Xavier’s Mixed Doubles Part 1 69.8mb 128kbps mp3
01 Grimsby Ghetto [mrXavier feat. Akon] 04:01:26
02 Lost [Tomas Diablo] 03:32:23
03 Forest [Nouvelle Vague] 03:17:30
04 Closer [the tiny] 04:31:23
05 In The End [Tycho] 04:25:62
06 Breathless [Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds] 03:06:50
07 Bag of Lovely [d_rradio] 05:56:41
08 Someday [Shivaree] 02:05:19
09 runnin’ dub [the video kid] 03:25:65
10 The Genocide Ball [The Robot Ate Me] 01:43:21
11 tremolo [lismore] 04:57:26
12 Bellona [The Junior Boys] 05:35:68
13 in out [Stereo Total] 02:16:13
14 unknown [alexandroid] 05:45:22
15 Cat-Silver [David Last] 04:42:65
16 Extraordinary Machine [Fiona Apple] 03:39:69
17 The Battle [The Matthew Herbert Big Band] 04:47:55
18 By Your Side [Coco Rosie] 03:54:50
19 the other side of you [StereoTotal] 04:25:65
Same cast and crew as the above track, but this apparently was the straw that broke his relationship with Columbia. Didn’t consider this hep stuff the right direction for his music.
Occasionally Polly and I will lubricate an evening with vodka Red Bulls, throw on some archaic vinyl and start crooning and crowing (much to the chagrin of our upstairs landlord, I’m sure). Much of what we pull out of the crates during those sessions tends to be late 70’s/early 80’s, and it always surprizes me how much of those lyrics I can still remember. So what follows is a small sampling, and to be certain, a regular showing here on duchess. As soon as the turntable gets hooked in, more vintage stuff will be encoded.
Souvenir - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
From the amazing Architecture and Morality
Ride - David Sylvian
One of my favorite Sylvian tracks. Expect some Japan in the future.
His Box - Dali’s Car
Speaking of Japan, the gorgeous liquid fretless bass of Mick Karn joined with Peter Murphy… heaven.
Driving - Everything But The Girl
From their acoustic sessions.
Alone - This Mortal Coil
I had the pleasure of living with Caroline Seaman for a short while when she visited the states. She’s the vocalist on this track, and I’m sad that we lost touch. She appeared on 808State’s Gorgeous and was lead with Heavenly Bodies. Haven’t heard her record anything lately.
Bongo Bong/Je Ne T’Aime Plus - Manu Chao
A pleasant surprise via snail mail … a gift disc from Antigeist. Her sound of this summer and already an earworm of mine.
I get a vision of all of us in the red Jeep, [X] singing the lyrics, and [H] and I doing the back up from the back seat…
Thing is… doesn’t even have bongos in it… curious that.
Help the Aged - Pulp
Today at work I took a call from a woman who sounded like she was 95 looking for her mother who was in the hospital. I thought “My God, she’s as old as dirt and she’s asking for her mother. How old could she be?”
As I was connecting her call I began singing “Help the aged…One time they were just like you…drinking, smoking cigs and sniffing glue…” So here it is.
Cracked Actor - David Bowie
Speaking of over the hill made me think of washed up actors (meanwhile watching a VH-1 child actors special on how Hollywood changed them for the better or worse?)
Small Town Witch - Sneaker Pimps
And then jealousy reared its ugly head. All those kids that didn’t understand the trials and tribulations of fame…all those small town witches come to mess them up.
Torbjörn Brundtland and Svein Berge, the duo behind the phenomenal Melody AM have dropped a new disc. While The Understanding is less single driven than their debut, it shimmers nonetheless. Rather than an obvious track, I was pulled into a darker corner. This one haunts and bristles, marching along with faux mechanics and valve leaks.
Image of You - Red Snapper
Now defunct, these guys made some dark funk. This from 1999 Making Bones with vocalist Alison David.
Danube Incident - Lalo Schifrin
You may recognize this from the Portishead track which uses the first couple bars as its anchor. Lalo is the spy soundtrack man!
Outside Tokyo - Stranglers
My heart is broken. No words… all I can do is rubberneck the 24/7 news, mouth agape at all we so-called civilized people inflict on each other.
I spent too many years in Baton Rouge… New Orleans was the pearl. I can’t imagine what it may become in light of recent events.
When I do find the words…
I will go on at length about my love for this group of pub rockers, proto-punks, whatever…
But not now
