Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-07-19T03:51:30Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/2008/ Songs I Like Brought to you by Bill Murray tag:vox.com,2008-07-17:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad69a5d930005 2008-07-17T03:52:47Z 2008-07-19T03:51:30Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

03. The Last of the Secret Agents

I hate to base two posts in a row on TV watching, but tonight's family entertainment was rife with great music that I want to blog about. We introduced the kids to Bill Murray's best movie, the criminally neglected The Man Who Knew Too Little. M...

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]]> Virginia Plain on Big Train tag:vox.com,2008-07-16:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fa9687db250002 2008-07-16T03:53:31Z 2008-07-17T13:13:09Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Big Train does Roxy Music roxy music virginia plain. Big Train Virginia Plain

British sketch comedy is one of the mainstays of Veneer family entertainment. The Fast Show, Little Britain, Monkey Trousers--all very amusing. This week we've been watching Big Train, which may be the best of them all. Tonight we watched the f...

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]]> Rage/Ecstasy = ManBREAK tag:vox.com,2008-07-12:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fa9686c3620002 2008-07-12T15:37:17Z 2008-07-13T20:42:58Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

02 Kop Karma 12-Solid state logic

In my continuing quest to listen to everything, once in a while I happen upon something that I really wish I'd known about when it came out. The latest of these revelations is ManBREAK, a British group often compared to Rage Against the Machine. ...

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Slab! - People Pie Slab! - Death's Head Soup

The online resurrection of the great Slab! that I blogged about on April 30 continues in fits and starts; the latest development is that two Slab! videos have just been posted to YouTube by Ikon Video. That means I can plug them in right here! ...

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]]> Peter Murphy sings all the hits tag:vox.com,2008-07-10:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fae8ca96f4000b 2008-07-10T02:21:50Z 2008-07-11T21:59:51Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

06-Let Me Love You Peter Murphy - The Scarlet Thing In You

A highlight of our trip to Maryland last week was seeing Peter Murphy in Baltimore, though the less said about the club (and the opening act) the better. The last time we saw him as a solo act was at the 9:30 Club in 2004, when he was being force...

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]]> Obscure covers: the Phenomenauts tag:vox.com,2008-07-05:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad69790eb0004 2008-07-05T01:55:20Z 2008-07-05T02:09:37Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Polecats-Make a circuit with me

Casting about for new music to listen to I came across the Phenomenauts, and the description sounded all right (something like "pop-punk with some synths"), and sure enough, they're pretty fun (and unlike so many pop-punk bands, they don't sound l...

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]]> The soothing sounds of the Fender Rhodes tag:vox.com,2008-06-26:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad693fa3e0005 2008-06-26T01:27:53Z 2008-06-28T03:31:48Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

02-pretz-chapel_stile 03 - Les Professionnels 02-Algo

Mrs. V. and I are big fans of Zero 7; that is, of the Zero 7 songs that they did not invite Sia Furler to vandalize with her breathy, pouty, "ghetto twee*" vocal stylings. Verily, she is the Jar Jar Binks of downtempo. We're okay with the other ...

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Orleans - Dancin' In The Moonlight

Yesterday I caught the headline act for this year's Ithaca Festival: Orleans. Yes, they're still... together. (You thought I was going to say "still the one," didn't you?) It turns out they have a rich local history. The full version, by found...

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02 The Hawk - Alan Parker 06 Auto-Pilot

As promised yesterday, here are a couple tracks showing what 70s-era guitarist Alan Parker and keyboardist Alan Hawkshaw got up to in their sound library careers, not playing second banana in an also-ran wizard-prog band. I put the de Wolfe libra...

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]]> Crate digging, groove mining, recontextualizing tag:vox.com,2008-06-22:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00fad692ee1b0005 2008-06-22T17:34:42Z 2008-06-23T01:16:55Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

06. Through My Looking Glass 02 Track 02 05 - Supernaut

One of the great things about the sharity blogs is that many of the albums ripped, uploaded, and blogged are done so by fans. While some bloggers just cut and paste the Wikipedia or AMG entries for albums into their blog posts, others write a cou...

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