These are days of disturbance and anxiety, but this little teaser of a groove is having a fortifying and optimistic effect on me, I hope it does on you too.
Apr 172013
Slim Jade
Apr 132013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
For this mix, I really didn’t feel like speaking over the tracks, or putting down bed music in order to list songs with my tinny laptop microphone. I’ll let the list below suffice, and happy listening!
- Sly & The Family Stone – Thank You For Talkin’ To Me Africa (snippet)
- Malcom Catto – Guitar Edit
- Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings – How Long Do I Have To Wait?
- Richard Groove Holmes – Down Home Funk
- Tommy Guerrero – B.W.’s Blues
- José James – Black Magic
- Binky Griptite & The Mellomatics – The Stroll pt.2
- The Mighty Imperials – The Matador
- Jesse Boykins III – Amorous
- The Dap-Kings – Nervous Like Me (beats)
- Charles Bradley – Victim of Love
- Cymande – One More
- Menahan Street Band – Lights Out
- Sugarman Three – Solid Funk
- Baby Charles – I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor
- Red Snapper – Hot Flush
- The Budos Band – Ghostwalk
- Skull Snaps – It’s a New Day
- Dam-Funk – Hood Pass Intact
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Apr 062013
I don’t know if anyone else is into Deerhunter, but they did a pretty cool performance on Jimmy Fallon the other night. Freaky leader Bradford Cox came out as an alter-ego, full of Patti Smith/Johnny Thunders sass and fake chopped off fingers. It was a pastiche, yes, but it still tapped into something that is quintessentially rock n’ roll to me.
I’m still trying to assess the RTH and BAC states of mind. Do you like this?
Mar 302013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
Townsman Slim Jade is back with another edition of Saturday Night Shut-In for your listening and discussing pleasure. Isn’t it time we listen to the music, then compare notes? I think so.
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Mar 152013
NEITHER musician is the “pretty boy wuss” in question, but hot damn they are pretty…
I believe I’m asking the right crowd, given the strong opinions in this forum: Do you ever felt conflicted about particular music you like because it’s impossible to enjoy it without complicated personal involvement?
There’s an up-and-coming indie band currently enjoying their moment in the SXSW spotlight. They’re derivative, but they appeal to my Cure/Cocteau Twins side, and I found myself whistling one of their songs this morning. I told Ladymiss Jade, “I like them, but I feel so conflicted because I hated that kid!” She smartly suggested that I launch this little op-ed concern.
Do you ever felt conflicted about particular music you like because it’s impossible to enjoy it without complicated personal involvement?
I won’t mention the band, out of respect, but though I enjoy their music today, I had their leader as a student. He was a pretty boy wuss. It drove me crazy, because I was always trying to support him to stand up for himself and fight back, but he’d just collapse in whining resignation. A pansy whose mom did all his fighting for him, and I was attracted to her whenever she came into my class to plead for him.
Cut to the present, and I’m listening, grooving, to his stuff, and I like it. I want to congratulate him. But him? He probably hates me too, because he probably has nothing but resentment for those days, and that’s the very thing that fuels his music, and now he and I have something in common (being a 90-pound weakling myself, when I was his age).
Is there music you would not normally listen to, but because you’re buds with them, you do listen and support them?
D’you see what I’m getting at? The question arises: Is there a performer you admire, but your personal association just makes it impossible to listen objectively?
Nor is Slim referring to any of these pretty boy wusses.
Mar 092013
Sounds of the Hall in roughly 33 1/3 minutes!
After a long hiatus, Townsman Slim Jade brings back Saturday Night Shut-In for your listening and discussing pleasure. Finally! Unlike your control-freak Moderator, who’s been holed up completing some other long-running projects, Slim likes to share his playlist in advance. Who knows, maybe this is the way to go for all future episodes. You tell us. Thank you, Slim, who asks us to excuse his computer’s built-in mic, for taking matters into your own hands and kicking ass. May others follow your lead. Enjoy!
- Barry Gray – Fireball XL-5
- Mac Rebennack – Storm Warning
- Buddy Holly – Slippin’ and Slidin’
- Gene Vincent – Cat Man
- Jessie Mae Hemphill – I’m So Glad
- VU – Guess I’m Falling In Love (instrumental version)
- Glen Campbell – Guess I’m Dumb
- 101 Strings – Flameout
- The Creation – Biff Bang Pow
- Johnny Thunders -Pipeline
- Santo & Johnny – Summertime
- April Stevens – Teach Me Tiger
- Ronnie Cook – Goo Goo Muck
- The Cryin’ Shames – Please Stay
- Rockin’ Berries – She’s Not Like Any Girl
- Bo Diddley – You Don’t Care
- Sandy Nelson – Teen Beat
- Esquerita – Rockin’ the Joint
- Hasil Adkins – Peanut Butter Rock and Roll
- Brigitte Bardot – Moi Je Joue
- David Batiste – Funky Soul
- Jackie Mittoo – Reggae Riff
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Feb 052013
As an offshoot to the whole MBV thing, and the relationship between (bear with me) masterpiece and follow-up, I got to thinking of analogous album pairs.
On the color wheel, we have groups of color arranged next to each other, with a dominant color (such as red, at let’s say 12:00), and then adjacent colors (orange-red at 1:00, orange at 2:00, red-violet at 11:00, and so forth).
I’m curious to know of such pairings with essential albums, and their follow-up or predecessor (as in the case of Sticky Fingers:Exile on Main Street). Are there pairs of albums, released in consecutive order, where one is the “acknowledged masterpiece” and the other is just as good, if not better, and you always listen to that one more often anyway.
Does this make sense? Give me a red, and an orange-red. I’ll give another example. OK Computer (yes, watershed, that is known and accepted,and I love it) to Kid A (not as critically lauded, but damn, that’s the one for me!).
