Special circle
Free music special circle
In keeping with the idea of mixing things up a bit in circle-world, I present to you a tale of good fortune, kind neighbours and free music. This isn’t an attempt to usurp the next in line (Ed?), but rather to add more to the mix. As you shall see, I been lucky in music, and so I choose to spread the love around.
As you know, Angela and I recently moved into our new flat. Our upstairs neighbour is a chap who I shall not name, because he works for a major record label and its entirely likely that his employers do not look kindly on circle burning. Andyway, he is a big music fan, as well as a music executive, and a couple of weeks ago he invited Angela and I up for some drinks with his wife, a couple of other neighbours and an exceedingly large and happy cat.
Being me, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to look at his CD collection. Even ignoring the fact that it is mostly blues and jazz, it is so impressive it would dwarf the combined collections of all of us. I’m not exagerating when i say that an entire wall of a large room was filled floor to ceiling with CDs. Plus all the piles of stuff on the floor. I expressed all due respect, and started mentally hatching a plan for drilling through our hallway ceiling in order to steal it. I stopped this when he pointed at a fairly large pile of CDs on a table and said “I’m getting rid of those, do you want any?” I assured him that I could easily take all of them if they were of any interest at all, and he said go ahead. 10 minutes later I was popping downstairs to drop off an armful of CDs. 15 minutes after that, Angela did the same. And then I did it again.
So I now have a lot of music I didn’t pay for. And now you have some of it. Add in some other freebie downloads, and I realised that, combined with the CDs I bought with my goodbye present from my old job, that I had far too much for one circle, so I’d better do a special one. Special in this context doesn’t refer to the quality, but is rather dedicated to the notion that for many years I have harboured a fantasy about someone leading me into a room full of music and saying “help yourself.” Thanks to Kind Neighbour Upstairs, this has now pretty much come true. He also makes a killer guacamole dip.
As for the music:
All The Way To Memphis Mott The Hoople Rockin' 70s (Disc 1)
I Need Direction Teenage Fanclub Howdy!
If I Can't Change Your Mind Sugar Copper Blue
Service And Repair Calexico Hot Rail
I'm Just A Prisoner ( Of Your Good Lovin' ) Clarence Carter Patches
Jumpin' Jack Flash Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar
Cleva Erykah Badu Mama's Gun
Yellow Earl Oakin Musical Genius & Sex Symbol
Don't Stop Till You Get To Bollywood Bollywood Freaks Bombay Gangstarr
The Safety Dance Men Without Hats The Big 80s
I touch myself Scala Dream On
Bring It On Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Nocturama
Too Short For A Superchunk pt.1 The Fabulous Bastard
Puff The Magic Dragon Gregory Isaacs 31 Songs
Old Fashion Morphine Jolie Holland Escondida
GOMEZ SOUL LOO & PLACIDO MTV TRASHED
A lot of this you may already know, but a couple of pointers. All the Clarence Carter stuff is good, if not exceptional, but worth it if you see it and like late 60s soul. Earl Oakin has been getting a lot of press recently, but the album is mix of songs and comedy: I suspect he’s a lot better live. I think he should do more like his version of Yellow: stripping the song down to its basics but doing it straight.
In keeping with the idea of mixing things up a bit in circle-world, I present to you a tale of good fortune, kind neighbours and free music. This isn’t an attempt to usurp the next in line (Ed?), but rather to add more to the mix. As you shall see, I been lucky in music, and so I choose to spread the love around.
As you know, Angela and I recently moved into our new flat. Our upstairs neighbour is a chap who I shall not name, because he works for a major record label and its entirely likely that his employers do not look kindly on circle burning. Andyway, he is a big music fan, as well as a music executive, and a couple of weeks ago he invited Angela and I up for some drinks with his wife, a couple of other neighbours and an exceedingly large and happy cat.
Being me, I couldn’t resist the opportunity to look at his CD collection. Even ignoring the fact that it is mostly blues and jazz, it is so impressive it would dwarf the combined collections of all of us. I’m not exagerating when i say that an entire wall of a large room was filled floor to ceiling with CDs. Plus all the piles of stuff on the floor. I expressed all due respect, and started mentally hatching a plan for drilling through our hallway ceiling in order to steal it. I stopped this when he pointed at a fairly large pile of CDs on a table and said “I’m getting rid of those, do you want any?” I assured him that I could easily take all of them if they were of any interest at all, and he said go ahead. 10 minutes later I was popping downstairs to drop off an armful of CDs. 15 minutes after that, Angela did the same. And then I did it again.
So I now have a lot of music I didn’t pay for. And now you have some of it. Add in some other freebie downloads, and I realised that, combined with the CDs I bought with my goodbye present from my old job, that I had far too much for one circle, so I’d better do a special one. Special in this context doesn’t refer to the quality, but is rather dedicated to the notion that for many years I have harboured a fantasy about someone leading me into a room full of music and saying “help yourself.” Thanks to Kind Neighbour Upstairs, this has now pretty much come true. He also makes a killer guacamole dip.
As for the music:
All The Way To Memphis Mott The Hoople Rockin' 70s (Disc 1)
I Need Direction Teenage Fanclub Howdy!
If I Can't Change Your Mind Sugar Copper Blue
Service And Repair Calexico Hot Rail
I'm Just A Prisoner ( Of Your Good Lovin' ) Clarence Carter Patches
Jumpin' Jack Flash Ananda Shankar Ananda Shankar
Cleva Erykah Badu Mama's Gun
Yellow Earl Oakin Musical Genius & Sex Symbol
Don't Stop Till You Get To Bollywood Bollywood Freaks Bombay Gangstarr
The Safety Dance Men Without Hats The Big 80s
I touch myself Scala Dream On
Bring It On Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Nocturama
Too Short For A Superchunk pt.1 The Fabulous Bastard
Puff The Magic Dragon Gregory Isaacs 31 Songs
Old Fashion Morphine Jolie Holland Escondida
GOMEZ SOUL LOO & PLACIDO MTV TRASHED
A lot of this you may already know, but a couple of pointers. All the Clarence Carter stuff is good, if not exceptional, but worth it if you see it and like late 60s soul. Earl Oakin has been getting a lot of press recently, but the album is mix of songs and comedy: I suspect he’s a lot better live. I think he should do more like his version of Yellow: stripping the song down to its basics but doing it straight.
posted by Toby Scott at 7/21/2006 07:33:00 PM
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