Art Decade

John Cale - Days Of Steam For similar educational filmstrip soundtrack styles, refer back to this one (listen here ).

Plaza Hotel - Bewegliche Ziele

EVENT INVITE! Dear party people, please join me on Thursday, November 6th, at the Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center), for a special scr...

Captain Sensible - Happy Talk Thanks to extended family member Greg Condon for alerting me to this one (indirectly) in this great mix . H...

Earle Mankey - Mau Mau At post #1776, we come to Earle Mankey. You'd be forgiven for assuming this was a cover of this . (It's no...

The 39 Clocks - DNS Thanks ever so much to the redoubtable Anonymous 2 for hipping me to this one in this classic thread . It took just 2...

Niagara - Sangandongo (excerpt) Another great hi-hat to ride cymbal climate change at the 4:19 mark. For other such moments, see: here...

Yes - Sound Chaser Every album should begin like this, with the band members quietly discussing aesthetic matters in a lovely park somewh...

Alex Caso - If I Can't Have You Yet another brilliant peel-off from Duane. And once again the orphic artistry of Barry, Robin, and M...

The Barron Knights - You're All I Need There's something nice and surprising about that octave leap at 0:34. Thanks to  Wombletun...

J.S. Bach - Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974, II: Adagio Performed by Glenn Gould. Recorded at Eaton's Auditori...

Ghédalia Tazartès - Tazartès' Transports (second excerpt) You'd have to travel all the way back to this one to hear more churchb...

Betty and Karen - I'm Not Satisfied

Léonie - Mozart Another one from the hitmaking duo of Léonie and J.C. Vannier. And yes, this sounds like side two of Abbey Road, but I...

Véronique Sanson - Dis Lui (De Revenir) a slight return for Véronique.

Archie Shepp & Horace Parlan - My Lord What a Morning Good Lord.

Dick Raaijmakers - Ballad 'Erlkönig' I find this piece uplifting, but it sounds like Dick was maybe on a little bit of a bummer w...

Betty Lavette - Never My Love The triumphant  return of Betty Lavette to these pages.

Bobby Rush - Chicken Heads

Brigitte Fontaine - Areski Belkacem - Baby Boum-Boum

The Selectors - Pleading For Your Love

Bobby Rush - Mary Jane

Terry Melcher - High Rollers Who is Sonny Tusk?

John Klemmer - Brazilia (Brasilia) Hot sun and warm breezy evenings--relaxed lazy days with smooth syncopated rhythms. ...

Léonie - En Alabama Apparently this is how crazy things can get when J.C. Vannier writes a tune instead of just arranging one. Featuring ...

Orbidöig - Nocturnal Operations If this is midsummer, it must be time for hymns . Perhaps this song inspired a mania for churchbells wh...

The Mighty Clouds Of Joy - Time (extended) So I'm kicking back on Fire Island a few weeks ago and celebrating the birth of disco (sor...

Inner Space -  I'm Hiding My Nightingale  

Marie France - Daisy

Peter Gabriel - Jetzt Kommt Die Flut Dies ist meine Marmelade.

Braid - This Charming Man Just following up on our other Braid post from the other day. Stereo-panned twin rhythm guitars harmonically c...

Juaneco Y Su Combo - La Cumbia del Pacurro Grateful thanks to the people at Tiger's Milk Records for peeling this off on a recent co...

Podcast #9, recorded the evening of Saturday February 15th>Sunday February 16th, 2014, part two: stream/download here In which our h...

#1 in the UK charts, nowhere on the US charts. I wish I could go back in time and persuade David Gilmour to play the guitar solo.

new Viva show (#154) in the archive

Oval - Photograph I first heard this played by  Ted some years back, and it's been making the rounds over at Viva Radio . Whatever t...

Girls At Our Best - Getting Nowhere Fast Something in the melody here has caused  this to become lodged in my brain. Thought you might l...

SAVE YOUR DATE DJ Emmett comes alive on Saturday, June 21st (summer solstice), at 10 pm. Cafe Dancer, 96 Orchard Street, Manhattan. Th...

Pentangle - So Early In The Spring Recorded "live" at the Royal Albert Hall, June 29th, 1968. So here's another great hal...

Cathy Berberian with the Juilliard Ensemble - Black Is The Colour Arranged & conducted by Luciano Berio. "Black is the Colour...

Steely Dan - Rose Darling I'm claiming this as the definitive Steely Dan deep cut. (Brooklyn, the song Gaucho, Green Earrings, Caves...

Danielsson & Pekkanini - Otroligt Blåst Och Dum A question for our Scandinavian friends: Is the bit at 1:56 an old Swedish drinking s...

Medicine Head - Rising Sun May 16th? Feels like it's time to throw a couple of ice cold thirty packs of Stroh's in the back of th...

The Supremes - Love Is Here And Now You're Gone So many "lost love" songs in the Supremes/H-D-H canon: Reflections, this on...

The Supremes - Reflections The psychic bow drawn at 0:40 is released at 0:50, like a corkscrew to your heart. Holland-Dozier-Holland et...

Les Espions - Casse-Tête Jungle Some soundpillows for your spring.

Love - Can't Explain (mono mix) Noisy proto-punk jangle from Arthur and the lads. One can easily hear why these folks covered it.

X-Ray Pop - Oh Oui J'Aime! I wanted to post this four years ago (true!), but couldn't seem to find a copy of the record or tape (...

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