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Ipod Alphabet Roulette
Anyone want to play this game? It’s based on the fact that the Songs section of your ipod are in alphabetical order. Each person picks a letter in turn, posts the first song of that letter in their Song list, with a youtube link if possible and writes a bit about it, if they feel the urge. They also give their opinion of the song the last person has posted, whether they like it etc
So I’ll start by posting the first of my A’s – Abracadabra by Judee Sill. The next person can give their opinion of it, and post the first of their B’s, the next person C and so on. If we manage to get through the alphabet – X might be a bit tricky – we could always start again!. The’s and a’s are allowed as Apple lists them that way, e.g the first of my C’s is The Calculation.
Abracadabra is maybe not the finest song of Judee’s – that honour goes to The Kiss, but it is indicative of her style. You would never think she was a drug addicted ex-armed robber from the churchy choral arrangements and her sweet voice, though the lyrics do give a clue to her darker struggles.
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Bombs Over Baghdad-Outkast
Nothing before B-O ????!?!!?
No BA's, BE's, BI's or BL's??????? That is either a) really astonishing, or b) you've got bugger all on yer 'pod.
I Think It's Because
it's B.O.B so it must be counting it as just a B
Castles In The Snow - Twin Shadow
Highly recommend his album.
"Dadje Von O Von Non" by Gnonnas Pedro et ses Dadjes
From the Legends of Benin compilation:
http://analogafrica.blogspot.com/2009/03/analog-africa-no5-legends-of-be...
Like many other members of The Massive, I find I've tired of pale British and American youths pouring out what passes for their heart and soul, and am instead looking to other countries and/or other times to recapture that sense of "real music".
E-Coli
by Throbbing Gristle.
I have nothing to add except my apologies.
Fable of the Wings
By Brass Monkey.
http://youtu.be/qZZNWSib1_Y
Long spoken introduction by Martin Carthy in this version.
Godspeed
Jenny Lewis
Yay!
Yay!
He's a Liquid by John
He's a Liquid by John Foxx
Still nursing fond memories of seeing him at the Troxy earlier this year...
Tuuuuune!
Saw him play this a couple of years ago, he was ace. He's touring with his new band The Maths in autumn, expect a stage full of vintage analogue synths and drum machines. Should be good
How much "playing" is involved in music like this
I bought a double CD of Metamatic a couple of weeks ago as it was only £4 in HMV and I remembered liking Underpass.
I was a full on NWOBHM fan in 1980/81 and thought I may have dismissed other music on my blinkered state.
So I bought the album, have watched the linked video above.
And I was right.
It is not for me. I see no value musically in it.
I'll Fly Away
Gillian Welch & Alison Krauss
J'ai Deux Amours
by Madelenie Peyroux
Infinitely more refined than my first "H" song, which I would have been in place to add if I hadn't spent so long long faffing around trying to establish the correct spelling: Liz Phair's "H.W.C.".
Kaleidoscope-Procol Harum
In the spirit of the O P I'll comment on that
It's exactly the kind of music I never listen to. I would be interested in investigating this area with a bit of helpful direction. In the case of this particular band I find the keyboard element overwhelming (is that one of the people who formed ELP?).
Here's my first L
(L.A. by The Fall)
L'Assassinat De Carala - Miles Davis
I didn't think I'd find anything on YouTube for this but here's something
From Miles' 1958 soundtrack for the French movie, Ascenseur pour l'echafaud. Miles loved France (and Europe generally) where he was much loved. This features his eerily understated trumpet over a murder scene. Phil Johnson, a renowned Jazz critic descibed it as 'the loneliest trumpet you'll ever hear.'
It was part of a wave of movie scores by Jazz greats in the late 50s and features muscicians not members of his band at the time, just ones who happened to be available at a moment's notice.
Moody
M'Bife by Amadou and Mariam
Just a happy happy tune...
N. O. by Lambchop
I need to relisten to this album (What another man spills). Wagner says "this is not poetry", but it is.
p-machinery
Popaganda
a neat double P
Ah...
...that wasn't N and O, was it.
So it's
Oh Caroline, Matching Mole
So it's "Q" now?
I'm giving you the full 12 inches
R U Still In 2 It
By Mogwai. Can't really say too much about this, since much as I love Mogwai, they cover a pretty narrow soundscape, This is more towards the mellow end of their repertoire, and actually rather pretty. Got two versions of it, too.
Saturn
by John Coltrane (from Interstellar Space). The album is just Coltrane and Rashied Ali.
It's a magnificent thing, I love later Coltrane massively - but not all the time. When it hits the spot, it HITS THE SPOT.
Arrrgh
You posted this while I was writing!
S.C.O - John Scofield and Pat Metheney
This is from a one off duo album - "I can see your house from here" - from two very different jazz guitarists, Scofield's marginally more conventional but endlessly creative soloing contrasting beautifully with Metheney's more distinctive voice. A word too for the band, of whom I know nothing. Suffice to say there's a 12 bar bass/drum break which is grooving. Note also their great and different approaches to chord comping. Good thread - it's promped me to listen to the rest of the album. One man's great players blowing is another man's pointless noodling of course.
The Beautiful South- The Table
From 'Quench'
Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Tow - Talking Heads
Bros Alert!
Don't worry, it's...
Vabrereki - The Four Brothers, from the album 'Bros'.
See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Brothers_(band)
Listen: [from the same album]
http://youtu.be/453EFya8wBo
Wade in the Water
Thanks so much for posting, everybody. Been really great to have a flick through the Massive's collective ipod and has introduced me to a lot of fantastic songs. There's been an incredibly wide range from jazz, folk, prog rock, world, electronic, country, hiphop - and whatever category Throbbing Gristle is in. Maybe it's in a league of its own.
The only one I have on my ipod too is I'll Fly Away by Gillian Welch and Alison Krauss but some of yours will end up there too - particularly liked the songs from Twin Shadow, Jenny Lewis, Kaleidoscope, Lambchop, Amadou and Mariam, Mogwai and Matching Mole.
Have added my W, a rootsy bluesy Gospel song Wade in the Water by Ella Jenkins - am intrigued if anyone can come up with an X and we could then probably complete the alphabet!
X
X Hits The The Spot - Michael Head & The Strands
That's a cool X song
The only one I could think of was Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John, which I didn't think anyone would admit to, even if they had it.
Now all we need is Y and Z, anyone in a completist mood?
Yep. That Strands album is ace.
I don't know anyone who has it that doesn't love it. This is my first y
(Gruff Rhys, Y Gwybodusion)
Not one of Gruff's best.
Zap - Eric johnson
A classic piece of 80s widdle rock. Look at his massive skinny fingers leaping around the neck like the legs of decapitated ballet dancers!
Æ Veit Da Faen Æ - Wannskrækk
Norwegian has three more vowels. Æ is pronounced like the a in bad.
Æ Veit Da Faen Æ = I Don't Fucking Know, Wannskrækk = Aquaphobia.
They started out as a punk band, but are now among Norwegian rock's elder statesmen. They're now called DumDum Boys and were massive from about 87-93.
That's interesting
A to Z and a Norwegian Vowel as well! That was more than I expected, thanks guys.
Bonus tracks: Ø and Å
Øl (Beer)- Jokke Og Valentinerne
Å Jesus (Oh Jesus)- Raga Rockers
Cant' find it on Youtube so here's Noen Å Hate (Someone To Hate) instead.