becoming a habit

[jfb]

Friday Random Ten:

• Pet Shop Boys, "My October Symphony"
  
• Josh Rouse, "Christmas with Jesus"
  
• The Mountain Goats, "Song for Dennis Brown"
  
• Kris Delmhorst, "Waiting Under the Waves"
  
• Philip Rodriguez, "Don't for a minute think it's easy"
  
• Everything but the Girl, "Rollercoaster"
  
• Kenny Loggins, "I'll Be There"
  
• Ida, "Little Things"
  
• Shelby Lynne, "Thought It Would Be Easier"
  
• The Horseflies, "Who Throwed Lye On My Dog"

The mid-80s Loggins song costs me a lot of coolness points, doesn't it? The Mountain Goats might help if I didn't admit I've never actually heard the song. "Rollercoaster" is from an album recommended long ago in a letter from my old friend Kristie.

I'm getting more aggressive about discarding CDs. Here are some more.


Soulwax, Much Against Everyone's Advice. Belgian rock.
The Sea and Cake, Oui. Chicago rock. Mellow.
Steely Dan, Everything Must Go. Tried to like it.
Boz Scaggs, Dig. From 2001, sort of a return to his Silk Degrees form.
Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Disc 2 only.
Jay Farrar, ThirdShirtGrottoSlack. Sebastopol-esque EP.
Bill Frisell, Gone Just Like a Train. With Viktor Krauss and Jim Keltner.
Madonna, Ray of Light. Good singing, William Orbit production.
Leo Kottke, My Father's Face. He can sure play guitar.
Bill Frisell, The Sweetest Punch. Arrangements of songs from Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach's Painted from Memory. How could so many musicians I love (also Brian Blade, Don Byron, Cassandra Wilson, ...) make a CD I find so dull? But maybe you'll like it.
The Foundations, The Very Best Of.... "Build Me Up Buttercup", "Baby Now That I've Found You", lots of songs I don't know.
Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell, Songs We Know. Charming duo session.
Dave Douglas, Soul on Soul. Trumpeter's take on Mary Lou Williams.
Steve Khan, Got My Mental. Tunes by Coleman, Shorter, Jarrett, Rodgers and Hammerstein, and Steve's dad.
Jess Klein, Wishes Well Disguised. Singer-songwriter.
Elliott Smith, XO. Depressive pop.
The Pasties, s/t. Lo-fi from Olympia, w/ Cyndi Lauper cover.
The Lounge Lizards, Big Heart: Live in Tokyo. "Fake jazz." John Lurie, Marc Ribot, etc.
Odessa Chen, One Room Palace. Angsty singer-songwriter.
k. d. lang, Shadowland. With classic country producer Owen Bradley (Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, et al.).
The Story, The Angel in the House. Boston folk duo, before they became Jonatha Brooke.


Apropos of nothing, I think I'm going to live in Uptown.

Comments

[morganology.livejournal.com]

Elliott Smith

thanks. :)

[jfb.livejournal.com]

May be going to a local, but otherwise, done.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

I'll take The Story, K.D. Lang, and Madonna.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Madonna and lang are yours, the Story might not be. Suspense!

[jfb.livejournal.com]

P.S. If you're coming to the show on Sunday I can bring you stuff.

[pobig.livejournal.com]

I am indeed coming to the show on Sunday. I'll have to bear the suspense until then.

[marm0t.livejournal.com]

Crap, someone grabbed the Story before I could see how scratched my old copy is...

I want the other Jay Farrar. Stone, Steel & Bright Lights? Hook me up, dangit.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Check your copy anyway, Smarry's been picking up a lot of stuff. Although if my sister wants it, she's got dibs.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Damn, I'm slow.

I'll get that Madonna eventually. And the Lang.

Meanwhile, can I have the Kottke? (and I guess the Khan and the Steely Dan.)

Also, got the box. Thank you very very much.

[jfb.livejournal.com]

I expect so. That box was huge! Heaviest thing I've shipped this whole time. Who knew sheet music was so dense?

[laugh-indoors.livejournal.com]

the sea and cake?

[jfb.livejournal.com]

If that's a question, here's the answer (http://www.theseaandcake.com/). If it's a request, mail me (mailto:eostrom@drowning.org) your address. Oo, this'll be an international shipment, won't it?

hi

[(Anonymous)]

hi. i'm in the pasties. i googled our band and noticed that you're discarding the cd. i don't care, i am actually amused that our name appears in a sea of elton john's and bill frisel's!!!!
anyway, have you seen us play? we have a much better cd coming out.
www.myspace.com/thepasties.

--judd

Re: hi

[jfb.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I saw you guys in... Missoula, I was passing through the same night you were. Liked the show, like the CD well enough, just don't need it anymore. Just like Elton and Bill. Cheers.