your 11 favourite songs of the moment, fuck.

hound dog - dale hawkins
soul dazzle - u-god
2 bugs & a roach - earl hooker
call the police - stephanie mcdee
whiskey bottle -nicodemus & matchez
tiger man - rufus thomas
treat em right chubb rock
baby hold on - stars in the sky
i shitted in dat hoe house - ice mike
dead - carolyn sullivan
cool mac daddy - ultra violet

baby hold on - stars in the sky

“norman” and cloakroom’s “doubts” each would have made my list if i’d made one between aug and feb

Alex Cameron - breakdown
Audiobooks - the doll
Charlotte Adigéry - it hit me
Dale Hawkins - hound dog
Billy Joel - pressure
Real Lies - an oral history of my first kiss
Real Lies - dream on
Keith Whitley - miami, my amy
Jimmy Campbell - half baked
Seamus Moore - transit van
Happy Mondays - tart tart

as I noted elsewhere, I’m quite ambivalent about the whole Adigéry + Pupul state of affairs, but “It Hit Me” is def the highlight of their album for me

Talk Talk - Happiness is Easy
Arooj Aftab - Udhero Na feat. Anoushka Shankar
King Sunny Adé - Ja Funmi
Novos Baianos - Mistério do planeta
Cherrelle - Saturday Love feat. Alexander O'Neal
Rosalía - La Combi Versace
Silvana Estrada - Te Guardo
The Feelies - Loveless Love
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful for What You Got
A.R. Kane - A Love From Outer Space
Bobby Hutcherson - Verse

Stacks - Above Ground
Hubbabubbaklubb - Fjellet (Bjørn Torske Remix)
Smoke Point - Waterwheel
Bad Bunny - Me Porto Bonito feat. Chencho Corleone
KH - Looking at Your Pager
Sofia Kourtesis - Estación Esperanza feat. Manu Chao
Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit
DJ Chrysalis - Melodie
Ella Mai - Feels Like
Kabza De Small - Rekere 2 feat. Stakev
Moonshine - Obomi Nga feat. MC RedBul, Uproot Andy & MC Azas

ah, new Moonshine, always welcome!

also: Kabza! Kabza!! Kabza!!! that album is pure gold!

Steve Lacy - Bad Habit
Confidence Man - Holiday
Ashee - Country Classic
Fontaines DC - I Love You
The Reds, Pinks and Purples - Life in The Void
Steve Silk Hurley - He Loves Me 2
Jack Adkins - American Sunset
Big L - Put It On
Tom Waits - Time
Pet Shop Boys - Love Comes Quickly
Yard Act - 100% Endurance

Stacks - Above Ground

nice

Jack Adkins - American Sunset

listened to this on a drive to the smoked fish spot near the beach a couple days ago and it felt right

k michelle - ciaras prayer
gary stewart - drinkin thing
lloyd banks - power steering ft jadakiss
burna boy - common person
gunplay - aunty hold up
rema - addicted
koffee - pull up
tinashe - naturally
saba - come my way ft krayzie bone
duke deuce - just say that ft glorilla
young bleed - dat water

really digging stacks, thanks to the above

little feat - easy to slip
bad bunny - andrea ft. buscabulla
duke deuce - crunkstar
asake - peace be unto you (pbuy)
sly & the family stone - runnin' away
the remains - don't look back
depeche mode - policy of truth
sonic youth - catholic block
cash cobain - slizzy like
26ar - hottest in my city ft. rob49
dehd - bad love

Been listening to a lot of new stuff over the summer, so here's another 11:

Dea Barandana - Licik (Tribute)
Beyoncé - COZY
Robot Boii, Mellow & Sleazy, Soul Revolver – Salary Salary feat. Shaun MusiQ & F Teearse
Amber Mark - Bliss
Steve Monite - Things Fall Apart
Peggy Gou - I Go (DJ Koze Remix)
Aurora Halal & DJ G. - Off The Top
Nu Genea - Vesuvio
Priori - Winged (Priori Rezone)
Wanitwa Mos, Master KG & Lowsheen – Sofa Silahlane feat. Nkosazana Daughter
Mystic Jungle - Hold On Your Dreams

We've Got Tonight, Boy - Fragile
Dream On (El-B Remix) - Real Lies
Belfast (David Holmes Remix) - Orbital
Addicted - Rema
Feels Like A Different Thing - Confidence Man
Cut - Working Mens Club
Room to Jack - KiNK
Flowers - Ron Trent
Cathedral - The Primitive Painter
Happiness - Bohannon
Cliche (Soulwax Remix) - Charlotte Adigery + Bolis Pupul

Andrew Bees - Militant
Jolly Mare - Sabbia Bianca
Momma - Speeding 72
Ronald Langestraat - I’m Ready for Dancing
Rolling Stones - Fingerprint File
Front de Cadaeux - Sad is Fashion
Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman
Zillas on Acid - The Corinthian
Pablo Bozzi - Let It Roll
Kim Wilde - Everything We Know
Mystic Jungle - Don’t Stop Your Love

Pink Floyd - Apples and Oranges
The Garden - Freight Yard
Black Loops - Suki
Shelly - Steeeam
The Stranglers - Dont Bring Harry
Lesley Duncan - Love Song
Clutch - X-Ray Visions
Fotheringay - The Sea
Derek and The Dominoes - Bell Bottom Blues
Yukihiro Takahashi - Drip Dry Eyes
Bar Italia - Banks

🇿🇦deep london ft. nkosazana daughter, murumba pitch & janda_k1 • piano ngijabulise
🇿🇦don edward ft. xduppy, stay c & senjay • skeem saka
🇳🇬jaido p • disturb
🇿🇦kattapilla ft. sims noreng, javas de vocalist & mavee dripgod • madibuseng
🇿🇦k.o ft. young stunna & blxckie • sete
🇿🇦konke ft. musa keys, chley & sayfar • m’nike
🇳🇬omah lay • never forget
🇿🇦sjijo majikijo ft. oskido, toss & dj riley • umthetho
🇿🇦toxicated keys ft. gemvalleymusiq & tupla double 0.7 • shiki (piano anthem)
🇿🇦vico da sporo ft. nkosazana daughter • osis’ bey’moto
🇳🇬wizkid • money & love

Cass McCombs - Karaoke
Cola - So Excited
Wu-Lu - Times
Catherine Wheel - The Nude
Marxist Love Disco Ensemble - Brumaire
Charles Stepney - Step on Step
Billy Woods - Asylum
Pharoah Sanders - Love is Everywhere
Double Virgo - Rear Window Rider
Arctic Monkeys - There'd Better Be a Mirrorball
Migos - Made Men

All of these are songs that have been defining 2022 for me in one way or another:

Braxe + Falcon - Step by Step
Francis Harris - Rebstock Fold
Kendrick Lamar - Rich Spirit
George Riley - Jealousy
Earth Trax - Dream Pop
Flaurese - Gaze at me
Tonga Conga - Mira Bien
Bad Bunny - Andrea
Born at Midnite - Y o Y
Jack J - I saw Fire
Karol G - Provenza

k.o ft. young stunna & blxckie • sete

― big movers, hot steppers + long shaker intros (breastcrawl)

Ah heard this one recently and yeah!

I'll throw 11 more from 2022

DJ Python - Angel
Luis - we still or nah
Whatever the Weather - 0ºc
Naked Flames - Tennessee Transit
Teebs - did it again
Kelela - On the Run
iuky - superloved!
Tomberlin - Tap
Morabeza Tobacco - Saturnus
WifiGawd - Slide Thru
Saba - Still

ah and Tomu DJ - New Body

love that dj python number

Mark & Suzann Farmer - Waiting for the Dawn
Taylor Swift - Anti-Hero
Eternal Love - Tropico Absoluto
Lojay, DJ Maphorisa, Kabza De Small - CANADA
Barnt - This Is For Decor Only
Dry Cleaning - Anna Calls From The Arctic
Isabelle Antena - How Can They Tell
Duval Timothy - Wood feat. Yu Su
Mike Ribas - Como Son los Retratos (Harari Edit)
Dialect - Waterfall End Sequence
Surya Botofasina - Surya's Meditation

rufus wainwright - the consort
johnny cash - delias gone
roisin murphy - coocool
fleetwood mac - bleed to love her
beach boys - the trader
dave hollister - on the side
gwar - slaughterama
larry june - margies candy house
rae sremmurd - flaunt it / cheap
ruston kelly - the weakness
mozzy - real ones ft roddy rich

STP, "Vasoline"
Joni Mitchell, "Car on a Hill"
Tom Waits, "Singapore"
Hall & Oates, "Rich Girl"
Fleetwood Mac, "Landslide"
Doobie Brothers, "What a Fool Believes"
Boz Scaggs, "Lido Shuffle"
Kate Bush, "Cloudbusting"
Bob Marley and the Wailers, "Night Shift"
Blondie, "Dreaming"

Oops, one more for 11

Kiss, "Detroit Rock City"

Blondie, "Dreaming"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, June 2, 2023 4:14 PM bookmarkflaglink

Oops, one more for 11

Kiss, "Detroit Rock City"

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, June 2, 2023 4:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

Valid.

"Nonalignment Pact," Pere Ubu
"Lost in Music," The Fall (Sister Sledge cover)
"Can't Hardly Wait" (live at Maxwell's, 1986), Replacements
"Look Away," Game Theory
"Soul Vine (70 Billion People)," Cabaret Voltaire
"Here Come the Rome Plows," Drive Like Jehu
"White Kross," Sonic Youth
"Shakin' Street," MC5
"Crystal," New Order
"Cost II," Black Dog
"Kiss Me Again," Dinosaur / Optimo (JD Twitch edit)

Techno Animal - Narco Agent Vs. The Medicine Man (2023 Remaster)
case/lang/viers - Honey & Smoke
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Decisive Pink - Dopamine
Alex Kassian - Spirit of Eden
R.E.M. - Try Not to Breathe
billy woods - Rapper Weed
Porter Ricks - Polytoxic 2
Danzig - Dirty Black Summer
Steely Dan - Your Gold Teeth II
Neneh Cherry - I Ain't Gone Under Yet

Atheist - Piece of Time
Pastor Troy - Saddam
Alice in Chains - Social Parasite
Eagles - I Can't Tell You Why
Paul Davis - Cool Night
Jay-Z - Dead Presidents II
Linkin Park - Breaking the Habit
Exhorder - Desecrator
Tame Impala - New Person, Same Old Mistakes (which sadly is now negatively classically conditioned to remind me of one of the lowest points of my life)
Elton John - Levon
Queen - Nevermore

Exhorder - Desecrator

D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls
D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls
D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls
D.O.A
Women in Love
Beautiful Girls

fuck that's 12

Flaco Jiménez - Ay Te Dejo En San Antonio
Bar Italia - Nurse!
Yo La Tengo - Fallout
Brian Eno - Always Returning
Tone - So I Can See You
Bryan Adams - Run to You
El Gran Silencio - Chuntaros Style
The Pomps - Grudges
Oozing Wound - Bank Account Anxiety
Big Audio Dynamite - Medicine Show

Saskia - You Left Your Soul Behind

tim buckley - get on top
veeze - weekend
propaganda - dream within a dream
nourished by time - rain water promise
earl sweatshirt - making the band (danity kane)
meshell ndegeocello - asr (w/ jeff parker)
rush - the analog kid
squeeze - another nail in my heart
that mexican ot - barrio ft. lefty sm
kenzo b - bffr
maryyx2 - i don’t know!!

"Intruder" by The Skull Practitioners
"This is a Call" by The Art Gray Noizz Quintet
"Kleenex" by Generation X
"City Bound (E Train)" by Novo Combo
"Science Friction" by XTC
"Straighten Out" by The Stranglers
"Dark Globe" by Syd Barrett
"Kundalini Express" by Love & Rockets
"The Ruby Sea" by Thin White Rope
"Victor Jara's Hands" by Calexico
"Notes & Chords Mean Nothing to Me" by Redd Kross
"Neverland (full version)" by the Sisters of Mercy

Robert Pete Williams - Thumbing a Ride
Link Wray - Falling Rain
Secos & Molhados - Sangue Latino
Jorge Ben - Zé Canjica
Love Joys - All I Can Say
Sade - Cherish the Day
Renaissance - The Vultures Fly High
Jeru the Damaja - Da Bichez
Gene Clark - Strength of Strings
Comus - Diana
Björk - Ovule

much love for "The Ruby Sea" and "Strength of Strings" from the above two posts

my 11:
Verde Prato - Niña Soñando
Carl Stone - Vim
jamie branch - borealis dancing
Ornette Coleman - Law Years
The Future Sound of London - Cascade
Linton Kwesi Johnson - More Time
John Coltrane - Olé
Can - Oh Yeah
Anadol - Ay Çürüdü
The Groundhogs - Cherry Red
David Bowie - Stay

changes multiple times per day really but at this exact moment:

Mauve Sideshow 'Stray Apparitions' (either version)
Mark Stewart + Maffia 'Liberty City'
Contrastate 'An End Marked by Pessimism'
Genesis 'The Fountain of Salmacis'
King Crimson 'Larks Tongues in Aspic, Part 1'
The Gerogerigegege 'Gig in Train'
Meret Becker 'Für Irland'
Phew 'Doing Nothing'
sh 'Kudake Chiru Kagerou'
Strafe für Rebellion 'Thousand Heads are Fond of Rolling'
Shock Headed Peters 'Bad Samaritans'

The Clientele - The House Always Wins
The Clientele - Claire's Not Real
Hydroplane - City Terminus
The Harvest Ministers - You Do My World The World Of Good
The Harvest Ministers - Six O'clock is Rosary
Frente - Accidently Kelly Street
Rush - Time Stand Still
Anton Webern - Langsamer Satz M78
Los Lobos - Will The Wolf Survive?
Kevin Ayers - Eleanor's Cake (Which Ate Her
Zack Bia - One of those days (ft. Lil Yachty & 347aidan)

Special Touch - Garden of Life
Junkie xl - Zerotonine
Nu Genea - Howls
Jamiroquai - Space cowboy
James Booker - Junco Partner
Luther Vandross - Never too much
Junior Byron - Inch by inch
Universal togetherness band - Aint gonna cry
Antena- Camino del sol (Todd Terje mix)
Richenel -- Autumn
Dr. Kucho! - Lies to yourself

magnetic fields - promises of eternity
vampire weekend - connect
j.p. - bad bitty
aaliyah & missy elliott - john blaze
feardorian - highschool
julia holter - spinning
x - the unheard music
the waterboys - church not made from human hands
x-o-dus - take it from me
kieran hebden & william tyler - darkness, darkness
tisakorean - ucci

High Llamas - Sisters Friends
Michael Nyman - Lady in The Red Hat
Nourished By Time - Hand on me
DMX - The Rain
The Lemon Twigs - What you were doing
Vampire Weekend - Capricorn
Phoenix - Victim of the Crime
Dire Straits - On Every Street
Two Lone Swordsmen - Driving with my gears in reverse (Only make you move further away)
Def Leppard - Love Bites
The Real Thing - Can you feel the force?

witch - let's get together
iron curtain - the condos
luc van acker / anna domino - zanna
pet shop boys - domino dancing (demo version)
pink industry - don't let go
secession - touch part 1
the fixx - saved by zero
prefab sprout - knock on wood
fuga ronto - l'uomo invisible
de ambassade - geen genade
the passions - pedal fury

i submit that the magic of let's get together comes from the way it captures not the desire to get togther, but the bittersweet longing to escape to a time in which we could

since i posted that i've been haunted by the possibility of it being read as trenchant social commentary

Great list karl!

Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker
Bullion & Charlotte Adigery - World_train
Alien Signal - Deep Sky Delights
The Lemon Twigs - Sweet Vibration
Taylor Swift - august
Unwound - Below the salt
Mik Pyro - Accounting
Mik Pyro - My Mother & Father
George Baker Selection - Paloma Blanca
A-ha - The Sun Always Shines on TV
Goo Goo Dolls - Name

I'm loving that fuga ronto track, karl. So chill