November 2009 Playlist – Songs That Tell a Story

Well, we met again and played some good songs that told a story. Here’s what we heard.

Gillian Welch – One More Dollar

Drive By Truckers – 18 Wheels of Love

Scud Mountain Boys – Gypsies Tramps and Thieves

Bruce Springsteen  – 4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

Townes van Zandt – Pancho and Lefty

Okkervil River – Westfall

Utah Phillips – Korea

Utah Phillips – Mess With People  (can’t find a video)

Kansas – Song for America

Billy Joel – Leningrad

Steve Earle – Copperhead Road

Beatles – Rocky Raccoon

Traffic – John Barleycorn Must Die

Johnny Cash – One Piece at a Time

Johnny Cash – Don’t Take Your Guns to Town

Captain Tractor – Frozen Puck to the Head

Hayden – Bass Song

The Pixies – The Happening

Pearl Jam – Crazy Mary

Johnny Cash – Hung My Head

Captain Nemo – Motorpsyco Nitemare (can’t find anything)

 

I enjoyed, I hope you all did.

 

 

October 2009 – Halloween

The theme for the October meeting was Halloween. Songs that scared you, terrified you, or at least referenced Halloween themes in some manner. here is the playlist from that meeting…

Joy Division – Exercise 1

The Church – Day of the Dead

Bauhaus – Double Dare

Marilyn Manson – The Nobodies

Nine Inch Nails – The Wretched

Vampire Weekend – A-Punk

Gordy Sampson – Davey Jones

Amy Millan – Bruised Ghosts

Cat Power – Werewolf

The Bird and the Bee – Witch

Nick Cave – Death is Not the End

Green On Red – Black Night (not there, but try this if you want some Green on Red)

Iron Maiden – Hallowed be Thy Name

Robyn Hitchcock – Man With a Lightbulb Head

Sons and Daughters – Monsters (not there, but try this)

Smashing Pumpkins – We Only Come Out at Night

Mike Scott – City Full of Ghosts(Dublin) )not there, but try this for some Mike Scott)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Devil’s Waitin’

Japan – Ghosts

Nine Inch Nails – Dead Souls

Johnny Cash – When the Man Comes Around

Gorillaz – Fire Coming out of the Monkeys Head

Echo and the Bunnymen – Killing Moon

Monster Magnet – Goliath and the Vampires

Johnny Cash – Ghost Riders in the Sky

Rob Zombie – Dragula

Alice Cooper – This House is Haunted

Babe Ruth – Jack O’Lantern (nothing I could find)

Sting – Moon Over Bourbon Street

Enjoy

September 2009 – Instrumentals

The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting cooler, the birds are starting to move out. Summer of 2009 is ending. We miss it. With the September music club we listened to music that was also missing something – words. This meeting was all about the instrumental. Here is what we heard.

Pixies – Cecilia Ann

Dave Brubeck – Take 5

Galaxie 500 – Instrumental – Acura Commercial

Mogwai – Summer

Moby – Everloving

Mantovani Orchestra – Theme From Exodus

Ian Anderson – In Defense of Faith

Steve Vai – The Attitude Song

Jean Luc Ponty – Tchokola – something else from the album

John Petrucci – Lost Without You

Blues Traveller – The Good, The Bad and the Ugly

Tommy Guerrero – Califas Peridido

Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands – Codys Last Ride

Deerhunter – Cover Me Slowly

Elliot Brood – Chuckwagon

Frank Black – Tossed

Marilyn Manson – Long hard Road Out of Hell

Les Baxter and His Orchestra – Sabre Dance – version by Love Sculpture

Tomko Lamb – Arrow – he’s playing something

Dixieland Hymns – Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho – vocal with Mahalia Jackson

Carl Stalling – The Good Egg

DJ Shadow – Organ Donor

Beastie Boys – Groove Holmes

Tool – Triad

Mogwai – Glasgow Mega Snake

MSTRKRFT – Vuvuvu

There were some real challenges – Thanks young Jeff.

Hope You enjoy.

June Playlist – World Invasion

Canada is made up of people who have come from just about every country on the planet. To celebrate that makeup, the theme for June’s music club is Music From Around the World (artists from Canada, the United States and England need not apply). Here is what we heard.

Enjoy.

Super Furry Animals – Mt.

Hoodoo Gurus – What’s My Scene

Hunters & Collectors – Run Run Run

The Vines – TV Pro

Habib Koite – Kunte Ta (not available but here is something else)

Nick Cave – O’ Children

X-Japan – Scars

Angra – Acid Rain

Laguna Coil – Purify

Mechanical Poet – Swamp Stamp Polka (could not find, but here some other stuff 1 2)

Nightwish – Amaranth

Air – Kelly Watch the Stars

System of a Down – Toxicity

Boards of Canada – Dayvan Cowboy

Rammstein – Stripped

The Golden Filter – Solid Gold

Belle and Sebastian – Judy and the Dream of Horses

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Oh My Lord

Dungen – Gjort Bort Sig

Phoenix – Lost and Found

Raveonettes – Aly, Walk With Me

Colors Playlist

Cows in field

On June 19 the theme was colors in honor of all the colors that spring brings. Here are the songs….

TV On the Radio – Red Dress

Alesandro Escoveda – Sex Beat (from the album Bourbonitis Blues)

Husker Du – Pink Turns to Blue

The Hives – Tick Tick Boom (from the Album Black and White)

LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver

Beck – The Golden Age

Led Zeppelin – Black Dog

Steely Dan – Black Cow

Soundgarden – Fell on Black Days

Sting – We Work the Black Seam

Lyle Lovett – Black and Blue

Sarah McLachlan – Blue

Blitzen Trapper – Black River Killer

Lucinda Williams – Greenville (cover)

Jolie Holland – Mexican Blue

Okkervil River – Blue Tulip

Sun Kill Moon – Heron Blue

Irish Playlist

At the last meeting the music was chosen to honor the Irish. There was some irish bands, some songs about the Irish and some tenuous links to things Irish.

Here is the playlist…

Alasdair Roberts – Molly Bawn – done here by the Chieftans

Archers of Loaf- Chumming the Ocean

The Rosebuds – Drunkards Worst Nightmare – look for it on the page. It’s there.

Ash – Girl From Mars

A House – You’re Too Young

Captain Tractor – Dublin Lullaby – a cover

Clannad – Newgrange

Loreena McKennett – Bonny Portmore

Clannad – An Tull

The Bloody Irish Boys – Drunk Tonight

John Lennon – Luck of the Irish

Foster & Allen – When Irish Eyes Are Smiling – Perry Como style

Nick Cave – The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane

The Waterboys – Don’t Bang the Drum

The Pogues – Lorelei

Catatonia – Road Rage

The Waterboys – When Ye Go Away

Damien Dempsey – Chase the Light

Snow Patrol – Make This Go On Forever

Hothouse Flowers – Isn’t It Amazing – same can be said about this video

Stiff Little Fingers – Listen

The Undertones – My Perfect Cousin

Thanks for being there.

Relationship Songs

So the theme for the last meeting was relationship songs, not necessarily love songs, but relationship songs. Here is what we listened to. See if you can find the relationship.

Blind Faith – In the Presence of the Lord

Cat Stevens – I Love My Dog

The Beatles – Savoy Truffle

Alice Cooper – I Love the Dead

Deep Purple – Highway Star

The Tubes – She’s a Beauty

The Beatles – When I’m Sixty Four

Fred Astaire – Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

Fred Astaire – I Love Louisa

Evil Genius Orchestra – Imperial March

The Replacements – Answering Machine

PJ Harvey – This Is Love

Poisened – Guns and Heroin

Linkin Park – In Between

The Replacements – Unsatisfied

Bruce Springsteen – Highway Patrolman

Isobell Campbell – Come Go With Me

Midlake – Young Bride

Of Montreal – She’s a Rejector – the stuff some people put on the net ay yi yi

Belle and Sebastian – Judy and Her Dream of Horses

Best Of 2008

So at the January meeting we played the best songs that we heard for the first time in 2008.  Some songs were good songs from mediocre albums while others were great songs from good albums.

Anyway, here is the list. Where possible, you can click on teh song and it will play a video courtesy of youtube.

Artist-Song-Album

Chad Van Gaalen – Willow Tree – Soft Airplane

Shearwater – Rook – Rook

Black Mountain – Queens Will Play – In The Future

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Midnight Man – Dig! Lazarus Dig!

Hercules and Love Affair – Blind – Hercules and Love Affair

Dream Theater – 6:00 –  Awake

Star One – High Noon – Space Metal

Within Temptation – Angels – Silent Force

Nightwish – Sahara – Dark Passion Play

Circus Maximus – Biosfear – First Chapter

Sufjan Stevens – Say Yes to Michigan – Greetings from Michigan

Barry Louis Polisar – All I Want Is You – Juno Soundtrack

Kimya Dawson – Tire Swing – Juno Soundtrack

Flight of the Conchords – Business Time – Flight of the Conchords

Elliot Brood – W.I.A.D.F.Y – Mountain Meadows

Firewater – This Is My Life – The Golden Hour

Jose Gonzalez – New Life – In Our Nature

My Morning Jacket – Touch Me I’m Going to Scream – Evil Urges

Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands – Cody’s Dream – Cody’s Dream

Definitely some interesting music that night.

Winter Songs Playlist

So we met on a cold December night for listening and discussing winter songs. A lot of them are sad with winter being used as a metaphor for loneliness, being heartbroken or death. There is little joy in winter amongst musicians it seems.

Anyway, here is the list. Where there is a link you can click on the link and it will take you to a youtube video. Not all of these songs have a video available.

As a reminder, the next meeting is January 20, 2009. I’m looking forward to this one. Your mission is to bring in the five best songs you heard for the first time in 2008. It could be a really good song from an otherwise bad record. It could be a great song from a great record. It could be a song that may not be one of your top 5, but because the album from which it came from is so solid you want to play it. It could be because it’s from a band that you were happy to discover this year. Whatever, just bring it.

Enjoy

Lost and Profound – Winter Raging

Snow Patrol- Shut Your Eyes

David Francey – Skating Rink – cover

The Dodos – Winter

Vince Guaraldi – Linus and Lucy

Vince Guaraldi – Skating

Custom – Skate

Durutti Column – Sketch for Winter

Joni Mitchell – River

Sarah McLachlan – Song for a Winters Night

Tarja Turenen – You Would Have Loved This

Frank Zappa – Don’t Eat Yellow Snow

Kate Bush- Under Ice

Gordon Lightfoot- Song for a Winters Night

Alan Jackson – Winter Wonderland

New Order – Doubts Even Here

Al Stewart – Life in Dark Water

Sufjan Stevens – Sister Winter

Galaxie 500 – Listen the Snow is Falling – the original version by Yoko Ono

Laura Veirs – Snow Camping

Neil Young – Winterlong – pixies cover

National – Mr November

Sad Song Results

We gathered. We listened. We cried. We wondered why we put ourselves through such pain. Such is the lot of the Highlands Music club. Willing to do anything for the sake of good music.

Bruce Springsteen – Factory(video, lyrics,

The Pogues – And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Candi Staton – In The Ghetto(video – Elvis version, lyrics

Belle and Sebastian – Boy Done Wrong Again(lyrics, video – just some other guy doing a cover, website

Neutral Milk Hotel – Two Headed Boy Pt II(video, lyrics,

Johny Cash – Hurt(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Neil Young – Ohio(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Pixies – Monkey Gone To Heaven(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Ship Song(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

New Order – The Truth(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Hayden – Skates(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Hayden – When This is Over(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Sugar – The Slim(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Elton John – Indian Summer(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Bobby Goldsboro – Honey(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Jimmy Dean – Big Bad John(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Kate Bush – Breathing(video, lyrics, website, myspace – sort of)

Beatles – Eleanor Rigby(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Chris De Burgh – The Tower(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Eric Clapton – Tears in Heaven(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Neil Young – Old Man(video, lyrics, website, myspace)

Cat Stevens – Father & Son(video, lyrics, website, myspace)