emmett's october playlist



Le Nozze Di Figaro (Overture) - Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
Wind - Sons Of The Pioneers
Holiday On Saturn - Del Kent
Liquidation - Ernest Ranglin
Georgia On My Mind - Bob Summers Revival
Lazy Bones - Bob Summers Revival
No More White Horses - T2
Blue Boots - Eric Donaldson
Blue Boot - Eric Donaldson
Just Wanna See His Face - Rolling Stones
Be Thou By My Side - The Honeybus
Life And Death In G & A - Chairmen Of The Board
Give It Up - Billy Nicholls
I Need More - Pat Thomas & Marijata
Fantastic Man - William Onyeabor
Parigi - Paolo Conte
Pilotes - Performance
Comin' At Ya - Pyramid Plus
The Deep - Eye To Eye
Cherry-Coloured Funk - Cocteau Twins
Everything Flows - Saint Etienne

OR: download the whole shebang as a zip file

Our latest show for Viva Radio, entitled "Midnight Rainbows", premieres today at 2 PM. See comments for tracklist. Archived shows are always available here.

Like Delroy Wilson, I'm still waiting for records in the mail. Rest assured, an epic October playlist will be posted soon. And we won't stop... cause we can't stop.

WAITING FOR RECORDS IN THE MAIL

The October playlist is coming soon, pending the arrival of some records in the post.

Soon come, rastas; soon come.

Ever wonder what to do with some of your old tape cassettes?

Brian Dettmer, Cassette Tape Skeletons

New Viva show drops today at 2 PM! Entitled "First Day in L.A.", this one is guaranteed to blow your mind... anytime.

Listen live or in the ark-hive...

Lee Michaels: Do You Know What I Mean?

This always reminds me of an outtake from the Born in the USA sessions. Not high praise perhaps, but you know what I mean.

I think these songs fit together nicely.

Bowie: The Supermen
Broadcast on the BBC, October 4, 1971.

Midlake: We Gathered In Spring
Broadcast on an iPod on a cold October night in '06.

Lou Reed: Endlessly Jealous


Oh beware, my Lord, of Jealousy
It is the green-eyed Monster which doth mock
The Meat it feeds on.

Leo Sayer: When I Need You

Co-written by Albert Hammond Sr.

And this from 1978 definitely deserves your attention. Though it does raise more questions than it answers.

Note: Our latest program for Viva Radio premieres to-day at 2 PM. Featuring some new-to-me stuff, some old favorites, and a handful of dusky diamonds from the furthest recesses of the A.D. archives. Please enjoy.

Brigitte Fontaine: Il se passes des choses

Following in the footsteps of Mrs. Fontaine's last visit to AD.

Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes: Summer Days


It doesn't feel like summer anymore, not today anyways, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy this. Off of 1974's Expansions.


Summer Days is a kind of hymn to New York. "When I'm travelling," Lonnie explains, "I always look forward to coming back to New York because there's always so much going on here. And there's such variety in New York. You can really see it in the summertime -- so many different kinds of people on the street; and in Central Park, you can hear so many different kinds of music while people are riding bikes and looking in at all the little festivals going on. I sure wish New York City would become the Fifty-First State and get out from under the control of the state capitol in Albany. Everybody else in the state is pimping off New York City; they don't care what happens to New York."
--Nat Hentoff [who else? - ed]


This man borders on the prophetic.

The Stranglers: Sweden (All Quiet on the Eastern Front)

...only country where the clouds are interesting

"Too much time to think, too little to do" has become all too meaningful to me lately.

Billy Bragg: The Marriage

From Talking with the Taxman about Poetry.

Melanie: Brand New Key

On the hunt to track down the facts regarding my Mom's alleged attendance at a Melanie concert which she can't remember, I get the following note from my Uncle, her brother:

"I remember it well Lad! Your Mamma & I went to the Valley Forge Music Fair and had Coors Beer on the way up, I believe it was 1976! In 1985 I saw James Brown there- the stage was round & revolved from set to set!!"

Case closed.

Steve Forbert: Goin' Down to Laurel

Off Alive on Arrival, Forbert's debut produced by John Simon (who did the same for The Band). Forbert, aside from apparently drawing comparisons to Bob Dylan, played Cyndi Lauper's tuxedo clad boyfriend in the "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" video.

Sonny Rollins: Blue 7

Off of Saxophone Colossus. This cooks.

The players:
Sonny Rollins — tenor saxophone
Tommy Flanagan — piano
Doug Watkins — bass
Max Roach — drums

Woody Allen: I Shot a Moose...

The moose mingles.

Just a classic bit of comedy for this Saturday afternoon.

Dire Straits: Walk of Life

Remember how we all bought this tape in Caldor's and couldn't wait to wrestle it from its cumbersome medieval plastic packaging?

Good times.

EMMETT'S SEPTEMBER PLAYLIST

Wait 'Til The Sun Shines, Nellie - Buddy Holly
Love Hurts - Everly Brothers
Wonderful Summer - Robin Ward
After Midnight (1966 version) - J.J. Cale
Sand And Foam - Donovan
Earwigs To Eternity - Alice Cooper
Sands Of Time - Fleetwood Mac
Help Me Make It Through The Night - Ken Parker
Sooner Or Later - Pilot
Fire For Awhile - Shoes
Do The Do (MVD's swamp funk edit) - Bobby Rush
Messidor - Durutti Column
Dream On - Gino Soccio
Heaven (Sunshine Jones edit) - Rolling Stones
The Money Will Roll Right In - Fang
Vote Bowie For President - Sidwho?

Summer's gone but the time's still right for dancing in the streets. I'm experimenting with a monthly playlist format this month; let's see how this goes. Stay tuned for a possible sound quality upgrade on the Ken Parker track. Commentary to follow.

Zakarrias: Cosmic Bride

The last song from the only release by Zakarrias.
[Thanks to my bro for this find.]

The Clean: Linger Longer

From my fave Clean album 'Modern Rock'. Image courtesy of Adrian Tomine.

"can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself"

Rick Nelson: Garden Party

For the curious, story behind the song here.

Joni Mitchell: Twisted

With Cheech and Chong. Yes, Cheech and Chong.

Flip city.

Lloyd Cole and the Commotions: Forest Fire

it's just a simple metaphor...

Al Hirt: Music to Watch Girls By

Recorded on December 12, 1966, New York City. Yes, that's Jumbo, Sugar Lips, call him what you will.

Archie Shepp: In a Sentimental Mood

Shepp's take on Ellington. Recorded August 12, 1965.

"In this performance he reveals another dimension of sensuality, of intimately lyrical sensitivity that is also part of the continually expanding expressivity of Archie Shepp. In much of his work, the beauty is harsh; on this track, it as full of wonder and unfolding concern as a first embrace between two lovers."
- Nat Hentoff, 1966

The players:
Archie Shepp, tenor sax
Bobby Hutcherson, vibes
Henry Grimes, bass
Joe Chambers, drums

Angelo Badalamenti: The Nightingale


Music from Twin Peaks. Vocals by Julee Cruise, lyrics by David Lynch.

FROM THE ARCHIVES

The Mike Curb Congregation - Sweet Gingerbread Man

Original air date 12/2/07. Reposted by request from I Spy. Taken from the album Sweet Gingerbread Man [CoBurt Records Inc., Manufactured by MGM Records Inc.]. Written by M. Legrand-A. Bergman-M. Bergman. From the MGM Film "The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart". Arranged by Don Peake. Produced by Perry Botkin, Jr. Art direction: Norbert Jobst, Maurer Productions West.

Morton Feldman, excerpt from Rothko Chapel

"The example of the painters was crucial. Feldman’s scores were close in spirit to Rauschenberg’s all-white and all-black canvases, Barnett Newman’s gleaming lines, and, especially, Rothko’s glowing fog banks of color. His habit of presenting the same figure many times in succession invites you to hear music as a gallery visitor sees paintings; you can study the sound from various angles, stand back or move up close, go away and come back for a second look." - Alex Ross

Here's the final - and most melodic - bit from Feldman's 1971 Rothko Chapel.

The Carpenters: I Kept on Loving You

A sunny Sunday morning...take it Richard!

Charles Mingus: Remember Rockefeller at Attica

From Changes One. The song was not originally written with this title. Mingus changed it, explaining to Nat Hentoff that "he ought to give titles to my music that makes people think." And specifically about this song -- "We ought to remember that here was a man who could have cut off the water supply and the food supply and ended the prisoners' rebellion that way. Instead he sent the army in and shot his own men as well as the prisoners. That's the part to remember--that Rockefeller is a very dangerous man."

It's interesting - the song title changes the impact of the song a good deal, and I'd like to know what it was originally titled. As it stands, it is so heavy with irony.

Read about the Attica prison riots here. And because it's the dog days, here's the 'Attica' scene from Dog Day Afternoon:

Charlie Smalls: Never Felt Like This Before

More Faces related music. I need to thank Festus von Gunsmoke for this rip of the Faces soundtrack. This is nice.

Charlie Smalls, by the way, is the man behind the music of The Wiz.