1. Beach Boys – “Break Away (vocals only)” ((no label))
2. Erkki Kurenniemi – “Computer Music, 1966” ((no label))
3. Grass Widow – “Goldilocks Zone” – Internal Logic (HLR)
4. The Reigning Sound – “Lyin’ Girl” – Abdication… For Your Love (Scion A/V )
5. Dave Weckerman – “Out of Baby’s Reach” – Out of Baby’s Reach 7-inch (Yellow Fear)
6. Eleventh Dream Day – “Bomb the Mars Hotel” – Beet (Atlantic)
7. Tyvek – “Inner City Walks” – European Tour 7-inch ((no label))
8. John Barry – “Four In the Morning” – The Music of John Barry (Acrobat Music)
9. Dan Melchior – “In the Loft” – Excerpts (& Half-Speeds) (Kye)
10. Nehiti – “No Angel Came” – Other People’s Memories (Lo Bit Landscapes)
11. Hans Appelqvist – “En Arm For Ut” – Sjunga Slutet Nu (Happa)
12. If, Bwana / Dan Warburton – “I am Sitting In Phill Niblock’s Kitchen” – I am Sitting In Phill Niblock’s Kitchen (Monotype)
13. Tony Schwartz – “Sound Snapshots” – Tony Schwartz Records the Sound of Children (Folkways)
14. Peter Van Riper – “Acoustic Cups – Susmusic #1” – Sustainable Music cassette ((no label))
15. Steven Feld – “Méaudre” – The Time of the Bells (Voxlox)
16. LAFMS – “Music For Gamelan and Synthesizer” – The Lowest Form of Music (Los Angeles Free Music Society box) (LAFMS)
17. Dump – “Where There Is No Sun” ((no label))
18. Quilt – “Cowboys in the Void” – Quilt (Mexican Summer)
19. The Mind Expanders – “Pictures at a Psychedelic Exhibition” – The Mind Expanders (Gear Fab)
20. The Men – “Candy” – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
21. Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson – “Pickin’ Wild Mountain Berries” – Southern Soul Shake! SSS Soul Survey & Music City Soul (Charly)
22. Clifford Curry – “She Shot A Hole In My Soul” – Night Train To Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, 1945-1970 (Lost Highway)
23. The Servicemen – “Are You Angry?” – Meet the… Servicemen? (Wind Hit)
24. Gilberto Gil – “Nega (Photograph Blues)” – Gilberto Gil (1971) (Philips)
25. The Ethopians – “Everything Crash” – This Is Reggae Music, v. 1 (Studio One)
26. People in Control – “When It’s War” – Crammed Global Soundclash 1980-1989 (Crammed Discs)
27. Richard Grayson – “Promenade” – Pandorasbox (Orion)
28. Rhys Chatham – “Crossing the Sword Bridge” – Outdoor Spell (Northern-Spy)
29. Samulnori – “Al-Ari” – Record of Changes (CMP)
30. Marcia Bennett / Samara Lubelski – “September 12th, 2010 – Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY” – Sunday Night, Sunday Afternoon (Kye)
31. Man Forever – “Surface Patterns” – Pansophical Construct (Thrill Jockey)
32. Kazuyoshi Saito – “It Was Always A Lie” ((no label))
33. The Nutmegs – “Whispering Sorrows” – When You Dance (Acrobat)
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1. Natural Snow Buildings – “Starless” – Beyond the Veil (Blackest Rainbow)
2. Slant Azymuth – “Helicial Scan” – Slant Azymuth (Pre-Cert Home Entertainment)
3. Joe Jones + Chicken To Kitchen – “Solar Music” – Fluxsaints ((no label))
4. Esquivel and His Orchestra – “Carioca” – The Stereo Action Dimension: The History Of Space Age Pop, Vol. 3 (RCA)
5. Anoushka Shankar – “Buleria Con Ricardo” – Traveller (Deutsche Grammophon )
6. Gunn-Truscinski Duo – “Don’t Lean On Door” – Ocean Parkway (3 Lobed)
7. Jessie Mae Hemphill – “Loving In The Moonlight” – She-Wolf (Shout Factory)
8. Mosquito – “In the Night (Drive My Car)” – Time Was (Smells Like Records)
9. Mind Spiders – “Fall In Line” – Meltdown (Dirtnap)
10. Ceremony – “I’m A Bug” – Hysteria 7-inch (Matador)
11. Red Cross (at 33 1/3) – “Everyday There’s Someone New” – 1979-1982 7-inch ((no label))
12. The Golden Boys – “California” – Dirty Fingernails (12XU)
13. Jack White – “Love Interruption” – Love Interruption 7-inch (Third Man)
14. The Mattoid – “Windbreaker” – Glory Holy EP (Cleft)
15. /please/ – “It’s Going to Stop” – /please/ ((no label))
16. Panabrite – “Whirlpool” – Sub-Aquatic Meditation (Aguirre)
17. Pulse Emitter – “Immortality” – Aeons (Aguirre) [feat. “Modern Memory Methods” LP by Donald A. Robinson (no label) + “Anro” from “Anro” by Sachiko (Utech)]
18. David Buddin – “Canticle 1” – Canticles For Electronic Music (ugExplode)
19. Wiley Brooks & Company – “Breatharian Chant” – The Sound of Ascension (Nice (Nice) Production)
20. Robert Hunter – “”Have you ever seen anyone like Cody Pomeray?”” – Kerouac — Kicks, Joy, Darkness (Rykodisc) [for Kerouac’s 90th.]
21. Lee Ranaldo – “Outside My Window the City Is Never Silent” – Outside My Window The City Is Never Silent/A Bestiary (Chocolate Monk)
22. Robert Turman – “Flux 1” – Flux (Spectrum Spools)
23. Exocet – “Break” – Consequence (Ant-Zen)
24. Tapes – “Brain Hunger Riddim” – split 7-inch with Pampidoo (Meeuw Muzak)
25. Spontaneous Overthrow – “Money” – Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984 (Numero Group)
26. Windy & Carl – “For Rosa” – We Will Always Be (Kranky)
27. Dan Gibson – “By Canoe To Loon Lake (Proc)” – Solitudes: Environmental Sound Experiences, Volume One (Dan Gibson Productions)
28. The Two Things In One – “Let’s Get It Together” – Together Forever: The Music City Sessions (BGP Omnivore)
29. Syreeta – “I Love Every Little Thing About You” – Our Lives Are Shaped By What We Love: Motown’s Mowest Story 1971-1973 (Light In The Attic)
30. Parliament – “The Silent Boatman” – Osmium (Sanctuary)
31. Marianne Faithfull – “You Can’t Go Where The Roses Go” – Love In A Mist (Decca)
32. Sonny and the Sandwitches – “Cathedral in the Desert” – Sonny and the Sandwitches EP (Empty Cellar)
33. Flamin’ Groovies – “You Tore Me Down” – Teenage Head (Kama Sutra)
34. Avant Garde – “Naturally Stoned” – Soft Sounds For Gentle People, v. 1 ((no label))
35. Harpoon Forever – “Blue Jay” – Life-Size Cut-Out ((no label))
36. The Lemon Drops – “I Live In The Springtime” – Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the first Psychedelic Era (Rhino)
37. Information – “Let’s Compromise” – Tape #1 ((no label))
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1. Janka Nabay & the Bubu Gang – “Ro Lungi” – An Letah EP (True Panther/Luaka Bop)
2. Ornette Coleman & Prime Time feat. Jerry Garcia – “Desert Players” – Virgin Beauty (Portrait/CBS) [happy birthday, Ornette]
3. Steve Lacy – “Cloudy” – Avignon and After, v. 1 (Emanem)
4. Tony Conrad – “June 1965” – Early Minimalism (Table of the Elements)
5. Paul Metzger – “Orans” – Deliverance (Locust)
6. Fatimah Al-Zaelaeyah – “Hey, Who Enters the Sea of Passion?” – Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s From Yemen (Parlortone)
7. Neung Phak – “Poo Jud” – Neung Phak (Abduction)
8. Takeshi Terauchi & Blue Jeans – “Journey To The Stars” – Nippon Guitars (Big Beat)
9. Francis Bebey – “Fleur Tropicale” – African Electronic Music 1975-1982 (Born Bad)
10. The Men – “Country Song” – Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
11. Dana Buoy – “Best Around” – Summer Bodies (Lefse)
12. Gesellschaft zur Emanzipation des Samples – “Besuch aus der Unterwelt” – More Circulations 7-inch (FAITICHE)
13. Erik M – “Sossusvlei” – Transfall (Room 40)
14. Listening Mirror – “The Leechpool” – Resting In Aspic (Hibernate)
15. Hornorkesteret – “Mot Sydpolen” – Elegi for Roald Amundsen ((no label))
16. J.A. Caesar – “Wasan” – Kokkyou Jyunreika (P-Vine)
17. Sleepy Sun – “Martyr’s Mantra” – Spine Hits (ATP)
18. Raccoo-oo-oon – “The Canyon’s Long Winding Roads” – Is Night People (Release The Bats)
19. Dereck Donohue – “Ghosts of the Sherpa” – Subprime Frequency (Chambara)
20. The Dovers – “I Could Be Happy (slow?)” – We’re Not Just Anybody (Misty Lane)
21. Donovan Quinn – “In the Bag” – Honky Tonk Medusa (Northern-Spy)
22. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – “Wheels of Fire” – split 7-inch with L.A. Guns (Matador)
23. Tyvek – “Underwater 2” – Nothing Fits (In the Red)
24. Electric Blood – “Match” – Electric Easter (Beehive Rebellion)
25. Alastair Galbraith – “Homesick” – Orb (Nextbestway)
26. Great Society Mind Destroyers – “Higher Bodies” – Spirit Smoke (Sloow Tapes)
27. Remko Scha – “Side A” – Guitar Mural 1 (featuring The Machines) (Corps de Garde)
28. Wendy Rene – “After Laughter Comes Tears” – After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-65 (Light In the Attic)
29. James Brown – “I Love You, Yes I Do” – The Singles Volume 2: 1960-1963 (Hip-O/Polydor)
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1. Happy Flowers – “Mom, I Gave The Cat Some Acid” – My Skin Covers My Body (Homestead)
2. Lou Reed – “Metal Machine Music, side 3” – Metal Machine Music (RCA) [with DJ drums.]
3. Ron Kuivila – “Time” – Fidelity (Lovely Music)
4. Camper Van Chadbourne – “Dolphins” – Revenge of Camper Van Chadbourne (Knitting Factory)
5. Van Dyke Parks – “Aquarium” – Black Gold 7-inch (Bananastan)
6. Lulu – “Morning Dew” – From Crayons to Perfume: The Best of Lulu (Rhino)
7. Aaron Freeman – “As I Love My Own” – Marvelous Clouds (Partisan)
8. The Who – “Drowned (demo)” – Quadrophenia (Deluxe Edition) (Geffen)
9. Hubble – “Style”
10. Yair Yona – “Expatriate” – World Behind Curtains (Strange Attractors)
11. Graham Lambkin – “Amateur Doubles (Side A)” – Amateur Doubles (Kye)
12. Harmonizer – “Landline” – World Complete (Mexican Summer)
13. Keith Fullerton Whitman – “Side B” – Live (at the Tremont Theatre) (Tonschacht)
14. Bill Fontana – “Birds in a Rainforest In Southeastern Australia” – Field Recordings (Sierra Club)
15. Cecil Taylor – “# 5’04” – Chinampas (Leo) [with DJ drums]
16. The Willies – “?? / ?? / The Obedient Atom” – Are We In Haldeon Yet? cassette
17. Tall Firs – “Industrial Estate” – ATP Covers Project
18. Radar Eyes – “In Love” – Radar Eyes (HoZac)
19. Dave Cloud – “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying” – Cloud 007 (Swan)
20. Lambchop – “My Cliche” – Turd Goes Back (Grapefruit)
21. Chris Forsyth – “String Haters” – Dreams (Family Vineyard)
22. Pete Shelley – “Sky Yen (part 2)” – Sky Yen (Drag City)
23. Oren Ambarchi – “Knots” – Audience of One (Touch)
24. Starving Weirdos – “In Our Way” – Land Lines (Amish)
25. Mountain Man – “Arabella” – Made The Harbor (Bella Union/Partisan)
26. Gillian Welch – “Dark Turn of Mind” – The Harrow & The Harvest (Acony)
27. Neil Young – “Human Highway” – 14 November 1976 Madison WI (Complete Bernstein Tapes)
28. Lee Hazlewood – “If It’s Monday Morning” – Requiem For An Almost Lady (Smells Like)
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1. RANA – “Buy Sell or Break”
2. The Ex – “Keep On Walking” – Catch My Shoe
3. The Wizards – “I Need Your Love” – Love & The Needing of It: Jesse’s 2012 Marathon Premium [$75 gets a Premium! 19 version of different songs called “I Need Your Love”! Everybody ]
4. The Fugs – “Group Grope” – The Fugs II [$75 gets in the running for Heady New York prize pack feat. Ed Sanders’ memoir, “Fug You!”]
5. The Feelies – “Fa Ce La” – Crazy Rhythms [$15 to enter drawing for “Here Before” by The Feelies on COMPACT DISC!!!]
6. Suicide – “Fast Money Music” – The Second Suicide Album (Mute)
7. Dustin Wong – “Toe Tore Oh” – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads (Thrill Jockey)
8. Six Organs of Admittance – “S/Word and Leviathan” – Asleep On the Floodplain (Drag City)
9. Brian Joseph Davis – “EULA 2007”
10. Group Inerane – “Ikabkaban” – Guitars From Agadez, v. 4 (Sublime Frequencies)
11. The Monkees – “You and I feat. Neil Young” – Instant Replay (Rhino)
12. The Invaders – “No Money, No Honey” – cazumbi african sixties garage v 1 (Nosmoke) [more accurately: no money, NO FREEFORM! 800-989-9368!!!]
13. Draytons Two – “I Need Your Love” – Love & The Needing of It: Jesse’s 2012 Marathon Premium [part of $75 Frow Show Premium!!]
14. Tiki Men – “First Love, First Tears” – Yeti #8 7″ (Yeti Publishing) [pledge $15 now! get in the running for new YETI book + 7-inch.]
15. Tokedashita Garasubako (Melting Glass Box) – “Melting Glass Box” – Love Peace and Happiness [pledge $15 to get in the running!]
16. Shintaro Sakamoto – “Something’s Different” – In A Phantom Mood 7″ (Zelone)
17. Andore Kandore – “Kandore Mandore” – Japanese Folk, Rock, and Enka: 1969
18. Kuni Kuwachi & Flower Travelling Band – “Scientific Investigation”
19. Taj Mahal Travellers – “July 15, 1972”
20. Asuna – “Holland Garden”
21. Sachiko Kanenobu – “Moody Sky” – Misora (Chapter) [pledge $15 now! get in the running to win this!]
22. Toy Love – “Pull Down The Shades”
23. The Bats – “The Black and the Blue” – Thousands of Tiny Luminous Spheres (Flying Nun) [pledge $15! perhaps win this!]
24. David Kilgour & the Heavy Eights – “I’ll Climb Back Up That Hill” – Left By Soft (Merge) [pledge $15! get in the running for sweet NZ jams!]
25. Ky International Big Band – “Paratiisi”
26. Hex Breaker Quintet – “Darkness In The Land While Electrons Silently Collide Creating New Worlds” – Riders [with FROGS!!! where else are you going to hear frogs on the radio? pledge now, puh-leeze! wfmu.org of 800-989-9368!! WE NEED YOUR LOVE.]
27. Letta Mbulu – “I Need Your Love” – Love & The Needing of It: Jesse’s 2012 Marathon Premium [$75 gets you the Premium with 19 *different and awesome* songs called “I Need Your Love.”]
28. Robert Hunter – “Box of Rain” – Box of Rain (Relix)
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I’m thrilled (and I mean, thrilled) to announce The Frow Show’s 2012 WFMU Marathon Premium: Love & The Needing Of It: A no-fi adventure in international love-needing.
Same sentiment, same name, hundreds (maybe thousands) of different songs titled “I Need Your Love” span continents, genres, and decades. “Love & The Needing of It” whittles it down to 19, leaving out the crappy Macedonian pop, though including the New Zealand disco. It ignores Elvis Presley and The Ramones, but has the infamous Nirvana (UK) and Jeff “Don’t Call Me Jeff Lynne” Lynn of Swedish fuzz-rockers The Wizards, and a host of local singles from Jamaica, Baltimore, South Africa, and beyond, all presented with the stunning no-fi compression one has come to expect from globe-spanning YouTube treasure hunts. Just in time for Valentine’s Day 2013 or any mixes you might make before then! Significant others Thanks to Rich Arcoleo for the great cover art.
Love & the Needing Of It A no-fi adventure in international love-needing.
1. “I Need Your Love” – Letta Mbulu (from Letta, Tamla Motown, 1970, South Africa) produced by Hugh Masekala.
2. “I Need Your Love” – The Draytons Two (WIRL 7″, early 1970s, Barbados)
3. “I Need Your Love Tonight” – Nirvana (UK) (from Songs of Love and Praise, Philips, 1972, UK) The legendary Nirvana (UK)!
4. “Baby I Need Your Loving” – The Four Tops (Motown 7″, 1972, US)
5. “I Need Your Love So Bad” – James Brown & The Famous Flames (from I Can’t Stand Myself When I Touch Me, King, 1968, US)
6. “I Need Your Love So Desperately” – Peaches & Herb (Date 7″, 1969, US)
7. “I Need Your Love” – The Chaumonts (Bay Sound 7″, 1966, US) Baltimore.
8. “I Need Your Love” – The Wizards (Fontana 7″, 1966, Norway/Sweden) written by Jeff “I’m Not Jeff Lynne” Lynn.
9. “I Need Your Love” – The Last Times (Togy 7″, 1966, US) Clarion, Ohio.
10. “I Need Your Love” – The Artistics (Okeh 7″, 1963, US)
11. “I Need Your Love” – The Fugitives (JJ 7″, 1966, Jamaica) Greatest label name ever –ed.
12. “Baby, I Need Your Love” – Dave Barker (Wind 7″, c. 1973, Jamaica)
13. “I Need Your Love So Bad” – The Vocaleers (Paradise 7″, 1960, US) NYC indie rock c. 1950s.
14. “I Need Your Love” – Pee Wee Crayton (Imperial 78, 1955, US) California by Texas, recorded in New Orleans.
15. “Oh, I Need Your Love” – The Collegians (Winley 7″, 1962, US) Harlem.
16. “I Need Your Love” – R. Stevie Moore (from Next / Apologies To Mr. Gottleib, RSMCC, 1974, US) R. Stevie Moore.
17. “I Need Your Love” – Skip Mahoney & The Casuals (from Your Funny Moods, International, 1972, US)
18. “I Need Your Love” – Golden Harvest (Impact 7″, 1977, New Zealand) Auckland disco-pap!
19. “I Need Your Love” – Star Maiden (prev. unreleased, 2010, US) !!!
1. Twice As Much & Vashti – “Coldest Night of the Year” – Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (DiChristina)
2. The Choir – “It’s Cold Outside” – Nuggets, v. 3 (Rhino)
3. Au Revoir Simone – “Fallen Snow” – The Bird of Music (Our Secret Record Company)
4. Lambchop – “Gone Tomorrow” – Mr. M (Merge)
5. Cardinal – “Northern Soul” – Hymns (Fire)
6. Eve – “Could You” – Take It and Smile (LHI)
7. Etta James – “I Got You Babe” – Tell Mama: The Complete Muscle Shoals Sessions (Geffen)
8. The Hippy Boys – “The Hippys Are Here” – Everybody Rude Now ((no label))
9. Rikki Ililonga & Musi-O-Tunya – “Working on the Wrong Thing” – Dark Sunrise (Now Again)
Set: for no reason other than itself: a tribute to clarence white!
10. Jerry Garcia – “introduction” – Livin’ in the Past (1961-1965) (MICRO WERKS/HEPCAT)
11. Kentucky Colonels feat. Scotty Stoneman – “Eighth of January” – Live In LA With the Kentucky Colonels (Rural Rhythm) [http://grapewrath.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/scotty-stoneman-with-the-kentucky-colonels-live-in-la/]
12. Clarence White – “Footprints In The Snow” – The Essential Clarence White – Bluegrass Guitar Leads (Diane and Roland Music)
13. Muleskinner – “Footprints In The Snow” – A Potpourri of Bluegrass Jam (DBK Works)
14. The Byrds & The Flying Burrito Brothers – “Wasn’t Born To Follow” – 19 September 1970 Whisky-A-Go-Go, Los Angeles, CA (late show) ((no label)) [http://bbchron.blogspot.com/2012/01/byrds-flying-burrito-brothers-1970-09.html]
15. Nashville West – “Louisiana Rains” – The Legendary Nashville West Album (Rev-Ola)
16. The Gosdin Brothers – “Sounds of Goodbye” – Sounds of Goodbye (Capitl)
17. Dustin Wong – “Pencildrove Hill Moon” – Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads (Thrill Jockey)
18. Starving Weirdos – “Periods” – Land Lines (Amish)
19. Guignol feat. Korena Pang – “Invisible Sports” – Angela, David & The Great Neopolitan Road Issue (Cenotaph)
20. Tom Lawrence – “Seven Springs” – Water Beetles of Pollardstown Fen (Greuenkorder)
21. Jeph Jerman & Greg Davis – “#3” – Jeph Jerman & Greg Davis cassette (Autumn)
22. Nancy – “Super Delicious”
23. Taj Mahal Travellers – “Side B” – Live at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1st July 1971 (Klimt)
24. – “Suikinkutsu” – Healing
25. Charles Lloyd feat. the Beach Boys – “TM” – Waves (A&M)
26. William Tyler – “A Portrait of Sarah” – Split EP (Grapefruit)
27. Maffitt/Davies – “Landscape Grown Cold” – The Rise and Fall of Honesty (Rev-Ola)
28. Karen Dalton – “Reason To Believe” – 1966 (Delmore)
29. John Villemonte – “Hours or Days” – People Like You (Sebastian Speaks)
30. Bonnie Prince Billy – “Cold & Wet” – The Letting Go (Drag City)
31. S.E. Rogie – “A Time In My Life” – Dead Men Don’t Smoke Marijuana (RealWorld)
32. Mark de Gli Antoni – “Alabama” – Horse Tricks (Tzadik)
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1. Jeannie Robertson – “The Deadly Wars are Blast and Blawn” – Whaur the Pig Gaed On the Spree: Scottish Recordings by Alan Lomax (Drag City / 2S & Fews)
2. Pimmon – “Yicco” – The Oansome Orbit (Room 40)
3. Ducktails – “Side B” – Mirror Image 7-inch (Shdwply)
4. Octopus Syng – “Midsummer’s Night Scene” – Keep Off the Grass (Fruits De Mer)
5. Pterodactyl – “The Hole Night” – Spills Out (Brah)
6. Tall Firs – “Crooked Smiles” – Crooked Smiles 7-inch (no label)
7. Ismael Lo – “Tajabone” – Greatest Hits (Mango)
8. Yair Yona – “It’s Not the Heat” – World Behind Curtains (Strange Attractors)
9. Twerps – “Who Are You” – Twerps (Chapter Music/Underwater Peoples)
10. Lee Ranaldo – “Off the Wall” – Between the Times and the Tides (Matador)
11. Wizzard – “Angel Fingers” – Black Cherries – Terre T’s 2008 WFMU Marathon Premium (no label)
12. Slug Guts – “Town Tied” – Howlin’ Gang (Sacred Bones)
13. The Flaming Lips/Plastic Ono Band – “Brain of Heaven” – The Flaming Lips/Plastic Ono Band EP (Lovely Sorts of Death)
14. Savaging Spires – “Trust” – Savaging Spires (Critical Heights)
15. Jad Fair + Hifiklub + Kptmichigan – “Blue Skies” – Bird House (Joyful Noise)
16. Demdike Stare – “Kommunion” – Elemental – Parts 1 & 2: Crysanthe (Modern Love)
17. Grant Beran – “Here at the Western World” – The Another Ones (Postmoderncore)
18. The Famous Boating Party – “Albion Moonlight” – Silvery Branches CD-R (Jeweled Antler)
19. These Trails – “Rapt Attention” – These Trails (Drag City)
20. John Cale – “Whaddya Mean By That?” – EP: Extra Playful (Double Six)
21. Daphne Oram – “Ascend and Descend” – Listen, Move & Dance Nos.1-3: Electronic Sound Patterns (HMV)
22. Radiohead – “Little By Little (Shed Rmx)” – Tkol Rmx 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (Tbd)
23. Francisco Lopez & Zan Hoffman – “Concert for 300 Magnetic Tapes” – Concert for 300 Magnetic Tapes cassette (The Tapeworm)
24. Moe! Staiano – “Tape Music No. 1: Collapse of Travel and Time” – Tape Music (Dephne Normal) [feat. The Complete Short Prose of Samuel Beckett]
25. G.I. Gurdjieff – “82C) No. 78 First Series — June 30, 1949” – Harmonic Development: The Complete Harmonium Recordings 1948-49 (Basta)
26. David Crosby and Jerry Garcia – “Kids & Dogs” – PERRO Sessions (no label)
27. The Pink Floyd – “Interstellar Overdrive” – 10 September 1967 Gyllene Circelen, Stockholm, Sweden (no label)
28. Early Hominids – “Bathz” – Bathz (La Station Radar)
29. Cave – “This Is The Best” – Neverendless (Drag City)
30. Human Switchboard – “Who’s Landing In My Hangar?” – Who’s Landing In My Hangar? (Bar/None)
31. Japanese Beetles – “Cook Out” – Cook Out 7-inch (Roadtrip)
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It seems absurd to me that anybody who wasn’t just making link-bait would question the vitality or importance of music criticism. The magazines and websites that carry writing and sell advertising, sure, maybe they’re going to die, and especially the notion of consumer guide-style record reviews, which are now as ubiquitous as spam and will surely soon be composed like it. Those have been in peril for a while. The addition of Spin’s new Twitter feed, edited by Chris @1000TimesYes Weingarten, might seem to threaten somebody somewhere. But probably not. Sure, the bon mots are pithier, but Twitter makes thoughts only as “short” as a reader might perceive them, part of a much vaster conversation containing thousands, maybe millions, of threads — the real-life real-time conversation of music itself. And for those who care to participate, it’s a conversation that isn’t restricted to 140 characters or even a click-through.
In addition to the longer columns they will continue to publish (though, yikes, please don’t call 1000 words “longform”) @SPINReviews adds yet another voice to the jabber, albeit one shaped by some great writers with deep perspective on music. The latter is more important than ever, not necessarily to advise people on what is and isn’t worth listening to, but to illuminate bigger topics, to draw connections in the present, to participate, to sort through noise, to fight the ahistorical, to find musicians who don’t have publicists, to be curious, and to be amazed or infuriated by music and figure out why and how. Anybody can rate a record. Certainly, as a music writer, the fun has well been sucked out of having public opinions on things like Bon Iver or Animal Collective or any other artist that’s been covered by everybody with a social media feed. In that way, maybe we don’t need reviews, but that’s only because the conversation about music has moved to a deeper level with an infinite number of participants where hopefully “criticism” means something beyond saying if something was good or bad.
Looked at more clearly, I think it’s totally liberating. Music writers and fans are no longer forced to have opinions about music they find banal, but encouraged by the system (however passive-aggressively) to find the music that connects with them most, that creates the most narrative, the deepest portal to the hyperreal life around them, the most sustained meaning worth spending time reflecting on and writing about and listening to. Something that might last a while. Or maybe you have something awesome to say about Jay-Z and Beyonce’s baby or the imminent death of music criticism. That’s totally cool, too.
Jon Huntsman recently prescribed a “Grateful Dead tour of this country” as a cure-all for our national ills led by a candidate “who rallies the support of the American people in getting term limits and closing the revolving doors of lobbyists.” In this case, I think, “Dead tour” slipped out Huntsman’s mouth as shorthand for a populist/collectivist groundswell with its own obsessive following, something richer and more real than mere grassroots support. And if that’s what Huntsman meant, some freegan should flyer him with #ows propaganda ASAP, it being an heir to the anarchistic/countercultural momentum the Dead carried for some LSD-soaked stretch of the time-track. Either that or show Huntsman Bob Roberts, which is probably more what a Republican candidate-based Dead tour would look like.
Either way, the more interesting part to me is the deployment of the Dead as a symbol by a Republican presidential candidate who–despite claiming to be a Captain Beefheart fan–pretty much has to the definition of square. This goes beyond Al and Tipper Gore inviting the band to the White House. They were fans of the band who at least came out of the same cultural moment. For a Mormon son of a billionaire, this is an invocation of a wholly different kind. “Grateful Dead” once meant something in ye olde English folklore about paying the funeral bills of an anonymous stranger who died in debt. Now, it has a folkloric resonance now of an entirely different sort, a meaning in the American mother-tongue beyond the band itself. Jon Huntsman won’t be getting my vote in any reality, but he certainly has my ear. I wish him the best as he is devoured the traditional manner of the grimacing white man’s quadrennial blood orgy.
