Austin Improv

the Decemberists, the Solids and the 88 on my iTunes. original London cast recording of Les Miserables and Crash Test Dummies in my truck.

i'm in an odd mood lately.

this is a great concept album with some totally unnecessary, on-the-nose "narrative" spoken-word sections interjected. but the actual music is great.

this song reminds me of being on tour with the cupholders and then not being on tour with the cupholders: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnXNagv-mGA

mcnichol wrote:

Names and titles? How can you not love an album titled African Scream Contest? Amazing.

shando wrote:Names and titles? How can you not love an album titled African Scream Contest? Amazing.

Here you go! Names, titles, and more...

I Don't Feel At Home In This World Anymore LP: great compilation from Mississippi Records who recently brought the Irma Thomas record, the Orchestre Regional de Kayes record, the Life Is A Problem comp (all on previous pages of this thread). All American music, but varied styles, often from immigrants. Greek, Hawaiian, Mexican, Cajun, etc.
Two Gospel Keys - I Don't Feel At Home...

Wounded Lion - Carol Cloud 7": New single on the great S-S Records. Jury's still out for me, but I keep listening to it. Sounds like the product of an art school education.
Video for the b-side, "Pony People"

Deerhoof - Offend Maggie LP: Still taking it in. Wasn't too thrilled by the last two (so much as the 4 prior to those!) but this sounds a little simpler, less proggy. On rotation.

Rolling Stones - Aftermath LP: C'mon! Does classic rock radio have to keep playing just the late 60's Stones? This one and Between the Buttons showed that these guys could go beyond aping their favorite blues and r&b and write their own tunes. "Out of Time"!!!

Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill LP: Gorgeous guitar and voice under a haze of fog and smoke. One person does it all. A little clearer than the previous records, if you can believe it.
Grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather be Sleeping

African Scream Contest LP: Compilation of great 70s funk from Benin and Togo parts of Africa.
VIDEO!!! for Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey's "Gbeti Madjro"
BONUS VIDEO!!!! for their song "Minsato Le, Mi Dayihome"

Bonus!:
Adriano Celentano - "Prisencolinensinainciusol" This fucking song. I keep playing the youtube video of it over and over, unsure what to make it of it. I have almost no reference or context for this. Bizarre dancing, dude's dressed like a hobo, ultimate groove from heaven, detached female vocals... how do you end a song like that? With a harmonica solo, of course. It came out in 1972 and it sounds like it could be on a dancefloor next week. I heard it first on some DJ's remix thing and I thought for sure he must have added elements to it. Nope, just beefed up the bass a bit. Pretty much the same as in this video. Wow.
1972!!! Video of said song
d/l the re-edit w beefed up bass and extra stuff

Lipa Kodi Ya City Council LP - Another Mississippi Records comp, this time of late 60's early 70's highlife and other african music. Beautiful! This and their more recent Love Is Love comp (covering similar ground) have been a summer soundtrack. Here's one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard from it:
link to a d/l of S. E. Rogie's "Do Me Justice"

For Frank:
I love that Can record (and Tago Mago). Recently blew my mind when I came across this on youtube:
NYC B-BOYS POPPIN IN A SUBWAY STATION TO CAN'S "VITAMIN C"!!!!!

Bob! Somehow I knew you'd know this one. Thanks for the video. I'm currently scouring the Joe Frank archives for music. Can's "One More Night" was the background music for "Bible Salesman".

ROCTOBER

I am ashamed of myself, just know that right now.

Future of the Left - Curses

Ex-mclusky and ex-Jarcrew members make up FotL.

mcnichol wrote:

Does this indicate a general VU binge, or did a new bootleg surface?

I'd been listening to the "Sweet Sister Ray"* tape this past week or two but then onto a general binge once i got a taste of the sweet sweet nectar. nothing new's been about that i know of since the gymnasium 1967 stuff surfaced earlier in the year (which was insane!).


*lemme gush: this is the 40 minute preamble they'd sometimes play before segueing into "Sister Ray" during the late 1967 / early 1968 shows. Totally different lyrics and everything. Not so much a noise-overload mindblower, but just a long mellow guitar interlock thing -- it sounds closer to Spacemen 3's mellower side than to Sister Ray. It was only caught on tape this once, from April 1968, and of course the tape runs out as they get going on "Sister Ray" proper, about three lines in. I found a flac copy awhile back from a tape source, but here's an mp3s (if you wanna hear -- it's just the part incorrectly listed as "part one"): http://detailedtwang.blogspot.com/2008/ ... -said.html