It’s eclecticism night:

Gemini Dream — Moody Blues
Halftime (Stand Up and Get Crunk!) — Ying Yang Twins & Homebwoi
Desperado — Johnny Cash
You Can Call Me Stupid — Smothers Brothers
The One I Love — R.E.M.

Lean On Me — Bill Withers
I Concentrate On You — Frank Sinatra
Green — Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
Get Back — The Beatles
Groovin’ — The Young Rascals

Bonus:
Take Me To The River — Talking Heads

You say you want new music?

Try the CRASH KINGS

Give them a listen. Not a bad song on the album.
Download or buy at that link. See them live if you can.

‘Mountain Man’ & ‘War Pigs’

1. Harlequin – The Weather Report
2. Yesterday – The Beatles
3. The Flame – The Black Keys
4. Anarchy In The U.K./God Save The Queen/Pretty Vacant/No One Is Innocent (Medley) – The Black Arabs
5. I’m A Doggy – The Marvin Pontiac
6. Blues Do Me A Favor – The J.B. Hutto
7. Cold Shot – The Dr. John
8. Angels – The David Byrne
9. Buffalo Soldier – The Bob Marley & The Wailers
10. Planxty Noel Hill – The Pogues

**Bonus** Thumbelina – The Pretenders

I’m too old to know from new music, sorry. Also, the too.

1. “Do You Realize??”- The Flaming Lips- Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
2. “Break On Through”- The Doors- Isle Of Wight Festival 1970
3. “Ocean View”- One Day As A Lion- One Day As A Lion EP
4. “Samson And Delilah”- Grateful Dead- San Francisco Civic Auditorium 12/27/83
5. “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues”- Spin Doctors- Pocket Full of Kryptonite
6. “Potholes In My Lawn (12 Inch Version)”- De La Soul
7. “Original”- John Brown’s Body- Church Of Universal Love And Music 8/19/05
8. “Black Vest”- Lee “Scratch” Perry- Ape-ology
9. “Stop WWIII”- DubConscious- Smith’s Olde Bar Atlanta 4/30/05
10. “Greatest Story Ever Told”- Grateful Dead- Oakland Auditorium Arena 12/28/79

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“From The Sky”- Ancient Astronauts- We Are To Answer

“Reanimator”- Amon Tobin- Permutation

That stuff by Beth Orton was terrific.

Fiona Apple – Get Him Back
Robyn Hitchcock – A Skull, A Suitcase and A Long Red Bottle Of Wine
Dino Jr – How’d You Pin That One On Me?
Paul Rodgers & Band Of Gypsys – I Don’t live Today
U2 – Bloody Sunday Bloody Sunday

Duran Duran – Electric Barbarella ?
Death Cab – Title Track
New Pornos – Twin Cinema
Flaming Lips – Death Valley 69
The Clientele – Carnival on 7th St

1.) Perfection – Badfinger (Straight Up)
2.) Rave On – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (Uncle Charlie & This Dog Tedd)
3.) Boyfriend Wasted – Pansy Division (The Essential)
4.) Hoch, Hoch Der Kaiser! – Whit Cunliffe (Novelty Songs Crazy & Obscure 1914-1946)
5.) A Night Of A Thousand Furry Toys – Richard Wright (Broken China)
6.) Salty South – Indigo Girls (Poseidon & The Bitter Bug)
7.) The Phoenix Rises – Jessi Colter (Out Of The Ashes)
8.) Life’s A Gas T-Rex (Electric Warrior)
9.) I Heard It Through The Grapevine – Marvin Gaye (Motown 50th Anniversary)
10.) Chicago – Sufjan Stevens (Illinoise)

Bonus: Chemo Limo – Regina Spektor (Soviet Kitsch)

A set that just simply screams, Easter:

1. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered – Brad Mehldau Trio
2. PPA – Rodrigo y Gabriela
3. To Whom It May Concern – Tunji Oyelana & The Benders
4. Sajenio – Musafir
5. Allah Mazare – Niyaz
6. Bloomdido – Anatole Gerasimov
7. Don’t Rush the Dub – Scientist
8. Cheek to Cheek – Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers
9. How Come You Do Me Like You Do – Louis Armstrong
10. Get a Kick Out of You (Cinematic Orchestra remix) – Ella Fitzgerald
SPECIALEASTERBONUSCUT: If You Love Me (You’ll Sleep On The Wet Spot) – Asylum Street Spankers

If not Easter, then save for Saturnalia.

The Beth Orton link is dead but this ‘official’ one is working:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFZc4ax4tJs

I love Frightened Rabbit. The new CD (The Winter Of Mixed Drinks) isn’t as strong as the previous one (The Midnight Organ Fight), but it’s still a keeper. If you like them, you should also check out We Were Promised Jetpacks (also Scottish and also delicious). Local Natives are an even whiter Vampire Weekend.

Numbskull – Naked City
When We Two Parted – The Afghan Whigs
Piece By Piece – Fucked Up
Someone To Pull The Trigger – Matthew Sweet
Don’t Renege On Our Love – Richard & Linda Thompson
Picking Up The Signal – Son Volt
Outside The Trains – Gang Of Four
Ripchord – Rilo Kiley
Bleeding Powers – Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Cream Of Gold – Pavement

Eleven:
Dory Previn – Camera Obscura

1. Boogie Chillen – John Lee Hooker
2. Who The Cap Fit – Bob Marley
3. I Thought I Heard Buddy Bolden Say – Dr John
4. Walkin’ and Cryin’ – BB King
5. Viola Lee Blues – Cannon’s Jug Stompers
6. Putnam County – Tom Waits
7. Don’t Be Sad – Traffic
8. What’s a Girl to Do – Marcia Ball
9. Some White People Can Dance – Greg Fingers Taylor
10. Mr Tambourine Man – Roger McGuinn
Bonus: Good Man, Good Woman – Delbert McClinton

Devil’s Arcade – Bruce Springsteen
C’Est Pas Las Peine Brailler – Geno Delafose
You Cause As Much Sorrow – Sinead O’Connor
I Can’t Get Next To You – Al Green
I Want A Cure – Roseanne Cash

North Dakota – Lyle Lovett
To You I Bestow – Mundy / “Romeo + Juliet” S.T.
Party – Elmer Bernstein / “Far From Heaven” S.T.
Always & Forever – Luther Vandross
Gotta Keep The Funk Alive – J.P. Delaire

+ Hell – Squirrel Nut Zippers

I like the new Local Natives album and Frightened Rabbit’s new one is good, but nearly as good as their first “Midnight Organ Fight”. We Were Promised Jetpacks is similar to Frightened Rabbit and worth checking out. The Soft Pack I felt was rather pedestrian or just “meh” if pedestrian makes me sound too much like a smarmy asshole. The album reminded me of 1,000 other mediocre bands that played unmemorable music. For something not on your list, try Hjaltalin’s “Sleepdrunk Seasons”.

Ten random iPod tracks:

Otis Redding: “Mr Pitiful”
M. Smidak: MENDELSSOHN Variations Serieuses
Fink Along with MAD: “Her Dad’s Got Money Cha Cha Cha”
Michele Campanella: LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody #14
Music box: GOUNOD Jewel Song from Faust
Fred Rogers: “Propel, Propel, Propel Your Craft”
Richard Purvis: ROMBERG Serenade from The Student Prince
Original Cast of “Let’s Do It”: PORTER “It’s De-lovely”
anonymous midi: “Albatross” (after Fleetwood Mac)
Malcolm Proud: PURCELL Ground in Gamut from Suite 3

also
Jovanka Marville: FARNABY Loth to Depart from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book

The new Soft Pack album is a pretty good listen. The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night and the new Chinawoman album have been in heavy rotation here of late. Also.

Throwaway – Caesers – [Paper Tiger]
Sunday’s Best – Elvis Costello & The Attractions – [Armed Forces]
I Can’t See the Sun a Shinin’ Thru the Hair’s Perspective – The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black – [A National Healthcare]
e-sa-ya – eX-Girl – [Endangered Species]
Low Man – Alberta Cross – [The Thief and the Heartbreaker]
Iria todo bien – Los Peyotes – [Psychotic Reaction Deluxe]
Tetsu – Candi and the Strangers – [s/t]
Boplexity – Alex Chilton – [A Man Called Destruction]
Sunshower – Ume – [Sunshower EP]
Groovy Ruby – Johnny Moped – [Cycledelic]

Bonus track:

Spread the Virus – Cabaret Voltaire – [Red Mecca]

Peacebone – Animal Collective
Youth Decay – Sleater-Kinney
Dummy Up – Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention
Cinnamon Girl – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
I Lost It – Lucinda Williams
New Pony – The Dead Weather
Stranger To Himself – Sandy Denny
You Can’t Beat The House – Mark Knopfler
Too Long In The Wasteland – James McMurtry
Falling To Pieces – Faith No More
And: Do You Want My Job – Little Village

A Salty Dog – Procol Harem
Highland Aire – Lyle Mays
The Trick is To Keep Breathing – Garbage
Calmarie – Debbie Harry
Have A Little Faith – Michael Franti & Spearhead
All The Young Dudes – Mott The Hoople
Love My Way – The Psychedelic Furs
Amor de Loca Juventud – Buena Vista Social Club
Good For God – Harry Nilsson
Settle Satan - Pato Banton

Bonus that:
Don’t Worry Baby – Bryan Ferry

Liz Phair – “Soap Star Joe” (Exile in Guyville)
Funkadelic – “I’ll Stay” (Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On)
Big Star – “I’m In Love With A Girl” (Radio City)
Yo La Tengo – “Watch Out For Me Ronnie” (Popular Songs)
John Prine – “Souvenirs” (Diamonds In The Rough)
Bruce Springsteen – “Wild Billy’s Circus Story” (The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle)
Patsy Cline – “When My Dreamboat Comes Home” (Live at the Cimarron Ballroom)
Lee Hazlewood & Ann-Margret – “Break My Mind” (The Cowboy And The Lady)
They Might Be Giants – “The Guitar (The Lion Sleeps Tonight)” (Apollo 18)
XTC – “Senses Working Overtime” (English Settlement)

BONUS:
Patsy Cline – “Foolin Round” (The Ultimate Patsy Cline Collection)

Out of This World – The Tony Hatch Orchestra
I Fled – Gang of Four
Black Pearl – Sonny Charles & The Checkmates, Ltd.
Red Eye – Devo
Modernist Major General V1.1 – TradeMark G. & the Evolution Control Committee
Fizzy Peach – Twink
20th Century Boy – T. Rex
I Have A Friend – The Bran Flakes
DITTERSDORF: In the Taste Of Five Nations, IV. Francesco: Minuetto – Turco: Trio – Failoni Orchestra/Uwe Grodd
The Comedians – Elvis Costello & the Attractions

Frankly, Scarlett, I Don’t Give a Damn – Sparks
Dido’s Dement – The Evolution Control Committee
Lowdown [Bradford, 10/25/78] – Wire

I agree with SurlyDuff and foinsap. Frightened Rabbit’s new one is good but not up to their previous effort. We Were Promised Jetpacks is phenomenal. I would add is The Twilight Sad (all three of these are Scottish and on the same label — Fat Cat), who are dark and atmospheric but melodic. Also, another good new one is Let’s Wrestle. There full length debut (in the Court of Wrestling Let’s) was to be released on Merge Records on March 23, but looks like it might have been pushed back to June, although emusic has it for download now

I haven’t listened to much lately but Treadmill Trackstars are alright.

Eclecticism rulez OK here – impressive, you guys.
Haven’t had time to expand my music horizons much of late – but if you want something pretty different, TBogg, you might give a listen to MacUmba – also Scottish based, but with a kicker. Their stuff combines bagpipes and Scots material with Brazilian samba, and the result is amazing. They haven’t had a new album for several years but according to their website (www.macumba.com) a new one is trembling on the brink of availableness. I’ll be getting it!