What are you spinning?

Joe_Stax · Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 3:56 am Post subject:

Kitty, my Mrs, wanted me to mention that on some songs on Meet the Smithereens, Pat DiNizio really channels Elvis Costello.
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Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

I don't know how I missed out on that Smithereens disc. Embarassed

Been a fan of theirs for ages.
My multiple spin category has been taken up with the "Mozhi" soundtrack. A Tamil language film, that came out last year. VERY different from the stuff You hear in recent "Bollywood" productions. The music does brush up against M.O.R. at times, but it's fantastic. The standout track is "Katrin Mozhiye Oliya Isaiya", sung by Sujitha. Sounds like what Norah Jones would have done, had she been raised by Dad. Words don't adequately describe how good this song is. Thank goodness for the repeat button, man! Laughing

Peace!

R.A.L.
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:59 am Post subject:

I'm having another 80's flashback right now. The one record I've been spinning a lot this last week or so is HEXBREAKER! by the Fleshtones, which came out in 1983 on the IRS label.

It's a great record; chock full of high energy garage rock. The band preferred to call their sound Super Rock, and described it thusly:

"Super Rock is all of the great elements that make rock & roll the great and vital thing that excites people rolled into one, without saying, this is disco or this is garage rock. Putting it together and rolling it up into one big greasy ball: that’s Super Rock." so says singer Peter Zaremba.

"Super Rock is taking the best, most exciting elements of rock & roll, and exaggerating and amplifying them beyond proportion, with no apology whatsoever." which is the opinion of drummer Bill Milhizer.

However you describe it, I dig it!

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JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Geez, Joe, I can't believe you weren't spinnin' "The Kinks Are The Village Green..." years ago. I love that album, but I would not call it psychedelic (as Mojo Magazine did in it's special issue on the topic 2 years ago...).
Anyway,
I'm spinnin' a self-titled psych record by a French group: Les Fleurs de Pavot from 1968. Kinda like Os Mutantes meets The Moody Blues wherein both groups attempt to utilize lyrics in French as some sort of neutral ground. In any case, they are full of psychedelic surprises and groovy as Hell!
Also been spinning "It's Smoke Time" by The Smoke ca. '65, and Arzachel which is kinda heavy psych-prog from '68. Mr. Green

Joe_Stax · Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2007 2:17 am Post subject:

Thanks to our discussion of the upcoming Pink Floyd anniversary set, I'm digging the 1967 singles and Piper (in glorious MONO). I may go for Saucerful of Secrets yet, or maybe switch over to the Robyn Hitchcock tribute to Syd, wherein he plays all of Piper live.
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Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

I've been spinning a lot of "Squaresville" stuff lately.
Part of it is due to compiling a Lounge comp for possible future release.
I've avoided putting better known artists on it, like Esquivel, in favour of George Poole and his Orchestra, or Klaus Ogermann. This is real "Dad Music" material! Laughing

This past month a sweet li'l Labrador Retriever mix Dog adopted me. She really isn't into the music I tend to blast around the house at full volume. She does
like "Environmental" and New Age, though.
My goal is to get her into The Dirtbombs and all the other freaky jams that I'm into. If I can play Zappa and keep her in the same room with me, without hearing the pitter-patter of little Canine feet bolting for the back door, it will be a mission accomplished. Twisted Evil

Peace!

-R.A.L.
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Rockin'_Art_Lewis · Joined: 23 Apr 2007 Posts: 119 Location: Gallup, NM.

Much cooler picks, over the weekend. Cool

Humble Pie's "Lost And Found" set. (The first two L.P.s "As Safe As Yesterday Is" and "Town And Country" in one really silly looking gatefold.)
Odd thing about this release, is that "Natural Born Bugie" replaces "Growing Closer" on the vinyl, even though it's not mentioned on the label or sleeve.
Any way you slice or dice these albums, they're still brilliant.
The slightly less brilliant, but pretty darn good other piece of wax that factored into Saturday morning was The Butts Band's eponymous release. This was the group that Krieger and Densmore settled into after the breakup of some other band. Laughing

Phillip Chen, a criminally overlooked bassman if there ever was one, provides some tasty bottom end here. (Okay, that sounds disgusting, but the name of the outfit is The Butts Band for crying out freakin' loud!! Laughing

) Nothing great musically, but it's still a nice listen.

Peace!

-R.A.L.
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Joe_Stax · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:21 am Post subject:

Y'know, I've always wondered about the Butts Band. As a Doors fan in high school, I read about the post-Doors stuff, but much of that material was nigh impossible to find in the early 80's in York, PA.

A few years later, with access to a hipper record store while in college near Erie I picked up Other Voices, some solo Manzarek, and a 12" single by the Krieger-Densmore Reggae Bonanza. That was my first exposure to Bob Marley, too! (Get Up Stand Up was side 1. I think it was released on Rhino)

As for Humble Pie, I'll stand by Town & Country as their best album.
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JimENight · Site Admin Joined: 16 Jul 2006 Posts: 183

Don't look now, but SOMEBody's been diggin' "A Gift From Euphoria".
Details to follow.

Joe_Stax · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 1:56 am Post subject:

Tonight it was the Rada Krshna Temple album, the one produced by George Harrison. Can't explain it, really.

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