Some mega playlist I used to load up an iPod nano about 10 years ago... fun to just shuffle it and see what happens...
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What are you listening to? Part III
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Nice B&S selection. I occasionally queue up Tigermilk and If You're Feeling Sinister back to back (just for kind of a debut-followup flow, but there are clearly better records than Tigermilk, like The Life Pursuit).
LOL that "playlist" was a 4MB iPod nano loader... so "it could be in there somewhere". I do actually have some of John Carter's stuff but in truth that's not one of them. He really did sound like old recordings of Rudy Vallée in that one, I have to say.
If You're Feeling Sinister and Life Pursuit have the tracks I play most often of their albums. There are just one or two tracks from their other albums that landed in my iPod nano loaders. Some were from Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, I think. I liked their stuff on my long commutes up from the city. It was just different enough from other stuff in the mix to keep up my interest when part of my brain was offering to handle the tag end of the drive via autopilot (and maybe cause me to miss a critical exit off the interstate).
Flight of the Conchords
For when you're in the mood for something light and silly.
For when you're in the mood for something light and silly.
Time to calm down... not sure this will cut it but it was overdue for a listen anyway. 
It's your basic resilience offering from the power pop crowd. Kinda like a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup. The world is not ending after all. And like we care, some days.
It's your basic resilience offering from the power pop crowd. Kinda like a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup. The world is not ending after all. And like we care, some days.
I've never been that much into punk, but there are a few bands that are pretty important to me in that genre. There's stuff by various bands that I still listen to, but it's pretty rare nowadays. It just so happens that a friend from a long time ago reached out yesterday evening, and while we were having a beer at a local bar earlier today this song came on. Now, we both only had one beer so no one sang along, but still, for both of us it having been a long time since we last listened to this, we easily could have.
So now I'm at home listening to this record and singing along. My friend's dog who I'm dogsitting doesn't seem to think I'm much of a singer. And he'd be right in thinking that.
So now I'm at home listening to this record and singing along. My friend's dog who I'm dogsitting doesn't seem to think I'm much of a singer. And he'd be right in thinking that.
Dude ... right from my iPhone
Also, when we were at this new pub a couple of weeks ago I saw a sign for this in the bathroom
https://www.magichat.net/elixirs/barroomhero/
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Yah, it's a keeper. The cover grows on me too. Could serve as my alternate avatar sometimes.
I still cannot believe I was almost at ground zero for this song and album (I think it came out later in the States than the U.K., I forget) but I still love both as much as I did as when it was released. One of four 80s metal albums that I still listen on a frequent basis (though Lemmy preferred the term rock n' roll).
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I've seen Thor:Ragnarok 3 times and cannot place this track. But lots of bonus points for the mash up John Carpenter masks (The Fog & They Live), plus a Carpenter vibe on the song itself.
Sonic Youth night for me... this one at the moment: Turquoise Boy (from Rather Ripped)
That it is! As is the whole album (and band), as I'm sure @D.T. can attest to as well! Give it a spin, if you haven't already. All the celtic/irish/folky etc. influences are great (there are entirely too few bagpipes being played in contemporary rock!), and best of all none of it sticks out like a gimmick, if you know what I mean. It's just all there, and that's where it naturally belongs.
I played it in the car yesterday, bagpipes and grinding guitars against a background of a wailing V8 at 7000 RPM
I played it in the car yesterday, bagpipes and grinding guitars against a background of a wailing V8 at 7000 RPM
Ok, downloading it from iTunes.
The nexus of bagpipes and V8 sealed it.
Tonight was about toe-tapping stuff for what's left of autumn out on the porch. This one's from the late and great dobro player Mike Auldridge, eponymous album, track is Indian Summer. Not sure who the other players are here, he made a bunch of recordings with The Seldom Scene musicians but was famously a magnet for ad hoc groups as well.
