The Truth Is I Was Shocked - 4/4 show

A word about Frank Zappa: it always impresses me the extent to which he was both brilliant and weird. "Montana" is a good example: musically, a good song -- well constructed, good melody, etc -- about moving to Montana to grow dental floss. ("Raisin' it up / and waxin' it down / in a little white box that I can / sell uptown".) This is par for the course in the land of Zappa. And other people have written absurd music, but I don't think anyone has done it as well.

I'm afraid I don't have anything more to say about music this week... I spent a good chunk of my energy writing a blog entry for the Chicago Independent Radio Project, which should be up there soon.

*: new stuff
(r): requests

artist	song	album	label
LCD Soundsystem	Time to Get Away	Sound of Silver	DFZ/Capitol
Nina Simone	Sinnerman (Felix Da Housecat's Heavenly Houxe Remix)	Verve Remixed²	Verve
Bobby Conn	Twenty-One	King for a Day	Thrill Jockey
*Headlights	Get Your Head Around It	Some Racing, Some Stopping	Polyvinyl
*Meat Number 5	Fresh City	Meat Number 5	Anodyne Electric Company
Frank Zappa	Montana	Overnight Sensation	Rykodisc
Yaz	Midnight	Upstairs at Eric's	Sire
Fats Domino	Whole Lotta Lovin	The Best of Fats Domino	EMI
*She & Him	Why Do You Let Me Stay Here	Volume One	Merge
The Deltholz!	Mister Electricity	Who Are...	Vortecs
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians	Little Miss S.	Shooting Rubber Bands at the Stars	Geffen
*Beach House	Some Things Last	Devotion	Carpark
Ratatat	Wildcat	Classics	XL
Laurie Anderson	Credit Racket	Talk Normal Anthology	Rhino
The Magnetic Fields	Washington, D.C.	69 Love Songs Vol. 2	Merge
The Ponys	1209 Seminary	Turn the Lights Out	Matador
*Bauhaus	Adrenalin	Go Away White	Bauhaus Musik
(r)The Pixies	Levitate Me	Come On Pilgrim	4AD
Arms and Sleepers	Black Paris 86	Black Paris 86	Expect Candy
Canasta	The Model	Find the Time	Broken Middle C
*The Apples in Stereo	Shine (In Your Mind)	Electronic Projects for Musicians	Yep Roc
Blops	Esencialmente Asi No Mas	Del Volar De Los Palomas	Shadoks/Normal
Henry Padovani	Y a plus de saisons	A croire que c'était pour la vie	CIA
Yma Sumac	La Molina	The Ultimate Yma Sumac Collection	Capitol
*Singer	Oh Dusty	Unhistories	Drag City
*The Heavy	Coleen	Great Vengeance and Furious Fire	Counter
*The Mae Shi	Young Mark	HLLYH	Team Shi
Alice Smith	Love Endeavor	For Lovers, Dreamers and Me	BBE
Scritti Politti	Road to No Regret	White Bread Black Beer	Nonesuch/Rough Trade

Labels: music, playlists

posted by Tony at 9:56 PM