Entertainment For Lively Minds
Three in a row
Posted by adze thuggery on 22 November 2008 - 7:54pm.
Just choosing some music to play and found that I had three attractive but quite different choices sitting next to each other on the shelf. Anyone else looking for their own 'packet of three' would obviously have different choices but might also have a different filing structure for their music, as has been discussed many times in this parish. But here's my set of three in a row:
Steel Pulse
Steeleye Span
Steely Dan
Anyone else have such a varied threesome next to each other?
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S-pooky
Spirogyra
Stackridge
Stewart, Dave & Gaskin, Barbara
Before you ask, no Squeeze or Starr, Ringo and Stewart, Rod is next on the list.
Sticking with S
Southside Johnny
Spirit
Dusty Springfield
I notice this sort of thing sometimes
...and wonder if it makes me a bit deranged. It often happens because I like a bit of black metal and grind...
The Hold Steady
Holst
Horna
Liz Phair
Pig Destroyer
Pink Floyd
Miles Davis
Dead Can Dance
Dead Raven Choir
That kind of thing...
There is good and bad in every record collection
I file my music in a succession of cardboard boxes, more or less in the order in which I bought it.
In box #106 I find:
Twinemen – Twinemen (sax-driven alternative rock)
Laura Nyro and Labelle – Gonna Take a Miracle (beautifully harmonised tribute to doo wop and early R&B)
Tomahawk – Mit Gas (spiteful and mean-spirited collection of songs courtesy of Mike Patton)
living together in perfect harmony,
side by side in my collection of CDs,
oh Lord, why can’t we?
3 Piles of CDs in my kitchen
Top of each pile:
Astral Weeks/Van Morrison
Words Of Love/Buddy Holly
Songbook-Singles Vol. 1/Super Furry Animals
All sounds a bit Harry Hill to me...
If fact I'm sure he actually used to say:
'Steeleye Span
Steely Dan
You've got to have a system, haven't you'
In his live set but I may just be making it up because it sounds like something he would say.
'Pulp,
Oasis,
Echobelly,
Blur.
There the four main indie bands aren't they.'
Does any of this mean anything to anyone else or am I all alone at 10 to 1 on a Saturday night?
Bryan Adams
Ryan Adams.
You have to be SO careful.
Then there are pairs of bands who are somehow analogues of each other. For instance, I always felt UB40 were the Status Quo of reggae.
If only
UB40 were that exciting.
How about 5 from the glove compartment?
Unable to do this exercise at present, as at work, but how about the random selection gracing my daily 40-80 minute commutes twice a day. In a tribute to Hunter S Thompsons infamous bag of drugs in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I have a big bag of CDs stashed behind the seat of my car, all unheard, with relocation, after listening, to the glove box until I get around to filing. But, having had a bit of a spree, recently, courtesy Amazon, Sainsburys in Castle Vale(!), e music, an initial foray into Play.com and Henrys records of Brton on Trent, the bag, and hence glove box, are quite full. (I suspect my response to the credit crunch is, like an emptying petrol tank, to squirt out random large jets of fuel, before finally going dead. A power splurge if you will). Anyhow, hows this for assorted, evn if nowt from this century:
1. Wrong End of the Race/Any Trouble. Didn't think this still available, the later period post Stiff, with revisions of old and a lot of new, styles as well as songs. And RT on guest guitar on several tracks. Found thru' Play.com, as advertising on hoardings near you. Cheap, free delivery and quick. Also doing downloads and seeming capable of sneaking well up onto the heels of amazon, who of course, in the UK, do not. (Also downloaded the live version of Echoes from Gilmours Live in Gdansk for 70p. I'll bet i-tunes have that as "album only")
2. Anthology/Bobby "Blue" Bland. I've had a few songs on mp3 for some time, but felt it time to get something more definitive. Fabulous. I think Mrs Path is buying me Ginger Twats tribute for Xmas, my request, to be fair, so it is necessary research, at least!
3. Pulling Out the Stops/The best of Jimmy McGriff. Superlative B3 blues'n'rhythm.
4. Bobby Charles. Following recommendations on this site. Excellent choogly swamprock, with a very agreeable vocal timbre. Did someone say the Band on backing duties? Certainly sounds as if Garth Hudson had a fair bit to do with it.
5. GreatSpeckled Bird. A mixed bag, if I'm honest, as the vocal stylisations of the Tysons are a bit 60s folk boom, all quaver and tremolo, bearable more in Sylvia Tysons Baez meets Buffy St Marie than Ians Peter and Paul (but not Mary). Canuck country rock from the 60s. Pre-NRPS Buddy Cage on steel!
What's in your car?