Laughing out loud at that "cork" memory. Failed attempt by a middle-of-the-road wine producer circa 1999. But we were not deterred.
Lots of good memories of listening to Let It Bleed. Monkey Man in many of them. Foremost is the days I lived upstairs above a pizza/sub joint in downtown Atlanta during the college days. The stairwell to the rear entrance to the place passed directly in front of the exhaust fan above the pizza oven - a direct portal to the kitchen. There was one semester when night time singing of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" into the fan as loud as we could (myself and whomever I was with) occurred weekly. The cooks did not like that reminder that they were making pies while we were not!
Sticky Fingers is #2 on the Stones list (and yes - lists are fun!) or, wait, Let It Bleed is pretty damn good. Your song choice from SF anchors it in that position. I love the 'Ten Years Gone' lyrics you quoted. 'On the wings of maybe' - powerful indeed.
I posed the desert island and one album question to a group of work friends a couple years ago and 'Paul's Boutique' made that list!
I remember Ween from the early days but do not recall Al Green and DJ Shadow making it into the mix back then. I just had a flashback of the first plastic "cork" we encountered (circa 1999) we were trying to remove from a bottle of red and the screw was just stretching the plastic with absolutely no progress towards it coming out of the neck. I think we just pushed the devil into the bottle in the end.
Nice post inspiring a look back at music that wormed in deeply. I do not know Ween, DJ Shadow nor the Al Green album but will certainly check them out since they made your list. OK - every Led Zep phase has to include Physical Graffiti. Dark Side of the Moon was the first CD I purchased so that establishes its significance. First album ruined by too many bumps of the turntable - Springsteen's Born to Run. Favorite collection on a road trip - Tom Petty's Wildflowers. Essential below the belt rock-n-roll - Exile on Main Street. Stranded on an island with only one album to play? The Who's Quadrophenia. There is so much other great music out there. Thankful for poets, songwriters and musicians!
You're reading my mail again... or listening in on conversations. I'd watched the documentary about Weir and then went on a Weir guitar playing rabbit trail. It has inspired me to take some of my own music and find new chord voicings and inversions, something Weir does seemingly effortlessly.
Endtroducing… seminal work. Can I suggest also “Our Pathetic Age”, a 90m double album. 1st set is instrumental (sample based too) but the piece is made for me by the 2nd set which includes vocal collaborations with Nas, Pharaohe Monch, De La Soul, RTJ, a bunch of Wu Tang royalty… the list goes on.
Great post! There’s some music I need to listen to - especially intrigued by DJ Shadow. I posted about Led Zep IV a few days ago and turned reminded me to dig out III (I feel one of my period Zep phases coming on!)
Screw caps just ensure the contents disappear more quickly!
Laughing out loud at that "cork" memory. Failed attempt by a middle-of-the-road wine producer circa 1999. But we were not deterred.
Lots of good memories of listening to Let It Bleed. Monkey Man in many of them. Foremost is the days I lived upstairs above a pizza/sub joint in downtown Atlanta during the college days. The stairwell to the rear entrance to the place passed directly in front of the exhaust fan above the pizza oven - a direct portal to the kitchen. There was one semester when night time singing of "You Can't Always Get What You Want" into the fan as loud as we could (myself and whomever I was with) occurred weekly. The cooks did not like that reminder that they were making pies while we were not!
Sticky Fingers is #2 on the Stones list (and yes - lists are fun!) or, wait, Let It Bleed is pretty damn good. Your song choice from SF anchors it in that position. I love the 'Ten Years Gone' lyrics you quoted. 'On the wings of maybe' - powerful indeed.
I posed the desert island and one album question to a group of work friends a couple years ago and 'Paul's Boutique' made that list!
I remember Ween from the early days but do not recall Al Green and DJ Shadow making it into the mix back then. I just had a flashback of the first plastic "cork" we encountered (circa 1999) we were trying to remove from a bottle of red and the screw was just stretching the plastic with absolutely no progress towards it coming out of the neck. I think we just pushed the devil into the bottle in the end.
Nice post inspiring a look back at music that wormed in deeply. I do not know Ween, DJ Shadow nor the Al Green album but will certainly check them out since they made your list. OK - every Led Zep phase has to include Physical Graffiti. Dark Side of the Moon was the first CD I purchased so that establishes its significance. First album ruined by too many bumps of the turntable - Springsteen's Born to Run. Favorite collection on a road trip - Tom Petty's Wildflowers. Essential below the belt rock-n-roll - Exile on Main Street. Stranded on an island with only one album to play? The Who's Quadrophenia. There is so much other great music out there. Thankful for poets, songwriters and musicians!
Dang, this is interesting: I’m gonna need a few days to listen and think about my top 5, but I’ll be back with you. And there’ll be no overlap!
You're reading my mail again... or listening in on conversations. I'd watched the documentary about Weir and then went on a Weir guitar playing rabbit trail. It has inspired me to take some of my own music and find new chord voicings and inversions, something Weir does seemingly effortlessly.
Endtroducing… seminal work. Can I suggest also “Our Pathetic Age”, a 90m double album. 1st set is instrumental (sample based too) but the piece is made for me by the 2nd set which includes vocal collaborations with Nas, Pharaohe Monch, De La Soul, RTJ, a bunch of Wu Tang royalty… the list goes on.
Great post! There’s some music I need to listen to - especially intrigued by DJ Shadow. I posted about Led Zep IV a few days ago and turned reminded me to dig out III (I feel one of my period Zep phases coming on!)