Out To Lunch Friday Playlist

Here's a couple things I have absolutely no ability to comment on with any knowledge: Broadway and fine piano playing. Nevertheless.

A few previously absent Sondheim shows came into Rhapsody a couple weeks ago, and I once saw my cousin rock the role of one of the princes in Into The Woods, so why not get those songs stuck in my head for another week?

Then, there was an article in the Sunday paper about this gentleman Pierre-Laurent Aimard last week [Boston Globe - attempts pop-ups]. I pulled him up in the old Rhapsody, and this one song had me out of my seat banging my head like it was the Ace of Spades. And it's some of the tamer stuff he's into.

So Happy Friday.

Out To Lunch Friday Playlist

Agony (Reprise) (From "Into the Woods") - Chuck Wagner, Paul Gemignani, Robert Westenberg
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 in F Minor - Pierre-Laurent Aimard

Spring Breezes Fresh Catch Playlist

Here's an enthusiastic fresh catch playlist appropriate for our first fresh breezes through open windows, and the bumper crop of potholes blossoming all over to mark the official beginning of spring.

Spring Breezes Fresh Catch Playlist

I Ain't Sayin' - Dinosaur Jr
Flowers of Romance - Public Image Limited
Shock Me - KISS
Goodbye-Goodbye - Oingo Boingo
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - REM

Out To Lunch Friday Playlist

Today out to lunch, a fine spread of oddities captured roaming the Rhapsody wilds recently. Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor is one of those songs universally unavailable across Rhapsody. So I was happy to find this misnamed version hiding on a random album from John Hurt missing the Mississippi. Enjoy it while you can.

Lastly, at some point last year a batch of interesting Dutch jazz came into Rhapsody on the Stunt Records label. Here's a delighttfully odd funkified version of Nardis for flute and acoustic guitar.

Out To Lunch Friday Playlist

I Love Little Pussy - Robin Hendrix
Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor - Mississippi John Hurt
Moses Smote The Water - The Golden Gate Quartet
A Promise (Is A Comfort To A Fool) - Gregory Isaacs
Nardis - Mariane Bitran

Interface Reflections Friday Playlist

Two sides to this playlist situation today.

First, I've been enjoying this Klaxons record Sir Drake recommended not too long ago. And that one part in this song kept making that part of that Beck song keep popping up in my head. The rest of the playlist grew through a similar process.

Second, I've been listening to Rhapsody almost exclusively through the browser player for the last month while testing on a temporary Vista partition (I've been hurt bad in the past trying to put a full Rhapsody application/library in two places at once). Anyhow, I'm happy to say the browser player has come a very long way in the last few months. The best new bits are being able to add songs to the bottom of the queue without playing them immediately, ready access to My Playlists and My Library, and decent playlist creation options. I cobbled this list together using only the browser player.

I'd still like to be able to minimize that player to the system tray to clear up some taskbar space, the keyword search comes back empty nine times out of ten, and it seems like there's up to a day or two delay sometimes between when New Releases are available in Rhapsody proper and when they show up for the browser player. And, it'd be nice to be able to easily choose whether a playlist link goes right to the Rhapsody application or spawns a browser player.

But what the Hell, it's Friday, so let's dance.

Interface Reflections Friday Playlist

Isle of Her - Klaxons
Derelict - Beck
Blue Jean - David Bowie
Don't Look Down - Iggy Pop
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

Mother Upduff Comes To Visit

So I haven't had a chance to sift enough to playlist, but felt I should alert anyone else who may care that finally a bunch of Can's been added to Rhapsody in the last couple days.

We'll be back.

Mellow Muscle Friday Playlist

Today a fresh catch batch of mellow songs with a bit of muscle. Particularly the nice greasy harmonica bit in this version of the Wings' Let Me Roll it from Raconteur Brendan Benson, and again in the Roxy Music track. But it's all an entirely appropriate way to ramp up into the Friday state of mind.

Mellow Muscle Friday Playlist

Let Me Roll It - Brendan Benson
Beautiful Mind - Golden Smog
Dirty Work - Steely Dan
Grey Lagoons - Roxy Music

Taang! Tuesday

A shining heap of 80's Boston punk came into Rhapsody recently with the mass additions from the Taang! Records label. Here are a few highlights from Gang Green and the early Lemonheads. I'm not qualified to address bands like Sam Black Church, the F.U.'s, or Slapshot, but they're part of this bloom, too.

Taang! Tuesday

I Am A Rabbit - Lemonheads
Second Chance - Lemonheads
L.D.S.B. - Gang Green
Alcohol - Gang Green