Hey, where are the TDoggs?

1. “Nida”–Nicholas Payton
2. “Love’s Theme”–Barry White
3. “Everything Happens to Me”–Wynton Marsalis
4. “Let’s Move”–Pat Metheny Trio
5. “Hit the Road Jack”–Ray Charles
6. “Doodlin’”–Art Blakey
7. “Yardbird Suite”–Charlie Parker
8. “People Keep Tellin’ Me”–O’Jays
9. “Lover”–Sonny Clark
10. “Mickey’s Monkey”–Smokey Robinson & the Miracles

Bonus track: “It Could Happen to You”–Miles Davis Quintet

Could be worse!

NatTurner

We heartily approve of Beth Orton: seen her twice, once in England and once in the US. (Same with Ben Harper, for that matter.)

My brother and I collectively had all ten GFR studio albums until about 1976 or so when we outgrew the genre. The pride of Flint, MI baby.

I’m feelin’ ya TBogg.

1. Vamos – Pixies
2. Symphony No. 4 in G Major IV – Mahler
3. Quartet for Oboe, Violin, Cello & Piano: Moderato Poco Allegro – Martinu
4. Did You Steal My Money – Pete Townshend
5. War Requiem, Op. 66: Libera Me – Britten
6. The Neither World – King Missile
7. Something [Live] – Butthole Surfers
8. Metal – Gary Numan
9. For Now – Ave. Q
10. Take a Chance With Me – Roxy Music

Bonus: Jackson, Monk and Rowe – Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet

1-1999-Prince
2-Garden-Pearl Jam
3-Sunset Grill-Don Henley
4-Pearl Snaps-Jason Boland and the Stragglers
5-Otherside-Red Hot Chili Pepppers
6-These Are The Days-10,000 Maniacs
7-Zoot Suit Riot-Cherry Popping Daddies
8-Everything I Do (Miss You)-Whiskeytown
9-Starting A New Life-Van Morrison
10-Blood and Roses-The Smithereens

Bonus: Night Time Is The Right Time-Ray Charles

I defy you to get more random that that.

1. The Very Last Resort – Trentemoller
2. Ships in the Night – Be Bop Deluxe
3. Sentimental Journey – Esquivel
4. Cielito Lindo – Chingon
5. Days – Television
6. Bands 2 – Absinthe Blind
7. La vie en rose – Edith Piaf
8. Golden – My Morning Jacket
9. Easy to Be Hard (live) – 3 Dog Night
10. Push th’ Little Daisies – Ween

and because we won’t have Hillary to kick around forever,

11. Ellis Unit One – Steve Earle.

(And no, I didn’t mean that Hillary belongs in Ellis Unit One or anything else. Sheesh.)

1. Offertoire recordare - Monastic Choir of St. Peter’s Abbey - Florilege gregorien
2. 33,45,78 (Record Time) - Kathy Mattea - Lonesome Standard Time
3. Montana Half Light - Philip Aaberg - High Plains
4. Ruined In A Day - New Order - Republic
5. Soviet - Electronic - Electronic
6. Glass: Akhnaten – Act 2/Sc. 2: Akhnaten & Nefertiti - Philip Glass - Akhnaten
7. The Rocking Surfer - The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl
8. I’ll Buy That Dream - Harry James - I’ve Heard That Song Before: The Hits of Harry James (1 of 2)
9. Boris Gudonov, Act 2, pt.5 - Met Opera - Boris Gudonov
10. For You Blue - The Beatles - Let It Be
Bonus: Silver Moon - David Sylvian - Gone to Earth

Hey ladies you crazies
Me and Zero request you in the Mercedes
And then we’ll ride so zoomy inside
The sky’s the limit this time I’m Switchin’ to Glide
I don’t give a hoot about what people have to say
I’m laughin’ as I’m analyzed
Lunatics Anonymous that’s where I belong
Sure cause I am one till my strength is gone
Yeah This Beat Goes On

“Sunday Girl” – Blondie
“Looking For Jack” – Colin Hay
“Bang That Beat” – C+C Music Factory
“No Distance Left To Run” – Blur
“Around The Sun’ – R.E.M.
“FXXK It” – Seether
“This Beat Goes On/Switch Into Glide” – The Kings
“Public Service Announcement” – Eminem
“Farewell, Farewell” – Maddy Prior
“Hearts And Bones” – Paul Simon

With Special Guest Track: “Tastes Good” – David Hidalgo

I like the Grand Funk Railroad.

Great tunes today, everyone. Hope mine stack up. (TBogg, love the Brit pop in yours today.) Massive attack, Stone Roses and Gorillaz. (Although Gorillaz was later, but it’s Damon Albarn, so I guess it counts. I’m babbling.)

1) My Name is Jonas – Weezer
2) Little Sister – Queens of the Stone Age
3) You know You’re Right – Nirvana
4) Everlasting Gaze – Smashing Pumpkins
5) Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin
6) Mr. Brightside – The Killers
7) Rape Me – Nirvana
Scientist – Coldplay
9) Kiss Off – Violent Femmes
10) Time of the Season – The Zombies

and 2 more because I got great news about my job today:
11) The One I Love – REM
12) Rising Down – The Roots Ft. Mos Def

Wow, pretty random song list. You know, the Nirvana’s You know you’re right came out in 2003. It had been recorded 10 years earlier, and was still better than most songs that came out that year. Sad. Good Friday everyone.

1/Ben Folds Five/Smoke
2/Echo & The Bunnymen/No Hands (John Peel Session)
3/Diana Ross/Touch Me In The Morning
4/Explosions In The Sky/Have You Passed Through This Night?
5/Tindersticks/Les Cannes A Peche
6/Scud Mountain Boys/Down In Writing
7/Cocteau Twins/The Spangle Maker
8/Front Line Assembly/Obsession
9/The Shins/Saint Simon
10/Grant Lee Buffalo/Jupiter And Teardrop

Bonus track to hopefully make up for #3

11/Ride/From Time To Time

Better.

Pere Ubu — “Lonesome Cowboy Dave”
Gap Band — “Burn Rubber (Why You Want to Hurt Me)”
Dinosaur Jr. — “I Live For That Look”
Ride — “Chelsea Girl”
Motorhead — “Civil War”
The Count Five — “Can’t Get Your Lovin’”
The Misfits — “Nike A Go Go”
The Replacements — “Shiftless When Idle”
Dr. Feelgood — “Rolling And Tumbling”
Helmet — “Turned Out”

1. “Netty’s Girl”- Beastie Boys- The Sounds of Science
2. “Namaste”- Beastie Boys- The In Sound From Way Out!
3. “Ghosts”- Dirty Vegas- Dirty Vegas
4. “Take Off Your Cool”- Outkast- The Love Below
5. “Dashing”- Wu Tang Clan- Iron Flag
6. “A Well Deserved Break”- Morcheeba- Fragments of Freedom
7. “Promise I”- Snoop Dogg- Rhythm & Gangsta
8. “Lebanese Blonde”- Thievery Corporation- The Mirror Conspiracy
9. “Hound Dog”- Jimi Hendrix Experience- BBC Sessions (Disc 1)
10. “Fat Old Sun”- Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother

and one more for my man Cenk (ha siktir!)

11. “Lucky”- 311

To continue on last week’s theme (and because I had some time to kill and needed a good excuse to crack open a cold Pilsner Urquell) I did the LP thing again. So what did we come up with?

1. “Violin Concerto in d minor: 1. Allegro moderato” – Jean Sibelius
2. “Partita #2 for violin, BWV 1004: 5. Chaconne” – J.S. Bach
3. “War Requiem: Dies Irae” – Benjamin Britten (WR twice in one day? Whoa.)
4. “We Need a Little Christmas” – New Christie Minstrels (yes, you read that right – and I have two copies of this tune)
5. “Lone Ranger” – Bill Cosby
6. “Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 ‘Rasumovsky’” – L. van Beethoven
7. “Estampes: La Soiree Dans Grenade” – Claude Debussy
8. “Bring It on Home” – Led Zeppelin
9. “Running a Temperature” – Jimmie Lunceford (oh yeah)
10. “Symphony #5 in e minor, Op. 64: 4. Andante maestoso — Allegro vivace” – P.I. Tchaikovsky

I miscounted – just one bonus:
11. “Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 127: 2. Adagio, ma non troppo e molto cantabile” – L. van Beethoven

Side A
White Stripes – Conquest
Esbjorn Svensson Trio – Where We User To Live
Television – Torn Curtain
Beatles – Wild Honey Pie
Sunny Day Real Estate – Red Elephant

Side B
Howlin Wolf – I Ain’t Superstitious
No Knife – Permanent From Now On
Floratone – Louisiana Lowboat
Alison Krauss & US – It Won’t Work This Time
Godsmack – Greed

1. Bad Monkey – Richard Thompson
2. Doors of Perception – Thievery Corporation
3. Poor Man – Old Crow Medicine Show
4. It’s Only Time – Magnetic Fields
5. Rambunctious Cloud – Vic Chesnutt
6. Trilogy – Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
7. She Cries Your Name – Beth Orton (I had a feeling that might happen)
8. Not Big – Lily Allen
9. Family Snapshot – Peter Gabriel
10. Road to Peace – Tom Waits

That’s a pretty Brit-heavy list I have as well. Not exactly “pop,” though.

Kirtsy MacColl – There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis
Talk Talk – Does Caroline Know?
Stone Roses – Made of Stone
Josh Rouse – My Love Has Gone
The Ocean Blue – My Scream
Peter Gabriel – Zaar
The Shins – Red Rabbits
Brendan Benson – Biggest Fan
Liz Phair – Whitechocolateeggspace
The Horse Flies – Two candles

Bonus:
John Gorka – Brown Shirts

Lots of repeat names in the lists today…This was a really good list.

Jet Keisatsu – Puffy – Jet CD
Quit – The Waitresses – Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
With a Gun – Experimental Aircraft – Third Transmission: Meet Me on Echo Echo Terrace
Ghost Under Rocks – Ra Ra Riot – Ra Ra Riot EP
Tanker – Bailter Space – Bailterspace
I’ll Kill Her – Soko – Not Sokute
Fast Car – Moimir Papalescu & The Nihilists -Lewis Neptune
Papa Doc – Dadamah – This Is Not a Dream
No Good Annie – 1910 Fruitgum Company – Indian Giver
Streets of Fire – Bruce Springsteen – Darkness on the Edge of Town

Bonus tracks
Hung Up and Hanging Out to Dry – Julian Cope – Peggy Suicide
Lullabye (Mountain) – The Acorn – Glory Hope Mountain

1. Hula, “Burn Me Out” (”Cut Me Loose” 12″ single)
2. Cocteau Twins, “Ella Megalast Burls Forever” (Blue Bell Knoll)
3. Chris & Cosey, “Exotica” (Exotica & Take Five)
4. Soft Cell, “Frustration” (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
5. Thompson Twins, “Love on Your Side (No Talkin’)” (Quick Step and Side Kick)
6. The Swans, “Young God” (Cop/Young God)
7. Project Pitchfork, “Timekiller (Radio Edit)” (”Timekiller” CDS)
8. Wumpscut, “Tell Me Why (First Takes)” (The Mesner Tracks)
9. The Suburbs, “Rainy Day” (Love Is the Law)
10. Meat Beat Manifesto, “Soul Driver” (The Peel Session)

CD and Cassette Bonus Track:

11. Dead Can Dance, “The Trial” (Dead Can Dance)

1. Pee Wee Crayton – “Blues After Hours” – Urban Blues
2. Elvis Costello – “Strange” — Kojak Variety
3. The Who – “Pinball Wizard” — Tommy
4. The Specials– “Little Bitch” — The Specials
5. Louis Prima – “Angelina/Zooma Zooma” — Collector’s Series
6. The Subdudes – “Don’t Let ‘Em” — Primitive Streak
7. Talking Heads – “Heaven” — Sand In The Vaseline
8. Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris – “This Is Us” — All The Roadrunning
9. The Kinks – “The Moneygoround” — Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround
10. Django Reinhardt – “I Got Rhythm” — Django Reinhardt – Djangology 49

**Bonus** The Wallflowers – “Invisible City” — Bringing Down The Horse

I haven’t done one of these in a while, so here goes nothing:

Thee Mountain Goats Brothers: Against Agamemnon
Thee Sebadoh Brothers: Sixteen (Live Montreal 3/24/07)
Thee Bonnie “Prince” Billy Brothers: I See A Darkness (Live Lawrence KS)
Thee Yo La Tengo Brothers: Tom Courtenay
Thee Brian Jonestown Massacre Brothers: Malela
Thee Joanna Newsom Brothers: Only Skin
Thee Iron & Wine Brothers: Sunset Soon Forgotten
Thee Neutral Milk Hotel Brothers: King Of Carrot Flowers Part 1
Thee Fugazi Brothers: Bulldog Front
Thee Broken Social Scene Brothers: Looks Just Like The Sun

Heh, indeed.

Sleater-Kinney – Rollercoaster
Shriekback – Nerve
Duchess Says – I’ve Got the Flu
Tinariwen – Amidinin
Divinyls – Back to the Wall
Dead Moon – Dead in the Saddle
Ventures – Walk, Don’t Run
Vibrants – Fuel Injection
Holst – Mars, the Bringer of War
Tikis – Rick-o-shay

Better late than never…

L’Escale – Edith Piaf La Vie En Rose
Rend It – Fugazi In On The Kill Taker
Stringsign – Gil LA F.A.C.T. (Disc 1)(Australia) -this is a Carl Cox compilation
You Ain’t Right – Nashville Pussy High As Hell
Hypno Sex Ray – The Cramps Big Beat From Badsville
Start Wearing Purple – Gogol Bordello Voila Intruder
The Most Beautiful Girl (In The Room) – Flight Of The Conchords Soundtrack
Actium – Aphex Twin Selected Ambient Works 85-92
Yeah We Know - Dinosaur Jr. Bug
Rich Bitch – D.O.A. Bloodied But Unbowed

Not bad at all

Fiddle Blues – Stephane Grapelli
Haunted House – The Creed Taylor Orchestra [Kenyon Hopkins]
Disco Clone [extended] – Cristina w/ Kevin Kline
Mystery – Harry Yerkes
I Want You Back – The Esso Trinidad Steel Band
Marry Me – Sparks
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Fiddle Blues – Stephane Grapelli
Haunted House – The Creed Taylor Orchestra [Kenyon Hopkins]
Disco Clone [extended] – Cristina w/ Kevin Kline
Mystery – Harry Yerkes
I Want You Back – The Esso Trinidad Steel Band
Marry Me – Sparks
a token sylvie and babs ditty – chicken in drag – Nurse With Wound
DITTERSDORF: In the Taste Of Five Nations, III. Inglese: Allegretto – Failoni Orchestra/Uwe Grodd
Twist & Shout – 11,000 Switches
Pretty Face – J. J. Burnel

Late – Kanye West
Get On The Good Foot – James Brown
I Wanna Holler (But The Town’s Too Small) – The Detroit Cobras
Leave The Biker – Fountains of Wayne
Novacane – Beck
That’s Amore – Dean Martin
Lilac Wine (The Album Leaf Remix) – Nina Simone
Do Your Thing – Basement Jaxx
Playhouses – TV On The Radio
Hey Mama – Kanye West

The Post-Pre-Friday “Prelude to a move” Random Ten+

1) “Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)” – De La Soul
2) “I Will Remember” – Queensrÿche
3) “Gigantor” – Helmet
4) “A Fairy Story” – The Brobdingnagian Bards
5) “Love is a Rose” – Neil Young
6) “Circle” – Sarah McLachlan
7) “Wild Mountain Thyme” – The Brobdingnagian Bards
8: “Which Way to America?” – Living Colour
9) “Red Angel Dragnet” – The Clash
10) “Ramble and Roll” – Dropkick Murphys

the plusses!

X+1) “Caroline” – Concrete Blonde
X+2) “I Hate Therefore I Am” – Cyclone Temple