| Artist |
Track |
Album |
Label |
Format |
Comments |
Year |
Open Bar Mitzvah or Torah Torah Torah!
|
|
Thalia Zedek & Chris Brokaw of Come
|
Do I Love You?
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Knitting On The Roof
|
Knitting Factory
|
CD
|
A little skit for the skittish, to begin the bumpy portion of the program. Bumpy because I was dazed from leaving the rural midwest, being thrust in Torah carrying fame for a Bar Mitzvah service in NJ, and then bouncing from the East Village to WFMU. Oi and Oy.
|
2000
|
|
J Mascis
|
a little ethnic song
|
Guitarrorists
|
No. 6
|
CD
|
Isn't that a quaint little title? I love songs that are soothing and sweet but repetitive to the point that they start to feel like water torture.
|
1991
|
|
Quickspace
|
Hadid
|
Hadid/Queen Of The Downs
|
Kitty Kitty Corporation
|
7"
|
Ecstasy was a terrible drug for me to try. This song reminds me of walking slowly up a Park Slope street, walking the dog I was dog sitting, walking with heavy feet to the apartment, putting on Hadid by Quickspace, and literally falling on the floor with a crash upon the first notes. I had a bruised forehead the following morning. It's a good record by the band that used to be Th' Faith Healers.
|
1998
|
|
Catherine Howe
|
It Comes With The Breezes
|
What A Beautiful Place
|
Numero
|
CD
|
This just has that early 70's feeling where psychedelia and easy listening connect and songs have titles like "It Comes With The Breezes". For some reason, someone told me if I liked this singer I would like the video of Patti Smith singing "You Light Up My Life". I can't see the connection, but if you are so inclined it's on youtube.
|
1971
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
some
|
sort
|
of
|
animal
|
|
recorded
|
sounds
|
the slow steam rising off a coffee cup is selecting these songs
|
|
Josephine Foster
|
Garden Of Earthly Delights
|
The Coming Gladness
|
Bo'Weavil
|
CD
|
So incredibly beautiful, this feels like either the happiest or saddest music ever.
|
2008
|
|
Matteah Baim
|
Wounded Whale
|
Death Of The Sun
|
DiCristina
|
CD
|
A strangely calm song from this Metallic Falcons member, strange because I learned in school that a wounded whale reacts quite violently. By the way, I just saw this album for about $2 on Amazon and I recommend it highly!
|
2007
|
|
Spokane
|
Middle School
|
Little Hours
|
Jagjaguwar
|
2 LP
|
Over the past few years this band have created music that is beautiful and hushed. It's the perfect soundtrack for just before dawn, that moment when you have some senses alert and some asleep and everything feels like impressions.
|
2007
|
|
Gonzales
|
Armelodie
|
Solo Piano
|
Universal
|
CD
|
I didn't think I would fall for this one, being on the fence about Gonzales and his past music. But this really hits the spot in that melancholic, Erik Satie/Les Disques Du Crepuscule sort of way.
|
2005
|
|
Julie London
|
How Deep Is the Ocean?
|
Lonely Girl/Make Love To Me
|
EMI Gold
|
|
Gorgeous song sung by a voice of smoke, feathers, and sighs. 1956 recording, reissued in 2003.
|
1956.2003
|
weebles wobble but they don't fall down
|
|
The Mekons
|
Come And Have A Go If You Think You're Hard Enough
|
Me
|
Quarterstick
|
CD
|
This song makes me smile and want to start a drunken pillow fight in the back of a dark stinky sweaty bar.
|
1998
|
|
Kim Tolliver
|
Come & Get Me- I'm Ready
|
Come & Get Me- I'm Ready
|
Chess
|
CD-R
|
Outstanding soul singer, with great lines like "I'm serious as cancer/just waiting for your answer".
|
1973
|
|
David Thomas
|
Enthusiastic
|
More Places Forever
|
Twin Tone
|
LP
|
Amazing music from the singer behind Pere Ubu- definitely one of those "other 80's" albums that had the sort of emotional qualities many albums of the decade had but at the same time was completely in a different realm.
|
1985
|
|
La Volume Courbe
|
Ain't Go No/I Got Life
|
I Killed My Best Friend
|
Astralwerks
|
CD
|
French singer, with guests from My Bloody Valentine, as well as Hope Sandoval and David Roback, with a sideways version of the tune from Hair.
|
2006
|
|
Bobbie Gentry
|
Poppa Won't You Let Me Go To Town With You?
|
Chickasaw Country Child: The Artistry of Bobbie Gentry
|
Shout! Factory
|
CD
|
I always try to relate personally to every song I like, but when I try with this one it's disturbing. By the way, if ever you are bored have a look at the great Bobbie Gentry clips on youtube.
|
2003
|
|
Kris Kristofferson
|
Just the Other Side of Nowhere
|
Me And Bobbie McGee
|
Sony
|
CD
|
Just a sweet, sad, Lee Hazelwood-ish song that hits the spot.
|
1971
|
asleep in an elevator
|
|
Red Krayola
|
I'm So Blase
|
Hazel
|
Drag City
|
Vinyl
|
Of all the Red Krayola albums, some of them classics, this is the one that reaches me emotionally. There is a sense of the absurd that floats alongside a kind of sadness- this is the lead off song.
|
1996
|
|
Aluminum Group
|
Wheat & Tare
|
More Happyness
|
Empyrean Records
|
CD
|
This song is pure seduction, just close your eyes and drift in it and see if you don't agree.
|
2003
|
|
MC Honky
|
Soft Velvety 'Fer
|
I am the Messiah
|
Spinart
|
CD
|
There is probably something wrong with me that caused me to once cry while hearing this- there is something so casual and tragic about this and it just sort of sneaks up on you. By the way, it's a side thing for E of The Eels.
|
2003
|
|
Curtis Mayfield
|
Dirty Laundry
|
Dirty Laundry: The Soul of Black Country
|
Trikont
|
CD
|
This is something I sing while walking around the small town in Minnesota where I live- it's all too true. 2005 compilation, of course the song is from way back.
|
2005
|
|
Bill Drummond
|
Going Back
|
The Man
|
Creation
|
LP
|
A real left field album from Bill Drummond, of the KLF and former manager to Julian Cope/Teardrop Explodes, joined by members of The Triffids. There's something surreal and moving to hear him in his Scottish brogue singing this song.
|
1996
|
i was riding my bike down hill when i was thrashed by a raspberry and the impact almost made me fall off the bike, and to get my bearings i stopped and sat by a pond- this set is inspired by how that felt.
|
|
Kiwi Animal
|
Performance
|
Music Media
|
Sonic Squid
|
LP
|
Duo from New Zealand, one of whom needs to have his mouth washed out with soap.
|
1984
|
|
Will Rigby
|
Heart's Expired
|
Sidekick Phenomenom
|
Egon
|
LP
|
There's something of a beautiful animal with only 3 legs nature to this song. For me it captures just how pathetic and sweet love and the failure of it can be. Ex DB's member.
|
1985
|
|
Jad Fair & Kramer
|
California
|
Roll Out The Barrell
|
Shimmydisc
|
LP
|
There's something so tragic about the first line. & this captures the surreal psyche hallucination feel of the best Kramer productions. & a subdued Jad is pretty affective.
|
1988
|
|
The Monkees
|
Opening/The Porpoise Song
|
Head OST
|
Colgems / Rhino
|
CD
|
This psyche song from the freakout/60's comedown Monkees album and movie "Head" thoroughly captures for me what it was like to do whippits while listening to "We Are The World" in the back of a car in 1988.
|
1968
|
|
Hymie's Basement
|
You Die
|
Hymie's Basement
|
Lex
|
CD
|
The coupling of Andrew from Fog and the singer from Why? Another soundtrack to falling down slowly.
|
2003
|
|
The Instruments
|
Papillion
|
Papillion
|
Orange Twin
|
CD
|
After listening to this, it's hard to know if it was heard or dreamt- it's like the song version of angel food cake.
|
2007
|
cuddling up, cautiously
|
|
Claudine Longet
|
Sleep Safe
|
Cuddle Up With Claudine Longet
|
Munster
|
CD
|
This the creepiest "lullaby" type song next to Rosemary's Baby. If someone sang me this lullaby I would certainly have a gun under the pillow, just in case.
|
2003
|
|
Marina Celeste
|
Chansons de Helene
|
Cinema Enchante
|
MSI
|
CD
|
The singer from La Nouvelle Vague, from her album of songs from great French films (also released as a bonus disc with her Acidule album).
|
2007
|
|
Rose McDowall
|
Make It Easy On Yourself
|
Angel Of Ashes: A Tribute To Scott Walker
|
Transformadores
|
CD
|
A voice I have had a crush on since I first heard Strawberry Switchblade while in grade school. Rose brings out the sorrow and pleading desperation in the Scott Walker classic.
|
2005
|
|
Grouper
|
Invisible
|
Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill
|
Type
|
CD
|
Haunting and drifting, trance like and hypnotic. It reminds me of the title, but becoming lost in the fog while dragging the deer (can't think of why I would be doing that though) and not knowing what to do.
|
2008
|
|
Sybille Baier
|
|
Colour Green
|
Orange Twin
|
CD
|
Sad and fragile beauty, a bit like Vashti Bunyan and early Bridget St John if their music was cast in shadows. Recorded in the early 1970's.
|
1973.2006
|
|
Francoise Hardy
|
Why Even Try
|
One Nine Seven Zero
|
Universal
|
LP
|
From the 1970 English language album from Francoise, a beautiful record of folk with rock and psyche tones.
|
1970
|
Eyes Wide and Dreaming
|
|
Birdie
|
Sidewalk
|
Triple Echo
|
It
|
CD
|
Perfect indie pop from Birdie, starring Debsey from The Dolly Mixture and Paul from East Village.
|
2001
|
|
Nosotrash
|
Pez Globo
|
Cierra La Puerta Al Salir
|
Elefant
|
CD
|
One of my very favorite Spanish indie pop bands, chill up the spine minor chord loveliness.
|
2005
|
|
Celia Cruz
|
Es la Humanidad
|
Son con Guaguanco
|
Nascente
|
CD
|
Perfection....
|
1968/2008
|
|
Emma Nordenstam
|
Bryggen
|
Sanger 18-22
|
Vesper
|
Tape
|
The sister of Stina Nordenstam.
|
2007
|
|
Marisa
|
Taberna da Glória
|
Viagem
|
CDR
|
CD-R
|
Beautiful early 70's Brazillian singer.
|
1973
|
|
Lisa Li Lund
|
All My Trials
|
Li-Lund Ran Away
|
Smoking Gun
|
CD
|
I love her voice! Lisa also sings with Herman Dune, and this is from her solo album- covering a great song, and joined by some of the lovely folks from NYC's Olive Juice studios.
|
2005
|
|
|
Music behind DJ:
some
|
sort
|
of
|
animal
|
|
recorded
|
sounds
|
onto the off ramp, slowly
|
|
Marissa Nadler
|
Diamond Heart
|
Songs III: Bird on the Water
|
Peacefrog (UK)
|
CD
|
I used to go to a club on St Marks (before it moved) called Sine, and my favorite thing would be when a song was so beautiful that it held the audience spellbound to the point you could hear a feather fall. This is definitely the sort of song that would get that reaction.
|
2007
|
|
Richard Youngs
|
I Am The Weather
|
Autumn Response
|
Jagjaguwar
|
CD
|
This album is an experience, it honestly is unlike any other I have heard- twisted, nerve wracking, and beautiful all at once.
|
2007
|
|
Silje Nes
|
Recurring Dream
|
Ames Room
|
Fat Cat
|
CD
|
Another bit of slightly strange pop, feels as though it is half being dreamt and half being performed.
|
2008
|
|
The Czars
|
Angel Eyes
|
Sorry I Made You Cry
|
Bella Union
|
CD
|
Well, I am a sucker for a song like this- deep,. sappy, sweet, and seductive. Have a drink of whiskey, sit back, close your eyes and let this voice wash over you. The whole album is full of covers, each one you can imagine being performed by someone engulfed in shadows.
|
2006
|
|
Ocassional Keepers
|
Elsinore
|
True North
|
LTM
|
CD
|
Members of The Field Mice, Trembling Blue Stars, Aberdeen, etc with the sort of perfect pop confection that they have been creating (alongside haunting and dark songs) since I picked up the first Field Mice single from Chris at his pre Other Music perch, Kim's Underground.
|
2008
|
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