Leave Magical Elbow Wheels Forever (April 2nd - 6th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.


Massive couple of weeks coming up, with Mrs coreyj's birthday, followed by Miss 2 becoming Miss 3 and then it's Easter. Not too long after that I will have been married for 10 years! I'm looking forward to spoiling both my wife and the little one with super dope presents (even if I lost one of them for a day...). Nevermind all that now, onto the music.


To get me through what seems like the eleventy billionth short week this year, I've got (I know, can you believe it) Grayson Hugh because Talk It Over came on the radio at Big W and I had forgotten I used to love that song. I have some Elbow; a Beatles remaster; the latest from Margo & the Nuclear So and So's; a B.I.G. album I didn't know existed (yes, I was late to 90s rap. I'm old school, yo!); Lucinda Williams' acclaimed Car Wheels..; more from Jason Isbell; a Soul band I found on bandcamp, The Revelations; Love's highly-rated Forever Changes and a U2 album that I haven't heard in at least 5 years.


Check it out:

• Grayson Hugh - Blind To Reason
• Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
• Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
• Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
• The Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
• The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
• The Revelations feat. Tre Williams - An Introduction to The Revelations
• Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Rot Gut Domestic
• Love - Forever Changes

Top Five Artists Last Week

1. Uncle Tupelo
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival
3. Natalie Merchant
4. Hoodoo Gurus
5. MC Shan

Song of the Week : The Shins - Fall of '82

Today's tune is The Shins - Fall of '82. There's no real reason this is my song this week, except that I like the whole of The Shins new record and this track is uptempo, brassy and nostalgic.


For what it's worth, the 'Fall' of '82 was the year I turned 10. Always a big important time in a kid's life. I don't know that this song has captured any part of my tenth year, but there you go. 


Enjoy!

Ciao for Now

That's all folks! Shout out to the mighty West Coast for the start of the AFL season. Go you good things! 




Whatever you do, have fun and be safe.  Hasala malakim.

Playlist : June 7th - 10th, 2011

Welcome to a long weekend. It's Labour Day in Western Australia - whatever that means. Seems like we're having a day off to celebrate work. Very Australian.

So it's a short week, but I've got a bunch of songs anyway. I had a blast listening to a 1980s compilation the other day and it reminded me of another, so that's here. I also have the new one from The Vines and the first one from my band of the moment, Dolorean.

And the soundtrack to my next working week looks like this:

• Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
• VA - 20 Years of Lollapalooza
• Dolorean - Sudden Oak
• The Herd - Summerland
• Sarah Nixey - Brave Tin Soldiers
• VA - '85 Heaps Of Hits
• The Vines - Future Primitive
• Mos Def - Mos Definite
• Curtis Mayfield - Give, Get, Take and Have

Top Five Artists Last Week

1. U2
2. Morrissey
3. Eminem
4. R.E.M.
5. Black Box Recorder

Song of the Week : Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

On the weekend, late at night and three Stellas down, I decided to write another post for my Hip Hop blog. It was 1985 Comes Alive. I wrote it from start to end without any planning or re-editing beyond spelling. And things came out that I had forgotten about.

Besides the personal stuff, I remembered how much I had played, scratched, danced to and played again Chaka Khan - I Feel For You. I had the Heaps Of Hits double LP and we were living in the flat in Orelia. One of my uncles, who would have been early 20s then, had given my Mum his stereo and bought himself a new (awesome!) Mirantz kit. The one he gave us was the only thing we had for entertainment for a while until we scored a B&W TV. It was one of those all-in-one things that had a huge speaker at the side and a lid on top that you lifted to get at the turntable. Not ideal for DJ magic, but I scratched Melle Mel’s voice up like (I thought) a demon. Also scratched that record up. I still have it and its hysterical to see all the perfect condition tracks around it and a scratch on that one. I think I barely played anything else on the record.

So here is that track, unscratched, for you. When you play it, picture a 13 year old, still light blonde Corey J poppin’ and lockin’ in a dingey Homeswest flat on the second floor of Hell Block C.

Adios

Thanks for stopping by. If you're in Perth like me, you're going to want to have a great long weekend, so please do. Until next week, asalaam alikum.