FINALLY. hunches'n'grumblings + offers a glimmer of hope
for the future of radio in Canuckistan<a>
Let's hope I can remember enough HTML to make that Globe + Mail R.O.B.
article link fly….if not google CRTC + Radio in yer news section,
kids……
Live from Pearson,
Meegs
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see you monday. maybe before on flickr.
peace
meegs
Mp3 - She’s Leaving Home - Billy Bragg (Reaching to the Converted, 2006)
keep threatening to post the massive cover song playlist. but i’m too lazy. (and this guy does it oh-so-much-better.) a couple versions have been floated, but i’m always tweaking, never satisfied. HEY AWESOME SEGUEWAY:
Mp3 - Cat Power - Satisfaction (Live in Dallas, 09.16.06)
this is my favourite from Jukebox
, even better live…
Mp3 - Cat Power - Aretha, Sing One For Me (Live Black Session at France Inter FM 23.01.08)
had to track down the original to really appreciate her interpretation…
Mp3 - George Jackson - Aretha, Sing One For Me (original version, Hi Records, 1972)
& speaking of Aretha…
Mp3 - Aretha Franklin - A Change Is Gonna Come (US Primaries Edition Remix, jokes, Sam Cooke Cover from ‘I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You’, Atlantic, 1967
)
Good mellow stayin’ late workin’ tune…
Mp3 - Aretha Franklin - Tree Of Life Hey Now Hey (The Other Side Of The Sky Outtake, from ‘Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of Soul’, 2007)
three sleeps til chi-vegas
peace
meegs
i’ve wanted to go for awhile. like a really long time (not gonna throw around phrases containing double-digit year-units anymore). so i’m finally going this week. called it, stamped it, mailed it, no eraseies.
a city that, in my high school brain, was defined as parade-filled hijinx central thanks to ferris bueller’s day off, 
or as the epitome-of-mid-west-badass-early-melodic-indie-rock (though we called it ‘alternative’ back then, kids) a la veruca salt, liz phair, pumpkins (holla, amanda) & urge overkill, etc.
chi-town has now morphed into more layered (though not more sophisticated…) pop cultural references (hello high fidelity, kayne, kid sister, the sea & cake, pitchfork) & fittingly, it’s now lucky to be the new residence of the whitney hall’s pop-cult maven (books, records, films — these things matter. call me shallow but it’s the damn truth.), sam, while she’s hitting the law school books.
will be brutal gearing up to escape for thursday, especially after losing so much time to this hellish cold virus, but it’s well worth it. sia tix are in the mail for her show at park west, still leaves a coupla nights free for any experienced chicago traveler’s suggestions.
peace
meegs
Mp3 - Urge Overkill - Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon (Neil Diamond cover)
Mp3 - Rufus Wainwright - Chicago
Mp3 - Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
Do you ever love something MORE because you know that someone else would HATE it so very very much? An assault on the senses schadenfreude, if you will. Enjoy this Mp3 with my compliments, please. Play it loud & often.
Mp3 - You Can’t Always Get What You Want (SoulWax Remix) - The Rolling Stones
& check out this awesome Delicious Vinyl video hosted by Fatlip w/ the label’s Top Ten vids:
Still on the mend,but will be checking out Wm Delray’s 10pm show at the Riv tonight, & depending on my stamina, sticking around for Major Grange, too…
Peace
meegs
Oh interweb. You don’t mind that I’m sick’n'delirious on a lethal cocktail of anti-histamines, fizzy vitamin c thingers and extra strength whatsits. I made you this playlist to reminisce about the amazing den-of-slack-home-time we shared before Xmas. Good Times.
Tracks 1-10 = Part One - Son of Quarantine Mix
Tracks 11-19 = Part Two - Son of Quarantine Mix
Tracks 20-25 = Part Three - Son of Quarantine Mix
1. I Taught Myself How to Grow Old - Ryan Adams (Live, Studio X, 2007-06-19)
2. All You Deliver - Jose Gonzalez
3. I Can’t Wake Up - Hot Chip
4. Desperation Made A Fool Of Me - Belle & Sebastian
5. The Way It Is - Nicole Atkins
6. Reckoner - Thom Yorke (Acoustic, Live on BBC’s Jonathan Ross)
7. San Antonio - Whiskeytown
8. Sun In An Empty Room - The Weakerthans
9. Sleep All Day - The Rural Alberta Advantage
10. Complaint Department - Lykke Li
11. 3000 Flowers - Destroyer
12. Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones) - Cowboy Junkies
13. Disaster - Saturday Looks Good To Me
14. All Cleaned Out - Elliott Smith
15. Nosebleed - Maximo Park
16. Hard Times Are Hard - Mary Timony
17. Sweet Heart Fever - Scout Niblett
18. Blonde on Blonde - Nada Surf (Live, Vienna Arena, 2008-01-19)
19. The Ocean - Richard Hawley
20. I Was Hit - Minus Story
21. No Backbone - The Lemonheads
22. Whiskey In The Jar – Pulp
23. Good Woman - Cat Power (Live, KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, 2006-09-12)
24. Wicked Game (Chris Isaac Cover from 1995 Fan Club Mailing) - R.E.M.
25. Pretty Things - Rufus Wainwright (Live, KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic, 2007-05)
Full of soup, tea & meds…I trudged off to the Nicole Atkins & The Sea gig at Lee’s, despite my body & mind’s unwillingness to escape the ‘do (hey, what’s another 24 hrs on top of 48?!).
Honestly, I’m wiped, might not *completely* remember the show tomorrow…but I’m glad I went. Atkins’ achy far-reaching vocals, melodramatic-but-compelling arrangements, poppy-sophisticated-catchy melodies, make for a livelier less-earnest spectacle than the usual singer-songwriterly tradition. It’s like a Sarah Slean, Jill Barber, Martha Wainwright medley sewn together with swish orchestral backgrounds by Patrick Wolf or Pierre Lapointe. Here’s what I’m trying to describe:
Mp3 - Nicole Atkins - Together We’re Both Alone (from Neptune City LP ‘07)
Very few pics’re here (camera issues, again, brutal…& there are 2 other equally poor or worse-shot videos), right above all the HHK snaps that went down before I embarrassingly turned into a sick-ass pumpkin at midnight…speaking of turning in…
g’night,
meegs
pre-anniversary warm-up tonight. you comin’?
You have one hour & fifteen minutes to practice:
Mp3 - A Tribe Called Quest - Electric Relaxation (from Midnight Marauders LP)
more music to add to yesterday’s maudlin mix:
Mp3 - Nada Surf - Imaginary Friends (from Live Acoustic show in Germany (?) 2008-01-16)
Mp3 - Kaiser Chiefs - Love Isn’t A Competition But I’m Winning (from Nelson Grover Remix)
Mp3 - Ghostland Observatory - Heavy Heart (from Robotique LP, to be released ???)
g’night!
peace
meegs
happy vday interwebs.
did you know that some ridiculous amount, like 13% of canucks, admitted to sending themselves flowers today?
sad.
The ABCs of today - An Mp3 mini mix
Mp3 - Art Brut - People in Love (from ‘07 It’s A Bit Complicated LP)
Mp3 - Belle & Sebastian - Perfection as a Hipster (ft. Gary Olson & Catherine Ireton, from ‘07 God Help The Girl EP)
Mp3 - Cat Power - Metal Heart (from ‘08 Jukebox LP)
Peace
Meegs
p.s.
Bonus Britrock Blackstreet cover song
Mp3 - Klaxons - No Diggity
To commemorate the insane amount of snowfall, instead of ordering a crapload of Marimekko crap online (again…), & instead of making another I HATE WINTER playlist (’Cold Girl Fever’, ‘Cold Hands, Warm Heart’, etc, etc.), I’m posting free online shareable goodies. Here’s the live, acoustic-ish, Scandinavian All Stars Edition of Lykke Li’s ‘I’m Good I’m Gone’:
yet another quirky, frosty, pop music-makin’ sprite to enjoy post-disappointing-Volta
Lykke Li - Mp3 - ‘I’m Good I’m Gone’
Completely unrelated (or are they), can’t stop listening to these songs - good solid winter soundtrack additions:
The National - Mp3 - Cherry Tree (live)
Josh Rouse - Mp3 - Nothing Gives Me Pleasure (From Under the Cold Blue Stars)
Peace
Meegs
p.s. - New REM vid - Supernatural Superserious (I’ll say ‘hi’ to M.Stipe for ya when we’re chillin’ in ATX…) & new New Pornos vid - Myriad Harbours
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