Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Guess That I Just Don't Know Mix

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Thursday Morning Music Shuffle - Freaks Mix

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Busy, busy... A few things before we jump into the shuffle...

First, a reminder that next week we begin our very #E2TG approach to The Best of 2013.  Stay tuned for that.

A couple of live videos hit our inbox this week and wanted to share...  The Mad Doctors are from Brooklyn and they kick some major butt.  Check out this performance from 11/30/2013.

 

This next video is from our Nashville friends Year of October.  We are looking forward to a new album (fingers crossed) for 2014.  Meanwhile, this past weekend, they did a mini-tour which included a stop in Louisville which is where this next video was filmed.  Check it out!

 





On to today's mixture of mixed musical melodies....

Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Off Kilter Mix

Well no doubt about it, the week is in full swing.  Hope everyone is having a good one.  If not, I hope my merry band of tunes will help turn things around or at least brighten your journey just a bit.

My poor brain has been hatching a scheme, and I really want to make it a reality.  I've got some time, but I have the feeling I need to start working on details soon. I'll be sending some direct messages soon asking for advice etc. And rest assured when the time is right, you my faithful readers will be among the first to know.

In the meantime, this being the first Tuesday of the month, we have loaded up the old MP3 player with a fresh batch of tunes.  The August playlist starts now with what could be a record, 50 songs!  The songs run a pretty wide gamut (is wide gamut acceptable or is it redundant? Oh well...) with music dating from the 50s to the present day with stops in the sixties, the eighties, the 2000s and the 2010s - and perhaps others... in addition, we have covers, live bootlegs, big hit songs and brand spanking new tracks and everything in between.  Here is our first taste:


We begin with a song from the late, great Eddie Cochran. 3 Steps to Heaven was released on his 12 Greatest Hits album which was released just days before his untimely death in April 1960.  

 

 

Next up,we have a track from a bootleg of a 1967 live performance by The Velvet Underground entitled Psychedelic Sounds From the Gymnasium.  The track, Guess I'm Falling in Love, appeared surfaced in Instrumental form on the 80s compilation, Another View.  Check out the bootleg here. (via captainsdead)

White Chalk is the first taste of a forthcoming album (Ark - out 10/15) by the British Producer who works under the name, Halls. It's a spare, murky bit of pop.  Here's some info on the track.

Next up we have To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High) from Ryan Adams' 2000 solo debut Heartbreaker.  The album, made just after the demise of Whiskeytown, features Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Kim Richey and Emmylou Harris among others.  Have at it for $6.99 from Amazon - using the pic/link below.

 

And finally, we'll close things out today with a song we featured over the weekend. It's Nashville's own Natural Child with the song Mother Nature's Daughter which will be released as a 7" on August 21 via Jeffery Drag Records.

 

 Here's an older video by Natural Child

 

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Tuesday Morning Music Shuffle - Let's Rock Mix

Ready, Set, Go Cat Go

Friday Morning Music Shuffle - PB&J Mix

It's Friday - smile!

Um or um - not sure what to say.  I've found some words, and will be writing about the In-Store performance I saw yesterday...so stay tuned.

Today we have a quirkily awesome mix of music so let's get to it...

First up we have transplanted Nashvillian Eef Barzelay's band Clem Snide post-reunion effort The Ghost of Fashion (2010) and a track called Joan Jett of Arc which name drops Hall and Oates, John Mellencamp's Pink Houses  and others to great effect and humor. 

   

Next we have a track from the solo debut album, Resolutions by Dave Hause who has been a member of several Philadelphia-based bands over the years. We have the excellent lead track of the album, Time Will Tell is a raw and starkly, beautiful song.

 

 Next up we have a cover, and it's a good one.  Mitch Easter the producer was responsible for tons of my favorite music way back in my youth - R.E.M., his own band Let's Active, yesterday's Connells album we featured, Marshall Crenshaw, Pylon, Suzanne Vega, Game Theory ... deep breath. Here we have Mitch Easter the performer from the fairly recent Velvet Underground tribute CD American Velvet.  His cover of The Black Angel's Death Song  which was on the Velvet's first album The Velvet Underground and Nico.  Easter's gentle Carolina twang adds a note of Southern Gothic charm to the dark and dissonant song. 

 
Lou Reed John Cale and Nico Reuniting in 1972

(Couldn't find a video of Mitch Easter's version - so here's Beck's cover)

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Wednesday Morning Music Shuffle - Dr. Dr., Give Me the News Mix

Reminder: Voting for the March Band of the Month ends at 8:00pm Central Time on Friday April 13.  Vote now.  The poll is on the sidebar to the left.  Here are the details.

Where is the Band of the Week?  Due to the holiday, the Band of the Month, a top secret project and general laziness. I made an executive decision to forgo the Band of the Week post for this past week.  It's certainly not from lack on great bands.  I just wanted to be sure to give the selected band the attention they deserve.  Look for a Band of the Week post after the Band of the Month poll closes.

Record Store Day is now just 10 days away.  Go here to find the participating location near you.  Here in Nashville Grimey's New and Pre-Loved Music has a pretty killer line-up of live music.  JEFF the Brotherhood, PUJOL, Langhorne Slim, The Grenadines, Kansas Bible Company and Lovedrug have been announced so far.

To the songs for today:

First up, POP ETC is Morning Benders. Got that?  We posted a link to the Morning Benders up top.  The first album as POP ETC is due out later this year, but right now, you can grab a free download of a Mixtape from the band's website.  The song we have today is from that mixtape and it is called Halfway to Heaven.

After that, we have two rather interesting cover songs.

The first song is a cover of Willie Nelson's Time of the Preacher a track from the Red Headed Stranger album.  The cover is by the late, great Johnny Cash from the Twisted Willie tribute album.

Finally, a cover of one of the "lost" songs by the Velvet Underground which was finally released in the mid 80s on VU (which was when I had my mind opened and blown by Lou Reed and company). Foggy Notion is covered by Echo & the Bunnymen on volume 2 of the Heaven & Hell Velvet Underground tribute series. The Heaven & Hell series of albums was compiled as Unpiecing the Jigsaw.

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Friday Morning Music Shuffle - Storms approaching Mix

Time to batten down the hatches here in Tennessee. Call it Stormpocalypse 2012.  

I have to be quick before I get blown away - so prepare to be blown away by an awesome shuffle! See what I did there?

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Here is the shuffle:

<-------- Tom Tom Club -  Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom

Tom Tom Club - Shock the World - Chris and Tina (from Talking Heads) and friends get their groove thing on.  Shocking!

<----------Kort - Invariable Heartache

KORT (Kurt Wagner from Lambchop (not the X-Men) and Courtney Tidwell) doing their best Conway and Loretta on Picking Wild Mountain Berries.

<-----The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang 

New Brunswick, New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem have The Spirit of Jazz.


<--------The Tourists - Should Have Been Greatest Hits

The Tourists featured Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart before they formed the Eurythmics.  They cover Dusty Springfield on a lush, new wavy version of  I Only Want to Be With You.


<-----------The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground

We close out this morning shuffle with the opening track from The Velvet Underground's third album. Candy Says was written about Candy Darling who was the Candy who came from out of the Island in Lou Reed's Walk on the Wildside

Monday Morning Music Shuffle - Linger On Mix

A rain began to fall as I made my way through the streets of town. Monday morning cold front approaching but still warm. I grabbed my umbrella relunctantly - did I mention I hate umbrellas, but I hate being soaked at work even worse.

 

Up the hill (and to the landing)...

 

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And so it begins...  The legendary New York band, The Ramones doing their cover of a song written by Jack Nitzsche and Sonny Bono - Needle  and Pins which originally appeared on their Road to Ruin album.  R.I.P. Joey, Dee Dee, & Johnny.

 

(click on album cover to purchase the 2011 remaster vinyl version of More Fun in the New World by X which includes Make the Music Go Bang)

I can't stand people who bitch and whine.... so X don't bitch and whine they Make the Music Go Bang on this track from one of the finest albums in the history of rock and roll - More Fun in the New World.

 

 

(click on album cover to purchase and download the classic post-punk album Flip Your Wig by Husker Du which contains the song Makes No Sense at All.)

 

Is it important, you're yelling so loud - Minneapolis post-punk trio - Husker Du power through one of their signature songs - Makes No Sense at All.

 

 

(click on album cover to purchase and download the orignal version of Pale Blue Eyes  by The Velvet Underground  today's covered by The Kills)

If I could make the world as pure and strange as what I see
I'd put you in the mirror I put in front of me
I'd put in front of me

The Levi's Pioneers sessions match contemporary artists with songs that shaped their music. American/British duo, The Kills take on the classic Pale Blue Eyes which originally appeared on the self-titled album by The Velvet Underground.

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