Check out this montage from the Warpaint documentary directed by Chris Cunningham. The footage is set to Warpaint’s song “Love is To Die.”
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Title track off Damon Albarn’s new solo album, Everyday Robots.
The album will be released April 29, 2014.
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I’ve previous posted many video clips from Neil Young’s “Honour The Treaties” benefit show at Centennial Concert Hall, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. This is a terrific concert.
Now a very good audio recording has showed up on YouTube.
Check it out:
The setlist:
From Hank To Hendrix
On The Way Home
Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Love In Mind
Mellow My Mind
Are You Ready For The Country
Someday
Changes (Phil Ochs cover)
Harvest
Old Man
A Man Needs A Maid
Ohio
Southern Man
Mr. Soul
Pocahontas
Helpless
Heart of Gold
Comes A Time
Long May You Run
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When Bob Dylan recorded Desire during six sessions starting on July 14, 1975 and ending on October 24, 1975, as usual he cut some tracks that didn’t make it onto the album. The album was released on January 16, 1976, a little over 38 years ago.
It’s the tracks that didn’t make it onto the album that I want to share with you today.
“Rita Mae” is terrific, at least the July 30, 1975 version, and has both the spirit and vibe of songs Dylan cut at Big Pink with The Band.
“Abandoned Love” “Catfish” and “Golden Loom” are excellent too.
I’ve also included two versions of “Hurricane.” The shorter version that was released on Desire, as well as the longer version. I like both. I also included a tremendous live version of “Sara.”
The musicians and backup singers include Emmylou Harris and violin player Scarlet Rivera — their participation really adds to the studio recordings below and others on Desire.
“Rita Mae,” July 30, 1975:
“Rita Mae,” July 7, 1975:
“Golden Loom” July 30, 1975:
“Catfish” July, 28, 1975
“Abandoned Love,” July 31, 1975 (outtake):
“Abandoned Love,” July 3, 1975 (Other End Club, NY):
“Hurricane” (single):
“Hurricane” July 30, 1975 (original lyrics)
“Sara,” November 21, 1975 (live, Boston):
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Bruce Springsteen played a surprise set at the Light of Day Parkinson’s benefit at the Paramount Theater in Asbury Park last night (January 18, 2014).
Here’s Rolling Stone‘s write-up.
And here’s more about the show from nj.com.
Springsteen is backed by Joe Grushecky and The House Rockers plus David Bryan on Keyboard and E Street Band Member Eddie Manion on sax
The sound isn’t always the best for the clips below, but it’s good enough and some is quite good. If you’re a Springsteen fan I think you’ll dig it.
Thanks so much to the fans who shot these clips and uploaded them so we could all check out the show: 387melsam, PaulM, Valerie Barber, ninmaven, Rob Badscooter and all the rest of you. Awesome!
Check out some of the action:
“Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio” (with Jesse Malin):
“One Guitar” (Willie Nile with Bruce Springsteen):
“One Guitar” (another clip);
“Adam Raised A Cain”:
“Darkness On The Edge Of Town”:
“Darkness On The Edge Of Town” (another clip):
“Hearts Of Stone”:
“Hearts Of Stone” (another clip):
“Pumping Iron”:
“Atlantic City”:
“Atlantic City” (another clip):
“Frankie Fell In Love”:
“Frankie Fell In Love” (another clip):
“Save My Love”:
“I’m Not Sleeping” (with Joe Grushecky):
“Because The Night”:
“Because The Night” (another clip):
“The Promised Land”:
“Light Of Day”
“Thunder Road”:
Setlist:
Rock and Roll Radio w/ Jesse Malin
One Guitar w/ Willie Nile
Adam Raised a Cain
Never be Enough Time
Darkness on the Edge of Town
Hearts of Stone
Pumping Iron
Atlantic City
Talking to the King
Franking Fell in Love
Save My Love
I’m Not Sleeping
Because the Night
The Promised Land
Light of Day
Thunder Road
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Cool song off Tara Jane O’Neil’s new Where Shine New Lights, out January 28, 2014.
Here’s another track, “Wordless In The Woods”:
Thanks Consequence Of Sound!
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Much has been made of how quickly Dylan and The Band made Planet Waves, but, really, how different was that from how Dylan made most of his albums.
Back in the ’60s and ’70s he was always into working fast — he cut Another Side of Bob Dylan in one night.
With Dylan, so much depends on his mood and on something “clicking.”
Dylan recorded three songs in New York, June of 1973, but most of the album was recorded on November 2, 5, 6, 9 and 10 at Village Recorder in Los Angeles.
Planet Waves was released 40 years ago, on January 17, 1974, two weeks after the start of his historic tour with The Band.
I think Planet Waves is an underrated album, but I also think the outtakes that we’ve heard are really cool.
Below are the outtakes I could find. I think you’ll enjoy them.
“House Of The Rising Sun” (outtake):
“Crosswind Jamboree” (outtake):
“Forever Young” (outtake):
“Nobody ‘Cept You” (outtake):
“Nobody `Cept You” (outtake):
“Going, Going, Gone” (outtake):
Instrumental (outtake):
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Britain’s The Fly asked Thurston Moore for a list of his favorite songs and he gave it to them.
At The Fly you can hear audio of all the songs. I’ve included audio for some of them.
Thurston Moore’s Favorite Songs of All Time:
1 Tapper Zukie – “Man Ah Warrior”
2 Patti Smith – “Godspeed”
3 Teenage Jesus & the Jerks – “Orphans”
4 Mars – “3E”
5 Public Image LTD – “Public Image”
6 The Slits – “Love Und Romance”
7 The Raincoats – “In Love”
8 Captain Beefheart – “Electricity”
9 Alice Cooper – “Is It My Body?”
10 T. Rex – “Children of the Revolution”
11 Archie Shepp – “Blasé”
12 Billie Holiday – “Gloomy Sunday”
13 Nirvana – “Dive”
14 Mudhoney – “In ‘N Out of Grace”
15 Dinosaur Jr. – “Little Fury Things”
16 Jackson C. Frank – “Blues Run the Game”
17 Bush Tetras – “Too Many Creeps”
18 The Germs – “Caught in My Eye”
19 Boredoms – “Born to Anal”
20 Lou Reed – “Satellite of Love”
21 Beach Boys – “Hang On to Your Ego”
22 David Bowie – “Five Years”
23 Sparks – “Equator”
24 Siouxsie & the Banshees – “Hong Kong Garden”
25 The Damned – “New Rose”
26 The Mentally Ill – “Gacy’s Place”
27 Minor Threat – “Out of Step”
28 Black Flag – “I’ve Got To Run”
29 The Untouchables – “Nic Fit”
30 Iron Cross – “Fight Em All”
31 The Faith – “It’s Time”
32 Void – “My Rules”
33 Negative Approach – “Nothing”
34 Youth Brigade – “It’s About Time We Had a Change”
35 State of Alert – “Gonna Haveta Fight”
36 Anne Briggs – “Go Your Way”
37 The Fugs – “Crystal Liaison”
38 Jimi Hendrix – “Freedom”
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Dig on this taste of “Blue Moon,” a song off Beck’s Morning Phase, which is due February 25, 2014.
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What to say about this classic Bob Dylan song?
It has such a beautiful melody for starters. And there’s that carnival rock ‘n’roll sound that Dylan dreamed up with Robbie Robertson and a bunch of Nashville cats. The song is so seductive at first, and Bob sings it straight, no sarcasm, so we think it’s a gentle love song.
But what kind of love song?
By the second verse this is no typical love song. No way, ’cause Dylan is putting this woman down. She’s the same woman (or all the women) he sang about in “Like A Rolling Stone,” and in that second verse we learn that she’s gonna find out she’s nothing special.
Nobody has to guess
That Baby can’t be blessed
Till she sees finally that she’s like all the rest
With her fog, her amphetamine and her pearlsThen in the bridge we get a flashback. The singer telling us of the day they met.
It was raining from the first
And I was dying there of thirst
So I came in hereWhat’s really amazing is the final verse the roles reverse and the narrator, who up until then mostly comes across in the power position telling us about his lover, suddenly steps up and directly addresses her as he reveals that he was a mess when they first met and that she was way up above him. Dylan could now be taking the role of Dick Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is The Night” after Diver has lost his moneyed but psychologically unstable wife Nicole, has blown it with his movie star girlfriend Rosemary and become an alcoholic. In the last verse we see the narrator as totally vulnerable, asking her to keep their secret, and his too.
I just can’t fit
Yes, I believe it’s time for us to quit
When we meet again
Introduced as friends
Please don’t let on that you knew me when
I was hungry and it was your worldDylan was writing on another plane back then. A novel condensed to a song.
Check out this cool live version of “Just Like A Woman” played May 16, 1966 at the Gaumont Theatre, Sheffield, England:
And this one from May 5, 1966 at the Adelphi Theatre, Dublin, Ireland:
Bob Dylan, “Just Like A Woman,” Live 1966:
Bob Dylan, “Justs Like A Woman,” Manchester Free Trade Hall, Manchester England, May 17, 1966:
Bob Dylan, “Just Like A Woman,” (from Blonde On Blonde):
And here’s a lo-fi version recorded by Dylan biographer Robert Shelton and played by Dylan with Robbie Robertson in a Denver hotel room March 13, 1966, five days after Dylan cut the version that would appear on Blonde On Blonde in Nashville:
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