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Sunday, February 27, 2011
This Week's Auctions
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Our Notepad #2
Κάποιοι νοστάλγησαν τις κασσετούλες τους.
Είναι ώρα λοιπόν να ξαναξεφυλλίσω το ωραιότατο βιβλίο που έχει "γράψει" ο Thurston Moore σχετικά με το ρόλο που έπαιξαν οι κασσέτες στις δεκαετιές που πέρασαν :"The first time I ever heard of someone making a mix tape was in 1978. Robert Christgau, the "dean of rock critics," was writing in The Village Voice about his favorite Clash record, which just happened to be the one he made himself: a tape of all the band's non-LP B-sides. One aspect really struck me - Christgau said it was a tape he made to give to friends. He had made his own personalized Clash record and was handing it out as a memento of his rock-and-roll devotion." Ολόκληρη η εισαγωγή του βιβλίου στο Wired.
Acoustic Sessions
Pete Yorn's can be found here.
Pete Yorn on CD.
Swingin' Utters' can be found here.
Swingin Utters on CD.
Latin Rock, Mashups & the usual Coverville excellence
The doors to this hell will close, and perhaps I will want to leave.
That's a line from the 1973 song "Confesiones de invierno" ("Winter confessions") by Argentine band Sui Generis. At first listen, it's a song about heartbreak — specifically a guy who gets dumped by his girlfriend for not having a job. But buried in that mundane story a storm is brewing. A few lines later, the singer laments having drowned his sorrows in alcohol, and gotten a beating by the police.
That's because the '60s and '70s were a time of political turmoil in Latin America. By the 1970s most Latin American nations were ruled by brutal dictatorships. The ominous line from Sui Generis' "Confesiones" had become a reality. Much of Latin America turned into a true hell for those unable to leave.
Read the article & listen to the show here.
Since the dawn of the DJ, mashups have become an increasing part of music culture. Artists like Gregg “Girl Talk” Gillis have popularized the party mix mashup, throwing together song upon songs to create full albums worth of mashed up material. And full mashup albums like Danger Mouse’s The Grey Album, a mix between The Beatles’The White Album and Jay-Z’s The Black Album, have proven surprisingly cohesive.
Often, the best mashups are the most surprising. Two songs with nothing in common come together to form a new something great. We picked several of our favorite offbeat, unlikely, or just plain awesome mashups.
Read the article & view the videos here.
This Cover Story focuses on a major contributor to the Motown sound – not just as a performer, but as a songwriter, too. Covers of Smokey Robinson & The Miracles – as well as the original.
Listen to the podcast here.
Smokey Robinson on Vinyl .
Smokey Robinson on CD
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Our Notepad #1
James Greene Jr's crate diggin' for Crawdaddy is fruitful :URGH! A Music War
Urgh! That’s the noise a sweat-streaked baby boomer makes as he desperately thrusts on the dance floor with his daughter’s friends, praying respect comes before the heart attack. Urgh! is the sound a chubby teamster sarcastically emits while moving an empty box five minutes before the end of his shift. Urgh? Why, that’s what you hear when small, ignorant children attempt to impersonate the Frankenstein monster, not realizing in Mary Shelly’s original book the monster was perfectly fluent in English (why are America’s schools failing our children?).
Of course, Urgh! is also the title of an epic 1982 concert film directed by Derek Burbidge that rounds up a music nerd’s wet dream of cutting edge new wave acts. The Police, the Go-Go’s, Wall of Voodoo, OMD, Echo and the Bunnymen, Magazine, XTC, Jools Holland, Gang of Four, Klaus Nomi—and that’s just scraping the surface. Each of the 40-some odd groups perform a song apiece in Urgh!, except for the Police, who perform three because, even by this time, they were The Police. They already had “Roxanne”, “Message in a Bottle”, “Walking on the Moon”, and that “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” mess to their name. Also, Miles Copeland, owner of IRS Records and brother of Police drummer Stewart Copeland, originally produced Urgh! I don’t want to cry nepotism, but… Well, let’s just say the tables may have been turned had Klaus Nomi’s brother produced this film.
Read the whole article at Crawdaddy! Get the shiny vinyl at UsedRecords.gr
Josh Rotter interviews The Church for Crawdaddy!
“It was a bit of a shock,” Kilbey said during our phone interview earlier this month. “All of our other albums were made in Sydney, where we’d sort of wake up and catch the bus into the studio. We’d work in town, so our friends dropped in. The recording process felt friendly.
“In LA, the studios were miles away from where we were staying,” he continued. “Some of the producers were kind of hostile and some just disinterested. We were kind of hippie characters flown into all this, and we didn’t like it.”
Συχνοτικής Συμπεριφοράς αφιέρωμα στον David Sylvian
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Hairy gatefold
From time to time we get some interesting artwork.Let's just say that Bijelo Dugme's Sta Bi Dao Da Si Na Mom Mjestu (which also includes a young Goran Bregovic) needed special mention.
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
The Guy With The Arab Strap
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
No Pussyfooting - John Peel's Way.
While i was listening to my favourite radio program last night ,i became aware of the "No Pussyfooting - John Peel story".A little bit of google and there are more than one sides to every story (as usual):
1.The Eno/Fripp - Peel "conspiracy" (from BigO):
"The money on the table is that this "session" never existed and that John Peel was in on the joke. Apparently, someone thought it would be a lark to just reverse the flow of the No Pussyfooting album and have Peel introduce them as the "tracks" from the said album. Some Eno fans swear that this session was just the LP played backwards. If that's true it's still worth listening as Eno and Fripp were trying to get the three-minute pop music fan to think deeper into sound and the ambience it created. It takes an open mind to allow for such experiments on national radio. You just won't hear anything like this today. There's still NOTHING ON THE RADIO. "
2.The John Peel tests the audience aspect (by Julian Cope):
"(Peel) realised that no-one at the station actually listened to the show...This first became apparent to him when no-one complained about the various cock-ups he made. Later in his career John would become notorious for these spontaneous errors; there was one infamous occasion in 1973 when he played tracks from Robert Fripp and Brian Eno’s No Pussyfooting backwards, though only Eno called to point out this mistake."
3.The Reel-To-Reel factor (by John Kelman):
"But "The Heavenly Music Corporation" did get one official play on UK radio, courtesy of legendary radio personality John Peel. What transpired, however, was a complete broadcast of the piece—but in reverse, the result of a misunderstanding as to how the reel of tape (the BBC's source, rather than the vinyl album) was stored."
4. The accident (from the Guardian)
"...it was always highly entertaining to hear John Peel regularly get his 33 and his 45 RPM mixed up. On one memorable occasion, Peel distinguished himself by playing an entire side of Fripp and Eno's No Pussyfooting backwards. Brian Eno was the only listener to notice anything was amiss."
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"The money on the table is that this "session" never existed and that John Peel was in on the joke. Apparently, someone thought it would be a lark to just reverse the flow of the No Pussyfooting album and have Peel introduce them as the "tracks" from the said album. Some Eno fans swear that this session was just the LP played backwards. If that's true it's still worth listening as Eno and Fripp were trying to get the three-minute pop music fan to think deeper into sound and the ambience it created. It takes an open mind to allow for such experiments on national radio. You just won't hear anything like this today. There's still NOTHING ON THE RADIO. "
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"(Peel) realised that no-one at the station actually listened to the show...This first became apparent to him when no-one complained about the various cock-ups he made. Later in his career John would become notorious for these spontaneous errors; there was one infamous occasion in 1973 when he played tracks from Robert Fripp and Brian Eno’s No Pussyfooting backwards, though only Eno called to point out this mistake."
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| "Happy now?" |
"But "The Heavenly Music Corporation" did get one official play on UK radio, courtesy of legendary radio personality John Peel. What transpired, however, was a complete broadcast of the piece—but in reverse, the result of a misunderstanding as to how the reel of tape (the BBC's source, rather than the vinyl album) was stored."
4. The accident (from the Guardian)
"...it was always highly entertaining to hear John Peel regularly get his 33 and his 45 RPM mixed up. On one memorable occasion, Peel distinguished himself by playing an entire side of Fripp and Eno's No Pussyfooting backwards. Brian Eno was the only listener to notice anything was amiss."
Monday, October 11, 2010
Οι πέντε δίσκοι που αγάπησα πριν αρχίσω να αγοράζω δίσκους.
Εκεί που καθόμουν το Σάββατο το πρωί και σκεφτόμουν τι να κάνει η Ζανέτ Καπουγια αποφάσισα να ανατρέξω & να θυμηθώ ποιοι ήταν οι πραγματικά πρώτοι δίσκοι που έλιωσα στο πικ-απ βαλιτσάκι πριν αρχίσουν να παρελαύνουν οι U2,Deep Purple,Bauhaus,Joy Division,VU,Doors,Sex Pistols και ο ελληνικός στίχος πάει απο'κει που'ρθε μέχρι οι Panx Romana να βοηθήσουν να επιτευχθεί μια σχετική ισσοροπία.Ιδού λοιπόν (οι δυο τελευταίοι σε κασετα):
Χαρρυ Κλυνν – Για Δέσιμο
Θεμης Ανδρεαδης - Τραγουδάει Λογό
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