What are you listening to? (Part 3)

Oh and some country guy that the chief introduced me to.

Porcupine Tree: Fear of a Blank Planet.

Johnny Cash - Big John
Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson - Ghost Riders in The Sky

Mehā€¦fawk it. Anything done by Willie, Johnny, and Merle is doing me justice right now.

Now I realise this isnā€™t to everyoneā€™s taste, but I like mowlam, or Thai country, as itā€™s often called. Hereā€™s Pornchita, or Benz, doing a pop favourite mowlam song.

Usual rags to riches story - in this case by practising the scales as a youngster (thus the name, Do rae me).

I should admit that one of the things I really like about mowlam is the dancing girls. Usually the singer is matched with at least a dozen shapely lasses, all of whom would topple her in an instant by whatever means they could.

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Ros Sereysothea. Wow! What can I say?

Bong Srolanh Oun Ponman Dae - Ros Sereysothea

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Someone has to copy this off the net - Wu Bai . . . and . . . and . . . äŗ”ä½°&č¬čŠ³-ę„›ęƒ…é™ę™‚ę‰¹

Taiwan womanhood at very powerful mode.

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Wu Bai Peitong

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Lucky last.

Wubai - Shi Jie Di Yi Deng (live)

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Regurgitator - Tu Plang. What a great debut album that was. Havenā€™t listened to it in about 10 years, even though I was at the album launch gig in 1996.

Hereā€™s a vid. youtube.com/watch?v=F2Ht3hGcPzk

Emusic gave me 75 free tracks if I signed up again, so I did for a month. And I discovered a band called Iris (I knew Aunty played the guitar, but I didnā€™t know he was that good), synthy poppy, very catchy.

Hereā€™s one: youtube.com/watch?v=h2Vwka5C ā€¦ re=related

And Howard Jones, heā€™s still going and better than ever.

Ah, CFI mages: i had a full 'gurge day yesterday. i have almost everything theyā€™ve done from New and Hamburger EPs through to most of MishMash. ā€¦Art is a killer fave, and TuPlang of course.

today iā€™ve had a full blondie day. from 1976 through to 1980 (i wonā€™t stoop to Hunter). oh, and some bootlegs in concert with Iggy pop, and David Bowie, and robert frippā€¦

tomorrow might be a relaxing day of Air, or maybe some atmospheric Eno or Frippertronics: iā€™ve an horrible book chapter to whip into shape (i mean, rewrite) uuurrrrgghhhh.

I was absolutely serious about how Fat Elvis rules the hell over Skinny Elvis.

Iā€™ve just played ā€œIn the Ghettoā€ 3x in a row and tears are in my eyes. How many Skinny Elvis songs can make you cry? Now Iā€™m on to ā€œSuspicious Mindsā€ the greatest song that man ever sang, which kicks the hell all over anything he sang in the Sun Sessions. Anyone who tries to argue that ā€œHound Dogā€ or ā€œDonā€™t Be Cruelā€ is a better song is a fool.

ā€œWeā€™re caught in a trap
and we canā€™t back out
Because I love you too much babyā€¦ā€

Man, pop music doesnā€™t get any better than that. And Iā€™m not even gay. This is certainly better than anything off of 69 Love Songs or ABBA. Iā€™m going to have to play ā€œSuspicious Mindsā€ again for the 5th or 63rd time.

Rise by Samantha James.
She will be at room 18 tomorrow, but so will typhoon Sinlaku ā€¦

Having another blast of classic Aussie music today.

Beasts of Bourbon ā€œBlack Milkā€ this morning.

Spiderbait at the moment.

Coleman Hawkins: Desfinado: Bossa Nova and Jazz Samba.

Tension ā€¦ starting ā€¦ to ā€¦ dissipateā€¦

[quote]ā€œWeā€™re caught in a trap
and we canā€™t back out
Because I love you too much babyā€¦ā€[/quote]
Dunno about the Elvis version, but the cover that figures in my pantheon is by Fine Young Cannibals with Jimmy Somerville on backing vocals.

When I hear about scamming evangelists I always have to drag out Cryptic Slaughterā€“Circus of Fools

ā€œYouā€™re detached from reality!
Youā€™re brainwashed through and through
Start believing in yourself
And donā€™t let others preach to youā€

When I think of scamming evangelists I think of Suicidal Tendenciesā€™ ā€œSend Me Your Moneyā€

If you only send me a dollar or two
Well, thereā€™s not a hell of a lot I can do for you
If you want to the light of heavenā€™s door
Make your donation for $50 or more!

The first couple of Band albums.

Itā€™s amazing how a group of whitebread, frost-bitten Canadians could capture my peopleā€™s culture so authentically. Perhaps having a genuine Arkie (Levon Helm) in their midst helps, as well as touring Mississippi/Lousiana/Arkansas for 10 years with Fayetteville, ARā€™s answer to Elvis, Ronnie Hawkins. I mean, hell, only someone who was seriously steeped in the South could write ā€œThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Downā€ or someone seriously steeped in the Ozarks could write ā€œUp On Cripple Creekā€. I donā€™t know if any of these guys had a PhD. in anthropology, but they nailed the sound of the hillbilly American South pretty good for a bunch of foreigners. Of course, they cut their teeth as a working band spending 10 years in the hardest redneck bars in north Arkansas, so I guess they earned their authenticity.

Not even native son Johnny Cash (born a county apart from my birthplace) could do a better version of ā€œThe Night They Drove Old Dixie Downā€.

Ogdenā€™s Nut Gone Flake the Small Faces.

Out of all of these bands: The Small Faces, the Faces, the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Humble Pie, The Jeff Beck Band, the Firm, Page & Plant, Pete Townsend & Ronnie Lane (did a great album together as a duo, I must say)ā€¦my favorite of all of these very related bands isā€¦the Who! But the Small Faces are a nice second place. ā€œItā€™s all sooo beauuuutiiifuuullllā€¦!ā€ did anyone pen a better hippy-dippy anthem about getting stoned in the park?