Tonight we kick off Episode 6 of the weekly Guest Post series: Medium Cool with BGinCHI.
In case you missed the introduction to the series: Culture as a Hedge Against this Soul-Sucking Political Miasma We’re Living In
Tonight’s Topic: What if? (Mix Tape version)
Take it away, BG!
In this week’s Medium Cool, we continue our rumination on the still non-hypothetical question, “What if you and everyone you knew were forced to stay at home for 2+ weeks?”
This time, you are limited to one mix tape, a Maxell XLII 90 minute cassette, as your dwelling only has a boom box (this is probably accurate for 80% of you). You can fill it with any kind of music you want, but be careful, it’s all you’ve got.
Anyone going over the 90 minute limit (NotMax, I see you) will have their mixtape shredded by WaterGirl’s fierce cat, Willow (see below) and forced to listen to Nickleback until the Trump Virus subsides.
Construct your list carefully, jackals.
Baud
Air Supply’s Greatest Hits.
Ksmiami
90 minutes of proto punk new wave Kroq circa 1980-1989
WaterGirl
@Baud: You’re gonna use up your whole 90 minutes with just one band? For real? Or was that a joke
P.S. Miss Willow does not approve!
Baud
@WaterGirl: Who is Miss Willow?
suezboo
An opera. Probably Madama Butterfly or La Traviata. For sing-along purposes.
Old Dan and Little Ann
I’ve got a handful in my garage but nothing to play them with, unfortunately.
WereBear
You are a cruel beast, BG.
I would choose as many of my favorite Van Morrison songs as I could get on the tape.
To be listened to in single song increments, as a full body meditation:)
WaterGirl
@Baud: My fierce kitty (photos above) – BG assigned her as the enforcer for anyone who goes over their 90 minute allotment.
edit: so yes, she is overstepping her bounds in criticizing your choice of songs. she is technically the time enforcer, not content approver.
ThresherK
Remember when you had to slide little switches around for Metal tapes (not the genre) and Dolby wasn’t something which blew out your eardrums at the movies?
p.a.
Replacements Hootenanny,
selections of celtic & Quebeçois. Barrule, Milladoiro, Runa, Mari Black, Les Poules à Colin, The Beeeaters…
oatler.
There are a lot of “Ten movies/books/hobbies to enjoy when quarantined” listicles these days.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Now I feel judged.
aliasofwestgate
Are we limited by era to music of the mixtape peak? Because i’ve got a bazillion things i could use on that list of songs and a few ready made playlists i’ve already done up in that time limit. But a lot of the music is current and not english language, either.
piratedan
well it would be a mix tape, ‘natch… songs that spoke to me emotionally or evoked a feeling or a sense of date and time, struck a chord, as it were. If you want a playlist, well… I don’t think I’ll bore everyone with that, as music is indeed like art, what speaks to one, is not necessarily something that speaks to all. If we decide to go down that rabbit hole, then not only is the music itself important, but just like in High Fidelity, the playlist has to have a sense of “flow” that allows the listener to move from one song to the next, be it based on a date/place in time or subject matter or genre.
my apologies if I went down the TMI hole there but for me, growing up and creating mixtapes was a way to communicate with friends and people that interested/intrigued you, so its a button for me.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Top pic implies assembly error involving Ms Willow.
NotMax
Ask me in an hour and the list will most likely be entirely different. ;)
Shostakovich Symphony #9, Lt. Kije Suite, It’s A Beautiful Day (full album).
Ought to clock in at right around 88 minutes and change.
WereBear
@trollhattan: Cats can be solid or liquid.
James E Powell
@Baud:
Okay, now what do you do with the other 86 minutes?
WaterGirl
@Baud: You shouldn’t. Neither I, nor Miss Willow, has ever (knowingly) listened to Air Supply. Could be the best thing ever! I was just shocked that, I mean Willow was just shocked that you would pick a single group for a mix tape
edit: Miss Willow will take it back if you tell her how pretty she is.
edit: unless they are the “all out of love, so lost without you” people?
James E Powell
It would take too long to list each song, but I’m going with Side A: Soul and Motown hits, Side B: Beatles & Stones deep cuts.
trollhattan
@ThresherK:
Nobody ever succeeded in explaining what recording bias does and why one needs different ones for different tape formulations. I could hear it in the resulting tape, but they couldn’t ‘splain it to me.
IDK if it still functions, but own a cassette deck that sets custom bias for every tape prior to recording with it. Yay me.
I see refurbished reel-to-reel decks are coming onto the market, some at impressive prices. Same with classic 1970s receivers–the more switches and dials the better.
WaterGirl
@aliasofwestgate: No limits. Except 90 minutes.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Miss Willow is the prettiest.
And yes they are.
trollhattan
@WereBear:
Seemingly true. Cats also react to sneaky cucumbers.
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: What WereBear said. She appeared to have no bones in her body until she was about a year old.
aliasofwestgate
@WaterGirl: Cool.
MomSense
@NotMax:
OOh, Shosty’s 9th is wonderful and one of my faves. Mahler’s 5th is another of my favorites. The adagietto shows up in the film Death in Venice.
BGinCHI
WereBear
@trollhattan: They also save us from snakes of all varieties.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I think so, too. She thanks you.
Baud
@MomSense:
I hope you are feeling better.
WaterGirl
@BGinCHI: Do we have to check your work on time?
BGinCHI
@p.a.: I love Hootenany, but I couldn’t live without lots of stuff on Let It Be.
BGinCHI
@aliasofwestgate: No limits but time & electricity.
Miss Bianca
Well, having just spent a happy hour (not a Happy Hour, mind, just a…oh, never mind) with Richard Thompson and his new gal partner (Zara?) live on FB, I’d say a creamy and delicious blend of old and new Thompson, including his Fairport Convention days and all their attendant break-outs (Fotheringay, Dave Swarbrick and Martin Carthy, et al.) would probably do nicely. Just 90 minutes? Do I have to stick to albums? Ow, Miss Willow, OW OW –
BGinCHI
@WaterGirl: I think I’m under, but am also willing to be attacked by Willow.
BGinCHI
@Miss Bianca: “Shoot Out the Lights,” then whatever fits.
NotMax
@BGinCHI
What, no Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage?
:) :) :)
aliasofwestgate
As a radio DJ, playlisting or mixtape making was so integral to growing up in the 90s for me it’s unreal. I still love playlisting to this day on a whim. Mostly because music is what i breathe, especially when i was working as a pharmacy tech and doing work with the online radio station Radio Riel. I played a mix of techno and jpop, with sets by request quite often in different genres. It remains eclectic on the main stream, with the other streams in specific genre.
Flow is all apart of that, and always seems to be something some of us can put together on instinct. Others take hours to do so.
Another Scott
@trollhattan:
I’ll give it a shot.
It takes a certain amount of energy from an electromagnetic field to get all the magnetic “domains” in a magnetic material to align a certain preferential way to record information. That amount of energy varies between magnetic materials, and thus between types of magnetic tape. Some are “easy” and don’t take much energy (low-bias), some are “hard” and take more energy (high-bias).
It would be like the differences needed to cut a record into bees wax vs into glass. Bees wax is soft so would need less energy to move the stylus than for the case of harder glass.
HTH!
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
I just listened to Van’s “Hymns to the Silence” on my walk. It’s a double album so it’s long!
BobS
The post-intermission portion of any 70s era Grateful Dead concert, i.e. the music never stopped.
Omnes Omnibus
I reject the premise of the question. The iPod (and other such) exists. And I reject your feline enforcer too.
BGinCHI
My list above is a part of my playlist I use when I’m on the spin bike. I wear headphones and it’s just me (sweating, trying to breathe) and the music. It’s where I get the most out of songs.
For cooking, I’d rather listen to a whole record, in order. Not sure you kids do this anymore, with your Alexas and whatnot. But in the kitchen I want to be pulled into the feel of a whole project, whereas while working out I want the perfectly curated mix.
Mary G
The first things to come to mind were Vladimir Horowitz playing Traumerei, Joni Mitchell’s The River and the Hissing of Summer Lawns, Springsteen’s Thunder Road, Mozart’s everything, George Harrison’s Give Me Love, Chopin and Bach preludes, all of the Stones’ Exile on Main St. (hard to decide on one or two songs, possibly Tumbling Dice and All Down the Line), all of David Bowie, all of Stevie Wonder’s 70s work, Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, and many, many more. It would take me months to narrow it down to 90 minutes, and I don’t have the attention bandwidth right now, so mark me down as a failure. I’m listening to this Vladimir Horowitz performance from 1987 which is 90 minutes long all by itself, and it’s lovely
ETA: Oh fuck, while looking for his songs, I see John Prine has the ‘rona and is intubated and in critical condition:
chris
Stones. EOM
BGinCHI
@NotMax: That’s on a separate, targeted list.
WereBear
@raven: A fave.
BGinCHI
@aliasofwestgate: Cut & paste a sample here?
MomSense
@Baud:
I’ve definitely got something, but no fever so I’m hoping it’s just a cold and staying in my room.
BGinCHI
@Another Scott: I just assumed “recording bias” was controlled by the Patriarchy.
WereBear
Mind you, I made my choice with the quarantine, two weeks kind of limit. I didn’t want to listen to the whole tape at once… I suspect that would get old too soon.
I could probably do the same with Ry Cooder, if I wanted to sing along.
Baud
@MomSense:
I was in a similar situation last week. I hope yours is short lived.
Another Scott
@BGinCHI: The Democratic Establishment™!!1
Cheers,
Scott.
debbie
Just listened to Richard Thompson streaming from his (?) living room for an hour. Awesome as awesome can be. Thanks again, Bruuuce!
aliasofwestgate
Most of my mixtape construction in the 90s consisted of me running for the tape recorder on my little stereo when the song i wanted next on the tape was finally on the radio again. XD
Nowadays its what i’ve got on whatever platform i’m working with. Laptop or mobile device. Since i prefer android, it’s mostly Google Play at the moment, until they finish transitioning to Youtube music.
BobS
@MomSense: I’ve been off work for 8 days- no fever/no cough, started with chills, then head & neck pressure, dizziness (today is the first without), difficulty breathing/fatigue with exertion, night sweats. I feel like I’m sitting out the World Series.
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
Wasn’t that something! I hadn’t seen him since 1971 with Fairport, and it is now a very real regret.
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Get back in character, OO!
neldob
Hmmm. Bachs mass in B minor, except its too long, so some James Brown and some Marvin Gaye and some Mozart wind concertos along with Massive Attack. Yikes. could I fit some Calle 13 in also? Segues would be important. or impossible.
debbie
There used to be a store in NYC, behind Bloomingdales, where you could get a mix tape made. Check off your choices on long lists and there they were. So unlike the tapes I made off my boom box, what with the very rough transitions between songs. I would have been a lousy engineer for sure.
BobS
@neldob: Nice.
ThresherK
I’d suggest two Big Country albums (The Crossing, The Buffalo Skinners), but they never managed to bring one in at under 47 minutes in the LP era, and I think never went under 52m in the CD era.
Gravenstone
@Baud: My freshman roommate actually had that album…
/shudder
Josie
Beethoven’s 9th Symphony by the Chicago Orchestra and Chorus
ETA: Contains my favorite “Ode to Joy”
BGinCHI
@debbie: I did NOT know that.
I spent so many hours making tapes. Mix tapes, but also tapes with one record on one side of a 90 minute cassette and another on the other.
Pairing the records was key.
neldob
@BobS: Wish it would cure what ails you.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Miss Willow says a most emphatic harrumph!
A Ghost to Most
“Into the Mystic” – Van Morrison
“Bodhisattva” – Steely Dan
For Everyman (whole album) – Jackson Browne
“Ramble On” – Led Zeppelin
“Jessica” – ABB
“Streetlights” – Jason Isbell
“The Living Bubba” – DBT here down
“A World of Hurt”
“A Ghost to Most”
“Heathens”
debbie
@BGinCHI:
Pairing was absolutely key, like Tom Petty and Dire Straits.
I remember adding up the times of the songs to make sure they all fit. Too much math!
MuckJagger
@BGinCHI:
Right there with ya on Nos. 10 and 15. I’d add some Zevon to mine, maybe “Desperadoes Under The Eaves” and “Disorder In The House.” There’s a lot of Nick Lowe’s mid-period stuff I can listen to over and over, and Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” and a couple tracks by The Dream Syndicate. Anything else would be whatever I was humming to myself at the tjme.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: Fine. Velvet Underground and Nico paired with Roxy Music (leave off “Bitters End” because it’s meh, exactly 2:00, and I only get 90:00). Happy now?
Elizabelle
@A Ghost to Most: Ah. That’s where you got your name.
WereBear
@Josie: I love the Ormandy with Philadelphia.
NotMax
@BGinCHI
Yeah. Sgt. Pepper teamed with Florence Foster Jenkins never worked.
;)
WereBear
@NotMax: petula Clark and Mrs Miller.
BobS
@debbie: I saw Fairport Convention on that tour- they were the opening act for Traffic at the Easttown Theater in Detroit. I’ve seen various incarnations of him&Linda&his bands at least 2 dozen times since. One time (mid-80s) at a poorly promoted solo show at the City Club in Detroit, only a couple dozen people showed up. He had us pull our chairs up in an arc around him, he played (plenty of requests), told jokes (he was kind of shy with Fairport- he became quite the raconteur over the years), bullshitting, etc. Helluva experience.
Scout211
Just to prove that I am not even medium cool (more like not at all cool), here’s an actual playlist off of my iTunes player from the way back machine. It was entitled “mellow mix.” And it always made me feel mellow. But then again, not at all cool.
Here, There And Everywhere 2:26 The Beatles Revolver
Graduation Day 3:11 Chris Isaak Forever Blue Rock
Wicked Game 4:49 Chris Isaak Heart Shaped World Rock
The Scientist 5:11 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Clocks 5:10 Coldplay A Rush Of Blood To The Head
Fix You 4:55 Coldplay X&Y
Top Of The World 6:01 Dixie Chicks Home Country
Lullaby 5:52 Dixie Chicks Taking the Long Way
Catch The Wind 2:57 Donovan Donovan’s Greatest Hits
Only Time 3:38 Enya A Day Without Rain
Caribbean Blue 3:59 Enya Paint The Sky With Stars: The Best Of Enya
Tears In Heaven 4:35 Eric Clapton Complete Clapton [Disc 2]
How To Save A Life 4:24 The Fray How To Save A Life
Closer To Fine 4:02 Indigo Girls 4.5: The Best Of The Indigo Girls
The Mummers’ Dance 6:11 Loreena McKennitt The Book Of Secrets
Harvest 3:12 Neil Young Harvest
Old Man 3:25 Neil Young Harvest
The Needle And The Damage Done 2:03 Neil Young Harvest
I Don’t Believe You 4:36 Pink Funhouse
Please Don’t Leave Me 3:52 Pink Funhouse
Ave Mary A 3:16 Pink Funhouse
Glitter In The Air 3:47 Pink Funhouse
Dear Mr. President 4:34 Pink Feat. Indigo Girls I’m Not Dead
I Will Remember You 3:44 Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball
I Love You 4:31 Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball
Angel 5:49 Sarah McLachlan Mirrorball
Forever And For Always 4:04 Shania Twain Greatest Hits
Wildflower 3:58 Sheryl Crow Wildflower
Letter To God 4:05 Sheryl Crow Wildflower
For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her [Live] 2:22 Simon & Garfunkel The Best Of Simon & Garfunkel
Original Of The Species 4:41 U2 How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb
Josie
@WereBear:
Yes, also lovely.
NotMax
@WereBear
Gotta give the other sex its due.
Nat King Cole and William Shatner.
BobS
@neldob: Thank you. I’m definitely getting better. I’d be fucking lost without participating on some of the threads here and on other sites- it’s helpful knowing there’s kindred spirits.
Benw
Royal Tusk – stowaway
Glorious Sons – spirit to break
Kendrick – Humble
Brkn Love – shot down
SMKC – world on fire
Parsonsfield – Santa Monica
Schoolboy Q, 2 Chainz – X
GnR – Sweet Child o Mine
The National – not in Kansas
Plague Vendor – new comedown
Social Distortion – sometimes I do
Betty Cracker
I started a pandemic playlist on my phone a while back. Here’s a chunk of it.
BGinCHI
@A Ghost to Most: Solid.
DBTs a must for the shut-in time. A lot of Wussy & John Moreland here right now too.
Brachiator
I haven’t timed it all out, but I would select from the following,
Leon Russell, Stranger in A Strange Land
Louis Armstrong, Tight Like This, and St James Infirmary
Van Morrison, Sweet Thing
Carmen McCrae, A Song For You
Bobby Darin, If I Were A Carpenter
James Brown, There Was A Time
Rikki Lee Jones, The Albatross
A couple of Shakespeare sonnets
A couple of songs by Purcell
Charles Mingus, Canon
Duke Ellington, Fleurette Africain
Joni Mitchell, All I Want
Peter Gabriel, Mercy Street
A few Mowtown hits if I have room to squeeze some in
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: So sad to see that John Prine has coronavirus.
MuckJagger
@Mary G: Musically speaking, there isn’t much news that could be worse than this.
BGinCHI
@debbie: Same.
Prince & Nick Cave
WereBear
@WaterGirl: oh no.
BGinCHI
@MuckJagger: I’d go back and add Vic Chesnutt and Graham Parker and Richard Buckner, but so hard to decide on which songs.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
This is a violation of my constitutional rights, you tape grabber! I’m gonna get the RIAA to file a lawsuit in federal court to get me another mix tape!
In the meantime, I suppose I’ll play by your rules:
I know those last two don’t match up with the rest well, but I like them a ton
prostratedragon
@aliasofwestgate:
Trying my own back in the 90s gave me a lot of respect for good dj-ing. On the jazz station I listened to, most had policy of the three number set, each set being about 15 minutes, say. Even if you know a lot of music, putting together 6 of those without it sounding like just a heap of things you like is pretty challenging.
That said, my first thought was 90 minutes of Miles Davis, since I find Kind of Blue to be such a refresher. That, and something else, maybe Jack Johnson. This is a punt.
(There’s a list of composers/bands who actually could be substituted here.)
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
Thanks! Let me ponder, there could be followup questions. Okay, just one: how does frequency impact the force being applied?
Is this on the final?
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: Content.
We’ll socialize you yet.
piratedan
Go All The Way – Raspberries – 3:19
I Think She Likes Me – Treat Her Right – 3.:47
Zero Hour – The Plimsouls – 2:35
Make A Circuit With Me – The Polecats – 2:52
The Last Time – The Rolling Stones – 3:30
No Reply – The Beatles – 2:20
Then He Kissed Me – The Crystals – 2:37
Baby Come Back – The Equals – 2:41
It Getting Harder All The Time – The Mindbenders – 2:15
Just Remember I Love You – Firefall – 3:15
Sundown – Gordon Lightfoot – 3:34
Pretty Lady – Lighthouse – 4:14
Sometimes The Good Guys Finish First – Pat Benetar – 4:27
Day After Day – Badfinger – 3:27
Radio Free Europe – REM – 3:50
Union City Blue – Blondie – 3:29
Where Is The Moon Tonight – Southern Culture On The Skids – 3:24
Girl Of My Dreams – Bran Tchaikovsky – 4:09
Starry Eyes – The Records – 4:24
Be Still – Los Lobos – 3:36
Walk Right Back – Everly Brothers – 2:19
The Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes – Elvis Costello – 2:48
Has She Got A Friend – Nick Lowe – 2:42
My Best Friends Girl – The Cars – 3:46
More Than Feeling – Boston – 4:47
Story In Your Eyes – The Moody Blues – 2:57
Lips Like Sugar – Echo and The Bunnymen – 4:52
Another Nail In My Heart – Squeeze – 2:58
Senses Working Overtime- XTC – 4:40
feel free to build your own… :-)
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: Oh no! I wasn’t aware of that. Hope he comes through it okay.
BGinCHI
@NotMax: I like odd combos.
WaterGirl
@WereBear: My reaction, too. 4 letters, just like you, only my 4 letters were f-u-c-k.
BGinCHI
@Benw: Cool list. Thanks for that. Eclectic.
BGinCHI
@Betty Cracker: I tried to do this (cut & paste) and failed miserably.
Good work.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: Intubated and in critical condition. See Mary G. at #45. So horrible.
NotMax
Short filmic interruption that TCM is showing Buster Keaton’s The Navigator Monday at 6:30 a.m. Eastern, followed by the waggish Marie Dressler in Tugboat Annie at 7:45.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
I’ve had a list of songs like that:
delk
70’s gay disco ??
WaterGirl
@delk: Love the emoji!
BGinCHI
@Brachiator: Good call on the sonnets!!
I’d do a separate tape for jazz if it was allowed.
Zinsky
@Mary G: Mary G – I share a lot of the same tastes in music: The Stones Exile on Main Street has to be represented (I would pick Turd on the Run or Rip This Joint), a Joni Mitchell song or two (A Case of You or Carey), a couple off Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust or Aladdin Sane, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd, a couple Beatles (Here Comes the Sun or Golden Slumbers), Mott the Hoople’s Sweet Jane and maybe Bad Company’s Seagull or Silver, Blue and Gold. Throw in a Sara Bareilles song or two, Steve Earle to fire up to and some Bob Marley to chill to and I would be fine.
I also am so sad about the news about John Prine. Such a brilliant songwriter and he went through so much already with his throat cancer, that it just doesn’t seem fair that he would catch this horrible disease. I am so hurt by this… ?
BobS
@WaterGirl: Shit.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: I am quietly resenting you and your artificial strictures. Just know that I shall mock you in my Nobel acceptance speech.
ThresherK
@piratedan: Make A Circuit With Me – The Polecats
Scraps of that song have floated to the top of my mind the last fifteen years, but I could never come up with an artist or title. Thanx!
ETA: Dr. Feelgood (the English band, not the American song which followed years later), “She Does it Right”. These guys came out of nowhere (Essex, England) in 1974 with this.
Benw
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): lol Panama + The National. Love both those songs!
Another Scott
My list would probably be:
I’d probably have to cut a track from Q. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
I have those set to record. With less to do, I’ve been watching old movies on TCM and they’re pretty good! Is it just me, or did Clark Gable play the same character over and over again in the 30s? My one complaint might be that in some movies (particularly from the 30s), the “banter” dialogue never lets up and the actors talk too fast. Real people have never talked like that
trollhattan
@delk:
To your room, now! :-P
BGinCHI
@WaterGirl: Me too. Doesn’t sound good at all for him. I’ve gotten a lot of texts from friends about it, so people are keeping him in their thoughts.
What a life he’s lived. An absolute giant of a songwriter and performer.
He may be, for me, the single most underrated American singer-songwriter. I saw him play 20 years ago (in Syracuse at a beautiful theater) and he just brought the house down. Two sets with his band and one long acoustic set.
I love that man.
BGinCHI
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Flaming Lips! Yes.
debbie
@BobS:
Yep, with Traffic too. I was besotted, having worn out out my copy of Liege and Lief. My youngest brother saw him many times over the years and could never get over how good he was.
Omnes Omnibus
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Jesus, Goku. If you are going to put Oingo Boingo on a list like that, you use Dead Man’s Party.
delk
Dance!
aliasofwestgate
My current fave list. Comes in short on time. (easy on the claws Miss Willow!)
Spitz “Amae Te”
Spitz “Juteemu” ( Je t’aime)
Loveholic “Sky”
Spitz “Omiya Sunset”
David Usher “How Are You?”
Doa (japan) “Come on!”
Doa(japan) “Good Day Bad Day”
Doa (japan) “Singin’ For Your Smile”
Escargot “Dodai”
David Usher “Alone in the Universe”
Monkey Majik “Sunshine”
The Pillows “Scarecrow”
Sakamoto Kyu ” Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi wo”
Ito Yousuke “One Star”
TM Revolution “His/Story”
TM Revolution “Roll The Dice”
Kota Shinzato “Hands Up!”
There’s my sample. You can find almost all of it on youtube somewhere. So far it’s my fave playlist for the moment.
delk
@BGinCHI: saw them ar Union Park. Wayne’s entrance was something.
Another Scott
@trollhattan: As you learned in kindergarten…
;-)
I’m sure it figures into it, but I don’t know the details. Though at audio frequencies, it may be a small effect.
Of course the explanation I gave is wrong in practice, but the general idea still holds – the best recording electromagnetic fields depend on the material used.
Wikipedia – Theory.
HTH! :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty Cracker
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Good ones!
danielx
Public service announcement:
Best band in the land Thursday night at 8 EST.
Happened on last Thursday’s show (Beacon Theater 10/5/19) about halfway through, which meant I only caught about an hour and 15 or so. Good for the soul, like going to rock and blues church.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Omnes Omnibus:
As much as I like that song, I felt No One Lives Forever meshed better with a pandemic than Dead Man’s Party.
I approached it from a movie soundtrack standpoint. Dead Man’s Party’s lyrics are better suited for a Halloween-themed movie. No One Lives Forever would work because of how surreal the song would be compared to events of a deadly pandemic. It’s more subtle lyrics-wise imo or at least not as obvious
chris
This belongs here. As I said, Stones.
Benw
@BGinCHI: there’s so much good rock and hip hop out right now!
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Hallmark of the best screwball comedies was rapid delivery.
As for Gable, “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is the key phrase. Although before he became top billed, Gable sometimes showed up cast as a heavy.
BGinCHI
@piratedan: We must be about the same age, as I thought I was the only one who ever really loved Bram Tchaikovsky!
“Strange Man, Changed Man,” great record.
FelonyGovt
Here’s mine- don’t know if it’s over 90 minutes, I’ll risk the wrath of the lovely Miss Willow
Lux Prima- Karen O & Danger Mouse- whole album
Born Innocent- Proclaimers
Don’t You Forget About Me- Simple Minds
Three Little Birds- Bob Marley
Miss You-Stones
Sway- Stones
I Can See Clearly Now-Jimmy Cliff
Free Fallon’ -Tom Petty
Born to Run- Springsteen
What’s So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding- Elvis Costello
Na Na Hey hey Kiss Him Goodbye- Steam (for when Trump gets kicked out)
Zinsky
@BGinCHI: I’m with you on John Prine. I saw him once in Iowa City in the early 1980s and again here in Minneapolis in 2006. Both shows were fabulous – some of the tightest musicians I have ever seen live. I am a musician myself and I don’t think they missed one note or transition in either show. Tight! I am also in awe that a 25 year old man could write songs like Hello In There or Angel From Montgomery. A true songwriting genius!
debbie
@NotMax:
Preston Sturges, baby!
BobS
Los Lobos?
BGinCHI
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s unacceptable to mock your date.
Omnes Omnibus
@BGinCHI: Me three.
trollhattan
@piratedan:
True story: my kid for a decade thought that XTC song was “Cincinnati Overtime.”
debbie
@Zinsky:
I saw him in the very early 1970s in Boston Commons’ Sunset on the Park (I think) concert series. He is a national treasure. I hate hearing that he has coronavirus.
BGinCHI
@aliasofwestgate: Damnnnn.
Very cool list. Gonna have to do some listening to those tracks.
NotMax
@debbie
How he managed to get away with making The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek continues to perplex.
;)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@BGinCHI:
I haven’t listened to much else of theirs, but I love the dream-like quality of that song as well as the content of the lyrics. It reminds me of some magical girl anime which makes it funny, but is still sweet all the same
debbie
@NotMax:
Was it “Front Pages” with Rosalind Russell in the newsroom? All that back and forth left me breathless!
BobS
@danielx: Los Lobos?
BGinCHI
@chris: That’s probably in my old neighborhood.
If anyplace can withstand social distancing, it’s Buffalo, as long as the liquor holds up.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: His Girl Friday
The Dangerman
This isn’t too imaginative, but give me Dark Side of the Moon and a copy of the WIzard of Oz to blow my mind while listening to DSOTM (I can’t believe it was completely accidental; not with THAT album cover)…
…and fill my 90 minute allotment with whatever minutes with Willow purring and meowing because I’m a suckup.
aliasofwestgate
@BGinCHI:
Thanks~
Forgot one:
Insert Flow “Calling” in between Escargo “Dodai” and David Usher “Alone In the Universe”
Whole thing times out at 1 hour 18 minutes.
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
No. There is more variety to his work than you may be giving him credit for.
If you are going through TCM films, try Manhattan Melodrama, Men in White, Night Nurse, Wife vs Secretary, and Test Pilot
Interesting point about actors talking too fast. I prefer it to films which tried to imitate a style of slow, stilted dialog that they thought represented high toned drama from the theater.
But I guess this technique and the Mid Atlantic dialect often used now seems artificial and foreign to contemporary viewers.
WaterGirl
@aliasofwestgate: Don’t let those fierce photos of Miss Willow fool you. :-) She’s really sweet. Now that we’re past #115, I feel like I can say that.
raven
When I was young we listened to ALBUMS!
BGinCHI
@Zinsky: This all day. The only consolation is that he has had a good, long life. Good family, good friends, amazing art.
chris
@debbie:
Damn small world, ain’t it?
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Betty Cracker:
Thanks!
I choose the Crowded House song because it was featured in 1994’s adaption of Stephen King’s The Stand, which was alright for what it was
Something that could go in r/MovieDetails:
In the first part of the miniseries, we see Larry Underwood walk out of a bar in Times Square. We hear a voice over of radio news talking about reports of Captain Trips, and several people are walking behind him on the sidewalk. Some are actually wearing surgical and dust masks! Apparently didn’t do them any good in the end…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl:
A friend just texted me a screenshot of what I assume is a Facebook post from his family. So sorry to hear that.
Brachiator
@debbie:
The remake of The Front Page. His Girl Friday with Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant
I love the velocity of the dialog in that film.
Robert Altman used overlapping dialog in his films, but without the same speed of delivery.
WaterGirl
Can you guess whose new dog this is?
WaterGirl
WaterGirl
Hint: totally adorable, but not mine.
Luciamia
@WaterGirl: fuck it to hell!
BGinCHI
@trollhattan: Akin to my CCR misunderstanding:
“Have you ever seen Lorraine,
Falling down on a sunny day…”
I just assumed she was drunk.
NotMax
@debbie
His Girl Friday (adapted from The Front Page). Wikipedia:
WaterGirl
@Luciamia: Nodding.
BGinCHI
@WaterGirl: Guilty.
Now I can finally talk about pets around here……
Miss Bianca
@BGinCHI:
Your offer is acceptable.
ETA: At least one of the “fitter” cuts would have to be Fairport’s Tam Lin, with Sandy Denny singing, Dave Swarbrick fiddling, and RT on guitar.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Rhymes with Bread Flirt Pearl.
raven
@WaterGirl: Here’s his story of Skip’s the old hot rod hangout at 1st and North.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Interesting, but rapid delivery could be a little too rapid, which happened coincidentally in a Gable picture, After Office Hours (1935) and the banter almost never let up for minutes at a time
@Brachiator:
Probably, I’ve only watched two films of his so far. In all of them, he tends to play the dashing hero who gets the girl at the end with some variation; as the second in command of the HMS Bounty and as an unscrupulous but charming newspaper editor
I definitely noticed that in a lot of older B&W movies. The Mid-Atlantic accent and either of those dialog techniques have not aged well. How hard was it to just talk like a real human?
raven
@Zinsky: Did folks wave flyswatters when he played Angel?
WaterGirl
@raven: Thanks for that! I’ve got it saved so I can watch/listen when things are more quiet later.
Miss Bianca
@debbie: Did my heart good. The last time I saw him was in…2010?…at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass in San Francisco.
Mary G
@Zinsky: And we were both born on Christmas Eve! I don’t know why remember that.
raven
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Watch the Misfits and then Command Decision.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
WaterGirl
@NotMax: That one is apparently over my head. Cannot figure it out.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Well, back then you weren’t shooed out of the theater when the main feature ended. One admission ticket and you could stay to watch it again. And again.
:)
NotMax
@WaterGirl
RedDirtGirl?
raven
@WaterGirl: He has a book ” ‘Beyond Words.” about his songs. I bought it because of the Skips part but when my brother came this fall one of his friends played with John and his picture is in the book so I gave it to him.
Miss Bianca
@WaterGirl: AAAAAAAGGGHHHH
I knew it was only a matter of time before this disease started felling artists and notables I cared about. God *damn*.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Excellent guess! But no, she has not sent me her pictures yet.
BG added a new member to his family today!
Miss Bianca
@Another Scott: Well, I’m with you on two out of three…
mrmoshpotato
@Josie: Dammit! I’m putting together a list in my head while listening to Swan Lake and now this is harder.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: Me, too. I figured when it started hitting famous people that reality would sink in for some of the deniers. Wish I had been wrong about it hitting famous people.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
i know people in real life – today – who talk that fast. Or faster.
You’ll become attuned to the rhythm of it soon enough.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thanks. Memory, what is it anymore?
WaterGirl
@raven: There must be something in my eyes. :: sniff ::
debbie
@Brachiator:
How many takes must they have done to get that just right? Watching the back and forth is almost like watching Simone Biles.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: Now that I know you were thinking of RedDirtGirl, your answer was perfect.
Miss Bianca
@NotMax: My favorite movie ever, perhaps. Certainly my favorite classic screwball comedy.
dexwood
@WaterGirl: Gotta be Quinerly’s Jojo.
chris
Not Prine level but Joe Diffie has died from the virus. I keep thinking of Mick and Keef and Charlie.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@NotMax:
Really?
Now that you mention that, I’m reminded of the losers who bought multiple tickets and sat through dozens of showings just so they could up the box office numbers for Avengers: Infinity War and Alita: Battle Angel.
The Marvel stans just had to beat Avatar for the best box office numbers (which goes to Gone With the Wind, even when adjusted for inflation I believe, a Clark Gable film), which didn’t happen anyway, I think
WaterGirl
@dexwood: Nope! It’s BG’s new pup, tentatively named Bear.
Just One More Canuck
firm but fair
Chopin, Marcus Miller, The Band
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Oldie but goodie: The Ernie Kovacs’ Swan Lake pastiche cannot be watched without bringing out grins.
debbie
@NotMax:
Well, that’s not very nice. So who has the movie with the fastest dialog that hasn’t been juiced?
Misterpuff
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Grand Designs is my favorite Rush song and it never gets any cred. Power Windows is a great album.
But my mix tape would be Yes
Heart of the Sunrise – Fragile (11:33)
Starship Trooper – The Yes Album (9:29)
Yours Is No Disgrace – Yessongs (14:26)
Siberian Khatru – Close To The Edge (9:00)
Flip the Tape Side 2
And You And I – Close To The Edge (10:08)
Roundabout (Single Edit) (3:27)
Turn Of The Century – Going For The One (7:55)
Believe Again – Heaven & Earth (8:05)
Awaken – Going For The One (15:38)
raven
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I “War Like a Thunderbolt” about the Battle of Atlanta the author explores the notion that most people view that battle through the lens of “Gone With the Wind”. When the film premiered at the Fox in Atlanta Gable met with the mayor and told him if he wanted the Cyclorama to succeed they needed to put Gable in there. There is a relief of the battle scene at the base of the painting and there is a dying Confederate with a big smile on his face. You guessed it.
dexwood
@WaterGirl: Wrong again! Ain’t the first time.
Jeffro
Ack – so late to this cool thread!
I cannot begin to think about how many cassette mix tapes I made over the years for myself, for significant others, for buddies, and just because.
One of the best mixes I made (not a cassette one, but a CD/iTunes mix) was after spending a long weekend holed up with my college buddies in Great Cacapon, fishing, kayaking, and getting hammered.
A classic! Good times…
raven
@Jeffro: Don’t you know me I’m the boy next door?
Haroldo
One Red Rose That I Mean Captain Beefheart
Song of Joy Sheila Jordan and Arild Andersen
Little Wing Jimi Hendrix
Diabelli Variations Beethoven / Serkin
Can’t Be Satisfied Muddy Waters
Evil Is Goin’ On Howlin’ Wolf
Útviklingssang Carla Bley
Cold Sweat James Brown
My Shit’s Fucked Up Warren Zevon
Did She Jump or Was She Pushed Richard and Linda Thompson
Political Science Randy Newman
Bach Is Dead The Residents
Spirit in the Dark Aretha Franklin – Live
African Marketplace Dollar Brand
90 minutes is quite the stricture, innit?
Brachiator
@Betty Cracker:
Oh man, I love the pandemic playlist
I thought about a similar themed playlist, in these times of sheltering in place
Gimme Shelter
I Got A Get A Message to You
Dead Man’s Party
Hold On, I’m Coming
Can’t Find My Way Home
Shelter From the Storm
Higher Ground
Things Can Only Get Better
The Earth Is On Fire
NotMax
@debbie
Among screwball comedies, maybe or maybe not the fastest but Bringing Up Baby a serious contender.
Haroldo
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s precisely so!
debbie
@NotMax:
I think Arsenic and Old Lace would be a contender too. Especially Cary Grant’s exasperated conversations with his aunts.
Jeffro
@raven: easily one of their best!
WaterGirl
@dexwood: And probably not the last. :-)
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: BG’s culture threads are every Sunday at 5pm blog time.
Maybe mark you calendar so you can see what the next topic is going to be? If you click on the link to Medium Cool under featuring, toward the end of the week I try to include what the next topic will be.
Brachiator
@debbie:
The director, Howard Hawks, encouraged improvisation, and the film fell slightly behind schedule. Rosalind Russell felt that she didn’t have enough good lines and hired her own writer to punch up her part. One other tidbit about this, from the Wiki
Just an amazing piece of work. And Russell is great, even though a number of female actors were offered the part before she was cast.
Brachiator
@Mary G:
This is terrible. I confess that I don’t know his work well, but I pay attention when other artists praise him as an influence, and I know the work of many artists that he has inspired.
dexwood
@WaterGirl: You’ve been talking to my wife?
middlelee
Born in the USA, Springsteen
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto #2
Today I Started Loving You Again, Merle Haggard
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, Willie Nelson
Life Could Be a Dream, the Crew Cuts
Over There, James Cagney
The Moldau
You’re a Grand Old Flag, Cagney
Dvorak Cello Concerto, Pablo Casals
Think I’ll Just Stay Here and Drink, Merle
Harrigan, Cagney
That’s my 90 minutes and I didn’t even get to Emmy Lou Harris, Doris Day covers of Ruth Etting, and the rest of the female vocalists, including opera singers from the 20th Century. It’s a start.
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: Ok, will do and thanks for the tip! =)
Jeffro
Btw true confession time: I have not one but TWO, yes two cassette-playing boom boxes!
I still have about 25 tapes, 15 of which are old mixes and 10 of which are fave cassettes, like ‘Electric’ by The Cult and the ‘Where The Buffalo Roam’ soundtrack.
Brachiator
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I guess some people want hyper-realism and hyper-naturalism in movies. I understand this, but movies are also heightened reality. Dialog can be shaped like song lyrics, like music, depending on the needs of the story.
Also, in the 30s, filmmakers were still experimenting with sound. And their models were not how people spoke in the everyday world, but theater, vaudville and the music hall, especially when it came to comedy, where audiences expected fast gags and jokes.
I know some people whose experience with movies begins with Star Wars. And yet a lot of the dialog in that film was inspired by the jokey still of screwball comedies from the 30s.
BGinCHI
@Jeffro: Ok Go is solid choice, especially for their videos.
BGinCHI
@Haroldo: “Did She Jump…” such a great song.
WaterGirl
@dexwood: Ha! No, I just recognize a human being when I see one. :-)
BGinCHI
@middlelee: I have to admit, I did not expect Jimmy Cagney.
middlelee
@middlelee:
Sound track to Dr. Zhivago, the Boston Pops and Oh Yeah, Great Big Sea.
I’ll be thinking of favorite music for the next 6 hours but this is it for BJ.
middlelee
@BGinCHI: I’m an old and watched a lot of movies over the years. ;-)
A Ghost to Most
@BGinCHI: Any time left would be golden era Stones, and the Adam’s House Cat version of “Buttholeville”.
A Ghost to Most
@chris: You think cvirus can touch Kief? Nothing else has.
A Ghost to Most
Thinking mad good thoughts for John Prine. He is the embodiment of “The Living Bubba”.
“But I can’t die now
Cause I got another show to do”
Jackson Browne is recovering.
August West
Toccata and Fugue in D minor – J.S. Bach
Underture – The Who
Sing, Sing, Sing (from Carnegie Hall Concert) – Benny Goodman
Sweet Little Sixteen – Chuck Berry
Awaiting on You All – George Harrison
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys – Traffic
I Talk to the Wind – King Crimosn
El Condor Pasa – Simon and Garfunkel
No Woman No Cry (live version from Legend) – Bob Marley
Stormy Monday – The Allman Brothers Band
Sweet Jane (live version from Rock & Roll Animal) – Lou Reed
Starman – David Bowie
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? – Chicago
Joe’s Garage – Frank Zappa
Freeway Jam – Jeff Beck
Big Yellow Taxi – Joni Mitchell
Sunday Morning – Velvet Underground
Stolen Moments – Oliver Nelson
In a Sentimental Mood – Duke Ellington and John Coltrane
All Blues – Miles Davis
Trois Gnossiennes – Eric Satie
debbie
@Brachiator:
Just seeing this now. Thanks!
Ruckus
What difference does it make what I want to put on it, I have no machine to record that or play it back.
I do have vinyl and a damn fine player. However listening to one record for 2 weeks straight would probably make the entire process pointless after the 3rd day as I most likely would have broken both the vinyl and the player. I have been in a situation for a lot longer than 2 weeks playing the same 7in reel to reel, over and over and over and over and over…… till everyone on the ship demanded that we never play music ever again. Which of course was the point.
kindness
I was buying the TDK SAII100s cases from Costco back when the Dead were still the Grateful Dead. Occasionally a set would go over 90 minutes. Just sayin’.
Ruckus
@Zinsky:
One of the things I heard is that cancer, current or in remission makes one a more likely victim to this virus. Might be a weakened system if so. Have no idea about the truth to that at all.
Ruckus
My favorite John Prine That’s How Every Empire Falls.
Bokonon
@BobS: Los Lobos – YES!!
I was going to see them perform in Boulder, Colorado right when the COVID-19 pandemic hit … they had to cancel.
BGinCHI
@August West: Satie is a great call. Always picks up my mood.
BGinCHI
@Bokonon: I saw them open for U2 once. Epic.