What are you listening to 2016?

"September" jeez I'm so blind

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NUTS TO YOU - DOUG CLARK & THE HOT NUTS (1961)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Clark_and_the_Hot_Nuts

my friend gave me a bunch of records that had scratches on them and this is one of them and holy shit it is incredible. they are a garage/soul band from Chapel Hill doing a live show. it is incredible. a concept album about nuts. every song is about nuts. they sing Chuck Berry's "Ding-A-Ling". they sing "She's got the whole world by the balls". they sing "Gay Caballero". it is dirty south as fuck. it is garage rock and doo wop and comedy rock. highly highly recommend this album. way ahead of its time. some samples here:

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fred frith - guitar solos

Clyde Mcphatter's top tracks

Going deep on charting Billboard singles from '66 at present. No fewer than four songs about Batman thus far.

Los Angeles Azules - 22 Exitos
Junior Boys - Big Black Coat
Rob Galbraith - Damn It All
Conte Four - Music For Your Dancing Pleasure (1st one)
Shirley Nanette - Never Coming Back
The Eagle's Nest Three - Three In The Nest
Tall Dwarfs - Fork Songs & 3Eps
Al & Ina Harris - Moody

Old Lunch, here's what xgau says about the 48-track (lots more than Spotify's sampler) Jon Savage's 1966: The Year The Decade Exploded. Thinking about getting it myself:
http://noisey.vice.com/blog/expert-witness-velvet-underground-bob-dylan-rolling-stones
I'm also told that it has even more tracks than are commented on in Jon Savage's 1966 the book, but the CD booklet covers the additional tracks.

Thanks for that. As I already have with other years, I'm running the gamut using this list. Aided by some kind souls on Ssk who have already done the heavy lifting of compiling this stuff.

Xgau is right about 'Walking My Cat Named Dog', btw. Check it out.

There is a great, great cover of that song here. 80s and 90s home taper, heads and tails above most home tapers of the time:

http://therecordingsoflindasmith.yolasite.com/put-it-in-writing.php

Linda Smith! Her home tapes were highly praised in at least one prozine, Option, and several fanzines of the 80s, maybe late 70s too. Thanks for the link, will check.

Re: '66, I was baffled to realize that 'Michelle' and 'Drive My Car' weren't US singles and that only cover versions of the songs charted in the States.

"If you got a rocket let it go" and "Sometimes you are that guy/Of course you are/Of course you are" might be the central lines here, but so could any other, while listening to Robert Pollard's Of Course You Are, rec also to fans of Robyn Hitchcok and early 70s Nilsson, though this is less ballady. Good arrangements of one-man-band Nick Mitchell, overall much more varied than the first few tracks, but those are satisfying too: http://www.avclub.com/article/listen-exclusive-stream-robert-pollards-newest-rec-232880

Heron Oblivion's growing on me, but still frustrated by the predictability of their oh-so-ritualistic approach, with later tracks already recycling bits of thee earlier, like this debut is also a career overview; guess we should listen only when too stoned to remember or care. Why does Lisa Walker's equally floaty voice go w Wussy rockin better than Baird's does with this waaah-waah etc." Makes me even more thankful for Sandy Denny's musical-emotional range.
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/24/467690758/first-listen-heron-oblivion-heron-oblivion

I'd discovered Linda Smith via her really early Slumberland 7". Excited to check out the rest of her stuff too, since I never have!

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2-28:
Pink Floyd- Meddle
Nazz, The- Nazz
Uriah Heep- Demons and Wizards
Stranglers, The- The Raven
Zevon, Warren- Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
Zevon, Warren- Stand In the Fire
Iron Maiden- Iron Maiden
Corrosion of Conformity- In the Arms of God
Mastodon- Crack the Skye

3-1:
Cathedral- Caravan Beyond Redemption

3-2:
Doors, The- Waiting for the Sun
Crazy Horse- Crazy Moon

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NUTS TO YOU - DOUG CLARK & THE HOT NUTS (1961)

thank you so much for this

yeah i love that album! i ripped it last night and just posted it to youtube. it's noisey and has some skips but is a lot of fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-OoN_NK89g

I have Nuts to You somewhere, haven't played in awhile, I think I one called Panty Raid too.

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my favorite Byrds album!

Judee Sill a lot
the new Field Music

that's mostly it lately

love the first sill lp so much, but not explored beyond that

& xpost: notorious is def the byrds at their peak (imo)

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self titled 1987 solo album by Stan Campbell from the Special AKA (lead vocalist on 'Free Nelson Mandela')

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Whoa, sorry for bigness!

In the car:

- Fire Star: Synth-Pop & Electro-Funk From Tamil Films
- K.S. Chithra With Ilaiyaraaja
- Golden Afrique Vol 2
- Kamasi Washington - The Epic
- Francophonic Vol 2
- Leon Ware - Musical Massage
- Mal Waldron - The Call

Infernal Machine: Despite the title of this new New Keepers Of The Water Towers album, which had me hoping for something a bit in the Hawkwind-Motorhead line ov space-rock, it's a bit slow and distant, pretty formations floating by, despite the "just wait for it" signals of drums---like the drums, like all of it really, except seems---hate to say "less than the sum of its parts," and faster-than-light is a lot to ask, but just pretend you found a wormhole, guys: gimme that old tyme science fiction, and get on with it. No, better listen some more before signing off for good.
Good Grief, by Lucius, is almost the opposite: despite/including emphasis on voices, as structurally ingenious as, say, St. Vincent, but without the carefully distanced distress signals and games of clues: it's an emotional onslaught, maybe ultimately implosive, while wailing though the castle, incl. towers and dungeons, that Love built: hey babes, you wanted a Relationship, this relationship, you got it. Mind you, they can also come up with a hooky chorus, catchy verses, and I expect to hear some of this on the radio---"The college radio," Butthead specifies, and he's right of course.
Not to be listened to if you're already feeling unsettled, unless you wanna get more unsettled of course:
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/02/468552470/first-listen-lucius-good-grief

Had to take a break before the rest of that, but speaking of St. Vincent, "Born Again Teen" is like her x Motown: ah, those youthful mood swings, maybe especially on acid. But/and the mirror sisters of Lucious eventually rock their way to higher ground, for another smoke break anyway: "It's all a manual that we've been writing, a future instructional guide / if we skipped ahead to our pre-fulfilled dreams, we'd be lost without our own advice." Ha, good one.

blind alfred reed, e.v. stoneman, charlie poole &
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Lambert, Hendricks and Ross 1st disc of a 2cd compi of several lps which I bought a few years back. Think it got mislaid somewhere so I refound it recently and am playing regularly for first time in ages.
Vocalese I think. Satirical lyrics sung to fit horn solos. Interesting.

Clear Light new reissue of 67lp by psych group signed to Elektra. Their fate was messed up by poor relationship with Paul Rothschild.
Lp is pretty dark and doomy for 67 psych.

no internet, phone and tv at home due to kaputt modem. lots of reading & listening, yesterday evening:

Jay Daniel - Scorpio Rising
Theo Parrish - Overyohead
John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard
Carter Tutti Void - 𝒇 (x)
Ami Shavit - In Alpha Mood
Matt Karmil - ----

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Jordan De La Sierra ‎– Gymnosphere: Song Of The Rose

peaceful, reflective, repetitive, equal temperament piano

ash ra tempel - le berceau de crystal (wish gottsching did more stuff like this, it's more on a roedelius or even popol vuh kind of vibe)

route 8 - everything i've heard by this person is really good. deep house a la dial or workshop maybe. feel like saer might be a fan?

pender street steppers - life in the zone - soft focusy vintagey house

strategy - noise tape self - nice ambient noise painting stuff

also still hammering mind miniatures by aquarian foundation
https://soundcloud.com/going-good-records/aquarian-foundation-mind

(raw cosmic new age downtempo, listen if you like CFCF, young marco, tangerine dream (?))

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Cliff Richard - I'm No Hero

just the best album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpvhftQ-hLE

The Knife
Dominique Dumont
Arthur Russell
Fingers Inc

ash ra tempel - le berceau de crystal (wish gottsching did more stuff like this, it's more on a roedelius or even popol vuh kind of vibe)

Yeah, it's an insanely good album that even a lot of Krautrock people don't seem aware of.

Right now:
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