What are you listening to ? (9)

streetz 104.7 FM who claim to be the ONLY Aboriginal Hip Hop station in the world. They are from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Right wing talk radio. 

Yea? Care to back up that claim?

What, Polunatic isn't listening to talk radio?

OK, I misunderstood. This high falutin' techknarlogy really messes with my head.

I had a request for Butcher Pete by Roy Brown during the last show.

I'd never heard of the guy before, but he sounds like a lot of jump blues guys from the late 40s and early 50s, and recorded some purty famous tunes.  I went wild today and downloaded bit torrent technology to be able to listen to Good Rocking Tonight: the Best of Roy Brown, which I've been listening to since.

Hmm, so I downloaded the Vibrators' first record as well as "Punk's Not Dead" and "Troops of Tomorrow" by the Exploited today.

I just heard Peter Tosh and the Wailers singing "Get Up Stand Up" on nostalgie.fr.  Johnny Depp's missus is on the wire now, singing about Marylin and Johnny.

H2G2 audio book.

Downloading some old horror shows via The Internet. Praise be to The Internet and all of its byting glory.

The internet is great.  I just thought of a line from a song from about 40 years ago, googled it, and up popped this:

Billy Joe Royal Cherry Hill Park.

I used to listen to this all the time on my transistor radio when I was supposed to be sleeping, but I haven't heard it since about 1969.

Here are some more from those days:

Marmalade Reflections of My Life [10]

Shocking Blue Venus [11] (This one's still well-known)

Edison Lighthouse Love Grows Where My Rosemary Goes [12]

The Flying Machine Smile a Little Smile For Me [13]

The last two are kinda bubble-gummy, but what the heck, I was only 9 at the time.

Here's one from a couple of years later.  It still sounds great.

Fludd Cousin Mary [14] 

Billy Bragg sings Ode to Joy. Yes, that Ode to Joy.

Joni Anderson: "Born To Take The Highway" (1965)

Strike it up Black Box

Supa workout music. Woo!

Lady Gaga: "Alejandro" ...for art's sake.

Bachman & Turner

Keith Harmon Snow on Afrobeat Radio re: UN 'Leaked' Report on DR Congo-Rwanda

http://www.consciousbeingalliance.com/2010/09/wbai-afrobeat-with-keith-h...

Artie Shaw's "Concerto for Clarinet" on my own dang radio show.

Underworld, Bird 1

Avi Buffalo, Coaxed

Radiohead, Bodysnatchers

Deerhunter, Cicadas

The Velvet Underground & Nico: "Femme Fatale"

What a great thread.  I was catching an episode of Sons of Anarchy. 

Thanks to torrents, I've been listening to records I haven't heard in years:

Big Youth - Dreadlocks Dread

Aswad - A New Chapter in Dub

Scientist- Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampire

The Ejected - The Spirit is Willing

Juluka - Scatterlings

Coeur de Pirate

scientist is awesome!!  I really like the record scientist meets king tubby, or any of their other records for that matter.

SSD-the kids will have their say

Assuck-Misery Index

Regulations-s/t LP

Fela Kuti-open close

CSNY-Deja Vu

Johnny Osbourne-Warrior

Damu the Fudgemunk-Spare Time

Dexter Jones Circus Orchestra

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

Pontiak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kMMqmUWdCI [29]

Yes, the internet is great  ...for some things ...for now.

Mood Indigo - Nina Simone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyNKNawrJKA [31]

Itchycoo Park - Small Faces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJzcF0v1eOE [32]

Ja, Dieses Deutschland Meine Ich - Franz Josef Degenhardt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taxrc10NbKA [33]

Bonnie and Clyde - Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB112Vbl8-A [34]

Zombie - Fela Kuti
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBgewcFh-cg [35]

We are all Prostitutes - The Pop Group (with apologies to anyone in the business)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VnwL4-Ghn0 [36]

Some of these I still have on disc. Others I hadn't heard in years.

you maybe heard me other morning when i told oakley 'if Toronto's is, as youse guys say-  sold liberal red-  then 'WHY can't we lefty/liberals listen to a liberal talk radio show!' and oakley, well he laffed like it was silliest thing he ever hear before cutting me off! The WHOLE MEDIA IS liberal, he and the reactionarky callers claim! I later called about something else and mentioned the statistic that 36000 american police officers UNDER 40 years of age retire every year at full pension- in Canada that's 3600/year, and the 'dead weight' (an old british term for military officers who retired while still young) then spend all the tax funded free time calling rightwing talk radio complaining about HIGH TAXES! Boy did oakley and his screener yell at me for that one!

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: Deja Vu album..."Teach Your Children"...

I listen to nostalgie.fr [40] quite a bit.  Bonnie and Clyde is played fairly frequently there these days.

Thx.

I just about forgot this great song from a great album:

Diamanda Galas and John Paul Jones - Skotoseme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0AIjnQ8t30&feature=related

and I am sure I have posted this before:

Charles Mingus - If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger There'd Be A Lot of Dead Copycats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeNX2L5Ba3U [42]

John Prine, Steve Earle and the Black Keys.

DethKlock...

Bloodmoney

http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/28679023

Burn the Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5-6LHikNuM [45]

Michael Rault - Honey Bee

My mother just described that as a "whooshing" noise.

I just found this footage from the Bad Brains 1979. [48]

Eva Cassidy - Live at Blues Alley

Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Gray

Nanci Griffith - Other Voices, Other Rooms

Boom Boom - I saw Mike McKenna and friends play the blues tonite, at a little bar on the Danforth called the Black Swan. They played several Mainline tunes along with the standards.

Thought you might get a kick of of knowing he's still at it, and still got it.

Lily Allen: "Alfie"

Now that is amazing - I first saw McKenna Mendelssohn Mainline in 1968 or so - that is, 42 years ago!  They were my favourite Canadian band - although I also liked King Biscuit Boy with Crowbar.

I'm listening to duos over on Youtube (they take forever to download) by John Prine and Nanci Griffith - especially "Speed at the sound of loneliness".  Two of my favourite singers, ever, after Bob Dylan and Joan Baez.

I'm listening to Reno glitch crunk duo Love and Light http://soundcloud.com/love-and-light

Love is the Answer by Barbara Streisand.

Pills and Ammo - Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes

Electricity - Captain Beefheart.

Rest in peace, Don. And say Hi to Frank when you see him.

In the Claddagh Ring CFRO in Vancouver

maybe the Gospel Train later

and then Friday Night Blues Party with Cam Hayden at CKUA in Alberta. [59]

Damn.  I hadn't heard.

Looks like a "Bongo Fury" weekend coming up.

I'm listening to the hush of our babies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QejtJWrVpTQ&feature=channel

My friend Eminem again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-yKhDd64s&feature=list_related&playnext...

One more, sorry...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgT1AidzRWM&list=MLGxdCwVVULXdVoPZTHm_Bt_yjznSIrpKe&playnext=2
Solidarity

Natch'l blues with Holger Petersen at CKUA ... followed by Saturday Night Blues ... with Holger Petersen!! [66]

all Holger ALL THE TIME! lol.

SNB has Hour 1: is a concert from Vancouver based band The Twisters recorded in Yellowknife.

Hour 2 is an interview with Toronto based keyboard player/producer Lance Anderson about Oscar Peterson.

Robyn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcNo07Xp8aQ

Body language 3, she used to be big in the late 90s!

The Cheesmaster

Some people call him "The Joker."

Can't get enough...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZIzD0ZfTFg&feature=channel

I love "The Joker"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yle1USyhCY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsT8FaZnzdE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzeZhCt5PVA

Happy New Year!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26565Mv_6BQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzeZhCt5PVA&feature=list_related&playnext...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0IRY_eWuIw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkBzkA9L4s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSZv9KKf0g0&feature=related

Here's some testonsterone...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wYNFfgrXTI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ9_TKayu9s&feature=channel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLgkoD6n0CU&feature=related

Perhaps, I need to reflect.

At least tell us what you are linking to!!!

To warm my ears while I stand out in the backyard with a hose, trying to make-believe gardens, I've taken to listening to my MP3 player, which I never did before.

Here's what I've been listening to over the past few days to while making ice:

Lucille Hegamin Vol. 3

Original Memphis Five [85]

Fletcher Henderson [86]

Before you start thinking I'm just a moldy fig, I have been listening to some modern stuff too.

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross "The Hottest New Group in Jazz" [87]

Bruce Springsteen

The Promise

Who do babblers prefer: Parliament or Funkadelic?

Rambo Amadeus

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8jqqmNSJJI [91]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y3UKLn2lL8&feature=related [92]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq197CLSbQw&feature=related [93]

A former Miss Canada finalist from Ontario has become the first graduate of a Liverpool university's groundbreaking degree program based on the Beatles.

Liverpool Hope University officials believe the master's program, which analyzes the iconic band's music and their impact on Western culture, offers the first advanced degree based on the life and times of the Fab Four.

Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy, a singer and actress born in Renfrew, Ont., and raised in Oakville, Ont., joined the program when it started in 2009 and graduated Wednesday.

She is one of 12 full-time students of the program, titled The Beatles, Popular Music and Society.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2011/01/26/beatles-masters-degree-graduate.html#ixzz1CGVbsFM7

I'm listening to various versions of "Which Side are You On?" to psych myself up for our next union meeting.  A few of our brothers and sisters are apparently confused as to where their loyalties ought to lie.

I have the version by Pete Seeger, I think it has the chorus: "Which side are you on, boys, which side are you on?"

Mount Zion/I'm a Rastaman - Morgan Heritage

I'm watching Judy Collins and Pete Seeger on PBS sing "Turn Turn Turn - to everything there is a season..." in black and white in 1963 I think it is. Awesome. Barry McGuire is up next with "Eve Of Destruction".

ETA: I was reminded why I don't watch PBS any longer - those damned pledge breaks and mindless pontificating.

Pfft. There's no hockey game on now, although it's Saturday night in the middle of winter, so "Tetes a Claques" is on the TV at the moment.

Some of that folk music from the 60s is suicide-inducing. Stay clear of "Eve Of Destruction". I saw McGuire perform it on the old Ed Sullivan show, I guess 40 years ago, took me a while to get over it - and PBS had it on just a few minutes ago. He's changed the words to make it more relevant today, but still incredibly depressing. Wish I changed channels, but the music is totally addictive.

Thanks to torrents, I've been listening to stuff I used to listen to long ago, such a s GBH's "City Baby's Revenge" and Augustus Pablo's "East of the River Nile" and "Rockers Meets King Tubby's inna Fire House," as well as one of my old tractor-driving records, "Dread Locks Dread," by Big Youth.

During the last few trips to the rink, the boys have had to get psyched up for their games by listening to Natacha Atlas' Ayeshteni instead of the usual Benny Goodman and Harry James.

I Put a Spell on You

What you need Farriss bros/INXS down unda. Oi!

Gangsta rap made me do it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzeZhCt5PVA&feature=autoplay&list=MLGxdCw...

It's Friday!!!

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

Fucked up sh!t

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dcVOmEQzKA&feature=autoplay&list=MLGxdCw...

DP.  Moving on: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvYnBjKizyE&feature=autoplay&list=MLGxdCw...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ9_TKayu9s&feature=bf_next&list=MLGxdCwV...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV2ssT8lzj8&feature=autoplay&list=MLGxdCw...

'Sup, I can rap like that?

Theme from A Summer Place(1960) Percy Faith and orchestra play the most wonderful music

After they finish playing, catch Percy joking it up with the MC.

CKUA - Friday Night Blues Party with Cam Haydem

Ben "The Old Maestro" Bernie and his Orchestra Sweet Georgia Brown, from this record:

One of the choirs I sing in did that number. It was fun.

"Hep hep , with helium"

Murder, He Says, by Betty Hutton, on my radio show.

Yowsa!

Yes sir, a vitamin pill with legs. How bout that?

This one goes out to a very special person wherever she is. Mack the Knife Bobby Darrin

Anika's cover of 'Yang Yang.'

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Anika+-+Yang+Yang&mid=E833E199FACD6B74127BE833E199FACD6B74127B&FORM=LKVR2#

over and over and over again and again  ... seriously

Feeling nostalgic these days, I'm thinking I need to buy a digital copy of A Brief History of the Twentieth Century, by the Gang of Four ... and maybe some PIL.  I have both on ... wait for it ... cassette.

What I'm listening to mostly now is a bit of The Arcade Fire, some BTO (the latter, loudly on my car stereo, driving up Eggerton with a pile of kids in the car immitating 80s hair bands), K'naan, and a bunch of shit my 26 year old daughter gives me because she thinks my knowledge of contemporary music is atrophying (she's right).

"If Looks Could Kill" - Camera Obscura

"The Ostrich" - Steppenwolf (appropos of the now-heated thread about the recent CAW news release)

I just finished a torrent download of The Durutti Column's The Guitar and Other Machines.  I have this on...wait for it...a cassette that I never play, so it's nice to have a version that I'll use.  The download took days and days (only one seed), but I'm not complaining; it took months before this record even showed up on the torrent list.

Great song - I have it on a CD of Darrin's greatest hits.

Right now - The Byrds' Greatest Hits, especially "Turn, Turn,Turn".

Mr. Jones

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYN74ZW4k_E

Revolution Now - Captain Sensible

An all-time 'desert island' favorite of mine. 76 minutes of psychedelic pop genius.

For example, check out "The Coward of Treason Cove" ...it's all about Sleazy Steve and his campaign.

Bah; Bobby Darrin. I like the Kurt Gerron version from Die Dreigroschenoper, which obviously is the one I play on my show.

Die Moritat von Mackie Messer

Furthermore, Charles Trenet's La Mer [125] blows Bobby Darrin's version right out of the water