Thursday, January 25, 2018
Thursday, December 28, 2017
MA-126 - 45s & Favorites, Disc 19
For our
last post of 2017, and our final compilation in this month of sharing and
reminiscence, here’s another bunch of my mostest favoritest songs ever.
01 - Do You Remember - Long Tall Ernie and
the Shakers - 1977 (4:34)
02 - You're So Strange - The Zippers - 1977 (2:46)
03 - The Loneliest Man in the World
- The
Tourists - 1979 (4:06)
04 - Assassin - Intimate Obsessions -
1985 (4:24)
05 - Chinese Graffiti - Blue Peter - 1982 (3:32)
06 - Bus Full of Nuns - Dan Barr - 1983 (3:37)
07 - Change Partners - Stephen Stills - 1971 (3:12)
08 - 5-7-0-5 - City Boy - 1978 (3:11)
09 - I'm Weird - The M 80's - 1979 (3:12)
10 - It Was the Whiskey Talkin' (Not
Me) - Jerry
Lee Lewis - 1990 (3:40)
11 - Mushmind - Jet - 1979 (2:55)
12 - I Wanna Be with You - The Raspberries - 1972 (3:00)
13 - Nostalgia - Penetration - 1978 (3:44)
14 - My Brain Hurts - Fine Art - 1978 (3:33)
15 - Wot a Wally - Sharon - 1983 (2:50)
16 - Where's Captain Kirk - Spizzenergi - 1979 (2:17)
17 - I Love Playin' with Fire - The Runaways - 1977 (3:18)
18 - Connection - Elastica - 1994 (2:19)
19 - One Track Mind - The Knickerbockers - 1964 (2:20)
20 - Weight of the World - Ringo Starr - 1992 (3:52)
21 - Little Miss Proper - Susan Rhee and the
Orientals - 1983 (4:05)
22 - Only Death Is Fatal - Garbo's Celluloid
Heroes - 1978 (2:37)
23 - Tell That Girl to Shut Up - Holly and the
Italians - 1979 (3:01)
24 - Rock and Roll Birthday - The Beatles - VM - 2009 (2:50)
Our first
track is frankly nostalgic, a fun and cheesy hark-back to some of the biggest
music legends (regardless of musical quality).
Track 8 is
one in a long line of phone-call songs.
Track 9, of
course, could be the theme song of many.
Track 10
was recorded for an album tied into the 1990 Dick Tracy film. Not only fun, it sounds awfully close to the
bone when you consider the artist.
Track 17
could be a teen anthem for half the western world.
And the
final track is another stupendously fall-down-great cut from VM of the Beatles
Remixers group. Ka-WHAM! Talk about going out with a bang! Happy New Year!
... Happy New Year! We're taking the month of January off. See you back here on Monday, February 5th, 2018!
Thursday, December 21, 2017
D-Day Is Here! MA-118 – ’80s Armageddon
As
everybody knows, a few years ago there was another one of those dumb flurriesof worry that the world would end -- this time is was supposed to be on
December 21, 2012.
Now,
something momentous DID happen on that date -- a grandson was born to us.
Chicken
Little-like cluckings and hysteria about impending doom have always been with
us, even in fiction ... vide the Monster Shouter in Stephen King's The Stand,
or Rorschach's secret identity in Watchmen.
This week
our compilation is not only from the 1980s, but songs from the 1980s of a
certain pessimistic slant. These
performers had a lot of nuclear angst.
What do
creative people write and sing about when they’re afraid the End Is Near? They
perform songs about the fear that humanity is just about ready to “Bite the Wax
Tadpole.” WAIT, that didn’t mean
doomsday, just a bottle of Coke.
Anyway, here are the songs.
01 - Political Games - Day After 1984 (3:03)
02 - 1985 - Out of Data 1985 (3:13)
03 - Drop the Bomb - 24 Hours 1981 (1:39)
04 - Instant Annihilation - Stereo-Types 1986 (3:43)
05 - Wardance - Art Interface 1984 (4:27)
06 - Atomic War - Leo Keling 1980 (3:04)
07 - Ask - The Smiths 1986 (3:07)
08 - This Mourning - Chalk Circle 1987 (3:32)
09 - Atomic Age - Elli & Jacno 1981 (4:02)
10 - This Is Not a Test - Christmas 1989 (3:07)
11 - Chernobyl Baby - Baby Amphetamine 1987 (2:49)
12 - We Got the Bomb - The Conservatives 1983 (2:55)
13 - Beat the Bomb - Alex Space 1981 (3:10)
14 - Love Missile F-11 (single version) - Sigue Sigue Sputnik 1986 (3:45)
15 - Humatomic Energy - Slickaphonics 1985 (4:01)
16 - Gonna Put My Face on a Nuclear
Bomb - Mojo
Nixon and Kid Roper 1986 (2:36)
17 - Hydrogenic - Bohemia 1981 (3:10)
18 - Images of Fire - Fatal Charm 1986 (4:11)
19 - Watch the Skies Go Red - Forever 19 1985 (3:59)
20 - She's a Nuclear Bomb - The Dull 1986 (4:30)
21 - Atomic City - Plastic Money 1984 (3:19)
22 - Z-Bomb - The Nuclear
Regulatory Commission 1980 (3:35)
23 - Isotope Tan - Transport 1982 (3:14)
Despite the
mostly pessimistic viewpoint, these are some *ahem* KILLER songs (get
it?). Hope you can dig ’em!
See you
back here next Thursday, friends, with perhaps a more cheerful outlook ...
Monday, December 18, 2017
LIFE Treasury of Christmas Music
The Glory of Christmas
01 - Prelude: Joy to the World 0:32
02 - Jerusalem Gaude 1:21
03 - The Angel Gabriel 1:11
04 - Rocking Carol 1:57
05 - Angels We Have Heard on High 2:31
06 - The Carol of the Bagpipers 2:20
07 - The Golden Carol of the Three Wise Men 1:50
08 - Joy To The World 1:46
The Pageantry of Christmas
09 - Prelude: Adeste Fidelis 0:51
10 - Hodie Christus Natus Est 0:49
11 - The Boar's Head Carol 1:35
12 - Coventry Carol 2:31
13 - Huron Indian Carol 1:41
14 - Masters in the Hall 1:57
15 - God Rest You Merry 1:09
The Merriment of Christmas
16 - Deck the Halls 1:12
17 - Here We Come A-Wassailing 1:28
18 - Patapan 1:01
19 - Postlude: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 0:46
LIFE Treasury of Christmas Music
See you on Thursday for a new compilation.
Thursday, December 14, 2017
MA-106 – Uppin’ Atom!
Welcome back to the month of comp-sharing. This week we’ve got another amalgamation of atomic angst, from all camps of popular music. The tracklist , in chronological order, extends from the beginning of the 1950s to the Double-Oughts.
01 - Got My Call Card - LB Lawson and James Scott Jr 1951 (3:27)
02 - Uranium Miner’s Boogie - Riley Walker and His Rockin-R-Rangers 1954 (2:53)
03 - Atomic Bounce - Johnny Latorre and the Rhythm Rockets 1955 (2:31)
04 - The Merry Minuet - Bud & Travis 1960 (1:53)
05 - Overseas Blues - Memphis Willie Borum 1961 (3:10)
06 - It's Good News Week - Hedgehoppers Anonymous 1965 (2:04)
07 - Thirteen Women - The Renegades 1966 (3:28)
08 - The World Beyond - Bobby Goldsboro 1968 (2:17)
09 - Fireside Favourite - Fad Gadget 1980 (4:22)
10 - Man at C&A - The Specials 1980 (3:35)
11 - Yes to the Neutron Bomb - The Moderates 1980 (4:15)
12 - Final Day - Young Marble Giants 1980 (1:40)
13 - Last Rockers - Vice Squad 1981 (4:16)
14 - Our Condition - FK9 1981 (2:38)
15 - Back in 1984 - Cerebral Hemorrhage 1984 (4:58)
16 - Pictures - Atoms for Peace 1985 (3:44)
17 - Atom Drum Bop - The Three Johns 1986 (4:10)
18 - Yellow, Black and Rectangular - Negativland 1987 (2:14)
19 - Discussing Missile Size - Dada 1988 (2:51)
20 - Symbols of Our Fear - Rage 1988 (3:31)
21 - We're So Small - The Epoxies 2002 (2:41)
22 - Nuclear War (On the Dance Floor) - Electric Six 2003 (1:16)
23 - Safe - M83 2004 (4:12)
24 - Miss Atomic Bomb - The Killers 2012 (4:49)
Have a fine week, see you back here next Thursday for another comp!
Monday, December 11, 2017
Happy Birthday Hector Berlioz!
Yup, the composer of our favorite emotional, overwrought masterpiece, the Symphonie Fantastique, was born on December 11th, 1803.
In celebration, let's share a wonderful piano transcription of that amazing, creepy work.
Symphonie Fantastique -- Piano Transcription
See you on Thursday for a new compilation!
In celebration, let's share a wonderful piano transcription of that amazing, creepy work.
Symphonie Fantastique -- Piano Transcription
See you on Thursday for a new compilation!
Thursday, December 7, 2017
MA-89 - It Extruded from the 1980s
Here’s
another compilation of some of my favorite songs from that wacky-n-wonderful
musical time, the 1980s, when MTV and my children were conceived. Here’s the tracklist:
01. I Need That Record - The Tweeds (3:20) 1980
02. Chinese I's (Here Come
the Minutemen) - Venetians (3:49)
1983
03. Vaguely Human - Flesh for
Lulu (3:25) 1985
04. Forever Young - Alphaville (3:47) 1984
05. Equal/Equality - The
Parachute Club (5:02) 1984
06. Cathode Mamma - Krisma (3:15) 1980
07. Flatland - November
Group (2:49) 1982
08. Room That Echoes - Peking Man (3:51) 1986
09. Person to Person - The Signals (2:44) 1984
10. 1,000 Gene Autrys - Scattered
Order (4:36) 1985
11. Study Up! - Mechanical
Servants (3:42) 1980
12. Kids In America - Kim Wilde (3:29) 1981
13. There Was a Time - One to One (3:19) 1986
14. I Don't Wanna Die - The 4-Skins (3:13) 1982
15. Pac-Man Fever - Buckner and
Garcia (3:55) 1981
16. Time to Get Up - Los
Microwaves (3:04) 1981
17. You Pull Me Down - The
Stabilizers (4:04) 1986
18. Cry Boy Cry - Blue Zoo (4:23) 1982
19. Did You Ever - The Cichlids
(2:18) 1980
20. Don't Call Me Baby - Voice of the
Beehive (3:07) 1988
21. All the Time in the
World - The
Crooks (3:03) 1980
22. C·30 C·60 C·90 Go! - Bow Wow Wow (3:03) 1980
So many wonderful songs ...
Track 3 ... Don’t wake up that thing in the room, it’s only
... vaguely .. human ...
Track 5 ... Another anthem for the world which should
be. I wanna live equal and equally!
Track 13 ... Something in the progression, or singer’s
voice, something is so moving, to this nostalgic cat.
Track 15 ... of course, this was notorious and inescapable
... but so catchy and sort-of witty, like the best cash-ins.
Track 16 ... My favorite part is in the fadeout ... “If you
wanted me to get up, why did you let me go to sleep?”
Track 22 ... The debut single from Bow Wow Wow. Its subject: the scandal of home taping. It was released in July, 1980, as the world’s
first cassette single. According to one
blog post, “The B-Side of the single was blank, presumably so the fan who
bought it could tape any other song they wanted onto it. Their label EMI
weren’t too pleased about the song’s subject matter.” It’s kind of surprising that, given the
controversy it stirred at the time, this song has only been sampled once, according to Who
Sampled Who, in 2009 by White Rabbits.
Another
reminiscence about this song may be found here.
Well,
that’s it for this week, kiddies. See
you back here next Thursday, for another instalment in this Yuletide season of
compilation-sharing!
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