This city called Music - Week 21 playlist.
Tracks this week (arranged chronologically, as always) by:
Bob Dylan, L7, The Jesus and Mary Chain, R.E.M., The Auteurs, Tricky, Screaming Trees, Wagon Christ, Blur, Grandaddy, Doves, Gallon Drunk, Beach House, Saint Etienne, Actress, Lone, KTL, Cold Specks, Mount Eerie.
Put that in your pipe…
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It’s been 12 weeks tonight since I last drank alcohol. But now, instead of being addicted to wine, I’m addicted to buying CDs. This week I’ve already bought Actress - R.I.P. And I’ve just hit the “Place Your Order” icon on Amazon on an order for a further four:
I intended to buy Mount Eerie - Clear Moon but for some inexplicable reason it’s not available in CD format; that’s the second 2012 LP that I love but am unable to buy a CD copy of (the other being Daughn Gibson’s brilliant “All Hell”). I know musicians love vinyl but not selling CDs seems a bit, well, snobbish? So, failing that I’ve bought:
Moonface - With Sinai: Heartbreaking Bravery (I first played this a few weeks ago, but it’s been stuck in the back of my head ever since and it’s now time to bring it fully into my consciousness).
Grandaddy - Sophtware Slump - one of those albums that my wife and I call “ours”. Deeply sad in places. I love deeply sad music, you may have noticed.
The Auteurs - New Wave - chances of there being anyone reading this who’s known this album since 93 like I have are virtually zero. Recommended.
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey’s Dead. How did this pass me by for so long?! I think I was too focused on ‘Psycho Candy’. Sounds like it could end up very high in my list of “best-of-indie, ever” list.
My CD collection is coming along very nicely, if I may say so myself :)
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Sugar Ray (Honey’s Dead, 1992, Blanco Y Negro).
This is not the first time I’ve heard this album but I’m pretty sure I’ve never played it myself before. I’ve certainly never owned it. Anyway, whether or not it’s a new play, it’s really damn good.
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I have now played 400 different albums this year.
1000 albums to be played divided by 366 days in the (leap) year = 2.73
2.73 albums to be played per day in 2012
31 days in January and March, 29 in February, 30 in April and 25 so far in May = 146 days in 2012 so far
146 days in 2012 multiplied by 2.73 albums to be played per day in 2012 = 398.58
I am therefore currently 1.42 albums ahead of schedule.
This pleases me.
Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (Highway 61 Revisited LP, 1965, Columbia).
I first deliberately listened to Bob Dylan after hearing PJ Harvey’s cover of Highway 61 Revisited on her “Rid of Me” album, in 1993. Naturally this is the album I started with and it’s still my favourite Bob Dylan album.
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Tricky - Suffocated Love (Maxinquaye, 1995, Island Records).
“I know why the caged bird sings”.
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