Blip.fm playlist

Playlist HERE. Leave me some props if you like.

01 Radiohead - All I Need
02 Arcade Fire - Black Mirror
03 Black Lips - Starting Over
04 Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey (I would've put "Golden Dawn" on here instead, but it wasn't available.)
05 A Place To Bury Strangers - I Know I'll See You
06 Sonic's Rendezvous Band - City Slang
07 Department of Eagles - No One Does It Like You
08 The Kinks - Waterloo Sunset
09 The Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile

On Rotation: Week of 4/06/09

On Rotation:

01. HEALTH - Die Slow (7" single, A-side, 2009) Buy the 7" here.
02. Can - Thief (Delay 1968, 1981)
03. The Congos - Open Up the Gates (Heart of The Congos, 1977)
04. Gui Boratto - Les enfants (Take My Breath Away, 2009)
05. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment (My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981)
06. Joy Division - Disorder (Unknown Pleasures, 1979)
07. Kraftwerk - Antenna (Radioactivity, 1975)
08. Brian Eno - The Big Ship (Another Green World, 1975)
09. Sigur Rós - Saeglópur (Takk, 2005)

Kicks

Before I left San Francisco, I sold my drum kit and gave away my guitar. I don't partake in any "social vices" nor have I any friends in this city so the only way I get my kicks these days is through books, films, and music. Occasionally, I like to explore the asphalt jungles of Manhattan.

BOOKS: I'm currently plowing through Marshall McLuhan's prescient, media bible/manual, "Understanding Media." For a book that expounded on so many concepts that were ahead of its time and launched catchphrases such as "The Medium Is The Message," "the global village," "hot and cold media" into the public's consciousness (catchphrases that were novel in the late 60's when the book was published, but which have become commonplace today), it has a pretty boring title. But as the proverb goes, don't judge a book by its cover. I'm only 60 pages or so into it and I've already begun to think differently about technology and the way in which information in Western Civilizations has traditionally been organized and disseminated. I'm also trying to finish John Berger's book, "About Looking."

FILMS: I've got John Schlesinger's "Day of the Locust" in my DVD player. "Billy Liar" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday" (with an uncredited turn by a young Daniel Day-Lewis!) are next.

MUSIC: Listening to some Kraftwerk, Sigur Ros, Jane's Addiction, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach (on a shag carpet with a dry martini in hand, naturally).

I recently discovered the inspired music of Heitor Villa-Lobos through watching a terrible VHS transfer of Brazilian filmmaker Glauber Rocha's "Black God White Devil." As far as I can gather from the subtitles that weren't bleached out, it's about a mercenary (Antonio das Mortes), an embittered desperado (Captain Corisco), a messianic evangelist (Sebastien), and a man and his wife (Manoel and Rosa) divided by religion and civil war. If I were to be facile, I would say that it is about man's search for peace. Voted the "greatest Brazilian film of all time," the film was released onto DVD last year by Mr. Bongo, but it's only available in the U.K. The SF MOMA programmed a screening of Rocha's sequel to "Black God White Devil," "Antonio das Mortes" last year, but unfortunately, couldn't acquire the print in time. Major disappointment.

The music of Brazil's much beloved composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos is featured in "Black God, White Devil." Villa-Lobos seems to have been a very prolific artist. If you enjoy Erik Satie's piano works, you'll enjoy his piano pieces. If you enjoy the music of Paco de Lucia, Django Reinhardt or the Assad brothers, you'll enjoy Villa-Lobos' compositions for solo guitar. The latter duo put out an album of Villa-Lobos' complete guitar works. Scroll down to listen.

On Rotation - Week of 3/23/200...

Sergio & Odair Assad - Heitor Villa-Lobos: Obra Completa Para Violao Solo (Kuarup Brasil, 2006), Suite Popular Brasiliera

On Rotation - Week of 3/9/09

This week's edition of "On Rotation" features three tracks by Lil' Wayne, whose merits I discovered only yesterday while attempting to relieve boredom. Unlike Kanye West's over-inflated and masturbatory "808's & Heartbreak," whatever madness is behind Lil' Wayne's "Tha Carter III" is downright fascinating. Bewildering and kind of offensive too, but mostly fascinating. As far as I know (and my knowledge of mainstream hip-hop is admittedly scant), nobody in mainstream hip-hop today has ever recorded a rap about suffering from mental illness, being a martian and a "venereal disease" or hated by the seasons. Nobody has rapped about the disorientating experience of going from the ghetto 'hood to the gated 'hood with such self-consciousness. Nobody has had the temerity to claim to be the saviour of hip-hop, referenced Hitler and ESPN in the same song, dedicated a whole track to rapping about a prostitute or fucking the police (literally). He even delivers a diatribe against the Reverend Al Sharpton on "Don't Get It," berating him as a "Don King with a perm." Name a rapper that has done that. The man is "ILL! Not sick." Well, maybe a little.



01 Animal Collective - My Girls from Merriweather Post Pavilion
02 Aphrodite's Child - Rain and Tears from The End of the World
03 Beck - Youthless from Modern Guilt
04 Bill Withers - Can We Pretend from + Justed
05 Bon Iver - Skinny Love from For Emma, Forever Ago
06 Caetano Veloso - Cucurrucucu Paloma from The Best of Caetano Veloso
07 Chad VanGaalen - Echo Train from Infiniheart
08 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Wrote A Song For Everyone from Green River
09 Crystal Castles - Vanished from Crystal Castles
10 David Byrne & Brian Eno - Strange Overtones from Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
11 David Ruffin - Heaven Help Us All from David (The Unreleased Album)
12 Deerhunter - Never Stops from Microcastle
13 Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven from A Gift from A Flower to A Garden
14 Dungen - Satt Att Se ("Ways to See") from 4
15 Etta James - I'd Rather Go Blind from Etta James - Her Best: The Chess 50th Anniversary Collection
16 Grizzly Bear + Feist - Service Bell from Dark Was The Night (Red Hot Compilation)
17 Holy Fuck - Nude (Remix) from Radiohead remix contest
18 Isaac Hayes - Wonderful from Ultimate Isaac Hayes: Can You Dig It?
19 Ladytron - Black Cat from Velocifero
20 Lali Puna - Faking The Books from Faking The Books
21 Laura Cantrell - Love Vigilantes from Trains And Boats And Planes
22 Lil' Wayne - Mr. Carter (Ft. Jay-Z) from Tha Carter III
23 Lil' Wayne - A Milli from Tha Carter III
24 Lil' Wayne - Dr. Carter from Tha Carter III
25 Lykke Li - I'm Good, I'm Gone from Youth Novels
26 Matt And Kim - Daylight from Grand
27 Miriam Makeba - Olilili from Africa
28 Pinback - Good To Sea from Autumn of the Seraphs
29 The Raveonettes - Dead Sound from Lust Lust Lust
30 Rodriguez - Sugar Man from Cold Fact
31 Shuggie Otis - Inspiration Information from World Psychedelic Classics 2: California Soul
32 Sigur Rós - Hoppipolla from Takk
33 Spiritualized - Soul On Fire from Songs In A & E
34 TV on the Radio - Family Tree from Dear Science
35 TV on the Radio - Stork & Owl from Dear Science
36 TV on the Radio - DLZ from Dear Science
37 Vetiver - Everyday from Tight Knit

On Rotation - Week of 2/16/09

Animal Collective - Daily Routine from Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
Animal Collective - Bat You'll Fly from Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2000)
Matt & Kim - Daylight from Grand (2009)
Man Man - Gold Teeth from The Man In A Blue Turban With A Face (2004)
Rodriguez - Sugar Man from Cold Fact (2008 re-issue, originally released 1970)
Morrissey - Shame Is The Name (feat. Chrissie Hynde) from I'm Throwing My Arms Around Paris b-side (2009)

Download removed. Click on the player below to listen to "Shame Is The Name."

Joy Division - Shadowplay from Unknown Pleasures (2007 re-master, originally released 1980)
Beck - Youthless from Modern Guilt (2008)
The Kills - Gypsy Death & You from Keep On Your Mean Side (2003)

On Rotation: Week of 10/27/2008

For the week of Oct. 27, 2008:

Bjork (Feat. Thom Yorke) - Nattura (single, 2008) Sorry, no link. Buy it on iTunes and support the Nattura campaign.
Cat Power - Still In Love (Myra Lee, 1995)
Elvis Costello - Accidents Will Happen (Armed Forces, 1979)
Elvis Costello - Party Girl (Armed Forces, 1979)
Devo & Neil Young - Hey, Hey, My, My [Into the Black] (from the film, Human Highway, 1995)
Bob Dylan - Moonshiner (Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3: Rare and Unreleased, 1991)
The Flaming Lips - Race For The Prize (The Soft Bulletin, 1999)
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wild Horses ([Rolling Stones cover], Burrito Deluxe, 1970)
Gogol Bordello - Through the Roof 'N' Underground (Multi Kontra Culti vs. Irony, 2002)
Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians - Bad Case of History (Luminous Groove, 2008)
Killing Joke - Change (Killing Joke, 1980)
Nick Lowe - 36 Inches High (Jesus of Cool, 1978)
Nick Lowe - Nutted By Reality (Jesus of Cool, 1978)
Mercury Rev - Senses On Fire (Snowflake Midnight, 2008)
The Pretenders - One Thing Never Changed (Break Up the Concrete, 2008)
Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla (Takk, 2005)
Sun City Girls - Blue Mamba (Torch of the Mystics, 1996)
Giuseppe Verdi - I. Requiem & Kyrie: Requiem Æternam (Messa da Requiem: Quattro Pezzi Sacri, 1964)
Loudon Wainwright - Motel Blues (Recovery, 2008)
Thom Yorke - After the Gold Rush (live Neil Young cover)
Neil Young - Like A Hurricane (American Stars 'n' Bars, 1977)

On Rotation

Tin Hat Trio - Bill (The Rodeo Eroded, 2002)
Tin Hat - Old World (The Sad Machinery of Spring, 2007)
13th Floor Elevators - Slip Inside This House (Easter Everywhere, 1967)
13th Floor Elevators - Dust (Easter Everywhere, 1967)
Robert Wyatt - Little Red Robin Hood Hit the Road (Rock Bottom, 1974)
Robert Wyatt - A Beautiful War (Comicopera, 2007)
Spiritualized - Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space (Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space, 1997)
Spiritualized - She Kissed Me [It Felt Like A Hit] (Amazing Grace, 2003)
Spiritualized - Soul on Fire (Songs in A & E, 2008)
The Rolling Stones - Backstreet Girl (Flowers, 1967)
The Saints - No, Your Product (Eternally Yours, 1978)
Van Morrison - Caravan (Moondance, 1970)
Ofo The Black Company - Enario [1974] (Nigeria Rock Special, 2007)
Elvis Costello - No Action [Early Version] (My Aim Is True--Bonus Disc, 1977)
Elliott Smith - Junk Bond Trader (Figure 8, 2000)
Heatmiser - Half Right (Mic City Sons, 1996)
Arthur Russell - See Through Love (Another Thought, 1994)
Jens Lekman - A Little Lost (Four Songs By Arthur Russell EP, 2007)
Bill Fay - Screams in the Ears (Bill Fay, 1971)
Bill Fay - Methane River (Bill Fay, 1971)
Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man (Bringing It All Back Home, 1965)