Sonya's wedding playlist

Everlasting Light	The Black Keys
Lively Up Yourself	Bob Marley
1234	Feist
Let's Have A Natural Ball	Albert King
House by the Sea	Iron & Wine
Louie Louie	The Kingsmen
You're My Best Friend	Queen
The Ghost (Marcus Garvey)	Burning Spear
Lost Coastlines	Okkervil River
Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)	Arcade Fire, The
Shangri-La	M. Ward
The Gold Finch and the Red Oak Tree	Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Porcelain	Moby
d1 - 07 - massive attack - hymn of the big wheel	Compilation
A-Punk	Vampire Weekend
Sénégal fast food	Amadou & Mariam
This Is Us	Mark Knopfler & Emmylou Harris
Never Had Nobody Like You	M. Ward
Mysterious Ways	U2
Runnin' Down a Dream	Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Time Is Tight	Booker T. & The MG's
Hip Hug-Her	Booker T. & the MG's
All You Need Is Love	The Beatles
Terra d'água	Mariza
Come Away With Me	Norah Jones
Come Go With Me	The Del Vikings
One Hundred Million Years	M. Ward
We're Going to Be Friends	The White Stripes
Turn Me On	Norah Jones
Summertime	Sidney Bechet
Miles	Miles Davis
Begin The Beguine	Artie Shaw And His Orchestra
all the things you are	Dizzy Gillepsie
So What (Take 1)	Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Maria Lisboa	Mariza
Tamacun	Rodrigo y Gabriela
Que Deus me perdoe	Mariza
Milestones (Take 5)	Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
A Little Less Conversation	Elvis Presley
Land Of 1000 Dances	Wilson Pickett
I Can't Help Myself (sugar pie, Honey Bunch)	Four Tops-
Eight Days A Week	The Beatles
My Girl	The Temptations
Everybody Needs Somebody to Love	Wilson Pickett
I've Been Working (Live)	Van Morrison
Hold On! I'm Comin'	Sam & Dave
Papa's Got A Brand New Bag	James Brown
Rosa Parks	Outkast
Kiss	Prince
No Woman No Cry	Bob Marley & The Wailers
Whenever, whenever	Shakira
Stayin' Alive	Bee Gees
Twist And Shout	The Beatles
You Shook Me All Night Long	AC/DC
Where Have All The Rude Boys Gone?	Ted Leo/Pharmacists
Fell in Love With a Girl
I Bet You Look Good On the Dancefloor	Arctic Monkeys
Honky Tonk Woman	The Rolling Stones
FUNKY COLD MEDINA	Tone Loc
The Way You Move (Feat. Sleepy Brown)	OutKast
Seed 2.0, The (featuring Cody	Roots
Hey Ya!	OutKast
Groove Is In the Heart	Deee-Lite
Basement Jaxx vs. The Clash / Magnificent Romeo
just like heaven	The Cure
E-Pro	Beck
cd1-03-lucky-star	Madonna
Billie Jean	Michael Jackson
Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z - Crazy In
That Sound feat. Noelle	Ohmega Watts
These Words	Natasha Bedingfield
Stronger	Kanye West
Intergalactic	The Beastie Boys
B.O.B.	Outkast
Big Pimpin'	Jay Z
Three Little Birds	Bob Marley & The Wailers
Shout (Parts 1 & 2)	The Isley Brothers
When I Come Around	Green Day
Today	The Smashing Pumpkins
No Rain	Blind Melon
Could You Be Loved	Bob Marley & the Wailers
Lookin' Out My Back Door	Creedence Clearwater Revival
After Midnight	Eric Clapton
Orange Crush	R.E.M.
You Sexy Thing	Hot Chocolate
Suffragette City
Blister in the sun	Violent Femmes
Foxy Lady	Jimi Hendrix
American Girl	Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Santa Monica	Everclear
Down On The Corner	Creedence Clearwater Revival
Stir It Up	Bob Marley & The Wailers
Ocean Breathes Salty	Modest Mouse
Tumbling Dice	The Rolling Stones
Somebody Told Me	The Killers
Dashboard	Modest Mouse
Tighten Up	The Black Keys
Got To Get You Into My Life	The Beatles
friday night im in love	The Cure
Soul Meets Body	Death Cab for Cutie
Paper Planes	M.I.A.
cd1-15-like-a-prayer	Madonna
Compagnon De La Vie	Amadou & Mariam
Count Your Blessings	Nas And Damian Marley
Furr	Blitzen Trapper
TAKE ON ME	A-HA
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger	Daft Punk
Is This Love	Bob Marley & the Wailers
The Sounds Of Silence	Simon & Garfunkel
Pride (In The Name Of Love)	U2
White Winter Hymnal	Fleet Foxes
Beautiful Day	U2
Modern Guilt	Beck
One More Time	Daft Punk
Lisztomania	Phoenix
not fade away	Buddy Holly
Good Riddance	Green Day
I Want To Hold Your Hand	The Beatles
Once In A Lifetime	Talking Heads
Fidelity	Regina Spektor
Break On Through	The Doors

technical question

Do you know how to rip the audio from a youtube video into an mp3?

Taking Awhile to Review an Album

Today I was listening to Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy and The New Pornographers Mass Romantic and I realized these were really good albums, they just got lost in the abyss of the music surrounding it. Bands such as Sufjan Stevens, Antony and the Johnsons, and The New Pornographers, Okkervil River all had great releases that year; 2005. Having listened to all of these at the time, I was just kind of sick of that unique-ness that surrounded those type of orchestration based bands. The Pornographers have a great sound that kind of hearkens back to the great pop of the early to mid 80's...The Cars, The Smiths, Blondie, The Police. Pop bands that actually played instruments and played them pretty well. Okkervil has more of a folk rock feel, but I still get the organics of a live drum and guitar. Seems that the good pop albums of the 80's were more kind of drum, guitar and bass. This is the feeling I got out of these releases...maybe I'm way off base here, this is just something I've been musing on today.

Here's the playlist:

The Cars - My Best Friend's Girl
The Police - Roxanne
Blondie - Hanging on the Telephone
The Cars - Don't Cha Stop
The Police - Message in a Bottle
The New Pornographers - Mystery Hours
Okkervil River - For Real
The Pernice Brothers - Pisshole in the Snow
The New Pornographers - Letter From an Occupant
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

Amadou & Mariam "Welcome To Mali"

Album Review: Welcome To Mali

Amadou & Mariam
"Welcome to Mali"
March 24, 2009
Nonesuch Records

This album is a joyous tour of the world in musical form. It sounds like the musicians stopped and recorded in every country they went to on their last tour. Influences from everywhere. So Far I have, African folk, blues, American r&b, hip hop, new wave, electronica, prog rock, pop its got god-dammed everything (even the talk-box guitar solo) all stewed together and played with a hellaciaous groove. I think its my new favorite album. (not list-worth yet, though) I really think this album has a great sound, lush and full with more instruments that I can count, but all in the right places. It has good varied pacing overall i think its a 4.5 star easy, with 5 star potential.

If you like this check out these.

Amadou and Mariam "Diamanche a Biamako"

and if you like blues and this check out
Ali Farke Toure - "Radio Mali"

Iron and Wine

" taken from Iron and Wine's website'"
"Iron and Wine is excited to announce the May 19, 2009 release of Around the Well, a 2-CD/3-LP collection of rare tracks ranging from out-of-print to never-before-released."

How much iron and wine unreleased and bootleg stuff have you got. I've amassed a pretty good collection. Highly recommend tracking down Live 10-27-07 Queen's Hall Edinburgh
1. Lovesong of the Buzzard
2.Peace Beneath the City
3.Innocent Bones
4.On your wings
5.Pagan angel and a borrowed car
6.evening on the ground (Lilliths Song)
7.Boy With a Coin
8.Sodom South Georgia
9.House By The Sea
10.Carousel
11.Upward Over The Mountain
12.The Sea and The Rythym
13.Woman King
14.Wolves (Song of the Shepards Dog
15.Resurrection Fern
16Flightless Bird, American Mouth
17The Trapeze Swinger


If you like the most accoustic type Iron and Wine, you'll like either Live at Wheaton College 2-15-08, the one i found is a good bootleg very clear, mostly just sam and guitar,

Hail to the Queen!!!!

I noticed that this blog was being neglected, so I decided to lay down a small holistic band review. Queen is one of those bands that while growing up, I never really got into. I think some of this just has to with being a kid and wanting to listen to heavy metal and country all day long. It also has to do with the fact that if you didn't dig deep, all you knew of the band was Bohemian Rhapsody and We Are the Champions. But, recently, listening to their catalog through the 70's, I realize that this was a great band. Mercury had the kind of range that most singers would just love to have and Brian May could rip the guitar to shreds with the best of them. Listening to Queen I, II and Night at the Opera (widely considered their best effort) and all the rest of the 70's catalog...you realize just how good this band was. Taking of tour of Night at the Opera, I can find influences ranging from shanty bands that you would find at local pubs in Scotland or England, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and the harmonies of the Beach Boys and probably many more that I have yet to discover... yet, everything they have has their signature on it. They are the type of albums that can be played to hundreds of thousands of people in an arena....or can be quietly listened to on a set of headphones in your cubicle at work. The following is a playlist I have devised to represent some of their best through this time period, I am hardly qualified to give an expert opinion...but these are some of the songs that will get you started on the journey:

Doing All Right - Queen I
Great King Rat - Queen I
Liar - Queen I
Prophet Song - Queen I
Ogre Battle - Queen II
The Fairy Feller's Master Stroke - Queen II
Lazing on a Sunday Afternoon - Opera
I'm in Love With My Car - Opera
You're My Best Friend - Opera
'39 - Opera
Somebody to Love - A Day At the Races
Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy - A Day at the Races
Fat Bottomed Girls - Jazz
Bicycle Race - Jazz
Don't Stop Me Now - Jazz
Killer Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

Marquee Moon Reveiw

I just listened to this for the second time. I think that's a good point to write an initial review, I think most truly 5 star rated albums should reveal that they are great on at least the second listen, you may not fully appreciate the full greatness but you should at least be able to see that something going on here. and i think there is something going on here. Came out in the great music year of 1977. Still sounds startling fresh and relevant. and influential for a lot of 1980's stuff. plus it has some kick ass guitar work that is very different than much of the guitar sound, I think this may be a top 100 album cantidate. Thoughts?

Following up the Starts with N playlist, Bands that start with B. This be the letter with the highest quality of any. All cuts are album versions unless otherwise noted.



1. Beastie Boys - B For my Name
2. Beck - Modern Guilt
3.Bob Marley & the Wailers - Soul Rebel
4.Booker T and the MG's - Hip Hug-Her
5.Bobby Womack - Across 110th Street
6.The Budos Band - Adeniji
7.Black Keys - All Hands Against His Own
8.Ben Harper - Burn One Down
9.Blitzen Trapper - Furr
10.Bob Dylan - It's All Right Ma, I'm Only Bleeding (live 30th aniversery concert)

good links to check out

http://concerts.wolfgangsvault.com/

2000+ concerts from the mid 60's to current though most are 60's & 70's
have to register with an email but its free. you will spend time on this

http://www.besteveralbums.com/index.php

The metacritic of greatest album lists, only issue is that users can make their own lists and radiohead seems to have a lot of fans who make lists

N Bands

I was just playing The National and decided you needed a playlist from bands that start with the letter "N"...even if it's just the first name.

Apartment Story - The National
The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
Oh Comely - Neutral Milk Hotel
The Slow Descent Into Alcoholism - New Pornographers
Love Buzz - Nirvana
Secret Meeting - The National
Clams Have Feelings Too (Actually They Don't) - NOFX
Under the Double Eagle - Norman Blake
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
The Bones of an Idol - New Pornographers
Holland, 1945 - Neutral Milk Hotel
Cowgirl In the Sand - Neil Young

Classic Country Mix

This is taken from a tape my dad made from the Smithsonian Classic Country albums.
It took me forever to track down all the tracks as the tape has gone missing. I think this gives a nice overview of classic country from the late 50's to late 70's It should run right about 90 min
as it came from a 90 min tape.

"We Must Have Been Out of Our Minds" – George Jones and Melba Montgomery 2:38
"Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" – Buck Owens 2:25
"Ode to Billie Joe" – Bobbie Gentry 4:12
"King of the Road" – Roger Miller 2:26
"Green Green Grass of Home" – Porter Wagoner 2:21
"Funny How Time Slips Away" – Willie Nelson 2:37
"Gentle on My Mind" – Glen Campbell 2:56
"Rocky Top" – Osborne Brothers 2:33
"Coal Miner’s Daughter" – Loretta Lynn 2:58
"Coat of Many Colors" – Dolly Parton 3:02
"Folsom Prison Blues" – Johnny Cash 2:42
"Stand By Your Man" – Tammy Wynette 2:39
"Homecoming" – Tom T. Hall 3:17
"Is Anybody Goin’ to San Antone?" – Charley Pride 2:12
"For the Good Times" – Ray Price 3:47
"Sin City" – Flying Burrito Brothers 4:10
"After the Fire is Gone" – Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn 2:36
"I Never Go Around Mirrors" – Lefty Frizzell 2:32
"Why Me" – Kris Kristofferson 3:27
"The Grand Tour" – George Jones 3:05
"Love Hurts" – Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris 3:37
"Bob Wills is Still the King" – Waylon Jennings 3:26
"Who’ll Turn Out the Lights" – Ronnie Milsap 3:18
"Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" – Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson
"’Til I Gain Control Again" – Rodney Crowell 5:04
"Beneath Still Waters" – Emmylou Harris 3:41
"The Devil Went Down to Georgia" – The Charlie Daniels Band 3:33
"He Stopped Loving Her Today" – George Jones 3:12