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Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Augustus Gloop
1) The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (Z-Trip Remix)
2) Golden Smog - Radio King ::: Jeff Tweedy, Live in a living room
3) Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
4) Josh Ritter - Wait for Love
5) Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane ::: (Live 5/13/07)
6) Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (Live at Monterey, 1967)
7) Donny Hathaway - You've Got a Friend (Live)
8) Marvin Gaye - Piece of Clay
9) Citizen Cope - Holdin' On
10) Damien Rice - Rootless Tree
11) Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace
12) Josh Ritter - Wait for Love (You Know You Will)
13) Taj Mahal - Queen Bee
14) Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation
15) Cat Power - Lived in Bars::: (Live 11/11/05)
16) Fionn Regan - Be Good or Be Gone
17) George Fenton & Ravi Shankar - Partition / End of the Fast
18) Bruce Hornsby - Wondering Where the Lions Are
19) Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
20) Mike & The Mechanics - Looking Back Over My Shoulder
21) Elvis Costello - Alison
22) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
23) Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop::: (Live)
24) Billie Holiday - Let's Do It
25) Judy Garland - What'll I Do (Live on The Judy Garland Show)
26) Brenda Lee - Break It To Me Gently
27) Joan Armatrading - Down to Zero
28) Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns
29) Ray Charles - I Can See Clearly Now
30) The Beach Boys - I Was Made to Love Her
31) Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day
32) Lucinda Williams - Are You Alright?
.zip AUGUSTUS GLOOP HERE.
"This is a pretty good mix," I caught myself saying just minutes ago. I make these mixes just about every week, fully intending to post them sooner than ever I do, and then a month passes and you fine folks get sort of a month's worth of greatest hits from those weekly trial mixes.
And so I give you Augustus Gloop, named thusly because I found myself scarfing hoards of chocolate whilst watching the husky little Augustus fall in a river of the stuff late one night in the first week of this month, August. I may be failing at this whole giving up chocolate thing, but at least I am trying.
1) I think this was on the Motown 1s remixed CD. I love the control room, I love little Michael's "Yeah, yeah!" in the beginning, and I love how smooth it sounds.
6) The "got-ta, got-ta, got-ta" part hits my heart like the bullets of a machine gun's ray. This summer marks the fortieth anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. God save us.
7) A recording will occasionally come along and make me say, "Damn, I wish I was there for this!" This is one of those recordings. Play it in the morning on your way to work, or to work out, you'll sing along. You may even attempt to sing in harmony.
8) One of my favorite poems is William Blake's "The Clod and The Pebble" from The Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Add "Piece of Clay" to that list.
9)
I've been watching Prime incessantly. The scene in which this plays is one of the more beautifully shot. This film speaks to me in so many ways. It tells of a lot which I've been dealing with lately, and it does so around some of the very (apparently picturesque) streets where I deal with those things - namely mother/son relationships, art vs. work, New York, breaking up, and ... breaking up... in and around SoHo and the West Village.
10) Speaking of, "Suddenly I'm down in [Union] Square. Look around. Your face is everywhere." I was prompted to pull this oldy but goody out when a tiny tot with a Freedy t-shirt sold me cookies at the Greenmarket by my house. Check out Noah Baumbach's brilliant Kicking and Screaming.
17) Can't stop watching this movie! This photo has haunted me.
20) We all know I'm a humongous fan of Paul Carrack. He's the definition of "male pop vocals" - at least in my dictionary. Well, I'd forgotten about this one until loading up on my favorite cheesy pop for the dance parties in my hotel room during my recent trip to Allentown, PA. Another song for the morning. Let it replace your coffee, if only for a day.
22) The first of TV commercial head-turners. Amstel Light:
25) The second: Diet Coke.
29, 30) Along with the earlier Hathaway track, it was a month for covers. I love both of these very much. Ray can do no wrong, and The Beach Boys do alright by this one. I think I love the roughness of it, the under-polished quality, however deliberately so it may have been done.
32) Caught this on Allentown's NPR station and was reminded of how much I loved this album. When she's on... she's on! This song couldn't have hit me at a better moment either. By the end of it, I found myself lying on my bed, face down, having a cry while my Shakespeare in the Park roommate was in the shower. Thanks Lucinda. Catharsis never felt so good.
1) The Jackson 5 - I Want You Back (Z-Trip Remix)
2) Golden Smog - Radio King ::: Jeff Tweedy, Live in a living room
3) Iron and Wine - The Trapeze Swinger
4) Josh Ritter - Wait for Love
5) Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane ::: (Live 5/13/07)
6) Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness (Live at Monterey, 1967)
7) Donny Hathaway - You've Got a Friend (Live)
8) Marvin Gaye - Piece of Clay
9) Citizen Cope - Holdin' On
10) Damien Rice - Rootless Tree
11) Grateful Dead - Brokedown Palace
12) Josh Ritter - Wait for Love (You Know You Will)
13) Taj Mahal - Queen Bee
14) Freedy Johnston - Bad Reputation
15) Cat Power - Lived in Bars::: (Live 11/11/05)
16) Fionn Regan - Be Good or Be Gone
17) George Fenton & Ravi Shankar - Partition / End of the Fast
18) Bruce Hornsby - Wondering Where the Lions Are
19) Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
20) Mike & The Mechanics - Looking Back Over My Shoulder
21) Elvis Costello - Alison
22) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
23) Jose Gonzalez - Teardrop::: (Live)
24) Billie Holiday - Let's Do It
25) Judy Garland - What'll I Do (Live on The Judy Garland Show)
26) Brenda Lee - Break It To Me Gently
27) Joan Armatrading - Down to Zero
28) Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns
29) Ray Charles - I Can See Clearly Now
30) The Beach Boys - I Was Made to Love Her
31) Patty Griffin - Heavenly Day
32) Lucinda Williams - Are You Alright?
.zip AUGUSTUS GLOOP HERE.
"This is a pretty good mix," I caught myself saying just minutes ago. I make these mixes just about every week, fully intending to post them sooner than ever I do, and then a month passes and you fine folks get sort of a month's worth of greatest hits from those weekly trial mixes.
And so I give you Augustus Gloop, named thusly because I found myself scarfing hoards of chocolate whilst watching the husky little Augustus fall in a river of the stuff late one night in the first week of this month, August. I may be failing at this whole giving up chocolate thing, but at least I am trying.
1) I think this was on the Motown 1s remixed CD. I love the control room, I love little Michael's "Yeah, yeah!" in the beginning, and I love how smooth it sounds.
6) The "got-ta, got-ta, got-ta" part hits my heart like the bullets of a machine gun's ray. This summer marks the fortieth anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. God save us.
7) A recording will occasionally come along and make me say, "Damn, I wish I was there for this!" This is one of those recordings. Play it in the morning on your way to work, or to work out, you'll sing along. You may even attempt to sing in harmony.
8) One of my favorite poems is William Blake's "The Clod and The Pebble" from The Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Add "Piece of Clay" to that list.
9)
I've been watching Prime incessantly. The scene in which this plays is one of the more beautifully shot. This film speaks to me in so many ways. It tells of a lot which I've been dealing with lately, and it does so around some of the very (apparently picturesque) streets where I deal with those things - namely mother/son relationships, art vs. work, New York, breaking up, and ... breaking up... in and around SoHo and the West Village.10) Speaking of, "Suddenly I'm down in [Union] Square. Look around. Your face is everywhere." I was prompted to pull this oldy but goody out when a tiny tot with a Freedy t-shirt sold me cookies at the Greenmarket by my house. Check out Noah Baumbach's brilliant Kicking and Screaming.
17) Can't stop watching this movie! This photo has haunted me.20) We all know I'm a humongous fan of Paul Carrack. He's the definition of "male pop vocals" - at least in my dictionary. Well, I'd forgotten about this one until loading up on my favorite cheesy pop for the dance parties in my hotel room during my recent trip to Allentown, PA. Another song for the morning. Let it replace your coffee, if only for a day.
22) The first of TV commercial head-turners. Amstel Light:
25) The second: Diet Coke.
29, 30) Along with the earlier Hathaway track, it was a month for covers. I love both of these very much. Ray can do no wrong, and The Beach Boys do alright by this one. I think I love the roughness of it, the under-polished quality, however deliberately so it may have been done.
32) Caught this on Allentown's NPR station and was reminded of how much I loved this album. When she's on... she's on! This song couldn't have hit me at a better moment either. By the end of it, I found myself lying on my bed, face down, having a cry while my Shakespeare in the Park roommate was in the shower. Thanks Lucinda. Catharsis never felt so good.
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