Showing posts with label paul kelly. Show all posts
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Friday, December 6, 2013

Those Drive-By Reality Seeds (December 9th - 13th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

Just back from the terror that is holiday season retail. Went to get my sister a present. I knew what I wanted. I knew where it was. I wanted to get in and get out. They of course had run out. I came home with something else for her, plus a bunch of stuff I didn't intend to buy. Seriously, how hard is it, with modern stock control programs, to make sure you have enough stock to cover Christmas for an obviously popular present. Grrr.

 Besides finishing the Paul Kelly/Neil Finn and Michael Jackson sets off, I'm grabbing a DBT album I haven't heard. Then there's new stuff from Those Darlins and a live KCRW session from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. A compilation from Inertia called Critics' Choice gets a gig along with a remix of Midnight Marauders. Snoopzilla (*eye roll*) and Dam Funk bring 7 Days of Funk and lastly the soundtrack from probably my favourite film ever is going to ease me through my last full week of work for 2013. 

 Check it out:

  1. Adam Ant
  2. Jason Isbell
  3. Michael Jackson
  4. Graham Reynolds
  5. Neil Finn & Paul Kelly

 Song of the Week : Artists Against Apartheid - Sun City



A Facebook post about The Specials and music teaching you things is the impetus behind my SOTW. 

 As a teenager, it was Rap that taught me about things like the Civil Rights marches, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X. We didn't learn any of that in school. Same as we didn't learn about Apartheid and Nelson Mandella. All I knew of South Africa then was a bunch of Australian cricketers got kicked out of the team for going over there to play. It wasn't until U2 and Silver and Gold from Rattle and Hum that I really heard the word Apartheid. Then this song came out and was getting airplay on the Hip Hop show I listened to on Saturday nights - Scratch FM.

 I bought the 12" vinyl of this, but the only digital copy I have comes from an 80s compilation. This is Artists Against Apartheid and features Lou Reed, Little Steven, Kool Dj Herc, Run DMC, Melle Mel (hence the Scratch FM airplay), Dylan, Gil-Scott Heron, John Oates, even Miles Davis, Pete Townshend and Herbie Hancock. It's basically the We Are The World of anti-Apartheid songs. 

 With the death of Mandella and the Specials post, I thought it was a good time to celebrate the way we learn so much from the music we love - especially the good stuff (not much to be learned from Beiber I don't think). 

Au Revoir
That's all there is to it this week. I'm still dirty about not getting that present I was after. I'm certain the replacement will be well liked too, but that's hardly the point. Never mind. Onward and upwards. 

Vale Mandella. Hasala malakim.
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Quiet Midnight Mellow FUNK (December 2nd - 6th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

Today's Work Tunes is coming to you from the comfort of my loungeroom on my laptop. It's been a typically busy late November Saturday today and I've only just had time to sort some tunes out. I'm in the lounge watching The Living Room (a pretty crappy lifestyle program from Channel 10) just to see Ben Stiller and the Walter Mitty preview. It looks good. 

 The Greek scented soundtrack of my favourite film for 2013 is here. I've decided to give the newest Adam Ant album a listen, as well as something from Keller Williams evocatively titled FUNK. A bit of a sidetrack through power ballads this week has led to a Chicago best of and Guns n Roses Lies. Thanks to Clay 5, there's an early INXS classic. Paul Kelly and Neil Finn together have a new album and the first disc is playing this week. For some rap, there's a Band Camp freebie from Mellow and an MTV compilation of old school stuff. Last up this week I've got the first disc of MJ's This Is It. 

 Check it out:

  1. U2
  2. Keb' Mo'
  3. Illy
  4. John Lennon
  5. Counting Crows

 Song of the Week : Def Leppard - Love Bites



On the weekend, in the car, Def Leppard's Love Bites played from a shuffled playlist and Mrs CoreyJ and I had the following conversation (pretty much):

 Her: I love this song! I like those songs that... what do you call it when...
Me: Wuss Rock?
Her: Yeah! Wuss Rock. I love it when they really sound like they mean it.
Me: That's a power ballad. You like power ballads.

 So I made her a CD for the car of a few power ballad pearls. You can see the list on Spotify at spotify:user:1231117449:playlist:2FNd0XYnESXAJWoOFq1iFV

 What I like about this kind of tune, and I think what Mrs CoreyJ was thinking, is how they're so cheesy and so cliché and meaningless, but you'd never know it by the treatment they get. The impassioned singing, the swelling growl of big heavy guitar chords, epic orchestration, the works. If you didn't speak English and you heard one, you would swear the lyrics were great works of literature - or else why would they sound so epic?! 

 I do remember when this song was released when I was in high school. It was one of those songs that the 'chicks' and the 'dudes' liked. And if you had a girlfriend/boyfriend at the time, it meant this song was like, really deep you know? Like it really spoke to you and that? Yeah. Good times :)

 Rock out with your socks out folks.

Adieu

 With my list finished, it's almost time to take the kids to swimming lessons. No rest for the wicked, hey?

 Hasala malakim.
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Saturday, August 31, 2013

Donnas Exposed Monster Beats (September 2nd - 6th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

After a terrible rookie mistake, I am spending my late Saturday afternoon recovering deleted TV shows from an external disc. There's a reason we invented confirmation prompts and unfortunately I didn't take the time to really consider my response. Do you really want to permanently delete your TV shows Corey? Do you really? So now, one folder at a time, I'm running a recovery program on it. HandyRecovery - I can't recommend it enough, obviously. But never mind all that now, to the music.

 It has been so long since I heard Monster that I'd forgotten the track list. I recently bought an Alt Country double compilation, so disc one is here; and I dragged Gillian Welch along for the ride to compliment it. I can't ever get enough Tribe and I think it was Harry Allen who recommended Talib Kweli & Hi Tek's LP. Just the one new album this week, but what a new one, from the gorgeous Neko Case. More ol friends on the bill come from Dinosaur Jr, The Donnas and Paul Kelly. Finally, because I couldn't stop humming Feel Like Makin' Love complete with air guitar riffing (I think that's a complex part of my current 70s muscle car fascination), I have the best of Bad Company.

 Check it out:

  1. Giorgio Moroder
  2. Björk
  3. The Cranberries
  4. Savages
  5. Steve Earle & The Dukes (And Duchesses)

 Song of the Week : Pond  - Hobo Rocket


I've never paid much attention to Tame Impala, so when I found Pond on NPR, I wasn't aware of the connection or that Pond had already had albums out. All I knew was there was a Perth band getting noticed in the US even if it was by public radio. 

The album Hobo Rocket is an enjoyable listen and I picked the title track because it's a bit of fun. The vocals are done by some guy named Cowboy John who is meant to be a Perth fixture (I'm sure one of you will be able to fill in the uninitiated?!) 

His singing sounds like Eddy Vedder pretending to be a bum. The song is a psychedelic freak out of a jam session with a sort of homeless grunge rap. 


अलविदा

 A Happy Father's Day for us breeders in Australia for tomorrow. I hope there's some quality family time and some vinyl involved - well for me at least. 

 Hasala malakim.
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Friday, April 12, 2013

Reasonable April Mothership Shambles (April 15th - 19th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

It's a comparatively chilly Saturday in Perth today and over in Melbourne it's just gone half time at the MCG  in the Melbourne V West Coast match. All I can say about West Coast's game so far is WTF! So let's get on with the music.  

 First up, courtesy of NPR, I have a 10 track sampler of new music for April. Also new are the latest from Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Dawes. Some Australian flavour this week too, from punk pioneers The Saints, indie rock heroes Jebediah and unofficial poet laureate, Paul Kelly. Speaking of Punks, I've got a Greatest Hits from John Lydon's PIL. Thanks to Amazon's amazing new retrospectively active AutoRip feature on vinyl (and some creative getting around a geotardation) I have the digital version of one half of my Led Zep Mothership vinyl. Finally, in the Hip Hop corner, jazzy consciousness from De La Soul and gangsta swagger from the King of New York, Jay-Z.

 Check it out:


 Top Five Artists Last Week
  1. Beach Fossils
  2. Counting Crows
  3. Ryan Adams
  4. Elvis Costello
  5. Gram Parsons

 Song of the Week : Kacey Musgraves - Follow Your Arrow


 First up, let me apologise up front for the total cheese of this week's choice. However, I found myself in a situation where it has been the ear worm every single day of the week so far and I thought I'd share the love :)

 This is Kacey Musgraves – Follow Your Arrow from an album called Same Trailer, Different Park. That should clue you in to how whitebread and country this girl is. I hadn't heard of her until NPR streamed her album and I thought I'd give it a listen for giggles. Most of it is a Dixie Chicks bluegrass hybrid and pretty bland overall. But this one song, as cheesy as it is, won't let go of my eardrums. 

 I suppose I like the sentiment, I quite like her voice and the melody is very catchy. It’s also a little bit of an insight into some contemporary issues for grrrrls, I suppose. See what you think, but don't blame me if it takes hold of your brain too - in the way that annoying jingles can do.


Toodle Pip

Thanks for stopping by. With any luck you'll find some new music this week that changes your life - or just some annoying song you can't get out of your head. It's all good. 

Hasala malakim.
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Saturday, January 12, 2013

Darkness Never Moving Toto (January 14th - 18th)

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

 The first working week of the year is done and dusted and it wasn't half bad. The usual administrative start led smoothly into the massive workload and busy bee of a the end of the week. Through it all of course was the music, just like next week.

 For next week, I have a few musical equivalents of a warm cup of cocoa with 80s radio-friendly sets from Toto, Van Halen and The B-52s. I've got a Skip Hop contingent from a compilation and an album from The Herd; as well as more Australian music from the one and only Paul Kelly. I'm trying to rediscover the Ryan Adams & the Cardinals outtakes from III/IV and I bought a Sonic Youth album I haven't heard. Lastly, for a little bit of groove, I am including Jamiroquai. 

 Check it out:
  1. Bruce Hornsby
  2. The Autumn Defense
  3. JEFF the Brotherhood
  4. Datarock
  5. Cotton Jones

Song of the Week : Joe "Bean" Esposito - You're The Best



 Speaking of holidays, mine was great, thanks for asking and it inspired this week’s SOTW. It’s actually more like Song of the Month because we've hummed and sung and played it all holidays. 

 As you probably know from Twitter, I got my girls a skateboard each for Christmas. I haven’t had a chance to take Miss 3 out because we kept her in the day care routine as best we could, but I taught Miss 6 the basics and she is doing well. She can now stand up and push and coast in a mostly straight line. I have taught her to lean turn but she can’t turn in a big arc yet. Still, a lot better than me at 6 when I used to basically sit on my plastic board and roll down our steep driveway. 

 Because it was like a training montage of trying and failing, I happened to sing (for Mrs Coreyj's benefit) the Joe Esposito track from Karate Kid – You’re The Best. Big chuckles ensued of course. But the song hasn't gone away. It’s been stuck in all our heads for weeks. So now I’m giving it to you! The interesting thing about the track is how cheesy and comically-sincere it is, but at the time, it was completely serious. It’s a “hard rock” track with keys in the mode of a Journey or even a Toto, but with small and aborted attempts at Ian Gillan style vocal acrobatics. 

 So, try to ignore the fact that this track is from the GREATEST MOVIE EVER MADE and just judge it on its own merits. 

Adieu

Thanks for stopping by. As always, happy musical trails to you all. Hasala malakim.
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Friday, December 21, 2012

Top 10 Albums of 2012

Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

You might have noticed there was no Work Tunes last week. That's because I was saving the surprise of my Top 10 Albums of 2012. My top 10 list has been my weekly soundtrack this week. 

 The albums I've selected are not necessarily the same ones that would make my critical top 10 list. These are my favourite albums this year, the ones I have especially enjoyed listening to. The one that I have continued to play all year whenever the mood strikes. These are my top 10.

 I've written a few words on each of them and listed them in reverse order - just for the suspense* (*suspense may not be actual). At the end of the list, you'll find the next ten albums in my top 20 and finally a mixtape of one song from each top 10 selection.

Check it out:

10. Paul Kelly - Spring and Fall

This year's release is among Mr Paul (poet and living legend) Kelly's best in a while. Spring and Fall is the sound of a man growing old and weary but comfortable in his own skin. As 'over the hill' as the narrator of every song is, he's still obsessed by the universal themes of love and sex and death. By the end of the album with Little Aches and Pains, we hear a man expressing how the heart is willing but the flesh is weak. At the Stories of Me event, PK told us that the song was written because he and his siblings have a rule that they can only talk for 5 minutes about their medical complaints when they meet up, or else they talk of nothing else. I am really glad to hear yet another great Paul Kelly album.

9. The Bamboos - Medicine Man

This is the first spot I had to think really hard about filling and I wrote this list from top to bottom. A few albums have slipped into the lower half of my top 20 to make way for this. In the end I had to include it on the strength of the Tim Rogers collaboration alone. Plus, it is so good to see Australians putting out this kind of soulful rock music. I think if it was a US release, it would make a lot of international Top 10 lists.

8. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season

As an Orton fan since Sunky hipped me to her, I was eager to hear the new album. It has been a while between drinks for the "tall glass of water" (as she is referenced in Ryan Adams' English Girls Approximately). Worth the wait. Sugaring Season seems a lot more organic than previous efforts; meaning not as electronic - though I know there are plenty of keys in it. BO has managed to weave her distinctive voice through some very smooth piano and string lines. There's a bit of sadness in the lyric content, but it doesn't get too morbid. 

7. Seapony - Falling

What can I say about Seapony? I loved their 2011 debut Go With Me, so I jumped at the next release. The two sound very similar, in that there is a sound that is distinctly Seapony. I hear it as a loud punk band playing behind a shiny piece of not-quite-soundproof glass. All the edge is taken off the crunch and fuzz and you get this dreamy kind of hum. I suppose that's why it's referred to as Dream Pop. It's good, anyway.

6. First Aid Kit - The Lion's Roar

 Emmylou was all it took to get me to buy this album. The harmonies, the reference to country's veteran royal couples, the sweet, sweet melody. I was blown away when I found out these girls were Swedish. They sound like mountain folk - and I suppose they are, just Scandinavian and not Appalachian. There's other great tracks on the album too though and they are all as Americana as the one that got my attention.  

When I first heard The XX with VCR, I expected more catchy pop tunes with a decidedly electronic backing. Listening to the whole album showed they were a little less shallow than they probably seemed at first. With Coexist, they've added a large ambient string to their bow and made a coherently whole album that sets a mood. Every song on it seems to have this ominous undertone like it’s the end of the world in a dance song – very fitting in these 2012 times, no?. I think it's just the keys, but whatever it is, it works and it definitely maintains a singular mood. I like it a lot.

4. Justin Townes Earle - Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now

 Besides the unwieldy title, this is a very good release from JTE. I only discovered the man and his music with 2010's Harlem River Blues but have since acquainted myself with the back catalogue. This LP is as soul-searching and redemptive as Harlem, but it doesn't hide the sadness behind catchy jigs. Where Harlem was a bit of a romp, NGCTWYFAMN is subdued and lonely. Songs like Unfortunately Anna and Won't Be The Last Time sound like late night confessions and cries for help. He still puts a stomp in proceedings a little with Look The Other Way, but even that is a song about how his mother never recognises the good things he does, and only focuses on the many negatives. It seems that JTE is getting better with each release. Early stuff had a couple of good tracks, maybe one great one in Midnight at the Movies; while Harlem River Blues was outstanding and this album is superb in its own right. 

When The Only Place was released, I read a lot of good press, but just as many complaints by fans of their debut Crazy For You. The argument was that it was more of the same and that the repetitive choruses were now annoying. I'm of the opinion that this album is not more of the same, because the production of it and the ability of the band's lyricist and lead singer has exploded in a great way. Besides the deeper polish on the sound which gives it a 50s/60s feel, Bethany Constantino has developed a real voice. No longer the whiny LA surfy chick, she sounds more like Patsy Cline or Connie Francis on songs like Up All Night and How They Want Me To Be. This is a deserved Top 3 choice and I really should have bought the vinyl instead of the CD, but i cheaped out on the shipping. Silly me. Now I have to buy both anyway.

2. Dinosaur Jr. - I Bet On Sky

I'm probably a little biased here, because there isn't much I don't like from Dinosaur Jr. But I thought I Bet On Sky was better than Farm (2009), which I also enjoyed. What I prefer about Sky is the low end thump has been taken out of the sound, so it sounds less like Metallica and more like J Mascis lazily humming over a lovely warm and fuzzy guitar. So okay, maybe it all just sounded more like the 90s and I am a sucker for Slacker nostalgia. Whatevs. I really liked this album.


No surprises that probably one of the strongest releases from one of my favourite groups would make my Top 10 list. For me, Hilltop Hoods haven't put a foot wrong since The Calling. Since that breakthrough, they have been the undisputed high watermark in Australian Hip Hop, no argument. For me, the highlights on Drinking From the Sun are the massively hooky I Love It and The Underground; the out-of-left-field rapid fire rhythmic rhyming scheme of Rattling The Keys to the Kingdom, the awesome Joe Pesci sample in the Good For Nothing hook and the inclusive politics of Speaking In Tongues. 

    2012 Mixtape Tracklist  

    The Bamboos - I Got Burned (feat. Tim Rogers)
    Dinosaur Jr. - Don't Pretend You Didn't Know
    Seapony - Prove To Me
    Justin Townes Earle - Look The Other Way
    First Aid Kit - Emmylou
    Beth Orton - Dawn Chorus
    The xx - Chained
    Paul Kelly - Cold As Canada
    Best Coast - Up All Night
    Hilltop Hoods - I Love It

     Get the Mixtape

    And that's my whole year. I'm on leave until January 7, so no Work Tunes until then. If I get a spare moment, I might post a review over at Make Films Not Movies, but most likely I'll just be 'maxing and relaxing'.

    Have a great silly season. Whatever you do, be careful on the roads but more importantly in the shops - I've been there a lot lately and it is chaos! 

     As always and forever - hasala malakim brothers and sisters. 
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    Friday, November 9, 2012

    More Arkansas Spring Spaghetti (November 12th - 16th)

    Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

     Just back from a great bike ride on the river and up the hill to Heathcote. I'm scrawling this all together while my kids have lunch and before we take off again to the shops. Best get right into then, hey?

     There's a bunch of funk in the trunk this week, with another MJ disc, the latest from The Menahan Street Band and Cody ChesnuTT's new one. I've lowered the risk of contracting funkitis by splashing liberal amounts of hipster from Mumford & Sons and folk from Michelle Shocked. There's a free sampler from Muse as well. Representing "Straya" I've got the second disc of the Hip Hop Show compilation and the new Paul Kelly. That just leaves some "classic" rock from Alice Cooper and GnR.

    Check it out:

    1. Pearl Jam
    2. Angie Hart
    3. The Jackson 5
    4. Paul Kelly and the Coloured Girls
    5. Kiss

    Song of the Week : Stevie Wonder - Signed, Sealed and Delivered (I'm Yours)



     In celebration of the victory of Good over Evil in the US, I am going to choose Stevie Wonder's Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I'm Yours) for SOTW. This is the song that was playing when Mr Barack Hussein Obama walked out to give his acceptance speech. 

     Nothing you can say about the song itself can ever do it enough justice. More soul than a New Orleans fried chicken restaurant and funkier than a plate of black eyed peas cooked by James Brown himself. Stevie Wonder's voice is always incredible, but this is one of his finest moments.Such a powerful delivery and he punches it like a horn section.

     As for the Prez, well, I am certainly glad he got over the line against Karl Rove and Donald Trump and all the other right wing crazies who wanted Romney to deliver them a big win for greed.


    Toodles

    Thanks for stopping by. I'm off to the library and the shops now. You all be on your best behaviour until I get back. Or not. Whatever's good for you. Have fun, whatever you do.

    Hasala malakim.
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    Friday, November 2, 2012

    Under the Lost Motown Master (November 5 - 9)

    Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

    It's Friday night and I've been watching 56 UP with Mrs coreyj. Having come home determined to drink too much, I managed 2 beers, as usual. Nevermind, so I'm a cheap date. And speaking of dates, here's the music I'll be listening to from the 5th to the 9th. 

    For starters I have two disc ones - one for JJJ's Hip Hop Show and the other for a 3 disc set of Michael Jackson / Jackson 5 Motown songs. There's more of Thurston Moore and old favourites from Justin Townes Earle and Boogie Down Productions. I have a solo effort from Frente's Angie Hart and a true Australian classic from Paul Kelly since I saw the Stories of Me documentary last week. Filling out the rawk portion of this week's slice of my working life, I have the first Kiss album I ever owned (I was 8) and the Lost Dogs collection from Pearl Jam. Finally, for some sombre reflection there's a set from Bonnie "Prince" Billy. 

    Check it out:

    1. Hilltop Hoods
    2. U2
    3. Evil Eddie
    4. 10,000 Maniacs
    5. Joe Jackson

    Song of the Week : Stephen Cummings - From St Kilda To Kings Cross



     After seeing the Paul Kelly doc, Stories of Me at the weekend, I have chosen From St Kilda to Kings Cross. However, I'm selecting the Stephen Cummings cover version. I chose the cover because I think it is more literal with the mood of the song.
    The story the movie told was that after The Dots, Paul Kelly's writing dried up for two years. He had written one song and that was Water In The Well which is about not being able to write. So he left Melbourne for Sydney. The writing then came in a flood which led to Post, Under The Sun, Gossip and Comedy - all great albums.

    So this song starts up in wonder of the Sydney landscape, face pressed in anticipation to the glass window of a bus. He describes everything as shining like a post card and how nobody stops to notice it with "everything goes on just the same". When the bridge comes in, he's suddenly talking of hungry 'fair weather friends'.

    Finally, in the last verse it's Melbourne he is pining for and he wants to trade Sydney in for St Kilda pier even after acknowledging that St Kilda isn’t the shining pretty place that Sydney is  “Where the beach needs reconstruction / Where the palm trees have it hard”. 

     This is not an upbeat, happy and carefree song the way it sounds when PK sings it. It’s about a guy who has left his home on a 13 hour bus trip and come to a city where he doesn’t have any real friends. Which is why I chose Stephen Cummings and his exhausted, resigned and maudlin piano cover.

     Unfortunately, the cover is not on YouTube, so here's the Paul Kelly video.  

    Checkyalater

    It's just after midnight here now and I'm thinking of throwing on my Music Jamboree DVD before climbing into bed with Sickboy, Begbie, Renton and Spud in Porno. Whatever you do this weekend, stay safe and happy and try to cram as much music in as you can. 

     To our American cousins who are going out to vote next week, please do the right thing by the rest of the world and put Barry back in the big chair. Cheers.

     Bye for now. Hasala malakim.
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    Saturday, September 29, 2012

    Purple Highway Sugaring Trees (October 1st - 5th)

    Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

     Big Saturday today with the AFL Grand Final on and the long weekend under way. I watched the Swans deservedly win an epic football battle and not long after my TV decided that it wasn't fixed any more. So I spat the proverbial and bought another one online. Free delivery in 4 to 5 working days. You have to love the Internet. It's 3D and all, so I threw a 3D Bluray player in for good measure. I look forward to hundreds of hilarious viewings of Piranha 3DD.

     I have a whole bunch of new albums this week, namely from Ben Folds Five, Brother Ali, Beth Orton and finally, Mumford & Sons. For something old, there's Deep Purple's monster hit In Rock, as well as Devo's Freedom of Choice. I'm still on my latest Sonic Youth kick, so I grabbed a Thurston Moore solo effort from 2006. Cameron Crowe's grunge era pop culture zeitgeist, Singles, turned 20 last week, so the soundtrack is here. Paul Kelly (for like 2 minutes) on TV for the Grand Final is the reason why Foggy Highway is here. Rounding it all off with a dose of old skool nostalgia thanks again to Art of Rap, a Def Jam compilation from 2001.

     Check it out:

    1. Sonic Youth
    2. Eric B & Rakim
    3. Pearl Jam
    4. The xx
    5. Band Of Horses

    Song of the Week : The Replacements - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out



     For my song of the week, I'm going with the hysterically coincidental track from Let It Be - no, not that one, The Replacements' one. I had put Let It Be on my weekly list without remembering that there's a track on there called "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out". 

     As you know, my little 'Tommy' got her tonsils out this week too. I am happy to report that they were not "rip rip!" ripped out. The operation itself was over and done with rather quickly, but I'm sure all care was taken. This track is even in keeping with the car theme, because the doctor has his Cadillac running. 

     You can hear in this song all the elements of LA Hardcore punk which was big at the time, but of which The Replacements aren't really exponents. I've chosen it for the coincidence and nothing more. I hope you get a giggle.

    Onward to Victory

    Thanks for stopping by. If you are a Sydney Swans fan (and not one of the Victorian bandwagon hoppers who refers to your team as "The Bloods"), congratulations. Hawks fans, commiserations; as an Eagles supporter, I know how it feels to lose to the Swans in a close one. Please, tell your team to rest on their laurels and not use their hunger for a flag to destroy us all in 2013. Thank you. 

    Hasala malakim.
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    Wednesday, May 4, 2011

    Playlist : May 9th - 13th, 2011

    Hello and welcome to Work Tunes.

    This week's list is devoted to a recent haul of cheap second hand vinyl I scored at Melville Markets. I've become a tad addicted to buying wax, so it helped the wallet (and my marriage) a lot that these were such bargains. I managed to pick up a couple of LPs on my Amazon wish list as well as some albums I'd never heard but only cost $2. At least one of which was well worth it.

    Here's most of what I bought. I left off The Man From Snowy River soundtrack because it wasn't for me. I also left off Joni Mitchell - Blue because it was on a recent list.
    1. 50 Cent
    2. Blondie
    3. Drapht
    4. John Mellencamp
    5. Bingethinkers
    Song of the Week : JEFF the Brotherhood - Mellow Out
    For this week’s song, I’ve gone with a band I just discovered. JEFF the Brotherhood are a little punky, a lot of grungey and a little bit pop. Their album, We Are The Champions, is a bit of fuzzy fun. This track, Mellow Out has more than a pinch of Weezer in it. I chose it for the Weezer sound, but also to remind myself I need to mellow out this weekend and wash the week off me. Out, out damned spot! I hope you like this little punk pop ditty.

    See You Real Soon
    Happy Mother's Day to all the Australian Mums and their Mums and even theirs. Until next week, may we not misquote MLK, but instead apply the rule of law in all contexts, to all.
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