No list this week. Finally started watching Breaking Bad and I have no time for music now besides it just gets on my nerves you know how that is and it’s really hot in here have you noticed that so yeah just tubing and thinking about glass and all that ice jazz….

J.J.D. (Johnny Just Drop) – Fela Kuti
She Thinks I Still Care – Elvis Presley
Break On Through (To The Other Side) – The Doors
El Pajaro Prieto – Ruffo Garrido y su Conjunto
Shopping for Clothes – The Coasters
Barbwire – Nora Dean
Get Down Brother – Mickey and the Soul Generation
Travelling Song – Pentangle
29 Mellotron Improvisation (4) – The Beatles
Boom Boom – The Yardbirds
and Lenny Welch’s A Taste of Honey

Do I Do – Stevie Wonder
When Mortals All to Rest Retire – Yo-Yo Ma etc.
Concerto No. 2 in B Minor for Double Bass and Orchestra I. Allegro moderato (Meyer & Bottesini) – Yo-Yo Ma
Arabia – Jungle Exotica Anthology
Angola – Wayne Shorter
Gメン’75のテーマ – 菊池俊輔
Everybody is a Star – Sly & The Family Stone
Malambo – Los Diablos Rojos
Parfum – Django Reinhardt
Flugufrelsarinn – Kronos Quartet
and Eco (feat. Jeza) doing Over Paper Skies

Still a little distorted from the boxed set frontloaded iTunes rebuild

La Fullera – Conjunto Ritmos del Caribe
Wet in Paris – Eric Truffaz
Golden Hen – Tenor Saw
Rollin’ And A-Rockin‘ – Ruckus Tyler
Walking To New Orleans – Fats Domino
Dancing with Ginger – Les Paul
Spirit of Air – Marilyn Mazur
Jingle Bells – Les Paul
Post – Ensemble 4’33″
Meditation – Yusef Lateef Quintet
and Radio Yogyakarta from the Sublime Frequencies label

Fortunately my iTunes seems to have infiltrated by some blah bands:

Want a Wine – Leo Graham
Moritat – Dick Hyman Trio
I’m So Proud (live) – Curtis Mayfield
Wabash Cannonball – Roy Acuff
My Soul’s in Louisiana – Otis Taylor
Schubert’s Trout Quintet, IV. Allegro – Sharon Quartet
Such a Night – Clyde McPhatter & the Drifters
Conversation – John Medeski
Nata – Shakti
Driftin’ Blues – Charles Brown
and the Staple Singers doing If It Ain’t One Thing It’s Another

Scatterbrain – Jeff Beck
Real & Defined Androgens – Annette Peacock
Mother of Pearl – Roxy Music
Having a Party – Sam Cooke
Fire – Les Paul
All She Cares About is Mariachi – The Magnetic Fields
Songs for Tony – Movement III – Philip Glass & Michael Nyman
Kinky Reggae (live) – Bob Marley & the Wailers
For Once in My Life – Stevie Wonder
The Meaning of Love – Steve Kuhn
and Sonny Boy Williamson II doing She Got Next To Me

Currently wifi’ing to the speakers:

You’re All I Need to Get By – Aretha Franklin
Suite no2 D Minor, BWV 1008 Menuett I & II – Yo-Yo Ma
I Feel My Stuff – David Byrne and Brian Eno
Wokeba – Markscheider Kunst
Les Etoiles – Melody Gardot
Are You In The Mood? – Django Reinhardt & The Hot Club of France Quintet
Woody The Woodburn – The Beatles
Circle – Trim
Introduction (Live in Karlsruhe, ’67) – Miles Davis
Welfare Mothers – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
with a Sixteen Tons bonus from the Eric Burden Band

I like how now I don’t just listen to my music, it actually passes through my body (doing good things, no doubt).

Trouble in the World – Bunny Wailer
Love Me Tender – Elvis
Il Andantino – Sharon Quartet
Waltz Delire – DAAU
Scatterbrain – Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton
Ode to Billie Joe – Ike and Tina Turner
Hard Time Pressure – Sugar Minott
Funny (But I Still Love You) – Ray Charles
Brazil – Django Reinhardt
After the Dance – Marvin Gaye
and Arve Henriksen’s Green Water

His Wife Refused – David Byrne
Sentimiento – Francis Del Rio
Alton’s Groove – Alton Ellis
I Confess – The English Beat
No Wine, No Women – Mr. Google Eyes with Billy Ford & His Musical V-8′s
My Cherie Amour – Stevie Wonder
The Drum Thunder Suite – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
I’m Ready – Fats Domino
Sonata in G Minor for Cello & Piano, Op. 19 – Yo-Yo Ma & Emanuel Ax
Buzzard Lope – Ike Quebec
and Elvis doing I’m Counting on You

Entering into week 3 of streaming my iTunes to my TV via Apple TV.*

I’m Ready – Willie Dixon
Play With Your Money – Max Romeo
Concerto for Cello and Double Bass Movement III – Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma and the St Paul Chamber Orchestra
Weeping Willow Blues – Bessie Smith
The Door is Still Open – The Cardinals
Don’t Wear Black, Green Suits You Better – Omar Souleyman
Devil May Care – Miles Davis
Soon This Morning – Blind Willie McTell
Randolph St. Swing – Hypnotic Brass Band
Knowing – OutKast
and Curtis Mayfield’s Party Night

*Because I can, but mostly because I moved the good speakers to the TV the better with which to annoy my neighbors while watching loud movies.

Snowball – The Bad Plus
Grace – Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin
Chase – James Brown
Oh Yea – Bo Diddley
Jeru – Miles Davis
Gettin in’ the Groove – The Sentimental Souls
The River – David Byrne and Brian Eno
Let’s Do the Slop – Little Joe & The Thrillers
Livin’ Lovin’ Wreck – Jerry Lee Lewis
Breathe – Cinematic Orchestra
and Dennis Alcapone doing Cassius Clay

I think I made it through the fourth season (Aaron Sorkin’s last) but the he said/she said handwriting was on the wall and the very sharp dialogue suddenly mushed down into a sordid effort to tarnish the show’s liberals while giving the tin-eared conservatives a heart. The first three seasons were pretty good, and I really can’t speak to what came after.

If you have not watched Deadwood, I highly recommend it. If Al Swearengen ever ran for President, I’d vote for him in a heartbeat.

Setting new standards for random eclecticity:

Magpie to the Morning – Neko Case
I Need Love – Neighb’rhood Childr’n
Until Wrong Looks Right – Wooden Wand
National Anthem – sign off
Something Beautiful – Trombone Shorty
Satta Amassagana – The Abyssinians
It Ain’t No Big Thing (But It’s Growing) – Elvis Presley
Avalon -Roxy Music
Futures and Past – The Fall
Only to Other People – The Cookies
and The Phoenix Authority singing Come Together

Oh, and a spoiler alert. At some point (I forget which season), Aaron Sorkin gets fired and suddenly West Wing scripts yearn for political balance and the show climbs up its own ass, ruining what had been the greatest show about politics ever.

Thanks to Demonoid, the Ikea of piracy, the library is back up to the low five digits and growing.

Devil’s Pickney – Sugar Minott
Don’t Mess Around with Philis Jones – Tok Tok Tok
Children of the Night – Hysear Don Walker
Man in the Mirror – Crosby & Nash
Since I Fell for You – Jimmy Smith
Another Bite of the Apple – Naomi
Bruno Nicolai – Allora Il Treno
Thanks for the Boogie Ride – Anita O’Day
Funky Tonk – Miles Davis
Sub Island – Skream
and Django Reinhardt & The Hot Club of France doing Fantaisie Sur Une Danse, Norvegienne

Ain’t That Love – Ray Charles
She’s My Lover (Song for R.) – Kid Loco
EPO – Opus Akoben
Budo – Miles Davis
When A Man Loves A Woman – Percy Sledge
Volo Vivace – Tuxedomoon
Hi-Life – Wally Badarou
I Can’t Keep From Crying, Sometimes – Deirdre Wilson Tabac
That’s When Your Heartaches Begin – Elvis
Jingle – Radio Nova
and Eddie Floyd’s Knock on Wood

(artist dupes removed to avoid an all-Elvis/Ray Charles set — still dumping boxes in to replace the missing hard drives)

Wow. Wow. Wow.

62 points but I would have been in the 90s if Murray hadn’t been such an asshole about what you drive, eat or watch on TV.

Just like all of his other crap, he assumes that everyone who grows up poor, rural/small town and has worked for a living is part of the Fox Nation. Clueless bastard assumes that everyone who leaves for the big city is either gay or immediately joins a church that meets in catacombs.

Music worth paying for and no, I don’t say that very often.

Rebuilding your library with boxed sets, cont.

Jump Ted! – The Shufflers
Hey Julia – Robert Palmer
U.N.I.T.Y. (Feat. Omar Perry) – Radikal Dub Kolektiv
I Chose to Sing the Blues – Ray Charles
Roygbiv – Boards of Canada
Good Vibrations – Brian Wilson
I’m In The Mood – John Lee Hooker
Introduction – Ella Fitzgerald
Trains and Boats and Planes – Fred Frith
Indigo – Miles Davis
and Wyclef Jean’s Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door

Randomly pulled from “25 Years of Radio Nova”:

Pongi – Ray Lema/Prof Stefanov & les Voix Bulgares
Hamady Boiro – Baaba Maal
In a Manner of Speaking – Tuxedomoon
Tonky Pumpz – Metro Area
Plus Jamais Ça – Tiken Jah Fakoly
The Edge – David McCallum
Grandma’s Hands – Bill Withers
Cha Cah Loco – Joe Jackson
The Best Ambience – Bibi Den’s Tshibayi
Tunnel Music – Zongamin
and Rabih Abou-Khalil’s Arabian Waltz

Great boxed set of people you know and folks you’ve never heard of.