Short Stack Wednesday Fresh Catch Playlist

Today a short stack fresh catch playlist continuing in the sedate spirit coursing through this week. With the track from Lenita Gentil we step for the first time onto the tip of the Fado iceberg. I suspect I'll be boring deeper into that fascinating crystal as the winter deepens.

Short Stack Wednesday Fresh Catch Playlist

A Girl In Trouble - Romeo Void
If The Moon Turns Green - Billie Holiday
Maldição - Lenita Gentil

Surfacing Monday Fresh Catch Playlist

Here's a brief chronological fresh catch playlist for easing breaching into this Monday morning. A little help striking the balance between a sheltered languish and full-on screaming from beneath the waves...

Surfacing Monday Fresh Catch Playlist

Sheltered Life - Velvet Underground
Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen
Freeze The Saints - Stephen Malkmus

Girls Girls Girls Fresh Catch Playlist

Here's a little Eartha, Peggy, and Tasha for a Wednesday morning. Why bother coming out of hiding with a playlist like this? I admit I'm having trouble forming a lucid response to the things I've been finding in Rhapsody recently. In particular, the invasion of (apparently former) Village Voice rock critic Robert Christgau Consumer Guide commentary has me conflicted in the brain. They may hold some sonic cerebral integrity, but I'm finding them of questionable value in flavoring my Rhapsody listening.

That, and what can you really say about someone who's panned every record I've seen his review for except DeBarge and the Housemartins? Not that I disagree with those two, but lighten up my man! I have no pony in the review race, but hope this guy's content isn't displacing that of the rather helpful Rhapsody editors.

According to his Web site he will allegedly be providing weekly playlists to Rhapsody, so maybe things will make more sense as we see what tablets he carries down the mountain for us to hear and decipher.

Girls Girls Girls Fresh Catch Playlist

Let's Do It - Eartha Kitt
I Enjoy Being A Girl - Peggy Lee
I Love Being A Princess - Backyardigans

The Editorial You Fresh Catch Playlist

Here's a delectable fresh catch duo about the editorial You that keep jumping from my odd tracks live well into the Play tab these last few weeks. The things George Jones' voice does during that first "Always" are worth the trip alone.

The Editorial You Fresh Catch Playlist

With A Girl Like You - The Troggs
I Always Get Lucky With You - George Jones

POS Tuesday Fresh Catch Playlist

Today, a grumpily rambunctious fresh catch playlist, with a starting apropos for a head full of green stuff and a fitful night of occasional sleep.

POS Tuesday Fresh Catch Playlist

(Sure Do Feel Like A) Piece of Shit - Unband
Flying Houses - Scratch Acid
Athena - The Who

Ethiopian Jazz Catchup Playlist

Here's a trio of fine songs of African extractment. Particularly, back in August I posted a short playlist marking the arrival in Rhapsody of a single Mahmoud Ahmed track on some odd compilation. Well lo and behold, not too long after there was a whopping twenty one volumes of great Ethiopian music added under the name Ehtiopiques. Included in the lot were four whole albums of Mahmoud Ahmed.

Rhapsody editor Sarah Bardeen crafted a quite comprehensive celebratory playlist welcoming the series in general, so I won't recreate that wheel here.

What I will do is feature another fine Mahmoud Ahmed song and point out that volume 4 in the Ethiopiques series is labeled in Rhapsody under artist Ethiopiques Ensemble, but features the music of Mulatu Astatke, who you may or may not recall fondly from his place in the road mix used in the Jim Jarmusch movie Broken Flowers.

We'll close in Nigeria with Fela Kuti, who also had a heap of fine albums added in Rhapsody last year.

Ethiopian Jazz Catchup Playlist

Ohoho Gedama - Mahmoud Ahmed
Yekatit - Mulatu Astatke
Sorrow Tears And Blood - Fela Kuti

Fresh Catch Playlist - 2007 Got Soul Edition

Today we slink right into 2007 with a soulful fresh catch consistent with a January of fifty degree days in New England.

Fresh Catch Playlist - 2007 Got Soul Edition

Have You Seen Her - The Chi-Lites
Boogie On Reggae Woman - Stevie Wonder
Soul Finger - The Bar-Kays
Soul Makossa - Manu Dibango