I have been going back between listening to "That's why I pray" by Big & Rich, and the Living Things CD by Linkin Park

Some Beatles...Within You Without You.

Katy Perry - Last Friday Night.

{bounces and spins across the dance floor . . . }

I haven't listened to the whole thing, but I have just ordered from Amazon The Planets by Gustav Holst--it's the CSO version. I'm looking forward to it. I don't have a ton of classical music, but lately I've been listening to more of it. I'm starting to appreciate its complexities a bit.

For some reason I'd thought that this was from the Breeders and wasted several minutes not finding it online. Turns out it was a completely different band. I'd completely forgotten about these guys. I really need to digitize my vinyl collection. I'm sure there's all sorts of good shit in there that I don't remember.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDW8qg8mBc

I'm going through Wikipedia's list of albums considered the greatest ever (it's based on an aggregation of top albums lists), and currently I'm on Exile on Main Street. "Let It Loose" is the track I'm listening to at the moment. It's a fantastic album; I hadn't heard it in its entirety before and it's moving pretty quickly up my personal list of favorite albums.

Most recent in my "couldn't find it so I posted it myself" series...

I'm not worthy of saying anything against the great Schnabel, but I hate hate hate his performance of Op. 126/4 (that's the first one). Interpretation and execution both seem, if not outright lacking, pretty questionable. As though he were drunk or got roped into tossing these little pieces off for kicks.

But it's good to hear different performances, even if you find out what you don't want to do.

Sorry, Schnabel -- you're the man, but I don't know what happened on these sides. Probably not one of his favorite opera of Beethoven, I guess. But that's what I've been listening to this morning.

His no. 6 his pretty nice, though. The little presto thing at the beginning is way too fast for my taste, even though it's just a little flourish, but his nice performance of the main piece is lovely. I can use some of his ideas -- getting back together the Op. 126 (not very difficult and very beautiful -- they may be small pieces, but I think the music is as interesting as anything in late Beethoven written for piano).

Heard this for the first time this morning and have had it on constant loop all day.
"Thrift Shop" -- video shot at thift shops around Seattle.

I'll wear your granddad’s clothes
I’ll look incredible
I’m in this big ass coat from that thrift shop down the road.

I’m gonna pop some tags
Only got 20 dollars in my pocket
I’m hunting, looking for a come-up
This is fucking awesome.

Oh I listened to the Op. 126/6 of Schnabel again just now. He's cheatin with the triplet sixteenths in the LH and doing the parallel thirds. Come on. He's Artuir fucking Schnabel. He could have played it right if he wanted to -- hell I was twelve when I did those and I wasn't a prodigy. I thinkhe was either drunk or lazy:

As close to Brendel as I could find -- I know a lot of people fault Brendel for his austerity, but as a matter of technique, for whatever his idiosyncracies, at least Gould played the piece correctly. Not my hero since I was 12 or so but you can't fault him for his technique.

Awfully brittle sound/tone, though. But it kind of works for this one. I play it a little darker, hanging on the keys a bit longer for the theme.

Gould is a little heavy on the sus pedal, though. But, again, I'm not going to criticize him for that FWI Liustening to his 1974 film version of the e minor Partita, I was shocked at how much he used pedal. Maybe it's my upbringing, or maybe my idea of the way the various movewments/dances should go, but I think it was uncalled for.

Kind of funny, but anything short of Innagaddadavida I can learn shit from Steve Gadd and I don't even play trap drums.

OK some more shit -- I don't know much about trap drums, but I always listen close when a great drummer says something )(which is rarely!):



Because piano is a perscussion instrument. Anyway, covering bass a lot when I have my druthers, my drummer is my main guy for rhythm. Not that I can always keep up, but we have fun if it's one of my pardners and we're on the same tip -- if I go hit a hemiola, he knows it, and if he starts hitting toms I change it too.

Yellow, Black, and Rectangular

Nice Robert Cray. Bob Silverman used to get me into playing his patented style of minor blues, but I wasn't quite ready.

He almost makes that Strat sound like a Tele with real light strings -- lots of attack. Wish there was more keys but he's the man, so it ain't my place.

I'm back in Yes mode, so today it's "The Gates of Delirium"...

God dammit. The last thing I want to hear is Yes of any album, any vintage,

So fuck you all. Heard it Through The Grapevine:

OK fine I have some of Rick Wakeman's solo albums in addition to a few Yes albums. Don't mean I want to listen to it, though.

Don't make me link to Genesis or King Crimson!

I'm in the mood for something humorous tonight.

a little jam band love. Booth Love, by Umphreys McGee.

Pretty Groovy. Give it a minute or two, you'll see.

In memory of where I was this time last week....

The Anarchist and Headlong Flight, by Rush.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsUh9...e_gdata_player

...but particularly Pe Loc.

Salambo's post led me to this, eventually

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKb6nRjTBO4

I recently got turned onto Nanci Griffith by SWMBO's sister. I'm learning how to play this song so that the next time sis visits, we can do it as a duet.

Nanci is great, and prolific, so you have your work cut out for you between her own versions and all of the many great artists who have recorded her songs. I'm particularly fond of her album of covers, Other Voices, Other Rooms.

Tommy Ill, Robot {featuring a robot}. Because there really aren't enough hip-hop songs about robots.

More Tommy Ill with Living Dead.

Current song playing on the radio in my head: Nanci Griffith, Love at the Five and Dime

First 5 Songs to show up on my iPhone:
Fallin : Connie Francis
Head On : The Jesus and Mary Chain
Man Like That : Gin Wigmore
Girl : Das Racist
Whatcha Gonna Do : Pablo Cruise

Cherry Five - My little Cloud

www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0NLkPY_7H0

This one's been gettin' some airtime. I'm diggin' it.

Blood blood blood runnin' all through my veins...

I'm actually listening to a song, this time seeing this thread.

Peter Gabriel - Red Rain.

Little Liza Jane, the dr. John version. Playing the whole album, actually. I had an entire pot of coffee, and it's the wrong album to chill me out. Only reason i put anything on was some workmen painting next door, kind of noisy. And then compulsively I had to play along to the album, since it's one of those you just learn back and forwards over the course of hearing it a million times. And so much coffee, can't play along in time, which pisses me off. Angry, angry music, fast, punk rock without any anger in it but below the surface.

Trance, "like someone in love" first cut off "lush life.". That's better.

Eta oh motherfucker, my cd does not have a scratch n it. Shit now I'm pissed, checking, giving a wipe to it, trying it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9AUR-iTo0&feature=list_other&playnext=1&list=AL94UKMTqg-9A7C2QgqJ79vxy4iU66iWkk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XyTXYGeDyE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbwVwtNbpB0&feature=related

A lot of Grant Green and Herbie lately. Also each of them separately, but for some reason this got me off last night (haven't heard it in a raccoon's age):

You're welcome for not posting the video where someone set a montage of clips of some soap opera couple to this song, even though the audio is better on that one.

I am listening to the Pet Shop Boys performing in Londons 02 Arena 3 years ago as part of their Pandemonium Tour.

Rob Garza (of Thievery Corporation) just posted this a few hours ago, and I'm diggin' it:

http://soundcloud.com/robgarzamusic/...-fall-2012-mix

Totally thought this guy was David Johansen as the Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooged! :foil: