Favorite Album Covers # 2

BAKER GURVITZ ARMY

*I have not listened to this album but my uncle has and he has this picture up on his wall in his basement filled with vinyl that you can only dream about.

Now for something appropriate

Compare & Contrast

The Jayhawks, Grand Funk Railroad

Bad Time - Grand Funk Railroad (original)

Bad Time - The Jayhawks (cover version)

Nice Tee # 2

Someone please get this for me (via: Threadless)

Nice Tee

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Favorite Album Covers # 1

Roger D, The Ox, Mooney, Pete (L-R)

Who Are You (1978)

* They don't make 'em like this anymore, man.

Sunday Afternoon Summer Mixtape

Basically what I've been listening to this summer:

1. Ramsey Lewis Trio - Wade In The Water
2. Steely Dan - My Old School
3. Ponytail - Beg Waves
4. Orchestra Baobab - Aline
5. Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill
6. John Prine - Lake Marie
7. Curren$y - The Hangover
8. Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come
9. The Ramones - Baby I Love You
10. William Bell - I Forgot To Be Your Lover
11. Shoukichi Kina - Jing Jing
12. Paul Simon - Kodachrome
13. Girls - Substance
14. Lesley Gore - No Matter What You Do
15. Nick Lowe - Soulful Wind
16. The Magic Kids - Cry With Me Baby
17. Neu! - Hallogallo
18. The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset

Lolla 2k11 Must Sees # 1

Titus Andronicus

Why?

1) Literate songs whose lyrics you have to look up online because of loud guitars and 2) because Patrick Stickles sounds like he looks
3) Catharsis

Yes.

Trappist Beers

This makes me happy

New Music (for me): Debussy

(L-R) Wayne Coyne, Debussy

Lately I've been listening to a lot of non-rock/pop music.

I'm a novice in this regard (i.e. - everything is either Classical or Jazz) but I'm taking it steadily. The plan is to master Impressionist Music by Spring (by master, I mean read that entire wikipedia article).

Venturing into unknown musical territory is exciting. Like the first time I listened to Mambo Sun (those ahh-ahh-ahh background vocals haunt my soul).

That being said, Claude Debussy really caught my ear.

Just today, I was listening to Debussy's Claire De Lune on youtube, while creating a Debussy station on Pandora at the same time. And in a little coincidence, attributed to the randomness of the internet, Pandora started playing the same song about 30 seconds later. This was the result. It really is about the small things in life.

Twenty Eleven

www.harpers.org/archive/2011/01/hbc-90007892

Speaking of consistency, I'm back after a close-to-two-year hiatus. I had a bad case of writer's block, among other things. Happy new year. This is going to be a daily effort.