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Desert Island Album Draft - 15th Anniversary Edition - 50 Rounds in the books, sign up now for KP's listening program (5 Viewers)

wikkidpissah said:
19.06 Gratitude, Earth, Wind & Fire (1975)

No record reminds me more of being young & free & happy. Living with a sweet ol' gal in a pretty mud hut in Albq's student neighborhood, doing honest work for honest pay, truly freeing myself from the ambitions which had dominated my life to that point. And Gratitude was our soundtrack to everything - cleaning the house, cooking together, she'd practice the massage techniques she was learning in a free school (she was majoring in Spanish Lit @ UNM , but just retired from 40 yrs as a chiropractor), around 10pm we'd go jogging naked w Walkmans and just speed to a sprint (streaking was the fashion then) if we encountered anyone on the street, make out like first-nighters to the Philip Bailey ballads. Just pure sweetlife.
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This does sound glorious.

 
simey said:
I have a question about window unit air conditioners. If you put one in a window on a bottom floor, can someone walk up to the window and rip it out or push it in, and break into your house?
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Unfortunately, I would think so if it's just wedged in the window.

 
wikkidpissah said:
19.06 Gratitude, Earth, Wind & Fire (1975)

No record reminds me more of being young & free & happy. Living with a sweet ol' gal in a pretty mud hut in Albq's student neighborhood, doing honest work for honest pay, truly freeing myself from the ambitions which had dominated my life to that point. And Gratitude was our soundtrack to everything - cleaning the house, cooking together, she'd practice the massage techniques she was learning in a free school (she was majoring in Spanish Lit @ UNM , but just retired from 40 yrs as a chiropractor), around 10pm we'd go jogging naked w Walkmans and just speed to a sprint (streaking was the fashion then) if we encountered anyone on the street, make out like first-nighters to the Philip Bailey ballads. Just pure sweetlife.
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One of the great future finds of archaeology will come when they piece together your autobiography paragraph by paragraph.

 
Eephus said:
:shrug:

No A/C here
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My last year in college we had a window unit on the bottom floor. It belonged to a friend, and he just put it in the window. This was back in the 80s, so they are probably made a little different now, but it seems like the window was raised, the unit stuffed in, and these sides were pulled out some like an accordion to fill in any left-over space. I don't recall the window being locked or how it would be locked. 

 
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simey said:
I've had the come and go chills all day. It's getting on my nerves. I try not to think about it by staying busy. I also took two 40 minute walks today, but the chills took a walk with me.  <_<
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frustrating. no appt til the 10th was it? ER - probably nobody but a specialist gonna do anything but shuffle you along. jeez. *sends good vibes*

 
Well, I was going to go a different way this round, and I had Snail Mail and my 1st pick written down for the next turn, y'all sniping mo-fos forced my hand a little more.  Can't be on the island without a couple of my current favorite songs and albums.   

Yes, I know I overdraft and talk about this one too much, but here you go again...

18.xx : PHOEBE BRIDGERS - STRANGER IN THE ALPS (2017)

Motion Sickness

Georgia

I guess we will have a Sleater-Kinney run! 

19.01:  SLEATER-KINNEY --  DIG ME OUT (1997)

One More Hour

Dig Me Out

 Now I can't wait to watch as the 2 I was going to pick here get sniped too, but at least I get these.  Prefer them, just thought I could wait on Bridgers and Snail Mail a hot second more.  

 
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If people want me to trigger the collaborative option, that's fine.   Sometimes that's made it harder to keep track and picks have doubled up, etc..    I don't mind keeping up on it at all.  

That said, if we start doing stuff like letting more song switches, etc.. then I will for sure trigger that so people can do that themselves.  

 
juscuz shuffle:

Mambo Sun - TRex. By now, most know my antipathy for single-groove music. Can't take a bunch of it - never owned a TRex album - but i LOVE Bolan's groove. Music for walking past a just-wrong place, wondering whether to stop in...8.6

Black Celebration - Depeche Mode. Dig the Mode, but not live. I really need the mix to bury the lead guy's Music Messiah trippin'. Chinless chuffbucket. 7.2

Try and Love again - Eagles. Maybe the only Eagles tune i can't find any love for. Meisner shoulda stayed in the band that described his talent 4.0

Unbound - Suzanne Vega. One of the few short-syllable female singers i enjoy, mostly because she has the most beautiful eyes i've ever seen (on a screen) and her work is both curious and wise. 7.6

Here Comes My Girl - Tom Petty. My first and still favorite Tom Petty. I remember listening to this album  (only Petty i ever owned) a lot after John Lennon got shot to cheer myself up. 10

Orch Theme - Disco Biscuits. Makes my biscuits dance til they make their own gravy. But then there's 8:30 left with little to do but make puppets with my washcloth. 9

Take Time To Know Her - Percy Sledge. Makes me wanna fall to my knees and apologize for sumn. But I ain't done nothin' wrong.....8.3

The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face - The Temptations. I'm sure i'd love this, released the same year as the hit, but it's dominated, similar though the arrangement may be, by the Flack version 7.9

It's Not the Night - The Cars. Orr-ible 80s melodramatic boilerplate. 4.9

Nighswimming - R.E.M. I'm as tired of Michael Stipe as most people, but few people can make a song sound a prayer like he can. 9.1

 
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simey said:
I have a question about window unit air conditioners. If you put one in a window on a bottom floor, can someone walk up to the window and rip it out or push it in, and break into your house?
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Possibly with a little work if you just set it in and push out the accordion type seals. If you do it correctly the mounting bracket gets screwed into the widow frame and the drip tray locks onto the unit from inside the house.

 
19.12 Cartola, Cartola II (1976)

O Mundo é um Moinho
Preciso Me Encontrar

Cartola is arguably the greatest samba composer of all time. His English wiki page isn't as thorough as it could be, but AllMusic does a better job of painting a picture. Wild life story and an incredible career in the samba scene, even though he'd only release his first actual record in 1974, at the age of 66 (!). This is the second of the four albums he'd release prior to his death in 1980, leaving behind a monumental legacy in Brazilian music.

Several of his most iconic recordings are found here, and "O Mundo é um Moinho" in particular (rough translation: "The World is a Millstone"; I attempted a full song translation when I picked this here some other time, and I'll inevitably give it another shot at some point) absolutely wrecks me. I know "Preciso Me Encontrar" (I Must Find Myself) was on the City of God soundtrack, so some might've heard it, and it's wonderful. Had to leave As Rosas Não Falam (Roses Don't Talk) off the playlist, but it's another one of his biggest hits and I wish I could've snuck it on.

Preste atenção, querida
De cada amor tu herdarás só o cinismo
Quando notares estás à beira do abismo
Abismo que cavaste com os teus pés

@Long Ball Larry up?

 
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wikkidpissah said:
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode. Dig the Mode, but not live. I really need the mix to bury the lead guy's Music Messiah trippin'. Chinless chuffbucket. 7.2
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Agree 100%. Their studio stuff is great but I saw them live and it was one of the worst vocal performances that I can remember ever seeing. To annoy my wife, I will still sing some of the  lyrics of that concert. Think of someone with incredible, once-in-a-generation, vocal range, like Ashlee Simpson, then halve that range and add on laryngitis that should require hospitalization. Pretty much what that concert sounded like with the added visuals of random people dry humping all over the arena apparently turned on/enjoying the weird rasping whistling through a straw sound.

My discussion with my wife

 
Abrantes said:
19.12 Cartola, Cartola II (1976)

O Mundo é um Moinho
Preciso Me Encontrar

Cartola is arguably the greatest samba composer of all time. His English wiki page isn't as thorough as it could be, but AllMusic does a better job of painting a picture. Wild life story and an incredible career in the samba scene, even though he'd only release his first actual record in 1974, at the age of 66 (!). This is the second of the four albums he'd release prior to his death in 1980, leaving behind a monumental legacy in Brazilian music.

Several of his most iconic recordings are found here, and "O Mundo é um Moinho" in particular (rough translation: "The World is a Millstone"; I attempted a full song translation when I picked this here some other time, and I'll inevitably give it another shot at some point) absolutely wrecks me. I know "Preciso Me Encontrar" (I Must Find Myself) was on the City of God soundtrack, so some might've heard it, and it's wonderful. Had to leave As Rosas Não Falam (Roses Don't Talk) off the playlist, but it's another one of his biggest hits and I wish I could've snuck it on.

Preste atenção, querida
De cada amor tu herdarás só o cinismo
Quando notares estás à beira do abismo
Abismo que cavaste com os teus pés

@Long Ball Larry up?
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both vids marked "unavailable". some int'l thing i'm sure

 
simey said:
I've had the come and go chills all day. It's getting on my nerves. I try not to think about it by staying busy. I also took two 40 minute walks today, but the chills took a walk with me.  <_<
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Hang in there homie

 
wikkidpissah said:
frustrating. no appt til the 10th was it? 
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Yeah, the 10th at 9:45 with a Dr. Z.  She has a long last name, so that is what they call her according to the person that called me. I looked her up, and she mainly has positive reviews. A couple stinkers, but that's how it goes sometimes.

 
simey said:
Yeah, the 10th at 9:45 with a Dr. Z.  She has a long last name, so that is what they call her according to the person that called me. I looked her up, and she mainly has positive reviews. A couple stinkers, but that's how it goes sometimes.
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well, with a Dr Z, at least you know she wasnt picked out of a phone book.... the waiting/wondering sux. GL -

 
Larry said I'm up, so I'm going...

19.??: -Norma Tanega -- Walkin' My Cat Named Dog

If the name doesn't ring a bell, maybe you remember her song You're Dead, which got some love when it was used in the movie What We Do In the Shadows. I guess it must have been around the time of her death ~ 6 months ago when I heard You're Dead for the first time, so I gave myself a little crash course in her catalog and read her wiki page.  Glad she hasn't been lost to history.

For the Spotify list: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog and A Street That Rhymes at Six A.M.

 
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