"L"

[jfb]

Rules clarification--it's not strictly first-come-first-served. If someone else already requested something you want, ask for it anyway and I'll try to split things up fairly.


For some reason there are a lot of "I thought I liked this artist but it turns out I didn't" and "I tried to like this artist but it never happened" things in the "L" section.

• John Lurie Fishing with John. From the TV show.
  
• The Jessica Lurie Ensemble !Zipa Buka!. Could be a relative--similarly on the edge between jazz and other things.
  
• Living Daylights Electric Rosary. Another Jessica Lurie ensemble.
  
• The Living Daylights Give Till It Hurts. Not the same band!
  

Well, you can see how that happened.

• Luscious Jackson "Naked Eye". I love this song. Three mixes, one of them instrumental. dougo
  
• Luscious Jackson, Fever In Fever Out. The album it's from. Produced by Daniel Lanois. stragglyr_chris
  
• Luscious Jackson, Electric Honey. The album after it. "Nervous Breakthrough" and "Ladyfingers" were good. dougo
  
• Luscious Jackson, Natural Ingredients. The album before it. Beats me. dougo
  
• Arto Lindsay Mundo Civilizado. Bossa Nova meets electronica, falls ill, drifts downstream. Cover songs by Al Green and Prince, and one cowritten with Marisa Monte; DJ Spooky and Vinicius Cantuaria and Marc Ribot and Don Byron all appear.
  
• Arto Lindsay Hyper Civilizado. Remixes of the above.
  
• Arto Lindsay Noon Chill. More.
  

• Low Songs for a Dead Pilot. People keep telling me I should like Low, and from everything I've read, I completely agree, which is why I've bought four or five CDs by them, none of which has really grabbed me. Hey, I hear they've got a new one out. dougo
  
• Low Pop Suicide The Death of Excellence. I bought this because I liked Rick Boston's work on the Rickie Lee Jones album Ghostyhead. I still do. But this isn't much like it.
  
• k.d. lang all you can eat. The followup to Ingenue.
  
• Caroline Lavelle Brilliant Midnight. Kind of new-agey? But with beats? Okay, I don't remember. Her previous album was pretty great though.
  
• Donna Lewis "I Love You Always Forever". What can I say? It hooked me. Radio mix, annoying remix, and two non-album tracks.
  
• Keith Little Distant Land to Roam. Terrific bluegrass guitarist and singer.
  
• Lu Lu and the Cowtippers (s/t). Blues-rock, I think? Saw them in San Luis Obispo once. rutemple
  
• Mary Lou Lord Got No Shadow. I remember Park Street.
  
• Laura Love Octoroon. Exciting, genre-bending funky pop-folk. Also, she's a bass player!
  
• The Love Dogs I'm Yo Dog. Swing revivalists, it says here.
  

• Joe Locke Slander (And Other Love Songs). Jazz vibraphone. Includes songs by Stevie Wonder, Lalo Schifrin, and Joni Mitchell, and plenty of originals. Oh and an Elvis song.
  
• The Joe Locke Quartet Moment to Moment. Henry Mancini tribute.
  
• Divination Ambient Dub, Vol. 2: Dead Slow. Bill Laswell by any other name. Dave S.
  
• Steve Lacy Reflections. Few people have played Thelonious Monk's music more than Steve Lacy; here, for example.
  
• Patrick Leonard Rivers. More fishing music.
  
• Jason Lindner Premonitions. Big band music in the year 2000.
  
• Erik Lindgren Scores! Chamber music from a former Birdsong of the Mesozoic. Features Liza Scriggins, who has a wonderful name, plays a mean viola, and, I'm pretty sure, was a featured soloist in the debut performance of my sole big band composition. Or was it only a dream? rutemple
  

Previously: "T", "S", videotapes, the rules.

Comments

Luscious Jackson, Fever In Fever Out

[stragglyr-chris.livejournal.com]

I always meant to pick this one up. Can I?

Re: Luscious Jackson, Fever In Fever Out

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Sure! I'll try to remember to bring it to Red Rock on Monday, or somewhere.

Re: Luscious Jackson, Fever In Fever Out

[stragglyr-chris.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Interested in the Low and any/all of the Luscious Jackosn. I think I know which Low album you'd like but I don't remember the name. Will check later, maybe. Or, try Bedhead instead.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Noted. I did hear one Low song, at a friend's urging, that I enjoyed, but by then I'd been burned too many times to buy the album. (And it's not that I don't like them; I just don't pull them off the shelf, once they're on it.)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Hey, and I just noticed, Electric Honey comes with the "Ladyfingers" single. Bonus CD!

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Oops, I already had that Low. Any idea who else might want it?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Ironically, since that giveaway post I have finally developed an appreciation for Low (but not for that CD).

No one comes to mind. Sell it, I guess.

Erik Lindgren, Scores!

[rutemple.livejournal.com]

I'd also be intrigued with Lu Lu and the Cowtippers, if it hasn't been whisked away yet.

Stories: we connected 'cos someone, I think matm0t mentioned your singing, and I came to see your LJ while you were enjoying a swing through the Twin Cities, my hometown.
I'll swap you some tracks of cool 14th century tunes if you like, including a cool modern version of Douce Dame Jolie classified as, I kid you not, Rock.
I think you'll like em.

Re: Erik Lindgren, Scores!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Huh, I didn't think anyone was gonna take these two. Great! Also got your "S" request, and will send you the Claudia Schmidt CD too unless you explicitly tell me not to. There's several Scandinavian folk discs in the pipeline, most of them more traditional than Sorten Muld.

And no need for exchange, really. My main goal here is lightening my load. Someday when I'm settling in again you can surprise me.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

How can you possibly get rid of the Fishing With John soundtrack?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Healthy diet and exercise.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I'll take the Fishing With John if no one else wants it... I have a friend I can send it to (I already own the CD and love it).

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Sounds good.

By the way, I'm trying not to second-guess my discard decisions (most of which were made a few years ago, and then I stored the CDs somewhere out of the way and didn't actually discard them), but I just took a listen to this one. I mostly like it, but I think everything I like about it is done at least as well on the Lounge Lizards record Queen of All Ears, with less of what I don't like. (A lot of the short cues that would work well as score music don't do much for me on the CD.) So I can give this one up.

If you haven't heard Queen of All Ears, I recommend it. It's most like the "John Lurie National Orchestra" tracks from Fishing with John--lots of repetitive pentatonic saxophone melodies. Also some shouting.

Okay, this has inspired me to move the DVD to the top of my Netflix queue.

[bushmiller.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I loved the TV show. It was a lot of fun and really just goofy. The commentary track is worth listening to as well, but maybe just cuz I dig John Lurie and like hearing what's going on in his head.