Conversation with Song Titles

Well after a good run, the conversation known as the Highlands Music Club is coming to an end. With that in mind our last meetings theme was A Conversation with Song Titles”. Here is what we heard.

We Drink on the Job – Earlimart

All Day Long – New Order

I Was Drunk – Alejandro Escoveda

Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset – Modest Mouse

It’s A Wonderful Life – Sparklehorse

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Little Girl Blue –  Janis Joplin

Are You Alright? – Lucinda Williams

A Space Boy Dream– Belle and Sebastian

Do You Wanna Come Walk With Me – Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan

Please – Black Joe Lewis

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I – Andrew Bird

Used To Be A Cop – Drive By Truckers

I Am a Man – Charlie Winston

Hum – Clem Snide

Never Had Nobody Like You – M Ward

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Martha – Tom Waits

What if – Coldplay

You Could be Happy – Snow Patrol

One Day – The Verve

Come Play With Me – The Wedding Present

Thanks to all the contributors.

The youtube playlist is here.

Best of 2011

With the calendar turning over to a new year, we look back on 2011 to hear some of the music we most enjoyed in 2011. The rules are simple, the music did not have to be released in 2011, but you have had to have heard it for the first time in 2011.

Here is the list…

Fire – Kasabian (West Ryder Pauper Lunatics Asylum)

The Rifle – Alela Diane (The Pirate’s Gospel)

Sun Hands – Local Natives (Gorilla Manor)

The Bold Arrow of Time – Tame Impala (Innerspeaker)

Unseeing Eye – Sonny Boy Williamson (not Unseeing Eye, but Unseen Eye)

Bridge Burning – Foo Fighters (Wasting Light)

Learn How to Love – Tedeschi Trucks Band (Revelator)

The Afterlife – Paul Simon (So Beautiful, So What)

Fear of Falling – Robbie Robertson (How to Become a Clairvoyant)

Told Me So – Socalled (Sleepover)

Stone Rollin’ – Raphael Saadiq (Stone Rollin’)

The News – Bend Sinister (Stories of Brothers, Tales of Lovers)

Traces – Sloan (Double Cross)

Bess St – White Denim (D)

Wreck My Flow – The Dirtbombs (We Have You Surrounded)

Conversation 16 – The National (High Violet)

Lotus Flower – Radiohead (King of Limbs)

Somebody That I Used to Know – Gotye (Making Mirrors)

Lose It – Austra (Feel It Break)

Rows of Houses – Dan Mangan (Oh Fortune)

This is Our Science – Astronautalis (This Is Our Science)

The Fire – The Roots (How I Got Over)

Alligator Aviator Autopilot Antimatter – REM (Collapse Into Now)

England – PJ Harvey (Let England Shake)

Touched – V.A.S.T (Video Audio Sensual Theater)

All and Everyone – PJ Harvey (Let England Shake)

Insister – Tapes n Tapes (The Loon)

27 Strangers – Villagers (Becoming a Jackal)

Laugh Track – Dengue Fever (Venus on Earth)

The Laurels of Erotomania – Cold Cave (Love Comes Close)

Zero 76 – Tiesto (Club Life)

Irresistable Force – Jane’s Addiction (The Great Escape Artist)

Mojo So Dope – Kid Cudi (Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr Rager)

New Lands – Justice (Audio, Video, Disco)

The Shrine/An Argument – Fleet Foxes (Helplessness Blues)

The youtube playlist can be found here.

Flyin’ the Vinyl

So the last meeting we all got to bust out the vinyl. Some was old. Some was new, and it was all awesome. It was great to look at album covers again. To touch them. To open them and to pass them around. A great night all round.

Anyway, here is the playlist, and here is the link to the YouTube playlist.

What Is and What Should Never Be -Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin 2
 War Pigs – Black Sabbath – Paranoia
Belexes – Kansas – Kansas
Are You Happy – Iron Butterfly – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
Star Spangled Banner – Jimi Hendrix – Woodstock
Breather – Chapterhouse
Take on Me – A-Ha
Fools Gold – Stone Roses
The Gambler – Kenny Rogers
Hidden Love – Peter Case
Having a Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Here – T-Bone Burnett ( a different song)
Star Wars Theme – Jon Williams
 Behind the Wheel– Depeche Mode
Kaili – Caribou
The Ballad of Johnny Horton – Frank Black (not Frank, but Robby Dee)
Young at Heart-Frank Sinatra
Lazlo – Dick van Dykes
Things I Do For Money – Northern Pikes
Girlfriend is Better – Talking Heads
Taking Retards to the Zoo – Dead Milkemen
Vanilla Queen– Golden Earring
Heartbreaker – Pat Benetar
Finding My Way – Rush
Twilight Zone – Golden Earring
Logical Song – Supertramp
Vladivostok Rock – Golden Calgarians (actually Guitar Curse)
Stronger Silence – The Reds
Waters Part – Lets Active
Ceremony – New Order
Undone – The Lucy Show
Broken English –  Darkroom
Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again – Angel City
 4 Horsemen  – Gamma
Bringing on the Heartbreak – Def Leppard
O Lucky Man – Grapes of Wrath
Southside Shuffle – J Geils Band
Waiting for a Train – Boz Scaggs
Young Man Blues – The Who
No Boogie Woogie On Me – Long John Baldry
Sail On Sailor – Beach Boys
Mud Slide Slim – James Taylor

Guilty Pleasures

A guilty pleasure is something one enjoys and considers pleasurable despite feeling guilt for enjoying it. The “guilt” involved is sometimes simply fear of others discovering one’s lowbrow or otherwise embarrassing tastes. Fashion, video games, music, movies, and junk food can be examples of guilty pleasures. 

That definition courtesy of wikipedia. Rolling Stone magazine has their list of top 25 guilty pleasure bands. It is thus…

1. Rush
2. E.L.O.
3. Journey
4. ABBA
5. Chicago
6. Boston
7. Foreigner
8. Bread
9. Bon Jovi
10. New Edition
11. The Monkees
12. Motley Crue
13. STYX
14. Eddie Money
15. Simply Red
16. Kelly Clarkson
17. America
18. Wham
19. R.E.O. Speedwagon
20. Poison
21. Lionel Richie
22. Kansas
23. Air Supply
24. Hall & Oates
25. Britney Spears

Did we hear any of that at Music club? Let’s find out…

Ace of Base – All That She Wants

Duran Duran – Ordinary World

Nickelback – Someday

TLC – Waterfalls

Adele – Rolling in the Deep

Doobie Brothers – Listen to the Music

Ian Thomas – Painted Ladies

Bozz Scaggs – Payday

Tony Furtado – Stagger Lee

Pitingo – Fiesta Por Tengos

Brandi Carlile – The Story

Bevis Frond – Once More

Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen

The Baby’s – Everytime I Think Of You

Thelma Houston – Don’t Leave Me This Way

Boney M – Night Flight to Venus

Yvonne Hollman & Ted Neely – What’s the Buzz

Gwen Stefani – Hollaback Girl

Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights

Erasure – A Little Respect

Barry Manilow – Mandy

Brewer & Shipley – One Toke Over the Line

The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony

Dan Hill – Sometimes When We Touch

Steve Earle – Satellite Radio

 

There you have it. The youtube playlist is here.

Things

This was the last of the people, places and things trilogy. Here are the songs. The youtube playlist is available here.

Things brought to us in the 20th Century.

Sprawl – Arcade Fire

Drunk on Aluminum – Wintersleep

On Battleship Hill – PJ Harvey

Where Did All the Love Go – Kasabian

20th Century Man – Kinks

Cards

Ten of Hearts – Mark Sultan (I know it’s super bad, but that’s all there is)

The Jack – AC/DC

Queen of Clubs – Sawoff Shotgun (not Queen of Clubs, but My Fresh Dress)

King of Diamonds – Motopony

Ace of Spades – Motorhead

Emotions

Lord Ain’t it Sad – Utah Phillips (not the song but something interesting)

Angry World – Neil Young

No Love Lost – LCD Soundsystem

The Five Senses

Listen to the Rain – Evanescence

That Smell – Lynard Skynard

Flavor – Tori Amos

Touch – Jadis

A Looking in View – Alice in Chains

Food

Salt Peanuts – Dizzy Gillespie

Fed Up and Hungry – Noella Hutton

Mango – Bruce Cockburn

Frim Fram Sauce – Dianna Krall

Scrapple From the Apple – Charlie Parker

Dangerous Things

Don’t Take Your Guns to Town – Johnny Cash

Shoot That Poison Arrow – ABC

The Bomb – L7

Raise Your Weapons – Deadmau5

Pass This On – The Knife

Robots

Hell Yes – Beck

Paranoid Android – Radiohead

Robots – Dan Mangan

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots – Flaming Lips

Places

So the theme was a celebration of places in music. We were encouraged to do a sub theme within the theme and thanks to all who made the efforts. There was some interesting interpretations of the theme. Anyway, here are the songs that were played. A link to the youtube playlist is here.

Sub Theme : Zoom in from Outer Space to Earth

Parallel Universe – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Dark Center of the Universe – Modest Mouse

Great Beyond – REM

Another Girl Another Planet – The Only Ones

Modern World – The Jam

Sub Theme: Stuff That I Like

In This World – Moby

Dirty Old Town – Frank Black

Subdivisions – Rush

505 – Arctic Monkeys

Frank, AB– The Rural Alberta Advantage

Sub Theme:  Memories of India

Prelude – Jesse Cook

Qadukka-I-Mayyas – Jesse Cook

The Gist of Madhuvanti/The Thrill is Gone – Harry Manx (not the Thrill is Gone, but something else)

Sexy Sadie – The Beatles

Mumbai Theme Tune – A.R. Rahman

Sub Theme: Islands

Balinese – ZZ Top

Island of Souls – Sting

Lonely Island – Wishbone Ash

On An Island – David Gilmour

Rock Island – Jethro Tull

Sub Theme: Hills

High on a Hill – Kate Rusby

Grace Cathedral Hill – Decemberists

Bunker Hill – Michael Penn (not Bunker Hill)

Mansion on the Hill – Neil Young

Blueberry Hill – Bruce Cockburn

Sub Theme : Ports in Countries with a Monarchy

A Girl in Port – Okkervil River

Oslo in the Summertime – of Montreal

Welcome to Bangkok – Brand New

Rotterdam – The Wedding Present

Stockholm Syndrome – Yo La Tengo

Sub Theme : Imaginary Places

Theresa’s Sound World – Sonic Youth

Zion – Fluke

The Grid – Crystal Method

Ramble On – Led Zeppelin

Just Like Heaven – The Cure

CoverMeSongs.com

You guys have got to checkout this site. It’s pretty cool. They have full cover albums like

Number of The Beast

Paranoid

Darkness on the Edge of Town

The Wall

Or they feature “Five Good Covers“. Five different covers of one song. Songs like Seven Nation Army, Your Song, Don’t Fear the Reaper, Karma Police

You can download live sets of covers by the Pixies, the Decemberists, Cowboy Junkies.

They have In The Spotlight where they feature the covers by individual artists like Neil Young, The Pixies, My Morning Jacket and LCD Soundsystem.

The beautiful thing is you can download much of what is there if you want to.

Songs about People

Well, that was fun. A whole night of songs about people. Some people made a sub them of songs about a specific group of people and some just played some of their favorite people songs. here is the list of songs that we heard. Thanks to all those that came.

You can click on the individual videos below or I have made a playlist for youtube that can be found here.

Ghost of Tom Joad – Bruce Springsteen
Mr Cab Driver – Lenny Kravitz
Ziggy Stardust – David Bowie
Magdelana – A Perfect Circle
Waiting on a Friend – Rolling Stones
Rock Me Amadeus – Falco
Make Believe– The Pixies
I Heard Ramona Sing – Frank Black
Molly – Datarock
Brian Eno – MGMT
Queen of Dreams – Strawbs
Planet Queen – T Rex
Acid Queen – The Who
Mississippi Queen – Mountain
White Queen – Queen
God Save the Queen – Queen
So Long Marianne – Leonard Cohen
Soldier Jane – Beck
Sour Girl – Stone Temple Pilots
Little Acorns – White Stripes
Bukowski – Modest Mouse
Marilyn – Dan Bern
Sacrifice – Robbie Robertson
Unexpected Rain – Melissa Etheridge
Hurricane – Bob Dylan
Louise – Bonnie Raitt
Honey Baby – Damien Jurado (not honey baby, but Ohio)
Mr Brightside – The Killers
Me and Bobby McGee  – Janis Joplin
Weeping Widow – April Wine
Mr and Mrs Untrue – Candi Staton
Stack o Lee Blues – Mississippi John Hurt
Pretty Boy Floyd – Bob Dylan (original by Woody Guthrie)
Nebraska – Bruce Spingsteen
The Drifter – Green on Red
Revolution Blues – Neil Young

Thanks for listening.

Covers II

Well, there was a lot of music worth listening to at Covers II night. Some of these videos are definitely worth checking out. War Pigs by Sabbath, I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, the original version of I Put a Spell On You, Hey Joe and Ghost Riders in the Sky are fantastic. We could probably do a Covers III at some point, but I think we would have to tighten the theme up a little bit. Anyways, enjoy.

I Am the Walrus – Jim Carey – original

Hurt – Johnny Cash – original

Milk Cow Blues – Eric Clapton- original

Maggie May – Burton Cummings- original

Guilty – Bonnie Raitt- original

Gallows Pole – Led Zeppelin- original

Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me – Oleta Adams – original

Ghost Riders – Steve Hunter (not Steve, REM) – original (Click to be surprised when you find out who did the original)

Goin’ Down – Dave Hole (not Dav, but JJ and Leon) – original

Runnin’ Up That Hill – Within Temptation- original

Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves – Scud Mountain Boys(click here for bonus Nirvana cover)- original

Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey – The Feelies- original

Don’t Let our Youth Go to Waste – Galaxie 500- original

Hey Joe – Nick Cave – original (not Hendrix)

Baby, What You Want Me to Do – Etta James (for bonus Elvis cover click here) – original

When Doves Cry – Be Good Tanyas (could not find the BGTs, so it`s Patti Smith)- original

Landslide – Smashing Pumpkins – original

Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows – original

The Drugs Don’t Work – Ben Harper – original

Lovers in a Dangerous Time – Barenaked Ladies (live from a music festival on a cruise ship!!) – original

I Will Survive – Cake – original (classic)

Drain You – Horse Feathers – original

Jolene – White Stripes – original

Billie Jean – Chris Cornell – original

Whip My Hair – Jimmy Fallon (as Neil Young) – original

War Pigs – Cake – original (live in Paris 1970)

Not in Love – Crystal Castles (featuring Robert Smith) – original

I Put a Spell on You – Marilyn Manson – original (must watch. Not CCR)

Jackie Blue – Smashing Pumpkins – original

Black Celebration – Monster Magnet – original

Four Strong Winds – Neil Young – original

After the Goldrush – K D Lang (bonus cover by Thom Yorke , the Flaming Lips and Gary Jules)- original (I can`t believe I didn`t play this one on 5 star song night)

Thom Yorke talking about Neil Young.  (Part 1 and part 2).  There are a ton of Neil Young covers by Radiohead – here, here, here , here and here.

Pale Blue Eyes – REM – original

Sex Beat – Alejandro Escovedo – original

Black Diamond – Replacements – original

February 2010 – Short Songs

Celebrating the short month of February, we bring you short songs. Songs that clock in at less than 2 minutes and 30 seconds. There is an incredible wealth of songs that fit the bill here and we will here a bunch of them. It was interesting in that for this theme there was more “classic rock” than I ever remember hearing before.

For faster loading, I have stopped embedding the youtube videos, so now you have to click on the song name to see the video.

The grooveshark playlist is here. If I couldn’t find the song, I tried to find a cover or something else from that artist that met the criteria. There is no Beatles or Blues Explosion on grooveshark.

Anyway, here is the list…

Cecillia Anne – The Pixies

Unsquare Dance – Dave Brubeck

How to Live in Peace – Utah Phillips (not the spoken word, but a memorial to Utah and I Will Not Obey)

Emergency 911– Sloan

Simple Things – Belle and Sebastian

Swarfiga – Kasabian

On Coming from a Broken Home (Part 1) – Gil Scott Heron

Perfume-v – Pavement

Why Does the Sun Really Shine – They Might Be Giants (not the song that was played, but the song that was meant to be played)

I Ain’t Scared of your Jail – Pete Seeger

Dethbridge in Lethbridge – The Rural Alberta Advantage

Pretty Pictures – Cub

Telegram Sam – Bauhaus

Stutter – Elastica

T-Bill -Elliot Brood

Something I Learned Today – Husker Du

King of Carrot Flowers (Part 1) – Neutral Milk Hotel

Crakity Jones – Pixies

Subway Song – The Cure

This Protector – White Stripes

1984 – Van Halen

Lord Leopard – Caribou

Organ Donor – DJ Shadow

Broken Face – Pixies

Seconds – Le Tigre

Girlfriend in a Coma – Smiths

Wild Packs of Family Dogs – Modest Mouse

A- Punk – Vampire Weekend

Abbey Road Medley – The Beatles

1. Sun King
2. Mean Mr Mustard
3. Polythene Pam
4. She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
5. Golden Slumbers
6. Carry that Weight
7. The End
8. Her Majesty

Sirius – Alan Parsons Project

Pigs on the Wing – Pink Floyd

Distance Equals Rate Times Time – Pixies

Bounce – System of a Down

Thalassocracy – Frank Black

Lights Out – Might Mighty Bosstones

Time For Livin’ – Beastie Boys

This Week Never Starts Round Here – Arab Strap

The Kill – Joy Division

Brand New Cadillac – The Clash

One Step Beyond – Madness

Master Exploder – Tenacious D

Little Wing – Jimi Hendrix

Break on Through – The Doors

Immigrant Song – Led Zeppelin

It’s Not Unusual – Tom Jones

Fell in Love With a Girl – White Stripes

Rip This Joint – Rolling Stones

Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers

Back in the USSR – Beatles

Bookends – Simon and Garfunkel

Respect – Aretha Franklin

Love Struck Baby – Stevie Ray Vaughn

Substitute – The Who

After Midnight – JJ Cale

Mars, Arizona – Blues Explosion

Favours in the Beetroot Field – British Sea Power

Lend Me Your Teeth – Devendra Banhart

Shot Shot – Gomez

Whole Wide World – Bahamas

My Heart is the Bums on the Street – Marah

That’s all folks.

Thanks