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HEY! It's Thursday! Time for our weekly weekend dip into the wacky world of wandomness with our lurking host Wandy Wandomguy, taking a break between modelling calls for knitwear patterns! He's enlisted the help of th' IoF©'s Outreach & Transparency C.E.O. Kreemé [nineteen my ass - Ed.] and poured a quart of spiked Gatorade down his throat. "I wanna be free," he enthused yesterday, "free to do what I wanna do. I wanna get loaded and have a good time!" Our Foam-O-Graph© [above - Ed.] has been projected direct from his third chakra into your optic nerve via Professor U.U. Gefiltefish's patent Kirlian Aura Probe, which has you by the astral nuts.
Anyway. Youse bums know the rules. Especially (FX: CHORD OF DOOM) The Unwritten One. The first five melodies that come up on shuffle. If you don't "have" shuffle, or don't "do" shuffle, imagine a hospital radio station playing drive time music in your head. Actually, you may not have to imagine this. Be a come-with 4/5g©!
Moi, alors:
ReplyDeleteGas Board Underdog - Skip Bifferty
Wisdom Has Its Way - Michael Nesmith
Reach - The Pale Fountains
I'm A Hog For You - Grateful Dead (Skull n' Roses)
Unsquare Dance - Dave Brubeck
Charles Mingus - My Jelly Roll Soul
ReplyDeleteBob Dylan - Absolutely Sweet Marie
The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
Van Morrison - Linden Arden Stole The Highlights
Lauryn Hill - Nothing Even Matters
Veedon Fleece is one of those albums that seems to exist in its own time and space - like he sung every song with his eyes closed. Utterly beautiful.
DeleteVeedon Fleece is my all-time favorite Van album.
DeleteHowdy pardner,
ReplyDeleteIt's getting cold out here at the ranch and the missis was wanting to start a campfire, and I figured - why not. She's not on anything that strong, I don't see her rushing the flames like that time back in '05. So I asked her what she wanted to listen to, and she said anything. I think that's what she said - the 'genics kicked in so she tends to mumble a bit. I also saw your post so I though I'd use that to put shuffle on. Here's what the ol' 'pod came up with;
1) "Still Care About You" - Daughters of Albion
2) "I Want You" - Hard Meat
3) "Fat Old Sun (BBC Radio Session, 30 September 1971)" - Pink Floyd
4) "Not To Touch The Earth" - The Doors
5) "Never Mind" - The Moon
There it is and stay warm! As ever,
Billy Gates of the Double X Ranch.
Those two Moon albums are favorites.
DeleteI agree - took me a while to get into them, but eventually I learned that just because it's soft don't mean it's weak.
DeleteOn the plus side: it reminded me that I haven't listened to "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" in a long time. It's an urbane album that adeptly blends Soul, R&B, and hip-hop uniquely in a way, that has often been copied, but has never been duplicated.
DeleteOoops, I meant this in reply to draftervoi's "That's a little too late 60s / early 70s for my taste, but it's what came up." and Farquhar Throckmorton III's reply: "I'm not happy with mine, either, but them's the rules."
DeleteBuffseeds - Sparkle Me
ReplyDeleteHound Dog Taylor - Give Me Back My Wig
Glen Campbell - It's Only Make Believe
Marvin Gaye - Crazy 'Bout My Baby
Ringo Starr - Rock Around The Clock
That's a little too late 60s / early 70s for my taste, but it's what came up.
I'm not happy with mine, either, but them's the rules.
DeleteRandom is often more interesting than "curated."
DeleteAugustus Pablo - Up Warrika Hill
ReplyDeleteDjango Reinhart - Blues Chair
Boys of the Lough - Wedding March from Unst
Rory Gallagher - Who's That Coming
Michael Chapman - An Old Man Remembers
Roy Orbison - Penny Arcade
ReplyDeleteGeorge Jones - A Good Year For the Roses
Shirley Bassey - Send in the Clowns
Little Richard - He's Not Just a Soldier
Jarmels - A Little Bit of Soap
Sister Sleeping Soul - Yes
ReplyDeleteTomorrow Is A Long Time - Dylan
Street Fighting Man - Stones
English Civil War - Clash
Maybe I'm Amazed - Wings
Nick Lowe - Let's Go to the Disco
ReplyDeleteShack - Comedy
XTC - Grass (Home Demo)
The Go-Betweens - Too Much Of One Thing
Jack Kerouac - One Mother
You want Brian Wilson playing a real piano in your lovely home? This is what it would sound like. Gorgeous.
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/GU29dUmECmJ
Excuse my language but, fuckmyoldboots! a full fat, hard drive bustin' 320type mp3 from Farq, I'm gobsmacked. If he's not sqeezed it down to a 192, this must be a keeper.
DeleteCheeky! If I get something @320 I post it that way before Kreemé rolls it down to 192 between her firm, slender thighs for my private use.
DeleteOk, blame the staff. "Oh Mr Throckmorton, would you like that massive mp3 rolled down my fragrant slender thighs to make it more manageable for you?"
Delete"coff, splutter, yes please Kreemé, you are oh so kind, dribble, dribble. Can you pass the tissues at the same time"
Phil Ochs - Chords Of Fame
ReplyDeleteLost Ragas - People Funny
Simon & Garfunkel - El Condor Pasa
Hot Chocolate - I Want To Be Free
Steely Dan - Haitian Divorce
sun song Lutha
ReplyDeleteScarecrow Pink Floyd
Freedom Blues Little Richard
WalkOn By Stranglers
Taco Wagon the De-Fenders
That version of Walk On By is a hoot!
DeleteChris Stamey - Alive
ReplyDeleteThe Youngbloods - Euphoria (Mono)
The Zombies - I Remember When I l Loved Her
Doug Firebaugh - Alabama Railroad Town
Jordbandet – Vi Ska Befria Allas Land
And Farq is right on the money (of course) when it comes to Brian Wilson playing the piano. Get it!
The Kills - Pull a U
ReplyDeleteRed Fang - The Deep
Julian Lynch - Terra
Jimmy Demopoulos - If I Had My Way
Superchunk - Hyper Enough
oops ... I meant to list the following tracks from the Jonder/Stinky Damn The Torpedoes (LIVE) comp that I have dedicated myself to listening to (already made it to track 11!):
DeleteTom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Carol (Live In Chicago)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Something Else (Live At Hammersmith ’80)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Here Comes My Girl (Live In Oakland)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Even The Losers (Live In Rochester NY ’89)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don’t Do Me Like That (Live In Philly ’80)
You're too much, MrDave. Love me some Red Fang. "Black Sabbath meets Black Flag" is how somebody described them, and it fits.
DeleteJoe Ely - Are You Listenin' Lucky? (Live version)
ReplyDeleteThe Professionals - Just Another Dream
Dave Alvin - Run Conejo Run
Vulfpeck - Beastly
HP Lovecrafy - White Ship
Sparks - Achoo (Live)
ReplyDeleteJoni Mitchell - God must be a boogie man (Live S&L)
Trembling Bells - This is how the world will end
AK/DK - Lagom
Go-Kart Mozart - Spunky Axe
Ella Fitzgerald: Blues in the Night
ReplyDeleteElla & Louis: Stompin' at the Savoy
Blossom Dearie: If I were a Bell
Dandy Warhols: Welcome to the Monkey House
Ella Mae Morse: House of Blue Lights
I have no idea, but I followed the rules...I could tease out a theme, I suppose...
It's interesting, isn't it, how posting a random selection of tunes for a random selection of strangers holds such appeal for a certain sort of music nerd? And I'm definitely one of 'em!
ReplyDeleteJohn Mayer - Paper Doll
Roger Miller - Little Green Apples
Genesis - Firth Of Forth
Any Trouble - Girls Are Always Right
Steve Hillage - It's All Too Much
Cheers, Peanuts Molloy.
It's not actually random at all - which is where the interest lies.
DeleteDo tell...
DeleteWe're not here out of randomness, but out of choice, because we feel we are at some sense at home here - reference points in common, use of language, sense of humor, whatever. We're also (I suspect) mostly "getting on a bit" (Clar is downright elderly), or at least old enough to have lived through a lot of musical changes, and to have tastes based on that experience. And - without flattering youse bums - we're pretty smart, in terms of smartness. So that's already a lot of randomness pruned out of the equation. And then there's the limited data (I mean albums) you feed into your device from which it makes its random choice.
DeleteAll of this quite aside from the truth that everything is brought about from conditions which could produce no other result (you bake bricks, you don't get bread).
“The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.” - Paul Auster
DeleteWhat were the chances of him saying that?
DeleteDon't get me started.
DeleteYou already are!
DeleteIn a nutshell: the chances of Paul Auster, a post-modernist writer, saying that are "pretty good", and somewhat predictable. That said, and none-the-less, it is an astute observation.
DeleteMy interest in chances, or more to the point: The Odds Ratio, are based on the measure of association that is used to describe the relationship between two or more categorical (usually dichotomous) variables (e.g., in a contingency table) or between continuous variables and a categorical outcome variable.
In Mathematicis veritas est.
Yebbut it's not "an astute observation" - it's an opinion that makes for a good quote. It's an easy and convenient belief that many find attractive.
DeleteAnd as for "in mathematicis veritas est", we made numbers up. Quantity does not exist anywhere in the universe. The universe does not count itself. Counting (quantifying) is a function of grammar. "One" and "two" are nouns, not things that have any objective reality. They are ideas, existing in the realm of magic - an everyday magic we are so used to we do not recognise it. Counting (and all its associated functions) is conjuring. That which is spelled is a spell, A B C, 1 2 3 ...
Do this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20110420031316/http://rebuddha.blogspot.com/
And when you've done that do this:
https://rebuddharedux.blogspot.com
to save me copy-pasting the relevant screed.
Hold up there -- yes, the map is not the territory but the territory exists or at least it is perceived to exist by me and my (possibly figmentary) cohorts wherever "here" is and object A can be compared to object B in any number of ways that may use arbitrary scales but nonetheless can be measured consistently and reliably using those arbitrary scales. So I think it's a little too much to say "quantity" does not exist. The "Sun" is "bigger" than "The Moon" -- use whatever signifiers you want to express that relationship but there are objects that have qualities that can be perceived and measured even if these objects are figments or our collective imaginations.
DeleteOn a related note, how do you feel on a scale of purple to yellow today?
btw I completely agree that reality is socially constructed, that we experience it through learned systems of meanings (e.g. language) that are ascribed to everything around us and very much shape those things in the process.
DeleteOn the other hand, Vygotsky was not wrong when he said "... a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow." Language is a tool too.
I might be older but I'm significantly better looking than the rest of you.
DeleteAnyways up, that's all well n good, but the title of this thread is (translation) "Randy Randomguy's Romper Room O' Randmoness Dept" so I'm sticking with the word "randmon".
DeleteCheers, Peanuts Molloy.
Fontaines D.C. - A Hero's Death
ReplyDeleteMatt Sweeney/Bonny "Prince" Billy - I Am A Youth Inclined to Ramble
Suzy Chunk - Wish Away the Moon
Prelude and Fugue No.11 in B Major – Dmitri Shostakovich/Keith Jarrett
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Got My Eye on You
I think we can all agree that I am definitely the coolest and have the most catholic tastes. But not by much.
Isn't Brian Jonestown Massacre a little, well ,,, mainstream?
DeleteThe Hong Kong Triad - Thievery Corporation
ReplyDeleteSomething Goy a Hold of Me - People’s Temple Choir
Dem Know No Dub - Lee Perry
Hanky Panky - Honeymoon Killers
Wide Open Arms - The Weather Prophets
Should be
ReplyDeleteSomething Got a Hold on Me (Goy was a semitic slip, I guess)
A big lol out loud for that one.
DeleteI just thought it was the "uncut" version. If you know what I mean, and I think you do...
DeleteBabs - go sit on the Naughty Step.
DeleteAgain?
DeleteFair enough, but society is to blame...
Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all”
DeleteForeskin jokes always go over my head ...
DeleteRe the Brian Wilson effort. Is this really him or someone else who can tinkle the ivories? Not the most complimentary photo of him either, methinks. It sounds like one of those albums that SBS Television in Oz often tries to sell to "solid citizens that they can hum vacantly to" ( one of the few comical asides from the staff at Rolling Stone Magazine, although PJ O'Rourke always was a riot) whilst wandering around the local shopping centre. I like to remember the playing of the young Brian. However, I imagine that Farq was engaging in sarcasm what he gave us this album. Sorry to seem mean, but it's a disappointing release, at least to one who has followed his music from the beginning. But then who am I to judge?
ReplyDelete*sigh* Yes, it really is him. He overdubs a little, himself (as he says in an interview). It's actually much more clever than it seems. And so is he. What the snowflake-eared critics are complaining about is the lack of pristine digital "fidelity" they're used to. Hearing a real piano, with all its complex and even messy internal harmonics, comes as something of a shock. And this categorising as easy listening (whatever) is a little ignorant. It's not a jazz album. It's Brian playing his own tunes on a piano. He plays with restraint (not to be confused with inability) and subtlety, yet if you know anything about piano playing you'll know that there's some quiet wizardry happening.
DeleteCritics have expressed disbelief that it's him, because it's too sophisticated for the keyboard-mashing simpleton they think he is. And at the same time they say it's too simple, and therefore elevator music, and therefore to be sneered at. Poor old guy can't win, can he?
Don't over-think it. Enjoy it for what it is, if you can. Simple, elegant, beautiful - and if it's a little relaxing, allow yourself to be relaxed. Not everything has to be a struggle.
In other news: Brian Wilson is capable of anything and everything.
DeleteI've listened to "At My Piano" several times today, and think it's a very good and interesting listen.
As for the cover, at the very least: it's an honest representation of Brian at seventy-nine-years-old.
AND, I say all of this as not a big Beach Boys fan.
Fair enough.
DeleteThe doors are open to the deck where I'm sitting with my laptop and a mug of joe, watching the sun burn off the mist over the Mekong. And from the house comes the sound of Brian Wilson, playing his beautiful music on a piano.
DeleteGod bless his beautiful soul.
(bellowed) "Charlie don't dig Brian"
DeleteMeanwhile, Africa is choking on their Coca-Cola.
DeleteIt must be something we get from birth...
Western culture generally hasn't had much impact "out here", one of the many many manymany reasons I love living here. Pop music? They have their own, thank you.
DeleteWhen it comes to BW's compositions, you can't get much more "stripped" than this. I like it - the melodies really shine through. Whilst I'd go for the full versions every time, it's a new way of looking at the guy's genius. What's great is that I don't have to choose - I can have both!
Delete... and that's the point right there. And it's unlike anything Wilson has ever done before. For a guy pushing eighty ...
DeleteIt's lovely. And I bet Paul McCartney's kicking himself for not thinking of it.
DeleteYes, such a simple thing, and yet this is the first time it's been done (I think). Guile-free Brian doesn't take the credit, though, freely admitting it was Decca's idea.
DeleteOK sold.
ReplyDeleteEdward Vesala 'On The Shady Side Of Forty'
ReplyDeleteChris McGregor 'Bra Joe From Kilimanjaro'
Paul McCartney 'Nobody Knows'
The Necks 'Mosquito'
Donna Summer 'On The Radio'
Roger King Mozian "Repercussion"
ReplyDeleteDavid Lindley "Mercury Blues"
Son Volt "Mystifies Me"
Marlon Brando "Luck Be a Lady Tonight" (from the "Guys and Dolls" soundtrack)
Burl Ives "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Instrumental)"
Christmas must be coming.
Thanks to Peanuts Malloy for pointing out the randmoness of this piece, its the only excuse I need to send a copy of this https://www.imagenetz.de/fALFB to one and all.
ReplyDeleteI could pretend it was the next song on my random thingy but that would just be silly.
Noblemon - is this thee?
DeleteDepends who's asking
DeleteHowever, I do have a very attractive timepiece sticking out of my pocket, which may judt give the game away.
DeleteLovely tune, thanks Noblemon.
DeleteFreddie Mercury - Made In Heaven
ReplyDeleteRestless Heart - Fast Movin' Train
Led Zeppelin - South Bound Saurez
Deep Purple - Wasted Sunsets
Pepe Deluxe - Queenswave
Telefon Tel Aviv - Sound From A Dark Room
ReplyDeleteAnne McCue - Money In The Morning
Lungfish - The Words
Roots Radics - Pice Dub
Rare Earth - I Just Want To Celebrate