Davis - Bye Bye Blackbird

Rick Dees & His Cast of Idiots - Disco Duck

Anne Murray - Snowbird

Frank Zappa - Penguin in Bondage

Bob Marley - Three Little Birds

George Baker Selection - Una Paloma Blanca

Scorpions - White Dove

Dr Alimantado - Best Dressed Chicken in Town

Ornithology

Rufus Thomas - The Funky Chicken

[Jeff]

Jane Bunnett and The Spirits of Havana - The River/El Rio

Chumbawamba - Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire

The Levellers - Ballad of Robbie Jones

Billy Bragg - Help Save the Youth of America (in the Soviet Union '87)

[compared2what?]

Dude (ie- Miss Aronburg) --



Show some respect.

Thanks, bro. It's, like, my heritage.

I love you, man.