I haven't checked out too many new things lately, but a couple things here and there that I like; The Music Tapes and This Is Your Captain Speaking, for example.
But the real mark of what I am listening to (and that's what this blog is all about after all) is what makes it on my iPod when I leave home for a long period of time, like on my recent vacation to California and Oregon. (West Coast, son!!!)
So here are the most-played of my most-played items, the cream of the crop from my iPod vacation selections:
Bee Thousand - Guided By Voices
Chicken Run - Hallelujah Chicken Run Band (killin band from the '70s from Zimbabwe)
all of the Fleet Foxes stuff
the Funky 16 Corners "Funky Nawlins" mix/podcast
Heart Of The Congos - The Congos
Led Zeppelin IV
The Good The Bad And The Ugly - Ennio Morricone
Out There - The Heliocentrics
Studio One Rockers
The Sun - Fridge
A Thing To Live With - Fond Of Tigers
Trap Door II Mystery Mix
most of the Nirvana records
all Boards Of Canada recordings (yes Don, even the Beautiful Place EP)
Venus No. 17 - Squarepusher
4-Track Recordings - Green Arrows (another bad-assed west African band from the '70s)
White Light/White Heat - Velvet Underground
Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives - Prefuse 73
Standards - Tortoise
...and a bunch of Turkish gypsy stuff, mostly Selim Sesler. You know, this guy!
Turkish rom clarinet master!
4 comments:
i have a 30 gig ipod that i leave connected to my stereo all the time. i occasionally remake one enormous playlist and repopulate the thing with a new selection from my itunes library (around 150gigs). i do the same thing on my iphone, but that one is my traveling playlist. of course, that is significantly shorter.
i like your playlist. i have ennio moricone "Il Gatto A Nove Code" on my current pod playlist. it's a lot creepier than his western stuff. my lady isn't a big fan of this as dinner music.
i think everyone should post their short traveling playlists if youhave them. you know, as a sort of study.
my iphone list is (not super short):
amon duul II - yeti
the animals - animal tracks
beastie boys - check your head
beatles - white album
beck - one foot in the grave
beta band - three e.p's
billy childish - 25 years of being childish
black francis - bluefinger
black mountain - in the future
boards of canada - twoism
eno - ambient music for airports and taking tiger mountain
can - soundtracks
the cars -first album - deluxe editio
cat power - covers record
mingus - ah um
cluster - zuckerzeit
the cramps - bad music for bad people
deerhoof -friend opportunity
deerhunter - microcastle
the doors - l.a. woman
eric clapton slowhand
fleet foxes - sun giant
fugazi - instrument soundtrack
grizzly bear - yellow house
howlin wolf - the howlin wolf album
james brown 20 all time greatest hits
jimi hendrix bbc sessions
john frusciante - dc ep
joseph spence - complete folkways
joy division - complete bbc recordings
led zep - bbc sessions (i like the bbc recordings)
the kinks are the village green preservation society
this is getting longer than i expected.
lightning bolt - ride the skies
love - forever changes
magnetic fields - 69 love songs volume 1
matmos - the civil war
miles davis - on the corner
modern lovers
neil young - everybody knows this is nowhere
new pornographers - electric version
nick cave and the bad seeds - let love in
os mutantes - mutantes
pandabear person pitch
pink floyd - piper at the gates of dawn + ummagumma disc one
pixies - surfer rosa and come n pilgrim
portishead third
radiohead in rainbows and ok computer
stones - beggars banquet + let it bleed
shin jung hyun and the men - 거짓말이야
the shins - oh inverted world
sibylle baier - the color green
sonic youth - sonic nurse
spiritualized - the complete works vol 1
stereo lab - radio 1 sessions
t. rex - electric warrior
ted leo - the tyranny of distance
ethiopiques vol 17 tlahoun gessesse
the velvet underground and nico
the walkmen - you and me
welcome - sirs
white stripes de stijl and the self-titled one
the who - a quick one and sell out
african scream contest
all of nuggets II
word.
sweet playlist, dude.
i haven't heard that beta band joint in years. i need that...
funny...i was at a gig last night and this massive brass band called What Cheer? from RI played a Lightning Bolt song. I was like, "Who's Lightning Bolt?" and my buddy Don told me I have to check them out. I just thought it was a cool coincidence that it's on your playlist.
Fleet Foxes are probably my favorite band right now. I like that song "White Winter Hymnal" a lot.
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