My Favorite Things (9/30)

Hello, all. So, Spotify is still really cool--but in somewhat accordance to the Slow Listening Movement, I've vowed to stop downloading so much until I've actually, you know, listened to everything. This means I've been doing a lot of listening. A lot of this lot of listening has been directed, though, at finding songs for my new radio show--that's right: my radio show (well, my and my friend's). It's called That Thing, and it's on WBAR from six to eight EST every Friday morning. (The shows'll be archived in case you don't feel like waking up...) Anyways, the show essentially just plays soul from the mid-50s to mid-70s. You should listen one time.

Betty Davis - "If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up"

Brian Eno - "Windows 95 Startup Sound (11 Minute Loop)"

David Bowie - Stage (Live, Boston 1978)

Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs

Hawkwind - Space Ritual

Ike & Tina Turner - "Funkier Than A Mosquita's Tweeter"

Iron Butterfly - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"

The Last Poets - The Last Poets

The Meatmen - We're The Meatmen... And You Suck

Mikal Cronin - "Apathy"

Twin Sister - In Heaven

Ty Segall - "Finger"

Ultra Vivid Scene - "It Happens Every Time"

Van Dyke Parks - Discover America

Various - Eccentric Soul: Twinight's Lunar Rotation

My Favorite Things (9/18)

"Did she say there was other guys there? Did she say there was other guys there? Were there other guys there? Well, tell me this: how the fuck she know I was with them other girls then?"

I rediscovered R. Kelly's under-appreciated masterpiece, "Real Talk," this week--but my most important musical find is much more earth-shattering, believe it or not. It's Spotify. I got it a few days ago, and it's changed everything; all I have to do is click and drag to get all the free, legal music I want on my computer. It's overwhelming, but it's beautiful. Anyways, it's resulted in a lot of new Favorite Things for me, so this edition of My Favorite Things will include not fifteen, but thirty selections. Enjoy.

The Angels of Light - Everything Is Good Here/Please Come Home

Curtis Mayfield - "(Don't Worry) If There's A Hell Below, We're All Going To Go"

Cybotron - Clear

Dalek - From Filthy Tongues of Gods and Griots

Danny Brown - "Monopoly"

Deerhoof - "Goin' Up The Country (Live)"

Depeche Mode - Ultra

Don Cherry - "Brown Rice"

Essential Logic - Fanfare In The Garden

The Fire Show - Saint The Fire Show

Fire! with Jim O'Rourke - "Are You Both Still Unreleased?"

The Flirtations - "Nothing But A Heartache"

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Henry Cow - "Guider Tells of Silent Airborne Machine"

Jackie Wilson - "Higher and Higher"

The Jesters - "Love No One But You"

Jocy de Oliveira - A Musica do Secolo

Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma

Lightnin' Rod - Hustlers Convention

Minutemen - Paranoid Time EP

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey

R. Kelly - "Real Talk"

Slim Harpo - Raining In My Heart

Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania

Tom Ze - Estudando A Bossa

UGK - "Underground"

Vandermark 5 - "Further From The Truth (For Walker Evans)"

Willis Earl Beal - "Blue Escape"

The Wonders - "That Thing You Do!"

Youth Lagoon - "July"

My Favorite Things (9/3)

I've been in college nearly a week at this point, and while I have plenty of time to listen to music, I don't have plenty of time to acquire new music. So my favorite things of the past fortnight or so are things we've all heard before--but that doesn't mean they're not good. Anyways, these are them. (I don't feel like including YouTube links anymore...)

Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda

Alvarius B. - Baroque Primitiva

Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw

Balam Acab - "Oh, Why"

Bonnie "Prince" Billy - The Letting Go

Crass - Stations Of The Crass

Curtis Mayfield - "Pusherman"

Cut Hands - Afro Noise 1

Eagles of Death Metal - "San Berdoo Sunburn"

Expo '70 - "Close Your Eyes And Effortlessly Drift Away"

George Harrison - "Isn't It A Pity"

Laurel Halo - Hour Logic

Prurient - "Palm Tree Corpse"

Terius Nash - "Wake Me When It's Over"

Sun Araw - Ancient Romans