Oliver Onions (Guido and Maurizio de Angelis): Zorro Is Back

Here's to being free la la la la...

Nirvana - MV

The Shop Assistants: It's Up To You

The Doors: Wishful Sinful

Love Unlimited Orchestra - Welcome Aboard

I'd forgotten all about this one; thanks to the lads for the reminder. Check out what the bass player does starting at 3:26. First class.

September 29, 1979
Stardust Ballroom
Los Angeles

Talking Heads:
Artists Only
Stay Hungry
Cities
Paper
Mind
Heaven
Electric Guitar
Air
New Feeling
Love Goes To a Building On Fire
Found a Job
Psycho Killer
Crowd
Life During Wartime
Take Me To The River

Bee Gees - Kilburn Towers

[insert celebratory picture]

Black on White Affair: Auld Lang Syne

Realize this tune is a wee early for pending New Year's celebrations but for those wishing to imbibe today this soulful elixir tastes great anytime of day.

Gene Clark - Strength Of Strings

from the album No Other

BONUS BEATS

Kris Kristofferson: Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)

As performed on The Johnny Cash Show, 1970

Tony Esposito - Pagaia

The highlight, for this writer, of this compilation.

take a little trip with me

FROM THE ARCHIVES: ELECTION DAY SPECTACULAR

Dock Boggs: Country Blues
John Coltrane: Afro-Blue
Jimi Hendrix: Machine Gun
Mickey Newbury: An American Trilogy
Art Tatum: Elegie

Velvet Underground: Some Kinda Love (live)

La de ta ta ta

"I hope someday they'll teach rock 'n' roll history. I hope that the music on this album is among the more important elements of that class. I hope parents will still get scared when they find their daughter listening to this music."
-excerpt from Elliott Murphy's liner notes

Martin Denny: Misirlou
Seymour Rexite: Miserlou

Deepest thanks to the Gardens for Seymour's version.

Cymande: Leavert

February 16, 1977
Ivanhoe Theater
Chicago

Herbie Hancock:
Radio Introduction
Chameleon
Hang Up Your Hangups
Station ID
Maiden Voyage
It Remains To Be Seen
People Music

With
Herbie Hancock - keyboards
Jaco Pastorius - bass
Bennie Maupin - sax
James Levi - drums

I've also seen the setlist as:
Cantaloupe Island (Alternate title for "It Remains To Be Seen"?)
Hang Up Your Hang Ups
Maiden Voyage
Jaco Bass Solo
People Music
Chameleon

I don't know the right order, maybe someone out there can tell me.
I guess the radio station didn't think Jaco's solo would play well on the air, because that seems to be the only number that was cut from the radio edit.

Bee Gees: Lemons Never Forget (mono mix)

Jerry Garcia Band: Werewolves of London

Only for the very curious. Trust me. Recorded 15 years ago today in New Jersey. I was in attendance, sitting somewhere behind the soundboard at Brendan Byrne Arena.

Monty Python & Monty Python & The Holy Grail: Executive Edition Addendum

Sparks: Tryouts For The Human Race

It seems like Russell, Ron, and Giorgio had a nice, creative vibe going in the studio when they convened in Munich to record this LP.

COMING SOON: the extended mix

Marijata: No Condition Is Permanent

Al Stewart: On The Border

I'm feeling the need to revisit this bumrocks via cracklin' chim heater from '06. Best snare-drum-on-2-but-not-on-4 tension since the intro to this one.

From Year of the Cat. Produced by Alan Parsons. Sleeve by Hipgnosis.

The Beat: Twist & Crawl Dub

Steve Hunter: Eldorado Street

From Swept Away. Best part at 1:47. Jim Gordon on drums.

Cover illustration by Don Punchatz.

Vitalic: Trahison

Sonic Youth: I Dreamed I Dream

Donovan: Wear Your Love Like Heaven b/w Oh, Gosh!

Big B, that melodic connoisseur, emailed me an mp3 of "Wear Your Love" a few months back. "Oh, Gosh!", a similarly blissed-out major-seventh ditty, was the B-side of the original U.S. single release. Too much.

Both songs available on A Gift from a Flower to a Garden.

April 7, 1995
Dusseldorf

Smashing Pumpkins:
Tonight, Tonight
Zero
Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
Today
To Forgive
Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
Disarm
Muzzle
Cherub Rock
1979
X.Y.U.

Flash Cadillac & The Continental Kids: She's So Fine

www.flashcadillac.com

Grateful Dead: Crazy Fingers

Arguably my favorite Garcia/Hunter composition. It was cool to see this getting some reaction from the dream chimney community awhile back. The one downside of the studio version is you miss the Spanish bit they used to do at the end, so I spliced in some live footage to remedy that.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Gabor Szabo:
Rambler
It's So Hard To Say Goodbye

original air date: 4/27/07

both compositions by Wolfgang Melz

Dee Clark: Nobody But You

First hitting turntables in October '58 on Chicago's Vee-Jay Records. [Check out their jukebox.] What's missing are Vee-Jay's first US releases of The Beatles.

Tim Maia: Verão Carioca

The triumphant re-return of T. Maia to these pages. Featuring Tim himself on drums, making the executive decision to drop the tempo slightly after each chorus. Also: great snare drum sound.

available on: this

Wanderléa: Calypso

written by Egberto Gismonti & Geraldo Eduardo Carneiro; arranged by Egberto; featuring Egberto on kalimba, tonton e sintetizadores

available on: Vamos Que Eu Ja Vou

Roxy Music: To Turn You On

Not necessarily the best song on the album, but one that's been speaking to me lately. A semi-schmaltzy yuppie power ballad with a beat. Featuring the legendary Alan Spenner on bass. Wicked muted fill from guitarist Neil Hubbard at the 0:25 mark; anomalous vocal double-tracking at 1:51.

Belle and Sebastian: The Blues are Still Blue

Sometimes a big dollop of seventies glam is all one needs...

Daryl Hall: Babs and Babs

Words and music by Daryl Hall. Produced and featuring guitar & Frippertronics by Robert Fripp. With Kenny Passarelli on bass, evidently enjoying himself on the outro. From the album Sacred Songs.

This is a good one to turn to when you're in the mood to listen to "Rich Girl" but you don't actually want to listen to "Rich Girl".

New Order:
Temptation 12" A and B Sides
Temptation
Hurt

General Echo: Hot Reggae Music (version)

available on: Teacher Fe Di Class

Pavement: Birds in the Majik Industry

From the B-side of the "Stereo" 45. Be sure to pick up the forthcoming deluxe Brighten The Corners reissue on Matador to hear the "unedited vocal version"...

Mighty Mighty:
Night After Night

Hatsune Miku: Thatness and Thereness

Composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. Vocals by Hatsune Miku. This recording and video by ???

Harpers Bizarre: Witchi Tai To

The triumphant return of Harpers Bizarre to these pages. This one has appeared on a couple of other blogs before, and with good reason, as it's a bloody masterpiece. Written by Jim Pepper, based on Native American healing chants. Available on Harpers Bizarre IV.

BONUS BEATS:
Jim Pepper: Witchitai-To, from Pepper's Pow Wow. With Billy Cobham, Chuck Rainey, and Larry Coryell.

Touch Of Class: I'm In Heaven

Produced & featuring keyboards by John "The Monster" Davis. Written by Mervin & Melvin Steals. Recorded & mixed at Sigma Sound Studios, Philadelphia. Vince Montana on vibes.

Johanna Group:
Strange Love Action
Hors Phase

Foot-stompin' good times from Germany's Johanna Group, a collective of anonymous library musicians. Both tracks originally from the album Strange Love Action; now available on this and this respectively. (If anyone has the original LP, please feel free to post a full rip.)

Talking Heads: Pulled Up

"Sleeping, dreaming, such a simple thing,
I think of things that I might be...."

Philip Glass:
V2 Schneider

Odyssey: Who

A hypnotic favorite off of this compilation from days of yore. Arranged and produced by Vangelis Papathanassiou.

BONUS BEATS

Blondie: Heroes

BONUS
(Sorry about the horrible quality - 128 kbs)

Roger and the Human Body: Nature's Song

Music by Roger Troutman. Lyrics by Larry Troutman. Featuring Roger Troutman on vocals, bass, flute, guitar, and synthesizer. Available on the album Introducing Roger.