Hello. This is a song-a-day blog. It assigns wondrous tunes to your ear canals. It may include dazzling photographs or videos. It has also been known to promote good health. It keeps coming 'til the day it stops.
Today is what I call Clash Day. Mostly because I'm playing a song by The Clash. The song would be Overpowered By Funk and it is damn good. I know very little about The Clash other than they got lost in the supermarket and rocked the casbah. Good for them.
Have a good read and may I suggest listening to THIS while you do.
Clairvoyance
One of the most astounding cases of clairvoyance is that of the noted Greek psychic, Achille Londos. Londos realized he had "unusual powers" by the age of ten, when he could lie in bed and, by concentrating, make his father's false teeth jump out of his mouth. After a neighbor's husband had been missing for three weeks, Londos told them to look in the stove, where the man was found knitting. Londos could concentrate on a person's face and force the image to come out on a roll of ordinary Kodak film, although he could never seem to get anybody to smile.
In 1964, he was called in to aid police in capturing the Düsseldorf Strangler, a fiend who always left a baked Alaska on the chests of his victims. Merely by sniffing a handkerchief, Londos led police to Siegfried Lenz, handyman at a school for deaf turkeys, who said he was the strangler and could he please have his handkerchief back.
Londos is just one of many people with psychic powers. C.N. Jerome, the psychic, of Newport, Rhode Island, claims he can guess any card being thought of by a squirrel.
Frédéric Chopin is a Romantic. I don't know how he did with the ladies, but he was a defining pianist of the Romantic era. Born in Poland in 1810, Chopsticks was a child prodigy like all the big wigs and hated the publicity of being such a talented concert pianist. Technical perfectionism was his doom, leaving us with an insufficient number of waltzes, nocturnes and mazurkas. He remains one of my favs because of the dramatic and ornate sound of his pieces. Without further adieu, here is the Fantasie Impromptu.
Taken By Trees did a great cover of Animal Collective's My Girls awhile back, only she called it My Boys. The video and song are below. It is delightful. Enjoy the one woman show.
Continuing on this electronic train, I give you David Holmes. He's scored several movies like Ocean's 11 (12 & 13) and Out of Sight, but he has released his own albums unrelated to film. The first came out in 1995 and the second (which was his first release in America) was in 1997. And that's where we got our song of the day! Huzzah! It's called My Mate Paul and it's a fluid song with enough energy to boost you out of your mid-day slump. And cheers to Holmie for being Irish. He's made of potatoes just like me!
Trainspotting by Primal Scream is the perfect chill out tune to lounge around with after a long halloween night. Stay thirsty, my friends. Or something like that.
Bobby 'Boris' Pickett is responsible for THE greatest halloween song that is, was, and ever will be:The Monster Mash!I wonder if he ever gets tired of hearing/performing this? Well ghouls and goblins, have a frightening celebration tonight. Here are a few more spine-chilling tracks for you and your ghosts. Click and enjoy!
I've never been one for hip hop or rap, but one dude (excluding the dudes in De La Soul and Slick Rick) changed my mind on the subject. That dude is Madlib or Otis Jackson, Jr. or The Beat Konducta, Quasimoto, Lootpack, Yesterdays New Quintet, etc. He's got a lush, wise sound that I was hesitant to enjoy, but ultimately he was impossible to resist. The man pumps out more music than maybe any other artist, and I can't help but admire the passion and drive. The two songs I'm sharing with you don't feature any rap, but they do feature some sweet beats and mad blunted jazz. First is Anthenagin? set to a goofy cartoon. And second is Slim's Return where you can see the man turning the tables. Anthenagin? is under his Beat Konducta name while Slim's Return is from the Madlib moniker. & If you've never listened to this sucka, you're in for a treat. I just want to know one thing, how does one person smoke so much weed?
Precisely what Gram Rabbit's first album was titled and set out to do. The trio hails from the deserts of southern Californ-i-a, offering a spooky & salacious sound. Just in time for Halloween. I really love the whole album and the follow up, Cultivation. The song is Dirty Horse.
