Music For Listeners 05/21/2022

1) Beastie Boys-"Country Mike's Theme"  From the compilation album 'Anthology: The Sounds of Science'.
2) Treetop Flyers-"River"  From the album 'Old Habits'.
3) Clap Your Hands Say Yeah-"In the Water"  From the brand new EP 'Room at the Top'.
4) Teleman-"Between the Rain"  From the album 'Family of Aliens'.
5) The Earlies-"No Love In Your Heart"  From the 10" album 'The Enemy Chorus'.
6) Red Rum Club-"Vibrate"  From the album 'How To Steal the World'.
7) Hamish Hawk-"Bakerloo, Unbecoming"  From the album 'Heavy Elevator'.
8) Inspiral Carpets-"Here Comes the Flood"  From the album 'Revenge of the Goldfish'.
9) The Verve-"Weeping Willow"  From the album 'Urban Hymns'.
10) Massive Attack-"Blue Lines"  From the album 'Blue Lines'.
11) Spiritualized-"Crazy"  From the brand new album 'Everything Was Beautiful'.
12) Michael Nesmith and the First National Band-"Joanne"  From the album 'Magnetic South'.
13) Can-"Vitamin C"  From the album 'Ege Bamyasi'
14) System 7-"Batukau"  From the album 'Fire'.
15) The Orb-"Centuries"  From the album 'Cydonia'.
16) Electric Light Orchestra-"Starlight"  From the album 'Out of the Blue'.
17) Matt Robinson-"The Skin I'm In"  From the album 'My Name is Roosevelt Franklin'.
18) Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd-"Samba Triste"  From the album 'Jazz Samba'
19) Summer Camp-"It Happened One Night"  From the album 'Romantic Comedy'.
20) Orbital-"Adnan"  From the compilation album 'Help'.
21) Belle and Sebastian-"Young and Stupid"  From the brand new album 'A Bit of Previous'.
22) The Cure-"Let's Go To Bed"  From the compilation album 'Standing On the Beach - The Singles'.
23) The Shins-"Girl On the Wing"  From the album 'Oh Inverted World'.
24) Catherine Wheel-"Mouthful of Air"  From the compilation 'Like Cats and Dogs'.
25) Art of Noise-"Opus 4"  From the compilation album 'The Ambient Collection'
26) Art of Noise-"Opus for 4"  From the compilation album 'The Ambient Collection'
27) Brian Eno and Robert Fripp-"Evening Star"  From the album 'Evening Star'.
28) Air (Namlook)-"Breeze"  From the album 'Air'.
29) "The Mid-Morning Recording"        Vangelis-'Best In Space'
Sadly, more and more often these days, the MMR turns into a tribute. On Thursday, the world was made aware of the passing of Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, known as the musician, composer, and producer of some of the greatest scores ever, Vangelis. He changed classical music forever with his use of electronic instruments often in tandem with traditional instruments. A master of the synthesized keyboard, whose music has been heard by many cinema and planetarium patrons alike, for over 50 years. Most likely the first piece I heard by him was the theme to Cosmos, a show I watched as a young child. Then he won the Oscar for his now legendary theme for "Chariots of Fire". Then came Blade Runner. A movie that I didn't see until the early 90's oddly enough with the Director's Cut release of the film. I'm almost glad I didn't see until then because I only had to wait two years for the proper Vangelis soundtrack to to be released in 1994. It was a big deal when it finally did get a release. It's considered one of the greatest movie scores of all-time at this point, and highly influential. Being that I already played the Blade Runner soundtrack as an MMR, I decided to play this CD compliation of his work in the 70's. This compilation is a reworking of a 1981 "Greatest Hits" comp released in the U.S. and Canada. It's is spacey stuff from the 70's and includes some of his more famous themes from that period of his career. One of the greatest ever and he will be missed. "." - Michael - MFL
30) James-"Sayonara"  From the album 'Wah-Wah'.