The new Alicia Keys...

Tori Amos - Boys for Pele

[This message was edited by April on 01-14-04 at 01:24 AM.]

As i was venturing out this morn.. bleary eyed on the Q train at 8.15AM (urg)...i stick on my i-poddy and wham! slam! John Lennon singing/thrashing "cold turkey" ... made me feel totally alive... re-visit that track... amazin' the production, the raw energy, the thrashing guitar..just the tkt to the mornin blues....

Oh yeah! The raw energy indeed! Around about the same time as that recording was the Beatles White Album which features Lennon's "Yer Blues" which has a somewhat similiar feel, but more trapped and inert, trying to breakout. "Cold Turkey" is that release and breakout of frustrated inert energy. John and Yoko were working with Dr.Janov ("The Primal Scream") at that time and although John was always a wild screamer in many Beatles songs all the way back to the Hamberg days, he really vented out big time in days around about Cold Turkey, culminating in the PLastic Ono Band album (sometimes referred to as "The Mother" album) which also was released alongside Yoko's PLastic Ono Album featuring such songs as "Why" (in which she screams "WHY!" thoughout a frantic, manic, relentlessly running guitar played by John, like he was doing the soundtrack for the Wicked Witch of the West on Methedrine, with the rythem section of Klaus Vormann, Bass, and Ringo, drums, keeping right up with him and her)and "Why Not?".

Blur~Greatest Hits

The 2CD reissue of Fleetwood Mac's "Tusk' -- F'n great!

Am addicted to my Sirius satelite player... which I listen to when I work all afternoon.. but in the morn I listen to BBC Radio 2 on my computer as I work... hear the best mix of stuff.. just 'discovered' this fab new Nancy Sinatra cover of the Morrisey song "let me kiss you..." just hauntingly wonderful... American radio is just shite... so one dimentional.

I aggree Anna about the american Radio for the most part, but there are some great exceptions, and they are ALL listener-sponsored, and therefore not chained to any corporate playlists. My favorites are WFMU, WNYC, WFUV, and sometimes WSOU and sometimes WKCR. WFMU is the most totally free form radio. There are TRUE disc-jockies there, playing what they want, and NO COMMERCIALS, and absolutely no pop. Although a couple of weeks ago someone played "Boogie Shoes" by KC and the Sunshine Band, but I actually enjoyed hearing it again.

Right now I have 3 CDs on my thang: The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black "Black Date"; The Pretenders "Loose Screw"; and Backyard Babies "Diesel and the Power" (I have Goddess Gia to thank for turning me on to that one all the way from Sweden).

Agreed!
I think what I meant is that MAINSTREAM radio is so bland or just so one dimentional eg.. its either ALL hip hop or ALL lite... you know.. Thats why I have really been loving BBC Radio 2, or BBC 6 live... really worth checking out if you are on line all day www.bbc.co.uk But agreed there are alt. stations, you just have to 'dig' for them...

Daddy... you mentioned Simply red in another topic/room ... although I can't stand bleedin Mick Hucknall... am loving this re-mix I keep hearing on the radio in jamaica.. I THINK its the Sunrise remix (same back beat as Sean Paul etc) is that correct cos I wanna buy it to dump onto me ipod (unless u have it and I can loan to dump! hehheh!)????
Hey there are some real BEAUTIFUL tracks on the new Anita Baker album btw... swoon-music

The New Loretta Lynn album with Jack White of The White Stripes singing country with Loretta.
They nake some mean ass music together..and I love her gown on the cover.

Yeah, I was saying that Paul Skiff's (aka seven) song "Thirst" (which, by the way, is actually in my CD player right now) was like the "Goth Simply Red". I was never a Simply Red fan until this last CD. There are some really great songs on it. And what a voice. I have only the re-mixes of course but they are yours Anna Nicole.

You're coo coo.

Imagine letting me loose on the turntables???
"DJ SWEETIE drives crowd into mass hysteria with schizno music choices". I like to jump around, what can I say.

Now that sounds like a party!!!!
Let's do it.

One time I DJed with Frank Zappa. He picked (and brought) the records and I put them on.
THAT was really coo coo.
Of course he was alive at the time.

i didn't know
you could spin 78's.

That's ALL he spins.

I had eggs.

Oh sorry...
I thought this was the "What did you have for breakfast topic".
Wrong room, sorry.