Burl Veneer’s Music Blog Vox 2008-05-02T04:18:21Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00d4144aef1d3c7f/tags/60s/ Songs I Like Moldy 70s tag:vox.com,2008-05-02:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cf3fc120002 2008-05-02T04:18:21Z 2008-05-02T04:18:21Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Gary Wright - Love Is Alive (Midnight Special, 1976) Gale garnett - We'll Sing In The Sunshine CLIFF RICHARD - Devil Woman (1976) CW McCall Convoy Mike Douglas Show 1976 Longfellow Serenede 70s video Carly Simon You're so Vain Andy Kim Rock Me Gently The Stampeders Sweet city woman Coven - One Tin Soldier Mocedades..."ERES TU"... Every Mother's Son - Come On Down To My Boat Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue Charlie Rich - The most beautiful girl 1974 who loves you edison lighthouse - Love grows where my rosemary goes So Into You (102089) - ARS Mungo Jerry - In the summertime Exile - I Wanna Kiss You All Over Feelings - Morris Albert - Globo de Ouro 1975 Leo Sayer --When i need you

Being first is everything. Bolus gets linked to from everywhere for posting videos of cheesy 70s songs as "Hell's iPod." I've been enjoying this crap for years, unironically, having made two "Moldy 70s" CDs during the Napster years. Here is a v...

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]]> The Doors, funky? tag:vox.com,2008-03-28:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48ce8c71a0002 2008-03-28T03:11:05Z 2008-03-28T03:15:34Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

06 - A Perfect Kind of Love 05. The Witch

The Doors were accused of a lot of things, but being funky wasn't one of them. So I am naturally surprised when I hear Doors influences in contemporary funk; who'd'a thunk it? Nicole Willis and the Soul Investigators (she's from Brooklyn, they'r...

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]]> Modern Sunshine Part 2 tag:vox.com,2008-03-27:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48ce87f8c0003 2008-03-27T03:26:41Z 2008-04-17T20:34:02Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

All the Clowns 03-PERFECT LOVE song 01 A Groovy Place

I've fallen behind on my sunshine pop theme due to spending last night sorting out the dueling MySpace players problem. Solution: no more MySpace players. If they've got it set to autostart, there's not a thing you can do about it by tweaking pa...

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]]> Speaking of Dark Cabaret... tag:vox.com,2008-03-06:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48d0049090001 2008-03-06T04:45:51Z 2008-03-06T05:14:17Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

12 Amsterdam Scott Walker - Montague Terrace (in blue) 06-A Song For Europe 05-Berlin 01 - Berlin 10-Berlin

I wasn't speaking of the so-called "dark cabaret" subgenre, but Wild Bill of Ithaca College's Sharp Notes blog was on Monday, writing: Origin: Debatable. Many fans consider the first cornerstone of the genre to be Nico’s 1974 release The End. Su...

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]]> Blues backwards: On the Road Again tag:vox.com,2008-02-28:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cdf592b0002 2008-02-28T04:39:31Z 2008-02-28T04:49:15Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

A5 - on the road again 06 - Breakdown and cry (Lay down and lie - goodbye)

Of course everyone knows that "On the Road Again" is a blues standard made famous by Canned Heat in 1968: But I didn't know that in the 80s; my first encounter with it was on synth band (or what in retrospect is referred to as "minimal wave") Sc...

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]]> The Mars Volta reminds everyone of King Crimson tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00f48cddbc220002 2008-02-23T03:21:28Z 2008-02-23T04:56:03Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Mars Volta - Goliath King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man April Wine - 21st Century Schizoid Man

I'm not the first one to notice that "Goliath" from the new Mars Volta album sounds like King Crimson's 1969 prog-rock classic, "21st Century Schizoid Man," but I did arrive at that conclusion independently. At just after the 4-minute mark they a...

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]]> Prog backwards: Memories tag:vox.com,2008-02-23:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398df5a9c0005 2008-02-23T01:08:59Z 2008-02-23T01:34:25Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

The Mars Volta Memories (cover) 07 - Memories (Voc. Whitney Houston) 06 Memories 03 Memories (Hugh Hopper) 22 Memories (Hugh Hopper)

Cranking up The Mars Volta's Frances the Mute album the first time was revelatory, and it had me jumping around for days. I caught up with their other albums afterwards, but none of them quite did it for me the way Frances did. And now they have...

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]]> Sorcery revisited, or jazz backwards tag:vox.com,2007-12-30:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398cce5c40002 2007-12-30T07:06:49Z 2007-12-31T07:52:40Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

02 Sorcery Keith Jarrett-Charles Lloyd - Sorcery

More often than not I learn about music backwards, that is, in reverse chronological order. When I posted "Sorcery" by Poland's Big Band Katowice back in October, it did not occur to me to wonder about the song's origin. It was just today, liste...

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]]> Seeding Pandora: Moondog tag:vox.com,2007-12-03:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398c3a6270002 2007-12-03T04:01:52Z 2007-12-04T02:47:02Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

03 Bird's Lament

I would love to have good music playing at work all the time, because good music is better than crushing silence, but bad music is worse. Moreover, the music I play must be backgroundable, and not grab my attention away from my work because (1) i...

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]]> Once a spy... tag:vox.com,2007-10-09:asset-6a00d4144aef1d3c7f00e398b0d8220002 2007-10-09T02:25:25Z 2007-10-09T02:25:25Z Burl Veneer http://burlveneer.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

01 - Secret Code

Always a spy--I just can't get away from the spy music! Here's another Lalo Schifrin track, from his execrably-titled 1967 album There's a Whole Lalo Schifrin Goin' On: I assume that the keyboard solo is a monophonic synthesizer, and since it w...

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