peter martin

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms

Yes, it’s the title track, which I suppose makes it a lazy choice…but it really is a crazy rhythm.

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The Stooges - Dirt

Friday. Noontime. I’m getting stuff done today, thanks to several cups of my favorite stimulant, a 45 furious minutes on/15 calm minutes off intensity, and a virtual stack of albums starting with all three legit Stooges albums in order. Tore through The Stooges psychedelia, into the perfect bruising genius of Fun House now, with Raw Power still to come.

On deck: Pink Flag; Playing with Fire; Heaven’s End; Loveless; The Clash; London Calling; Signals, Calls, and Marches; VS.; and some Coltrane’s Sound or The Sound of Things to Come to cool me down. So yeah, pretty much the usual suspects, just end-to-end with the volume jacked to 11.

Elliott Smith - Kings Crossing

I’m pretty sure I’ve posted this track at least once before, but it didn’t show up in a search, so screw it…

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The Pogues - Fairytale of New York

Merry Christmas tumblrs!

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The Velvet Underground - The Black Angel’s Death Song

…because today definitely has a “cozy brown snow of the east” feel.

Choose a side…choose to go.

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Spacemen 3 - Ode to Street Hassle

A nod to Lou Reed. I love it when musicians wear their influences on their sleeve.

Sigur Ros - Svefn G Englar

Sometimes I forget just how spectacularly beautiful this song/album is. It’s good to be reminded.

Note: I get a mental image of slipping down some deep blue river in Iceland in a small boat, passing into an ice cavern forming some kind of glacial cathedral. There’s almost nothing in my life that I enjoy more than music that evokes dream imagery for me, so this is in the all-time list.