The recent (recurring) talk about music, in this case Tom Waits, prompted me to start this thread.

I have a very diverse taste in music and usually pick a genre or artist according to my mood or the task at hand. Or sometimes I wake up with a tune in my head and no rest until I pull it and listen to it. Bet you know the feeling.

So in this thread please list what's stuck in your head at the moment (for better or for worse).

Today I started off on Judas Priest's "Run of the mill". Imho one of the greatest rock ballads ever.

I went to college in West Philly in the late 1970's and married a local a few years later. Used to ride the river drives 3x on training rides, or head up to the mainline for some climbs.

Nice song.

I've been digging their sound a lot lately... I love the banjo. I can't play it, but I do play the ukelele so I think I'm going to pick up a banjolele.

Sun Kil Moon has been my soundtrack for the last two weeks.

Thanks, t.e.d! Reminds me of the time I was maced with the crowd waiting to get into the PIL show in Pasadena on Nov. 7, 1982. By the time we finally got inside, the opening band Savage Republic had already finished their set. Halfway through PIL's set my friend Danimal Dean climbed up onto the speaker tower while guards tried to pull him down. Before they could reach him he performed the most radical stage dive I have ever seen and landed on the floor in front of the stage. That was one of the last times I ever saw him. The next summer he and a friend were walking along the railroad tracks in Leucadia. The discussion turned to what constituted "hard core" punk. As a southbound train approached at speed his last words were: "You wanna see core? I'll show you core!" He threw himself in front of the train. The friend found his mohawked head about 200 meters from his body.

I like the opening lines on ^^:

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster...

and if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Mark Twain

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Thanks, t.e.d! Reminds me of the time I was maced with the crowd waiting to get into the PIL show in Pasadena on Nov. 7, 1982

Perkins Palace! The Jam played what I think was one of their last US shows there in '82, also. I missed that one due to boot camp, but saw one of the first time Johnny did Pistols songs with PiL at the Olympic in '84. Suicidal kids stage diving from huge stacks in an old gladiators arena.

More nostalgia tonight at the Casbah.

Watched "Stranger Than Fiction" last week and the song "Whole Wide World" stuck with me. A fun song with simple chords.

Sam:Earth, Wind & Fire's The Way of the World

I love EW&F: I still remember clearly the day I heard "Fantasy" for the first time (1978 or so?) -- I couldn't believe my ears; it was a revelation in "wall of sound" orchestration and harmony.

I still often put in an EW&F song as the "seed" in Pandora (or a Philly soul artist such as MFSB, Salsoul Orchestra, Billy Paul, McFadden&Whitehead), and just sit back to enjoy some sweet tunes!

PIL, DK, MGMT, FLOBOTS... it's like some of you are in my HEAD.:face-monkey:

This ones been stuck in my head last couple weeks

That's a great one! In fact that whole album is fine! I was really into cars back then and it was/is fab driving music. I saw him at the Sports Arena in Sept. '76 with Jan Hammer on keys. They were fantastic! Opened for Aerosmith, whose sound sucked in comparison. Aerosmith were much better in '75, same venue. Go figure. Must have been a different sound man.



Here's Jeff in 1965 with the Yardbirds doing a Bo Diddley standard on Shindig. There is a great harp/guitar duel between him and the late great Keith Relf. Even then Beck was an innovator, way ahead of this time. I also love the go-go girls. All the little girls at La Jolla Elementary wanted to look like this. I was in third grade and hot for Beethoven. My friends didn't get it. They still don't!

It's notable that they shared a bill with The Pretty Things and underrated soul singer Gloria Jones, whose signature song was the original version of "Tainted Love."

Below the YouTube frame is a link to the Yardbirds playing "For Your Love" with Beck on acoustic 12 string.

More doomtree. Perhaps rap gets a bad...rap. These guys can lay it down.

Ami at Bar Pink includes this in the mix tape. Highly reminiscent of Jerry Byrd and the gal at the 40 second mark is fun to look at :face-angel:



He concluded his career in his native Argentina, but Oscar Aleman was a contemporary of the great Django Reinhardt in Paris before the war. IMHO, I think he swung it even more than the exalted one. This is his seminal work. One of the finest swing guitarists who ever lived... and that's not solely my humble opinion but the consensus of most guitarists who study this era. :serious holier-than-thou face:

And that brings us to the catty Dorothy Parker quote:

"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, (pregnant pause) I wouldn't be a bit surprised."

Another of her zingers:

"You don't want to be the town drunk, dear. Not in Manhattan."

And one more from Mark Twain's "Following the Equator:"

"Satan (impatiently) to New Comer. The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous."

Thanks for the Oscar Aleman, Slo. Absolutely supermurgatroyd!

+1 for Fugazi.



"this Malkmus idiot is a complete songwriting genius."

Word has gotten out that I will listen to pretty much anything and that I like a lot of different types music (like many others here), so a coworker has been bugging me for weeks now to listen to this British musician who sings Vietnamese songs.

Speaking of Iron and Wine, this is my favorite cover ever. Appropriate for today's weather as well.

Das Rascist's You Oughta Know. I missed them when they were in town a few weeks ago. I LOVE their sense of humor.

YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I remember those guys!! That tune was one of my favorites.

That's my favorite Fugazi album. Here's one from a three song 7" EP I have:

Saw these guys get back together for a couple of shows in Solana Beach in the late '80s. They were still great!

The best one being Albatross

Happy Friday.