Monkey Mind - 08/30/2010

Back after vacation; here’s this week’s collection of jumbled sounds. The entire Terry Riley Shri Camel album is wonderful, for what it’s worth, and not nearly as well known as it should be.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Desert of Ice Terry Riley Shri Camel
  Sonata Noah Creshevsky Opus One compilation
  Get Down War All Day Music
  A-So The Willows Reggae Classics
  Ghetto Living Mighty Diamonds Uptown Top Ranking: Joe Gibbs Reggae Productions: 1970-78
  Lonely Boy Nirvana Island Folk
  The Other Side Crabby Appleton Crabby Appleton
  Can't Get You Out of my Life Eric Andersen Stages: The Lost Album
  Dos Gardenias Armando Garzon Boleros
  March of the Mandolas, Part 1 Dave Grisman/Andy Statman Mandolin Abstractions
  Song for a Young Queen Chris Thile Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  Hud Hud Jalal Solfonun Kord Bayat: Traditional Music from Iran
4pm Alwar Song T.M. Iyer World Library of Folk and Primitive Music: India
  Rainbow Doll Jimmy Dell Get Hot or Go Home: Vintage RCA Rockabilly '56-59
  The Slummer the Slum Five Royales It's Hard But It's Fair: The King Hits and Rarities
  I Want Your Picture Howling Wolf Howling Wolf Rides Again
  Why Should I Hang Around Big Maceo The Bluebird Recordings 1941-1942
  Laughin' and Clownin' Sam Cooke Night Beat
  Since I Found You Maxine Brown Greatest Hits
  Don't Stay Away Phylis Dillon Duke Reid's Treasure Chest
  Joao Gonzalo Rubalcaba Discovery: Live at Montreux
  Composition for Guitar Milton Babbitt/William Anderson Occasional Variations
  Dynamite Michael Horwood/John Brownell and Gerald Heslip Opus One compilation
  Backwards Man Scientists Absolute Scientists
  I Feel Dum/Dugga Do!/ah-tata-kaka-she-wa-hito-no, etc! Duotron The Complete Book of Duotron Illustrated

Monkey Mind - 07/26/2010

Starting off with some soulful reggae then moving on to the usual cross-genre mix. Thanks for listening.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm The Creator Dennis Brown The Promised Land 1977-79
  Don't Be Prejudice Max Romeo Uptown Top Ranking: Joe Gibbs Reggae Productions; 1970-78
  Bootie Cooler Shuggie Otis Here Comes Shuggie Otis
  Dedicated to the Press Betty Davis Nasty Gal
  Pure Soul Elijah and the Ebonites Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label
  Out in the Country The Meters Fire on the Bayou
  Burn Babylon Sylford Walker Uptown Top Ranking: Joe Gibbs Reggae Productions: 1970-78
  Sometime Ago Flora Purim Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
  Once Around the Park Gonzalo Rubalcaba Discovery: Live at Montreux
  Loveable Sam Cooke Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers
  Talk Break —

  Jesus: the missing years John Prine The Missing Years
  Rockin' in the Free World Richard Thompson/David Byrne An Acoustic Evening with David Byrne and Richard Thompson
  Why She's Acting This Way Townes Van Zandt Our Mother the Mountain
  A Satisfied Mind Cowboy Copas 20 Song Gospel collection
4pm New Pleasure Richard Hell & the Voidoids Blank Generation
  Fire Escape Scientists Absolute
  Shoplifter Quintron & Miss Pussycat Swamp Tech
  Come and Get It Badfinger The Best of Badfinger
  Here They Roll Down Mark Eitzel The Ugly American
  Can't Get You Out of my Life Eric Andersen Stages: The Lost Album
  You Still Live With Mom & Dad Eugene Chadbourne I've Been Everywhere
  Heading West Fay Victor Lazy Old Sun
  Tina Duke Ellington Latin American Suite
  Ain't Necessarily So Andy Bey Ain't Necessarily so
  I Love A Groove Ken Nordine Catalyst
  Tropicalia Beck Mutations
  Talking Lesbian Alix Dobkin
  Dvorak John Fahey America

Monkey Mind - 07/12/2010

Lots of different stuff; I’ll link that amazing genderqueer music theory site from Terre Thaemlitz in a bit…

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Midtown 120 Intro Dj Sprinkles Midtown 120 Blues
  Cirque du Soul Kenny Larkin Keys, Strings, Tambourines
  Asiko Tony Allen Eager Hands and Restless Feet: The Best of Tony Allen
  Ain't It the Truth Catalyst The Funkiest Band You Never Heard
  What's Really Going On DJ Hurricane The Hurrah
  I Love You Leaving Trains Sleeping Underwater Survivors
  Rock 'n' roll-stoel The Ex Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
  Not Given Lightly Chris Knox Seizure
  Orange Ball of Pain Mountain Goats Nothing For Juice
  Naked Man Randy Newman Good Old Boys
  Crown Him Lord of All Marion Williams Gospel Now
  Pourin' It All Out Graham Parker Heat Treatment
  Chillout Tent The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
  I Gotta Getta Undertones Undertones
  Vasilissa, ergo gaude Guillaume Dufay/Pro Cantone Antiqua Motets
4pm Regard du Pere Olivier Messiaen/Pierre-Laurent Aimard Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-Jesus
  Green Grass of Tunnel Múm Finally We Are No One
  Ehi Amigo, Serve un'Autoradio Andrea Sartori Il Tagliacode
  5AM 9 Lazy 9 Paradise Blown
  Bahia Catalyst The Funkiest Band You've Never Heard
  Zap! Carnivorous Eddie Jefferson Vocal Ease
  Cool Ade Preston Love Watts Funky: Johnny Otis & Friends
  Nija Walk (Street Walk) Fatback Band Fatbackin': The Perception Sessions
  Fire Dub Israel Vibration Israel Dub
  Egyptian Garden The Kaleidoscope Side Trips
  Various Times The Fall Early Fall 77-79
  Real Life Tones on Tail Everything!
  You've Got to Be Kidding Graham Parker Howlin' Wind

Monkey Mind - 06/28/2010

All over the map, as usual, but hopefully some sharp oddball sounds you’ve never heard before. That 60s Spanish psych-pop comp from Vampisoul is the find of the week, for sure.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Corre Corre Salvajes Sensacional Soul: 37 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1966-1976
  Todo Gira Los Impala Sensacional Soul: 37 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1966-1976
  Change Jesse & James Sensacional Soul: 37 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1966-1976
  Turn Into Earth Yardbirds Roger the Engineer/Over Under Sideways Down
  Free Some Day Country Joe & The Fish The First Three EPs
  Lord Let Me Live Longer Rev. Gary Davis At Home and Church
  In the Department of Love Conrad Cummings/Text by James Sienna Gay American Composers
  Aktamak Koktamak Abdorahman Nurak Rough Guide to the music of Central Asia
  March of the Chrome Police Chrome Half Machine Lip Moves
  It's the New Thing The Fall Early Fall 77-79
  Party Pit The Hold Steady Boys and Girls in America
  When the Rain Comes Jacobites Robespierre's Velvet Basement
  Shakey Ground Phoebe Snow Best of Phoebe Snow
  Big John Jeeter Snatch and the Poontangs Snatch and the Poontangs
  Trauma Las Cuatro Monedas y Gregory Sensacional Soul: 37 Groovy Spanish Soul & Funk Stompers 1966-1976
  C'est Soirees La Yannick Cover the World: World Music Versions of Classic Pop Hits
4pm Too Many Ups R.L. Burnside Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
  Vinyl Overdose DJ Format Return of the DJ, Vol 1
  Just Be Yourself Cameo
  Dance (Disco Heat) Sylvester The Original Hits
  Sophisticated Sissy Rufus Thomas Do the Funky Something: Best of Rufus Thomas
  Wait Til You See Her George Shearing Quintet The Swingin's Mutual
  Tone Paintings II Dodo Marmarosa Up In Dodo's Room: The Complete Dial Sessions 1946-1947
  Moanin' Blues Lillian Glinn Lillian Glinn/Mae Glover (1929-1931)
  The Natural Facts Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Gospel of The Blues
  Prints Tie Bobby Hutcherson San Francisco
  Lover (Eleven Intrusions) Harry Partch Harry Partch Collection Volume 1
  Hunting Song Pentangle Early Classics
  Hot House of Omagararshid Yardbirds Roger the Engineer/Over Under Sideways Down
  I'm High Again Bo Diddley Rare & Well Done

Monkey Mind - 06/21/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm Natural High Bloodstone The Very Best of Bloodstone
  Keep A Thing Happening Voodoo Dogs The Future of Jazz is Now
  Cobrinha Tine Luaka Bop: The Sound of Sound
  Kollington Ayinia Alhaja Sikira Adunni/Ainla Fuji E Gapupe Lagos Chop Up: Fuji & Afrobeat, Highlife & Juju
  Count Me In Five Blind Boys of Alabama Specialty Gospel Twofer
  Don't Even Know Her Name Chills Kaleidoscope World
  Drugs Black Lips 200 Million Thousand
  Stupid Americans The Ex Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
  Encyclopedia Vomitania Sun City Girls Napoleon & Josephine: Singles Volume 2
  Your Saving Grace Steve Miller Band The Best of the Steve Miller Band 1968-1973
  Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning John Fahey and His Orchestra Old Fashioned Love
  Looking For a Man (To Satisfy My Soul) Little Esther I Paid My Dues
  Suicide Blues Curtis Jones Trouble Blues
  Armistice Day David Cieri The goat and the violin.
  Rushes David Cieri Ten Truths about East & West
4pm Dear Olde Benny Green Is A-turning In His Grave Soft Machine Man in a Deaf Corner: Anthology 1963-1970
  Nothing Is Sacred Sparks A Woofer in Tweeter's Clothing
  I'm In Control Mickey Jupp Long Distance Romancer
  Everybody Plays the Fool Chosen Few Trojan Soulful Reggae Box
  Special People Betty Davis They Say I'm Different
  Too Close For Comfort Dianne Reeves Good Night and Good Luck
  Seu Lugar Kassin +2 Luaka Bop: The Sound of Sound
  Land of the Freak King Khan and the Shrines What Is?!
  Weapons for El Salvador The Ex Singles. Period. The Vinyl Years 1980-1990
  Wake Up Funkadelic America Eats Its Young
  Elegy David Cieri The goat and the violin.
  Tavasz, Tavasz Márta Sebestyén The Best of Márta Sebestyén

Monkey Mind - 06/14/2010

This week’s collection. Enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Solid Air John Martyn Solid Air
  Dual Highway Duke Ellington Unknown Session
  Can't You Read Big Maceo The Bluebird Recordings 1941-1942
  Check It Mutabaruka Check It
  Robin's Groove Night Trains Bossa Brava!
  Way It Goes Alejandro Escovedo Thirteen Years
  Swerve Peter Jefferies A Chorus of Interludes
  Burlesken Andreas Willscher/Trio Armin Rosin Dedication
  Lost World Green on Red Gas Food Lodging/Green on Red
  Bloodsport Killing Joke Killing Joke
  Sleeping Beauty Lene Lovich Stateless
  Readymade Beck Odelay
  Female Demands Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher
  Lowlands Tall Dwarfs Fork Songs
  Listen to Me Buddy Holly
4pm Ollie Ollie Humble Pie Town & Country
  Best Batch Yet Captain Beefheart Doc at the Radar Station
  Sabotage Otolithen S.O.D.
  New Mexico Bird Names Wooden Lake/Sexual Diner
  Doing Things Joe Venuti and his Orchestra Pretty Trix
  Sonata for Violincello and Piano Shostakovich/Kalichstein Laredo Robinson Trio The Complete Trios & Sonatas
  Special Rider Blues John Fahey America
  I've Got Heaven on My Mind Hickory Bottom Harmoneers Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  I'm Still Waiting Rita Marley Who Feels It Knows It
  Drop It In the Slot Tower of Power Drop it in the Slot
  I Want My Love To Rest Tonight Yoko Ono Approximately Infinite Universe
  Bookstore Mark Eitzel Demos before Love Songs
  Another Year Royal Trux Accelorator
  Sprinkling of Marie Tone Dogs The Early Middle Years
  I Feel Voxish The Fall Perverted by Language
  The Strange Play of the Mouth Nurse With Wound Automating, Vol. 2

Monkey Mind - 06/07/2010

This week’s collection of oddball songs and sounds. Hope you enjoy.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Water-Wonder Tibor Szemzo/Group 180 Group 180
  Wolfli Nurse With Wound Automating, Vol. 2
  Let the Redeemed Say So Rev. John Wilkins Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  Africa The Meters Rejuvenation
  Tumbling Tone Dogs The Early Middle Years
  Pretty Notes Grifters Ain't My Lookout
  Tale in Hard Time Fairport Convention What We Did on Our Holidays
  The Glorious Monster Max Roach M'Boom
  Wanted Mr. Lif Urban Renewal Program
  Get Lite Anti-Pop Consortium fluorescent black
  Architectural Requirements Tape-Beatles Music With Sound
  Bosco's Blues Sugarman Three & Company (Remix feat. Large Professor) Daptone Records Remixed
  End of a Beautiful Friendship Carmen McRae An Introduction to Carmen McRae
4pm Chuckles Tal Farlow/Eddie Costa/Vinnie Burke
  Lowlands Tall Dwarfs Fork Songs
  Flame Thrower The Chills Kaleidoscope World
  Pagan Lovesong Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die
  Insignificanto Sun City Girls Napoleon & Josephine: Singles Volume 2
  Two Shaves and a Shine (concerto for bouzouki and 3-piece rock roup in 93 six-second segments) Nurse With Wound An Awkward Pause
  Far East Mississippi Ohio Players
  O-O-H Child/Up On the Roof Laura Nyro Gonna Take A Miracle
  Blues Duke Ellington Unknown Session
  Twist It, Babe Bo Carter The Essential Bo Carter
  Man, Man, Man Sonny Scott Sonny Scott (1933)
  The Stately Homes of England Noel Coward Greatest Hits, vol 1
  It'll All End Up In Tears Jacobites Robespierre's Velvet Basement
  Lazy Bones Esquivel Space-Age Bachelor Pad Music

Monkey Mind - 05/24/2010


Time Song Artist Album
3pm Rock and Roll Sermon Elder Charles Beck Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  Power Is In the Heart of Man Brother & Sister W.B. Grate Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  Improvisation Isidor Achron/Lydia Kavina Music From the Ether: Original Works for Theremin
  Portrait Alaistar Galbraith Morse/Gaudy Light
  Le Geant Vert Toog 6633
  The Decay of Cities Henry Cow Western Culture
  But I Ain't No More (G.S.T.S.K.D.T.S.) Vera Hamilton Watts Funky: Johnny Otis & Friends
  Way Back When Buck 65 Situation
  I Can Take You To the Sun The Misunderstood Before the Dream Faded
  A Wake Sun City Girls Napoleon & Josephine: Singles Volume 2
  Sleazy Nashville Sun city Girls Napoleon & Josephine: Singles Volume 2
  The Running Man Dog Faced Hermans Mental Blocks for All Ages
  Collision With a Frogman Swell Maps Jane From Occupied Europe
  My Mind The Misunderstood Before the Dream Faded
  Hommage a Nelson M. - Metamorphosis Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann/Maria Kliegel and Stephan Froleyks Hommage a Nelson M.
4pm I'm a Mover Free Tons of Sobs
  Marcasite Lace Alastair Galbraith Morse/Gaugy Light
  The Avante-Garde Honey and Gall
  Dastgah Shur Faramarz Payvar & Ensemble Persian Classical Music
  John Saw Grant & Ella Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  Don't Let Him Ride Mississippi Nightingales Fire in My Bones: Raw & Rare & Other-Worldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007
  Float On The Floaters Float On
  Knife and Fork Dubwise King Tubby and the Roots Radics Dangerous Dub
  Pollock Chris Icasiano and Neil Welch Bad Luck.
  Un Piastre Ici Luderin Darbone & the Hackberry Ramblers J'ai Ete Au Bal (I Went to the Dance)
  The Brain of the Purple Mountain Leo Kottke 6- and 12-String Guitar
  Greeting Card Hamza El-Din Al Oud: Instrumental and Vocal Music of Nubia
  Sit Down Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Gospel of the Blues

Monkey Mind - 05/10/2010

This week’s set, with double hits of Killing Joke and Virgin Prunes, two of the smartest noise/art/punk/industrial bands from the early 80s, and a bunch of other stuff.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm Where the Long Shadows Fall Current 93 Beforetheinmostlight
  90% of My Mind is With You Prefuse 73 One Word Extinguisher
  Sour Grapes Port Authority The Navy: Port Authority
  Hell on Earth James White and the Blacks Irresistible Impulse
  Complications Killing Joke Killing Joke
  Bau-Dachong Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die
  Epistrophy Eugene Chadbourne/Tony Trischka Wild Partner
  Will We Ever See Peace Again Lonesome Valley Singers God Bless the Working Man
  The Natural Facts Sister Rosetta Tharpe The Gospel of the Blues
  Vice Versa Angelina Confidential
4pm Free Form Fatback Band Fatbackin': The Perception Sessions
  Avramandole Staff Benda Bilili Tres Tres Fort
  At my own Pace Y Society Travel at Your Own Pace
  A Possibility (Back Home) Wanda Robinson The Soul-Jazz Poetry of Wanda Robinson
  Lay Away Isley Brothers Brother, Brother, Brother
  Hell of a Pain Dave Edmunds Rockpile
  Sweet Love Wild Child Butler Keep On Doing What You're Doing
  Falling Away Henry Cow Western Culture
  terrakottaroboter You Dee Through the Tulips
  Transmitter Down Hovercraft Experiment Below
  Tomorrow's World Killing Joke Killing Joke
  Theme for Thought Virgin Prunes ...If I Die, I Die

Monkey Mind - 05/03/2010

This week’s scatter-brained presentation of all kinds of sounds.

Time Song Artist Album
3pm I Can Understand It The New Birth Greatest Funk Classics
  Spoon Cut Chemist The Audience's Listening
  Into the Water Dj Krush Krush
  Desconfianza Perez Prado Havana, 3 a.m.
  Heavy Heavy Heavy Geraldo Pino Afro-Rock presents Deep Funk Africa
  My Gentleman Friend Nancy Wilson/George Shearing Quintet The Swingin's Mutual
  None of Us Are Free Solomon Burke Lifted: Songs of the Spirit
  True to Life Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone
  Willow Tree Riley Baugus Long Steel Rail
  Gypsy Pieces: Visel Som Ensemble Caprice w/Matthias Maute Teleman: The Baroque Gypsies
  Sonic Lullaby Me-Sheen Excursions in Ambience: The Fourth Frontier
  Drumming (Part Four) Steve Reich and Musicians From the Kitchen Archives No. 2: Steve Reich and Musicians, Live 1977
4pm Sear Me MCMXCIII My Dying Bride Turn Loose the Swans
  I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys Nikki Sudden Waiting on Egypt
  Shame On You Marc Bolan & T. Rex Work in Progress
  I Ain't About to Give You My Name Thee Headcoats Heavens to Murgatroyd, Even!
  Doggin' the Blues (Low Dog Blues) Big Joe Turner Joe Turner 1941-1946
  Time is Passing Louis Jordan & His Tympani Five One Guy Named Louis: The Complete Aladdin Sessions
  What is a Disk Jockey? Spike Jones & His City Slickers Thank You Music Lovers: A Proper Introduction to Spike Jones
  Barcelona The Al Gafa Quinteto Leblon Beach
  Kid Sparkle and the Parliament Prince Pulsoptional Pulsoptional
  Sonata for oboe & piano: 2nd movement, Scherzo Francis Poulenc Sonatas
  Until the Real Thing Comes Along Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins Pure Ella
  Up To Yourself James Gang Passin' Through
  9 'Til 5 The Meters Look-Ka Py Py
  Forever Suffering James Brown The Payback