Spike extolling the virtues of AleSmith Speedway Stout, followed by a comparison to Founders Breakfast Stout. Oh dear it's midnight why did we open this...

Overloaded on new WSP right now.

Picked up 7 new shows last night from my buddy all from this Fall tour, including the 3 shows I saw. Went in on these recordings 3 ways, $25 each guy for some killer board recordings.

Got Minneapolis, the 3 Milwaukee shows & the 3 Chicago shows.

Right now I am re-living the Saturday 10/29/2011 show from the Chicago Theatre. The first set was ok, but the second set is a monster, and perhaps among some of the best 90 or so minutes of live music I have seen.

If I could figure a way to get a pass to go and see the boys on New Years Eve I'd do it in heartbeat.

Johnny Cash, "American IV"
Brian Eno, "Another Day on Earth"
The Sound, "Jeopardy"
Pulp, "This is Hardcore"
James Brown, "Say It Live and Loud: Live in Dallas '68"
Junior Boys, "Last Exit"
Television, "Live at the Old Waldorf"
Tom Waits, "Bad As Me"
All at once!

The Darkness, Permission to Land

Wild Flag.

These women ROCK.

Bangs & Works Vol. 2: The Best Of Chicago Footwork


If anybody has an old 12" record of an uptempo house track that goes "FOOTWORK-FOOTWORK FOOT-FOOT-FOOT WORK... FOOTWORK-FOOTWORK FOOT-FOOT-FOOT WORK.." let me know.

The Darkness, Permission to Land

Awesome. This should be an American holiday classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-eslNwGXrI

Right Now I am listening Waka Waka.

Hey guys, I just wanted to share this great collection of food-related songs streaming over on NPR:

Songs for Stuffing: a Thanksgiving Mix

There's also a nice folksy Thanksgiving station playing on Pandora.

Anything special you're listening to on this day of gratitude?

I was listening to Corrosion of Conformity's Deliverance while going to get some lengua tacos and arroz from Las Asadas for lunch. It has no special Thanksgiving significance though.

mamagotcha - We were neighbors. I spent the first 29 years of my life in Edison Park and then bought my own place in Norwood Park where I lived for 3 years. Have been living in Mount Prospect since 2006. Happy Thanksgiving, former neighbor.

a capture of my partner's niece playing Adele on the piano after Thanksgiving dinner 2011
Gone AIWA-Above Ground
20 Jazz Funk Greats(remaster)-Throbbing Gristle
Glass Swords-Rustie
Life...it eats you up-Mika Vainio
Jungle Massive Vol. 1
The History of Dogs-Paul Leary

A live mariachi band as my turkey dinner is being served.

Seamus wrote:mamagotcha - We were neighbors. I spent the first 29 years of my life in Edison Park and then bought my own place in Norwood Park where I lived for 3 years. Have been living in Mount Prospect since 2006. Happy Thanksgiving, former neighbor.

Small world! Same to you, Seamus!

Life as a Restaurateur
GianCarlo Nardini of Club Lago, Michael Taus of Zealous & Liz VanLeuwen of avec describe the joys & difficulties of running highly touted restaurants.

A Christmas Festival with the Boston Pops conducted by Arthur Fiedler.

My favorite decorate the tree song since childhood.

The aptly named Lulu, brainfart of Lou Reed and Metallica. Disc Two is even more astonishing than One, with a 19-minute song with lyrics that end about 7 minutes in and the rest sounds like a string band tuning up. If you're angry and drunk, give it a go!

Every review of Lulu I've read said it is absolutely horrific.

Apparently Uncut loved it.

The music is actually quite good, except for that last song (Junior Dad), which actually starts out pretty good but heads downhill like a car on a roller coaster. It's hard to single it out with Lou Reed's talking over it all, but I got the impression that I'd like an instrumental version a lot better.

Lou Reed's poetry style doesn't work with the music at all, in my opinion; the verses are incredibly repetitive and very outré - I love mysterious lyrics that make you think what the song is really about, but this stuff is out to lunch. A few, especially Frustration - best marriage proposal ever, by the way - are delivered in a style emulating a cranky, constipated old man with dementia climbing a very steep set of stairs.

It wasn't so much horrific as appalling. This is the guy who wrote Sweet Jane?

This afternoon at Orchestra Hall:

Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 6, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

For those familiar with this work...the hammer shot

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fb ... 048&type=1

Redecorating the living room, so the stereo is disassembled, which means a few days with no music. Been sort of surreal so far, though the car has been loaded with the Pet Shop Boys' "Very" and Phil Spector's Christmas album (an annual car tradition for us this time of year).

Youtube brings you Phil Spector's Christmas album to your computer's sound system:

Evil Ronnie wrote:This afternoon at Orchestra Hall:

Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 6, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen

For those familiar with this work...the hammer shot

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fb ... 048&type=1

Say, I just listened to this the other day! I rented a good ol' fashioned record from the library.

I discovered internet radio station "jolio's party" on ITunes. Based in Paris, this guy specializes in rockabilly (and really obscure rockabilly at that), Western Swing, earliest rock (think Elvis 1956), doo wop and jump music. Artists like Charlie Feathers, Webb Pierce, Ronnie Self, The Volumes, Sonny Burgess & the Pacers, etc. The old US radio station jingles are cool, too. When's the last time, if ever, you heard Chicago's own Alvin Cash & the Crawlers with their early '60s hit "Twine Time"?

Definitely for older listeners or rockabilly afficianados.

little500 wrote:When's the last time, if ever, you heard Chicago's own Alvin Cash & the Crawlers with their early '60s hit "Twine Time"?

Definitely for older listeners or rockabilly afficianados.

Another youtube miracle:

Cathy2 wrote:

little500 wrote:When's the last time, if ever, you heard Chicago's own Alvin Cash & the Crawlers with their early '60s hit "Twine Time"?

Definitely for older listeners or rockabilly afficianados.

Another youtube miracle:

Hah! Now I'm off on a tangent to find Chicago oldies on the 'net...5 Stairsteps & Cubie, Buckinghams, Chilites, Gene & Wendell ("squish, squash, kill that roach"), Jerry Butler..............

listening to:

The Ugly American-Mark Eitzel
Seasons on Earth-Meg Baird
West-Wooden Shjips
Hurry Up We're Dreaming-M83
David Comes to Life-Fucked Up
Telebossa
Solaris-Ben Frost and Daniel Bjarnason
D.O.A. The Third Annual Report (remaster)-Throbbing Gristle
Andy Stott duo
Bitch Magnet catalog remaster
Undun-The Roots
Home Town Chicago-Boo Williams
50 Words for Snow-Kate Bush
The History of Dogs-Paul Leary
Bavarian Fruit Bread-Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Gone AIWA-Above Ground
The 5 Ep's-Disco Inferno
The Smile Sessions-The Beach Boys
Emika-Emika
Century Flower-Shellyan Orphan
Demolished Thoughts-Thurston Moore
In the Mist-Harold Budd
Sunday-Kimberly Gordon
20 Jazz Funk Greats(remaster)-Throbbing Gristle

soundtrack to my exploration of the electric! smoker my neighbors gifted me this holiday season: I've got done boston butt, pork chops, boneless chicken breast, and said neighbors did a beautiful brined turkey in their twin(we played around with the soak, but himself directed the barbeque). If that's not hermetic enough. I gifted said with GWiv's book on the offer that needs be ignore the Weber instructions(heresy!) and concentrate on the recipes. Mainly, I just liked offering a BBQ Wizard a tome emblazoned with the words: Everything You Know About Barbeque is Wrong. He got a kick out of that, then promptly broke out the Patron.

That's a list of some seriously obscure stuff; haven't thought of Throbbing Gristle in years. But looking thru some of the REALLY weird stuff I have here and there reveals tunes by:

Fearless Iranians From Hell (FIFH)
Blood On The Saddle
Butthole Surfers (OK, not so obscure)
Slobberbone
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Mexicans With Guns
Boxcar Satan
Screwed Up Click

I am not psyched to hear any of it now, though.

I am listening to and watching ferris buelers day off. The guy who played the emperor in amadeus is the principal in the movie. danke schoen is being sung now. this scene was shot right underneath my office. I was not there though because the movie scene was shot on saturday.

My sister and I remembered this song during dinner this evening:



I didn't realize until this evening this song's composer was Meredith Wilson, who wrote the Music Man. Sung by Robert Preston who was THE Music Man.

Does that song have a line go you chicken fat go?