Hamell on Trial
Monday, October 8, 2007
Friday, October 5, 2007
TVD's Weekend Shots
Chet Baker - Everything Depends On You (Mp3)
Chet Baker - Everything Happens To Me (Mp3)
Chet Baker - Grey December (Mp3)
Chet Baker - I Fall In Love Too Easily (Mp3)
Chet Baker - I Get Along Without You Very Well (Mp3)
Chet Baker - I Wish I Knew (Mp3)
Chet Baker - Like Someone In Love (Mp3)
Chet Baker - Moonlight Becomes You (Mp3)
Chet Baker - The Thrill Is Gone (Mp3)
Chet Baker - These Foolish Things (Remind Me Of You) (Mp3)
...some Chet Baker to come home to tonight and a 12" Canvas Retrospective of his career on vinyl. (I could have posted a zillion covers...they're that cool, man.)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
TVD's Morning Wax
So, I'm over at Som Records last weekend and I finally purchase the (not so) new Clientele LP, "God Save the Clientele." (A sublime album by the way -- a band firing on all cylinders...) More interesting is the sticker top right on the LP which reads "FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD - As a special bonus for vinyl fans who are also digitally inclined, we are offering a free download of the entire album with purchase of this LP. DETAILS AND COUPON INSIDE." Nice, huh? What a way to slide vinyl back into the semi-mainstream by not slapping the hand of those who wish to have the 12" AND the music on their iPod. (Obvious innovation here along the lines of the Radiohead surprise download/LP package release this week.) Kudos go to Merge Records for this forward innovation (while clearly harking back to the Vinyl Days.) Swell packaging too...
The Clientele - Here Comes The Phantom (Mp3)
The Clientele - Isn't Life Strange (Mp3)
The Clientele - From Brighton Beach To Santa Monica (Mp3)
The Clientele - The Queen Of Seville (Mp3)
The Clientele - Bookshop Casanova (Mp3)
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
TVD's Morning Wax
...for you Meshuggah fans, a Kent 2-fer:
Kent - The King Is Dead (Mp3)
Kent - Revolt III (Mp3)
Kent - Music Non Stop (Mp3)
Kent - Kevlar Soul (Mp3)
Kent - Stay With Me (Mp3)
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
TVD's First Look at Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
Interesting multi-format vinyl release from the lads from Oxfordshire.
The Discbox consists of the new album "In Rainbows" on CD and on two 12" heavyweight vinyl records. A second enhanced CD contains more new songs, along with digital photographs and artwork. The Discbox also includes artwork and lyric booklets. All are encased in a hardback book and slipcase.
The album download automatically comes with this pack. You can download the file digitally from October 10, 2007.
Discboxes are being made to order and are priced at £40.00 including postage. Shipping will begin on or before December 3, 2007.
TVD's Morning Wax
So, I'm sitting in my living room with the heaviest act on the Ozzfest tour at the time: Meshuggah - the one band on the bill that the other acts would watch from offstage, they're just THAT heavy and intense - and we're y'know, just shooting the shit. (True story. Nice lads, really.) Eventually one or two of the guys start to check out my LP and CD collection and I get the sense that VERY LITTLE of it was up their collective alley. (We did agree on Thin Lizzy, however. I mean, who DOESN'T like Thin Lizzy? Seriously.) One of them stumbles across their fellow Swedes on the shelf, Kent and this CD "Isola." Now, I'm in love with the CD at this point but they are LAUGHING. F'n hysterical...there's chatter in Swedish, none of it I get. It goes on like this for minutes -- cackling, fits of manic laughter.
Er, ...sooo....I toss on the Thin Lizzy LP...I mean, what would YOU do?
Kent - Lifesavers (Mp3)
Kent - Things She Said (Mp3)
Kent - Unprofessional (Mp3)
Kent - Celcius (Mp3)
Kent - Bianca (Mp3)
Enjoy -- and no laughing!
Monday, October 1, 2007
TVD's Morning Wax
A little treat this morning for TVD readers who also happen to be David Sylvian devotees. Courtesy good pal Shawn, is this link to five shows on Sylvian's "The World is Everything Tour." (The sound is so good in the set from Brussels that you can hear the chairs creaking in the audience. Sheez.)
David Sylvian - World Citizen (Live in Brussels-9/20/07) (Mp3)
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees & Before the Bullfight (Live in Brussels-9/20/07) (Mp3)
David Sylvian - Every Colour You Are & Riverman (Live in Brussels-9/20/07) (Mp3)
David Sylvian - Wanderlust (Live in Brussels-9/20/07) (Mp3)
...now it's off to get that new Radiohead LP (yes, LPs!) in what seems to be "Morning Downloads" day...
Friday, September 28, 2007
TVD's Weekend Shots
...a theme-free round of shots for your weekend. (Or IS that a theme...? Hm.)
Thin Lizzy - Don't Believe A Word (Live) (Mp3)
Stooges - Loose (Mp3)
The Ramones - Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World (Mp3)
Wayne County & The Electric Chairs - Toilet Love (Mp3)
Sweet - ACDC (Mp3)
Chameleons UK - The Fan and the Bellows (Mp3)
Sex Pistols - EMI (Mp3)
T-Rex - Children Of The Revolution (Mp3)
Joe Jackson - Got the Time (Mp3)
AC DC - Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution (Mp3)
Thursday, September 27, 2007
TVD's Morning Wax
Five from the VASTLY underrated Sound. Bright, dramatic and often powerful. A riveting LP — one of the group's best.
The Sound - Winning (Mp3)
The Sound - Skeletons (Mp3)
The Sound - The Fire (Mp3)
The Sound - Contact The Fact (Mp3)
The Sound - Silent Air (Mp3)
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
TVD's AM Gems | Hal Blaine Edition
From Hal Blaine's official website: Hal Blaine may well be the most prolific drummer in rock and roll history. He's certainly played on more hit records than any drummer in the rock era, including 40 ..1 singles and 150 that made the Top Ten. Eight of the records he played on won Grammys for Record of the Year.
He was the most in-demand session drummer in Los Angeles during the Sixties and early Seventies, and a list of musicians he played with reads like a who's who of popular music. In 1961, Blaine drummed on "Can't Help Falling in Love With You," one of Elvis Presley's most memorable sides, and he would play on Presley's film soundtracks throughout the Sixties. However, Blaine's best-known affiliation is with producer Phil Spector, where he served as the percussive backbone of the "Wrecking Crew" the nickname that younger studio hands on the L.A. scene bestowed on themselves after the rock-hating old-timers complained they were "wrecking the business."
A "short list" of tracks Hal Blaine recorded:
* Can't Help Falling in Love - Elvis Presley (12/18/61) * He's a Rebel - The Crystals (10/06/62) * Surf City - Jan & Dean (06/22/63) * I Get Around - Beach Boys (06/06/64) * Everybody Loves Somebody - Dean Martin (07/11/64) * Ringo - Lorne Greene (11/07/64) * This Diamond Ring - Gary Lewis & the Playboys (01/23/65) * Help Me, Rhonda - Beach Boys (05/01/65) * Mr. Tambourine Man - Byrds (06/05/65) * I Got You Babe - Sonny & Cher (07/31/65) * Eve of Destruction - Barry McGuire (08/28/65) * My Love - Petula Clark (01/15/66) * These Boots Are Made for Walkin' - Nancy Sinatra (02/05/66) * Monday Monday - Mamas and Papas (04/16/66) * Strangers in the Night - Frank Sinatra (05/28/66) * Poor Side of Town - Johnny Rivers (10/08/66) * Good Vibrations - Beach Boys (10/29/66) * Somethin' Stupid - Frank & Nancy Sinatra (03/25/67) * The Happening - Supremes (04/15/67) * Windy - Association (06/03/67) * Mrs. Robinson - Simon & Garfunkel (05/04/68) * Dizzy - Tommy Roe * Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In - 5th Dimension(03/15/69) * Love Theme Romeo & Juliet - Henry Mancini (05/24/69) * Wedding Bell Blues - 5th Dimension (10/04/69) * Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel (02/14/70) * (They Long to Be) Close to You - The Carpenters (06/27/70) * Cracklin' Rosie - Neil Diamond (08/29/70) * Indian Reservation - Paul Revere & the Raiders (05/29/71) * I Think I Love You - Partridge Family (10/31/71) * Song Sung Blue - Neil Diamond (05/13/72) * Half Breed - Cher (09/01/73) * Annie's Song - John Denver (06/15/74) * Top of the World - The Carpenters (10/20/74) * The Way We Were - Barbra Streisand (12/22/74) * Thank God I'm a Country Boy - John Denver (04/05/75) * Love Will Keep Us Together - Captain & Tennille (05/24/75) * I'm Sorry/Calypso - John Denver (08/30/75) * Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To) - Diana Ross (11/22/76)
An "AM Gems" Hal Blaine Sampler
The Association - Never My Love [Single Version] (Mp3)
The Beach Boys - Wouldn't It Be Nice [Original Stereo Version] (Mp3)
The Cowsills - Rain, The Park and Other Things (Mp3)
The Mamas & the Papas - California Dreamin' (Mp3)
The Turtles - Elenore (Mp3)
(A Tip o' the Pin to Ol' JC!)
TVD's Morning Wax
...leaf crawl / insect / perfect / gloves, a scarf and hat / bone crack / hollow / wind blow / sunlight daydreams the past / fall is here again / stirring up the leaves / my heart and head...
Fossil - Moon (Mp3)
Fossil - Fall (Mp3)
Fossil - Tethered (Mp3)
Fossil - Rebellion (Mp3)
Fossil - Cargo of High Hopes (Mp3)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Monday, September 24, 2007
TVD's Morning Wax
"In his Autumn before the Winter, comes man's last mad surge of youth..."
The Chameleons - Don't Fall (Mp3)
The Chameleons - As High As You Can Go (Mp3)
The Chameleons - Is It Any Wonder (Mp3)
The Chameleons - Tears (Acoustic) (Mp3)
The Chameleons - Caution (Mp3)
Friday, September 21, 2007
I mean, if you haaaave to buy some CDs, you could do far worse than purchase Rhino's excellent 4CD set "No Thanks!" Here's ten tracks from the box to put a boot into your weekend:
Nick Lowe - Heart Of The City (Mp3)
Pere Ubu - Final Solution (Mp3)
Wire - I 2 X U (Mp3)
Stranglers - (Get A) Grip (On Yourself) (Mp3)
Ultravox - Saturday Night In The City Of The Dead (Mp3)
Magazine - Shot By Both Sides (Mp3)
Eddie & The Hotrods - Do Anything You Wanna Do (Mp3)
Generation X - Ready Steady Go (Mp3)
The Ruts - Babylon's Burning (Mp3)
Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster (Mp3)
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