Okay, so the theme for this week's show was vinyl: that wonderful, circular, spectacular-sounding mainstay of the home music scene. From an accidental discovery by Thomas Edison in 1877, through Emile Berliner's gramophone and the Victrola ("the Steinways of sound," an unusual statement considering that Steinways are in fact the Steinways of sound), through those swingin' sixties, to its fading after the emergence of the CD format, to the remergence thanks to dj's and the rise of mp3's.
It's so wonderful to see so many current artists releasing their works on vinyl, and I really recommend that you consider switching formats if you are a CD buyer. The RIAA cries itself to sleep every night with these laments of lost revenues due to donwloading and declining CD sales, while they make nary a sound about the rise of vinyl sales. Shhh. Don't say anything though, because then they would have to put their attention on their own inadequate payments to artists instead distracting from that fact by villifying downloaders and accusing the real fans of music of ripping off the artists.
Woah, that was a rant. Sorry about that. Why don't we get back to where we're supposed to be...
So anyway, with a vinyl sellers show this Sunday in Sudbury, and my head all a-flutter from some recent vinyl purchases, I decided that I needed to do another all-vinyl show. I got a couple of requests from The Cul-de-Sac crew, but the majority of these are my own LP's. I hope the mic shows you what kind of musical variety is available to you in the wonderful world of records!
So crank the gramophone or throw another dime in the Victrola, cause on Friday May 02, 2008, it was time for:
This Week in Braille or Lasers!? Pfft. I Plays My Funk With the Groove...
- Nina Simone; I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl (5:54) from It Is Finished
- David Bowie; Queen Bitch (3:13) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Chuck Berry; Nadine (2:32) from Greatest Hits
- Muddy Waters; I'm Your (Hoochie Coochie Man) (3:59) from I'm Ready
- Cuff the Duke; If I Live or If I Die (3:42) from Sidelines of the City
- David Bowie; Space Oddity (4:33) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Talking Heads; Radio Head (3:14) from True Stories
- Radiohead; Paranoid Android (6:23) from OK Computer
- Broken Social Scene; Pacific Theme (5:09) from You Left It In People
- The Black Keys; Busted (2:33) from The Big Come Up
- The Doors; The Changeling (4:21) from L.A. Woman
- Boney M.; Rasputin (5:51) from Nightflight to Venus
- David Bowie; Ziggy Stardust (3:05) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Diana Ross and the Supremes with The Temptations; The Weight (3:02) from Together
- Kris Kristofferson; Me and Bobby McGee (4:20) from Me and Bobby McGee
- Janis Joplin; [ending of] Me and Bobby McGee (4:30) from Pearl
- Janis Joplin; Mercedes Benz (1:47) from Pearl
- The Donnas; Too Bad About Your Girl (2:49) from Spend the Night
- Wolf Parade; Shine a Light (3:44) from Apologies to the Queen Mary
- Controller.Controller; Disco Blackout (5:22) from History
- You Say Party, We Say Die!; Midnight Snack (4:03) from Hit the Floor!
- David Bowie; Watch That Man (4:25) from Aladdin Sane
- The Smiths; Rusholme Ruffians (4:20) from Meat is Murder
- The Sonics; Have Love Will Travel (2:37) from Here Are the Sonics
- Violent Femmes; Gone Dady Gone (3:06) from Violent Femmes
- The Yardbirds; Stroll On (2:46) from Blow-Up Soundtrack
- David Bowie; I Wish You Would (Yardbirds Cover) (2:47) from Pin Ups
- Herbie Hancock; Bring Down the Birds (3:24) from Blow-Up Soundtrack
- Nina Simone; Pusher Man (5:12) from It Is Finished
- The Beatles; Got to Get You into My Life (2:30) from Revolver
- Elton John; Bennie and the Jets (5:09) from Greatest Hits
- Goldfrapp; Ooh La La (3:23) from Supernature
- James Brown; Blues and Pants (9:40) from Hot Pants
- Big Maybelle; I Just Want Your Love (3:06) from The Okeh Sessions
- Big Maybelle; Maybelle's Blues (3:10) from The Okeh Sessions
- Big Maybelle; One Monkey Don't Stop No Show (2:50) from The Okeh Sessions
- Big Maybelle; Whole Lot-ta Shakin' Goin' On (2:45) from The Okeh Sessions
- David Bowie; Golden Years (4:00) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Talking Heads; Once in a Lifetime (4:19) from Remain in Light
- The Rolling Stones; Sing this All Together (See What Happens) (8:33) from Their Satanic Majesties Request
- Donovan; [ending of] Hampstead Incident (4:40) from Mellow Yellow
- Donovan; Sunny South Kensington (3:48) from Mellow Yellow
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band; Sure 'Nuff "N Yes I Do (2:15) from Safe as Milk
- Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band; Yellow Brick Road from (2:28) Safe as Milk
- John Mayall; Brown Sugar (3:42) from The Blues Alone
- Bob Dylan; One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (4:54) from Blonde on Blonde
- David Bowie; The Man Who Sold the World (3:55) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Jimmy Cliff; No. 1 Rip Off Man (3:39) from Music Maker
- Jimmy Cliff; Another Summer (4:10) from I Am the Living
- Bob Marley & the Wailers; African Herbman (2:22) from Bob Marley & the Wailers
- David Bowie; Changes (3:37) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Richie Havens; Younger Men Grow Older (3:34) from Alarm Clock
- John Coltrane; Mr. P.C. (6:57) from Giant Steps
- Devo; Pity You (2:47) from The New Traditionalists
- Bob Dylan and the Band; Million Dollar Bash (2:31) from The Basement Tapes
- Fiona Apple; Tymps (The Sick in the Head Song) (4:05) from Extraordinary Machine
- Broken Social Scene: Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl (4:35) from You Forgot It In People
- Feist; One Evening (3:36) from Let It Die
- Feist; The Park (4:33) from The Reminder
- Iron & Wine with Calexico; Dead Man's Will (3:13) from In the Reins
- Joanna Newsom; Emily (12:08) from Ys. {Part One ; Part Two}
- David Bowie; Life on Mars? (3:53) from Fashions (7" Picture Disk set)
- Iron & Wine; Radio War (1:56) from Our Endless Numbered Days
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