Author: mystro2b

Europa and The Pirate Twins by Thomas Dolby

You tell me what this song is about.

Hot Rod Lincoln by The Twangbangers Feat. Bill Kirchen, Redd Vokaert

Warning: super nerdy guitar stuff ahead. If you don’t know who Bill Kirchen is, he is famous for making a Telecaster sing, snap, crackle and pop in unimaginable ways.

Guitarists will especially love the updated live version of “Hot Rod Lincoln,” on which Bill revisits his Commander Cody days; car and driver meet everyone from Johnny Cash to the Beatles to Jaco Pastorius to Jimi Hendrix. And, of course, you get a musical quote to go along with each pass! Really, really fun, and a fantastic display of musicianship by the entire band.

https://www.vintageguitar.com/2339/the-twangbangers-26-days-on-the-road/

Eple by Röyksopp

I can’t pronounce their name, but I love this Norwegian electronic duo.

Their name Röyksopp, derived from Norwegian “røyksopp”, translates into English as “puffball” or “mushroom cloud”. This type of mushroom is notable for the misty cloud created when it releases its spores.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/15596-R%C3%B6yksopp

Flagpole Sitta by Harvey Danger

Another Seattle based band with an angsty pop song full of catchy hooks and sing along goodness, and my favorite set of lyrics-
Been around the world and found
That only stupid people are breeding
The cretins cloning and feeding
And I don’t even own a TV

Boss Of Me (Theme From Malcolm in The Middle) by They Might Be Giants

So many times in my life, and just today in fact, I wish I had this ready to go on my phone, cued to the chorus, so I could hold it up at just the right time in a meeting and press play.

Can’t Stand Losing You by The Police.

Is there a cooler trio of drums, bass and guitar from the 80s that you can think of? No there isn’t. Don’t even tell me. And if I have contradicted this statement in a previous or later post I DON’T CARE. This is the music of my hormonal youth.

Aeroplane Blues by The Black Keys.

More guitar distortion voodoo that I love. Just a reminder: it’s only two guys making all that glorious noise.

Angie by Simon and Garfunkel.

Some day I’ll learn how to play this.

“Anji” (or “Angi“, “Angie” or “On gee“) is an acoustic fingerstyle guitar piece composed and recorded by noted folk guitarist Davy Graham in 1961 and originally released as part of his EP debut 3/4 AD.^[1] The piece is one of the most well-known acoustic blues-folk guitar pieces ever composed, with many notable artists covering it, such as Bert Jansch (included on his first, eponymous album in 1965, renamed as “Angie”^[2]), John Renbourn, Lillebjørn Nilsen, Paul Simon (on the Simon & Garfunkel album Sounds of Silence^[3]), and Harry Sacksioni (on his Optima Forma – Live album).

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The Globe by Big Audio Dynamite II.

This song and the entire album was new at the time and I love it’s quirky mix of dubbed and live material. Probably a love or hate type thing for people.

There’s little to explore after the initial pop perfection, and worse, it’s such an artifact now, so 1991 it reeks of fannypacks, wraparound shades, and neon armbands (especially “When the Time Comes”). Outside of the singles, there’s little to recommend, although the coke-fueled march “Can’t Wait/Live” is pretty engaging, and the whole thing is an undeniably fun summer vacation sort of record. Just not quite the BAD that I love.

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Violin Phase by Steve Reich.

When I was an undergrad at USC, I worked part-time in the music library. At the time, the music library was located on the third floor of the main library . We would close a couple of hours before the main library, securing the big wooden doors that separated the music collection from the rest of the building. Part of this collection included thousands of albums. After cleaning up, we would often get a stack of albums, plug in some headphones, turn off the lights and listen in the dark. This track is one of the longest I will post, but is worth the listen, especially when the unison line starts to get out of phase (see the graphic below). It’s like waiting in your car at a traffic stop with your turn signal on, and you notice that your signal is in perfect sync with the blinking turn signal of the car in front of you. Mesmerized by the rhythmic precision, slowly the synchrony starts to fall apart as your click begins to drift apart from the blinking in front of you. Then a honk of the horn behind you breaks you out of your reverie.

This track is from a you a youtube video by dancer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker.