Spotify playlist number 6

Playlist number six, 7 plus hours of punk ,folk, and pop drivel.

Spotify playlist:  Spotify playlist a06 

also:

playlist 5: sotd playlist #5

playlist 4: sotd playlist #4

playlist 3: sotd playlist #3

playlist 2: sotd playlist #2

playlist 1: sotd playlist #1

Enjoy, 

—brENDan

“Autoclave”, The Mountain Goats

This way: Autoclave

How is it that I havent posted the Mountain Goats? One of my all time fav bands. The Mountain Goats are an American band formed in Claremont, California, by singer-songwriter John Darnielle. The band is currently based in Durham, North Carolina. For many years, the sole member of the Mountain Goats was Darnielle, despite the plural moniker. Although he remains the core member of the band, he has worked with a variety of collaborators over time, including bassist and vocalist Peter Hughes, drummer Jon Wurster, multi-instrumentalist Matt Douglas, singer-songwriter Franklin Bruno, bassist and vocalist Rachel Ware, singer-songwriter/producer John Vanderslice, guitarist Kaki King, and multi-instrumentalist Annie Clark. 

Throughout the 1990s, the Mountain Goats were known for producing low-fidelity home recordings (most notably, on a cassette deck boombox) and releasing recordings in cassette or vinyl 7-inch formats. Since 2002, the Mountain Goats have adopted a more polished approach, often recording studio albums with a full band.

[Spotify]  Autoclave

“Bang Bang”, Iggy Pop

This way: Bang Bang

Party is the fifth solo studio album by American rock singer Iggy Pop. It was released in June 1981 by record label Arista. For this record, Pop collaborated with Ivan Kral, who is best known as the guitar and bass player for Patti Smith in the 1970s. 

[Spotify]  Bang Bang

“New Day Rising”, Hüsker Dü

This way: New Day Rising

Is this the best song ever written? I nominate this for best song ever written. 

[Spotify]  New Day Rising

[Live version-with Dave Grohl]  New Day Rising

[Robert Palmer version]  New Day Rising

“Alone”, Radioactivity

This way: Alone

Radioactivity have announced their first of two albums on Dirtnap Records! Radioactivity is a continuation of The Novice, Jeff Burke's band while living in Japan. Jeff has since moved back to Texas, and out of respect to the Japanese lineup of the band, has changed the name to Radioactivity. Some of these songs are re-purposed Novice tracks, while others are brand new. Band members include Jeff Burke, Mark Ryan, and Gregory Rutherford, whose credits read like an all-star lineup of Texas punk and garage rock royalty, including members of The Marked Men, Mind Spiders, Bad Sports, Wax Museums, The Reds, VIDEO, and The Novice.  

[Spotify]  Alone

“Du sang du singe”, La Jungle

This way: Du sang du singe

Transe techno kraut duo. While definitely a child of noise rock, La Jungle takes bits-and-bobs from the whole music spectrum and loop them live with the aim to create compulsive and repetitive sequences. Hypnotic, spontaneous and willingly throbbing, sometimes bordering on an endless groove, their music may even include brief oriental doom pulses or metal diversions bang in the middle of some kraut rock epic trip. 

[Spotify]  Du sang du singe

“Clean Elvis”, Dan Reeder

This way: Clean Elvis

Dan Reeder is an American musician and artist. He was born in Louisiana in 1954 and raised in California. He later relocated to Nuremberg, Germany in the early 1980s, and has been a resident ever since. 

Reeder has been called "one of the foremost outsider artists in modern folk" by The New Yorker's Ben Greenman.

Reeder was signed to John Prine's Oh Boy Records recording label after sending Prine a self-made CD of his songs. His self-titled debut album was released in 2003. Reeder was the first musician to receive an article from Rolling Stone Magazine without a record deal. Previously with Prine, he performed regularly in North America and Europe.

Reeder is noted for his original compositions (with titles such as "Food and Pussy", "Bach is Dead and Gone," and "Work Song," which was featured on the Emmy-winning show Weeds). His songs are often described as odd, original and humorous.[4][5] His music has received critical acclaim for its unique blending of blues, folk, gospel and field hollers.[6] He writes, arranges, and engineers his recordings on which the instruments and vocals are played and performed by himself through the use of multi-layering. He also has a creative knack for lo-fi, homemade engineering and taught himself how to build his own computers, amplifiers, microphones and P.A systems, some from scratch. Reeder is also an instrument maker and builds most of the instruments that he uses for recordings and live shows.

[Spotify]  Clean Elvis

Merry Christmas 2021

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I have assembled a pretty good new collection of Christmas songs for the season on Spotify as well as the classics. It's about 8 hours long . . . .

[Spotify]  Christmas 2021 playlist

“Canto!”, Cate Le Bon, Bradford Cox

This way: Canto!

The Deerhunter frontman and the cryptic singer-songwriter draw out each other’s playful sides on this one-off collaboration. From 2019. 

[Spotify]  Canto!

“Color Me Impressed”, The Replacements

This way: Color Me Impressed

I have a love-hate with The Replacements. Mostly love though. Here is a classic from the early LP Hootenanny from 1983. 

[Spotify]  Color Me Impressed

“She Won't Know”, The Marked Men

This way: She Won't Know

Here is some perfect punk pop. The Marked Men is an American punk rock band[1] from Denton, Texas, United States, composed of guitarists/vocalists Mark Ryan and Jeff Burke, bassist Joe Ayoub, and drummer Mike Throneberry. They have released four albums through Rip Off Records, Dirtnap Records, and Swami Records. Their most recent album, Ghosts, was released in 2009 through Dirtnap.

Prior to joining The Marked Men, the members had all performed in other Denton-area punk rock bands. Burke was a member of The Vomit Punx, The Rolemodels, and E-Class. Burke, Ryan, and Throneberry all performed together in the Reds. When their bassist Chris Pulliam moved to Japan, they added Ayoub to form The Marked Men. Each member is also concurrently active in other bands. Burke plays in The Chopsakis, The Potential Johns, Grave City (since 2014, with Ryan), and, since 2010, The Novice. The Novice has now become Radioactivity. 

[Spotify]  She Won't Know

“The House of the Rising Son”, Woody Guthrie

This way: The House of the Rising Son

Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912 – October 3, 1967) was an American singer-songwriter and one of the most significant figures in American folk music. His work focused on themes of American socialism and anti-fascism. His music includes songs such as "This Land Is Your Land", written in response to the American exceptionalist song "God Bless America", and has inspired several generations both politically and musically. 

"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a person's life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock band The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and in the US and Canada. As a traditional folk song recorded by an electric rock band, it has been described as the "first folk rock hit". The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song. It is listed as number 6393 in the Roud Folk Song Index.

[Spotify]  The House of the Rising Son

“Pretty Green”, The Jam

This way: Pretty Green

Killer riffs abound. The Jam were an English mod revival/punk rock band during the 1970s and early 1980s, which formed in 1972 at Sheerwater Secondary School in Woking, in the county of Surrey. The band released 18 consecutive Top 40 singles in the United Kingdom, from their debut in 1977 to their break-up in December 1982, including four number one hits. As of 2007, "That's Entertainment" and "Just Who Is the 5 O'Clock Hero?" remain the best-selling import singles of all time in the UK. They released one live album and six studio albums, the last of which, The Gift, hit number one on the UK Albums Chart. When the group disbanded in 1982, their first 15 singles were re-released and all placed within the top 100. 

[Spotify]  Pretty Green

“Nothing Matters When We're Dancing”, The Magnetic Fields

This way: Nothing Matters When We're Dancing

Great album you must hear. The Magnetic Fields (named after the André Breton/Philippe Soupault novel Les Champs Magnétiques) are an American band founded and led by Stephin Merritt. Merritt is the group's primary songwriter, producer, and vocalist, as well as frequent multi-instrumentalist. Merritt's lyrics are often about love and feature atypical or neutral gender roles, and are by turns ironic, tongue-in-cheek, bitter, and humorous. 

[Spotify]  Nothing Matters When We're Dancing

“Blade Runner End Titles”, Vangelis

This way: Blade Runner End Titles

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (known professionally as Vangelis is a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan. 

Vangelis began his career working with several pop bands of the 1960s such as The Forminx and Aphrodite's Child, with the latter's album 666 going on to be recognized as a progressive-psychedelic rock classic. Throughout the 1970s, Vangelis composed scores for several animal documentaries, including L'Apocalypse des Animaux, La Fête sauvage and Opéra sauvage; the success of these scores brought him into the film scoring mainstream. In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo released several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.

[Spotify]  Blade Runner End Titles

“MM 17”, Bob Mould

This way: MM 17

One of my all time favorite artists. Many great bands, many great songs. Bob Mould (born October 16, 1960) is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s. Life and Times album release date: April 7, 2009.

[Spotify]  MM 17

“Circle Sky”, The Monkees, Mike Nesmith, RIP

This way: Circle Sky

The Monkees are really one of the greatest. A Pre-fab band created for TV but then they showed that they were the real deal. Too many great songs to count. Here is one Mike penned for the movie they made called Head (written by Jack Nicholson). He had the stuff. 

[Spotify]  Circle Sky

“Nervous Breakdown”, The Rockats

This way: Nervous Breakdown

Here is a great one originally by Eddie Cochran. Levi & the Rockats were founded in 1977 by Levi Dexter, a Teddy Boy from Southend on Sea.[4][5] His main influences included Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochran and Elvis Presley, musicians popular among the 1960s British rocker subculture. In December 1979 Levi & the Rockats disbanded and the Rockats continued under that name. Levi Dexter went solo and is still performing rockabilly music and was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall Of Fame.

In the 1980s, the Rockats opened for groups like Kiss, Iggy Pop, The Clash, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Thin Lizzy, and The Pretenders.[7] After Levi Dexter left the band, it was re-formed with Dibbs Preston on vocals.[8] This band is notable as one of the first rockabilly groups to incorporate punk rock and new wave influences to appeal to both punks and Teds, influencing later groups like Brian Setzer's Stray Cats and Dave Alvin's The Blasters, while retaining the raw authenticity of pre-British invasion Rock and roll. 

[Spotify]  Nervous Breakdown

[Spotify]  Nervous Breakdown (original)

“Bring on the Lucie”, John Lennon

This way: Bring on the Lucie

John Lennon is  .  .  . 

[Spotify]  Bring on the Lucie 

“Blooms of Oblivion”, Emma Ruth Rundle

This way: Blooms of Oblivion

Emma Ruth Rundle (born October 10, 1983) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Formerly of the Nocturnes and Marriages, she has released five solo albums and is a member of Red Sparowes. She has cited Kate Bush and David Lynch as influences. 

[Spotify]  Blooms of Oblivion

“Valentine”, Snail Mail

This way: Valentine

Snail Mail is the American indie rock solo project of guitarist and singer-songwriter Lindsey Jordan. The band started playing songs live in 2015 and released the EP Habit in 2016. Snail Mail's debut studio album, Lush, was released on June 8, 2018, via Matador Records and was nominated for Breakthrough Artist/Release and Best Rock Album at the 2019 Libera Awards. 

[Spotify]  Valentine

“Your Clothes”, dltzk

This way: Your Clothes

The 17-year-old New Jersey artist, whose name reads aloud as “delete zeke,” has built up an extensive resume of collaborations with peers like Tropes since their first SoundCloud upload in March 2020. But their debut album Teen Week, released in February, sees them showcase their abilities over a full-length project for the first time, both as a producer and as a maturing voice and lyricist.  

[Spotify]  Your Clothes

“Land of Steve-O”, Ovlov

This way: Land of Steve-O

Ovlov began in 2009 with the release of an EP titled Crazy Motorcycle Jump, from Newtown, Connecticut. They followed that up with another EP in 2011 titled What's So Great About The City. In 2013, Ovlov released their first full-lenfgth album on Exploding in Sound titled Am. In August 2014, Ovlov released a split with Little Big League. Two months later, the band released a split with Krill, LVL UP, and Radiator Hospital. In 2018, Ovlov released their second full-length album on Exploding in Sound titled Tru. 

[Spotify]  Land of Steve-O

“Bottle Episode”, Mandy, Indiana

This way: Bottle Episode

Mandy, Indiana is the experimental project of Scott Fair, Valentine Caulfield and Liam Stewart (who has previously toured with Lonelady).

Intentionally raw production from Fair combined with a heady interest in the more macabre elements of literature and film (the band cites the work of filmmakers and writers such as Gaspar Noe, Leos Caraz and Irvine Welsh as inspiration) come together to present a vision that skews the lines between post punk and the rave. True to the grit of Northern England, Caulfield’s vocals in her native French contribute an immersive layer of performance art and poetry that bring the spirit of the avant garde to life.  Slipping in and out of the abrasive qualities of noise, industrial and techno, their music recalls essential live acts such as Giant Swan and Minimal Violence as well as the unconventional guitar work of Girl Band and Housewives.   

Mandy Indiana’s debut EP documents where they’ve been, where they are now, and where they’re going. The aforementioned Nike of Samothrace and Alien 3 appear – Daniel Avery also pops up to accentuate the previously hidden portentous drones of the latter in a remix – while there is also new track Bottle Episode, which strips the group’s sound right back to its sinew without losing any urgency. Its mix of quiet and loud sections with taut programmed beats catches the band’s scuzzier guitar influences and more club-orientated leanings in its crosshairs perfectly. 

[Spotify]  Bottle Episode

“Wilt”, Sloppy Jane

This way: Wilt

Sloppy Jane is led by Haley Dahl, Dahl and her 21 bandmates recorded this LP in the lost world caverns of West Virginia over 2 weeks. 

[Spotify]  Wilt