10 December 2015

Hey, this Chick Corea compilation double LP Inner Space starts off in a much livelier fashion than I expected with "Straight Up and Down." I guess Corea's LP Return to Forever had me expecting something a little more subdued and fusion-y. But that's okay. I guess I don't mind a frenetic start to my day.

9 December 2015

Put on Jethro Tull's Aqualung LP today and for the first time in my life connected that opening "ba na na na na na" guitar riff with Jethro Tull. It was familiar, but if you'd played me just those six notes, I think I would have attributed them to Black Sabbath or Led Zeppelin or someone else. Anyway, heavy metal flute, as my dad once called it. Have some!

7 December 2015

"Take Five" is monumental and all, but here's a tidbit from Dave Brubeck's Wikipedia page that's more fun because it's lesser known: The main-belt asteroid 5079 Brubeck was named after Brubeck.

5 December 2015

This is probably the thing worth the most cool points that I filed today, but as music it's somewhat unlistenable—or, well, this track from a young Mr. Hawtin is a little hard on the ears, anyway. Much better as a throbbing dance-propulsion vehicle for kids on drugs in the '90s, this is definitely dark basement and strobe light music. "AC³" from Spark comes from the Silicon Ghetto EP Vol. 1.

4 December 2015

Light start again. Francesca and I saw a puppet version of this musical very soon after we started dating, so I couldn't let the record pass out of my hands without making a digital copy. We're not deep into December yet, but "Try to Remember" from The Fantasticks is a nice song nonetheless.

3 December 2015

Started light this morning and thought I'd share that mood, rather than coming through with the silly Scritti Politti or awesome Missing Persons records I transcribed after this one. Kiril Kondrashin conducts, Van Cliburn's on piano, and it's Tchaikovsky's "Concerto No. 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 23."

Edit: Oops, first movement only. Here's Cliburn playing the same piece a few years later.

2 December 2015

I'm ripping the "Reckless" LP from Bryan Adams. Why? I don't know. Too lazy to download it, I guess. Or "vinyl sounds warmer." Or I own it in physical form, and I have the means to translate it to digital, and "Summer of '69" isn't so bad, so why not? Kids wanna rock, after all.