Feels Good To Me- Bruford
Ma- Tom Ze
My Lonely World- Desmond Dekker & the Aces
Walkin' Around- Marshall Crenshaw
Father's Name Is Dad- Fire
Pains Of Life- Rev. Elijah Fair & The Sensational Gladys Davis Trio
Rainbirds- Tom Waits
Feels Good To Me- Bruford
(Bill Bruford's first solo album is as good as anything in his career. Here's the title track.)
Ma- Tom Ze
(This is the opening track from Tom Ze's masterpiece "Estudando O Samba." There is so much going on in this track and it is all wonderful.)
My Lonely World- Desmond Dekker & the Aces
(aka "To Sir With Love," though not a complete appropriation...for a change.)
Walkin' Around- Marshall Crenshaw
(From M.C.'s best record, "Life's Too Short." If you're still partial to the debut, I understand. But "Life's Too Short," to my ears, is just as brilliant, only more mature.)
Father's Name Is Dad- Fire
(It's a nugget if you dug it! And I did, dig?)
Pains Of Life- Rev. Elijah Fair & The Sensational Gladys Davis Trio
(I'm reading David Remnick's book "Holding The Note." In the Aretha chapter, he mentions Don Covay's "Chain Of Fools" being a direct rip from this gospel track. Some half-assed research on my end says this track came a year later. Whatevs, as the kids say. This was fun.)
Rainbirds- Tom Waits
(There is always at least one beautiful instrumental on every Tom Waits record. This one is from "Swordfishtrombones" and a good way to close things out.)
11 comments:
I had never heard of Tom Ze until now. And it certainly sounds like David Byrne must have listened to him and drawn from him. Now I'm listening to the whole Estudando album. Thanks for that.
Spot on description of Life's Too Short.
I couldn't agree with more you on Crenshaw's Life's Too Short. Yes, the debut is great, but this Life's Too Short stands head and shoulders above everything else, and bests the debut with it's mature sound, and an amazing support cast: Kenny Aronoff, Fernando Saunders, Ed Stasium, Greg Leisz, Paul Shaffer, Tony Garnier, Steven Soles, Rosie Flores, and Tommy Price. And the most consistent/best set of songs he ever wrote, challenging even the debut. Fantastic Planet of Love may well be his best song ever.
I definitely did diggit the fire nugget. Ditto MC's Life Is Short.
Randy
Estudando O Samba was fabulous, and Ze has a lot of records. Where to go next in his discograhy?
Ditto on the Crenshaw, which I hadn’t heard in a while.
I also love the 1968 debut and the 1972 self-titled.
Thanks! Cleveland Jeff
For me , it's the second one: "Field Day" with the immaculate "Our Town" ! I was searching on it for months (In France...). Have a good week Alain
Father's name was dad was indeed on a Rubble compilation. British psych compilations usually have a number of nuggets like this, except this one is poppier than psych really.
J from Europe.
Huge Ze fan. Grande Liquidacao is a great lp to give a listen.
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