Yo Te Quiero Infinito - 4/11 show
Have I said this before? Is there a better song that so completely mangles Spanish as The Clash's "Spanish Bombs"? Honestly, I didn't even notice it was Spanish until the guys from Sound Opinions pointed it out. "Yo te quiero" ("yoh teh KYEH-roh") is sung as "yoh teh KEWH-ra". I sing along when this song is on, and I pronounce it right, and well, it makes it all easier to take. It is a great song, after all, and mostly in English.
I tell you I am no Oasis fan, and not even really a big Ryan Adams fan, but Ryan Adams's cover of Oasis' "Wonderwall" is excellent — spare and sort of spooky. "Wonderwall" is a great song. I've liked every cover of it I've heard, including the 60's pop parody by The Mike Flowers Pops (spot-on enough to make me think for a moment that Oasis had covered a song from 30 years earlier).
So this week's show as in anticipation of the CHIRP Record Fair, and I played a number of songs on vinyl, including some b-sides. I played Kate Bush's haunting cover of the traditional song "The Handsome Cabin Boy", as well as the spacy-funky "Monkey Monkey" by Eurythmics, the b-side to "Love is a Stranger." It was fun. There were other things I wanted to play but more or less couldn't — for example, ELP's "Baba Yaga's Revenge", a piece they composed for their version of Pictures at an Exhibition, but I found that the tracks on that album flow together and it would have been murder to cue up. But I listened to it at home the other night, so that was fun. I probably wouldn't have dragged it upstairs and played it without this impetus.
*: new stuff
(r): requests
| artist | song | album | label |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Clash | Spanish Bombs | London Calling | Epic |
| The Shangir-LA's | Out in the Streets | The Myrmidons of Melodrama | RPM |
| Laurie Anderson | O Superman | Talk Normal Anthology | Rhino |
| Kate Bush | The Handsome Cabin Boy | This Woman's Work (b-sides disc II) | EMI |
| *Haale | Off-Duty Fortune Teller | No Ceiling | Channel A |
| *DeVotchKa | A Blessing in Disguise | A Mad & Faithful Telling | Anti- |
| Ryan Adams | Wonderwall | Love is Hell pts 1&2 | Lost Highway |
| Neko Case | Soulful Shade of Blue | The Tigers Have Spoken | Anti- |
| *Why? | Song of the Sad Assassin | Alopecia | Anticon |
| The Aluminum Group | The Mattachine Society | Plano | Minty Fresh |
| *Headlights | Market Girl | Some Racing, Some Stopping | Polyvinyl |
| Martha & the Muffins | Teddy the Dink | Trance and Dance | DinDisc/RTC |
| *The Apples in Stereo | On Your Own | Electronic Projects for Musicians | Tep Roc |
| Wilco | Pick Up the Change | A.M. | Sire/Reprise |
| The Folk Implosion | One Part Lullaby | One Part Lullaby | Interscope |
| (r)The Cure | The Edge of the Deep Green Sea | Wish | Elektra |
| *Faceless Werewolves | Couldn't Believe It Blues | Pardon Me, Are Those Your Claws on My Back? | Super Secret |
| *Crystal Castles | Courtship Dating | Crystal Castles | Last Gang |
| Toshinori Kondo | Shosuke-san | (Taihen/Shosuke-San single) | |
| *The Mae Shi | Young Marks | HLLLYH | Team Shi |
| Luxury | Green Hearts | Yellow Pills Prefill | Numero Group |
| *The Breeders | Bang On | Mountain Battles | 4AD |
| The Husbands | B.I.L.L.Y. | There's Nothing I'd Like More Than to See You Dead | Swami |
| The Tourists | So Good to Be Back Home Again | Reality Effect | Epic |
| *Vampire Weekend | Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | Vampire Weekend | XL |
| Eurythmics | Monkey Monkey | (b-side of Love is a Stranger single) | RCA |
| Os Mutantes | Panis et Circensis | Tropicália ou Panis et Circensis | Universal |
| The Futureheads | Skip to the End | News and Tributes | Star Time/Vagrant |
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