A few songs I can’t get out of my head. I’ve been rightly accused by my daughters that I should have stuck to 45rpm records as they compare me to a stuck needle! Sorry, but I can’t help it. If I fall in love with a song then it’s on repeat virtually until it gets nudged out of that space by another.
Without further ado, the playlist (if I can call it that) for, oh I don’t know, the last couple of weeks at least has been:
Less is More – Joss Stone – Mind, Body & Soul
Iemanja – Angelique Kidjo – Budda Bar 5
Don’t know how – Joss Stone – Mind, Body & Soul
Je Te Souhaite – Natasha St-Pier – L’instant d’Apres
Amore (Sexo) – Santana/Macy Gray – Shaman
My Father’s Eyes – Eric Clapton – Pilgrim
In the car at the moment (until I get my RoadTrip for the iPOD that is) it’s Joss all the way!
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what? no missy elliot??
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This post is from Mike in the US.
I am also a big fan of Joss Stone. Do you listen to Norah Jones as well?
I saw a special on the Travel Channel (US), Bahrain looked incredible. This is my first post, but I have been a fan for a long time. The blog is informative, fun and most of all intelligent. From what I have seen on the internet most blogs don’t focus enough on civil discourse. Thank you for running the site.
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Thanks Mike! I do listen to Norah Jones indeed. But I must admit that I have not for quite a while, must put her back on the favourites list.
Another one, if I’m in the mood for Jazz, I listen to Aziza Mustafa Zadeh, a truly brilliant artist. A bit obscure, but if you’re in the “mood” you’ll be in good company.
Thanks for your kind words on Bahrain and this blog. It’s an excellent ride and it is serving as a good bridge between cultures.
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This week has been an A and B week. Next week maybe I’ll do the C’s and D’s. My daughter says my age shows every time I put music on. My only possible reply is at least the people I listen to can play their own instruments. Doesnt work to well.
Aphrodite’s Child – The Four Horsemen
Austin Lounge Lizards – Cold Can Of Coors Beer
Beacon Street Union – The Clown Died in Marvin Gardens
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones – Norwegian Woods
Billy Thorpe – Children Of The Sun
Blind Melon – Candy Says
Blues Project – Flute Thing
billT
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Glad its not Usher your listening to, I’d worry about your sanity
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Man, I never heard of any of these people/bands! I must be on the side of your daughter here, and I bet she doesn’t like Elvis too! 🙂
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Sade, Barry White, Dido, Al Green, Bob Welch, Marvin Gaye. And every once in a while, “Float On” by the Floaters.
Nuff said,
Steve
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She doesnt the poor thing. Imagine in this day and age not being allowed to shake your hips on TV like Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan show although considering the backlash here in the US from the bare titty in last years super bowl it might happen again. Theres so much music out there and radio plays so few songs anymore. If you have satellite tv and get the sirius music channels try the horizons – world music channel or the bluegrass channels.
Got a question about Islam and music. Ive been told that playing music isnt allowed, is that true?
billT
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If I don’t hear an Elvis song again it will be too soon, so I’m most definitively on the side of your daughter here… sorry!
As far as Islam and Music is concered: Music classifies as fun, so it MUST be “haram”, forbidden, verbotten! 🙂
No seriously, the opinions are quite varied here, but the general concensus is that because of the sexual/suggestive nature of some musical performances, lyrics, or even performers, then it might lead to “improper thoughts” which might lead to “improper behaviour”, hence it is best avoided. (Note that some scholars ban it outright, while others say that it is best avoided, a clear distinction)
However, if Music (and instruments here are also restricted to those only available at the time of the Prophet, like percussion instruments and probably the “rababa“) is performed in praise of Allah or the Prophet, then it’s ok, and it is this kind of music aparantly which one scholar has “allowed” in weddings in Saudi, and yes, even dancing if the dancers are all girls amidst other females and only if their dancing is not lewd, suggestive or a type that emulates the decadent west.
Ok… now open fire!
Float on
‘Float on’ by the Floaters??? Isn’t that a reference to all the singers you’ve listed? ‘Cause everytime I hear Sade or Dido or any of the above I get that same feeling as when I walk into a public toilet and some real mean bastard has left a dirty great turd bobbing in the bowl.
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Heres this weeks C’s and D’s
Cat Stevens – Cats In The Cradle
Chad Mitchell Trio – Cindys Crying
Chad Mitchell Trio – Draft Dodger Rag
Chad Mitchell Trio – John Birch Society
Chieftans & Roger Daltry – After The Fire
Country Joe McDonald The Paris Sessions – Coulene Anne
Country Joe McDonald The Paris Sessions – Sexist Pig
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane
Crack The Sky – Live – I Am The Walrus
David Allen Coe – Fuck Anita Bryant
David Allen Coe – Jimmy Buffet Don’t live in Key West Anymore
David Bowie – Let’s Spend The Night Together
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones – Peter Gunn
Donovan – Catch The Wind
Donovan – Season of the Witch
I better quit listening I keep adding to this list.
billT
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Once again its time. This Sunday its E’s F’s & G’s Some of my favorite letters.
Electric Prunes – I Had too Much to Dream (Last Night)
Every Mothers Son – Come On Down To My Boat Baby
Fairport Convention – Matty Groves
Frank Zappa – Catholic Girls
Fugs – Boobs a Lot
Fugs – CIA man
Fugs – Mutant Stomp
Funkadelic – Who Says a Funk Band cant Play Rock
Clarence Gatemouth Brown – Tobacco Road
Golden Earing – Radar Love
Gov’t Mule – 30 Days in the Hole
Gov’t Mule – Dazed And Confused
Gov’t Mule – Don’t Step On The Grass Sam
Grace Slick & Great Society – Father Bruce
Grace Slick & The Great Society – Sally Go Round the Roses
Grace Slick & The Great Society – White Rabbit
Grateful Dead – Good Lovin’
Guns and Roses – Patience
Some how I missed these last week.
Country Joe McDonald – Agent Orange Song
David Peel and the Lower Eastside – The Pope smokes Dope
Thanks Mahmood for starting this its just to bad the damn conservatives in my house make me wear headphones on a nice Sunday day.
billT
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Re: Float on
Scorpio,
Since you seem to have such a detailed knowledge of turds, I defer to your expertise.
Steve
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Sheesh Bill,
I can smell the fumes from your bong in Hawaii all the way here in DC.
Steve
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Dont smoke as the VOG from the volcano does a good enough job on ruining my lungs.
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I heard Asalah has just finished recording a new album. That will be a “must buy” for me. I am glad there are so many Arabic music places here in the DC area that I can just drive and pick one up. The best Arabic artist out there is one that is seldom heard. Her name is Natacha Atlas. She was born in Belgium. She sings in Arabic, English, Spanish and French. Buy an album of hers will be the best one you have bought in years. She mixes the best of Europe and the Middle East to make something completely new.
I also recommend the CD by Sami Yusuf. It is good, well produced, modern Nasheeds, even my kids like it.
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Natacha Atlas had a couple of songs on one of the CD channels on Dish network. Shes interesting.
billT
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I can vouch for the David Allan Coe. He is known for his rude and vulgar lyrics.
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Hi all heres this weeks playlist. H’s, I’s, J’s, and K’s
Highwaymen – Highwayman
Highwaymen – Welfare line
Hot Tuna (Live at Sweetwater I) – Maggie’s Farm
Janice Ian – Seventeen
Jessie Colin Young – Song For Julia
Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner
Jimmy Buffett – God’s Own Drunk
Jimmy Buffett – You Cant Always Get What You Want
Jimmy Gilmore & The Fireballs – Bottle Of Wine
Jimmy Gilmore & The Fireballs – Sugar Shack
Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies – Kaliyani
Johnny & Edgar Winter – Tobacco Road
Johnny Cash – The Long Black Veil
Jude – Rick James
Kentucky Headhunters – Keep Your Hands To Yourself
Kentucky Headhunters – Kentucky Wildcat
Kentucky Headhunters – Oh Lonesome Me
Kingsmen – Louie Louie
Kingston Trio – Eve of Destruction
No headphones today yippee
billT
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you have a great music collection man! most of the names you mentioned on your list I’ve never heard of! I’m *still* stuck on the original list I published 🙂
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Posted “Natacha Atlas had a couple of songs on one of the CD channels on Dish network. Shes interesting.
billT ”
She is awesome. I get bored by a lot of the Arabic music out there because it is so formulaic. Natacha Atlas breaks all of the molds out there for Arabic music. Being that she was raised in Europe she had to work on her Arabic a lot, she even had to re-record some of her songs so they could get airplay in the Gulf because the grammar was off. I recommend any of her albums, but especially Gedida.
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Joe Byrd and The Field Hippies? Fuck Anita Bryant by David Allen Coe? The Austin Lounge Lizards? I think BillT’s making a lot of this stuff up to try and impress us.
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I do have vivid imagination but its all real. I havent even started on the bluegrass or reggae or jawaiian yet.
David Allen Coe wrote the song after Anita Bryant made her neocon remark about gays and lost her job as the spokeswoman for florida orange juice.
The Austin Lounge Lizards come from Austin Tx. as you might guess, 2 lawyers a plumber and an accountant I believe.
If you want to find the real america right or wrong listen to the music not the politicians theres at least a little honesty there.
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This week its L’s M’s N’s & P’s
Leo Kotke – Eight Miles High
Love – My Little Red Book
MC5 – High School
MC5 – I’m a Man
MC5 – The American Ruse
Mason Proffit- Two Hangmen
Mason Proffit — Buffalo
Moby Grape – Motorcycle Irene
Morphine – Candy
Mott The Hopple – All The Young Dudes
Mott The Hopple Sweet Jane
Nazz – Wildwood Blues
Pacific Gas & Electric – Are You Ready
Pacific Gas & Electric – Motor City’s Burning
Pacific Gas & Electric – The Hunter
Paul Revere & The Raiders – Hungry (Banned Lyrics)
Paul Simon – Graceland
Phish – Bathtub Gin
Phish – Marijuana
Phish- Sneaking Sally Through the Alley
Phish – Smoke On the Water
Psychefunkapus – Hillbilly Happy Smash
Psychefunkapus – Surfin On Jupiter
billT
Scorpio’s Themes
BillT’s got some really cool music this week – Love’s Forever Changes is one of the ten best albums of all time. And Morphine were a great group and one of a kind – drummer, two string bassist/singer, saxophonist who plays two sax at once (easy if you know how).
Here’s what’s currently turning the tables in the Scorpio’s lair:
Scott Walker – The Lights of Cinncinati
Lloyd Cole – Don’t Get Weird on Me Babe
The Auteurs – Kenneth Anger’s Bad Dream
Stereolab – Miss Modular
Ennio Morricone – Soundtrack from the film, A Secret Picture of a Respectable Woman
Glenn Campbell – Gentle on My Mind
Nick Lowe – I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
Oasis – Round Our Way
Lalo Schiffren – Scorpio’s Theme (naturally)
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Scorpio
For some strange reason music gets better the further you get down the alphabet. Your week is great to.
billT
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This week its the R’s. The Radiators or the New Orleans Radiators are a bar room band who have been around for 25 or so years. They encourage people to record them so most of their music is live and can be found by searching the internet. A couple of their latest songs can be found at [url]http://www.ibiblio.org/studioforrecording/mt/Archives/000282.html[/url]. Rusted Root is just my favorite band 8 members with 7 of them being percussionists.
Radiators – Cisco Kid
Radiators – Dead Flowers
Radiators – Nasty Boogie Woogie
Radiators – Subterranean Homesick Blues
Rambling Jack Elliot – Pretty Boy Floyd
Ravi Shankar — Dhun (Dadra & Fast Teental)
Ray Stevens – Mr. Custer
Reel Big Fish – Shes Got A Girlfriend Now
Reverend Horton Heat – Rock The Joint
Richard & Linda Thompson – Layla
Richard Thompson – Don’t Roll Those Bloodshot Eyes At Me
Richard Thompson – Hey Joe
Rolling Stones – Never Make A Saint Out Of Me
Rusted Root & Hot Tuna- You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Rusted Root – Big White Bird
Rusted Root – Cat Turned Blue
Rusted Root – Drum Trip
Rusted Root – Ecstacy
Rusted Root – Food & Creative Love
Rusted Root – Martyr
Rusted Root – Rain
Rusted Root – Send Me on My Way
billT
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Missed last Sunday, hope you all forgive me 🙂 This week its the S’s. Screaming Lord Sutch was an English Lord who liked to play guitar real loud. Shel Silverstein was the artist who drew the cartoons that were just behing the fold out in Playboy in the 60’s and also wrote the songs for Dr. Hook. I first heard Spooky Tooth from an Air Force fighter pilot who convinced me that pilots can do more than fly, drink and drive a sports car real fast. Stevie Ray Vaughn & Dick Dale the original guitarist on Pipeline is just great contrast in guitar playing.
Sam The Sham & The Pharohs – Little Red Riding Hood
Sammy Hagar – Mas Tequila
Savoy Brown – Street Corner Talking
Savoy Brown – Needle & Spoon
Saxon -The Great White Buffalo
Screaming Lord Sutch – Shes falling in love with the Monster
Screaming Lord Sutch – Gutty Guitar
Seeds – Pushin’ too Hard
Shadows of Knight – Gloria
Sheila Chandra – Sailors Life
Shel Silverstein – I Got Stoned And I Missed It
Shel Silverstein – Don’t Give a Dose To the One You Love Most
Shel Silverstein_ The Great Smoke Off
Silverhead – Long Legged Lisa
Simon and Garfunkel – Cecilia
Sixpence None The Richer – There She’s Goes
Spirit – Natures-Way
Spooky Tooth – Too Much of Nothing
Spooky Tooth – Son of Your Father
Spooky Tooth – Evil Woman
Spooky Tooth – Waitin’ For The Wind
Standells – Dirty Water
Stevie Ray Vaughn & Dick Dale – Pipeline
Stray Cats – Summertime Blues
billT
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ZZ Top
Spot on about the alphabet. Proved by irrefutable mastery of that juggernaut of rock: ZZ Top.
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No more basketball and baseball bores me so nothing to do on Saturday. Well it gives me more time to bore you’ll with my music lists. Ted Nugent was originally with the Amboy Dukes and now hunts, supports the NRA and votes libertarian. The Velvet Underground were the premier NYC band I always thought Herion was wone of the most truthfull gritty songs ever written. Them was an Irish band with Van Morrison as the front man. Three Dog Night was one of the original boy bands. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are from Florida. Went to see him at a club in South Beach and Bob Dylan and Leon Redbone both showed up and played with him.
This weekend its T’s
Ted Nugent – Baby Please Dont Go
Ted Nugent – Great White Buffalo
Ted Nugent – Little Red Book
The Velvet Underground & Nico – Femme Fatale
The Velvet Underground – Crimson and Clover
The Velvet Underground & Nico – Heroin
The Velvet Underground & Nico – I’m Waiting for the Man
The Velvet Underground & Nico – There She Goes Again
The Velvet Underground – Sweet Jane
Them – Gloria
Them – Here Comes The Night
Three Dog Night – Eli’s Comming
Three Dog Night – One Is the Lonelist Number
Tom Petty – Psychotic Reaction
Tom Petty – The Last DJ
Tommy Roe – Dizzy
Tommy Roe – Shelia
The Troggs – She’s Not There
The Troggs – Wild Thing
Twarres – Children Of The Sun
billT
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Been a while since I had the time. This weeks playlist
U2 – Paint It Black
Ub40 – Red red wine
Ultimate Spinach – Behold And See
Ultimate Spinach – Eddies Rush
Uninvited – Too High For The Supermarket
Van Morrison – Baby Please Dont Go
Vanilla Fudge – Season Of The Witch
Vanilla Fudge – She’s Not There
War – Low Rider
War – Spill the Wine
War – The Cisco Kid
White Snake- Every Rose Has A Thorn
Who – Squeeze Box
Wide Spread Panic – Gin and Juice
Wilson Picket – Mustang Sally
Young Rascals – Groovin’
Young Rascals – It’s a Beautiful Morning
Youngbloods – Darkness Darkness
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[quote]White Snake- Every Rose Has A Thorn [/quote]
Don’t you mean POISON?
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Your right, senior citizen moment.
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Some Vinyl this weekend.
Fleetwood Mac – Black Magic Woman
Fleetwood Mac – Albatross
Ten Years After – One of these Days
Leon Russell – Acid Annapolis
New Riders of the Purple Sage – Cement, Clay and Glass
Jo Jo Gunn – High School Drool
Beck Bogert & Appice – Black Cat Moan
Beck Bogert & Appice – Superstition
McKendree Spring – God Bless the Conspiracy
Love – Revelation
Uriah Heep – Gypsy
Uriah Heep – Rock and Roll Medley
Its a Beautifull Day – The Grand Camel Suite
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Man.. I’m ashamed to say that I’m still on the list I opened this thread with! 🙁
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ok I would like to toss my two cents in..
[b]Dogs Die in Hot Cars[/b] – Lounger: great tune – fun and dancy in a postpunk new wave kinda way
[b]Modest Mouse [/b]- Float on: Anthemic
[b]Bill Withers [/b]- Who is He?: about confronting infidelity – so slick
[b]Eurythmics [/b]- There must be an Angel: felt like a forgotten 80s tune
[b]Lamb [/b]- Gorecki: just dug this up, haven’t listened to it in almost 8 years – still powerful
[b]The Roots [/b]- Seed 2.0: That Guitar Riff and Code Chestnut’s voice – so different from their normal stuff.
[b]Handsome Boy Modelling School [/b]- How many times?: not sure of the track title – awesome though.
[b]Kings of Convenience [/b]- I’d rather dance: if you haven’t listened to anything by them go out and buy something now… Their music exposes buddha bar for the absolute crap that it really is..
[b]John Lee Hooker [/b]- Whiskey and Wimmen: that’s what life should be about
[b]The Dirtbombs[/b] – Chains of Love: a garage rock band with a soulfilled lead singer
[b]Kaiser Chiefs [/b]- Oh My God: Everything Franz Ferdinand isn’t
[b]Brother Man Dude [/b]- Frozen in a moment of Peace: Bahraini Rockers that really do…
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If anyone is interested in classical stuff the first five Beethoven symphonies in the BBC’s free download series are available, but only for a couple more days.
The remaining four symphonies will be broadcast and made available for download later this month. [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/beethoven/downloads.shtml[/url]
billT
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You’re a star Bill, thanks for sharing this.
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Thanks Bill! I am a huge classical music fan. I hope they go onto more Beethoven. I would love to have the 9th and The Kreuzer as well.
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The above post is mine. By the way, Natacha Atlas, probably the best Middle Eastern singer out there has released her new “best of album.” She is not you cookie cutter Arabic singer like Nancy Ajram, Nawal al Zoghby or the others. She is a great mix of western and European. Her father was an Egpytian Jew, mother a European, and she was raised in Belgium. Her music is a great mix of east and west. Amazon has a free download, I suggest everyone check it out. This one is in Arabic, but she sings in French, Arabic, Spanish and English.
[url]http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/stores/artist/-/digital-music/141661/ref=j_xsp_1/002-2607951-8736048[/url]
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Happy Fathers Day!! My gift to myself was some music I’ve been looking for forever. I could find it in vinyl and used cd’s for up to $120 US but finally found them in downloadable mp3’s at [url]http://itsaboutmusic.net/catalog/index.php[/url] So my playlist today is The best of Ten Wheel Drive with Gena Ravan and The Grease Band who were Joe Cockers band at Woodstock and play great rockabilly, gospal & southern boogie for a bunch of English dudes.
billT
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I’ve been using nero’s cd buring software for a while but I finally broke down and bought a new copy of roxio’s easy cd so I could record my vinyl to cd. Todays playlist is from the Kooper Sessions album with Al Kooper and Shuggie Otis. Al Kooper was one of the early 60’s white blues musicians from Chicago and Shuggie Otis was a 15 year old guitar player the son of Jonny Otis from the Jonny Otis Show.
Bury My Body – Kooper & Otis
Double Or Nothing – Kooper & Otis
One Room Country Shack – Kooper & Otis
Lookin’ For A Home – Kooper & Otis
Slow Goonbash Blues – Kooper & Otis
Shuggie’s Old Time Slide Boogie – Kooper & Otis
Shuggie’s Shuffle – Kooper & Otis
billT
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Only got one song this week>
Marianne Faithful – Why’d Ya Do It
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I just got Rob Thomas‘ (Matchbox 20) new solo album yesterday and haven’t stopped playing it. Particularly his current single: “lonely no more” which is brilliant.
And it’s video is unbelievable! Brilliant graphics and tricks.
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Havent seen it yet, will look today.
billT
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Playlist this week. This is a nice place for music. [url]http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.php?mode=mp3[/url] Give the radiators a try, one of my favorite bands who love people to record their shows. They do an awsome version of Solitary Man.
billT
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Been a while since I did a playlist but am making up for it by doing my own blog and some podcasts. Enjoy the music and ignore the lousey mic work.
billT
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Forgot to log in.
billT
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I’ve recorded several new Sunrise Shows featuring music from the 60’s.
[url]http://80right80left.com[/url]
billT
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There’s only one song on my playlist this week: ‘I predict a riot’ by the Kaiser Chiefs – on repeat.
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Got a new podcast out this week featuring “Irish Coffee” a great band from Belgium citra 1971.
billT
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Several new podcasts up. Try Abstract Truth from S. Africa they are a great band.
billT
http://80right80left.com
Have a new podcast up featuring The Devils Anvil 1967 album ‘Hard Rock From The Middle East’. A crossover rock albumn sung mostly in Arabic, Turkish and Greek and featuring Rusty Evans from ‘The Deep’ and Felix Pappalardi soon to be of ‘Mountain’ along with the vocals of Jerry Satpir and Kareem Isaaq. They also do a unique version of Misirlou with the vocals. If any one can translate the vocals I’d love to hear what they say. Enjoy!
80right80left.com
billT