Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
What's on your Island iPod?
My Island i-pod? Well, perhaps these:
- Fugazi: Cashout- Bob Marley: War
- Michelle Malone (vegan indy artist): 9 to 5
- The Clash: Guns Of Brixton
- Rage Against the Machine: Take The Power
- Minutemen: God Bows To Math
- Pearl Jam: Evenflow
- Jimi Hendrix: If 6 Was 9
- Audioslave: Cochise
- John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Part 1)
Posted by RT Griffith on from Houston, Texass 04/12 at 09:23 AMGood stuff, RT. I can’t believe I forgot Hendrix and Coltrane. Can you tell me more about Michelle Malone?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 04/12 at 12:29 PMBilly Cobham - El Barrio
Frank Zappa - Directly from my heart to you
Bjork - Big Time Sensuality
Kate Campbell - When Panthers Roamed in Arkansas
Lucinda Williams - Side Of The Road
Lyle Lovett - Penguins
Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime
Steely Dan - Show Biz Kids
Tom Waits - Heartattack And VineThat’s just my favorites right now. And I find my iPod incredibly useful for much more than music. In a pinch, it makes a good bludgeon too.
Posted by Harry on from 04/12 at 01:57 PMHarry,
I saw Cobham perform with Mahavishnu Orchestra at Avery Fischer Hall....waaaay back in 1974 or so (hey, I was a precocious concert-goer). The headline act was Jeff Beck...fresh off releasing “Blow by Blow.”
Also saw Zappa at the Felt Forum (under Madison Square Garden but no longer there) on Halloween night, 1975. His back-up act was the Amazing Randi.
MZ
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 04/12 at 02:28 PMYeah, Michelle Malone is a left-leaning militant vegan like yourself… She’s well known in indy-rock circles; been playing across the country for well over a decade. Anyway, she sings (has a powerful voice on par with Janis), plays harmonica, and also plays guitar. You gotta check her out—she’s one of my faves: http://www.michellemalone.com/newsite2/frame.html
And yeah, can’t forget Mahavishnu Orchestra! John McLaughlin, Cobham, et al did some great stuff that I really got into, especially the Birds of Fire LP… I was like 2 yrs old when the jazz-rock fusion thing was big, but as a musician today, it’s appropriate (at least I think) to pull out the best from the past. Hell, most of the greatest music is in the past for that matter; not this corporate controlled, government approved rock-n-roll that floods the Clear Channel airwaves these days…
/RTG
“We’re not in the business of providing news and information. We’re not in the business of providing well-researched music. We’re simply in the business of selling our customers products.”
-- Lowry Mays, CEO of Clear Channel (source below)http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6432174
Posted by RT Griffith on from Houston 04/12 at 11:10 PMMickey,
Being the old fart that I am, I still must have a record player if I get stuck on Gilligan’s:1. John Coltrane: Ascension
2. Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast
3. Pere Ubu: Dub Housing
4. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
5. Ornette Coleman: Dancing In Your Head
6. Wire: Pink Flag
7. Stooges: Funhouse
8. Velvet Underground & Nico
9. Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat
10. Brian Eno: Here Come the Warm Jets
11. Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
12. Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring
13. Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Five and Hot Seven (I suppose I will need a CD player for this one)
14. Duke Ellington: At Fargo
15. Charles Mingus: Black Saint And Sinner Lady
16. Bill Dixon: Opium
17. Borbetomagus/Voice Crack: Fish That Sparkling Bubble
18. Can: Tago Mago
19. Al Green: Belle
20. Dylan & the Band: Basement Tapes
21. Sly & the Family Stones: There’s A Riot Going On
22. Cat Power: Covers
23. Nico: Marble Index
23. Richard Hell & the Voidoids: Blank Generation
24. Einsturzende Neubauten: Kollapse
25. Swans: Filth
26. Sonic Youth: Confusion is Sex
27. Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia
28. Peter Tosh: Equal Rights
29. Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure
30. Jimi Hendrix: Electric Lady Land
I could go on with the pointless excercise, which is pretty much what I spent the first 17 years of my life doing, though the list was a little different back then. Sorry it is not what you asked for, Mickey, but I cannot give up the L.P. format, probably never will. These are not in any sort of order, despite the numbers.Posted by Glen Thrasher on from Atlanta, GA 04/13 at 06:28 AMThanks, RT, I’m gonna check out M. Malone ASAP. And Glen, you reminded me: I forgot Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground.
Posted by Mickey Z. on from 04/13 at 06:36 AMnevermind the major labels, especially if you’re against war. don’t feel bad if you burn/copy those albums, because it means you’re not giving money towards their efforts
http://www.cstrecords.com/html/uxo.html
check out godspeed you! black emporer, and the rest of the great bands at constellation..
Posted by mike on from dublin 04/13 at 08:34 AMMichelle Malone is from Atlanta, she used to play at the neighborhood bar, the Little Five Points Pub, now called something else, about three times a month, this must have been, I don’t know 1990 or so…
Posted by Glen Thrasher on from Atlanta, GA 04/14 at 03:52 AMI was picking out some CD’s to take to work this morning and I stumbled across one that reminded me of a very important record I left off my list (along with several hundred others!):
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
This is the one that looks just like a Yoko record of the same name, which is pretty good too, but not to be confused with the Lennon record which is the best Beatle record ever, and it does not even feature three members of the band. Lennon never really needed those clowns. Songs include: “God”, “Working Class Hero”, “I Found Out”, “Mother”, “Isolation”, and “Remember”. I also forgot:
Leonard Cohen’s “Songs of Love and Hate”
Television’s “Marquee Moon”the Rolling Stones’ “Exile On Main Street”
Pharoah Sanders’ “Black Unity”
Cecil Taylor’s “Unit Structures”
the entire works of John Fahey.
Stop me.Posted by Glen Thrasher on from Atlanta, GA 04/16 at 05:58 AMDude… White Lion? Motley Crue, Hole??
How are those even in the same sentence as The Clash??
Top 20 stranded on an island Ipod songs in no particular order AKA best songs ever written:
The Clash - Straight to Hell
The Pogues - Fairy Tale of New York
Modest Mouse - Trailor Trash
Pink Floyd - The entire Wall Album
7 Seconds - 99 Red Balloons (cover)
Queen - Under Pressure
Quicksand - Landmine Spring
Jets to Brazil - Rocket Boy (Personal,must hear)
Muse - Time is Running Out
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
Red House Painters - Drop
Samiam - Capsized
Thrice - Artist in the Ambulance (Lyrics/personal)
Louis Armstrong - Wonderful World
Sunny Day Real Estate - Iscarabaid
The Streets - Push Things Forward
Johnny Cash - Long Black Vail
Bob Dylan - 7 Curses
Bad Religion - Anesthasia
Neurosis - LostPosted by John on from Chicago 04/19 at 07:15 PMShit I forgot about Black Wings by Tom Waits
Posted by John on from Chicago 04/19 at 07:16 PMmmm and Paint it Black by the Stones
Posted by John on from Chicago 04/19 at 07:18 PMYeah, John...when it comes to my musical taste, I’m a bit of a riddle wrapped in an enigma shrouded in a a paradox. Or something like that.
Thanks your posts. First visit here?
Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 04/19 at 07:20 PMya, it inspired my to post my own top 25.
Posted by John on from Chicago 04/19 at 07:47 PM
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