Thanks, Ogged! Loving the first one.
I hope for more Unfogged playlists. I still have some of Apo's, and Neb's Hallowe'en mix terrifies the neighbour kids every year.
Neb's Hallowe'en mix terrifies the neighbour kids every year.
This delights me!
Covering Jackson? I mean, both Florence and the Machine did a good job and all but that's a tall order.
A thoughtfully collection, ogled. Seconding 4, though. I like both the artists, but the sass and glee of the original has gone missing. I also prefer my Fortunate Son covers to be up-tempo, a large the Dropkick Murphys. I think I'll spend some time throwing together a covers playlist. Look for something later today.
Here's a first swag--additions, rearrangements may come later.
Irritatingly, several of my favorite covers are missing--the Bad Plus version of "Everybody Wants to Rule the World," the White Stripes version of "Jolene," the 7 Seconds version of "99 Red Ballooons"... Oh well.
6--I'm not criticizing your mix, just your musical taste.
On a related note, I've been using Apple Music with a decent amount of success since T-giving. It's frustrating that they don't use the extensive record of what I've listened to on iTunes over the past 12 years to be better from the start, and a bit too much of their suggestions/recommendations are obvious*, but it's balanced by stuff like today, where they presented me with 16 albums in 4 genres, and I'm listening to #5 (Devo, Freedom of Choice).
I'm mostly bringing this up, though, because my mind was blown by the following: The Easybeats ("Friday on my Mind") were Australian, and one of the 2 main songwriters was not only the big brother of Angus Young and another AC/DC member, but also co-produced 7 of their albums. I really, really never associated those two bands before. The album with "Friday on my Mind", BTW, is a pretty good piece of Revolver-era pop-rock.
I have basically stopped making careful mixes on Spotify-- I add mood-relevant songs to a few big mixes, and go to radio from the mixes for more. Probably a consequence of laziness and how I tend to listen.
Here's one that's close to careful, music from Mali and Senegal
https://open.spotify.com/user/lw208xx/playlist/3YjlOSjIQJ81vBlmjhAHzt
I am deeply enjoying the chance to sample artists I only knew a little on a whim-- Yabby You and Loretta Lynn are two recent pleasures, also to effortlessly listen to classical and jazz-- jazz is a little frustrating because so many recordings of moderately popular artists with variable sound quality.
Then there are times when something like this is what I want, listen at your own risk, the anonymous stairway to heaven cover is actually Dolly Parton.
https://open.spotify.com/user/lw208xx/playlist/7jiqvMkUVIF9ykg4OHJ7uG
I have a lot of affection for Dolly. I was really willing to give her a shot on Stairway. At a couple points with the backup singers I thought something magical was about to happen, but then it kinder of wandered off into blandness and never came back.
I know I said I was criticizing ogged's musical taste above, but I'm really not questioning yours or his or anyone else's (well, maybe sooommmmee people), I just like finding different interesting music and shooting the shit about it.
Yeah that second mix is basically sarcasm which I'll indulge in, musical equivalent of Dutch language retread of the Golden Girls or Hallmark Channel drama.
Classical was basically the reason I subscribed to Spotify-- I couldn't deal with pieces being chopped up by shuffling. There also finding a particular performance is horrible in Spotify's interface.
Here's another one that's reasonably careful, mostly Ye-Ye
https://open.spotify.com/user/lw208xx/playlist/73hi7U6wW8qu4ZwRjegP9R
I don't have a playlist, but here's a song which popped into my head yesterday. Rosalie Sorrel's cover of "Don't Go Home" (which Utah Phillips wrote after coming back from Korea.
There's something magical about her version -- both in just how natural it sounds for her (in her late sixties) to be singing from the perspective of a 20-something man, and that, for a song which is only 1:44 long, how strongly it esablishes a mood.
The way that she sings the refrain, "Don't go home / Don't go home / Your true love ain't so true if she won't write to you" conveys such despair and heartbreak.
I'm in the midst of putting together a mix cd for the kid's 16th* birthday, so much fun and delightfully hard. Want neb's halloween mix!
*how did this happen??? And on recent measuring he's just a whisker shy of 6'4" in stocking feet. Careful how well you feed your kids!
Tracklist:
01 - George Crumb - Songs, Drones and Refrains of Death, Quest - 06 - Songs, Drones & Refrains of Death (1962-68) 6. Death Drone II.mp3
02 - Einsturzende Neubauten - Drawings Of Patient O.T. - 04 - Neun Arme.ogg
03 - John Fahey - Best of the Vanguard Years - 05 - Singing Bridge Of Memphis, Tennessee.ogg
04 - Tetuzi Akiyama, Kevin Corcoran, Christian Kiefer - Low Cloud Means Death - 08 - Curious Forms With Darkness.mp3
05 - Derek Bailey & Keiji Haino - Songs - 06 - Boka Ga Nejirekireru To Ai.mp3
06 - Wolfmangler - Cooking with Wolves - 01 - All of You.mp3
07 - Locrian & Mamiffer - Bless Them that Curse You - 02 - Bless Them That Curse You.mp3
08 - Jandek - White Box Requiem - 14 - Didn't Really Die.ogg
09 - Boduf Songs - Boduf Songs - 03 - Our Canon Of Transposition.ogg
10 - Deathprod - Imaginary Songs from Tristan a Cunha - 02 - Stony Beach.mp3
11 - Bleaks - Haste, Error - 01 - Pulse 92.mp3
12 - Mnemonists - Horde - 06 - The Horde_00m_00s__04m_32s.ogg
13 - Jon Rose & K. K. Null - Transgenic Nomad - 11 - Deepfield.mp3
14 - Rope - Fever - 02 - Damn High Mountain.ogg
15 - King Crimson - VROOOM - 06 - When I Say Stop, Continue.mp3
16 - Zs - Music of the Modern White - 06 - MMW 2 pt 3.mp3
17 - Khanate - Things Viral - 04 - Too Close Enough To Touch.ogg
Those were me, perhaps needless to say.
No way to buy one of these yet, unfortunately