What are you listening to right now? Vol. 69

Uh Huh Her - PJ Harvey [2004]
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No Code - Pearl Jam [1996]
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The Wind - Warren Zevon [2003]
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Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello & the Attractions [1980]
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Blacklisted - Neko Case [2002]
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Azure d'Or - Renaissance [1979]
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Holy Moses -- Holy Moses (1971). Hippy-era rock from the unofficial house band of Woodstock. (The smalltown in NY, not the festival).

 

I rediscovered the randomize feature of Winamp and it turns out I used to like sea shanties 15 years ago. And I still do.



Lost at Sea - Bounding Main (2005)

 

I've heard it's quite a lovely town.

 

Some of Q*bert's Woodstock homies are on a few tracks on this one, IIRC:


Deserter's Songs -- Mercury Rev (1998)

 

Standard Coltrane - John Coltrane [1962]
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Bengali Bauls. . . at Big Pink -- Bengali Bauls (1968)

 

If we're going to stick with the Woodstock theme, here's something from this century.

 

Turin Brakes -- Invisible Storm (2018)

 

Check my latest "what are you reading" entry to see where these are coming from. I'm basically hitting things in the book I haven't heard before. While I do have gaps in my pop music memory* I have heard the stuff by that Dylan guy, and that one band whose name I need to look up. Oh, yeah: The Band**


*today while I was in my back-up coffeehouse preparing to teach, the lyrics of the song on the sound system caught my attention. I knew it was Moody Blues . . . But WTF! The Moody Blues were doing a cover of The Minuteman's song, Dr. Wu!

I figured it out, and after walking it off, got back to work.








**I kid.

 

Dammit.

********ing auto-correct.

Not Moody Blues. Steely Dan. Jeez.

 

In My Own Time -- Karen Dalton (1971)

 

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (1983)

 

I'm really loving the new Specials record, their first in 40 years!

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Wild Is the Wind - Nina Simone [1966]
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Last listen to my album of 2018 nominees before naming a winner:

Starting with one that won't win, because it is early Bonnie Raitt length--

 

Then the latest Roasnne---

 

Followed by the leader in the clubhouse:

 

And finally, the other major contender; it is a little rowdy for my 68 year old ears, but its awful good:

 

Liquid Tension Experiment



Tony Levin is a 70 year old monster Preying Mantis.