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I Despise You - Q65 (mp3)

Dirty and sexy and raw! Oh my!

Oooh! Nasty! That's how I feel! I've been working my tush off for the man and the weekend is here, not to mention the W2 form, so the tax return will be coming soon and I'm ready to RELAX. I'm going on vacation. Any ideas?

In the meantime, these songs are kind of dirty, and sexy, and raw, and fit my mood just about right. Enjoy.

Q 65 - And your kind

Underground Balloon Corps. - Heart made of Soul

The Belles - Melvin

Dukes of Hamburg - Mercy Mercy

Holly Golightly - You Have Yet To Win

Feel it.

Sentimental

Maybe it's the miserable weather, the inevitable demise of a holiday romance, this nasty flu, my disdain for all things red, white, and jolly this year, or maybe I just needed a few sentimental romantic love songs to add to my arsenal. The Weepies have my heart this week.

They met at his show, she was a fan of him, he was a fan of her, they spent the night after the show together and:
"...stayed up all night playing songs for each other, drinking a bottle of wine and trading an acoustic guitar back and forth in a tiny apartment,” says Talan. "That night has lasted four years so far," adds Tannen."
And they just had a baby.
C'MON.
So basically, they write love songs to each other. And they're quite sweet. And they make me sad. And happy. At the same time, just the way good love songs should and I kind of want to hate them because of my punk rock nature, but I'm also romantic and girly, so I can't hate them and here is one reason why:

The Weepies - Gotta Have You (mp3)

(go buy the album - you need: "The World Spins Madly On")

the day I first listened to Tim Fite

I was poking around ANTI-Records MySpace page, assuming since they're the label of choice for one Mr. Tom Waits, they might have another artist or two I would enjoy. As usual, I was right. Tim Fite. And he was easy to find. The headshot drew me right in. I thought, this is a guy who just HAS to make good music.

He makes some damn good music.

I'm partial to:
Away From The Snakes (mp3)
You've Been Warned (mp3)
and
No Good Here (mp3)

Basically, I'm partial to his rock/bluesy folk stuff, but he also rocks the hip-hop. For a glimpse into his cross-genre hip-hop sound, Camoflage is a good place to start.

Tim Fite has a YouTube channel and a little video show called Gunshow, which is worth checking out also.

Some of my favorites include:

Episode 1

and Episode 8

The coolest thing about Tim Fite? He gives away almost all of his music! Go to www.timfite.com and you can download all of the tracks from his previous two albums and a few from his new one, Gone Ain't Gone, which you can purchase in its entirety here or here or via ITunes

Andre Williams

"Andre Williams makes Little Richard sound like Pat Boone" - Lux Interior

Andre Williams is a true rock & roll badass.

Started in the mid-50s, recording Bacon Fat (claimed by some to be the first inklings of a rap song), and most known for his accomplishment in co-writing and producing "Shake A Tailfeather", recorded by The Five Dutones and later Ike & Tina Turner. He wrote some songs for Parliament Funkadelic and produced some stuff for Ike Turner. But, with a bad drug habit, by the 1980s he was broke. He came back in the late 90s with some of the sleaziest stuff you've ever heard, on the album Silky. Later he followed that up with The Black Godfather which went back closer to his real sound, but it's still the primitive 50s and 60s stuff that I love.

   

That's all I got. I'm short on time, so just read this. I know, lame. But I'm a busy woman.

Andre Williams - Jail Bait (mp3)

Andre Williams - You Got It And I Want It(mp3)  (My favorite!)

Andre Williams - Poor Mr. Santa (mp3)

Andre Williams - Black Godfather(mp3)

Andre Williams - I'm Movin' On.mp3

By request, more CHICKEN!

Hasil Adkins - Chicken Walk (mp3)

quintessential

Funky Finger Chicken Struttin' Baby

I bet around this time of the year, chickens feel really neglected.

Chicken Baby Chicken - Tony Harris (mp3)      
(get the entire Rock & Roll Fever comp on emusic.com and a 45 is for sale on ebay)

Chicken Strut - King Herbert and the Knights With Jack Harden (mp3)   
(Paragon 1970 - Meters cover)

Finger Licking Chicken - Radars (mp3)
(1969, b/w "Soul Serenade", originally issued as "The Radors" (1413) on Leoso)

Funky Chicken - Winston Groovy (mp3)
(from the 1970 Trojan comp, Funky Chicken)

The Greasy Chicken - Andre Williams (mp3) 
(from Movin On: Greasy and Explicit Soul Movers 1956-1970)

The mp3s on this site are for educational and sampling purposes only. If you want a link or mp3 removed, just let me know.

Another Sweet Jam

Dee Dee Sharp - Comin' Home Baby (mp3, 4427.5K)

and a good quote:

"I want to live only for ecstasy. Small doses, moderate loves, all half-shades, leave me cold. I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers." -- Anais Nin

I'll post something more substantial over the weekend.

Payback time.

I'm in no mood to be trifled with.

Etta James - Payback (mp3, 3781.4K)

Free Learnin'

Well, now you have no excuse not to learn something new every day. "OCW is a free publication of course materials used at MIT". "OCW shares free lecture notes, exams, and other resources from more than 1700 courses spanning MIT's entire curriculum."

Readers of my blog might enjoy: Media Arts and Sciences, Comparative Media Studies, and the History offerings. There is also a Music and Theatre Arts section.

I plan to spend a lot of time looking through this site in the next few weeks.
Let me know what you find, too!