Art Decade

Lucio Battisti - Anima Latina A paean to the human spirit. Big thanks to The Bin for the rip. also available on compact disc

Ithaca - "Times" (Seven Seasons-The Path-Given Time) Delving into the mushrumps archives for this one. This is a tight jam. Words...

Cargoe - I Love You Anyway

Dave Brubeck: In Your Own Sweet Way The line up: Dave Brubeck, piano Anthony Braxton, alto saxophone Jack Six, bass Roy Haynes, drums From A...

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Mighty Cloud Of Joy A prequel, if you like, to this one. Written and produced by Dave Crawford. Featuring Ronnie...

Stan Getz and Luiz Bonfa: Insensatez Antonion Carlos Jobim contributes not only the composition but the beautifully phrased piano. Album art...

Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack The line up: Jimmy Smith, organ Kenny Burrell, guitar Stanley Turrentine, tenor saxophone Donald Bail...

April 12, 2004 Queen Mary Union, Glasglow Franz Ferdinand - Jaqueline Tell Her Tonight Cheating On You Auf Achse Take Me Out Love & Dest...

fall in, fall out, fall down, get ready Fela Kuti : Zombie

Dolly Parton: Just Because I'm a Woman

Bob Weir: Bombs Away When I was young and in the early stages of the rituals that accompany fandom of the Grateful Dead - filling blank tdk...

Carla Thomas: A Love of My Own I look at the moonlight, I feel the soft breeze, then I wanna know, why...

Brian Eno: Weightless Silver Morning "Like everybody else, I sat and watched the first moon landing and the films from the subsequent m...

Public Enemy: Bring the Noise From It Takes a Nation... with a nod to the 20th anniversary of Do the Right Thing . Possibly containing the...

Loudon Wainwright III: Lullaby Shut up and shut your eyes No more histrionics no more college tries Stop pushing stop shoving stop straining...

Albert King - I Get Evil The first time I heard Albert King I was in a car driving down i95 with Sheridan, Rich , and Preston - on our way t...

The Rods: Do Anything You Wanna Do "I'm sure I must be someone, now I'm gonna find out who..." Maybe it's my hearing g...

Dave Dudley: Six Days on the Road Jimmy Colvard on lead guitar. Late night driving music.

Roberta Flack: Do What You Gotta Do Yes, this is the stuff.

Steve Winwood: While You See a Chance The line up: Steve Winwood: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Bass, Drums, Percussion, Keyboards, Synth...

The Wailers: Let Him Go Lead vocals by Bunny Livingston. I always want to add 'Seagull' to Bunny Livingston's name. Now that...

October 17, 1973 Forest National, Brussels Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar Happy Gimme Shelter Tumbling Dice Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)...

You didn't hear? It's all going down tonight at Club Le Baron, 6 Avenue Marceau, Paris. DJ Emmett (me) will be there playing records...

Dusty Springfield: Goodbye Elton John: Goodbye Goodbye bye bye bye, was all he said to me. I'm sorry I took your time. Which song entitl...

Jóhann Jóhannsson - City Building

Cat Stevens: Trouble Bob Dylan: Trouble Trouble move away, I have seen your face and it's too much for me today. Trouble, trouble, troub...

The Beach Boys: Friends Whodini: Friends Ooooooh, oooh oh oh ohhhhhhh ooooooh ooooo-hhhh-hhhh. And then there are some we wish we never knew...

The Talking Heads: Heaven The Rolling Stones: Heaven Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens. Nothing will stand in your way. Which son...

Rolling Stones - The Worst I was traveling through HK in 1994; had been traveling for a month or two without music. Raided a CD store - 25 ...

Neil Young - Throw Your Hatred Down This played randomly as I was running the other day. With Pearl Jam serving as Neil's backing band,...

The Division Bell (Trance Remix) In my opinion the most underrated of the Pink Floyd remixed series.

Bruce Springsteen: 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

A little piano piece to reach across the miles... Jon Brion - Row

Eurythmics - Do You Want To Break Up? (Dance Mix)

Dollar - Shooting Star Shooting Star (with overture!) The triumphant return of Dollar to these pages. Have a great weekend, everybody. doll...

Derek & The Dominos - Jam III

The Enticers - Calling For Your Love I'm a huge fan of the way the drums roll into the chorus on this. Recorded at Malaco Studio, Jackso...

The Band - Look Out Cleveland

The Real People - I Can't Wait Window Pane Two from legendary britpop pioneers The Real People. I saw them in (probably) spring 1992 at ...

13-year-old given a walkman, seems confused... [Thanks to JB for the heads up on this article.]

Lavender Hill Mob - The Party Song At 1,026 posts, we come to Montreal's Lavender Hill Mob. Great lead vocals from Nicky Prigeno, and cl...

REMASTERED! Paul Zaza - Le Payback I finally got a copy of this record. Please enjoy.

October 29, 1998 Kesselhaus, Berlin Air - Introduction Talisman Remember J'ai Dormi Sous L'eau Le Soleil est Pres de Moi Kelly Watch...

Jackson Five - Mama's Pearl Michael Jackson - I Wanna Be Where You Are People Make The World Go 'Round BONUS BEATS Also, from two we...

Our new Viva show airs today at 2 PM, featuring some songs that I'll be posting here next week. also: doin' the twitter thing

Justin Hinds & The Dominoes: Carry Go Bring Come was recorded in one take and landed on the top of the Jamaican charts in '63.

Charles Mingus - Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk Some Monday afternoon jazz, from Mingus at Monterey , recorded September ...

Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Ain't The One It's a Friday afternoon in June, and it's fucking sunny outside. But mostly because of the fir...

The Wailers - Midnight Ravers Please don't let me down

The Units: High Pressure Days (Headman Rework) High Pressure Days (Rory Phillips Remix) Two remixes based on one of my favorite recent Emmet...