Art Decade

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YMO - 以心電信 (You've Got to Help Yourself) ...as recently covered by Keane!

Trek with Quintronic - Take It Off

Eternal Triangle - Nothing But A Friend (Endless Mix) I needed a bit of Balearica while cleaning the house yesterday, and this is what I arr...

Roy Ayers: It Ain't Your Sign It's Your Mind The second in a series of posts in which we discuss who should play who in yet to be re...

Peter Gabriel - Steam OK, so it's basically a rewrite of either "Sledgehammer", "Big Time", or "Fame", dep...

Jo Stafford - No Other Love Today we revisit the many manifestations of Chopin's E Major Étude in popular music (c.f.: Lemon Incest ) wi...

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Bob James - El Verano Kicking off summer 2010 with this bringing-tears-to-my-eyes jam originally posted on bumrocks in Feb. 2007. Featuring ...

Dwight Twilley Band - Looking For The Magic Some music for your Memorial Day car wash, pool party, and/or barbeque. That step down to the mi...

Neil Young: See the Sky About to Rain

Bad Brains: I & I Survive This one goes out to one of my sister's old mixes.

The Cure: The Funeral Party I wonder if Angelo Badalamenti was a Cure fan. Coincidence?

1. Using the word "punk" in 1974: check. 2. pre-Slash top hat: check. 3. Rhythm guitar player tight pants: check. 4. When you'...

Carol - So Low My favorite note occurs at 0:43, 1:49, and 2:55.

Islanders - Tirolien Laender

Selections from my favorite youtube channel .

Pretty much all you need to know about American history is contained in this.

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Maceys Window - It's Getting Harder Sunshine Theatre - Mountain Two sunbaked 45s from '71, lovingly compiled on this . Maceys Window...

Peter Gabriel: Disturbed (alternate take) When this soundtrack came out there were many nights I would put this on before bed. For years ...

Lesson of the day. Jacob Miller: Each One Teach One

Townes Van Zandt: I'll Be Here in the Morning

FROM THE ARK HIVE East Of Eden - Northern Hemisphere Hearing this again the other day, I was reminded of an article recently linked to by Bi...

FROM THE ARCHIVES Merry Clayton - Tell All The People Original air-date: 1/30/2007. Words & music by Robbie Krieger. Paul Humphrey on dr...

FROM THE ARCHIVES original air-date: 4/15/07

Green Arrows - The Towering Inferno Inspired by the film. Best flubbed guitar note at 1:02.

Aiight fools, this is going to be on the spring playlist (whenever I finish it) but throwing caution to the wind I've decided to "l...

A toast for the great photographer Jim Marshall . One of many obits here .

FYI you can hear my March playlist in progress over here

Cass McCombs: The Executioner's Song I just can't get this out of my head.

Sun Kil Moon: Si, Paloma

Erroll Garner - Fantasy On Frankie And Johnny

Basement Jaxx (featuring Yoko): Day of the Sunflowers (We March On)

Suede - My Insatiable One Featuring a lead tone from Bernard Butler that had me doing air-guitar on the treadmill earlier today. Ripped from...

Frederick Knight: I've Been Lonely for So Long

Emmett presents: Winter-Harvest side one Zmirneikos Balos - Maria Papagika The Woman Of Our Day - Svanfridur Pastels - Keith Cross & Pet...

Led Zeppelin: Going to California (live) Courtesy of John Peel's BBC Rock Hour @ Paris Studios in London Say you wanted to rewrite this ...

FROM THE '07 ARCHIVES: Boozoo Chavis: Paper in my Shoe Recorded in Austin, Texas, this 45 launched the King of Zydeco into dance halls i...

Roy Ayers: And Don't You Say No Off of You Send Me .

Michael Nesmith: Joanne

Claude Bolling: Full Speed Because I couldn't resist after Sheridan's Thursday's post. Here we have Claude in a swingin' moo...

Muddy Waters: Deep Down in Florida I'm goin' down to Florida Where the sun shines damn near every day...

Claude Bolling: Sentimentale from Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano That's Jean-Pierre Rampal on flute, Marcel Sabiani on drums, and (who e...

Dave Brubeck: Theme from "Mr Broadway" and Winter Ballad Two from Jazz Impressions of New York . The first was the theme song to a...

Ain't no more cane on the Brazos It's all been ground down to molasses. The Band: Ain't No More Cane Little wiki on the...

Marginal Sound Quality Upgrade! Brett Smiley - Run For The Sun Hey gang, I thought the mp3 I posted of this as part of this collection was ...