Each month, since Feb of 2006, I start a playlist in my iTunes of the tunes that catch my ear that month. I started off writing a post to my Mog page with a short review or comments of each track, not only to keep a running diary for myself, but to hopefully point others toward these tunes. In the last several months I have started to cross post this information on other sites where I keep blogs. (If you are reading this somewhere besides Mog, you can find all the old ones at www.mog.com/iren) I want to apologies for any weird formatting stuff right here and now, I type this in MS word and then post it on these various message places, some of which have…w ell formatting issues…. Anyway for this month here is what caught my ear…
Lights of Cheyenne by James McMurtry & The Heartless Bastards http://www.jamesmcmurtry.com/ Maybe I need to take a vacation or just get out of town for a couple of days, but this song so evokes a time and a place and a moment of life that it transports me somewhere else. It’s a slower dusty song that paints a working class story of someone on the road.
Splendid Isolation by Warren Zevon http://www.warrenzevon.com/ Speaking of time and place, Warren Zevon was someone who was ahead of his…. His view of the world, twisted and strange, dark and with out hope… has so come to pass. This song was part of his late 80’s foray into fear of consumerism and the isolation of a society becoming more and more estranged.
Faster than Cars Drive by Kate Tucker & The Sons Of Sweden http://www.myspace.com/katetuckermusic I don’t have much to say about this tune other than it’s a sold Americana-pop tune, with a haunting refrain. I found it on the SXSW site where it’s a free download.
Shatter City by Color Me Psycho http://ocanadarm.blogspot.com/2007/06/color-me-psycho-canada.html
You know when you find something early by one of your favorite artist early work and it…. well not what they have become? Well no worries, Color Me Psycho doesn’t fall into that camp. This is early Jackson Phibe’s music and it shows, but it’s still the same howling primitive garage punk trash. I was glad to find not only this track but almost all the rest of the recordings of CMP on the web, and still have to ask… why isn’t Jackson Phibes the king of garage punk today?
Ceres Walk by The Billy Nayer Show
One of my fave tracks of the last couple of years, with one of my fave films…. Check it out.
Leaving With The Swamptones by Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands http://www.myspace.com/markpickerelandhisprayinghands From his new album…. Which I haven’t written an review of yet. It’s part of a stack of albums that I have picked up lately and haven’t reviewed. There are a lot of reasons for that.. most of which are too lame to talk about here…. However this is a nice jazzy tune that hints at The Cramps and the Gun Club.
Suffocation girl by Color Me Psycho Please see the above comments on CMP.
Jeeves And Wooster (theme melody) by Anne Dudley Not only is this a great bit of whimsical jazz… I love the style of the credits..
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i've started doing the same thing and then at the end of the month I make a CD of the mix and sending it to one lucky friend.
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great post. there's a lot to browse, thanks!