Friday, May 19, 2023

Playlist May 19 2023


 Plastic Parrots Suffocating in New England


 The Beach Boys "I'm The Pied Piper" Sail On Sailor – 1972 2022 on Capitol Records - Alternate Take 

 Todd Rundgren "Never Never Land"  A Wizard, a True Star 1973  Bearsville

 The Lemon Twigs "Ghost Run Free"  Everything Harmony 2023  Captured Tracks

 Lyme & Cybelle "Follow Me"  Single 1966  White Whale - Warren Zevon and Violet Santangelo


 The Dream Syndicate "Every Time You Come Around" Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions 2022  Fire Records

 Skull Practitioners "Exit Wounds"  Negative Stars 2023  In The Red - Jason Victor project

 Emma Tricca "Through the Poet's Eyes"  Aspirin Sun 2023  Bella Union


 Kassi Valazza "Watching Planes Go By"  Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing 2023  Fluff and Gravy

 Shannon Lay "From The Morning plus Horn" Covers Vol 1 2023  Sub Pop - Nick Drake covers

 Pete Townshend "Melancholia"  Scoop Vol 1 1983  Atco - Demo recorded 1966 - Happy Birthday Pete  #78

 King Tuff "How I Love"  Smalltown Stardust 2023  Sub Pop Records


 The Ramones "I Can't Get You Out of My Mind"  Pleasant Dreams - New York Mixes 2023 Sire - Happy Birthday Joey #72 - recorded 1981

 Shangri-Lass "Parallel" Over and Over - EP 2023  Redundant Span Records

 The Shangri-Las "Love You More Than Yesterday"  Single B-Side 1966 Red Bird - flipside of Past, Present and Future

 Southern Culture On the Skids "Run Baby Run"  At Home with Southern Culture on the Skids 2021  Kudzu Records

 Garbage "Run Baby Run"  Bleed Like Me 2005  Infectious Music


 Monty Python "Parrot Sketch"  Live At Drury Lane 1974 Famous Charisma Label

 The Cramps "Garbageman"  Songs the Lord Taught Us 1980  IRS Records - You Gotta Beat It With A Stick

 The Courettes "Hop A Twig"  Single 2020  Damaged Goods - Boom Dynamite!! Compilation now available in the USA

 Iraina Mancini "Cannonball" Single 2023 Needle Mythology


 Heavenly "C Is the Heavenly Option" from Le Jardin de Heavenly 1992  Sarah Records - Duet with Calvin Johnson (Beat Happening) - LP recently reissued on Skep Wax

 Panic Pocket "Get Me" f Single 2023 Skep Wax

 Selkie "Special Friend"  Single 2023  Skep Wax - French Boy/Girl duo


 Kirsty MacColl "A New England"  Single 1985  Stiff records - Billy Bragg cover

 Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers "New England"  Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers 1976  Beserkley - Jonathan celebrated a birthday this week #72

 The Heartbeats "A Thousand Miles Away"  Single 1956  Rama

 The Plimsouls "A Million Miles Away "  Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal 2010  Alive Naturalsound - Oct 31 1981 at The Whiskey a Go Go


 The 3 Clubmen "Aviatrix"  The 3 Clubmen EP 2023  Ape House - Andy Partridge, Jen Olive and Stu Rowe

 Brian Eno "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More"  Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy 1974  Island - Brian turned 75 earlier this week

 Plasticland "Radiant Fuzzbox Wig"  Dappersnapping 1994 Repulsion Records

 Pink Floyd "Paintbox"  Single 1967  Columbia UK


 The Teardrop Explodes "Suffocate (with Strings)"  Culture Bunker 2023  Universal - Forthcoming Box set Rec 1981

 The Zombies "Rediscover"  Different Game 2023  Cooking Vinyl Limited

 Angel Olsen "Nothing's Free" Forever Means - EP 2023  Jagjaguwar

 Joker Out "New Wave (feat. Elvis Costello)"  Single 2023  Self Released - Slovenia's Eurovision entry


 Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians "Airscape"  Element of Light 1995 Rhino Records - Live version 1986 on reissue

 Robyn Hitchcock "Veronica's Chapel" Life After Infinity 2023  Tiny Ghost Records

 Country Joe and The Fish "Cetacean"  Together 1968  Vanguard Records - RIP Bruce Barthol bassist


 H. Hawkline "Plastic Man"  Milk For Flowers 2023  Heavenly Recordings

 The Kinks "Plastic Man"  Single 1969  PYE - Last song with  Pete Quaife Bassist

 Frank Zappa / The Mothers of Invention "Plastic People"  You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore Vol 1 1988  Rykodisc - Live Feb 13 1969 The Factory in the Bronx

 The Sonics "Louie Louie"  The Sonics Boom 1966  Etiquette Records - Cover stars of latest Shindig! Magazine

 Paul Revere and The Raiders "Louie, Go Home"  Midnight Ride 1966  Columbia


 Modern Cosmology "A Time To Bloom"  Single 2023 Elefant - Laetitia Sadier & Mombojó


Friday, May 12, 2023

 Playlist May 12 2023


For The Birds


Sandor Katz "In May" Adam Zagajewski poem

Makaya McCraven "For the Birds" 

Laurie Anderson "Before the World" 

Michael Rother and Vittoria Maccabruni "Fly Away (With the Songs)" 


 Sean Penn "Counting Birds" Jim Harrison poem

Nick Rhodes and Wendy Bevan "The Calling" 

Damon Albarn, Mark Ronson and Wale "Bird Calling" 

David Van Tieghem "Birdbrain"


 Jarvis Cocker "Abide" Jake Adam York poem

Jarvis Cocker "Cuckoo Song" 

The Haden Triplets "Cuckoo Bird" 

Jeff Goldblum "Lsd" Alex Dimitrov poem

Calexico "Great Blue Heron" 

Steve Gunn "Birdsong" 


Bobby Cannavale "Weird Bird" Shel Silverstein poem

Elvis Costello "And Your Bird Can Sing/The Birds Will Still Be Singing" Beatles cover done solo

Bob Balaban "The Hidden Singer" Wendell Berry poem

Thurston Moore and Wobbly "Kookaburra Boogie"

Stephen Merritt "If I Were A Kookaburra" 

Stella Donnelly "Perth To Melbourne"


Cazzie David  "To This May" W.S.Merwin poem

Terry Riley "St. Francis and the Birds" 

Donald Ray Pollock "Hummingbird" Raymond Carver

Karen O "Hum Hum Hum" 

The Flaming Lips "Lucifer Hummingbird" 

Beck "Archangel" 


Tilda Swinton "Sparrow" Norman MacCaig poem

John Cale "Mr. Sparrow" 

Molly Rosen "Sparrow, Sparrow, What Did You Say" Ada Limon

Jeff Tweedy "Bell Minor" 

Mac McCaughan "Tanager Time" 


Larry "Ratso" Sloman "136 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center" Allen Ginsburg Poem

Aska Matsumiya "Tori No Uta" 

Kaoru Watanabe "Kachofugetsu" 

Sofia Subercaseaux "I Put on My Fur Coat" Jane Wong poem

 Girlpool "Tinseltown" 


Mickey Sumner "State Bird" Ada Limon

Inara George and Van Dyke Parks "Red Tailed Hawk" 

Devendra Banhart "Ka" 

Olivia Chaney "The Hawk & The Crow" 


Tennessee Thomas "The Garden" Mark Strand poem

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis "Wood Dove" 

Vanbur "My Dove, To Sleep" 

Lee Ranaldo and Michael McClure "Forty Songs" 

Florence Welch "Wild Geese" Mary Oliver

C.U.P. "Overview" Yuka C Honda and Nels Cline


Toni Collette "In the World" Brigid Lowry poem

Daniel Lanois "Thornbird" 

SQÜRL "Dawn Chorus" 

Mike Campbell "Unbroken Wing" 

Kurt Vile "Wounded Bird" 


Beach House "Sanctuary" 

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith "Migration" 

Blake Mills "Nouns of Assemblage"

 Karen Elson "Fly On" 


ANOHNI and Yoko Ono "I Love You Earth (Thomas Bartlett Remix)"  


All selections from the 20 LP collection "For the Birds: The Birdsong Project" 2022 The Birdsong Project