|
|
|
|
|
|
HOME | ABOUT | BIOS | EMAIL |
|
 |
| |
Thursday, May 24, 2007
PARTY GIRL
Charlie Rich
The Complete Smash Sessions
Polygram : 1992
[Buy It]
Our friends at Minnesota Public Radio are putting together a segment on campaign songs, so MW & MPR are forming like organized crime to pose the au courant musical question: What campaign songs should America's most enterprising and indefatigable candidates adopt?
BAM BAM
Toots & The Maytals
Monkey Man
Berverly's : 1970
[Buy It]? UTAH MORMON BLUES
Phil Pavey
Available on: Jazzin' the Blues vol. 4 : 1929-1943
Document : 2000
[Buy It]? Readers of Moistworks - good news. We're opening the floor up to you! What do you think? We mean, really? We're interested. And, for once, we're talking big news: Obama, and McCain. Romney, Clinton, Edwards, and Hero Mayor Rudy G. - Important stuff!
OMG WTF LOL, right? But for serious - you're our BFF! So let us know, in the comments below. Ground rules?Surprise Us: TAKE ON ME [DEMO]
A-ha
[Unreleased]& Make Us Love You: NOBODY
Larry Williams and Johnny Watson with the Kaleidoscope
Okeh : 1967
Courtesy of [the newish & wonderful audioblog]: Office NapsTell The Truth, But Eschew The Obvious - RUN ON FOR A LONG TIME
Bill Landford & The Landfordaires
Columbia : 1949
Available on: There Will Be No Sweeter Sound : The Columbia/OKeh Post War Gospel Story 1947-1962
Legacy : 1998
[Buy It]& Off Point: BRENDA AND EDDIE
Billy Joel
Live : somewhere& Omit Those Words That You Find To Be Needless: ONCE
The Feelings
Dearling Darling
Darla Records : 1990
[Buy It]
Bonus points for riffing off something whichever candidate you're on about said, or did, within the past few news cycles - we paying enough attention to you to know you're paying attention to that sort of thing so: we'll post the best songs next week, and who knows - you might even end up famous here or on the radio! Either way, any idiot with with a suitcase nuke can tell you that the fate of this free world we're building rests squarely and securely on your shoulders.
NB: Speaking of same, Moistworks' Astoria Bureau would like to take this opportunity to endorse Mitt Romney - who believe you us, the last thing we want is to see our friends and readers committing Sodomites and catching GommorrheaLabels: alex, country, gospel music, indie, pop, radio, reggae, soul
posted by Alex
LINK |
Monday, May 07, 2007
1.
I'M A HUMAN RADIO STATION
The Black Pope
Courtesy of: WFMU
Not the Black Pope who secretly controls the Vatican, but the Black Pope of New Orleans: Never in your life have you heard a disc jockey come through here like him. Then again, never have you heard a disc jockey like Bob Dylan, who gives the Black Pope a run for his money in the greatest-radio-personality-in-the-world department:
BOB DYLAN INTRODUCING THE PRISONAIRES
& ANSWERING AN EMAIL FROM JOHNNY DEPP
Theme Time Radio Hour
XM Radio : 2006
2.
PUPPET ON A STRING
Gino Washington
Correc-tone : 1962
Available on: Out of This World
Norton : 1999
[Buy It]
I've spent a week getting to the bottom of Gino Washington's "Puppet on a String" and - I'm still not at the bottom to it. Is he singing "you turn me off/and you turn me on"? Or "you tie me off/and turn me on"? It's the difference between a perfectly dark love song and a more or less perfect song about heroin. If it's the latter, the images are that much darker and deeper, and the title - a junkie's belt : a puppet's string - becomes the greatest image of all. Also nice: the jews harp.
Not to be confused with Geno Washington, Gino Washington still performs in and around Detroit; here he is on WFMU, in 2003. And here he is on coming up in the Detroit club scene, alongside of Bob Seger et al. Also from Detroit, a song about how blacks and jews didn't always hate on each other:
3.
EXODUS
Harold & Carol Diamond
Motown :1962
Available on: The Complete Singles vol. 2
Hip-O : 2006
[Buy It]
4.
Hannah from the internet writes: "I love, love, love your blog - this lot made me glad to be alive today." Thanks, Hannah! We're glad you stopped by, and stayed long enough to recognize that we at Moistworks support the culture of life. So this follow-up to the Coasters' epic reworking of the Searcher's "Love Potion No. 9" is dedicated to the blacks, to the jews, to you, and to the 3 or 4 other ladies we at Moistworks like to imagine are out there, listening:
DOWN HOME GIRL
The Coasters
Date : 1966
Available on: 50 Coastin' Classics
Rhino : 1992
[Buy It]
& (on account of its "Russian students in the closet/hung up on jazz and funk"), "Down Home Girl"'s A-side:
SOUL PAD
ibid.Labels: alex, radio, soul
posted by Alex
LINK |
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
