Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.
This week's list has a little bit of a classic rock vibe. I think that has something to do with my slow and steady descent into Audiophile hell. There's no denying that rock music had a certain sound to it in the 70s and that was largely to do with wanky audiophile sound engineers and the nerdy audiophiles who collected records and built great component systems. And the quality of the music, of course.
So what I've got is some classic, remastered Queen, some Steve Miller, a Stax compilation, ABC from the Jackson 5 (that I recently bought my oldest daughter for her 5th birthday on vinyl), two of my favourite Hip Hop LPs from Brother Ali and Pegz, plus some early Ratcat and U2. I threw in the new The Grates and a Rickie Lee Jones for good measure :
- Queen - A Night at the Opera
- Jackson 5 - ABC
- VA - Stax Gold : Memphis Hits
- The Grates - Secret Rituals
- U2 - October
- Brother Ali - The Undisputed Truth
- Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
- Rickie Lee Jones - Evening Of My Best Day
- Pegz - Drama
- Ratcat - Inside Out
- Gillian Welch
- Nightmares on Wax
- Son Volt
- Bias B
- The Autumn Defense
Because this week has been so stressful, everything has pretty much played as wallpaper to my crappy days. I haven’t really heard anything apart from in the car and at home. Earlier in the week while riding the exercise bike in my office, I watched a DVD I have of a Classic Albums episode – this one on the Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks. It’s a great episode and I recommend you search it out if you haven’t seen it. You can tell by the interviews and the old footage that the Pistols were just a bunch of ratbag kids who were only in it for a laugh, while McLaren was a business man who saw dollar signs in everything but in particular controversy.
This week’s SOTW is a song that clearly made #1 in the UK but was never recorded as such because it was banned. When the papers would list it in the charts, the title and artist would be blacked out or left off completely. I chose this song because it’s astounding nowadays to think it would cause so much controversy. A bunch of National Front members beat up on the band and the sound engineers at a pub because of the song. If you listen to it though, now it’s virtually safe to play to kiddies. Not even NINs controversial Closer raises much of an eyebrow now. And maybe, just maybe, that’s why rock is dead – because nobody can set the world on fire with any shocking ideas any more. Damn you Internet… damn you all to HELL!
TTFN
This weekend is a long one for me, as my very generous employer has given us all Monday off as reward for hard work. I'll be making the most of my surprise break with a trip to the Zoo with the munchkins and the wife. It better not rain!
Whatever you're doing, I hope it's a lot of fun. Peace man, right on.
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