December 2009
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Watch#488: archie bell & the drells - tighten up (1968)
i absolutely cannot believe that no one called this sweet steaming slice of funk pie to my attention (what an atrocious way to start a sentence, but oh well) when i wrote about yellow magic orchestra’s early-80s tighten up cover. it’s sad that archie bell & the drells weren’t japanese too, but on the plus side they had...
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Watch#485: taj mahal - leavin’ trunk (live, 1968)
as far as very gorgeous and very barbiturate-soaked performances from the rolling stones’ famous latenight late-60s rock and roll circus goes, john lennon’s yer blues may have gotten the intro from mick jagger and the back-up from eric clapton, the who’s a quick one while he’s away may have gotten the three-part harmonies...
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Watch#484: neil young - harvest moon (1992)
it doesn’t matter that the video takes place somewhere called the mountain house bar & grill, or that it has the plot line and production values of poorly financed soft core pornography (the red shoe diaries debuted in 1992, too!), or even that the drummer is wearing a wig, because harvest moon is just terrifyingly pretty. it sounds like blankets....
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Watch#483: roy orbison - in dreams (1983)
even if barack obama wins again in 2012, what’ll happen in 2016? it would be depressingly pedestrian to have a wealthy white president again, so unless another wonderful person of color comes along, i vote roy orbison. of course, roy died in the late 80s, but someone can just stick a pair or ray bans on his corpse. his body temperature was never that...
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Watch#476 - emmylou harris - wheels of love (1994)
if you had to spend every minute of every day in a non-unionized underground longwall coal mine, but you had emmylou harris singing to you through a little transistor radio, life would be lovely. hearing her play old love songs with iris dement on harmony and jerry douglas on dobro and two elderly guys on fiddles and someone actually playing the...
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Watch#475: tom tom club - wordy rappinghood (1981)
in 1980, david byrne put the talking heads on hiatus, so naturally bassist tina weymouth took her sisters and her husband and some friends to a dancehall in the bahamas to make the tom tom club’s debut album, a giant gulp of neon colored, double funky, triple poppy awesomeness. it’s also sort of a feminist triumph, considering the...
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