1000000 songs from SPOTIFY about...

[johncorrigan]

On the subject of synchronicity G, I thought you might be interested to know that I sent the Cinematic Orchestra track before I knew about the theme. It arrived from my pal in Oz yesterday. How is that?

[Lateralthinking1]

Glad you like it - I'm also loving it, now we just need to tempt Lat and Geoff...remembering that it can include music that SHOULD be used in a soundtrack too.

I'm looking forward to Geoff's submissions from Shanghai in the 30's - those divas must have spent countless hours under the arc lights being captured in grainy monochrome. Or any of those other great ethnic album tracks with high filmic potential.

And the 'usual' from Lat - if you can describe subversive, startling and original as 'usual'

Plus some new posters would be nice (that's a hint Zola/Zizwai et al)

Digging the Niño Rota JC - stands up so well on its own. I'm transported back to the lemon groves...

I know very little about films and will find this difficult if interesting.

[geofflikesmusic]

Took a good pair of eyes and ears to spot[ify] it...





Well, on the quiet Spotfy have changed things, so I can leave it open -good news is that you can now have more than 1 collaborative playlist on the go at any time.

So - the new one is here...

http://open.spotify.com/user/trautigan/playlist/0i8V7QCpbvDZD1RGjGZu11

and the subject is FILM. Music and film - why haven't we thought of it before?
Not just your favourite film soundtracks (max. of 2 tracks from any 1 soundtrack ?), but also tracks that you think should be in films, and 'films', of course, includes TV, and theatre - any drama that moves.

I like the idea. Will contribute shortly :)

[johncorrigan]

I put 'The Lass of Aughrim' on the playlist though this was the version I was looking for by Frank Patterson from John Huston's final film, 'The Dead', based on the Joyce story - it is a very moving part of what I thought was a terrific movie with a great performance from Huston's daughter - anyway I had a look and it was on youtube so I thought I'd stick it on. I haven't read much Joyce but loved reading this story too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1CP5Lz2iHE

[Globaltruth]

<puts on anorak>

As far as I am aware Captain Beefheart has only ever appeared on the sound track of 1 film. I would love to be corrected on this btw.

This film was called Blue Collar, produced by Paul Schrader in 1978, the track, Hard Workin' Man, was written by Jack Nitzche (Phil Spector's recording buddy), lyrics by him and Ry Cooder. Although not creditted Ry Cooder plays pin-sharp bottleneck slide too. Allegedly Ry Cooder suggested using him as Jack Nitzche wanted someone who sounded like Howling Wolf but who was still alive. That narrowed the choice down (Tom Waits was considered too)... CB was very unhappy about doing this, and, the apocryphal story is that he was locked in the recording studio until he performed it.
The soundtrack also features J B Hutto and Howling Wolf but the CB track is the outstanding one for me - partially because it uses an actual jack hammer as the base rhythm throughout and also is so well suited to CB's vocal. I think it has been re-released on one or two CB rarity albums.
Sadly, it is not to be found on Spotify so can't make it on the list.
I still have the original 45 from 1978. For fellow anorak(s), here's a link to a slightly chaotic discography

http://www.freewebs.com/teejo/disco2/41guest.html#collar

YouTube obliges...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMNSXq1VG8I

<removes anorak>

[johncorrigan]

Thanks Global - going by your info I would suggest that the Cap is not putting his whole heart and soul in there - good tune - nice anorak too - that fur-lined hood adds a certain something to the look - makess you kinda wolf-like. Perhaps you could get the gig for the remake!

[johncorrigan]

Thanks for the Ghost World delivery Paul - I really liked that comic and the subsequent film - of course it had Buscemi in there which is normally a good sign in my book.

[Globaltruth]

Yes, I already had the Ghost World soundtrack but ages since I played it.
The greatest film music you've never heard has now been released on sharemyplaylist.com and perhaps someone else can tell me where My Way by Vicious Sid would rub shoulders with Kaze No Torimichi by the Aun-J Classic Orchestra and both benefit from the juxtaposition??

[geofflikesmusic]

been listening to this quite a bit, full of jazzy tangos.

lots of emotion and action, so would suit films :)
Highly recommended :)

http://open.spotify.com/album/7syAhSs2sj8UfXg0PqrvfA

[johncorrigan]

been listening to this quite a bit, full of jazzy tangos.

Very enjoyably filmic indeed geoff.

[Paul Sherratt]

Notes to the ' film ' contributions.

The Cody Chesnutt is from ' Me And You And Everyone We Know '
Balfa ' Freres ' featured in ' Deliverance '
The sublime Aaron Neville's song is in ' The Big Easy '
Jorge Cafrune's song is the key music in ' El Bano Del Papa ' ( The Pope's Toilet )
And still with papas, Mercedes Sosa's ' Todo Cambia ' was the only song in the film we went to see last night, ' We Have A Pope '

The Jo Stafford ' You Belong To Me ' comes through loud and wonderfully clear in ' The Deep Blue Sea '

[johncorrigan]

(Lat's world music cd of the year is Aziz Sahmaoui and University of Gnawa)

Lat, just in case you didn't notice AS&UoG were last night's Wo3 guests with Lopa - I liked them, but I fast forwarded through the interviews (I was in a bit of a hurry, so I don't know if they were interesting. The track that opened the show was the familiar one and none the worse for that.

[Lateralthinking1]

Thank you JC. I will listen to that one. Have been updating all my Spotify databases. Now added - an additional list of 150 for 2011 which brings the total, with the link at 769-770, up to 400. It includes some reissues and curiosities plus the more standard stuff. To my mind it finishes the job of bringing together much of what arguably had some appeal and also made it onto Spot. I've reviewed all tracks. Omar Perry is Lee's son, Mike Nisbet is from Scotland, Lambert and Nuttycombe are a reissue and one of the nearest things to Nick Drake I've heard, I believe the Congos recordings are new, so too, erm, Mungo Jerry but not the Doris Day -

http://open.spotify.com/user/worthyfarm/playlist/72T61JNr8ZaOc4DDPSz30F

A A Bondy, Alex Pangman, Andy Irvine, Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Asham Meets Collieman, Azymuth, Bataan Nitollano-Joe Bataan, Beach Boys, Ben Howard, Ben L'Oncle Soul, Beth Hart-Joe Bonamassa, Bevinda and Gilles Clement, Blick Bassy, Bon Iver, Boy and Bear, Brad Mehldau, Branford Marsalis, Cambodian Space Project, Cass McCombs, Charlie Hunter-Norah Jones, Christopher Rees and the South Austin Horns, Christy Moore, Chris Watson, Da Cruz, Dadavistic Orchestra, Dale Earnhardt Jnr-Jnr, Damily, Danny Schmidt, David Lynch, Davie Stewart, Dawes, Debademba, Derajah, Diana Jones, Doris Day, Dum Dum Girls, Eliza Gilkyson, El Rego, Elza Soares, Emmylou Harris, Erkin Koray, Errol Linton, Etta James, Faraon Bantu-Quantic, Felice Brothers, Fionn Regan, Fokn Bois-Electric Light Orchestra, Franco and TPOK Jazz, Geoff Berner, Gershon Kingsley, Good Lovelies,

Guy Clark, Harry Breuer, Harry Hill-William Roache, Hazmat Modine, Home Service, Howe Gelb and a Band of Gypsies, Iness Mezel, Jacaszek, James Findlay, Jeff Black, Jeffrey Foucault, Jim Lauderdale, Jimmy Cliff, Joaquin Joe Claussell and Celia Cruz, John Cowan-Alison Brown-Tim May, Joshua Idehen and LV, Julaba Kunda, Karin Krog, kd Lang and the Siss Bang Boom, Khyam Allami, K-zee, Lambert and Nuttycombe, L'Attirail, Les Bantous De La Capitale, Lisa Hannigan, Ljova, Los Alegres Bucaneros, Lucy Wainwright Roche, Lucy Ward, Magazine, Mairi Campbell, Malcolm Holcombe, Martin Simpson, Matt Berry, McCormack and Yarde, Medeski-Scofield-Martin-Wood, Menachen Zur, Michi Sarmiento y su Combo bravo, Mike Nisbet, Mort Garson, Mungo Jerry, Naomi Bedford, Nat Birchall, Noah Preminger, Omar Perry, Orchestre de Paris and Paavo Jarvi, Owiny Sigoma Band,

Ozric Tentacles, Panda Bear, Pat Donohue, Peter Green, Peter James Trio, Pilgrims Way, Plaid, Prince Fatty and the Mutant Hifi, Professor, Pure Vida and the Congos, Rachel Harrington, Ralph McTell, Robb Johnson, Samba Mapalanga-Orchestra Virunga, The Sand Band, Sandy Denny-Thea Gilmore, Sergent Garcia, Seryn, Sevara Nazarkhan, Sezen Aksu, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, Sia Tolno, SMOD, Sondorgo, Sonny Rollins, Sonora Poncena, So Percussion, Southern Tenant Folk Union, Steve Martin-The Steep Canyon Rangers, Stewart French, Stuart McCallum, Studs Terkel, Susheela Raman, Syriana, Takana Zion, Thea Gilmore's John Wesley Harding, Three Cane Whale, Tom Russell, Tom Waits, Tony Furtado, Trent Reznor-Atticus Ross, Troyka, Twelves, Uxia, The Vaccines, Various Artists feat Alice Giles, Wareika, Watcha Clan, Wendo Kolosoy, World Saxophone Quartet, Zoobazar

[Globaltruth]

Lambert and Nuttycombe are a reissue and one of the nearest things to Nick Drake I've heard

Good to hear from you LT. I will enjoy listening to that.

I'll raise your Lambert & Nuttcombe with a Fionn Regan...

Actually there is no replacement for the original (other than Ms Atlas's versions of course) although it took me about 35 years to actually lsten to his work properly...

[Lateralthinking1]

Good to hear from you LT. I will enjoy listening to that.

I'll raise your Lambert & Nuttcombe with a Fionn Regan...

Actually there is no replacement for the original (other than Ms Atlas's versions of course) although it took me about 35 years to actually lsten to his work properly...

Thanks GT. I do like Fionn Regan but Five Leaves Left must be one of my favourite records of all time. Think the reissuing on cd in the 1990s led to far greater awareness. Lat.