I haven’t entirely decided where this is going to go yet, but I’m thinking now that it will probably be devoted to music recommendations and ramblings. This first post probably won’t be anything like the other ones, but it’s a start, anyway.
I’ve been living in Toronto for the past five weeks, and there is an HMV five minutes away that is four floors tall. I can’t stop going there, especially since the top floor is dedicated entirely to jazz and classical CDs. To start off this blog, I thought I’d provide a list of all the excellent CDs I’ve gotten since I came up here. I bolded the tracks that I like best on each album.
The Cat Empire – The Cat Empire (2003)
1. How to Explain
2. Days Like These
3. The Lost Song
4. The Chariot
5. Hello
6. One Four Five
7. The Rhythm
8. The Wine Song
9. Nothing
10. Beanni
11. The Crowd
12. Manifesto
13. All That Talking
Matthew Good Band – The Audio of Being (2001)
1. Man of Action
2. Carmelina
3. Tripoli
4. Advertising on Police Cars
5. I, The Throw Away
6. Truffle Pigs
7. The Fall of Man
8. Under the Influence
9. The Rat Who Would be King
10. Anti-Pop
11. The Workers Sing a Song of Mass Production
12. Sort of a Protest Song
Feist – Let It Die (2004)
1. Gatekeeper
2. Mushaboom
3. Let It Die
4. One Evening
5. Leisure Suite
6. L’Amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours
7. Lonely Lonely
8. When I Was a Young Girl
9. Secret Heart
10. Inside and Out
11. Now At Last
Feist – Open Season: Remixes and Collabs (2006)
1. One Evening (Gonzales Solo Piano)
2. Inside+Out (Apostle of Hustle UnMix Live at the BBC)
3. Mushaboom (Mocky Mix)
4. Gatekeeper (One Room One Hour Mix)
5. Lonely Lonely (Frisbee’d Mix)
6. Mushaboom (k-os Mix)
7. Snow Lion (with Readymade FC)
8. Tout Doucement
9. The Simple Story (with Jane Birkin)
10. Lovertits (with Gonzales)
11. Mushaboom (Postal Service Mix)
12. Gatekeeper (Do Right Mix)
13. One Evening (VV Mix)
14. When I Was a Young Girl (VV Mix)
15. Mushaboom (VV Mix)
Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
1. Lonely Woman
2. Eventually
3. Peace
4. Focus on Sanity
5. Congeniality
6. Chronology
Charles Mingus – Blues and Roots (1959)
1. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting
2. Cryin’ Blues
3. Moanin’
4. Tensions
5. My Jelly Roll Sul
6. E’s Flat Ah’s Flat Too
7. Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting (alternate take)
8. Tensions (alternate take)
9. My Jelly Roll Soul (alternate take)
10. E’s Flat Ah’s Flat Too (alternate take)
Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963)
1. Track A – Solo Dancer: Stop! Look! And Listen, Sinner Jim Whitney!
2. Track B – Duet Solo Dancers: Hearts’ Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces
3. Track C – Group Dancers: (Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom’s Slave Cries
4. Mode D – Trio and Group Dancers: Stop! Look! and Sing Songs of Revolutions!
Mode E – Single Solos and Group Dance: Saint and Sinner Join in Merriment on Battle Front
Mode F – Group and Solo Dance: Of Love, Pain and Passioned Revolt, then Farewell, My Beloved, ’til It’s Freedom Day
Medeski, Martin & Wood – Friday Afternoon in the Universe (1995)
1. The Lover
2. Paper Bass
3. House Mop
4. Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps)
5. Baby Clams
6. We’re So Happy
7. Shack
8. Tea
9. Chinoiserie
10. Between Two Limbs
11. Sequel
12. Friday Afternoon in the Universe
13. Billy’s Tool Box
14. Chubb Sub
15. Khob Khun Krub (Thai for “Thank You”)
Medeski, Martin & Wood – Farmer’s Reserve (1997)
1. Part 1 (1)
2. Part 1 (2)
3. Part 1 (3)
4. Part 1 (4)
5. Part 2 (1)
6. Part 2 (2)
7. Part 2 (3)
8. Part 2 (4)
9. Part 3 (1)
10. Part 3 (2)
11. Epilogue
Medeski, Martin & Wood – End of the World Party (Just in Case) (2004)
1. Anonymous Skulls
2. End of the World Party
3. Reflector
4. Bloody Oil
5. New Planet
6. Mami Gato
7. Shine It
8. Curtis
9. Ice
10. Salsa
11. Midnight Poppies/Crooked Birds
12. Queen Bee
Enjoy! I think I’m going to try, if I have time, to post at least once a day with a song that people should listen to.
Feist, is amazing. One of my favorite bands ever.