Kaw! Kaw!
Going to take me a while to put one together, too. I better get going.
First concert: They Might Be Giants, on the Flood tour.
First mosh pit: Also TMBG. Hey, don't ask me, man. It was the thing.
Dude you let your son listen to emo? Are you sure that's good for him?
It's okay, Tweety. I'm going to take him in the shower and show him my penis afterwards.
Just wacky mix tape? Each person picks the theme?
Billy Joel on Long Island.
I find it disturbing that there are so many concerts geared towards kids today- not something like dancing muppets, but actual concerts with tickets over $100.
Wacky modifies "fun-time weekend", not "mix tape", Will. You are the captain of your ship.
First concert: tomorrow evening, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame at the Rock N Roll Hotel in DC.
I much enjoyed your funk-tastic mixtape, Apo -- album cover art, even!
Speaking of concerts, TMBG's playing here in a couple of weeks. Should I make myself get off my ass and get tickets?
Let it Bleed, Stones
Elvis is Everywhere, Mojo Nixon
Cleaning Windows, Van Morrison
President, Wyclef Jean
Dear God, XTC
Happiness is a Warm Gun, Beatles
Busload of Faith, Lou Reed
Rocket in My Pocket, Little Feet
Ain't No Free, NRBQ
You Should Have Seen Me Running, New Riders of the Purple Sage
Matrimony, WhiskeyTown
We're Not the Jet Set, John Prine & Iris DeMent
Burn On Down, Ben Harper
Hell Yes, Beck
Wreck of the Barbie Ferrarie, John Hiatt
First concert weekend
Friday Night: The Ventures
Saturday Night: Dead Kennedys, Bad Religion, Government Issue.
Friday night was at the original Nightclub 9:30 at 930 F Street. Saturday night was at WUST Radio Hall on V street, which oddly is the site of the new 9:30 Club.
You owe it to Unfogged to see TMBG, B.
They did, but I didn't appreciate it at the time.
I bought a 45, which I think I still have, signed by the band.
11: Yeah, I like them. And I suspect I'm in the right age group. Should I bring PK?
At the time, I was wondering why my hip friends were taking me to see a bunch of old guys who didn't even sing.
Of course, B. TMBG's children's music just isn't that different than their adult music.
Besides, PK should be exposed to the good things in life.
I'm not much of a concertgoer, but the first concert I remember was Charles Lloyd with Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette ("Forest Flower" ca. 1967). Loved it.
Disappointing early concerts: Big Mama Thornton, Country Joe and the Fish. (Ca. 1970).
Best recent concert by a national act: Sonny Sharrock (ca. 1990? 1995? -- during his lifetime, anyway.)
Missed concert: Jimi Hendrix around 1967, $3.
First concert:BB King & Chicago. Chicago was touring their 2nd album. Jose Feliciano opening for BST (sometimes in winter) was around there somewhere. And Amboy Dukes playing a frat rush.
It was all a long time ago, and I was really stoned.
16: I agree, I just wonder about the volume.
First concert: Pablo Cruise & the Outlaws at the Mosque in Richmond. Late 70's or early 80's (parents brought me)
First, concert w/out parents: Grateful Dead Norfolk Scope 1983 or 82.
My first concert was either Radiohead or Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.
Mine was Chuck Mangione. I was like 15, 16?
I'm impressed, even now, at what a dork I was.
CHUCK MANGIONE?!?
Holy shit that rules.
August of '83, I think, Olympic Stadium in Montreal: Stevie Ray Vaughn, Peter Tosh, Talking Heads and The Police. Needless to say, fucking awesome.
First concert - Bob Dylan with opening act Natalie Merchant, at the Broome County Arena (where Binghamton's minor-league hockey team plays). With my mom.
First non-mom concert - Guided By Voices at the soon-to-be-closed Beehive near the P/tt campus, something like 2 weeks into my freshman year. That was awesome.
And if you forget earplugs, go into the bathroom and get some toilet paper, wad it up, and jam it in your ears.
Pablo Cruise & the Outlaws
This lineup makes so much less sense than my first (Blackfoot and The Outlaws) that I'm having trouble wrapping my head around it.
Jesus saw some damn good music there. Also, I am as disappointed as Emerson that Thornton and Country Joe were no good.
Jesus McQ: That sounds awesome.
Emerson why was Big Mamma and Country Joe so bad?
My top three concerts:
Dizzy Gillespie at Cabel Hall UVa
Old Crow Medicine Show Richmond 2006
Jerry Garcia Band Lunt Fontane Theatre in 1988(?)
24: My sentiments, exactly. B, that's like +5 hipster cred.
But wait, Jesus saw a stadium show. I take it back. It sucked.
I cant explain it Apo. I was a kid. The Outlaws were so freaking loud that it hurt bad. I'm pretty tolerant to loud music, but it was ridiculous.
29: I was going to comment on that but then Chuck Mangione broke my brain.
First concert: They Might Be Giants
Man, I thought you were supposed to be old. My first was the Police at Sullivan Stadium, as we called it back in the day, and I've got a photograph of the t-shirt as proof. But I have to agree, "Telstar" is pretty much the greatest example of the flying saucer rock 'n' roll genre there is.
Best recent concert by a national act: Sonny Sharrock (ca. 1990? 1995? -- during his lifetime, anyway.)
I bet that was great.
Wait, if concerts your parents took you to count, my first was Pete Seeger and Arlo Gutherie at Wolf Trap. c. 1982.
Chuck Mangione broke my brain
Holy shit, I think I may have to revise--I don't think the Police were my first concert, Chuck Mangione was! My brother for some reason won tickets on the radio. Neither of us could drive at the time, so my dad had to drive us to Providence and then hang around. It was really boring. And I don't mean only for him.
I love youtube. Two different kinds of music, both good:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDZFf0pm0SE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAfwiOxaRbk&mode=related&search=
Big Mama had a bad night, bad amplification, bad crowd, something like that. Also, she wasn't big enough.
Country Joe: I believe that the original band had broken up and this was a pickup group. It could have been as late as 1971.
Two? Two regulars have Chuck Mangione as their first concerts? The odds of this are lower than a giant meteor strike.
And almost as scary.
But wait -- B trolling.
40: The Sesame Street performance of Superstition is just about the greatest thing ever.
B trolling, I not trolling. Easy.
Hey I liked the Outlaws. Funny that so many have seen them.
Never been to many concerts, and most of those in the early 70s. Saw the Dead with a biker hit-man.
Saw Jesse Colin Young followed by Beach Boys followed by CSNY on the 4-way street tour. Saw Yes doing Close to the Edge. Spent two days in the mud, Jerry Lee Lewis closed one night, Willie & Waylon the next.
My favourite ever was probably Stephen Stills & Manassas.
Another concert I just loved: Zap Mama at the Portland Zoo.
Damn! that was a granola audience, though. I drank as much beer as the other thousand people, it seemed. The poor vendors.
Two regulars have Chuck Mangione as their first concerts?
Well, my recollection is that they were practically begging people to take those tickets. It was way up in the cheap seats, and we spotted another kid my brother knew whose interest in smooth jazz was presumably pretty low. He had won tickets as well.
I take it back. It sucked.
Stadium, schmadium. It rocked, I tell you. Speaking of suck, how about them Mets?
49 comments and nobody's posted any music to download illegally? Sheesh. I better get to work.
50: First I'll have to scare the missus off the computer that contains all the music.
I'm going to have to think about the first one I saw, and when it was. The most recent was Emmylou Harris and Sam Bush, at Ravinia two weeks ago tomorrow.
How about some classic Talking Heads? Never saw them live, though I had to endure countless anecdotes about them from the father of a high school friend who taught at RISD.
The Pogues, someplace in Boston, I think. (I mean, I'd seen bands in clubs before that, but no one with a recording contract.)
Two from the blues:
Keb' Mo'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkrapUIhh9c
Robert Cray on quitting smoking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHFfmwFHOq0&mode=user&search=
50: I worked for about an hour last week to set up a radio station. Could'nt get ports and firewall right.
Current playlist:Fairport Convention,Ian Tyson,German Oak,Son Seals,Nick Heyward,Road,Kin Peng Meh,Hendrix,Genesis,Roy Buchanan, Bacon Fat,Zylan,Thunderclap Newman,Steeleye Span,Golden Dawn,Lightnin Hopkins,,Waylon Jennings,Spontaneous Combustion,Rita Coolidge,Jimmie Vaughan,McDonald & Sherby,Maria Muldaur, Cowboy,Paul McCartney,Chain,John Mayall & Bluesbreakers,Junior Kimbrough, Cat Mother
Jesus, LB. You lucky bitch. During the 90s my whole neighborhood worshiped the Pogues.
Rita Coolidge, Ian Tyson. Old. Maria Muldaur: sex cult. John Mayall: I wish I hadn't lost that record.
Thinking about the most recent music performance I've been to leads me to the sad conclusion that it was Dan Zanes and Friends at the Boston Children's Museum in, what, 2003? Christ, I don't even have kids and that's the best I can do. They rocked, though. And I appreciated it on so many more levels than the toddlers.
I'm thinking I might do a mixtape of all songs with really obvious and/or illegal saamples, just to get with the meta.
First concert: Johnny Cash, at the Alameda County Fair.
First Real Concert: Nirvana, New Years Eve, at the Kaiser Center. I've heard, but lack evidence, that this was their last US show.
Both were awesome.
First concert: 1993 HFStival in DC. Belly, INXS, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Iggy Pop, The Posies, Stereo MCs, Matthew Sweet, Velocity Girl, X. Arguably the best $12 I ever spent.
Joey and I are watching Dan Zanes on Youtube as we speak. He's my hero. The last four years of childrearing would be hell without him.
I was going to post the mix I made a few weeks ago, but then I realized that in encoded form about half the files are farts and I don't know how many will be able to play them, and anyway for the burned version I tightened up some of the transitions in audacity operating on the wav files, which are too big to post, practically. But I've been thinking of doing this again, if there's interest again.
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that this crowd has seen some fucking awesome shows over several decades.
53: The show I saw in Montreal, and the one in Portland later that year, were part of the tour immortalized in Stop Making Sense. See it if you haven't yet; it's one of the great concert films.
And it's 9:30, so off with the splint, on with the ice, and bye.
the television, with sound off and captions, has Will Farrell making it with Maggie Gyllenhall. Wooo...
Bob, if you're still here, is it funny or sexy?
Joey and I are watching Dan Zanes on Youtube as we speak. He's my hero.
Yeah, he's kind of mine as well, or one of them. He's really good at what he does, makes good music, and has a really great attitude about what he does. It's fun. Not everything on his records is for me, but enough is, and it tends to be very good.
Jesus, I've got a tape that I want to play:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzEadbTCKDA
You know, I'm pretty sure that I never saw a live performance by an honest-to-god recording artist until I was 26 years old. Junior Wells, at his blues club, just about this time of year, 1978.
Many by bands, some very good, not to that level of recognition, before that. In Columbus, there is or was very authentic Bluegrass, people just down from the mountains, then in the last stages of depopulation. That very high singing, like Ralph Stanley. I know now there was very good black music, blues and soul, in Columbus, on Mt. Vernon Avenue, but I never saw it.
I'm pretty sure I saw Nirvana at Satyricon in Portland before they got big. I don't recall, because I was stoned and ended up there kind of by accident. The sound was deafening, so the music didn't really register.
68 funny emma thompsom is writing a book of farrell's life;dustin hoffman a shrink
but i will watch maggie g in anything
too tough to type;posture wrong with arm elevated back starting to hurt
My brother saw Courtney Love in Portland before she was big. She was riding the bus.
I don't remember what the tickets cost, but I do remember that we had excellent seats near the stage. So probably not very much. I don't remember who I went with, either.
70: Yeah, that's awesome, will. The build-up in the opening of that show, bringing in the band one by one, was brilliant.
See it if you haven't yet; it's one of the great concert films.
Thanks, I have seen it, a couple of times. Also saw David Byrne on his solo tour after the Talking Heads broke up, when he was getting into Latin music. Unfortunately I don't remember much of that except how sharp the band was and how much I disliked one of the people I went to the show with.
B.PhD - on this tour TMBG is not allowing kids under 14 into the shows. So not so much on bringing PK.
I don't see the TMBG appeal myself, but it takes all kinds...
Bob, Maggie is a Swedish baroness (friherrinna). We established this at Crooked Timber. No wonder she's so great.
Worst concert mistake. Incredibly hot girl asked me to go see the Cars with her. Despite her being way above my pay grade in looks, I was a complete Dead snob at the time and wouldnt even consider going to see the Cars.
I saw Nirvana four times, twice before they were famous and twice after. The main difference in the shows was how low energy they were after they were famous.
One of my best concert experiences ever. I was working at Tower Records in Seattle on University Ave. I tell my manager I'm taking my dinner break. She says, wait, aren't you going to wait an hour and see the Nirvana record release party?
An hour later I walk one block up the hill. I give the crazy homeless guy dollar (I pay him a dollar every time I pass) I turn left, go to Subway, and get my dinner. Me and my dinner walk a block further west and watch Nirvana shed the hell out of the record store that is my employer's main competition.
78: Ah. Thanks.
80: "Dead snob"?!? Oxymoron city, man.
81: Tower Records on the Ave? Wow.
Will: I don't know about your date, but you were right about The Cars. Still are.
B:
You would be surprised at how snobby Dead heads were.
But, yes, I realize that I was a complete jackass.
82: It earned me minimum wage and I was still basically living off my parents, despite being a college grad.
I went to a Dead concert in Mountain View. It was fun. I drank way, way, too much and should not have been driving home.
Ok, the fact is I didn't have the sense of self worth to stop living off my parents until I got married. Then, and only, then, did I say, I am a primary breadwinner.
First concert downside: It was Joe Cocker. In 1989.
First concert upside: It was here.
86: I was just wowing because I remember going in there.
Rob:
In hindsight, I should have gone to see the All Weekend Festival of Barney and the Teli Tubbies with this girl.
The first time I took illegal drugs was at a Dead concert in Richmond, Va. I don't have a clear sense of what people handed to me. Fuck I was high.
WOOOOOOOOOT GO SOX WOOOOOOOT SUCK IT YANKS
(sorry, was that OT?)
Gaijin Biker:
Did you grow up outside the US?
B: Did you go in between August 1991 and May 1992? (approx.)
Did you storm the gate Rob?
I'm sure that I was at the show.
92: it wasn't the first timte I took illegal druges, but the first time I took illegal druigs that random people handed to me I ended up eating the stuffing out of several couch cushions thinking it was cotton candy. I still have no idea what I was on. What are we talking about?
95: No, I moved to Seattle fall of 1994.
96; No, I scored a ticket, but my friend Doug, who drove down with me, did storm the gate.
97 is entertaining. Please continue commenting, Btock Lamerf.
Doug and Alex and I drove down to see the Dead. We got confused and drove the wrong way around the DC Beltway, so I took a while.
Alex and I scored tickets, and Alex scored drugs from a stranger. Doug was left outside, and was involved in a effort to bum rush the show. I think he had run into his friend Adam out there.
I'm pretty sure what I smoked was not Marijuana, despite how it was advertised.
first concert? Paul Simon, Central Park, 1991. Just before 8th grade--my older sisters took me.
Somebody get Btock Lamerf a drink already.
My drugs-and-show experience was recent, as I've mentioned. Never would have happened to the younger me, of course, but it was enlightening in its own way.
First concert was either Thompson Twins/OMD or Duran Duran, I don't remember which, here (and it was a soulless place even before Larry Ellison got his filthy mitts on it).
I made a mix for a friend, but then she said she didn't like sad songs, so I never gave it to her. What does that mean? World premiere, baby.
Youngest calasis goes to see Death Cab for Cutie in concert; says she has fun but 'there were all these old people there'; notes that 'old' equals 'around thirty'; argues strenuously that twenty-eight is not thirty, while being beaten with a pillow.
My first concert, sadly, was Phil Collins, in eighth grade or so, with a friend and her dad. My second concert, the first that I went to as an independent agent, was the Charlatans UK. (Oh bore!)
I like to think of this as my "Yay! I'm getting a divorce!" mix:
Everybody's Fool, Evanescence
Leaving New York, REM
Goodbye Pisces, Tori Amos
Going Under, Evanescence
She Just Wants to Be, REM
Cars and Guitars, Tori Amos (I did't realize how patterned-ly repetitive I was getting with the artists on this mix until just now!)
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses, U2
Just So Ya Know, Audrey Howard
In the Rough, Anna Nalick
Blackbird, the Beatles
The Lady is a Tramp, Ella Fitzgerald
Single, Natasha Bedingfield
What a Wonderful World, Louis Armstrong
I have a "The Fucker Finally Moved Out" mix in the works, but (a) it's pretty long, and (b) it will continue to grow until it is finally ripe for release at the party that will occur when he actually does.
First concert was INXS (Kick). Went with first boyfriend. Both were adequate, though nothing overwhelming.
I usually say King Black Acid, but it occurs to me that I saw Bachman Turner Overdrive play at the county fair.
Unaccountably, I don't remember my first concert. Might've been Yes.
81: I only saw Nirvana post-famous, but it was a pretty good set. Good enough that seeing a few more bands after that put me off live music for a while, as they sucked relative to that show. Grohl, in particular was awesome, and his work turned me on to Sep.
Also, what a way to win the division! I've been praying for a squeeze or a double steal for years, and the gods have answered in predictably pricklike fashion.
Yay ogged! Tracklist? Or are you worried we won't like it either?
My mix is uploading.
k.d. lang, right after she stopped wearing the huge petticoats and started wearing a suit. Laurie Anderson. I think I just realized who to blame for my hair in the 90s.
Was just too lazy to type it out.
Creek Lullaby - Margaret
Morning Train - Precious Bryant
Weeping Pilgrim - Natalie Merchant
Blues Run The Game - Jackson Frank
Dusty Pages - James McMurtry
Rowdy Blues - The Be Good Tanyas
Sensitive Kind - JJ Cale
Boots of Spanish Leather - Nanci Griffith
Lone Pilgrim - Bob Dylan
So, Penny, have y'all had your [little Canadaville] Unfogged meetup yet?
Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
Scelesta, uae te, quae tibi manet uita?
Quis nunc te adibit? cui videberis bella?
Quem nunc amabis? Cuius esse diceris?
Quem basiabis? Cui labella mordebis?
Quis in equis indomitis tuis vehet?
If anyone wants to make the last line of 120 scan, go for it.
Why do I feel dirty talking about baseball on unfogged? It feels like pissing on hallowed ground, except that I used to do that regularly, and it didn't feel half so transgressive.
Not too long ago, finally saw Rough Trade, which was the concert I wanted to see as a kid, but no car/no money/no clue how to get to a concert. They were great, the audience though, we were all so old! But we danced around like we didn't care.
Ok, so recently I saw a not very literal translation of Catullus 8 somewhere, maybe the poet who did it had recently died, I don't know, but I liked it a lot and now I can't find it at all. Did anyone else notice such a thing recently?
Hey Ogged!
So, Penny, have y'all had your [little Canadaville] Unfogged meetup yet?
No, and now I'm looking sideways at everybody in town. (You? You?)
Someone thought it was funny, but I liked the Banff suggestion. I could cash in my Via Preference points and take the baby to see the Rockies.
You know I had originally written "BANFF!", just like that, all in caps, but decided to tone it down.
You should email girl27, if you're interested.
But I'm already like two years late for my assignation with her!
124:
B-Wo: I'll bet you're thinking of Zukofsky--it was up at the Valve in the last 10 days.
I don't have time for a mix tape, but maybe with enough volume, and room to move about, this'll do
128: BANFF! brooks no moderation.
129: Thanks, I think I'll do that. I have to go to bed now though.
and now I'm looking sideways at everybody in town.
I really am. There was a crazy guy playing guitar downtown today, and I thought, him? The LittleCanadaville Unfogged guy?
First concert: Probably Leon Rosselson on his second to last US tour before he started writing children's books. I remember trying to talk all of my firends into seeing him when he came back on his then final US tour, and both concerts were spectacular.
I say that first concert changed my life, and it really push me towards listening to music, rather than thinking of it as just something going on that I didn't follow.
First concert for someone that anyone here would have heard of was Pharcyde at an all ages show at which I was at least 5 years older than 80% of the audience. It was a lousy show, I left early.
132: Yes! Thanks! Here it is for posterity:
Miserable Catullus, stop being foolish
And admit it's over,
The sun shone on you those days
When your girl had you
When you gave it to her like nobody else ever will.
Everywhere together then, always at it
And you like it and she can't say she didn't.
Yes, those days glowed.
Now she doesn't want it: why should you, washed out
Want to. Don't trail her,
Don't eat yourself up alive,
Show some spunk, stand up and take it.
So long, girl. Catullus can take it.
He won't bother you, he won't be bothered:
But you'll be, nights.
What will you have to live for?
Whom will you see?
Who'll say you're pretty?
Who'll give it to you now?
Whose name will you have?
Kiss what guy? bite whose lips?
Come on, Catullus, you can take it.
I like "kiss what guy?".
133 is http://www.archive.org/download/jjj2003-12-31.flac16/jjj2003-12-31d1t07_64kb.mp3
That's Jerry & The Jackmormons with the Life's Just Bitchin' medley from NYE 03/04.
Okey dokey, my mixtape is up. Entitled "Ample Sample," which is a stupid name, it has the following track listing:
1. We Eat the People - Porest
2. Demonic Forces - DJ Eddie Def
3. Michael Jackson - Negativland
4. Destroy Rock & Roll - Mylo
5. Magnificent Romeo - Basement Jaxx vs. The Clash
6. Workin' Every Day - Roll Deep Crew
7. Funk Da Esfiha - Bonde Do Role
8. Water Bomb - Mike Ladd
9. Mathematical Park (Alpha 60 Mix) - Land of the Loops
10. Party and Bullshit (Ratatat Mix) - Notorious B.I.G.
11. Money Folder (Four Tet Remix) - Madvillain
12. The Four Section (Andrea Parker Remix) - Steve Reich
13. Mea Culpa - Brian Eno and David Byrne
14. Six Days - DJ Shadow
15. Fish - Mr. Scruff
16. Untitled - Tit Wrench
Download and enjoy! Spot all the samples for valuable prizes! Caution! May be hot!
This is somewhat less ridiculously over-the-top than my last mixtape. Or at least, it is somewhat differently ridiculous.
Parsimon hurt me terribly when she laughed at the Banff suggestion. But I think the healing can begin, now. Over drinks. Lots and lots of drinks.
First concert: The Spoons and Gowan, bitches. O Ominus Spiritus, ah.
my first concert was simon and garfinkle. My first concert without my parents was the police.
I do not have the good fortune to be Canadian. I'm from Oregon.
If I'm still reading this site when I first go to a concert, I'll note it in a comment.
12. The Four Section (Andrea Parker Remix) - Steve Reich
The accordionist?
This seems like a good place to post the track listing from the most recent mix that I did. General theme is that all the songs are ones in which the performer is clearly enjoying playing music, with an emphasis on live recordings. A very good natured mix.
1: Óro, Sé Do Bheatha 'Bhaile from She Who dwells . . . by Sinead O'Conner
2: Play Like a Girl from God and the FBI by Janis Ian
3: Standing in the Moonlight from Paradise Lost & Found by Anne Hills and Michael Smith
4: Mose Allison Played Here from Root Awakening by Greg Brown
5: Tramp from The Very Best of Otis Redding by Otis Redding & Carla Thomas
6: I feel Good from Life on Planet Groove by Maceo Parker (w/ Kym Mazelle)
7: Young Man's Blues from The Who Live at the Isle of White
8: Armenia City in the Sky from Petra Haden sings The Who Sell Out
9: The World is What You Make It from Nobody Knows the Best of Paul Brady
10: The Vines from The Chord is Mighter Than the Sword by Hammell On Trial
11: Gratitude from Words Fail Me by Rick Ruskin
12: Free World from What Do Pretty Girls Do by Kirsty MacColl
13: Gloria from Horses 30th Aniversery edition by Patti Smith
14: Tell Me Something Good from Epiphany the best of Chaka Kahn
15: I've Been Loving You Too Long from The Definitive Etta James
16: Three Waulking Songs And A Song For Finishing The Cloth from Scotish Drinking and Pipe Songs
145: the minimalist composer.
Really Andrea Parker was probably more important to this particular remix.
Upload your mix, people! Some of us want some music to steal sample before buying!
It also should be "The Four Sections."
Oh well.
Andrea Parker the accordionist, not Steve Reich the accordionist.
Oh. No, Andrea Parker the electro DJ and producer.
I mean, for all I know it's the same person, but this track does not feature any accordion, no.
Too bad it's not the similarly-but-not-identically-named Section Quartet. Who are like Apocalyptica, but rock less.
I have no recent music. Until about five years ago I was pretty confident in my musical opinions; "post-Tool metal sucks", "90s R&B wishes it were Massive Attack", etc... Now, I am at sea. Mixes, like Sifu's, blessed be his name, are very much appreciated, but I am looking for links to good music blogs.
Downloading now. I feel hesitant to inflict my most recent musical taste on anyone reading this. Plus, it looks like my batch tool is mostly working like I want it to now, so hopefully I can go home / to a party soon.
29 minutes remaining?!?! WTF. Who are these filehosting clowns?
I've got a nice mix in mind, but a) you wouldn't like it, and ,more importantly, b) the 120g drive most of the music is on has decided to go walkabout.
hypem.com, fm.
Jake, damn, really? They are clowns! Here I thought they were the best option.
Ample Sample took under 10 minutes for me.
Hmm. It would not surprise me if they ratelimited my employer's network.
And lynx on my shell box doesn't support javascript. Fuckers.
Wow, one-click hosting ain't what it used to be. But I've uploaded a mix:
01 Bang Bang - Sheila
02 The World is a Ghetto - War
03 Vehicle - Shirley Bassey
04 Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver) - Elvis Costello
05 Love is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse
06 Urami Bushi - Meiko Kaji
07 Days of Pearly Spencer - The Avengers
08 Sealion - Feist
09 To Build a Home - The Cinematic Orchestra
10 Flutter - Bonobo
11 Shamisen Boogie Woogie - Umekichi & Otemoto Orchestra
12 I Ain't Gonna Cry - The Dap Kings
13 My Mistake - Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye
14 No One's Gonna Love You - Nicole Willis
15 Better Version of Me - Fiona Apple
16 Gloria / In Excelsis Deo - Patti Smith
17 Search & Destroy - Iggy and the Stooges
18 Dance Me to the End of Love - Kate Gibson
19 He War - Cat Power
20 Sister Ray - Velvet Underground
Yay Bonobo! "Days To Come" is my current anthem.
Weird. Works from here. Fuck a flaky-ass sendspace, anyhow.
Also, Jake, WTF are you doing still at work?
Nothing I've heard fron Tweety has changed my convictions about the centrality of drums(primary)/bass(secondary) to music in general.
167: Got in super-late, hung out, ate too much and feel bloaty, changing one batch tool to bucketize the query (rather than re-run for each user group, run once and build the different lists on the fly) which should take it from 1.5 hours to 20 minutes, and testing the action_summary emailer to see if using my fancypants multi-sharded binary search time_created-to-id-mapper makes it sufficiently faster than real time to have a prayer of catching up.
And listening to Bales of Cocaine.
And at this point, there's only 3 minutes left for Sifu's mix tape to finish downloading.
My first concert was Iron Maiden, in about 1986.
re: the people who saw Nirvana and the like, before they were famous; the only one really like that (apart from various Glasgow bands), I saw Jeff Buckley play in the Art School bar in Glasgow, when he was still touring as a solo act. There were no more than a dozen people there, tops.
Most recent gig: The Young Knives, this past weekend.
[mix tape will be uploaded later this morning (UK time)]
Just got back from Di/rty Pro/jectors concert. Found a new boy to go with me. Was nearly magical. Sigh.
My first concert was a festival in the mid 90's, with Self, the Urge, etc. I forget the rest because I was covered with mud and kicked in the head by the end.
My first concert, I think, was the Man band (dirty Welsh hippies) in a small bar in a village south of Bonn. There was a room in front where you could play pinball on acid and the balls would go curiously furry. Apart from that, really memorable gigs -- I saw Patti Smith in about 1978 and had an erection for the whole of the next day at work; the Pogues in a tiny cellar under a pub in Hammersmith, before they were famous but they were already so loud that only copious amounts of drink and downers made it possible to stay in the room with them; the Dead at the Alexandra Palace in 1974, which made for an extremely strange experience when it was reissued on CD 20+ years later and my children enjoyed it too.
Fuck my first concert, it was boring. My last 'concert', I just got home from - Blixa Bargeld and Alva Noto doing weird thumpyscreechy electroacoustic feedback improv crap in a tiny room with wraparound spectrum analyzer projection.
Made all the better by running into a guy I haven't seen in 17 years and really could have stood to go another 17 years without seeing.
Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver) - Elvis Costello
Heeeey, that was going to be in my mix, DS.
#94: No, it was on one of those "teen tour" things all over France.
The "Spelling it 'Phat' is deprecated" mix is up now.
http://rapidshare.com/files/59068138/phat_mix.zip
Track listing -
01. Barry Adamson - 007, A Fantasy Bond Theme
02. Dialogue
03. Garnet Mimms - As Long As I Have You
04. Rasputin's Stash - Mr Cool
05. Betty Davis - He Was A Big Freak
06. The Impressions - My Deceiving Heart
07. Dialogue
08. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - Bad Girl
09. Grasella Oliphant Quartette - Get Out Of My Life Woman
10. Dialogue
11. Oscar Moore & Nat 'King' Cole - Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You
12. Frank Wilson - Do I Love You -> Indeed I Do
13. Marjorie Black - One More Hurt
14. Dialogue
15. Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Ranking
16. James Brown - Lost Someone
17. Tanya Winley - Vicious Rap [Unfogged Mineshaft Edit]
[The Garnet Mimms and Frank Wilson tracks are among the most perfectly joyous 3 min singles ever made, imho. Old school motown/r'n'b.]
My first concert was Rush. If someone else's first concert had a higher percentage of do-you-think-he-talks-like-a-regular-guy noodling about Ayn Rand and spaceships, I'd like to meet him or her.
The Clash. The Palladium. 1980. I was 15 or 16.
Sad part is that I only really appreciate it in retrospect. I was just overwhelmed by the scene.
Listening to nattarGcM's mix. Damn, this shit is hot.
Now that I'm edging toward sober, I should state that Ecstatic Sunshine and the Dirty Projectors were overwhelmingingly great. I haven't seen live music that enthralling in a long, long time. It was far too crowded to dance or even move around in a small appreciative way, which sucked, as I am a little uncomfortable touchy-feeling strangers on all sides. However, the situation did enable me to touchy-feely a very nice boy I met in my department who works in my field, is adorable, likes the DPs, and is sort of shy and sweet. Indeed, I thought about trying to take him home with me, but I exercised restraint and merely kissed him, awkwardly, on the neck as I got off at my stop. I am behaving myself.
The mix CD I'm mailing some of you is done! However, the packaging is . . . elaborate. Surely by mid-October I'll be done.
I went to a Dead concert in Mountain View. It was fun. I drank way, way, too much
Hey, me too. 1994. Was that you in the.... no, never mind.
184: I'm having a hard time picturing you at a Dead show. Unless it was sort of a Tom Wolfe deal.
In fact I went to what, if I remember correctly, was the free Mickey Hart concert in Golden Gate Park in 1991 or 1992.
184 is hilarious.
I'm sure mine wasn't in 1994, though. Probably late 80s?
Re 81: did you know Tower Records on the Ave went out of business about 5 months ago? They had some awesome liquidation sales.
