Will your Mystery Date be a dream or a dud?
Jan 132009
Jan 122009
Today’s Mystery Date presents you with a unique take on a classic jam. Unlike the better-known versions of this song, this one clocks in at a reasonable 6+ minutes, so you won’t, like, jam your entire afternoon away when there are so many jams in the sea. Take a listen to the track. If you know who it is, please refrain from posting. If you don’t know who it is, tell us what feel about this particular jam and how it stacks up against the classic versions you grew up, like, jammin’ along to.
Mystery Date, JAMuary’s Dream?
Dec 092008
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The Fireman is Paul McCartney and this dude “Youth” who played bass for Killing Joke and gained more rep with his “ambient house” collaborations with Orb.
Unbeknownst to moi, they started collaborating in 1993 and have realease a total of three albums, 1994’s Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest and 1998’s Rushes. I haven’t heard a single thing from these but understand they are heavily electronic and might not even include lyrics.
Can anyone shed some light on these for the class?
This new one Electric Arguments showed up highly praised on eMusic. I gave it a whirl and like it more than anything he has been involved with in a long, long time. It starts out pretty far away from electronic but by the second half gets pretty deep.
Track 1 Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight
Very little in the way of anything Beatles, at least not overtly except for:
Track 2 Two Magpies
And by Track 11 we’ve gotten here: Is This Love
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Dec 042008
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Here’s a Mystery Date who’s always liked it that way. You know what they say about the quiet ones!
Mystery Date 12/03/08 (click to play)
If you know who this is, please hold your typing fingers and let others tell us how they feel about this number. Along the way, someone may even want to take a guess our Mystery Date’s identity!
Sep 192008
Whaddayouknow?!?! It’s Lowell George‘s first band, The Factory. After a Townsperson posted a link to an the appearance on F Troop by a garage band including a young George, I was curious to hear if he’d ever recorded anything in that vein. Turns out that band on F Troop was The Factory.
A single produced by Frank Zappa, “Lightning-Rod Man”, fit the bill, and years later an entire album’s worth of groovy ’60s music with The Factory was released. The band also included future Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward and a guy named Martin Kibbee, who would later cowrite some of Little Feat’s more characteristic songs with George. (I’ve never been a big Feat fan, so maybe he’s a household name in your little shoe of a house.)
First, a couple more tracks in the psych-pop vein of our Mystery Date.
Lowell George & The Factory, “Candy Cane Madness”
Lowell George & The Factory, “No Place I’d Rather Be”
Next, a couple of tracks more like what you’d expect from a proto-founding menber of Little Feat. In fact, each of these songs would be re-recorded by Little Fear over their first two albums.
Lowell George & The Factory, “Teenage Nervous Breakdown”
Lowell George & The Factory, “Crack in Your Door”
I found this album on eMusic. Don’t forget our free introductory offer to sample eMusic, as linked on the right margin of The Main Stage! There’s more good stuff where these tracks were downloaded.
Sep 192008
This may not be a revelation for some of you, but it surprised the socks off of me. Really, I’m sitting here barefoot as I compose this post. What I’d like to hear are your thoughts on the tunes, maaaaan. If you know who it is, keep your smartypants on long enough to let Townspeople share their thoughts. Then, when today’s Mystery Date is revealed, we’ll see if anyone else is as surprised as I still am.
