Hello fair readers,

Another busy weekend...here's a mid-week Fourth of July pressing of the playlist from:

Music For Listeners 06/30/01

 1)Beastie Boys-"Groove Holmes"  From the CD 'Check Your Head'   Also on the instrumental compilation 'The In Sound From Way Out'
 2)The Charlatans (UK)-"Scorched"  B-side from the "My Beautiful Friend" UK CD single two.
 3)Built To Spill-"Strange"  From their up and coming CD 'Ancient Melodies of The Future'.
 4)Paul McCartney and Wings-"Too Many People"  From the new Wings compilation "Hits and History".  Also found on the Paul and Linda McCartney album 'Ram'.  No kidding, the first thing I remember in my life is putting on a vinyl copy of 'Ram' onto a record player.  I wanted to hear the "Hands across the water", section of "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey".  A DJ was born.  
 5)Silkworm-"Contempt"  From the CD 'Lifestyle'.
 6)Orbital-"Shadows"  From the CD 'The Altogether'.  Out in the UK now....the US version will be a DVD and feature a video for every song on the record.  Just to prove how much of a hack Moby is.....he is putting out a DVD version of 'Play' soon.  Moby stealing ideas again......drop it Moby, the album is almost two years old.
 7)Smith And Mighty-"Accept All Contrasts"  From the CD 'Bass Is Maternal'.  Featuring a cool sample from U2's "Seconds".
 8)Massive Attack-"Safe From Harm"  From the vinyl LP 'Blue Lines'.
 9)Natural Calamity-"In The Wee Wee Time (Original Version)"  From the CD 'Peachhead',
10)Electric Light Orchestra-"Stranger On A Quiet Street"  From the first ELO album in 17 years, 'Zoom'.
11)All In The Family (Featuring Carroll O'Conner and Jean Stapleton)-"Do You Love Me?"  From the "All In The Family vinyl LP.  Played in tribute to Carroll O'Conner 1924-2001. Douglas Adams, John Lee Hooker, Carroll O'Conner and Jack Lemmon......all of them in a month.  Sad....they will be missed.
12)Radiohead-"Knives Out"  From the CD 'Amnesiac'.
13)Ben Folds-"Carrying Cathy"  From the CD 'Rockin The Suburbs' out in September.
14)Frankie Goes To Hollywood-"Welcome To The Pleasuredome"  From the vinyl LP 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome'.  Uncut version not on the CD.  Takes up the whole first side of the LP.
15)Jellyfish-"Think About Your Troubles"  From the tribute CD 'For The Love of Harry:Everybody Sings Nilsson'.
Then director and friend Ross Ruediger, and his lovely mate Jeanne Jakle stopped by the studio.
16)Air-"How Does It Make You Feel"  From the CD '10,000 Hz Legend'.  Requested by Jeanne.
17)The Sundays-"Can't Be Sure"  From the vinyl LP 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic'.
18)Coldplay-"Parachutes" & "Trouble"  From the CD 'Parachutes'.  Also requested by Miss Jakle.
Then director and friend Ross Ruediger, and his lovely mate Jeanne Jakle left the studio.  Get out!!!!
19)Verve-"Blue (Live)"  From a Canadian Radio promo only live CD.
20)Babyfox-"Gloria Graham" & "Rain"  From the CD 'A Normal Family'.
21)Bono And Daniel Lanois-"Falling At Your Feet"  From the CD soundtrack to the Wim Wenders motion picture "The Million Dollar Hotel".  A really good character piece....slow but great!!!
22)King Curtis-"A Whiter Shade Of Pale"  Lovely alto sax instrumental version from the vinyl LP soundtrack to the Bruce Robinson film "Withnail and I".   One of the best character movies EVER made.  In my current Top 10 for sure.
23)Fleetwood Mac-"Why?"  From the vinyl LP 'Mystery To Me'.
24)"The 3 A.M. Recording"   I've played a lot of rock records in this segment lately....so tonight I've decided to change it up a little with one of my favorite techno CD's ever made.  Steve Hillage, an amazing guitar player that played with Gong in the 70's, and also did some great ambient LP's of his own in the late 70's said in an interview in 92' that "Now I am finally making the music that I hear in my head".  In 1991, he compiled a techno super group of sorts by gathering himself, his wife Miquette Girauldy, Youth, Derrick May, Dr Alex Patterson and Thrash of the Orb,  Aniff Cousins, DJ Lewis Keogh, Andy Falconer, Steve Waddington, and stadium DJ Paul Oakenfold to do an album together.  What came out was System 7 (or 777 in the US).  System 7's first CD is full of soulful grooves, great vocal work, deep feeling basses, ambient soundscapes, and amazing "Gliss" guitar work by Steve himself.  This album was the first time I noticed that guitars can fit perfectly into the techno side of things.  This was also the first time I noticed how much talent former Orb member Kris Weston (Thrash) really had.  His mixing work on this album is incredible.  Looking back it seems that the Orb is missing something as of late.  Tonight I'm playing the UK version of the first System 7 record, appropriately called "System 7".  The US version (777) is really very good as well, but has some different mixes and features less of Youth and Thrash mixing together.  For anyone familiar with them...you know that combo has to be a good thing.  I think the UK version is just a little better, even though it's missing a superb b-side that was added to the US version.  Here is, in my opinion one of the most influential techno albums ever made.........System 7-'System 7'    Steve Hillage was once asked if he thought that techno music has no soul.  He replied "No, bad music has no soul".
"Access my value in dollars and pounds, it won't mean shit when I hit the ground.  Mental reconnaissance, a shot in the dark, onward moving the forward march."
 
Peace, hugs, and have a good 4th and all....
 
Michael T.
 
This show was recorded and is available.