Playlist

CD's last night:

PARADE, THE – Sunshine Girl

JONES, GRACE – Well Well Well

10cc – Une Nuit A Paris

PARTRIDGE, ANDY – Dame Fortune

STRANGLERS, THE – You

SCRITTI POLITTI – Die Alone

PLACEBO (Marc Moulin) – Balek

TOWNSHEND, PETE – Save It For Later

JAH INEY – El Rockers

PIZZICATO FIVE – Mon Amour Tokyo

BLEGVAD, PETER – That’ll Be Him Now

MacCOLL, KIRSTY – Things Happen

CORDUROY – Cycles

PALMSKIN PRODUCTIONS – Spock With A Beard

GLASS, PHILIP – Journey, The

BAUER, AXEL – Reveille Toi

BERGER, MICHEL – La Groupie Du Pianiste

MI-SEX – Castaway (U.S. vers.)

DIBANGO, MANU – Les Cavaliers

LAVOINE, MARC – Le Monde Est Tellement Con

ORME, LE – Evasione Totale

P.F.M. – Impressioni Di Settembre

BOWIE, DAVID – Shining Star (Makin’ My Love)

MANZANERA, PHIL – Listen Now

ENO, BRIAN – Energy Fools The Magician

ZAPPA, FRANK – Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus

CLUSTER – Rotor

EARTH & FIRE – In The Mountains

WIGWAM – Freddie Are You Ready

FOCUS – P’s March

SIMPLE MINDS – Sound In 70 Cities

DEE, DAVE / DBM+T – Below The Belt

NICHOLLS, BILLY – Girl From New York

HEAVY JELLY – Blue

WORLD OF OZ – Hum-Gum Tree, The

MANFRED MANN – Please Mrs. Henry

Playlist

Vinyl:

WONDER STUFF – Sell The Free World

MI-SEX – Only Thinking

SCRITTI POLITTI – Perfect Way (Single vers.)

FREEEZ – All The Way

LOEB, CAROLINE – A Quot Tu Penses? (Remix)

ACT, THE – Poison

PAPPALARDI, FELIX – Bring It With You When You Come

FINNEGAN, FLIP TOP – I’m Just Wild About Harry (mono)

NELSON, BILL – Decline and Fall

XTC – Strange Tales, Strange Tails

SOFT CELL – Best Way To Kill, The

TERRY, BLAIR & ANOUCHKA – Missing

SELECTER, THE – Celebrate The Bullet

RARE BIRD – Diamonds

CARAVAN – Cecil Runs

MOMUS – Hairstyle Of The Devil, The

ALLEN, DAEVID – 333

Playlist

Today's Playlist...

CD's:

EGG – Wring Out The Ground Loosely Now

NATIONAL HEALTH – Paracelsus

CARAVAN – Winter Wine

MATCHING MOLE – Nan’s True Hole / Righteous Rhumba / Brandy As In Benj

QUIET SUN – Mummy Was An Asteroid…

HOPPER, HUGH – First Trane

GREAVES, JOHN – The Song (feat. Robert Wyatt)

Vinyl:

DYLAN, BOB – Down Along The Cove (Live ’04) Record Store Day special 7"

COHEN, LEONARD – The Future (Live, vinyl edit) Record Store Day special 7"

SPEAR OF DESTINY – Strangers In Our Town (Extended vers.)

ZODIAC MINDWARP – Lager Woman From Hell

WONDER STUFF – Meaner Than Mean

Playlist

Playlist for Easter 2009, all CD's:

HOWE, STEVE – You Never Can Stay In One Place

STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK – Barefoot In Baltimore

WHO, THE – Circles

SAILOR – Girls Girls Girls

CAPTAIN SENSIBLE – Strawberry Dross (broken into many parts)

FIFTH AVENUE BAND – Fast Freight

SIMPLE MINDS – Veldt

GANG OF FOUR – I Parade Myself (remix)

KATCHE, MANU – So Groovy

NATIONAL HEALTH – Bryden Two-Step (For Amphibians), The – Part 2

DEE, DAVE / DOZY BEAKY MICK + TICH – I’m On The Up

TEA & SYMPHONY – Armchair Theatre

ENTWISTLE, JOHN – Window Shopper, The

DURY, IAN / BLOCKHEADS – Jack Shit George

MUD – Cat Crept In, The

GONG – Tried So Hard

REFUGEE – Papillion

SKIP BIFFERTY – When She Comes To Stay

Playlist

CD's:

FIXX, THE – Woman On A Train

FROON – Missing Pieces

THINKMAN – Formula, The (Rupert Hine)

OTHER ONES – Holiday

L’AFFAIRE LOUIS’ TRIO – Chic Planete

CORDUROY – High Havoc

PIZZICATO FIVE – Nonstop To Tokyo (radio edit)

DIMITRI FROM PARIS – Sacre Francais

HOWIE B. vs CASINO ROYALE – E’ Gia’ Domani

BOOGAERTS, MATHIEU – Ondule

ROUDOUDOU – Peace And Tranquility To Earth

PESHAY – Switch

GRAND POPO FOOTBALL CLUB – Each Finger Has An Attitude

HOWE, STEVE – Beginnings

SAD CAFÉ – La Di Da

HACKETT, STEVE – Air-Conditioned Nightmare, The (Live)

GLASS, PHILIP – Ik-Ook

MacCOLL, KIRSTY – What Do Pretty Girls Do? (BBC ’89)

Playlist

CD's:

DIBANGO, MANU – Africa Boogie

TOWNSHEND, PETE – Sea Refuses No River, The

HARVEY, ALEX / S.A.H.B. – Midnight Moses

GLASS, PHILIP – River Run

GREAVES, JOHN – Kew Rhone (feat. Robert Wyatt)

STEWART, ROD – Better Off Dead

CLEARLIGHT SYMPHONY – Part Two (edit)

BEE GEES – Suddenly

FOCUS – Focus II

BOOKER T. & THE M.G.’s – Back Home

TRACTOR – All Ends-Up

LOVE PEACE & TRANCE (Haruomi Hosono) – Dreamtime Lovers

BLIND FAITH – Presence Of The Lord

MOODY BLUES – Best Way To Travel, The (Additional Vocal Mix)

DONOVAN – Brave New World

BLACK COMBO, BILL – Honky Train

CORDUROY – Chowdown

UZEB – Hit It

ELASTICA – How He Wrote Elastica Man (with Mark E. Smith of The Fall)

Playlist

CD's:

TEMPTATIONS, THE – Girl (Why You Wanna Make Me Blue)

UFO – Lights Out

DIBANGO, MANU – O Boso

HUNTERS & COLLECTORS – Is There Anybody In There?

CURE, THE – Charlotte Sometimes

ALFIE – Reverse Midas Touch, The

KINKS, THE – Party Line

DEE, DAVE / DBM+T – You Make It Move

PRETTY THINGS – Come See Me

BOWN SET, ALAN – Killing Game

NIRVANA (UK) – Wings Of Love

BURDON, ERIC / ANIMALS – Cheating

IVEYS, THE – See-Saw, Granpa

WHO, THE – Fire

BECK, JEFF – Plynth (Water Down The Drain)

TEN YEARS AFTER – The Sounds (single vers.)

SIMPLE MINDS – Scar

M (Robin Scott) – Double Talk

DEAF SCHOOL – O Blow

DAMNED, THE – Plan 9 Channel 7

MacCOLL, KIRSTY – They Don’t Know

SWEET, RACHEL – Cuckoo Clock

LOVICH, LENE – Home

made tonight

Playlist

Vinyl:

101 STRINGS – Six Pence and You (fake Beatles)

COTTON, JOSIE – Systematic Way

CHAPMAN, EMMETT – Pumpernickel Pump ("Chapman Stick")

WANDERLEY, WALTER – Surfboard

KING EARL BOOGIE BAND – Bovver Blues

VAUGHN SINGERS, BILLY – Where Will The Words Come From

LANGER, CLIVE / THE BOXES – Hello

MADNESS – Believe Me

DAMNED, THE – Thanks For The Night (12”)

DURY, IAN / BLOCKHEADS – My Old Man

SADE – Hang On To Your Love (12”)

JONES, GRACE – Pull Up To The Bumper (12”)

A CERTAIN RATIO – I Need Someone Tonight (12”)

GANG OF FOUR – What We All Want (12”)

STRANGLERS – No Mercy (Cement Mix) (12”)

XTC – Smokeless Zone

HARRISON, MIKE – Lonely People

CREAM – Those Were The Days

BEE GEES – To Be Or Not To Be

MOTORS – Soul Redeemer

Playlist 2/09

45's

CHEERFUL EARFUL, A – It’s A Good Day

OPEN ROAD – Swamp Fever

RARE BIRD – Hey Man

FAMILY TREE – Slippin’ Through My Fingers

STRAWBERRY ALARM CLOCK – Birdman Of Alkatrash

VANILLA FUDGE – Take me For A Little While

BRAMLETT, DELANEY – Guess I Must Be Dreamin’

SONNY & CHER – Letter, The

BONO, SONNY – Spring Fever

HARMONICATS – Christopher Columbus

SAM THE SHAM & THE PHARAOHS – (I’m In With) The Out Crowd

TERRY DACTYL & THE DINOSAURS – Sea Side Shuffle

LOWE, NICK – (I Love The Sound Of) Breaking Glass

STRANGLERS – Nice ‘n’ Sleazy

HARRIS, DON “SUGAR CANE” – I’m Gonna Miss You

LUXURIA – She’s Your Lover Now

A CERTAIN RATIO – Twenty Seven Forever

LILAC TIME – Dreaming (edit)

RUNT – We Gotta Get You A Woman

STRAWBS – Heavy Disguise

WORLD OF OZ – Jack

WOOLEY, SHEB – Purple People Eater

GOODWIN, RON – Martians On Parade

Playlist

All vinyl tonight. Just whatever occured to me as it happened...

WINWOOD, STEVE – Penultimate Zone

EARTH OPERA – Alfie Finney

COHEN, LEONARD – Jazz Police

DYLAN, BOB – Please Mrs. Henry

STRANGLERS – Enough Time

BRAND X – Soho

PROCOL HARUM – Idol, The

KORGIS – Young ‘n’ Russian

HANRAHAN, KIP – Unobtainable Days: Unobtainable Nights

MASON, NICK – Wervin’

AYERS, KEVIN – You Are A Big Girl

OLDFIELD, MIKE – Rite of Man

DURY, IAN – Funky Disco (Pops)

RUSKIN-SPEAR, ROGER – I’m A Fly

JAH WOBBLE / JAKI LIEBEZEIT / HOLGER CZUKAY – How Much Are They?

HINE, RUPERT – No Yellow Heart

10CC – Silly Love

ROLLING STONES – Star Star

PRICE, ALAN – I Wanna Dance

CHAPMAN, MICHAEL – All In All

HARPER, ROY – Bank Of The Dead

- Ron

Playlist

All vinyl Playlist for tonight, 1/28/09

SAILOR – Keep Off The Streets At Night

ALPERT, HERB / TIJUANA BRASS – Mexican Corn

CAT MOTHER & THE ALL NIGHT NEWSBOYS – Bad News

SLIK – Forever and Ever

LEWIE, JONA – Vous et Moi

STEPPENWOLF – Ball Crusher

LOVIN’ SPOONFUL – She Is Still A Mystery

FAME, GEORGIE – Donut Man

TASTE – Same Old Story

GODLEY & CRÈME – Light me Up

YELLO – La Habanera

QUICKSILVER MESSENGER SERVICE – Three or Four Feet From Home

NILSSON, HARRY – Pretty Soon There’ll Be Nothing Left For Everybody

PRETENDERS – Message of Love

COOPER, ALICE – Living

HACKETT, STEVE – Rio Connection

TENPOLE TUDOR – Confessions

THIRD WORLD WAR – Urban Rock

GENERATION X – Kleenex

CLAPTON, ERIC – Blues Power

CRYSTALS – What A Nice Way To Turn Seventeen

JACKSON, JOE – Tilt

MONKEES – Listen To The Band

RASCALS – Carry Me Back

- Ron

Playlist

BAUER, AXEL – Cargo

T.C. MATIC – Oh La La La

DERRINGER, RICK – Time Warp

LITTLE JOE & THE THRILLERS – Peanuts

BURKE, SOLOMON – Just Out Of Reach

TURNER, BIG JOE – Roll ‘Em Pete

ROSS, DIANA & THE SUPREMES – Happening, The

COCHRAN, EDDIE – Weekend

JANSEN / BARBIERI / KARN – Shallow Pool, The

DECAMERON – Mammoth Special

COBA – Eye

WANDERLEY, WALTER – O Barquinho

GILBERTO, ASTRUD – Call Me

SANTANA – Going Home

HACKETT, STEVE – Spectral Mornings

BELAFONTE, HARRY – Cocoanut Woman

MANCINI, HENRY – March of the Cue Balls

LEE, BRENDA – I Want To Be Wanted

PRIMA, LOUIS – Banana Split For My Baby

JAMMER, KENJI – Daddy’s Delight

all from CD's

More stuff

Lately…

ALPERT, HERB / TIJUANA BRASS – SOUND OF TIJUANA, STATESIDE UK LP collection, 16 tracks!

BASIA – BEST REMIXES, EPIC/SONY JPN CD ’90

BAUER, AXEL – LA DESINTEGRALE, MERCURY FR CD collection, with “Cargo” his ’83 hit

BELAFONTE, HARRY – ALL TIME G.H. Vol. 1, RCA US CD

BERGER, MICHEL – BEAUSEJOUR, WEA FR CD re-mastered

BURKE, SOLOMON – VERY BEST, RHINO US CD 60’s R&B

COBA – CONSCIOUS POSI, EASTWORLD JPN CD Japanese accordion player

COCHRAN, EDDIE – NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN, TOSHIBA JPN CD collection, mono

COOPER, ALICE – LOVE IT TO DEATH, WARNER US LP alternate cvr., white borders

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG – DÉJÀ VU, ATLANTIC US LP orig US issue, cover

DECAMERON – MAMMOTH SPECIAL, STRANGE DAYS JPN CD kami sleeve

DERRINGER, RICK – ALL AMERICAN BOY, BLUE SKY US CD for the instrumentals

ENO, BRIAN – AMBIENT 1 / MUSIC FOR AIRPORTS, EG US CD, $3

GILBERTO, ASTRUD – TALKIN' VERVE, VERVE US CD collection

GORDON, PETER – INNOCENT, CBS US LP NYC art guy, late 80’s LP

IT BITES – IT BITES ALBUM, VIRGIN JPN CD collection, a bunch of non-LP tracks

JAMMER, KENJI – HULA-HULA DANCE BEST – HER HOME, UUTWO JPN CD collection

JANSEN / BARBIERI / KARN – …ISM, POLYDOR JPN CD former members of Japan

JONES, TOM – MR. JONES, V2 JPN CD his hilarious ’02 album with Wyclef Jean

KINKS – ULTIMATE COLLECTION, SANCTUARY UK 2CD 44 tracks of Pye material

LEE, BRENDA – MILLENNIUM COLLECTION, MCA US CD I am collecting this series now

LENNON, JOHN / PLASTIC ONO BAND – LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO 1969, APPLE UK LP minus the ’69 calendar, but still a really sweet UK copy

MANCINI, HENRY – BEST OF MANCINI, RCA US CD $3

MARTIN, DEAN – CAPITOL COLLECTORS SERIES, CAPITOL US CD $3

MILLER, DENNIS – RANTING AGAIN, BANTAM US 3CD spoken word

O.S.T. – RUMBLE FISH, A&M US CD Stewart Copeland

PIZZICATO FIVE – PLAYBOY & PLAYGIRL, MATADOR US CD US vers.

PRIMA, LOUIS – CAPITOL COLLECTORS SERIES, CAPITOL US CD $3

RITA MITSOUKO, LES – TONGUE DANCE, VIRGIN DE 12” W/PS

ROLLING STONES – NO SECURITY, VIRGIN JPN CD Live

ROSS & THE SUPREMES, DIANA – MILLENNIUM COLLECTION Vol. 2, MOTOWN US CD

SAILOR – CHECKPOINT, EPIC UK LP I think I have 4 x Sailor LP’s now

SANTANA – WELCOME, SONY JPN CD kami sleeve

SCRITTI POLITTI – ANOMIE & BONHOMIE, VIRGIN JPN CD with bonus track (!)

SIMON & GARFUNKEL – SOUNDS OF SILENCE, SONY JPN CD re-mastered vers.

T.C. MATIC – ESSENTIAL, EMI BEL CD collection, Arno

TURNER, BIG JOE – JUMPIN' WITH JOE – COMPLETE ALADDIN & IMPERIAL…, EMI US CD R&B

V.A. – COMPACT JAZZ – BEST OF BOSSA NOVA, VERVE US CD

V.A. – LENNON & McCARTNEY SONGBOOK – HELP!, UNIVERSAL JPN CD

V.A. – LET'S DANCE TO THE 80's, VOGUE FR CD Depeche Mode, Grandmaster Flash etc.

V.A. – MONKEY TIME & OTHER R&B HITS, SMSP US CD Major Lance, Screaming Jay Hawkins etc.

V.A. – SINGERS AND SONGWRITERS, TIME LIFE US 2CD lots of 70’s stuff

V.A. – ULTRA LOUNGE – MONDO EXOTICA, CAPITOL US CD I always buy this series for $3 or less

V.A. – ULTRA LOUNGE – SPACE CAPADE, CAPITOL US CD

WAKEMAN, RICK – SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII, A&M UK LP original

WEATHER GIRLS – SUPER HITS, SONY JPN CD “It’s Raining Men”

Y.M.O. – LIVE AT KINOKUNI-YA HALL 1978, ALFA JPN CD fom when Alfa was still in business and decided to release everything

ZAPPA, FRANK – YELLOW SHARK, RHINO US CD US copy in a slipcase

RK

More Stuff '09 - #1

Stuff I got in S.F. / East Bay

BLACK, MICHAEL IAN – I AM A WONDERFUL MAN, COMEDY CENTRAL US CD

BONZO DOG BAND – TADPOLES, EMI UK CD re-mastered

DIBANGO, MANU – KAMER FEELING, JPS FR CD

DIRTY FAN MALE – DIRTY FAN MALE, TRUNK UK CD

GROUNDHOGS – WHO WILL SAVE THE WORLD?, EMI UK CD re-mastered

HAMMILL, PETER – SINGULARITY, FIE UK CD '06

HAWKWIND – IN SEARCH OF SPACE, EMI UK CD re-mastered

NECKS – PHOTOSYNTHETIC, LONG ARMS AUS CD

NECKS – SEE THROUGH / MOSQUITO, ReR US 2CD

PASSIONS – THIRTY THOUSAND FEET OVER CHINA, CHERRY RED UK CD + 5 x bonus tracks

PHILLIPS, ANTHONY – GEESE & THE GHOST, VOICEPRINT UK 2CD

SCHULZE, KLAUS – BODY LOVE Vol. 2, SPV DE CD re-mastered

SIMMONS, JEFF – LUCILLE HAS MESSED MY MIND UP, CCM US CD Zappa

SPLIT ENZ – ROOTIN' TOOTIN' LUTON TAPES, RHINO AUS CD

STUMP – COMPLETE ANTHOLOGY, SANCTUARY UK 3CD boxed set

SWEET – DESOLATION BOULEVARD, BMG UK CD

TEN YEARS AFTER – WATT, EMI UK CD re-mastered

WRIGHT, STEVEN – I STILL HAVE A PONY, COMEDY CENTRAL US CD

ZAPPA, FRANK – GRAND WAZOO, VIDEOARTS JPN CD kami sleeve

ZAPPA, FRANK – WEASEL'S RIPPED MY FLESH, REPRISE UK LP original RSLP!

- Ron

That's it for 2008...

I understand there is a new album by A Certain Ratio "Mind Made Up", released in Europe in late November 2008. They played L.A. last month, but I couldn't get there. It's their first new album in 11 years. Scritti Politti waited 11 years between "Provision" and "Anomie & Bonhomie", but the next Scritti came right on the heels of "Anomie". And now that we're no longer waiting on a new album from Syd Barrett, I guess that means that it's been the longest time since a new album for The Monochrome Set - though Bid insists on making new Scarlett's Well albums. Thank goodness Stephen Duffy keeps cranking 'em out.

Musician deaths: Goodbye and thank you to both Pekka Pohjola and Lars Hollmer. I am A+ solid with Pekka's works from roughly his debut solo album (and work with Wigwam) up to, say, The Group. I tried to keep up with his 80's & 90's releases, but...not always possible. I live in Los Angeles. And Lars Hollmer was the keyboard player for Samla Mammas Manna, from Sweden. I have all of their contiguous albums, and I did my best to keep up with Hollmer's solo albums...my favorite being "Fran Natt Idag" from '83 (or so). Thanks to Cunieform Records, I got back on track with Hollmer's work; hopefully his stuff will become easier to find. And there are many more musician deaths in 2008, but Pohjola and Hollmer were two very important artists for me.

Dorothy & I recently got a list of the Top 100 films, from the A.F.I. ( = American Film Institute ) - between us, we had about two dozen of them on DVD already. Xmas presents netted us a few more, so we're ready for '09 to become a 'film year'. But this blog is called Music Life, not Film Life. Just last weekend, we sat together and watched the Criterion DVD of "If..." (with Malcolm McDowell).

I only managed to rack up 1,023 music keepers for '08 - my smallest list in many a year. Did birdwatching cut into my groove? Not really. I did manage to get several of the CD titles that had been bothering me, both at home and in exotic locations, like Portland, OR and Las Vegas, NV. Can't wait to find that new ACR title up in San Francisco! And I guess I'll have to mail-order the Stump box from amazon.co.uk, eh readers?

And My new car, Suzuki-san ( = Mr. Suzuki ), is doing well - and I am still adjusting to having a CD player in a car - as my previous car (the green Toyota you all know and love) had a Sony MiniDisc in it. We had a great time at my 50th birthday celebration, up in Portland, OR ( = Ron-Kon ) - nice meeting everybody - finally! I am still employed, still hanging out with Dorothy etc. Mom is alive & kicking @ 88 years of age, with her cell phone and new car. Dorothy & I also dug my niece Kirsten, who came up to L.A. on the train and visited us in L.A. (several times).

Enough of my babbling. I wish everybody a very good 2009.

- Ron Kane, Los Angeles

(Photo is Dana Madore and Ron Kane, 2008)

p.s. Hi to Mott!