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I love music of all sorts and this blog will soon show, if it hasn’t already, how wide my taste ranges. I think my number one pet peeve in music blogs today is how narrow minded they are. Do you music bloggers really only listen to the music you blog about? Or perhaps you only blog about a specific genre in order to create a theme to your output? Maybe it’s a function of age, I certainly listen to much more variety now than I did in my late 20s and early 30s. I have a lot more patience for music and for new forms of music.
But, one thing has always stuck with me, and for that I blame my formative years, as they were firmly footed in the late 70s, funk’s heyday. I just have a natural affinity for funk music, I can’t help it.
What follows might be a mysterious incarnation of funk music to you, but not to me. Listen carefully, it’s in there. And enjoy this little lounge act of 1991.
A Martini Built for 2 mp3 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Sexplosion!
The International Sin Set mp3
go to their myspace page
buy Sexplosion
Over at Licorice Pizza I’ve been enjoying the “Ultimate Led Zeppelin Session Disks” which are a Zeppelin lover’s delight. Some are just re-takes, some are session recordings, all are another glimpse into the genius of Robert Plant and Jimmy Page in their heyday. No one that knows me understands why I get glassy eyed listening to this stuff. It’s nice to realize that all two or three readers here might appreciate it 
And as I’m quite partial to crazy covers, I’ll post my all-time favorite one for you. Now, I’m not into all covers. For me the perfect cover has to fulfill three goals
- the original song as to have been a major hit and still be quite recognizable – no esoterica allowed
- the cover artist has to be well known, you shouldn’t have to look at the label to know who’s covering what
- it can’t sound too much like the original, whoever is covering it should give the cover their own flavor, style or hue
This cover far exceeds my three goals, it is perfection! And it makes me giggle every single time I play it. I hope it does the same for you. Aikin, I really hope you’ve never heard this one before
Stairway to Heaven mp3 Dolly Parton Halos and Horns
buy it off of Dolly’s website
and you really can’t describe what you’ve seen for perhaps a week or two. Yeah, that happened to me. Honestly. I just thought I was going to see Billy Bragg. You pretty much know what you’re gonna get at a Billy Bragg concert: good tunes, tunes you’ve heard for years, some new stuff off his latest album, (which I quite like, by the way), some political rants, (which I also quite like, by the way), a lot of warm fuzzies, a roomful of middle aged to aging middle class folks like me. What can I really tell you? Billy Bragg always does it for me.
But, WHAM, right before his set this crazy looking guy waltzes out on stage with giant geek-glasses, goofy wrinkled geek-buttoned down shirt, baggy but not too baggy geek-nondescript pants and shoes, but wearing a red keytar. He whips out a harmonica and starts making these odd hip-hop beat noises with his mouth into the microphone and this middle-aged white woman stifles a laugh, claps her hand over her mouth for the next 40 minutes and is amazed at what comes out of this, er, spectacle on stage.
Here, I give you a taste of C. R. Avery folks. He’s part performance artist, part one-man band, part genius and part slam poet. I think he’s brilliant and he needs you.
Like right now.
Hell Of A Hotel Of Harm mp3 C.R. Avery Magic Hour Sailor Songs
The Ballad of Charlie Parker and Patsy Cline mp3 C.R. Avery Magic Hour Sailor Songs
The Boxer Who Just Returned From London mp3 C.R. Avery Magic Hour Sailor Songs
go to his MySpace site to buy it!
I began perusing mp3 blogs in search of a song that I couldn’t find anywhere and didn’t want to pay for. Yes, I’ll admit it, (a) we’re feeling the “recession” that supposedly isn’t happening here in the US, and (b) I’m so sick of fucktunes ripping me off and the aggravation I’ve been through reloading and unloading and reloading my damn fuckpod. So, thanks to the generosity of you good bloggers out there, I’ve found my song (no, no idea anymore what it was) and quite a few more good ones too. And in the process I’ve found my feet back in the land of music, a place I once knew a thing or two about. If I find a track on a blog that I like I buy the CD, I rarely read the review, I’ll be honest but yeah you guys have turned me on to some fabulous new music like Sigur Ros and Lightspeed Champion, not to mention Meho Plaza and Holy Fuck. So while I won’t get any attention from the record companies on this little blog, I can at least share one or two of my own niche faves, eh?
this is the song from whence came the blog title…
From Your Mouthmp3 God Lives Underwater Life in the So-Called Space Age
buy it!
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