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--- special_areas:you_listen_to_these_records 2009/08/26 00:19
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 The records on this page are ones I wish were better known and/or I'm posting them for my friends (all are trimmed 2/3 in, except for John Kessel)
-=== John Kessel ===
+====== John Kessel ======
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+====== You: Listen to These Records ======
-=== Two Dance-y Trance-y Covers of 60s Tunes ===
+====  ====
+{{:pressure-cooking_labelle.mp3|Pressure Cooking, Labelle}}
+The human-voice equivalent of Eddie Van Halen's guitar playing
+==  ==
+Date Added: 3/21/2010
+====  ====
+{{:kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3|kaw-liga_the-residents.mp3}}
+==== A Pair of Paradoxes ====
+====  ====
+{{:breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3|breakin_in-a-brand-new-broken-heart-connie-francis.mp3}}
+==  ==
+harmony all the way through
+====  ====
+{{:no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3|no-future-in-the-past_vince-gill.mp3}}
+==  ==
+slow-build thriller
+====  ====
+{{:gypsy_moody-blues.mp3|gypsy_moody-blues.mp3}}
+==  ==
+Date Added: 3/13/2010
+====== Two Dance-y Trance-y Covers of 60s Tunes ======
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 {{:nightsinwhitesatin-lindalaw-edit.mp3|Nights In White Satin - Linda Law}}
+====== Mad Violets, World of ... (1986) ======
 {{:madviolets-worldof.jpg|}}
-This is an awesome EP of 80s
+This is an awesome EP of 80s neopsychedelia. Four originals and a cover of The Move's I Can Hear the Grass Grow.
-neopsychedelia (1986). Four
-originals and a cover of The Move's I Can Hear the Grass Grow.
 Track list:
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 {{:blacklightsoundreality-madviolets-edit.mp3|Black Light Sound Reality}}
 {{:crystalchandelier-madviolets-edit.mp3|Crystal Chandelier}}
 {{:comeoutandplay-madviolets-edit.mp3|Come Out and Play?}}
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-Jr. Gone Wild, Less Art More
-Pop!
-Catchy, fun, idiosyncratic band from
-Canada with a couple proto-genius songwriters. Second only to the
+====== Jr. Gone Wild, Less Art More Pop! (1986) ======
+{{:jr_gonewild.jpg|}}
+Catchy, fun, idiosyncratic band from Canada with a couple proto-genius songwriters. Second only to the
 Association in sophomoric but still impressive lyrical glossolalia
-(1986).
-The first song I'm posting shows
+The first song I'm posting shows their popcraft, and a little craziness in the lyrics:
-their popcraft, and a little craziness in the lyrics:
 {{:she_llneverknow-jr_gonewild-edit.mp3|She'll Never Know}}
-This second tune has some truly crazy
+This second tune has some truly crazy lyrics (2nd verse, esp.), which are reprinted below:
-lyrics (2nd verse, esp.), which are reprinted below:
 {{:heatheronabadday-jr_gonewild-edit.mp3|Heather on a Bad Day}}
-Lyrics to Jr. Gone Wild, Heather on a Bad Day (M. McDonald)
+=== Lyrics to Jr. Gone Wild, Heather on a Bad Day (M. McDonald) ===
-Sitting by the fountain protecting
+Sitting by the fountain protecting her skin from the mist
-her skin from the mist
 And her entourage respects her, on that she must insist
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 Cuz she controls her atmosphere and she's not in a very good mood
-And there are pictures in behind her eyes she's dreaming of where she
+And there are pictures in behind her eyes she's dreaming of where she should be
-should be
 Should be hailed as a princess cuz she's royalty
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 And the rancid badly timed statements from men don't warrant a response
-Unflinchingly she discards these fools like clothes cuz they don't have
+Unflinchingly she discards these fools like clothes cuz they don't have what she needs
-what she needs
-And the watery eyed adolescents with their hearts torn out see her as a
+And the watery eyed adolescents with their hearts torn out see her as a taloned vixen
-taloned vixen
 Heather's gaze is far away she's catching herself wishing, she's wishing
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 It's her private truth something she doesn't want to show
-And as sure as the sky is blue that cumulus spectacle there belongs to
+And as sure as the sky is blue that cumulus spectacle there belongs to her
-her
 The world is her ring her entourage are her bangles
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+====== Green, self-titled first alb (1986) ======
-<p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Green, self-titled" src="imags/Green.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="30">Green, self-titled first alb
+{{:green.jpg|}}
-(1986)
-I'm posting this whole album (songs
+I'm posting this whole album (songs trimmed 2/3 in). Great Beatle-ish/Kinks-ish/Prince-ish! power pop. Jeff Lescher shoulda been as big as Paul Westerberg. If you don't listen to everything, don't miss the ones with
-trimmed 2/3 in). Great Beatle-ish/Kinks-ish/Prince-ish!
-power pop. Jeff Lescher shoulda been as big as Paul Westerberg. If you
-don't listen to everything, don't miss the ones with
 asterisks.
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 {{:she_probably-green-edit.mp3|She, Probably}}
-{{:notgoingdown(anymore)-green-edit.mp3|Not Going Down (Anymore)}}
+{{:notgoingdownanymore-green-edit.mp3|Not Going Down (Anymore)}}
-{{:biginjapan-green-edit.mp3|Big
+{{:biginjapan-green-edit.mp3|Big In Japan}}
-In Japan}}
-<p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="After 7" src="imags/After7.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">After
-, self-titled first
-alb (1989)
+====== After 7, self-titled first alb (1989) ======
-At the turn of the 90s there was a
-certain amount of quietly traditionalist R&amp;B, of the Anita
-Baker sort. Can't Stop has the kind of groove you never want
+{{:after7.jpg|}}
-to end, and when I got the single, I was pleasantly surprised to find
-Ready or Not on the B side. It seemed familiar, I thought
-maybe it was a cover
-of a mid-70s or late-60s tune. But it's not.
+At the turn of the 90s there was a certain amount of quietly traditionalist R&amp;B, of the Anita Baker sort. Can't Stop has the kind of groove you never want to end, and when I got the single, I was pleasantly surprised to find Ready or Not on the B side. It seemed familiar, I thought maybe it was a cover of a mid-70s or late-60s tune. But it's not.
 {{:can_tstop-after7-edit.mp3|Can't Stop}}
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-<p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Blue Hippos" src="imags/BueHippos.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">Blue Hippos, self-titled first record, EP (1987)
+====== Blue Hippos ======
-This guy, Paul Osby, singer
-guitarist, oozes
-attitude, undoubtedly too much. He was gonna die before he got old. But
+{{:bluehippos.jpg|}}
-the main attraction is his guitar playing, effortless. I saw them in
-Iowa City at the time and Osby was so cool. He peeled off
-these
+Paul Osby the singer/guitarist of this group and an earlier one, oozes attitude, undoubtedly too much. He was gonna die before he got old. But the main attraction is his guitar playing, effortless. I saw them in Iowa City at the time and Osby was so cool. He peeled off these wicked snarly guitar lines, from ultra-low-slung guitar, cigarette in mouth, while singing!
-wicked snarly guitar lines, from ultra-low-slung guitar, with
-a
-cigarette in his mouth, while singing!
 {{:can_tstopsweating-bluehippos-edit.mp3|Can't Stop Sweating}}
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-<p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Tamia" src="imags/Tamia.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">Tamia
-(1998), song originally recorded w/Quincy Jones (1994)
-Her voice is perfect, pure, clear,
+====== Tamia (1998), song originally recorded w/Quincy Jones (1994) ======
-relaxed but completely in control. Like a certain other
-perfect-voicester (initials WH), but with added sweetness
+{{:tamia.jpg|}}
+Her voice is perfect, pure, clear, relaxed but completely in control. Like a certain other perfect-voicester (initials WH), but with added sweetness
 {{:youputamoveonmyheart-tamia-edit.mp3|You Put A Move On My Heart}}
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-<p class="Categ">Random stuff you should listen to if you
+====== Random stuff you should listen to if you don't know it ======
-don't know it
+{{:deadcandance-withintherealmofadyingsun.jpg|}}
-<p class="Categ"><img style="width: 240px; height: 242px; float: left;" alt="Dead Can Dance, Within The Realm Of A Dying Su" src="imags/DeadCanDance-WithinTheRealmOfADyingSun.jpg" hspace="15" vspace="15">Dead Can Dance, Within the
+Dead Can Dance, Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
-Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
-I was surprised in 1990 to hear
+I was surprised in 1990 to hear from a friend that she was going to see these folks play. Now somewhat well-known, I guess this band's gothic-ness saved it from the dustbin of history
-from a
-friend that she was going to see these folks play. Now somewhat
-well-known,
-I guess this band's gothic-ness saved it from the dustbin of history
 {{:cantara-deadcandance-edit.mp3|Cantara}}
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+======  ======
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 {{:whichwayisup-stargard-edit.mp3|Which Way Is Up - Stargard}}
-{{:darlin_darlin_baby(sweet_tender_love)-o_jays-edit.mp3|Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender Love) - O-Jays}}
+{{:darlindarlinbabysweettenderlove-ojays-edit.mp3|Darlin' Darlin' Baby (Sweet, Tender Love) - O-Jays}}
 {{:fortheloveofmoney-o-jays-edit.mp3|For the Love of Money - O-Jays}}
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 {{:highlifetime-georgedarko-edit.mp3|Highlife Time - George Darko}}
-s supergroup with R.E.M.'s Michael
+s supergroup with R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe singing and Richard Thompson, elect. lead guitar:
-Stipe singing and Richard Thompson, elect. lead guitar:
-{{:boy(go)-goldenpalominos-edit.mp3|Boy (Go) - Golden Palominos}}
+{{:boygo-goldenpalominos-edit.mp3|Boy (Go) - Golden Palominos}}
 {{:lullabyofbroadway-bramtchaikovsky-edit.mp3|Lullaby of Broadway - Bram Tchaikovsky}}
-{{:meltingpot-bookert_andthem_g__s-edit.mp3|Melting Pot - Booker T. & the MGs}}
+{{:meltingpot-bookertandthemgs-edit.mp3|Melting Pot - Booker T. & the MGs}}
-{{:boogiewoogiewaltz[edit]-weatherreport.mp3|Boogie Woogie Waltz [starts midway thru 12 min tune] - Weather Report}}
+{{:boogiewoogiewaltz-edit-weatherreport.mp3|Boogie Woogie Waltz [starts midway thru 12 min tune] - Weather Report}}