From the monthly archives:

December 2007

‘appy ‘oliday!

December 21, 2007

I’m taking my Christmas break. Hope you enjoyed at least some of the 168 songs I’ve posted since Hello Vegetables started on May 11.
I’ll leave the Christmas songs up until Boxing Day, and I’ll return on January 2 with loads of great music for you. Have a good holiday week, and remember that I love [...]

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Prop Every Leanin’ Side

December 21, 2007

A little spiritual number to get you through the holidays.
The Nashville Bluegrass Band – Every Humble Knee Must Bow from To Be His Child
Mandatory Christmas Content – I’m At Peace With The World
The King of Christmas songs.
Elvis Presley – If Every Day Was Like Christmas

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I Taught Neanderthal To Use The Rotary Phone

December 20, 2007

Latyrx’s The Album was the first album from the UC Davis Solesides collective, and featured the vocal talents of Lateef The Truth Speaker (who would go on to Blackalicious) and Lyrics Born. There were several producers on the album, but this track was produced by DJ Shadow, and you can imagine how forward-thinking this [...]

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If You Can Hear Me, If You’re Still There

December 19, 2007

You can debate the usefulness of year-end top-ten lists, but I find they can direct me to pay closer attention to certain albums. Robert Wyatt’s Comicopera is on a lot of artists’ lists, so I knew I should give it more than a background listen. Sure enough, a walk around the neighborhood with it [...]

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Mortal But Invincible

December 18, 2007

Here’s something to get that Fogelberg taste out of your mouth. If you think it sounds an awful lot like everything else Al Jourgensen produced, well then you are right.
What gives the song its special power is the poetic talent of Lorri Jackson, who lost her life to drug addiction before this album was released.
Skatenigs [...]

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We Bought A Six-Pack At The Liquor Store, And We Drank It In Her Car

December 17, 2007

Longer than there’ve been fishes in the ocean, higher than any bird ever flew, longer than there’ve been stars up in the heavens, I’ve been in love with this song. Rest peacefully, Dan. Thank you for trying to reach beyond the emptiness.
Dan Fogelberg – Same Old Lang Syne from his double album(!) The Innocent [...]

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Good Grief

December 14, 2007

Just close your eyes and listen to this until the start of the 2012 season, and it should be all over by then.
This is a Vince Guaraldi time of year, but instead of a Christmas track, here’s something from the first Peanuts album Guaraldi did. It was written for a documentary about Peanuts in 1964 [...]

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Baked Music

December 13, 2007

New Age, New Rave, Next Wave, anyway, it’s still whooshy synths to me.
Jean-Michel Jarre – Equinoxe IV from The Concerts In China (out of print)
Mandatory Christmas Content – R.I.P. I.K.E., You Didn’t Exactly Treat Her Right
Ike & Tina Turner – Merry Christmas, Baby

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Bonus Madness

December 12, 2007

Hey don’t forget to go check out Pitchfork’s Top 50 Videos Of 2007, including this beauty:

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They Live Where You Wouldn’t Dare To Drive

December 12, 2007

Here’s a gem from Morrissey’s lost years.
You shake as you think of how they sleep, but you write as if you all lie side by side.
Morrissey – Reader Meet Author from Southpaw Grammar
Mandatory Christmas Content – Plastic Berries On The Mistletoe
If you love Marty Feldman as much as I do (and you do), you’ll love [...]

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