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- Greatest Hits, Cat Stevens
- Bought this because I was so obsessed with the Rushmore soundtrack.
And a "fingerpicking Cat Stevens" book, which is way above my head.
I can play "Morning Has Broken" really . . . really . . . slowly . . .
Anyway, fun to listen to.
- Combustication, Medeski, Martin, and Wood
- MMW have another spontanous funk album, this time with some
mad turntable skills thrown in from DJ Logic. You should seen them
in concert, if you haven't. Wow. Medeski on the keyboard is
incredible - going from moog to baby grand to synth. Actually, why
am I singling Medeski out, they're all wonderful.
- Rushmore Soundtrack
- Man o man I loved this soundtrack! Cat Stevens, The Kinks, John
Lennon, ooh. Such a good soundtrack. I played this over and over and
over (after programming it to skip the really soundtracky background
music parts.)
- Echo, Tom Petty
- Wow, good to listen to. "Swinging," "Billy the Kid," "Top of the
World." Hey, sometimes you just need classic rock like this. Or I do.
Beaucoup Fish, Underworld
- More dancey than what I like in techno, I tend to be less into
beats and more into more free-flow stuff, but hey, mmm.
- Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vols. I & II
- I used to hate Dylan, now I kinda like him. People change, I
guess.
- Ok, Talvin Singh
- Peacey blue sky techno.
- Rafi's Revenge, Asian Dub Foundation
- Fun South Asian hiphop from London.
- Vingt Regards Sur L'enfant Jesus, Olivier Messiaen
- Ssshhhh.
- Necropolis, dj spooky
- When I was young, the classical music station in Memphis would
have, at midnight, this program on New Age music. Only it wasn't
that wishy washy George Winston stuff. It was very - landscapey.
This album, which is probably classified as electronica, (or trip
hop and jungle, which is what it says on the album) reminds me of
that. Oh cooler people than me, forgive me for making so unhip a
comparison. But that's what this album reminds me of. The sort of
head travelling stuff I'd do in my room, late at night. I'm not quite
sure how music can be so visual, but this succeeds at it. Ben Neill,
hey, is on this album too.
- El Oso, Soul Coughing
- Soul Coughing Soul Coughing. In the future, we will *all* be
Yuval Gabay. I listened to this, and only this, for two months
straight. St. Louise is Listening, Maybe I'll Come Down, and Houston
remind me of Ruby Vroom, while $300, I Miss the Girl, and The Incumbent
feel very new. (Houston, especially.) There's amazing poetry in all
the lyrics. "Freezer burn, all else is only icing."
- Enjoyed the concert as well - it's fascinating how frightening
cartoons can be when placed in the (im)proper context.
maybe
- Utopia Parkway, Fountains of Wayne
- I was hoping to really really like this, like I liked the first
album, but this one was just all right. I mean, yeah, some good parts,
like "go, hippie" and "senator's daughter", but some horribly repetitive
boring ones like "hat and feet." Mixed bag, oh well.
no
- Up Up Up Up Up Up, Ani Difranco
- I am very sorry to say that I did not like this. Maybe we split
paths. Maybe she went down the path I was too afraid to take at the
time and am now regretting I did not because it's way too late. Maybe
I just don't want to think about it and the album makes me think about
it. As it is, I can't listen to this album.