Posted in DefaultTag on Feb 28th, 2014
VE 210
James Ray: I've Got My Mind Set On You
Hole (featuring Kurt Cobain): Asking For It
Green Day: Sweet Children
Lene Lovitch: Lucky Number
Curtis Mayfield: Superfly
Grip Weeds: Hello it's Me
George McCrae: You Can Have It All
Moon Martin: Bad Case of Loving You
Four Tops: 7 Rooms Of Gloom
Juluka: Scatterlings Of Africa
Cozy Cole: Topsy
Link Wray and his Ray Men: The Swag
Little Green Cars: Harper Lee
Lou Johnson: Always Something There To Remind Me
Debbie Harry & Iggy Pop: Well Did You Evah
The Sound Of Music Original Cast: Maria
Today on the VE....
Some unexplored originals and some unexpected remakes have shook loose from the unsorted 45's and stacks of unfiled LPs...
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Posted in DefaultTag on Feb 21st, 2014
Grace Jones Private Life
Amadou & Miriam: Welcome To Mali
Marvin Gaye: Stubborn Kind Of Fellow
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Walk Don't Run
Real Estate: Atlantic City
Billy Mure's Supersonic Guitars: Guitars In Space
Steve Winwood: Roll With It (Steve Testifies Dub)
Tom Jones: Memphis, Tennessee
The Who: Call Me Lightning
Devo: Fresh
MGMT: Electric Feel
James: Laid (live acoustic)
Ray LaMontagne: Beg Steal or Borrow
Phosphorescent: Song For Zula
Edgar Broughton Band: Hotel Room
Today on the VE: Remembering Devo guitarist Bob Casale, A forgotton guitar star surfaces in my Garage Sale Find Of the Week... Tom Jones hip-shakes Chuck Berry, James unplugs and gets laid...and to begin, Grace Jones has her way with a Pretenders nugget
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Posted in DefaultTag on Feb 14th, 2014
VE 208
Little Feat: Fat Man In the Bathtub
Elvis Costello & The Roots: Come The Mean Times
The National: Fake Empires
Steely Dan: Babylon Sisters
Bat For Lashes: Sleep Alone
Joni Mitchell: Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire
Coldplay: UFO
Doors: Wishful Sinful
Shelby Lynne: I Only Want To Be With You
Jayhawks: Wichita
Grateful Dead: Jack Straw
Pat Metheney Group: Cross The Heartland
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Posted in DefaultTag on Feb 7th, 2014
Al Hirt: Java
Tessie O'Shea: I've Got A Lovely Bunch of Coconuts
Peter Paul & Mary: A Man COme Into Egypt
Serendipity Singers: Crooked Little Man
Swingle Singers: Bach Fugue In D Minor
Village Stompers: Washington Square
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: So Danco Samba
Charles Mingus: Better Get Hit In Yo Soul
Frank SInatra: Fly Me To The Moon
Dean Martin: Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime
Jack Jones: Wives And Lovers
Muddy Waters: Good Morning Little Schoolgirl
Sam Cooke: Ain't That Good News
Bob Dylan: The Times They Are A Changing
The Beatles: "The Beatles Story" LP, Side 1
Today on the VE....It's "The Other 1964." The pop culture landscape that The Beatles invaded on this day in 1964 was firm ground, tended by a generation who were just about to lose their hold--to something new and entirely unexpected. Plus...the entire side 1 of the 1964 Capitol records documentary LP "The Beatles Story" takes it from there.
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