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ShockPop! Play List, Sunday April 19, 2009

A Great Set of Tunes Was Had by All!

Thanks to Paul Ellis from Pop Archeology Transmission and Fabrizio from Soundserif for dropping by the chat room! Always nice to type with you gentlemen!

Here's what you missed....

1. The Condors - Wake Up (3:04)
2. Setting Sun - How Long REMIX (3:38)
3. Fanfarlo - The Walls Are Coming Down (4:12)
4. Mellowmen - Sunshine Shell (3:14)
5. The Dolly Rocker Movement - Sad Sally (3:47)
6. Eytan Mirsky - This Song (3:00)
7. Symphony in DeMeanor - Let The Children Play (4:49)
8. Envy & Other Sins - Highness (3:38)
9. The Mores - How to make a fool (2:58)
10. Pop Archeology Transmission - New Improved Dark Ages (3:38)
11. Monsieur Mo Rio - My Friends (2:13)
12. Frank Ciampi - Anna (3:05)
13. Their Hearts Were Full of Spring - I saw the lights go out (3:55)
14. Mike Viola - 279 East 10th Street (1:48)
15. The Fieros - One Woman (2:20)
16. Bears - Please Don't (2:13)
17. Soundserif - John titor or the time traveler (3:46)
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All-Time Faves Lists

Here is my all-time faves list as of today. As time goes on, I will adjust according to taste...

Fave Musical Artists:

1.The Someloves
2.The Three O'Clock
3.The Smiths
4.The Beatles
5.Guided by Voices
6.Big Star/Chris Bell
7.Hurrah!
8.R.E.M.
9.Pop Art
10.Marshall Crenshaw
11.Tommy Keene
12.The Sundays
13.The Field Mice
14.Sloan
15.West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
16.Jellyfish
17.Game Theory/The Loud Family
18.Belle and Sebastian
19.The Go-Betweens
20.The Decemberists

Fave Albums:

1.The Someloves-Something Or Other
2.The Three O'Clock-16 Tambourines
3.Sam Phillips-The Indescribable Wow
4.Any Trouble-Where Are All the Nice Girls?
5.R.E.M.-Fables of the Reconstruction
6.Matthew Sweet-Girlfriend
7.Dancing Hoods-12 Jealous Roses
8.Miracle Legion-The Backyard E.P.
9.The Sundays-Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
10.Nanci Griffith-One Fair Summer Evening
11.The Fairways-Is Everything Alright?
12.Oranger-The Quiet Vibration Land
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Why in the world is The Fairways' K-L-M Line available as a free mp3 on Last FM? That song is the aural equivalent of the Hope Diamond! Such melodic excellence and touching sentiment could easily fetch six figures on the open market. No wonder why the music business is going down the crapper.
Just kidding-download away. Everyone should hear that tune. It's a classic (IMHO).
I also love the fact that it refers to San Francisco, or more specifically a public transit line in SF. I love lovesongs that have a sense of place, though I have a hard time believing anybody could fall in love on Muni.

A
First: A Tribe Called Quest
Favorite: Antônio Carlos Jobim
Last: At the Drive-In

B
First: Basement Jaxx
Favorite: Björk
Last: Busta Rhymes

C
First: Cagedbaby
Favorite: The Cranberries
Last: Cypress Hill

D
First: Daft Punk
Favorite: Death Cab for Cutie
Last: Duran Duran

E
First: Eagles of Death Metal
Favorite: Erlend Øye
Last: Eurythmics

F
First: The Fairways
Favorite: Frou Frou
Last: Future Pilot Aka

G
First: The Get Up Kids
Favorite: Gorillaz
Last: Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five

H
First: Handsome Boy Modeling School
Favorite: Hell Is For Heroes
Last: Hundred Reasons

I
First: Ian Brown
Favorite: Imogen Heap
Last: Islands

J
First: Jack Johnson
Favorite: José González
Last: Justin Timberlake

K
First: Kanye West
Favorite: Kings of Convenience
Last: Kylie Minogue

L
First: La Lupe
Favorite: Lupe Fiasco
Last: Lupe Fiasco

M
First: The Mad Capsule Markets
Favorite: Madonna
Last: Mylo

N
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My dad and my uncle were very much into The Beatles so I got to listen to a lot of their songs when I was a kid. "Don't Let Me Down" was one which stuck in my head for a while. Another uncle had an LP of the Superman soundtrack by John Williams and being Superman fans, me and my cousins would sneak it out of his room and play it on the downstairs stereo system. My grandfather was a fan of Sergio Mendes, Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra while my mother was into Patsy Cline. I was exposed to a lot of different kinds of music when I was a kid. There was of course the usual pop music I hear on the radio everyday and Ray Parker Jr.’s’ "Ghostbusters" was something I would dance to in those days. I remember Survivor's "Eye Of The Tiger" being a favorite because of Rocky. Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran and A-Ha caught my fancy for a while.

Music videos were influential to me when it came to buying musical releases, the money coming from my parents at first. …

Having had a whole load of fun reading through pattismithowns, hickorywind and all’s list of Top 100 albums I must say that my interest was more than a little piqued. But being the wishy-washy person that I am, I didn’t think I could possibly go through the list and rank the albums. That’s just an impossible task for me. Far too insane to even contemplate. So, I have figured another way around this and come up with a Desert Island Discs 100.

So….the following list of albums are really not in any order. They are possibly not even going to make the lists of most respectable critics, fans and other assorted Top 100 whatnots. They are possibly not even my 100 favourite albums. They’re just 100 albums I think I would need if I could hear nothing else, stuck on an island.

By the time I completed with this list, I figured out one thing about my own listening habit – I wasn’t an albums person…It was a ridiculously tough task picking out individual albums to bring along because I liked bits and pieces of albums…

Its a nice warm Sunday, and I thought I would just type "Sunday" into my iTunes and see what turns up. So below is a selection of songs on my iTunes that has Sunday in their titles.

1. Sunday Morning

Its been a while since I heard this and its typical of early songs by theAluminium Group. It kinda reminds me of lazy Sundays when I was growing up in the 70s listening to the radio in my dad's car as we went out.

2. Sunday

This is a lot more mellow. more like early Sunday morning rather than a Sunday afternoon song. One of those tracks from Ben Christophers's first album that I quite enjoy.

3. Sunday Girl

Blondie was always great fun when I was growing up. And Sunday Girl is always a hoot. More Saturday night then Sunday, but works as well if you're trying to chase away those pre-Monday blues.

4. Sunday Came and Went

This was originally done by The Castaway Stones on the quite excellent Shelflife Records compilation You Make Me Smile.

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