Miaow - Belle Vue

Moments of harmelodic interest at 1:45 and ff. Mining a sophisto-amateur seam similar as this.

Ray Davies - Voices In The Dark

Daddy likes the change at 0:46, 1:13, etc.

I keep wanting there to be a bar of 2/4 at 1:49, 2:58, etc. Maybe I'll do an edit.

Grateful thanks to Wombletunes for the peel-off.

Deux - Everybody's Night

This is available for purchase here and here, so I took the link down by choice, but everyone should be sure to hear the delightfully anti-social synth work at 2:28.

David Bowie and Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America

Sha la la la la.

Emmett presents: "The Waiting Is The Hardest Part"
Spring-Summer Megamix 2010

Face A
Grandstand - Soul Stage Orchestra
Hilly Fields (1892) - Nick Nicely
Just For Me - Manfred Mann
Skyline - Norman Greenbaum
Zoo Gang - Paul McCartney
The John Scene - Tigers On Vaseline

Face B
Morpha Too (rough mix) - Big Star
You Were So Warm - Dwight Twilley Band
Looking For The Magic - Dwight Twilley Band
Cantata Per Maryam - Piero Umiliani
Like We Were Before - Song
The Mess (live) - Wings

Face C
DK 50-80 - Otway & Barrett
Towering Inferno - The Green Arrows
Space (excerpt) - Georges Rodi
Magic - Unknown Artist
Strangers From The Light - Baltinore
Cosmic Surfin' - Haruomi Hosono

Face D
Brodovi - VIA Talas
Summertime City - Mike Batt with The New Edition
(Like A) Locomotion - Leftside
Cardboard Lamb - Crash Course In Science
Under Your Thumb - Godley & Creme
Everyday - William Onyeabor

Face E
Doot Doot (extended version) - Freur
C'est Fab - Nancy Sesay & The Melodaires
Ain't You - Kleenex
Marcy - Norman Greenbaum
Petrol Flowin - Yan d'Ys
Honey In The Rock - Blind Mamie Forehand

zip file with all 30 songs, plus m3u

This megamix is dedicated to my son Noah, born the day after this was posted!

Emmett presents: Winter-Harvest

side one
Zmirneikos Balos - Maria Papagika
The Woman Of Our Day - Svanfridur
Pastels - Keith Cross & Peter Ross
Sidewalk Cafe - Todd Rundgren
Nice Age - Yellow Magic Orchestra

side two
Trois Gymnopedies (First Movement) - Gary Numan
I Can't Leave It Alone - Tony Wilson
Jalousie - Amon Düül II
Da Guadeloop (Prins Thomas edit) - Amon Düül II
Invitation - Earth and Fire

side three
Perspective - Yellow Magic Orchestra
He Needs Me - Shelley Duvall
Song Of A Sinner - Top Drawer
Hedi's Head - Kleenex
Groove On Down - Dunn Pearson, Jr.

side four
El Condor Pasa - Esther Ofarim
Gnostic Serenade - Esther Ofarim
Superlady - Jeff Phelps
You And I, Part II - Fleetwood Mac
Just Visiting - Lynsey de Paul

Get 'em all in one zip file, now with m3u file included!

Imagine if Mark E. Smith were Santa Claus.
O.K., let's not.

The Fall: L.A.

emmett's october playlist



Le Nozze Di Figaro (Overture) - Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Wind - Sons Of The Pioneers
Holiday On Saturn - Del Kent
Liquidation - Ernest Ranglin
Georgia On My Mind - Bob Summers Revival
Lazy Bones - Bob Summers Revival
No More White Horses - T2
Blue Boots - Eric Donaldson
Blue Boot - Eric Donaldson
Just Wanna See His Face - Rolling Stones
Be Thou By My Side - The Honeybus
Life And Death In G & A - Chairmen Of The Board
Give It Up - Billy Nicholls
I Need More - Pat Thomas & Marijata
Fantastic Man - William Onyeabor
Parigi - Paolo Conte
Pilotes - Performance
Comin' At Ya - Pyramid Plus
The Deep - Eye To Eye
Cherry-Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
Everything Flows - Saint Etienne

download the whole shebang as a zip file

Dire Straits: Walk of Life

Remember how we all bought this tape in Caldor's and couldn't wait to wrestle it from its cumbersome medieval plastic packaging?

Good times.

The Replacements: Bastards of Young

Big B posted "Swinging Party" about a year ago, and in the comments I alluded to this, my favorite song off of Tim. Now, almost a year later, I've gotten around to posting it. Touching on disappointment, income taxes, alienation, and sharecropping, this song has it all.

The Power Station - Some Like It Hot

One of the quintessential Tedward jams. This one got my in-laws dancing at a recent family Christmas gathering, and moved them to declare it their "favorite song" (true story). Produced by Bernard Edwards. Surprising key change from the intro to the verse at 0:32.

Some like it hot but you can't tell how hot till you try.

Ruth - Mots

Mike introduced me to Ruth with this post. Now, two years and one day later, she or they make her or their triumphant return to these pages.

Taken from the 2008 CD reissue of Polaroïd/Roman/Photo, on Infrastition Records.

The Replacements: Swinging Party [1985]

Philip Glass (composer):
Satyagraha - Act I, Scene 1: The Kuru Field of Justice
Satyagraha - Act III, New Castle March, 1913 (final movement)

New York City Opera, 1985.

Commissioned in 1979 by the City of Rotterdam, Satyagraha premiered in Rotterdam on September 5, 1980. It made its Metropolitan Opera premier on Friday night. It's immensely beautiful. If you are in New York I would recommend seeing it before the season is over.

Sung in Sanskrit.

Big Audio Dynamite: Medicine Show

Off the first post-Clash Mick Jones record, by Big Audio Dynamite. Great wri-thum riff by Mick, and it also combines with clips from Clint's spaghetti westerns with Leone. Mick is very cool, by the way. I hopped onstage at an NYC show and he waved off the bouncer and let me sing chorus with him.

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Barrington Levy: Here I Come [1985]

My favourite part: when the beat kicks back in two bars "early" at the 2:26 mark.

Robert Palmer: Riptide [1985]
Robert Palmer: I Didn't Mean To Turn You On [1985]

Palmer took a plunge to find the wonderful Riptide, which was composed by the songwriting team of Walter Donaldson and Gus Kahn. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On was composed by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.

I suggest listening to I Didn't Mean To Turn You On immediately after Riptide ends. Riptide makes a nice intro to the light funk of I Didn't Mean To Turn You On.

Buy Riptide here.

T La Rock & Jazzy Jay: It's Yours [1984]
The Latin Rascals: It's Yours (megamix) [1985?]
The Latin Rascals: 98.7 KISS Mastermix Dance Party [March 16, 1985]

"People of the universe, this is yours." One of the hottest early rap records. Dig the minimalism, and note how DJ Jazzy Jay lives up to his moniker during the scratch break at the 1:03 mark.

From about 1984 to 1986 I listened to the 98.7 KISS and 107.5 WBLS Mastermix Dance Parties religiously, every Friday and Saturday night. The DJ on KISS was usually either DJ Red Alert or DJ Chuck Chillout, but then one night I flipped on the radio and heard the Latin Rascals. My brain exploded. These guys were doing something that sounded unreal, like science fiction. Then we found out it was done with reel-to-reel tape editing (!)

"It's Yours (megamix)" is actually an excerpt from a tape of one of the Rascals' broadcasts on KISS, probably from '85. The basic song sequence is:
Fat Boys: Human Beat Box>Fantasy 3: It's Your Rock>T La Rock: It's Yours>Kurtis Blow: A.J.

The "Mastermix Dance Party" is about 45 minutes from a tape of another Rascals show on 98.7, including MCA & Burzootie: "Drum Machine" and Malcolm McClaren: "Hobo Scratch", among many other highlights.

Here are the credits on the back of the 12" of It's Yours:

T La Rock--vocals
Jazzy Jay--turntables

Vocals written by Special K, T La Rock
Beats programmed by Rick Rubin
Produced by Rick Rubin, a S.U.R.E. Shot Mix
Co-produced by Special K, Jazzy Jay
Edited by Weems
Cover art by Rick Rubin

Special thanks to: Ed Bahlman, Africa Bambaataa, Bobby Davis

Def Jam Recordings, 5 University Pl.
New York, N.Y. 10003, (212) 420-8666

and on the runout groove is etched:

Herbie Jr. (smiley face)(heart with arrow through it) Angie
"SURE DJ's MAKE IT FUNKY"

The Art Of Noise:
Moments In Love (12" beaten version) [1985]
Moments In Love (original version) [1983]

This is fantastic. As the bio of Art Of Noise on discogs.com says, "Moments In Love anticipated an entire genre -- chillout." The song worked very well yesterday as I was riding on a bus through Central Park and then past glamourous Madison Avenue shop windows.

Both long and "short" versions have their pros and cons, and both should be heard.

Buy some Art Of Noise CDs.

Ruth: Polaroïd/Roman/Photo [1985]

The Parisian quartet might have been somewhat popular when I was a young kid living in Paris, but I didn't know them until I heard them on WNYU two or three years ago.

Vox: Françoise Portes
Guitar: Thierry Muller
Bass: Ruth Ellyeri
Drums: Patrick Renard

Buy the album here.