#John McGarrigle

[dame-de-pique]

American Photographic Company (firm) - Mrs Rabone, 1870s

[nonesuchrecords]

Happy holidays! Add some merry to the mix with Nonesuch for the Holidays, our playlist of holiday tunes both classic and soon-to-be-so from Rachael & Vilray, The Staves, Chris Thile, The Magnetic Fields, David Byrne, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Joachim Cooder, Mountain Man, John Adams, Julia Bullock, Boston Camerata, The Nutcracker, and more. You can hear it here.

[danbenzvi]

On The Jukebox: Rufus Wainwright - “Folkocracy”

Featuring guest appearances from Madison Cunningham (on “Alone”), John Legend (on “Heading For Home”), Susanna Hoffs (on “Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)”), Sheryl Crow (on “Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)”), Chris Stills (on “Twelve-Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming To The Canyon)” and “Harvest”),  Brandi Carlile (on “Down In The Willow Garden”), Andrew Bird (on “Harvest”), Anohni (on “Going To A Town”), David Byrne (on “High On A Rocky Ledge”), Nicole Scherzinger (on “Kaulana Na Pua”), Martha Wainwright (on “Hush Little Baby” and “Wild Mountain Thyme”), Lucy Wainwright Roche (on “Hush Little Baby” and “Wild Mountain Thyme”), Van Dyke Parks (on “Black Gold”), Chaka Khan (on “Cotton Eyed Joe”), Anna McGarrigle (on “Wild Mountain Thyme”), Chaim Tannenbaum (on “Wild Mountain Thyme”) and Lily Lanken (on “Wild Mountain Thyme”).

[billboard-hotties-tourney]

Okay, folks, the mini-tourney is inching closer to the finals, so I'm going to give a list of the competitors in the Miss Billboard Tourney in order to give everyone a chance to submit more propaganda. The nominees are:

Lale Andersen

Marian Anderson

Signe Toly Anderson

Julie Andrews

LaVerne Andrews

Maxene Andrews

Patty Andrews

Ann-Margret

Joan Armatrading

Dorothy Ashby

Joan Baez

Pearl Bailey

Belle Baker

Josephine Baker

LaVern Baker

Florence Ballard

Brigitte Bardot

Eileen Barton

Fontella Bass

Shirley Bassey

Maggie Bell

Lola Beltran

Ivy Benson

Gladys Bentley

Jane Birkin

Cilla Black

Ronee Blakley

Teresa Brewer

Anne Briggs

Ruth Brown

Joyce Bryant

Vashti Bunyan

Kate Bush

Montserrat Caballe

Maria Callas

Blanche Calloway

Wendy Carlos

Cathy Carr

Raffaella Carra

Diahann Carroll

Karen Carpenter

June Carter Cash

Charo

Cher

Meg Christian

Gigliola Cinquetti

Petula Clark

Merry Clayton

Patsy Cline

Rosemary Clooney

Natalie Cole

Judy Collins

Alice Coltrane

Betty Comden

Barbara Cook

Rita Coolidge

Gal Costa

Ida Cox

Karen Dalton

Marie-Louise Damien

Betty Davis

Jinx Dawson

Doris Day

Blossom Dearie

Kiki Dee

Lucienne Delyle

Sandy Denny

Jackie DeShannon

Gwen Dickey

Marlene Dietrich

Marie-France Dufour

Julie Driscoll

Yvonne Elliman

Cass Elliot

Maureen Evans

Agnetha Faeltskog

Marianne Faithfull

Mimi Farina

Max Feldman

Gracie Fields

Ella Fitzgerald

Roberta Flack

Lita Ford

Connie Francis

Aretha Franklin

France Gall

Judy Garland

Crystal Gayle

Gloria Gaynor

Bobbie Gentry

Astrud Gilberto

Donna Jean Godchaux

Lesley Gore

Eydie Gorme

Margo Guryan

Sheila Guyse

Nina Hagen

Francoise Hardy

Emmylou Harris

Debbie Harry

Annie Haslam

Billie Holiday

Mary Hopkin

Lena Horne

Helen Humes

Betty Hutton

Janis Ian

Mahalia Jackson

Wanda Jackson

Etta James

Joan Jett

Bessie Jones

Etta Jones

Gloria Jones

Grace Jones

Shirley Jones

Tamiko Jones

Janis Joplin

Barbara Keith

Carole King

Eartha Kitt

Chaka Khan

Hildegard Knef

Gladys Knight

Sonja Kristina

Patti Labelle

Cleo Laine

Nicolette Larson

Daliah Lavi

Vicky Leandros

Peggy Lee

Rita Lee

Alis Lesley

Barbara Lewis

Abbey Lincoln

Melba Liston

Julie London

Darlene Love

Lulu

Anni-Frid Lyngstad

Barbara Lynn

Loretta Lynn

Vera Lynn

Siw Malmkvist

Lata Mangeshkar

Linda McCartney

Kate McGarrigle

Christie McVie

Bette Midler

Jean Millington

June Millington

Liza Minnelli

Carmen Miranda

Joni Mitchell

Liz Mitchell

Marion Montgomery

Lee Morse

Nana Mouskouri

Anne Murray

Wenche Myhre

Holly Near

Olivia Newton-John

Stevie Nicks

Nico

Laura Nyro

Virginia O’Brien

Odetta

Yoko Ono

Shirley Owens

Patti Page

Dolly Parton

Freda Payne

Michelle Phillips

Edith Piaf

Ruth Pointer

Leontyne Price

Suzi Quatro

Gertrude Rainey

Bonnie Raitt

Carline Ray

Helen Reddy

Della Reese

Martha Reeves

June Richmond

Jeannie C. Riley

Minnie Riperton

Jean Ritchie

Chita Rivera

Clara Rockmore

Linda Ronstadt

Marianne Rosenberg

Diana Ross

Anna Russell

Melanie Safka

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Samantha Sang

Pattie Santos

Hazel Scott

Doreen Shaffer

Jackie Shane

Marlena Shaw

Sandie Shaw

Dinah Shore

Judee Sill

Carly Simon

Nina Simone

Nancy Sinatra

Siouxsie Sioux

Grace Slick

Bessie Smith

Mamie Smith

Patti Smith

Ethel Smyth

Mercedes Sosa

Ronnie Spector

Dusty Springfield

Mavis Staples

Candi Staton

Barbra Streisand

Poly Styrene

Maxine Sullivan

Donna Summer

Pat Suzuki

Norma Tanega

Tammi Terrell

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Big Mama Thornton

Mary Travers

Moe Tucker

Tina Turner

Twiggy

Bonnie Tyler

Sylvia Tyson

Sarah Vaughan

Sylvie Vartan

Mariska Veres

Akiko Wada

Claire Waldoff

Jennifer Warnes

Dee Dee Warwick

Dionne Warwick

Dinah Washington

Ethel Waters

Elisabeth Welch

Kitty Wells

Mary Wells

Juliane Werding

Tina Weymouth

Cris Williamson

Ann Wilson

Mary Wilson

Nancy Wilson

Anna Mae Winburn

Syreeta Wright

Tammy Wynette

Nan Wynn

Those in italics have five or more pieces of usable visual, written, or audio propaganda already. If you have any visuals like photos or videos, or if you have something to say in words, submit it to this blog before round one begins on June 25th!

If you don't see a name you submitted here, it's because most or all of their career was as a child/they were too young for the cutoff, their career was almost entirely after 1979, or music was something they only dabbled in and are hardly known for. There are quite a few ladies on the list whose primary career wasn't "recording artist" or "live musician," but released several albums or were in musical theater, so they've been accepted.

[therecordchanger62279]

THE BEST WRITTEN SONGS OF ALL-TIME

     Because I have zero innate musical ability, the idea that someone can sit down with a musical instrument, and create an original song out of thin air is magic to me. Songwriting is a craft, but it’s inspiration that makes a good song into a great one. There are songwriters who seem able to turn out high quality songs in perpetuity. There are others who write maybe one or two great songs, and are never heard from again. So, I made a list of what I think are the 50 best written songs I’ve ever heard. These are in no particular order. I’ve listed the title followed by the songwriter or songwriters, and in parentheses is the performer I most enjoy hearing do the song – although most of these songs have been recorded countless times by a variety of artists. You can probably find all of these on YouTube or any of the streaming services. Most have lyrics, but some do not. But, it’s hard for me to imagine any of these songs being recorded by anyone with talent, and not retaining the brilliance with which the song was written.

Claire de Lune by Claude Debussy (Eugene Ormandy & The Philadelphia Orchestra)

Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin (Zubin Mehta & The New York Philharmonic, Gary Graffman, piano)

A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke (Sam Cooke)

Coal Miner’s Daughter by Loretta Lynn (Loretta Lynn)

Hello Walls by Willie Nelson (Faron Young)

I Left My Heart In San Francisco by George Cory and Douglass Cross (Tony Bennett)

God Bless The Child by Arthur Herzog, Jr. and Billie Holiday (Billie Holiday)

Eleanor Rigby by Paul McCartney and John Lennon (The Beatles)

Blind Willie McTell by Bob Dylan (Bob Dylan)

A Remark You Made by Wayne Shorter (Weather Report)

She’s Always a Woman by Billy Joel (Billy Joel)

Roll Me Away by Bob Seger (Bob Seger)

Margie’s At the Lincoln Park Inn by Tom T. Hall (Bobby Bare)

Angel From Montgomery by John Prine (Bonnie Raitt and John Prine)

Rainy Night in Georgia by Tony Joe White (Brook Benton)

You Never Can Tell by Chuck Berry (Chuck Berry)

Where or When by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Dion and The Belmonts)

American Pie by Don McLean (Don McLean)

It Was a Very Good Year by Ervin Drake (Frank Sinatra)

Gentle On My Mind by John Hartford (Glen Campbell)

Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot (Gordon Lightfoot)

Book of Rules by Harry Johnson and Barry Llewellyn (The Heptones)

Highwayman by Jimmy Webb (The Highwaymen)

American Music by Ian Hunter (Ian Hunter & Mick Ronson)

That’s Entertainment by Paul Weller (The Jam)

Song of Bernadette by Leonard Cohen (Jennifer Warnes)

Jazzman by Carole King and David Palmer (Carole King)

Talking Back to The Night by Steve Winwood and Will Jennings (Steve Winwood)

My Favorite Things by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II (John Coltrane)

Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home by Joe South (Joe South)

Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down by Kris Kristofferson (Kris Kristofferson)

Heart Like a Wheel by Anna McGarrigle (Linda Ronstadt)

I Am a Town by Mary-Chapin Carpenter (Mary-Chapin Carpenter)

Footprints by Wayne Shorter (Miles Davis Quintet)

Pleasant Valley Sunday by Gerry Goffin and Carole King (The Monkees)

This Old Town by Jon Vezner and Janis Ian (Nanci Griffith)

Brooklyn Roads by Neil Diamond (Neil Diamond)

Thrasher by Neil Young (Neil Young & Crazy Horse)

Box of Rain by Robert Hunter and Phil Lesh (Grateful Dead)

Is That All There Is? By Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller (Peggy Lee)

Louisiana 1927 by Randy Newman (Randy Newman)

King of the Road by Roger Miller (Roger Miller)

America by Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)

The Sound of Silence by Paul Simon (Simon & Garfunkel)

Children’s Crusade by Sting (Sting)

My Girl by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White (The Temptations)

Green, Green Grass of Home by Claude “Curly” Putnam, Jr. (Tom Jones)

Downtown Train by Tom Waits (Tom Waits)

The Whole of The Moon by Mike Scott (The Waterboys)

My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys by Sharon Vaughn (Willie Nelson)

[passivedemonic]

“Alpha Double Negative: Going to Catalina”

I hear you starting up again I see you standing on the deck I hear your voice start to carry I see the veins throbbing in your neck

And I know what you're saying And I know what you're saying it for But I'm not listening I'm not listening anymore

"It's about a boat." 

-- John Darnielle at McGarrigle’s in Sligo, Ireland on October 8th, 2002

[thevagabondexpress]

it's comin' on christmas (they're cutting down the trees): a playlist for when the holidays aren't a joyous occasion

river (joni mitchell) still out there running (nathaniel rateliff & the night sweats) california dreamin' (the mamas and the papas) same old auld lang syne (dan fogelberg) northern attitude (noah kahan, hozier) four strong winds (judy collins) 'tis the damn season (taylor swift) el niño (piñataland) the wild goose (kate & anna mcgarrigle) happy xmas (war is over) (ultimate mix) (john lennon, yoko ono, harlem children's choir) hallelujah (pentatonix)

*i know not all of these are christmas songs properly but they all have the right vibe so . . .

[glennmillerorchestra]

i listened to 100 new-to-me albums this year and these are my top 9 picks! not necessarily the 'best' albums, but the ones that carried significant impact to me throughout 2022!!

everything i know about love - laufey (2022) / on the beach - neil young (1974) / chet baker sings (1956) / kisses on the bottom - paul mccartney (2012) / infinite rider on the big dogma - michael nesmith (1979) / revolver - the beatles (1966) / venus and mars - wings (1975) / wasn't tomorrow wonderful? - the waitresses (1982) / buffalo springfield - buffalo springfield (1966)

i'd love to hear everybody's top albums of the year so you can tag me if you want to share :) i'll tag @frogeye-pierce @thebuffalospringfeild @leonardcohenofficial @juliebarnes @iwrotemrtambourineman and @cowboyinthesand to start off with!

full listen list of 2022 is under the cut

john b. sebastian - john sebastian (1970)

an evening with silk sonic - silk sonic (2021)

loose salute - michael nesmith & the first national band (1970)

rags to rufus - rufus & chaka khan (1974)

the birds, the bees & the monkees - the monkees (1968)

tom petty & the heartbreakers - tom petty & the heartbreakers (1976)

pretty much your standard ranch stash - michael nesmith (1973)

charmed - the knee-hi's (2022)

what a way to die - the pleasure seekers (1965)

good times! - the monkees (2016)

dark horse - george harrison (1974)

buffalo springfield - buffalo springfield (1966)

the dreaming - kate bush (1982)

venus and mars - wings (1975)

the velvet underground - the velvet underground (1969)

new way of life - deeohgee (2021)

odyssey and oracle - the zombies (1968)

nilsson schmilsson - harry nilsson (1971)

the ballad of sally rose - emmylou harris (1985)

infinite rider on the big dogma - michael nesmith (1979)

from a radio engine to the photon wing - michael nesmith (1977)

kate & anna mcgarrigle - kate & anna mcgarrigle (1975)

songs from a room - leonard cohen (1969)

deja vu - csny (1970)

fame and price, price and fame together - georgie fame & alan price (1971)

instant replay - the monkees (1969)

folk roots, new routes - shirley collins & davy graham (1964)

stephen stills - stephen stills (1970)

after the gold rush - neil young (1970)

buffalo springfield again - buffalo springfield (1967)

uncle charlie & his dog teddy - nitty gritty dirt band (1970)

dolenz, jones, boyce & hart - dolenz, jones, boyce & hart (1976)

micky dolenz puts you to sleep - micky dolenz (1991)

tx jelly - the texas gentlemen

go home go home go home - adelaide (2021)

harvest - neil young (1972)

do hollywood - the lemon twigs (2016)

songs for the general public - the lemon twigs (2020)

crosby, stills and nash - csn (1969)

kisses on the bottom - paul mccartney (2012)

and the hits just keep on comin' - michael nesmith (1972)

velvet gloves and spit - neil diamond (1968)

cold spring harbor - billy joel (1971)

sweetheart of the rodeo - the byrds (1968)

parallel lines - blondie (1978)

showcase - patsy cline (1961)

gemini rights - steve lacy (2022)

cass elliot - cass elliot (1972)

touch 'em with love - bobbie gentry (1969)

beatopia - beabadoobee (2022)

everything i know about love - laufey (2022)

sentimentally yours - patsy cline (1962)

chet baker sings - chet baker (1956)

there goes rhymin' simon - paul simon (1973)

talking heads '77 - talking heads (1977)

country style - dean martin (1963)

stranger in the alps - phoebe bridgers (2017)

mclemore avenue - booker t. & the m.g.'s (1970)

the smiths - the smiths (1984)

the siren's song - kacy & clayton (2017)

songs for beginners - graham nash (1971)

demoiselle - micky dolenz (1998)

walls and bridges - john lennon (1975)

mother nature's son - ramsey lewis (1968)

it's the great pumpkin, charlie brown - vince guraldi trio (2022)

tug of war - paul mccartney (1982)

wasn't tomorrow wonderful? - the waitresses (1982)

revolver (super deluxe) - the beatles (1966)

pipes of peace - paul mccartney (1983)

punisher - phoebe bridgers (2020)

freedom of choice - DEVO (1978)

mind your own business! - henry mccullough (1975)

on the beach - neil young (1975)

morrison hotel - the doors (1970)

flowers in the dirt - paul mccartney (1989)

zuma - neil young & crazy horse (1974)

chet baker sings: it could happen to you - chet baker (1958)

convertible music - josie cotton (1982)

sleep warm - dean martin (1959)

the decline and fall of heavenly - heavenly (1994)

psychedelic jungle - the cramps (1981)

nina simone sings the blues - nina simone (1967)

a generation ago today - kenny burrell (1967)

make it big - wham! (1984)

meat is murder - the smiths (1985)

solitude - billie holiday (1956)

sunflower - the beach boys (1970)

speaking in tongues - talking heads (1983)

the lady sings - billie holiday (1956)

when the pawn... - fiona apple (1999)

press to play - paul mccartney (1986)

q: are we not men? a: we are devo! - DEVO (1978)

silvertwin - silvertwin (2021)

cherry peel - of montreal (1997)

masterpiece - big thief (2016)

the lady in satin - billie holiday (1958)

living in the material world - george harrison (1973)

pink moon - nick drake (1972)

CSN - csn (1977)

memory almost full - paul mccartney (2007) <- yes, this is a poetic last pick. it was intentional ;)

[dstrachan]

'VIEWS FROM THE EDGE' - w/c 9th September 2024

Starcrawler ‘Bet My Brains (live at Third Man)’

Wild Pink ‘Sprinter Brain’

Glenn Miller & his Orchestra ‘Chattenooga Choo Choo’

Beirut ‘Gibralter’

Lindsey Stirling ‘Shatter (feat. Lizzy Hale)’

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle ‘Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E-Flat Major "Of a Thousand", Pt. 2 "Final Scene from Faust": XVI. Chorus Mysticus’

Melanie Comarcho ‘Represent’

Halogen Star ‘Gravitational Wave’

Marilyn Monroe ‘When I Fall In Love’

Martin Slawicek ‘Greenpeace’

John Holt ‘Riding For A Fall’

The Buff Medways ‘Troubled Mind’

She Drew The Gun ‘Trouble Every Day

The Rolling Stones ‘Can I Get A Witness’

The Rolling Stones ‘You Got Me Rocking’

The Rolling Stones feat. Lady Gaga ‘Sweet Sounds Of Heaven’

The Rolling Stones ‘Beast Of Burden’

Mogwai ‘We’re No Here’

Francis Albert Sinatra  & Antonio Carlos Jobim ‘If You Never Come To Me’

Marla Mase ‘All Fall Short’

Inspired ‘Be The Change’

Alice Cooper ‘No More Mr. Nice Guy’

Kate & Anna McGarrigle ‘Heart Like A Wheel’

The Donald Anderson Band ‘Footsteps Make The Path’

Frances Nero ‘Footsteps Following Me’

[friendofgeorgeharrison]

put 5 songs you listen to, post it, then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers 🧡😊

[parkerbombshell]

From Memphis To Merseyside Ep 93

Thursdays 8pm EST bombshellradio.com From Memphis To Merseyside Ep. 93 One Small Step…. This week, Tony and Aaron celebrate Apollo 11 and the first time man walked on the moon in July 1969. Lots of great music and talk about another time and an historic moment. #Rock #ClassicRock #FolkRock #PopRock #JazzRock 1. Ric Denis - This Rumbling Sky 2. Frank Sinatra - Fly Me To The Moon 3. Elvis Presley - Blue Moon 4. Jerry Butler - Moon River 5. The Beatles - Mr. Moonlight 6. Jonathon King - Everyone’s Gone To The Moon 7. The Beatles - The Ballad Of John And Yoko 8. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising 9. Tang Commercial 10. Oliver - Good Morning Starshine 11. Blood, Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel 12. Zager And Evans - In The Year 2525 (Exordium & Terminus) 13. David Bowie - Space Oddity 14. Glen Campbell - Galveston 15. David Bowie - Starman 16. Cat Stevens - Moonshadow 17. King Harvest - Dancing in the Moonlight 18. Elton John - Rocket Man 19. The Kinks - Supersonic Rocket Ship 20. April Wine - Bad Side of The Moon 21. Pink Floyd - Eclipse 22. Paul McCartney - Loup (First Indian On The Moon) 23. Klaatu - Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft 24. The Kinks - Full Moon 25. Prism - Spaceship Superstar 26. George Harrison - Here Comes The Moon 27. The Guess Who - Moon Wave Maker 28. Kate And Anna McGarrigle - Move Over Moon 29. Joni Mitchell - Moon At The Window 30. Van Morrison - Moondance 31. Bobby Womack - Fly Me To The Moon 32. Bryan James Duffy - The Red Brick Road         Read the full article

[nonesuchrecords]

'Tis the season to be jolly with holiday songs! To add our merry to the mix, we've updated Nonesuch for the Holidays, our playlist of holiday tunes both classic and soon-to-be-so from Rachael & Vilray, Joachim Cooder, Mountain Man, The Staves, Rostam, Chris Thile, Joni Mitchell, Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Julia Bullock, John Adams, Boston Camerata, and, of course, George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. You can hear it here on Spotify and Apple Music.

[tellthemeerkatsitsfine]

Hey I have a question. Is the Canadian band Barenaked Ladies big in Britain? Or was it big there, earlier in the 21st Century? Because I have heard a weird number of British comedians reference it. I've heard it referenced far more often by British comedians than I hear it referenced by other Canadians, where I live.

Kitson used to play their mediocre version of Bruce Cockburn's Lovers in a Dangerous Time on his old radio shows, which annoyed me every time. Not because he played it - it's not a bad cover (mediocre doesn't mean the same as bad) - but because he never acknowledged that it was a cover. He'd always called it "Lovers in a Dangerous Time by The Barenaked Ladies" (he also said "The" even though the band is just called "Barenaked Ladies", but that's a different issue), even though when he played cover versions of other songs, he'd back announce them as "[song], sung by [artist], but originally by [other artist]".

In his 2023 Resonance FM run, he finally played the Bruce Cockburn version, but announced it as by "Bruce Cock-burn - or Co-burn" and said he didn't know which, which proves that all those previous years when he was playing Barenaked Ladies' version, he was not aware that it was a cover. I know that because pronouncing Bruce Cockburn's name the way it's spelled (it's actually pronounced "Co-burn") is only funny for a year or so after you first discover him. If that was still funny to Kitson in 2023, he hadn't known him for long. I also had a year of finding it funny to say "Bruce Cock-burn", but that year for me was between ages 10 and 11.

Anyway, Kitson also did a show in 2014 that featured Gavin Osborn reading out sleeve notes from mixed tapes that John Oliver had made for him, and one of the notes he read talked about how great the band Barenaked Ladies are. That struck me as odd - Kitson, Osborn, and Oliver all into that band, despite the fact that Daniel Kitson seems to mostly know fuck all about Canadian music (he hadn't heard of Bruce Cockburn until about 2023, in a show he did when he was almost 30 he didn't know Leonard Cohen, he is one of the many British comedians who keeps weighing in on whether the best musician in a family is Rufus or Loudon Wainwright, as though the answer isn't clearly the Canadian Kate McGarrigle). For some reason, Barenaked Ladies was the one exception.

That made some amount of sense, that Kitson and Osborn and Oliver would all be into the same thing, as there were lots of pop culture things that clearly spread through the Chocolate Milk Gang because they were all friends/all cribbed their taste off Daniel Kitson for a while. But I've now heard Ray Peacock talk about being a fan of the band Barenaked Ladies too. He's not Chocolate Milk Gang, he got that from somewhere else.

So, I have the same question about Barenaked Ladies as I have about darts, and snooker, and private schools, and WhatsApp. Is that actually a big thing in Britain that everyone's into over there? Or is it something that seems to me like it's big in Britain, just because there are a disproportionate number of comedians who are into it, and the perspective from which I see Britain is hearing from their comedians?

To be clear, I like that band. Everything to Everyone is a great album, it's been in my music collection for 20 years and I still throw on songs from it once in a while. I have never owned a car, but whenever I borrow my parents' car because I need to do a road trip and end up driving alone, I blast Testing 1 2 3 and loudly sing along:

And then I always put on For You because that is solid fucking CanCon:

Second Best is a great anthem:

And their good stuff isn't limited to that one album (though to be honest, that's the only full album I have by them). Pinch Me was a fun song to come on at parties in the 00s:

I am sharing my favourite Barenaked Ladies songs to make the point that I have favourite Barenaked Ladies songs, I like them, I'm not saying they're bad. They're not a bad band. But... they're a pretty good pop/rock band. Their pretty good pop/rock cover of Lovers in a Dangerous Time cannot hold a candle to the haunting and beautiful musically complex original. Why are they the one Canadian band that apparently made it big among British comedians?

[julio-viernes]

Conway, todo un clásico del folk rock británico de los años sesenta, setenta e incluso ochenta. También estuvo en / tocando con Eclection, Al Stewart, Fotheringay, Iain Matthews/ Matthews Southern Comfort, The Incredible String Band/Mike Heron, Steeleye Span/Maddy Prior & Tim Hart, Magna Carta, Neil Innes & GRIMMS, John Cale, Hudson-Ford, Kate and Anna McGarrigle y Pentangle.

[whatilistenedtoatwork]

From March 11th to March 14th, 2024

11-03-2024

NIGEL KENNEDY “The Kennedy Experience”; PEGGY LEE “Black Coffee With Peggy Lee”; LESTER FLATT & EARL SCRUGGS “Changin' Times”; SARAH VAUGHAN “Sarah Vaughan”; T.REX “Zinc Alloy & The Hidden Riders Of Tomorrow”; SQUAREPUSHER “Ultravisitor”; GRUFF RHYS “(Don't) Welcome The Plague As A Blessing – The Babelsberg Basement Files”; KATE & ANNA McGARRIGLE “The McGarrigle Hour”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Under The Bushes, Under The Stars”; FOO FIGHTERS “The Colour & The Shape”; SARAH VAUGHAN “Swingin' Easy”; ANDREW LLOYD-WEBBER & TIM RICE “Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”; SWEET BABOO “The Vending Machine”; GEORGE HARRISON “Thirty Three & A Third”; SUPERGRASS “Supergrass”

12-03-2024

T.REX “Live At The BBC 1970-71”; HAPPY MONDAYS “Squirrel & G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)”; KIRK FRANKLIN & THE FAMILY “Kirk Franklin & The Family”; ELIZA CARTHY & NANCY KERR “Shape Of Scrape”; BRIAN WILSON “That Lucky Old Sun”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Cool Planet”; THE CARDIGANS “Emmerdale”; SUPER FURRY ANIMALS “Love Kraft”; CHAMPION JACK DUPRE “Junkers Blues”; MICHAEL DOUCET & BEAUSOLEIL “Parle Nous A Boire”; NADA SURF “The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy”; TANYA DONELLY “This Hungry Life”

13-03-2024

T.REX “Bolan's Zip Gun”; BRIAN WILSON & VAN DYKE PARKS “Orange Crate Art”; SPARKS “Music That You Can Dance To”; THE JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET “Supernatural Feeling”; ABNER JAY “The True Story Of Dixie”; TALLY HALL “Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum”; HAPPY MONDAYS “Bummed”; NADA SURF “You Know Who You Are”; DOROTHY LOVE COATES & THE ORIGINAL GOSPEL HARMONETTES “The Best Of Dorothy Love Coates & The Original Gospel Harmonettes, Volume 2”; SARAH VAUGHAN “Sarah Vaughan Sings George Gershwin, Volume 1”; ENNIO MORRICONE “Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo”; JAY SEMKO & VARIOUS ARTISTS “Due South Original Television Soundtrack”; MOTORHEAD “Motorhead”; WASHINGTON PHILLIPS “What Are They Doing In Heaven Today?”; SARAH VAUGHAN & BILLY ECKSTINE “Sarah Vaughan & Billy Eckstine Sing The Best Of Irving Berlin”; THE MUMMIES “Fuck The Mummies”

14-03-2024

EUROS CHILDS “Cheer Gone”; LEON ROSSELSON “Intruders”; SUGAR “Copper Blue”; RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN “The Sound Of Music Original Soundtrack”; ROLAND ALPHONSO “King Sax”; CHUCK BERRY “New Juke Box Hits”; PARQUET COURTS “Light Up Gold”; HOMEWORK “Homework”; CHRIS ARDOIN & DOUBLE CLUTCHIN' “Best Kept Secret”; MOTORHEAD “Overkill”; KATE RUSBY “The Girl Who Couldn't Fly”; NADA SURF “High-Low”; CAB CALLOWAY & HIS ORCHESTRA “Cab Calloway 1931-1932”; JOHN HARDEE “John Hardee 1946-1948”; GUIDED BY VOICES “Warp & Woof”; THE CORAL “Distance Inbetween”

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 6pm ET: Feature LP: Rufus Wainwright - Folkocracy (2023)

Folkocracy is a studio album by Rufus Wainwright, released by BMG on June 2, 2023 Folkocracy was produced by Mitchell Froom. Guests on the album include Anohni, Andrew Bird, David Byrne, Brandi Carlile, Sheryl Crow, Madison Cunningham, Susanna Hoffs, Chaka Khan, John Legend, Anna McGarrigle, Van Dyke Parks, Nicole Scherzinger, Chris Stills, and Chaim Tannenbaum. “Alone” (featuring Madison…