Art Decade

Eat The Dream - Wedding Procession

Seemingly no instrument -- bass, guitar, celesta (?) -- is fully in tune with any other instrument, or with itself. The latent connection...

Aalon - Rock 'n' Roll Gangster Thanks to the always inspiring Duane Harriott for the peel off on this chart-topper. You can sta...

The Byrds - Airport Song

3's a Crowd - Gnostic Serenade Words & music by William Hawkins . Vocals by David Wiffen. Produced by Mama Cass. Vinyl rip by the...

Spaghetti Head - Funky Axe Saturday Night Special

The Bermudas - Donnie

Lemon Jelly - Soft

The London Jazz Four - Rain Yes It Is I'm posting some songs from the already-posted "podcasts." "Ra-ai-ai-ai-ai-a...

Mike Curb Congregation - Nixon Now Nixon: I don't know, do you think the kids, the so-called flower children, will fal...

Podcast #5, recorded August 10th, 2013: download here (156 mb) Heavy breathing, jurassic tempos, a surprise Pixies cover, and a hid...

Looks like tickets are still available for this rare screening of the Bowie-related film Christiane F at Lincoln Center this Tuesday Augu...

podcast #4, recorded July 19th, 2013: download here (192 mb) More Beatlecentric musings, white-knuckle mixing, and exploding plosives t...

                    John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Angela This is the first in a series of some 400+ posts in which I pair ol...

  Darrow Fletcher -  The Pain Gets A Little Deeper   The Hollies -  Wings Caetano Veloso -  Maria Bethania   Don Cherry -  Terry's T...

Podcast #3, recorded 6/27/13: Part 1 Part 2   Send an email with "tracklist" in the subject field to artdecade1977 at gmail d...

Podcast no. 2, recorded in the wee hours of Sunday, June 16th, 2013 - stream and download here. This one gets a little spacey in the seco...

EMMETT PRESENTS... WEEKLY* PODCASTS! Hey folks, I recorded a two-hour podcast. There's some talking in the beginning, middle, and en...

Jackson 5 - Forever Came Today I'm loving Michael's vocal on this. And to see some ridiculously good footwork/showmanship, go her...

Mungo Jerry - Memoirs of a Stockbroker Hearing this ditty penned by a then twenty-five-year-old Ray Dorset, I was reminded of these thoug...

new Viva show ( #145 ) in the archive This 1993 mix is done, such as it is. Many thanks to all who offered suggestions. And if anyone wan...

Vanishing Winter by Dear Eloise

John Cage - Music For Marcel Duchamp Performed by the great Stephen Drury, another gem from this must-own CD. Nice to hear the riff fro...

Reload -  Le Soleil et la Mer

Subnation -  Golden Hen

New Radiant Storm King -  Phonecall If you attended college in the northeast U.S. in the early-to-mid '90s, you either A) were in a ...

Clydie King - The Thrill Is Gone There's a certain moment in a certain Rolling Stones song where I've always thought the backgro...

Up Above The World - Trying To Reach You Many thanks to  Plague for recommending a David Holmes mix in which this appears. I believe the...

Extra - Enjoy Enjoy.

Les Chakachas - Turtle Soup I wonder how they got that cool distant-becoming-near effect on the horns.  I'm hoping it's that they...

John Cage - In A Landscape Performed by Stephen Drury and  available on mp3 and compact disc.   I am at peace with the fact that the ...

Fats Waller - Baby, Oh! Where Can You Be? Dedicated to my daughter Maisy, born April 4th, 2013.

Julie London - Something Cool Let's all - everybody - keep it cool this weekend. "I can't think of your ...

 Emmett presents... Paternity Leave!   Marquez - Color De Caramelo I will be laying low for a few weeks, due to the exciting and impend...

The Other Two - Selfish I'm working on an all-1993 mix and this is the flagship jam so far. Anyone got any ideas? All genres are fair...

Chamber of Kommerce - The Monocle

Burano And His Gypsy Caravan - Good Time Girl I might not be posting this if not for the note that the lead Moog player ends his phrase w...

new Viva show ( #143 ) in the archive

Junior English -  You Are So Good To Me Many, many thanks to Wiggsy for the peel-off.  More flexatone , anyone? 

Alex Harvey - Midnight Moses One of the great party records... a truly debauched production. Does a stereo mix even exist? If anyone wa...

Cannonball Adderley - Pisces: Allison's Trip Emmett, curious about how your sign is depicted on Love, Sex, and the Zo...

Billy Joel - Say Goodbye To Hollywood (live)

Solaris - You And Me Great message, great groove. And yeah, there's a little flange (or chorus?) on the hi-hat.

Alexander - Working My Way   Warning: French vocalist singing in English.

Polly Brown - Up In A Puff Of Smoke A pop song should be like a roller coaster you want to ride again and again.

new Viva show ( #142 ) in the archive

Don Covay - It's Better To Have (And Don't Need) Saturday Night Special

Honk - Hesitation Featuring a horn riff worthy of Steely Dan and a très chic chord change at 0:32 (and 0:50 and 1:39, etc.)

 Graeme Edge Band - The Tunnel