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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Bonnie St. Claire & Unit Gloria - Voulez-Vous (Yes I do, I love you) [1974]
I have a deep affection for this category of thing: obscure bands with complicated histories which are lovingly compiled and shared on homegrown old-fashioned personal websites. Case in point.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]John Lennon - Stand By Me [Ben E. King cover] [1975]
I heard this cover for the first time today, and it was the final piece of evidence I needed to conclude that John Lennon and George Harrison were really good and that Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are hacks.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Arthur Russell - I Forget And I Can’t Tell (Ballad Of The Lights, Pt. 1) [ca. 1977]
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Rezillos - Top of the Pops [1978]
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Television - See No Evil [1977]
I saw Wild Flag cover this song last night and it made me like Television in a new way that I hadn’t before, but that I had always wanted to. So thanks, Wild Flag. Now that you’ve done all this other stuff for me could you please come over sometime and help me paint my dining room?
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Ted Hawkins - I Gave Up All I Had [1971]
Do you like voices that sound like Sam Cooke and Solomon Burke, and perfectly understated acoustic guitars, and a background singer or two? Me too.
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“We imagined ourselves as the Sons of Liberty with a mission to preserve, protect, and project the revolutionary spirit of rock and roll. We feared that the music which had given us sustenance was in danger of spiritual starvation. We feared it losing its sense of purpose, we feared it falling into fattened hands, we feared it floundering in a mire of spectacle, finance, and vapid technical complexity.”
— Patti Smith on starting a band in 1975, from her recent book “Just Kids,” c2010.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Arthur Russell - Close My Eyes [1973]
Official warm weather theme song. This time of year always has me longing for nature. To spend summer days in the countryside and nights lingering under the starrier sky there is what I want most of the time. Maybe tonight I will move to Montana.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Crash Course In Science - Kitchen Motors [1979]
I’m sorta bursting with Philly pride upon the discovery of this brilliant Philly no-wave/electro band founded in 1979. This new awareness came about over the weekend in the timeless fashion of overhearing a conversation about them at my local coffee shop.
This record immediately brings to mind Tracy + The Plastics for me. Tracy + The Plastics’ 2001 album “Muscler’s Guide To Videonics” completely blew my mind at the time, because it sounded like it was from outer space and was so super exciting to listen to for that reason. And this record predates that one by about 25 years. Incredible. Toy instruments and kitchen appliances. “Underground electro-feminist performance artists.” Love.
I’m learning that CCIS is still together and playing shows? Rad.
You can download this 3-track 7” here. The whole record is great.
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Patti Smith - Gloria [1975]
If there is some absolutely crazy reason why you have not heard or loved this song before, now you can make things right. If you don’t feel like the foxiest fox in your town after listening to this— well, nevermind, because you will.
Related: this album, “Horses,” is packed with musical references. A while back I made a mix at 8tracks including all the references I could identify. Some are references within references; to wit, “Land of a Thousand Dances.” If you want this nice little contextual layer, here it is.
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