Sound Salvation (Music)
With Steve Pick
Fri May 4th 2012 7.00am–10.00am
R=listener request. N=music new at the station. L=local music. Your purchases using the Buy it! links
Time zone: central
7:00am | Velvet Underground “Foggy Notion” from VU (Verve 1985) —One of the Velvets' best songs, and it wasn't released until they'd been gone for 15 years.Buy it! |
7:07am | Brian Eno “Mother Whale Eyeless” from Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (Editions E.G. 1974) —Ah, those early tuneful Eno records still sound lovely, don't they?Buy it! |
7:12am | Talking Heads “Swamp” from Speaking In Tongues (sire 1983) —Ah, 1983, my first job in a record store. We had something like 50 records we were allowed to play in the store, of which fewer than 10 were ones I enjoyed. I played this album just about every day I worked that year.Buy it! |
7:20am | The Soul Rebels “Night People” from Unlock Your Mind (Universal 2012) N —New Orleans brass band funk with a hip-hop twist.Buy it! |
7:24am | Curtis Mayfield “Billy Jack” from People Get Ready: The Curtis Mayfield Story (Rhino 1996) —Not anything to do with the movie I saw when I was 13 (the movie everybody I knew saw when I was 13, in fact), but some pure Mayfield funk.Buy it! |
7:32am | Paul Weller “Green” from Sonik Kicks (Island 2012) —Paul Weller plays with synthesizers & echo chambers. It's not his strength, but it's definitely fun.Buy it! |
7:35am | Chuck Prophet “Play That Song Again” from Temple Beautiful (Yep Roc 2012) N —Chuck Prophet is capable of restoring your faith in music - and if you haven't lost it, he'll simply reinforce it.Buy it! |
7:38am | The Byrds “So You Want to Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star” from Younger Than Yesterday (Columbia 1967) —Cynical and yet thrilling.Buy it! |
7:40am | Vertigo Swirl “Braying For Revolution” from Swirl 3 (Rubber Stamp 2011) L —St. Louis band led by sometimes brilliant songwriter Brian Andrew Marek - this album has a lot of very cool psychedelic pop songs.Buy it! |
7:44am | Future Clouds and Radar “This Is Really a Book” from single (Euclid 2010) —Recorded live on the stage in Euclid Records a coupe years back.Buy it! |
7:46am | Andrew Bird “Lusitania” from Break it Yourself (Mom + Pop 2012) N —Exquisite song about a boat that was sunk almost 100 years ago.Buy it! |
7:50am | Pete Townshend “Pure and Easy” from Who Came First (Ryko 1972) —The older I get, the more I appreciate the musical genius of Pete Townshend. When I was younger, I just dug the catchy hooks and the big rock flourishes, but I hear more and more depth all the time.Buy it! |
7:56am | Fleetwood Mac “Show Me a Smile” from Future Games (Reprise 1971) —Christine McVie wrote so many beautiful songs. This is an early one.Buy it! |
8:03am | The Primitives “Amoureux D'une Affice” from Echoes and Rhymes (Elefant 2012) N —Gomez Adams would be so happy - they're speaking French. Seriously, it's great to know this delirious pop combo from the late 80s is back again in fine form.Buy it! |
8:06am | The Figgs “Do the Bounce” from Sucking in Stereo (Hearbox 2000) —A very short but instructional song.Buy it! |
8:07am | Joey Ramone “Rock 'n Roll Is the Answer” from Ya Know (BMG 2012) —I'm not sure what the story is behind a brand new album by Joey - but this song sounds good.Buy it! |
8:11am | Thin Lizzy “Opium Trail” from Bad Reputation (Mercury 1977) —I spent a couple happy days this past week driving around enjoying the heck out of this old record.Buy it! |
8:18am | Anders Osborne “Black Tar” from Black Eye Galaxy (Alligator 2012) —Slide guitar and bone-crunching thud! Yeah, I'll take it. The Black Keys wish they could rock like this.Buy it! |
8:23am | Ornette Coleman and Prime Time “Spelling the Alphabet” from Virgin Beauty (Portrait 1988) —A short burst of harmolodic genius.Buy it! |
8:24am | Norah Jones “Out on the Road” from Little Broken Hearts (Blue Note 2012) N —We made the official decision the other day at the record store to move Norah Jones out of the jazz vocals section. She's still an amazing singer, but this is a rock/pop record, and a darn good one.Buy it! |
8:29am | Bob Dylan “Queen Jane Approximately” from Highway 61 Revisited (Columbia 1965) —Sometimes you just have to hear the classics.Buy it! |
8:34am | Albert Hammond “It Never Rains in Southern California” (Collectables www.oldies.com 1973) —It occurred to me that this song is a lot better than I used to think it was. So I listened, and yup, it is.Buy it! |
8:38am | One Direction “Tell Me a Lie” from Up All Night (Sony 2011) —I heart One Direction.Buy it! |
8:41am | Moby Grape “Motorcycle Irene” from Listen My Friends! The Best of Moby Grape (Columbia 2007) —Lovely.Buy it! |
8:45am | Imelda May “Too Sad to Cry” from Mayhem (Decca 2011) —One of the best singers working today.Buy it! |
8:50am | Helen Merrill “I'm Just a Lucky So and So” from Dream of You (emarcy 1957) —This is how to sing Ellington.Buy it! |
8:53am | Willie Nelson “Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)” from Remember Me, Vol. 1 (R&J 2011) N —It's not as though this song makes much sense in the modern world, but Willie has a blast with it.Buy it! |
8:57am | Dinah Washington “Fast Movin' Mama” from Ladies Sing the Blues 1945-1957 (Mercury 1997) —Every woman wants her lovin', yes it's plain to see, but when she can't find her man it's because he's here with me.Buy it! |
9:02am | The Right Now “I Can't Speak For You” from Gets Over You (self-released 2012) N —In town tomorrow at the Old Rock House, and at Euclid Records at 2 pm.Buy it! |
9:05am | Ann Peebles “Run Run Run” from I Can't Stand the Rain (HI 1974) —That Hi Records sound never gets old.Buy it! |
9:08am | Janiva Magness “Whistlin' In the Dark” from Stronger For It (Alligator 2012) N —A powerful original song about betrayal and trying to hold on.Buy it! |
9:11am | James Hunter “Talkin' 'Bout My Love” from People Gonna Talk CD ALBUM (Go Rounder 2006) —Still hard to believe this wasn't recorded in 1965 instead of 2006.Buy it! |
9:13am | Ruth Brown “Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean” from Night Train to Nashville - Music City Rhythm & Blues (1945-1970) (Lost Highway www.losthighwayrecords.com 2003) —Crazy updated take on her classic, with some very cool reverb guitar on it.Buy it! |
9:19am | Rough Shop “Torn Love Letters” from Beneath the South Side Bridge (Perdition 2012) N L —Also known as the only song Anne Tkach sings lead on this record. She's so darn good.Buy it! |
9:22am | Brothers Lazaroff “Where Light Betrays the Night” from Science Won (self 2012) N L —I love that Rough Shop follows an acoustic record with electric, and the Brothers Lazaroff follow an electric record with acoustic.Buy it! |
9:27am | The Duhks “Camptown Races” from Beautiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster (American Roots 2004) —Doo-dah!Buy it! |
9:31am | Gram Parsons “Still Feeling Blue” from GP (Reprise 1973) —I haven't dipped into Gram Parsons work in a long time - boy, this sounds great.Buy it! |
9:34am | Emmylou Harris “Hold On” from All I Intended to Be (Nonesuch 2008) —A beautiful song written by Jude Johnstone, and nope, I don't have any idea what her own records sound like, though she has several.Buy it! |
9:38am | The Mastersons “The Other Shoe” from Birds Fly South (New West 2012) N —Halfway in between Buddy Miller and the Jayhawks - not a bad place to situate yourself, methinks.Buy it! |
9:44am | Johnny Cash “Rose of My Heart” from American V: A Hundred Highways (American 2006) —Not everything Cash did on the American albums was created equal; this Hugh Moffatt song, for example, is devastatingly beautiful.Buy it! |
9:47am | Rosanne Cash “Pink Bedroom” from Rhythm & Romance (Columbia 1985) —I'm sure Johnny was thinking of his daughter when he sang that last song.Buy it! |
9:51am | Raul Malo “Rosalie” from Lucky One (Fantasy 2009) —I hope you have kleenex nearby if you're listening at work - you don't want your boss to see you cry.Buy it! |
9:55am | The Roches “Moonswept” (429 2007) —I still can't believe Suzzy and Maggie Roche were in town last week and I couldn't go to see them. Oh, how I love the sound of the Roches.Buy it! |
Like everything else, times are approximate. Spinitron and this station are not liable for errors or omissions.