Odds and Ends 010

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This is my preferred playlist sequence for O and E 010. Structured as in the old vinyl days with 20+ minute sides.

GO! -- Santigold

Que Que -- Diplo and Dillon Francis

Katy On A Mission -- Katy B

Night By Night -- Chromeo

Masta Blaster -- Dillon Francis

 

Disparate Youth -- Santigold

Video Games (Joy Orbison Remix) -- Lana Del Rey

Hormones -- Tracey Thorn

Guggenheim -- The Ting Tings

This Is What Makes Us Girls -- Lana Del Rey

Singles Bar -- Tracey Thorn

 

When The Night Falls -- Chromeo

Wildfire -- SBTRKT

Something Goes Right -- SBTRKT

Why You Always Here -- Katy B

Day to Day -- The Ting Tings

The only liberty I took with the tracks Bob listed was to substitute the Joy Orbison remix of "Video Games" for the original album track. I'm not sure it's actually a better version, the beats erode some of the emotional claustrophobia packed into the original, but the beats also make it flow better in this semi-club context.

Among other things I like how the commonplace sentiments of "Day to Day" wrap up and put a bow on the many preceding dramas. Tho' that could just me being a tired old coot.

The other guy hereabouts who listens to heavy/stoner/doom metal might be interested  ....

Sleep, Dopesmoker (2012 edition)

They're never gonna get this g-ddamned thing right. This is, what, the third (fourth?) issue of it?

Don't get me wrong. It's the best batch yet. Pointless sludge has been scraped away. The guitar riffing finally has the wooly-mammoth-rollin​g-over-you crunch it needs. The bass sonics have a more complementary and less redundant relation to the guitar. The vocals are most improved of all and (as a tonal quality) I actually think they're kinda idiot-clever rather than nothing.  But the drums are still buried under 17,000 pounds of ganja distillate the consistency of snot.

And I liked the cover art of the 2003 version a lot more.

I know about four people who would be amused by five-10 minutes of this after an hour of gnawa classics. And then there's the couple of wackos who like it already. But yer not gonna convert the infidels. I guess, ever.

This is one of the very few instances where I think re-recorded drums might be in order. Keep this version in circulation; make a new drum track that, sonically, doesn't lie at the feet of the rest of the instruments (won't be as good but won't be drowning in goo), put it out as the 21st-Century Treatment and never think of "Dopesmoker" again.

(The added live track is no better and no worse than the other marginalia trash added to previous reissues.)

No, I've never listened to it stoned.

I graduated from a small Connecticut high school in '06. Pretty sure the class song was Green Day's "Good Riddance." No complaints.

Pardon me for still not knowing how to gray this direct quote-of-quote:
That Tracey Thorn album is so not IDM, or at least no more than the Lana is

I said "midlife midtempo." Neither a modifier ever attached to any kind of "real" IDM. Thorn's album is intelligent, and it derives from her partner's electronica flirtations. No?

Kvetch kvetch kvetch: That Tracey Thorn album is so not IDM, or at least no more than the Lana is.

Leonard Cohen at MSG next December?  My brother just emailed me to tell me he got tix and insist I go with him (it's cos' I bitch so much about missing the tour that got captured on Live in London even after my brother insisted I go with him then).

How weird to think of old Lenny filling that space....

Happy birthday. Hope you have a good time. :)