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If anybody's interested, I made a David Byrne playlist. Ideally, it would have had songs from Look into the Eyeball on it, but that's not on Spotify. The Live from Austin songs are all off of that album though.
Everybody's Coming to My House was a solid cut from the last album, and the live version from the American Utopia Broadway recording is good too. Looks great otherwise though!
Here you go Nathan Fieldcяab! I went for a pretty short playlist featuring songs from most of the albums, but nothing from nonagon or ITRS since you’ve already heard them. I recommend listening to it in the order I set, and since Gizz just kind of change it up every album, if there’s a sound you like you should check out the album it’s from and you’ll get more of the that sound.
Arranged like a live set of his, from more ambient to more hardcore.
And the one no one asked for, The Hold Steady:
Arranged in such a way where if you listen to it in order the Holly/Gideon/Charlemagne songs make some sense thematically, but if you shuffle it you’ll still get all bangers.
Set I: Fee, Llama, Reba, Twist, Cars Trucks Buses, Wolfmans Brother, The Moma Dance, Blaze On, Bathtub Gin, Cavern, Golgi Apparatus
Set II: Fuego, Free, The Wedge, 46 Days, Maze, Scent of a Mule, Steam, Mercury, Scents and Subtle Sounds, The Horse > Silent in the Morning, The Squirming Coil
Set I: Punch You In The Eye > The Sloth > Reba, Chalkdust Torture, Tweezer
Set II: Wilson, You Enjoy Myself, Harry Hood > Slave to the Traffic Light
Encore: Tweezer Reprise
the official releases i pulled the live tracks from are low hanging fruit, but when Phish already did my work for me with MSG 1995 and A Live One, why make it more complicated? These tracks are mostly heavy hitters either without album versions, or with album versions that aren't very good. Reba being the exception, the studio version is very good, but this live version shows more of the frenetic energy the song has live.
This is a great list. My only suggestion for an addition would be Keeping the Faith.
River of Dreams was the first cd I ever owned. I got it and my first little portable CD player together for Christmas. Based on the release year for that album, I’m guessing I was about 14. (We had a CD player in the house before that. It was just the first one that was only mine.)
This is a great list. My only suggestion for an addition would be Keeping the Faith.
River of Dreams was the first cd I ever owned. I got it and my first little portable CD player together for Christmas. Based on the release year for that album, I’m guessing I was about 14. (We had a CD player in the house before that. It was just the first one that was only mine.)
Done.
Some solid tracks on River of Dreams. A longer version of this probably would've had Minor Variation and Two Thousand Years on it as well
This is a great list. My only suggestion for an addition would be Keeping the Faith.
River of Dreams was the first cd I ever owned. I got it and my first little portable CD player together for Christmas. Based on the release year for that album, I’m guessing I was about 14. (We had a CD player in the house before that. It was just the first one that was only mine.)
River of Dreams was one of "my" first albums. I had it on cassette and listened to it on my mom's walkman.
Post by snowmanomura on Jul 14, 2020 12:37:38 GMT -5
The Jazz Primer #1
maybe this is overkill at ~5 hours, but it still only gets us to 1963.
It's mostly chronological, and starts out with the sort of early-era developments from Louis Armstrong, WC Handy, and Jelly Roll Morton who synthesized the slave songs, ragtime, blues, and sprituals into what we'd now consider "jazz". From there we move into the more big-band compositions, with an emphasis on singers (esp. billie holiday tЯist♡n) and I threw some Sinatra on there because he immensely influenced and popularized this sound. The Ella compositions are somewhat out of place, but her version of Mack the Knife from Berlin is superb and showcases her improvisational scat singing style when she forgets the words. As a sort of backlash to the big band sound jazz moved into the bebop era led by charlie parker and dizzy gillespie. this style is more virtuosic, lots of complex arrangements and chords and solos. I included a song on there from "the quintet" a super group of Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. from the Live at Massey Hall album, a masterclass in the bop sound. Contemporaneously, and somewhat in reaction to bebop, cool jazz/west coast jazz arose that was a little softer and slower. Interestingly, Miles Davis, a trumpet player who dropped out of school to learn from Gillespie put out the seminal Birth of the Cool typifies this sound, and Chet Baker is one of the foremost cool jazz guys. Dave Brubeck's Take 5 isn't really cool jazz per se, but his odd time signatures and more melodic sounds leaned more "west coast" than the bebop guys, and Etta James put out her seminal At Last around this time as well. In the 50's bebop moved more into the hard bop era, which incorporated more blues elements. There is a lot of Hard Bop on here, because it was pretty varied. It's interesting to note, for those not really familiar, that many of these albums and recordings feature many of the same musicians backing each other up. Miles Davis, Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Monk etc. all played with each other and influenced each other a lot, and Miles Davis in 1959 released what has become the best selling jazz record ever, Kind of Blue, featuring many of them and leading a departure from the Hard Bop style into modal jazz - a way of improvising around musical modes instead of chord changes. Coltrane spent a lot of the early 60's in this style and I included three selections from here on here. The last few tracks on here are non-modal, post-bop stuff, featuring some guitar work from grant green and wes montgomery, a soul/blues jazz on the hammond organ, and closed with a classic Oliver Nelson tune based around a 16-bar blues.
maybe i'll put together another one for stuff that came after this that covers when jazz got weird with guys like ornette coleman, eric dolphy, sun ra, free jazz and fusion, the funk, and more modern stuff.
edit: here's an abridged version that's only 2 hours.
maybe this is overkill at ~5 hours, but it still only gets us to 1963.
It's mostly chronological, and starts out with the sort of early-era developments from Louis Armstrong, WC Handy, and Jelly Roll Morton who synthesized the slave songs, ragtime, blues, and sprituals into what we'd now consider "jazz". From there we move into the more big-band compositions, with an emphasis on singers (esp. billie holiday tЯist♡n) and I threw some Sinatra on there because he immensely influenced and popularized this sound. The Ella compositions are somewhat out of place, but her version of Mack the Knife from Berlin is superb and showcases her improvisational scat singing style when she forgets the words. As a sort of backlash to the big band sound jazz moved into the bebop era led by charlie parker and dizzy gillespie. this style is more virtuosic, lots of complex arrangements and chords and solos. I included a song on there from "the quintet" a super group of Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach. from the Live at Massey Hall album, a masterclass in the bop sound. Contemporaneously, and somewhat in reaction to bebop, cool jazz/west coast jazz arose that was a little softer and slower. Interestingly, Miles Davis, a trumpet player who dropped out of school to learn from Gillespie put out the seminal Birth of the Cool typifies this sound, and Chet Baker is one of the foremost cool jazz guys. Dave Brubeck's Take 5 isn't really cool jazz per se, but his odd time signatures and more melodic sounds leaned more "west coast" than the bebop guys, and Etta James put out her seminal At Last around this time as well. In the 50's bebop moved more into the hard bop era, which incorporated more blues elements. There is a lot of Hard Bop on here, because it was pretty varied. It's interesting to note, for those not really familiar, that many of these albums and recordings feature many of the same musicians backing each other up. Miles Davis, Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Sonny Rollins, Monk etc. all played with each other and influenced each other a lot, and Miles Davis in 1959 released what has become the best selling jazz record ever, Kind of Blue, featuring many of them and leading a departure from the Hard Bop style into modal jazz - a way of improvising around musical modes instead of chord changes. Coltrane spent a lot of the early 60's in this style and I included three selections from here on here. The last few tracks on here are non-modal, post-bop stuff, featuring some guitar work from grant green and wes montgomery, a soul/blues jazz on the hammond organ, and closed with a classic Oliver Nelson tune based around a 16-bar blues.
maybe i'll put together another one for stuff that came after this that covers when jazz got weird with guys like ornette coleman, eric dolphy, sun ra, free jazz and fusion, the funk, and more modern stuff.
edit: here's an abridged version that's only 2 hours.
Would be interested in playlists for the following:
Tupac Biggie Meshuggah System of a Down Kraftwerk Joy Division/New Order
Would be open to suggestions here. Its at an hour 43, but I'm thinking there may be 13 minutes in skits attached in there so it may be close to 1:30.
I think my hardest cut was N****s Bleed. But I mostly just need you to know that at one point when describing a person, Biggie says that "Nothing To Lose (was) tattooed around his gun wound." Which is one of my favorite descriptive storytelling lines ever.
Another thing I noticed here is that all three of Biggie's album (or side) closing tracks were absolutely phenomenal. I just put all three of them back to back at the end here.
Top 5 non hit Biggie songs: Machine Gun Funk, Warning, I Got a Story To Tell, Suicidal Thoughts, Kick in the Door. Really wanted to include Notorious Thugs here, but I think other people besides me press skip once his verse ends which makes the song a little imbalanced.
Would be interested in playlists for the following:
Tupac Biggie Meshuggah System of a Down Kraftwerk Joy Division/New Order
Would be open to suggestions here. Its at an hour 43, but I'm thinking there may be 13 minutes in skits attached in there so it may be close to 1:30.
I think my hardest cut was N****s Bleed. But I mostly just need you to know that at one point when describing a person, Biggie says that "Nothing To Lose (was) tattooed around his gun wound." Which is one of my favorite descriptive storytelling lines ever.
Another thing I noticed here is that all three of Biggie's album (or side) closing tracks were absolutely phenomenal. I just put all three of them back to back at the end here.
Top 5 non hit Biggie songs: Machine Gun Funk, Warning, I Got a Story To Tell, Suicidal Thoughts, Kick in the Door. Really wanted to include Notorious Thugs here, but I think other people besides me press skip once his verse ends which makes the song a little imbalanced.
clicked to make sure "who shot ya" was on there.
also appreciate you included "notorious thugs". i have a fond memory of when the album came out and my friend called me all excited because biggie did a track with Bone. shit is still hot.
Not sure if that would work better as one playlist or two, but thanks!
going to try and do one just to edit myself. it's a little odd since i see joy division as an albums band and new order as a singles band. joy division only has the two proper studio albums and they are both essential listening front to back, while new order has some of the best single tracks of all time (IMO) that are almost better listened to in playlist form.