Hi again cyberreaders.
 
Those pesky viruses.  I received some sort of virus this past week, so I had to wipe my hard drive.  
Oh well...all IS well now.  Took me a couple of days to get up and running again.  
Most of tonight's list was written on the weekend, but I couldn't send it out.  So...yet again, 
here's the playlist in the middle of the week for....
 
Music For Listeners  07/07/01
 
 1)Embrace-"All You Good Good People"  From the CD 'The Good Will Out'
 2)Ride-"Furthest Sense"  From the 'Smile' E.P.
 3)James-"Getting Away With It (All Messed Up)"  From their new CD 'Pleased To Meet You'.
 4)Lemmings-"First Announcements"  Featuring John Belushi   From the vinyl LP 'National Lampoon's Lemmings'.  
The album features Belushi, and Chevy Chase before their days at SNL, as well as Christopher Guest, way before Spinal Tap.
 5)Big Star-"When My Baby's Beside Me"  From the CD '#1 Record'.
 6)The Murder City Devils-"Press Gang"  From the CD 'In Name And Blood'.
 7)Catherine Wheel-"Come Back Again"  From the Limited Edition CD5 for the single "Crank".
 8)Luna-"Seven Steps To Satan"  From the vinyl LP 'The Days Of Our Nights'.
 9)Simon and Garfunkle-"April Come She Will"  From the vinyl LP soundtrack to "The Graduate".  
Also on the album 'Sounds Of Silence'.
10)Smog-"Hit The Ground Running"  From the vinyl LP 'Knock Knock'.
11)Salaryman-"Strong Holder"  From the vinyl LP 'Karoshi'.  Salaryman are working on a new album that should 
be out by the end of the year.
12)Depeche Mode-"Happiest Girl (Pulsating Orbital Vocal Mix)"  Mix by the Orb found on the "World In My Eyes" CD single.
13)Led Zeppelin-"I Can't Quit You Baby"  From the vinyl LP 'Led Zeppelin'.  
Played for Miss Hart, as she is the biggest Zeppelin fan I know.  
When's the last time you heard this Zeppelin track on the radio?
14)The Boo Radleys-"Upon 9th And Fairchild"  From the CD 'Giant Steps'.
15)The Charlatans-"Good Witch, Bad Witch 2"  Only found on the import versions of the album 'Us And Us Only'.  
The U.S. version has part 3, which isn't on the U.K. version.  If you can find it, 
all three versions are on the Japanese versions.
16)Orbital-"Oi!"  From the awesome new CD 'The Altogether'.
17)Built To Spill-"Car (Live)"  From the CD 'Live'.
18)The Stone Roses-"Shoot You Down"  From the CD 'The Stone Roses'.
19)Pixies-"Down To The Well"  From the CD 'Bossanova'.
20)The Police-"On Any Other Day"  From the vinyl LP 'Regatta De Blanc'.
21)Radiohead-"Everything In It's Right Place (Live)"  From the Capitol Records website.  
If it's still up there, I do suggest you downloading it.
22)Nick Drake-"Cello Song"  From the CD 'Five Leaves Left'.
23)Aphex Twin-"Ventolin (The Coppice Mix)"  From the "Ventolin" CD single......."the single for asthmatics"
24)Shaman-"Boss Drum"  From the CD 'Boss Drum'.
25)The Magnetic Fields-"Underwear"  From the 3 CD box set "69 Love Songs".
26)Tonight's 3 A.M. Recording was a surprise for even me.  At the end of last year, one of my favorites bands broke up.  
I was sad, but also curious to see what the group members would do on their own, 
especially the lead singer.  Earlier tonight I received a copy of tonight's 3 A.M. Recording.  
I didn't know what song to play, so I said to hell with it.....I'll play the whole thing.  
SO.....for the 15-20 listeners actually listening in this late hour, they got a great treat.  
A CD that may be my favorite album of the year, if not that, then it certainly will be up there with the best of the year.  
A quirky pop record that really isn't that different than the band that spawned the genius of Ben Folds.  
Tonight's album has lot of great songs, and incredible harmonies.  All of the pieces except for the stringed 
instruments and one vocal performance were played by Ben Folds himself.  
He seems to have crafted his own personal sound from previous songs that he and his friends 
Darren Jesse, and Robert Sledge played in front of people around the world for almost 4 years STRAIGHT.  
Listening to the album for the first time, I can certainly hear that if Ben Folds Five didn't exist, 
then Ben Folds would have not made an album this good by himself.  Here it is......a classic to 
come......the new solo album from Ben Folds entitled 'Rockin' The Suburbs'.  It's not due for release until September 11th, 
but here it is in it's entirety two months before.  Wait until you hear the title track....I thought 
that Weezer may have made the single of the year, but I think it will have to go to Ben.  
The single "Rockin' The Suburbs" will be released on July 31st.  It will be heavily edited from the album version, 
and the rumor is that Ben wants Weird Al to direct the video. :o)   "Ya'll don't know what it's like, being 
male, middle class and white.  It's a bitch if you don't believe.  Listen up to my new CD, sham-on".
 
Thanks a bunch for reading this....
 
Peace,
Michael
 
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