Sunday, January 12, 2020

Songs Of The Week, 2020: 1/4-1/10



Where Is My Mind?- The Pixies
The Seeker- Steve Earle
Fear Is A Man's Best Friend- John Cale
Very Nice Of You To Call- Aardvark
Heart Shaped Bruise- Elvis Costello & Emmylou Harris
The Holy River- Prince
Never My Love- Jakob Dylan & Norah Jones

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Where Is My Mind?- The Pixies
From The Pixies killer full length debut, "Surfer Rosa," which I played in full recently. I've asked myself "Where Is My Mind?" a number of times since.

The Seeker- Steve Earle
Not a Who cover.

John Cale- Fear Is A Man's Best Friend
This song features one of the all time great endings...and a pretty damn great prior 4 minutes.

Aardvark- Very Nice Of You To Call
Formed in Canterbury, some time in the 1960's, Aardvark's original four piece line-up included Paul Kossoff and Simon Kirke, who bailed to join Free before the band could record their only record as a three piece, forgoing a guitar player altogether. It was released on Deram in 1970, and you can buy an original MONO copy for only $775. Or of course, listen for free with a few keystrokes. I love this track.

Heart Shaped Bruise- Elvis Costello & Emmylou Harris
From "The Delivery Man," another in a series of fantastic left turns by Elvis that caused the loss of a few more fans. Go and revisit, or visit once if you gave up at "Imperial Bedroom."

The Holy River- Prince
Played this one to death when "Emancipation" was released and I can't recall playing it since...until now after finally getting the recently released 6 LP boxed set.

Never My Love- Jakob Dylan & Norah Jones
I'm late to the "Echo In The Canyon" party and I wanted to devote a page to it. Until then, here's this.



5 comments:

A walk in the woods said...

Wow, I hadn't heard about a reissue of Emancipation - I've been too caught up in the 1999 reissue! (which is SO boss)

What do you think about Emancipation as a whole? That's right around the point I departed the Prince Star Cruiser for a while, letting it bounce around a few distant stars without me... did I miss out?

Sal Nunziato said...

@AWITW

This is what I wrote about "Emancipation" when I did "The Other 100." I love it. It's long and it's not all great. But alot of it is.
https://burnwoodtonite.blogspot.com/search?q=emancipation

A walk in the woods said...

Nice - OK, maybe I'll just download those tracks (some of which I have) to put together a pared-down version of it.

Anonymous said...

the second disc of Emancipation is the one I played to death when it came out, just for The Holy River climax, but now I go back to the first and third discs more often. they have their own personalities.

Bill said...

Fear is a great Cale album, and that first song is one of his finest. Live, even on solo piano, it's a show-stopper.