Art Decade

Grateful Dead - KY Jam I'm closing a chapter and turning over a new leaf, and in these moments one turns to Jerome. Recorded "...

Gilberto Gil and Caetano Veloso: Tradicao "It's August 1970 and there are 600,000 people in a field ..."

Art Tatum - Lullaby Of The Leaves Recorded on Thursday, February 22nd, 1940. Hall Of The Mountain King quote at 1:36.

Nick Drake: Place To Be

Skeeter Davis - Give Me Death I heard this on the radio this summer in arguably the best possible conditions: driving around the foothill...

Jr. Walker & The All Stars - (I'm A) Road Runner August 19th? Time to party. Featuring two of my all-time favorite "whoa!...

New London Children's Choir - The Useful Plough Credit where credit due to Wes Anderson, that track The Cuckoo is a sick crate-dig....

Mellow Candle - Silversong I was never expecting that note at 0:46.

New Viva show ( #132 ) in the archive. Thanks to all who offered suggestions for the 2003 project. For some reason on the playlist I erred ...

The Incredible String Band - Air Gentlemen, I'm beginning to feel something!

Tim Maia: Where Is My Other Half Anyone else dig Existential Soul ?

Lemon Jelly - Nice Weather For Ducks A troll trawl through the UK charts of 2003 turned up this one, which I like par...

new Viva show ( #131 ) in the archive

Nick Nicely - Psychotropia Yes, it's a blatant hommage to Tomorrow Never Knows, but since the part at 1:23 popped into my head the o...

The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes (live excerpt) Recorded "live" at The Volkhaus, Zürich, Switzerland, 11th November, 1979. I'm ...

Bent - Stay The Same Is this good? I can't tell, but it's definitely weird. Does anyone have suggestions on more intriguing musi...

Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (demo) A nice way to re-enjoy a super-good song. I can still picture E. Dando performing this at ...

Thanks again to everyone who sent ideas for the 1980 project. The new Viva show (#130) was assembled out of those suggestions. I tried to i...

Modern Eon - Choreography Special thanks to Wharf99 for pointing me towards the "Hicks From The Sticks" compilation LP, on whi...

Lori and the Chameleons - The Lonely Spy One of the fruits of the ongoing 1980 project. The surprising brevity of the intro is a nice to...

New Viva show (#129 ) in the archive, comprised entirely of tracks released in 1980. Thanks a mill for all the suggestions. Due to the hig...

The Teardrop Explodes - When I Dream * Folks, I need some recommendations on obscure tracks released in 1980. This is for the next Viva ...

new Viva show ( #128 ) in the archive

Carole King - Porpoise Song (publisher's demo)

The Kinks - I Go To Sleep (demo) I turned this one up while casting about for demos and other such drumless tracks for a (mostly) drumle...

Carlos Paredes - Canção Verdes Anos Things are finally starting to get languid around here.

Neil Young - The Bridge

There's a new Viva show ( #126 ) in the archive; the second installment in our hotly-tipped Summer Playlist Series.

There's a new Viva show ( #125 ) in archive. More importantly, school's out for summer, and I've made a solemn vow to do a new...

Isaac Hayes -  Hung Up On My Baby A rare groove classic since at least the age of the Geto Boys. Today's projected high in NYC: 96...

Portrait - Honey Dip There's just one thing that never ceases to amaze me.

China Crisis - No More Blue Horizons Breezy sophisti-pop for your Monday, from the pride of Liverpool.   

Hey folks... rare melody connoisseur and rustic troubador Dave Lerner, one half of  Trummors , has kindly compiled another tasy guest mi...

Prince Far I: Bendel Dub

The debut single. Siouxsie and The Banshees: Hong Kong Garden And, from Juju released 31 years ago this month:

The Beach Boys - Forever Loveliness.  And then there's more loveliness with the American Spring version, sung by B...

The Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy) Hey-o, I just wanted to make sure everyone was aware of what Paul plays at 2:02, 2:14, 4:0...

Nora Dean - Angie La La 2+ weeks since my last post? Ouch. I'm afraid it's the usual story of the day job chewing away at any t...

Paul McCartney - Coming Up And now it is the weekend...

John Phillips - Holland Tunnel I'm already thinking about next weekend.

Brenton Wood: I Think You've Got Your Fools Mixed Up

James Govan -  Help Me I'm in Need Tell You About My Girl Things I like the most about "Help Me, I...

10cc - Gismo My Way I needn't bore you with the particulars of why or how this came to pass, but I was recently granted an audience ...

Victrola - Maritime Tatami Memorably described by one youtube commenter as "cruel and beautiful." Highlights include the vocal inf...

The Rockin' Berries - She's Not Like Any Girl I'm liking the falsetto leaps in the melody on this one. Very rainy, very British,...

Harry Nilsson - Living without You Let's keep things reflective this Friday, shall we?  This is a beaut. And, ...

Yeah... as promised, our man in Cologne, longtime and esteemed commenter "Ano 2" is back with another sweet guest mix. Apologies ...

Joe Higgs - There's a Reward This song is the island musical equivalent of Hopkins's Carrion Comfort . Or something.

Bettye Swann - Don't Touch Me A moving variation on a theme, said the critic. Very moving indeed.

Dolly Mixture - Never Let It Go Here's another song with that "Carrot Rope" chiming guitar thing that I dimly recall alluding ...