What are you listening to right now?

MacCruiskeen · Post by **MacCruiskeen** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:48 am

Jan Delay: "Klar" (2006)

Herr Eißfeldt & Co. literally bringing the house down. This is the funkiest thing I have ever heard, and it's by a German! Great organ, bass, drums and brass section. Three stunning backing singers too.

Don't worry about understanding the lyrics, he's basically just bragging about having the world's funkiest and best-dressed band. The chorus is "Wir machen das klar" - We'll sort all that out.

§ê¢rê†§ · Post by **§ê¢rê†§** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:00 am

Audio Anarchy'sofferings of volunteer-read anarchist texts. Really getting into a In Praise of Idleness groove, here, before I sleepwalk to the bed and dream vivid full moon solstice dreams...

MacCruiskeen · Post by **MacCruiskeen** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:06 am

Utah Saints: 'Something Good' (1992)

Storming electro dance track from a live band using tomtoms + samples of a great Kate Bush song about Wilhelm Reich and his son Peter.

PLUS:

Hardfloor: ACPERIENCE (1991)

The most intensely danceable acid house track ever recorded. It builds forever, and then it explodes, and then you think it's over, and then it builds again... Like being inside a self-transforming machine elf.

I first heard this at a packed club in Glasgow in December 1991 and I thought everyone there was going to either sweat to death or evaporate with joy.

The world is full of good things.

Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:09 am

Dusty Springfield - Spooky

Johnny Dowd - Thomas Dorsey

Thomas Dorsey - Precious Lord

Christian Bale lip-syncing John Doe - Pressing On (from I'm Not There)

Bob Dylan - Are You Ready? (Toronto 1980)

Jim James & Calexico - Goin' to Acapulco (from I'm Not There)

annie aronburg · Post by **annie aronburg** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:11 am

Nomeansno - Two Lips/Rags & Bones Live and Cuddly 1990

barracuda · Post by **barracuda** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:54 am

streeb wrote:I don't know why I have such an attachment to this theme from a not-very-good British 80s sitcom, but I do, to this day, after about a million years. Don't ask me why. I wish it was longer, by about an hour or so.

Sorry

I know it's not exactly Ella Fitzgerald. Sorry.

That's cool, streeb. I myself have had a lifelong obsession with the theme music for the television show My Favorite Martian, and there seem endless days wherein it accompanies me through my walks around cities and towns, up and down staircases and though doorways with complete appropriateness.

George Greeley - theme from My Favorite Martian

As well, of course, the Munster's surf-inspired music, which my band covers briefly during our set.

Jack Marshell - theme from the Munsters

Post by **Jeff** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 12:59 pm

Shuffle Demons - Funkin' Pumpkin

compared2what? · Post by **compared2what?** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:35 pm

Girls Talk -- Dave Edmunds

Silence Is Golden -- Garbage (on edit -- WAY better video.)

What It Feels Like for A Girl -- Madonna (on edit -- now available for Canadian viewers!)

China Girl -- David Bowie

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But as I was saying, just the other day.

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barracuda · Post by **barracuda** » Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:56 pm

Jack Jones - Charade

Jack Jones - Wives and Lovers

Jack Jones - Lollipops and Roses

compared2what? · Post by **compared2what?** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 12:45 am

That's not funny!

kissing blarney · Post by **kissing blarney** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 8:21 pm

This thread has had me in a state of google-fu for months. From the days of my youth in the early to mid sixties, revisting the arrival of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, to shows like Hulabaloo, Shindig, Where The Action Is, American Bandstand, and others, to today, and the influences the music of the times has had on me. Ahh, the beauty of time misspent.

Just about the time l was beginning to notice the difference between boys and girls l witnessed this gem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n03a7cLf0M

...now as l spy the invitation to sign up for AARP out of the corner of my eye...it kinda makes my back hurt. Though with a tweaking of the lyrics and arrangement to the darker side, could make an interesting political statement.

Forty-odd years hence...l still feel like Mr. Jones at times. Something is happening, but i'm never quite sure what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYlhw3g ... re=related

streeb · Post by **streeb** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:43 pm

That's cool, streeb. I myself have had a lifelong obsession with the theme music for the television show My Favorite Martian, and there seem endless days wherein it accompanies me through my walks around cities and towns, up and down staircases and though doorways with complete appropriateness.

Well thanks for that, Barracuda. "Sorry" never fails to start playing in my head in particularly hapless or humiliating moments, heh heh. It's comforting.

As well, of course, the Munster's surf-inspired music, which my band covers briefly during our set.

Oh yeah? What do you play? I tend to think about half this board is made up of musicians for some reason.

Bobby Lapointe - Framboise (from Shoot the Piano Player)

Chris Bell - I Am the Cosmos

compared2what? · Post by **compared2what?** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:00 pm

kissing blarney wrote:This thread has had me in a state of google-fu for months. From the days of my youth in the early to mid sixties, revisting the arrival of The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, to shows like Hulabaloo, Shindig, Where The Action Is, American Bandstand, and others, to today, and the influences the music of the times has had on me. Ahh, the beauty of time misspent.

Just about the time l was beginning to notice the difference between boys and girls l witnessed this gem...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n03a7cLf0M

...now as l spy the invitation to sign up for AARP out of the corner of my eye...it kinda makes my back hurt. Though with a tweaking of the lyrics and arrangement to the darker side, could make an interesting political statement.

Forty-odd years hence...l still feel like Mr. Jones at times. Something is happening, but i'm never quite sure what it is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFYlhw3g ... re=related

I'm never quite sure either. At the moment, I'm inclining toward either:

this; or

this; or

this.

But it's very difficult to say. The times they are a-changing.

Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:09 pm

kissing blarney wrote:Ahh, the beauty of time misspent.

Wasted time has to be some of the best time everybody spends.

The Kinks - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

Ballad of a Thin Man clip from I'm Not There (Cate Blanchett as Dylan, with Bruce Greenwood as Mr Jones)

Dylan - I'm Not There (Basement Tapes outtake)

Dylan - Ain't Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Toronto 1980)

Lone Justice - Fortunate Son

Lone Justice - You Are the Light

Tift Merritt - Good Hearted Man

compared2what? · Post by **compared2what?** » Sun Jun 22, 2008 12:32 am

Sweet to see The Ritz (in which Lone Justice were performing in that clip.) I was just thinking about that joint as it once was, a long, long time ago, last night. (Train of thought: "Girls Talk" : Rockpile : Rockpile show I saw at The Ritz about which I now remember almost nothing, except that I'm almost positive they did "Blue Moon of Kentucky" as an encore : PiL show at Ritz : what happened to that red skirt I wore there one time right when it opened and was still primarily a dance club : etc.)

The intro to this is hilarious. And also, I guess, poignant. Though I guess I might be a little miffed, too, were I in his shoes.

What's Shakin' on the Hill -- Nick Lowe

Pretty. Though there are several songs of his from the same period that I like much better. But they appear not to have made much of an impression on the tubes, unfortunately.

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