everybody self-distancing from COVID-19, what's on your playlist?

song of the week has been “gentle man” by The Defaulters (discovered one floating points’ late night tales mix)

https://youtu.be/1lNXOdpNsmw

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Small Axe
Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim

Might as well add
Mott the Hoople - All the Way from Memphis
Paul McCartney and Wings - Rock Show

Aluk Todolo, In Solitude, Black Sabbath, Ulcerate, Autopsy

Did you know metal is an absolute lifesaver?

Aceyalone - Gimme Five Feet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byiFNxRCovk

Young Jeezy
Recession

the perfect song today for me is the dixie cups - iko iko

Good one.

Do you know the story of their debut single?

no!

Leiber and Stoller had left Atlantic Records to start their own record label, Red Bird. They had recorded a bunch of stuff but were running out of cash and needed to release something. They ran into George Goldner (at the Palm? Meeting with Hy Weiss?) who was once again down on his luck. Typically he would start a successful R&B or Latin label, then run up a gambling debt and have to sell it to Morris Levy. Jerry and Mike told him they would hire him on the spot, brought him back to their office, showed him the slush pile of recordings, left him the keys, went home to sleep, came back in the morning, to find him sitting there, still dapper, holding up the tape or acetate of The Dixie Cups version of "Chapel of Love," saying something like "On my very word" or however he would have said it. One of them, Jerry, no doubt, said "That PoS!?" but they put it out anyway and it was a hit and kept them alive for a while. They made Goldner a partner, and he eventually ended up selling out his interest as per usual, no to Morris Levy but to someone like him, so Jerry and Mike sold their interest as well, for a dollar I think.

Also came to post
CSNY - Almost Cut My Hair
Pavement - Cut Your Hair
Burning Spear - Social Living

The Cowsills- Hair

Not The Palm, Al & Dick’s Steakhouse.

Which is even the name of the relevant chapter in Leiber and Stoller’s memoir, Hound Dog.

This started off as a kind of "end times" compilation but ended up somewhere else, with love and hope:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB

David Sylvian, My Bus, Piano Magic, Fever Ray ... that kind of thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQKGzcHfUl0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs56ygZplQA

On the search for a vaccin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naf5uJYGoiU

DO U SEE?

i'm sure this has already been posted but still please take me along when you slide on down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvg5mbM6FGs