I've been listening to Laurie Anderson's new album and I like "Only An Expert." It's one of her less subtle songs, but I think it's well done, and it manages to (mostly) continue to add new ideas and not be repetitive.
I learned recently that Labelle (featuring, yes, Patti Labelle) is the proto-Janelle Monae and is totally freaking awesome. But you all probably knew that already.
3: oh, yeah, Labelle was amazing. And those album covers!
Here's something I could find after looking on Youtube for like 1 minute
But I've been listening to the albums, which are super diverse and awesome.
1: I was looking for Laurie Anderson's United States Live and found it is not so readily available. Although I guess I could just buy the MP3 album, or one of you IP criminals would have a better suggestion. Also, I'm old.
From my forthcoming twice-yearly mix, Frederik's 1986.
There's a badger in it.
I am also compiling a Best Of Unfogged mix -- my favorite songs from your mixes. This might be a good challenge for everyone. OTOH feelings might be hurt.
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My mom recently sent me an e-mail (I had asked some family-origin questions) with this line: "Claire Cosette was born on a reservation in Canada 1880. She's the lady who shot the bear, using your great-grandfather (3 years old) as bait."
That line is cracking me up.
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7: It's on emusic, which requires a monthly subscription. I find it kinda worth it; while it contributes to my feeling of having too much music, it means that at least I'm paying someone for some of it, which is a nice balm to my IP criminal guilt.
Also if you get a subscription neb can recommend some stuff that will make you want to pull your eardrums out through your eyeballs. (And some good stuff. I just never got into Don Cherry.)
Did I recommend Don Cherry?
Let me recommend some Don Cherry that will definitely not make you want to pull your eardrums out through your eyeballs: DC + Bengt Berger, Bitter Funeral Beer.
Hot butter's version of popcorn was a
big hit. I remember it from a second grade dance.
It was a good slew of recs -- Henry Kaiser, Harry Taussig.
I was into Codona back in the non-sober days. And all other Walcott
Also, if you're into Gershon Kingsley and Moog records, by all means check out Mort Garson, particularly Plantasia, as well as The Sounds Of Tomorrow, which was the pre-Moog electronic side project of the guy behind (I believe) the Ronettes.
Oh and Delia Derbyshire and the BBC Radiophonic workshop, of course. But you knew that.
If you like Moogs you should listen to Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co.!
OH! And you should totally, totally listen to Tonto's Expanding Head Band.
MOTHER MALLARD'S PORTABLE MASTERPIECE CO.
"Adam WarRock" is also Eugene Ahn, the non-Chris Sims half of War Rocket Ajax, an entertaining comics podcast that I quite enjoy, albeit not to the extent of sending Twitter questions for their celebrity guests.
22: yeah I found the link via the ISB.
I should say I can't quite claim to find the song good, although I am a big fan of Ruckus Roboticus's solo work. It's more... something.
23: I feel slightly guilty about doing it, but I fast-forward through the War Rocket Ajax theme song from time to time.
I've never listened to the podcast. I'm not entirely sure why I read the ISB, since I don't read comics. Sims is awfully funny, though.
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Hey, so is Kung Fu Hustle just totally fucking insane all the way through? I'm starting to get that sense.
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25: It's pretty funny when it hits, tolerable when it misses. The devotion to '90s-'00s hiphop makes me feel old.
26: If by "insane" you mean "imaginative" and "charming" while also being "fun," then yes.
Elvis Costello's cover of Ship of Fools, the Grateful Dead one.
Halfway down here:
http://snuh.livejournal.com/209140.html
Irene Scruggs.
http://prewarblues.org/2010/04/married-man-blues-2-3/
26,28:That describes Shaolin Soccer
KFH added wisdom, meaning, and profundity.
I saw it in a theater without knowing what I was getting into. Insane and awesome.
10,11 Don Cherry is the Greatest Canadian.
More music to which I've been listening recently -- John Hartford.
7: I found a reasonable priced copy on ebay at some point. If you're willing to be patient one may turn up.
1: I like how the French subtitles for that video contained footnotes.
One of my birthday gifts from Kraab was the Chappelle Show DVDs. We just watched season one, episode two. Mos Def was the guest musician, and the clip was Dave driving him around while he rapped "Close Edge". Which is a good song, but mainly it made me realize it had been quite a while since I'd listened to "The Message". Yep, still awesome.
23, 25—I like the Incredible String Band, but I think that Clive's Original Band may be better.
Wait, I just listened to that Ira Glass song. Wow is that bad. I think that I non-ironically like ICP's "Miracles" better.
Currently listening to: John Wesley Harding's "Top of the Bottom", off his '09 album Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead.
I remember it from a second grade dance.
I kid in my second grade used to sing that song in class.
26: Yes, it is totally meaningless and childlike.
43: You mean that in a good way, right?