Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Anarchistic Arachnids Mix

Good Monday to you!  You know it's Monday whether we like or not, so we best make the most out of it.  Today, we have a nifty little shuffle from the back room of the Ear to the Ground archives.  Hope you dig it!


In a not so rare sign of my age, I find it extremely hard to believe that this song is over 30 years old. Almost 34 years old to be precise.  Sting wrote this song for a prostitute he saw outside of the band's hotel room in Paris. He named her for the character in Cyrano de Bergerac. It was released as a single in 1978 and then rereleased in 1979.  The b-side was a cool song called Peanuts. Roxanne appeared on Outlandos D'Amour.

 

The next song in our shuffle is over 40 years old, and man does it hold up well. It's the opening track on one of the best albums in the history of rock.  Down on the Street from Fun House by The Stooges. The song throbs and squawks and burns. It is a stunning achievement in sonic power and predicts and paves the way for decades worth of punk and post-punk rock bands.

 

And finally, have an instrumental track from one of the best bands of the 80s. The Plimsouls were part of a power-pop movement, and they recorded one of the best rock songs of the decade, A Million Miles Away.  Hobo references the surf instrumentals of the 60s with a bit of the jangle that highlighted the Plimsouls' sound. It is a Bonus Track on the CD release of Everywhere at Once, and you can catch a live version on the recently released Beach Town Confidential: Live at the Golden Bear 1983

 

 

Like, here's A Million Miles Away from the movie, like, Valley Girl-I'm sure...

 

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Roxanne (Digital Sheet Music) "By The Police and Sting. For piano, voice, and guitar (chords only). Pop; Rock. 5 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music"

The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story Formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1967, the Stooges are icons of modern rock, influencing the fledgling sounds of punk, heavy metal, and hard core. From the beginning, lead singer and provocateur Iggy Pop (b. James Osterberg) astounded audiences with his outrageous stage performances, accompanied by guitarist Ron Asheton, his drummer brother Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander with their raw and bracing sound. The group disbanded in 1974, but reunited in 2003 to play before a vastly expanded fan base of over 10 million devotees worldwide, and they continue to tour today. In this book, rock photographer Robert Matheu compiles the first ever authorized book about the band, including iconic photographs, classic interviews, and vintage articles and ephemera dating from the band's breakout performances in Detroit in the late 1960s through their most recent shows in 2009. With new interviews from every significant member of the Stooges, past and present, previously unpublished photography, and a Stooges discography, "The Stooges "is the definitive book about this trailblazing band. ""

Valley Girl (45rpm Single) Frank Zappa A rarity. "Valley Girl" on both sides.

Wednesday Music (oh the places we will go...)

Miss me yet?  How can you when I keep showing up...

Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Give It an 8 Mix

It seems like there is so much sadness (loss, transitions, illness) in the world and among my closer circle of friends. Sending out warm thoughts and love to the world, and I hope some rains on you if you need it.

Just found out last night that early Band of the Week and good friends of the blog, Inner City Elegance are calling it quits.  I don't have any details, but we wish them well in whatever future endeavors those three guys take on.  Here's a video of an acoustic version of one my favorite ICE songs, Never Let You Down.










RIP to Dick Clark, Levon Helm and Greg Ham (Men at Work)...

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The Shuffle- 

We begin with a cover song.  It's Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate, Baseball Project) doing a lovely slow version of A Million Miles Away  The Plimsouls' song and one of my all-time favcs... Wynn's version is on the must-have Peter Case tribute (A Case for Case)

(Albums containing the original and the cover)

(second video is Steve Wynn paying with Peter Case)

Our second song comes from San Francisco punk legends Flipper.  It's Life is Cheap from their Generic Album.

And Finally, we close things out with I Wanna Be the One - some indie pop goodness from fun. - yeah the same band that does that We Are Young song....  This one's from their Aim and Ignite album.

 

Tuesday Music - Ascenseur pour l'échafaud Mix

Yesterday, I found out what happens when you drop a cell phone into the gap in the doorway of an elevator.  Hint: The phone can be retrieved, but even rugged phone will not escape unscathed. 

Long story short, my phone which doubles as my MP3 player is out of commission at least as a MP3 player and playing hurt as a phone.  Texting is still possible, though. With no way to shuffle music this a.m., I am forced to do something different - I hope you dig it.

Every day, some really awesome people post really awesome music to Facebook. Here is a a sampling from this morning/late last night:

Hello Mary Lou (Goodbye Heart) by Ricky Nelson - posted by Chris Frantz (Talking Heads/Tom Tom Club) 

Click below to purchase and download Ricky Nelson's Greatest Hits:

 We're Gonna Groove by Led Zeppelin posted by Mary Brace (Morning DJ on Nashville's progressive radio station Lightning 100)


Click below to look at, purchase and download Coda by Led Zeppelin.

 Pile Up by Plimsouls from their 1998 reunion album Kool Trash posted by Peter Case (Nerves, Plimsouls)

(click below to purchaase the CD of Kool Trash by the Plimsouls)







When I Hear My Name by White Stripes also posted by Peter Case from The White Stripes self-titled album:

Finally Helden (the German language version of Heroes) by David Bowie.

Posted by Richard Barone (Bongos).

Click to purchase and download the Heroes/Helden EP by David Bowie

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