Some End of Summer Songs For You

Phish 12/31/99 Ambient Jam Out of After Midnight

For all of you who don't know what Big Cypress was, here is an explanation.  They started off the 7.5 hour midnight to sunrise set with After Midnight, and this part of the show comes in their reprise jam of After Midnight coming after Drowned later in the set.  This is some of the best ambient music I have ever heard and probably the ambient music with the most groove I have ever heard.  The jam is broken up into two videos.  I threw in some pictures(which are not mine, I found them through Google) of the festival below as well.

Phish- Prague 7/6/98 Ghost

11/17/97 is one of my favorite shows and contained my favorite Ghost prior to hearing this version showcasing some great looping and shredding from Trey.  This video also features some great footage of European Phish.

Jerry Garcia Band 12/21/1979

Great recording of this gem from JGB.  The Sugaree and Positively 4th Street are both fantastic. Jerry is/was the best Dylan interpreter.  I guess there was a reason why Dylan asked to join the Dead.

Correct Track Listing:

Set 1

Sugaree

They Love Each Other

Russian Lullaby

After Midnight

Set 2

How Sweet it Is

Positively 4th Street

Deal

Encore

The Harder They Come

Some Deeper R.E.M. Cuts

I was listening through the R.E.M. catalog today and picked out some songs you probably wont hear on anything except XRT these days. Their older material is fantastic and if you like R.E.M. at all and do not know much of their material, begin with Automatic for the People and start working backwards. 

Doc on RATM and Protesting

They are arguably the best band of the 90's. Not only was the music great, but Tom Morello's guitar playing was innovative and forward thinking. You can't ignore the influential power of the their music and message either. I am lucky to have seen them live and I would have to say it was one of the best shows I have ever seen, possibly even THE best show I have ever seen. It was definitely the most intense and had the most energy.

The Best Thing to Come Out of Akron is Dan Auerbach, Sorry Lebron

Here is Dan Auerbach's (of The Black Keys) debut solo album from 2009. You may recognize Goin' Home from the new Budweiser ad about a soldier returning home to his family.

Keep it Hid

Home

Just at home for break. Sometimes its nice to get away from the circus and just go home. These are songs are about going home/wishing you were home or about my home.











I'll let The Chairman of The Board close out this post.

Smashing Pumpkins- 1979

I know that I have said this before, but 1979 is probably my favorite song and the Pumpkins are one of my favorite bands.  The music video for 1979 is also one of the best music videos of all time. I don't think many other forms of art have captured the essence of youth and it's carefree attitude as well as this song and it's video.  The song was not even supposed to be on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. On the last day before they chose from the 56 Corgan penned songs for the double album, 1979 was a little more than a few chord changes and Corgan singing a melody without any words.  The producer wanted to drop it from the record which fueled Billy to finish the song in 4 hours. (((Genius)))  I also just found out the other day that the video for Perfect follows the same characters from the 1979 video in the their lives a few years later.  I was just browsing around on the suggested videos on the side of YouTube (which I highly recommend) while watching this video the other day and found some other great interpretations of this song.  Have some patience with the remixe










and the original

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrivjzw0RlI
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Great Quote on Collecting Music from James Murphy

"I remember taking a good class in English, with a good professor, and he said, "I can't imagine being you." What do you mean? He said, "Well, I went to college in the 50s. You could count all the books you needed to read on two hands." You read your Shakespeare, your Chaucer, read the moderns, maybe you read a couple Russians, couple French, couple translated Germans, you know. And by the time you were 20 you had a good sense of literature. And by the time you're 21 you can read contemporary, 22, contemporary, 23, contemporary, and you're riding the wave. Now, I'm 35, I'm an avid reader, I'm still reading backwards, still getting my groundwork to get on top of the wave. Still too many books come out every week to pay attention to. If the fat TV lady doesn't recommend it who knows if it's even gonna get sent to the book store.

The same thing goes for music. There's so much more work [involved] to pay attention to what's new. It becomes really hard for a band to have a good sense of its history. Doesn't mean that's bad. Just means, I don't know. I think there's a reason why good bands were 19 and 20 in the 70s, and in 1966, they were 17. And that's very hard right now. New bands that are very young, they're not as good, they're not as new. Because they inevitably sound like the Who or, you know, AC/DC. They sound like something else. And it's very hard for them to crawl out from that and do something unusual. Or they're forced to be like, quirky individuals. It's very hard to find your own thing right now. I mean actually it took me till I was 29, 30 years old, to have any sense that I was doing anything my own. Any sense at all. Maybe that's just me. Maybe I'm just a hack, but it just took a long, long time to swim my way out of history, swim my way out of indie rock. Swim my way out of everything. I don't really know what could possibly be the solution to it. There are just so many tripping points into ego, so many tripping points into compromise. I don't know how people do it. I don't know how bands do it. Everything feels very very compromised.

At the same time, I get really angry when people get angry about there being a canon. White Male Canon thing. I always thought a canon's a great way to start cause then we can argue against it. The internet, I read a story on the internet-- "Fuck Shakespeare." What? That's an interesting argument only because you have Shakespeare. If you don't have that canon, there's nothing to talk about, there's total chaos. For me, the canon of rock when I was young wasn't that important. The Cure were important, the Minutemen were important. But being past all of that, I had to find what I loved about music, I had to dig farther. And luckily, like certain things, the Violent Femmes were a big question mark in there, and Jonathan Richman was a very good question mark in there for me that led me to other things being more interesting.

I think a canon is important, but you have to grow into it. That stuff can overwhelm you. You're 24 years old, you're in a band, and suddenly people are saying, "Hey, you guys sound a lot like Chrome. You should check out Chrome," or "You guys sound a lot like Roxy Music," and you're like, "I've never heard them," and you go find it and it can just overwhelm you. It can destroy a band. Because it's powerful stuff. I mean, the Strokes are swimming up some incredibly serious stuff: Velvet Underground. Television. It's kinda soul-crushing in a way to go listen to "Perfect Day" and say, "I'm gonna go write a song like that," and it'll be fucking horrible by comparison. I don't know, it's-- I have no insight into what people are gonna do. I guess for advice, not to be Alcoholics Anonymous about this, but just try to make one song at a time. Try to make the songs actually really good. It's a really funny testament-- I'm 35, an artist with a debut record. I feel like a grandfather."

-James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem) 2005

Well that'show i feel about collecting music too.

Here is the link to the entire article.http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/6036-jukebox-james-murphy/

Paul Simon

Here is the new Paul Simon album, So Beautiful or So What .  He is quoted as saying it's his best work in 20 years.  I would have to agree Mr. Simon, still bringing it at 69 years old.  For good measure here is his masterpiece, Graceland.

Pearl Jam- Ten 20th Anniversary Festival

Pearl Jam will be playing a 20th Anniversary "Festival" at Alpine Valley on Labor Day Weekend.  2 Day Event. Expect the announcement soon. I hope to see you there Claire Stevenson.

Beastie Boys New Album Teaser and Single

Too many celebrities to name in this one. This promo trailer has me excited. Maybe they come back to Lolla after having to skip their show last year?

Here is the complete cast list for the video above.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1791504/fullcredits#cast


Make Some Noise

http://www.mediafire.com/?gy1g1drz2o877

A Little Bird Just Told Me...

Daft Punk will be playing a set Saturday night of Lollapalooza this summer. That goes along nicely with this article.  Sound like House is coming home.


http://www.relix.com/news/2011/03/21/perry-farrell-electronic-act-to-headline-lollapalooza

Best Covers of Beatles Songs

Justice- Civilization

Civilization

The New single from Justice.

EDIT: I have listened to this track about 10 times now.  The Adidas commercial led me to believe it was going to be a straight banger all the way through, but it's still a solid follow up to Cross and to an extent Planisphere.

Neil Young- Live at Massey Hall 1971

Neil Young, solo, acoustic, in Toronto. It doesn't get much better.

Live at Massey Hall 1971

Ladder is Invincible

The Social Network and The Last Waltz

Here's a double dose since I have not been very active on this site. I finally saw The Social Network for the first time. It was a very good movie and the soundtrack was amazing, what else would you expect from Trent Reznor.

The Social Network



The Last Waltz was a concert/film/documentary chronicling the last performance by The Band in 1976. It was directed by Scorcese and features a slew of musical giants performing alongside The Band who were gods in their own right. Neil Young, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Ringo, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood, and Dylan. It may be the finest musical documentary (or possibly Stop Making Sense) or even documentary in general that I have ever seen. The stories and comments from the interviews are fantastic as well (getting their name from being Dylan's backing band). Young had a coke rock so large hanging from his nostril on stage that it had to be edited out before the film was released. Read about "The White Room" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Waltz#Drug_use

The Last Waltz

Justice and Adidas

Justice- Civilization in Adidas "All In" ad featuring Derrick Rose, Lionel Messi, David Beckham.