Excellent article about the crazy places Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” has shown up… I first encountered it when my friend Ben put a version of himself playing/singing it with just guitar on a mix tape for me… later I had the Jeff Buckley CD… and imagine my surprise when my (not at all indie, very Christian) [...]
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Alex Ross on Johnny Greenwood. He plays the Ondes Martinot!
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to fill up my iPod, because it’s lacking lots of what I’d like to hear
Fiona Apple
PJ Harvey’s entire oeuvre, not just Stories from the City - including White Chalk, which I need to download
Feist
Beck’s entire oeuvre
more Prince
Emmylou Harris’s Red Dirt Girl
Nina Simone
Coltrane
The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette
White Stripes, Icky Thump
Sleater-Kinney the Hot Rock
Modest Mouse
Sam Phillips
Patti Smith’s Horses and Radio Ethiopia and Easter and that more recent [...]
Baby video music
It is a strange feeling when you’re in a graduate musicology seminar and you hear a piece you recognize by some famous composer (for instance, Bach), and at first you can’t quite place it, but eventually you realize that you know it not from studying it in a careful, in-depth manner or anything remotely like [...]
current playlist
some of these have been playing on my ipod, some just in my head:
Bjork’s new album, earth intruders and innocence especially
David Bowie, Ashes to ashes
Feist, Onliest, from the CD Monarch which I bought in Toronto but later sold, and is now no longer available….
Sonic Youth, creme brulee
Tori Amos, Baker baker from Under the Pink
Rufus Wainwright, [...]