I went grocery shopping tonight. Here’s what I heard on my iPod shuffle:
On the way there:
Anatomy- John Coltrane
Don’t Worry (If There is a Hell Below, We’re All Gonna Go)- Curtis Mayfield
How Long- Leadbelly
Little Red Rooster- Sam Cooke
Me Myself and I- Billie Holiday
Turn My World Around- Irma Thomas
On the way back:
Hard Times Ain’t Gone Nowhere- Lonnie Johnson
Chain of Fools- R.L. Burnside
He’s Funny That Way- Billie Holiday
I Don’t Want No Woman- Magic Sam
Mr. Johnson’s Swing- Lonnie Johnson
What’s on your iPod?
I was listening to the PoliSciFi Radio podcast, Steve Benen and Bill Simmons earlier in the car.
Just listened to Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me” courtesy of a link from Shoq.
Too busy making music that equals some of the shit you listenin’ to on yours.
He got that right, among any number of other things.
Nothin’ new…
The music continues despite attempts to make it into history.
Any of the folks on your playlist still alive, let alone in creative mode?
I think not.
Check it out.
Check yo’se’f out.
Later…
AG
I think Irma is alive. Not sure though.
She is indeed. I saw her at Jazz Alley in Seattle a few months ago. She was, as always, amazing. Glad someone else here knows of her.
FWIW, most recent thing I listened to today was the CD of a local group called the Pinkos. The main force behind the group is a good friend of mine named Vanessa Veselka, who now lives in Portland and went on last year to publish a pretty well-received first novel.
I suppose you meant ipod shuffle. But then you used ipad again at the end. Hmm. My ipod touch is still stuck in itunes mode despite my many efforts to revive it. Funny thing is I rarely went to itunes when using it. (Mostly for surfing.) It has been a POS since the time that I bought it refurbished from Apple. (2nd gen, so that’s a looong time.) Apple sold it with an older o/s, then charged me to buy the upgrade on itunes. The upgrade crashed it and only some months later did I revive it but only with everything set back to the factory settings. Yes, that meant it once again it had the old o/s and lost all of the apps. Some apps were able to be reloaded but by then the o/s was icompatible with most app downloads. Now, as I said, it is stuck in itunes mode and I can’t even use it for surfing. Truly a POS.
Meanwhile I actually listen to music on 2 windows-based music players, a Sony and an ancient Coby. Yes, a Coby that cost less than 20 dollars way back when has outlasted the vaunted ipod. And windows lets me move files anywhere I want, even to potentially thousands of devices, all without the Apple silliness. I recall that when the laptop to which an old ipod shuffle had been linked died, the poor shuffle was orphaned and could only link with another computer by clearing all files. Thanks Apple, I’ll keep my windows players although I do like my 10 year old aluminum Powerbook G4.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Oh, as to music, some new but lots of 80s stuff including Duran Duran, Talking Heads and Blondie. Which I enjoy listening to on my Coby with updated headphones. Are you listening, Apple?
Nice mix, Boo. I always enjoyed the FRT (Friday Random Ten) in the Cafe. But it seemed to die a few years ago. Andi and I added Bonnie Raitt’s Slipstream album to our collection yesterday.
I heard a funny story about Bonnie’s little lap dog pooping on stage the other day.
Tool – ‘Lateralus’
music to stun the ears…and I mean this in a good way
Nice call on the Coltrane. His Prestige recordings are under-recognized.
Me, I’m digging Merceditas Valdes’ “Osain.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIelpIcy1iU
The history of the Black Diaspora in 4 min+, I say.
Had not heard Burnside’s version of Chain of Fools before. Awesome!
recently played list from my i-tunes:
Kizza Me- Big Star
Carmina Burana (In Springtime) – Carl Orff
If the World Was Crazy – Shel Silverstein (spoken word)
Highway 61 Revisited – Bob Dylan
I Got Drunk – Uncle Tupelo
Speed Kills – Smashing Pumpkins
World Clique – Deee-lite
Mutiny in Jonestown – Minutemen
Medley – Meatpuppets (off Huevos)
Take it Off – The Donnas
Cruising for Burgers – Frank Zappa
Sent 16 Tons to a mate on Facebook who just grafted hard to get out of date.
Not using an Ipod but it’s
Cowboy Bebop theme tune (Tank)
My Other Car is a Beatle (mashup)
Mint Royale Singing in the Rain
Army- Ben Folds Five
ben folds. love that dude.
It’s a mix of brazillian jazz, afrobeat, ’80s R&B, West Coast hip-hop and other forms of music where black people cuss a lot. Good times.
Arthur Verocai – Sylvia
J Stalin – Got to Go
Atlantic Starr – When Love Calls
The People Under the Stairs – The Grind
Maybach Music Group –
The Shins –
Zo! featuring Phonte – This Could Be the Night
Quasimoto – Greenery
DJ Quik – The Love of My Life
Phonte – Who Loves You More
Gretchen Parlato – Weak
Jay-Z – Public Service Announcement
JR&PH7 feat. Guilty Simpson and Black Milk – Top Rank
Thes One – Yacht Club
My ipod died, so i listen to WRDV 107.3 FM.
Big band and swing, M-F.
I honestly don’t like much new music. there’s this funny picture floating around with the caption “It’s not that I’m getting older, it’s that your music sucks.”
that’s not to say there aren’t good bands out there, but most of what I hear doesn’t compare favorably to old stuff. I’d love to see Count Basie come back to life and hit Justin Bieber with a piano. Or let Zombie Bill Monroe eat Alison Krauss’s brains.
I find the problem isn’t that new music sucks but that people who don’t listen to new music are always complaining about stuff they don’t really listen to. They catch a commercial here, a video there, a radio promo here or they see a 12-year-old girl with a Justin Beiber shirt on and think they have captured the pulse of what’s popular these days. The truth is it’s a lot more complicated than that.
Esperanza Spalding. Washed Out. Foreign Exchange. Slakah the Beatchild.
New music that does indeed not suck.
Checking out your recommendations, PBS. Grazie!
Cool. Lemme know what you think. đŸ™‚
I’m having a 60’s psych out.
Country Joe and the Fish
The Sonics
13th Floor Elevators
The Chocolate Watch Band
Quicksilver Messenger Service
? and the Mysterians
The Seeds
It’s my folk and country mix.