Adrienne Pauly - J'veux un Mec

When I get back to the relative safety of my apartment, and bolt the door, I begin the process of forgiving them, for they know not what they do. That's kind of like what Jesus might say, ya know?

This Cramps performance can provide meditative background music during the decompression process.

The Cramps at Napa State Mental Hospital - 1978

Black Mountain – In The Future
(Vancouver, BC)

Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue
(Montréal, QC)

Basia Bulat – Oh, My Darling (London, ON)

Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War (Montréal, QC)

Caribou – Andorra
(Dundas, ON)

Shad – The Old Prince
(London, ON)

Kathleen Edwards – Asking For Flowers
(Ottawa, ON)

Two Hours Traffic – Little Jabs
(Charlottetown, PE)

Holy Fuck – LP
(Toronto, ON)

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Originally posted by Catchfire:
Holy Fuck is a great band, but my sister plays for Basia Bulat, so obviously I'll be rooting for them.

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Originally posted by Lard Tunderin' Jeezus:
I'm rediscovering Les Rita Mitsouko a couple of decades after my first introduction.

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Wow, this takes me back to my early university days in Montreal.

Among other things, I am listening to Avalon Blues: A Tribute to the Music of Mississippi John Hurt. Also Chicago IX, which I bought on a whim at the Superstore checkout for nostalgia's sake, and, every once in a good while, Scary Monsters, which could be my favourite Bowie album.

Edited to take out the url's, as I guess I don't need to advertise every album I mention.

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Originally posted by jrose:
Basia Bulat is equally as talented. Very cool. What does your sister play?

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Originally posted by Catchfire:

My sister plays the very rock n' roll viola. In the press photos, she's the one that looks like me.

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Originally posted by Stargazer:
Black Mountain are playing in Toronto Sept 25th. I will be at the show dammit! I saw their spin off band, The Pink Mountaintops, when they played with LA's Black Angels (they rule).

Oh and the new Holy Fuck album is excellent!!

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Originally posted by Stargazer:
You won't regret it jrose. It's an excellent, trippy album and I think, judging by your boyfriend's band and it's cool psychedelic style, you'll love them.

let me know what you think.

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I'm rediscovering Les Rita Mitsouko a couple of decades after my first introduction.

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We were in Arles last summer and couldn't visit the Roman theatre because they were setting up for Les Rita Mitsouko that evening.

We didn't hang around Nimes the night before for the Bolshoi either, just because our ten-year old didn't want to go.

Oh yeah, I'm listening to Adriano Celentano on nostalgie.fr right now.

By the way, in the video, Flavor Flav in that top hat, white business suit and wacky sunglasses reminds me of Elton John in his "I'm Still Standing video in his white suit and hat.

Check it out:

Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man

I'm Still Standing

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Originally posted by Michelle:
[QB]Public Enemy - Can't Do Nuttin' For Ya Man

By the way, in the video, Flavor Flav in that top hat, white business suit and wacky sunglasses reminds me of Elton John in his "I'm Still Standing video in his white suit and hat.../QB]

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Oh. My. God. Michelle is right!

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Originally posted by Stargazer:
You won't regret it jrose. It's an excellent, trippy album and I think, judging by your boyfriend's band and it's cool psychedelic style, you'll love them.

let me know what you think.

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Excellent CD, Stargazer. You're right, I loved it! It deserves many more listens.

At the moment I'm listening to the Into The Wild soundtrack by Eddie Vedder, who I'm going to see do a solo show this week!

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Oh I'm glad you liked it (although I knew you would). Have fun at the Eddie Vedder show!

Catchfire, lots of amazing bands from Quebec. One of my favourite bands is from Montreal. The always amazing Tricky Woo:

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Originally posted by Stargazer:
Have fun at the Eddie Vedder show!

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Originally posted by Stargazer:
One of my favourite bands is from Montreal. The always amazing Tricky Woo

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Hey, I remember them! They were pretty good. Wow, they're still around?

Absolute best, best, most rocking Montreal band that I know of at the moment: Think About Life, a side project of Graham Van Pelt of Miracle Fortress -- also great. Both bands played Hillside Festival this year and the pit for Think About Life was like, 80 feet deep. People were going crazy.

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Originally posted by triciamarie:

Absolute best, best, most rocking Montreal band that I know of at the moment: Think About Life, a side project of Graham Van Pelt of Miracle Fortress -- also great. Both bands played Hillside Festival this year and the pit for Think About Life was like, 80 feet deep. People were going crazy.

www.alien8recordings.com/releases/think-about-life

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I think my favourite Perla song is her version of "Guantanamera" on her album "Discoteca". It's beautiful. However, I also love her "Teotihuacan", "Tears Of The Sun", and "Celebrating Turtle Island" from her "Heaven and Earth" album - that album is just stunning, it's so incredibly good, and I highly recommend it.

And what about Montreal's own Lhasa?

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Originally posted by Papal Bull:
That music video is good.

And that song is great. I've just heard it too much. I got the album when it came out, and I listened to that a bit. Then Pineapple Express came out, soon, it was on everyone's playlist!

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Originally posted by Bookish Agrarian:
I've been spending the evening with the Chieftains on. They prove time and again that great music transends all genres.

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Originally posted by martin dufresne:
Do you know Lila Downs? Exquisite.

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ETA: I occasionally also listen to rock (early Elvis, Stones, Beatles, Cream, Hendrix, CSN&Y) and some country (early Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Cash, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dolly Parton).

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We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee;
We don't take our trips on LSD
We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street;
We like livin' right, and bein' free.

I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all

We don't make a party out of lovin';
We like holdin' hands and pitchin' wood;
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy,
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do.

And I'm proud to be an Okie from Muskogee,
A place where even squares can have a ball.
We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
And white lightnin's still the biggest thrill of all.

Leather boots are still in style for manly footwear;
Beads and Roman sandals won't be seen.
Football's still the roughest thing on campus,
And the kids here still respect the college dean.

We still wave Old Glory down at the courthouse,
In Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA.

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Wicthcraft is a good band in the mold of Black Sabbath but is from the new music scene in Orebro Sweden along with great mammoth and others.

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Bullet with butterfly wings.

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Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:
I saw "Changes," and for a moment hoped to see the tune by Bix.

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I wish I had a trumpet smilie.

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Hey Boom Boom,
Purchase second hand copies of The Weavers "Folk Songs Around the World" and Arl Guthrie's "Arlo" on Saturday. I assume you like them more than Emerson, Lake and Palmer?

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You assume correctly. I think I have that Weavers album. The only Arlo album I have is a double cassette with Pete Seeger called "Precious Friend" - it is sublime.

Check out the Vinyl Engine, the "Home of the Turntable".

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I be misunderstood Santa Esmeralda

ooh! Impoésie Marjo soundalike "les ministars" Où aller!

[ 06 October 2008: Message edited by: Fidel ]

Do y'all know Felix Leclerc? I can't get enough of him lately.

Here is a quick and dirty translation:
Bohemians prayer

To all the bohemians, the bohemians of my street
Who are not musicians, nor actors, nor clowns
nor dansers, nor singers, nor travellers nor nohing
who have each morning, bravely, neatly
In their little jacket
under their little hat
Earned through employment their daily bread
Who smile to the neighbours
Without envy
Who have decided to hope
Without ever seeing gold in the dawn or in their pocket
Those brave Bohemians, without caravan nor dog
Silent public servants with tired eyes.
I bring bring heartfelt homages
The hope of towns unknown
The entrance to paradise lost
By the continents never seen
It's them who are the strongest
Who take all into death
Before these bohemians, the bohemians of my street
Who don't have more than the night to leave
On the blue boats of their drifting away youth
Glories forgotten
Talents abandoned
Like bags fallen to the side of big roads
Who raise their hand
Cruelly happy to have crossed
the days
Sunny, Worn
Where nothing happens but more embaressments
but more deceptions
All season long
I've my hat lowered in my hand
Before my Bohemian brothers

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Don't Be Cruel way cool

Birthday You say it's yer birthday? Well it's my birthday too, yeah

Feet of the Moon - Parachute Club

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Leno and Letterman were both repeats last night. Seeger played his banjo (backed by five musicians on guitar, violin, and vocals) and did a song celebrating MLK and Rosa Parks, and got the audience singing the chorus and clapping - not a bad feat considering he's 89.

Glen Campbell on Leno - he looked a little like death warmed over, and just sang into a microphone, no 12-string acoustic guitar playing for which he was legendary in the 1960s and 70s. Is he just out of rehab, I wonder.

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Darn it! I meant to catch the Seeger performance the first time around on Letterman, and it seems I missed it again. If I remember correctly, Letterman did a pretty great tribute to Paul Newman that night too.

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Found it!

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