Memoir of a Pink Floyd Fan boy

Oh My GOD!

No, I'm not going to gush for a dozen pages about the greatness that is this band. I'm saving that one for another post, actually. But I think my statements regarding them v. Led Zeppelin v. Queen have been well documented (though I can't remember if on this site.) Through my wanderings through the Pink Floyd world, I came across http://www.thedoctor.cc/, which is basically a guy who's been doing Floyd only shows for a while, apparently and recently entered the realm of podcasting (which apparently is what we do on this site). So if you're into Floyd and want to hear some oddities from them, enjoy.

Eventually, I'll get around to doing my own, but I'll make mine more of a primer for the un-initiated.

I also did my second, and first annouced show. We had about six stop in and listen at one point or another. The highest connected at one point was 4. If there's enough people on, and I'm bored enough, we'll do another one Saturday night.

Soundgarden v. Joni Mitchell

I'm sure you would think that it wouldn't work, but my god, it does. I was digging online for a song that I heard on the radio that I should have known was CSN&Y doing "Woodstock." In that search, I found a file that took Joni Mitchell's vocals and put them over Soundgarden's "Like Suicide." I don't know who Scott Murray is, Google didn't tell me much, but I really like what this DJ put together. I would never have thought these two would have worked, so I offer it up here. It strangely enough makes Joni sound like McLauchlan or Amos with the backing. It sure as hell puts Evanescence or even Nightwish to shame.

Like Woodstock

The second song I'm putting up is a random track I've found time and time again that I love, but it woefully miss labeled. It's called "Spaceship Blues" but it's definitely not by Jim, Jimi and Joplin. As far as anyone can tell, the three never performed together seriously (though I saw some speculation about a bar gig). I've got a CD of some "jamming" Jim Morrison did with Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Guy in a bar in New York in about 1968, but this definitely isn't from that. The song is a lot of fun though, but it sounds like a more recent track. If the creator of the track is reading this, please drop me a line so I can thank you in person and we can set this minor mystery to rest.

Spaceship Blues

Finally, there's a final track that I won't bother to add here. It is often mislabelled when you go searching for it, but Pink Floyd never seemed to do "House of the Rising Sun." That random file is actually done by a fairly obscure sixties band called Frijid Pink: which you will hear on this website one of these days since it is currently my favourite version of this song. It's a kick ass song performed by a kick ass Detroit band. I almost fainted like the sixties rock fanboy I am when I saw and bought the album with that song on it in Blue Note.

That's all for now, just a quick one for the evening. Expect some shows to come along shortly.

Shoutcast: Songs you can sing along too

I managed to get Shoutcast to work with my DSL provider. Meera, myself and Kammie and Kammie's Aunt had fun with a long, impromptu show that went on for a couple hours. I'm hoping to do this fairly often, say once a week once all the kinks are tweaked and we'll have a AIM chat going for commentary and request. Maybe once in a while, we'll be able to pull off an album played on the turntable.


1. Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
2. The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Blake Shelton - Some Beach
5. The Beatles - Yellow Submarine
6. Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
7. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
8. Parliament - Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof off the Sucker)
9. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
10. Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn
11. Spacehog - In The Meantime
12. Pink Floyd - Bike
13. Doors - Hello, I Love You
14. Tool - Stinkfist
15. Tommy James & The Shondells - Crimson & Clover
16. Sheb Wooley - The Purple People Eater
17. Prince - Purple Rain
18. Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
19. Green Day - Basket Case
20. Spin Doctors - Two Princes
21. Iggy and the Stooges - Gimme Danger
22. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat
23. Clash - London Calling
24. Sparklehorse - Wish You Were Here
25. Big Star - The Ballad of El Goodo
26. Bob Marley & The Wailers - No Woman No Cry
27. Rasputina - Wish You Were Here
28. cracker - guarded by monkeys
29. Cure - Lovesong

Topic: Long forgotten. . .

On the bus this morning, and while watching the Flaming Lips' recent DVD release "VOID" ( a collection of their music videos from the early years to Yoshimi) I had quite a few wonderful sentences strung out together on in my head about what I want to say. But ultimately, it was just me gushing about all the greatness that is Wayne Coyne and how much I admire his creative ability and on and on until you were all sick of my fanboying.

Suffice it to say, I've liked the Flaming Lips since their entry "Bad Days" on the Batman Forever soundtrack. It was a strange bright spot in a very, very dreary musical time. I've lived in Miami for most of my life and groups like the Flaming Lips sure as hell don't enter our radio play much since before Yoshimi (not sure if they had even after that, actually) The sad part was, since a muscially inclined friend of mine hadn't heard of them, it took the piss out of my excitement of this whimsical and very true song. It was also a period I still hadn't figured out that it was cool to like bands that everyone else you knew really hadn't heard of. Conformism at that stage was at it's peak for me. Thank the gods that it ebbed fairly quickly once I left high school. We wouldn't be having all these shows.

Fast forward a bit to when Yoshimi was released and I heard them again. I was taken aback by the album. It simply blew me away that their were people, let alone Americans who still had this kind of creativity in them. I put the album on at work after being tossed the promotional copy and was roundly told to take it off by many of my coworkers. . . thus I was being egged on to explore more. And I've found a happy, musical home with much of their catalogue, with them as part of a strange trinity of modern bands I know I can't live without (the other two being Mars Volta and Porcupine Tree).

So when I examined the packaging of "VOID" and found that sticker, I damn near made all kinds of girlish noises and jumped for joy. So in Early 2006, expect more fauning over Wayne.

I've also got a new mix up, one incorporating a bit of the experimentation from the previous one, but not so painful on most, highly attuned ears. For now, I'm just treating it as a fun mix for the end of summer. Looking over the playlist, quite a few friends went into it
Part One:
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/756636.html
Part Two:
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/756637.html
Part Three:
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/756638.html


And the Playlist:

1. Jimi Hendrix - Long Hot Summer Night
2. Keller Williams - Bob Rules
3. Tilly and the Wall - Fell Down the Stairs
4. Jimmy Buffet - Margaritaville
5. Green Day - Brain Stew
6. Steve Burns - Mighty Little Man
7. Klaatu - Sub-Rosa Subway
8. B-52's - Hallucinating Pluto
9. The Solarflares - You Want Blood
10. Blake Shelton - Some Beach
11. Sublime - What I Got
12. Paranoid Social Club - Headphones
13. Flaming Lips - Be My Head
14. Incubus - Summer Romance (Anti-Gravity Love Song)
15. Shout Out Louds - A Track and a Train
16. The Clash - Should I Stay or Go Now

NPR : Sigur Ros Live in Concert Tonight!

We've got an hour before the show from where I sit. If anyone's interested in doing a chat, IM me at "thetainishone" on AIM.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4834623

NPR : Sigur Ros Live in Concert

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4834623

Well this one is to let everyone know that Sigur Ros will be playing live on npr.org Sept. 11th around 8 PM EST. I know I'm going to try to connect up and listen. Something tells me that the local NPR affiliate, WLRN won't be having the show.

I also was able to hear their new album yesterday and I was amazed. It's very much like every other Sigur Ros album where each song and each album is like sonic exploration where in the end, you feel like you've been washed over and clensed. At least, that's what I experience when I hear something from them at key times. I don't know if it's their progressive instrumentation, where the songs build and build until they finally climax into a orgasm of sound; or their vocalist's ability to sound angellic. Also, having heard their first album Von, (where the first track off my latest mix came from), I've always enjoyed their ability to let loose and really rock out. They always sound so tight, no sound or note wasted, everything working in perfect synchronisity to create an aural landscape as well as a mood and an overall song. It does make me curious what the hell their lyrics mean though.

So if we can pull this off, let's see who's up for a group chat around the time of the concert. Join the Google group if you're interested. Thankfully though, if you miss it, NPR will leave it up to listen to at your leisure. Given a birthday party I'll have to go to tomorrow afternoon, I'm afraid I'll be listening to it that way.

And if you've got the time, there's also a concert for Secret Machines and Kings of Leon from August 11th up, and they're advertising one for the White Stripes on the 27th.

Venue Caves in

This is from an Ausie online site. I can't say I am a real big fan of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, but I thought this should be shared.

http://entertainment.news.com.au/story/0,10221,16540565-7484,00.html

Another night, Another show.

Over the past couple days, I decided to make a new show. It started out as something I was playing around with. Then it morphed into a Mini-show. Then, I started adding trracks and pulling out the original ones I was working with and made this show. It's mostly a mix that takes the listener on some kind of aural trip. I really don't know what kind yet, but what I do know is that most of the songs contain a whole lot of guitars being abused to make some really nice distortion. There's something that is lovely in hearing an electric quitar being used and abused to the point of extracting every little auditory secret it contains. Hendrix and Pete Townsend were the first great masters of this art, but I left them out. I went with a lot of newer groups and The Flaming Lips.

I also started experimenting with Audacity and started using a few more of it's features, so I hope I produced a better sounding mix as a whole. I'm curious what everyone thinks.

A General Warning: This Mix really isn't for the kiddies, nor is it really meant for those who can't handle lots of highs and low sounds. Working on it, it temporarily exacerbated my own hearing issues from working in a music store for years.

Though, I do hope you all turn this one way the hell up. Headphones are beautiful for this one.

The links:
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/678254.html
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/678255.html
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/678256.html
http://box.net/public/themadterran/files/678257.html

And the Playlist:

1. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Intro)
2. Sigur Rós - Hún Jörð
3. Type O Negative - can´t loose you
4. Rasputina - Momma Was an Opium Smoker
5. Pitty Sing - Robots
6. The Flaming Lips - Seven Nation Army
7. The Brian Jonestown Massacre - If Love Is The Drug
8. The Mars Volta - This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed
9. Dredg - Catch Without Arms
10. Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven
11. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Ha Ha High Babe
12. The Flaming Lips - Lucifer Rising
13. Pearl Jam - W.M.A.
14. Tricky - Wait For God
15. A Perfect Circle - The Nurse Who Loved Me
16. The Jesus And Mary Chain - Blues From A Gun
17. Flaming Lips, The - Hell's Angel's Cracker Factory
18. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Rock Star: INXS

http://rockstar.msn.com/video/performance/wk08

Over on Fleeting Glimpse , they've got a link to Rock Star: INXS because they recently did a cover of "Wish You Were Here" for the show. It wasn't bad. What I liked about it was that the singer, the band, the audience and apparently the judges seemed to really be enjoying the song. There was real energy and thought put into the whole affair. The videos also didn't have the drama that American Idol has, that do or die, this is it, feeling that makes the show kind of crappy. As I kept clicking around, I found the same for the version of "Supicious Minds" and "Bohemian Rhapsody." In fact, the singer seemed to really capture the spirit of the song, her costuming made it seem like it was something missing from Sin City too.

This was just a quick one, meant to share the link, I doubt that I will follow along with the show more than watching the occasional linked passed along. But hey, it killed some time in the morning.