Music For Listeners 2006/12/09

1) The Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme" From the CD 'Anthology'.
2) Waylon Jennings-"Amanda" From the CD '70's Country Gold'.
3) Mumm-Ra-"Song B" From the CD E.P. 'Black Hurts Day and the Night Rolls On'.
4) The Oolahs-"TV Dinner" From the CD 'Best Stop Pop'.
5) Big Soy-"Western Sizzler" From the CD E.P. 'Part of You'.
6) The Good, The Bad, and the Queen-"Herculean" From the UK CD single for "Herculean".
7) Snowbyrd-"Tower of Pearl" From the CD 'Snowbyrd'.
8) Scissors for Lefty-"Lay Down Your Weapons" From the CD E.P. 'Scissors for Lefty'.
9) Voxtrot-"Trouble" From the CD single for "Your Biggest Fan".
10) P.J. Harvey-"Wang Dang Doodle" From the brand new CD 'The Peel Sessions 1991-2004'.
11) Dawn of the Replicants-"Everyone in Heaven is Afraid of Heights" From the CD compilation 'Bust the Trunk - The Singles'.
12) The Fall-"Pacifying Joint" From the CD 'Fall Heads Roll'.
13) The Fall-"Blindness" From the CD 'Fall Heads Roll'.
14) Electrelane-"Suitcase" From the CD "Axes".
15) The Polar Dream-"The March of the Lost Children" Unreleased track straight from the band.
16) Salaryman-"The Vorticists" From the CD 'The Electric Forest'.
17) Salaryman-"First Person Shopper" From the CD 'The Electric Forest'.
18) Treewave-"May Banners" From the CD 'The Cabana E.P'.
19) Battle-"Beautiful Dynasty" From the UK CD E.P. 'Back to Earth'.
20) Stiff Little Fingers-"Barbed Wire Love" From the CD 'Inflammable Material'.
21) Pavement-"Grounded" From the CD 'Wowee Zowee'.
22) ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead-"Naked Sun" From the CD 'So Divided'.
23) Palomar-"The Planeiac" From the CD 'Palomar III - Revenge of Palomar'.
24) Yellow Fever-"Alice" From the CD E.P. 'Yellow Fever'.
25) Hillary York-"Out of Sight" From the CD 'The Moon'.
27) Falconer-"Primary" From the CD 'Falconer'.
28) Verve-"A Man Called Sun (Live)" From the UK CD single for "Gravity Grave".
29) "The Mid-Morning Recording" Fleetwood Mac-'Kiln House'.
As long as the band has John McVie and Mick Fleetwood, then it's considered Fleetwood Mac. I guess this is what Mick and John said when their leader and guitar god Peter Green decided to leave the band. This is a transition album, and a new beginning for the band. An unaccredited Christine McVie plays her amazing blues piano, and she even lends a little of her voice for the first time with the Mac. She even created the amazingly colorful cover art, which she does get the credit for. It would be her first credit in the long list of great songs to come. It also features the wonderful Danny Kirwan. A brilliant guitarist that took his rightful position as band leader and main songwriter for this album. He would be with the band another 4 years, but the first American member, Bob Welch, would become the band leader by the next recording. This is really a terrific album, and it shines with Buddy Holly tributes and amazing, and might I add original blues riffs. It certainly sounds like a bridge between the blues period Fleetwood Mac and the more polished sound Lindsey and Stevie would eventually bring to the band a mere five years later. I guess my mother used to play this one back when I was a wee lad, but I didn't really fall in love with it until I was way into my 20's. I didn't really understand the greatness therein. Short, but very very sweet. This isn't my favorite album by them, but neither is 'Rumours'. 'Rumors' isn't bad, but it most likely will never be played as a Mid-Morning Recording; as it has been obviously overplayed. 'Kiln House' is incredibly overlooked.
Michael - MFL
30) James-"Sayonara" From the CD 'Wah-Wah'.
BONUS TRACKS
31) SOUND team-"Your Eyes Are Liars" From the CD 'Movie Monster'.
32) Kate Bush-"December Will Be Magic Again" From the rare 7" vinyl single for "December Will Be Magic Again".