What are you listening to?

[Omega Male]

 

[beargonefishing]

Smash every tooth in your face is basically 1 or 2 for the three lions.

 

[Omega Male]

Smash every tooth in your face is basically 1 or 2 for the three lions.

Innit!

 

[Omega Male]

 

[Michigan Planner]

If you aren't familiar with it, Fluxblog is an "MP3 blog" created by Matthew Perpetua who writes for Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, Vulture and a few other outlets.

There are a couple posts about a song or album or artist each week along with a link to the music but the real gem is the yearly "survey mixes" he's compiled and posted on the blog. Each annual survey is about 25 - 30 hours long and covers every imaginable genre, but really focuses on popular music (though not necessarily Top 40 stuff). When I first found the blog, about a decade ago, he had all of the '80s posted up and put up the '90s a few years later. At the time, you could download massive zipped folders of MP3s of all the songs so I would download those and pick random years as the playlists for when I was doing stuff around the house. A few years ago, he (unfortunately) teamed up with Spotify and would link to the playlists so I stopped being able to download newer playlists and i didn't have Spotify Premium so if I wanted to listen on there I'd have all their commercials.

Over the weekend, I was able to get a free year of Spotify Premium and I immediately went and followed the Fluxblog surveys and have been toggling back and forth between the 1971 Survey Mix and the 1995 Survey Mix.

I picked 1971 randomly but picked 1995 because that was when I entered my senior year in high school. It's been pretty great to set it on random and let the nostalgia kick in.

Here's a sample of what I got on my way into the office today:

My older sister was really into industrial music and I can distinctly remember her playing this a ton around the house. I liked it enough that I ended up buying the album, which I liked enough to cause me to buy a few more KMFDM albums:


I know this album came out earlier than '95 because I have vivid memories of my buddy driving me home from school in his POS 1972 Buick Riviera during my junior year but looking up this particular song, it looks like it wasn't released as a single until late '94 and was on the charts well into '95. This isn't my first choice to listen to on Tuesday Night Music Club but it really is a great album from start to finish.


I had never heard of Smog, or Bill Callahan, while I was in high school (though he was apparently on the side stages at the Lollapalooza I attended the year before, but he showed up on the High Fidelity soundtrack a few years later and I've been hooked. All of his album are generally pretty stellar but he had a run of some real gems starting here with Wild Love in '95 going up through Dongs of Sevotion in '00.



For some further reading listening Bill Callahan and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (another fantastic musician) did an album of covers, including this one of Steely Dan's Deacon Blues.

 

[whorishconsumer]

For any fans of Carl Craig, this is a gem:

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

I think I rediscovered Elza Soares because for the life of me I cannot name one of her songs. Listening to this on the "little system" with the Dynaco speakers. Entire album is nice

 

[romafan]

 

[Omega Male]

 

[beargonefishing]

 

[Omega Male]

Chilling with @Neville Southall in our thing.

 

[Omega Male]

An imagining of when Bowie and Iggy went off to Germany to get away from it.

 

[GeneralEmployer]

???

 

[Michigan Planner]

I was driving my 13-year-old daughter somewhere the other day and she wanted to listen to the "On Broadway" channel on the radio. After a few minutes a medley of songs from A Beautiful Noise (the Neil Diamond musical) came on and she was singing along with every note.

I used to love Neil Diamond but hadn't really listened to him in probably a decade so now he was on my mind so I queued some up to make my daughter listen to on the drive to school the past couple mornings and I've been cranking it up in my office.

This one used to be my go-to karaoke choice:


My parents never played much music around the house but Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show was one of the few records my mom had (or at least one of the few that she'd put on) so this one always hits for me:


Just a few days after September 11th I saw him live for the first time in a few years in Columbus, Ohio and then again a week or two later here ear Detroit and he was opening the shows with a big operatic, swelling version of America.


I've seen him live 5 or 6 times and he always put on a great show. Sadly, age has caught up with him and he no longer tours.

 

[Omega Male]

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