Butterfly Wings (we built this garden for us)
Well, I haven't been a very good contributor here in emuserland...I believe this is the first thread I've started and my 5th in total. All this copying, pasting, linking and typing just seems to take me forever. Mostly because I get sidetracked easily while listening to music as I'm doing that and find myself off exploring or just lost in the track. I don't see that will change that much in the future, but i'm going to give it a go. I didn't realize this new computer was almost 1.5 yeas old and I still hadn't gotten around to putting that lastfm on it. I also got around to sending for a new password so I could post here in the first place.
At any rate, I've recently started downloading music again after a self-imposed ban. I've signed up on emusic again to get some new tunes for this year's garden mix. If it's not too rude I'd like to make the same request here, as I'm missing many of my old emusic friends. Here goes:
I'd like to invite all my friends (good or bad) to suggest something you think might inspire the garden this year. First thanks go to my wife's friend who suggested "You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals as it's always inspired her. Next goes to 68 for suggesting Angele Dubeau & La Pieta, when he stopped by while visiting in fmland recently.
-always
ps. she's my friend too.
Currently this year's mix now includes
David Crowell - Eucalyptus (all 4 tracks)
Sandro Marinoni - Borderline (Frost & Desert Rose)
Sandro Marinoni & Stefano Roncarolo - Air (all nine tracks)
Washboard Sam - Washboard Sam Vol. 4 1939-1940 (Diggin' My Potatoes)
Lonnie Donegan - Steel Drivin Skiffle (Diggin' My Potatoes)
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Alone & Acoustic (Diggin' My Potatoes)
Here's a kink to that thread if you'd like.
Finally, as I've been embracing the random more and more, this years mix will be set on shuffle to set up wider vibration patterns.
-always
At any rate, I've recently started downloading music again after a self-imposed ban. I've signed up on emusic again to get some new tunes for this year's garden mix. If it's not too rude I'd like to make the same request here, as I'm missing many of my old emusic friends. Here goes:
I'd like to invite all my friends (good or bad) to suggest something you think might inspire the garden this year. First thanks go to my wife's friend who suggested "You Get What You Give" by the New Radicals as it's always inspired her. Next goes to 68 for suggesting Angele Dubeau & La Pieta, when he stopped by while visiting in fmland recently.
-always
ps. she's my friend too.
Currently this year's mix now includes
David Crowell - Eucalyptus (all 4 tracks)
Sandro Marinoni - Borderline (Frost & Desert Rose)
Sandro Marinoni & Stefano Roncarolo - Air (all nine tracks)
Washboard Sam - Washboard Sam Vol. 4 1939-1940 (Diggin' My Potatoes)
Lonnie Donegan - Steel Drivin Skiffle (Diggin' My Potatoes)
Buddy Guy & Junior Wells - Alone & Acoustic (Diggin' My Potatoes)
Here's a kink to that thread if you'd like.
Finally, as I've been embracing the random more and more, this years mix will be set on shuffle to set up wider vibration patterns.
-always
Comments
Garden Gate (live) - The Black Crowes (a roots homage to the garden)
Who Fears The Garden, Fears Life - Cerys Matthews (...love her voice, no matter what she sings)
Meet Me In The Garden - Dent May & His Magnificent Ukulele (this is how to coax a garden to fruition)
Garden In The Rain - Diana Krall (sweet voice with sweet sentiments)
Garden Isle - Dr. Andrew Weil and Kimba Arem (as beautiful as the flowers growing)
Garden Of Man - Grace Slick (this woman could sing a phonebook)
Dream Garden - Herbie Mann (Mr. Mann does this so well...coaxing the BIG grow!)
Garden Party - John Fogerty (a nice retread...)
In The Garden - John Prine & Mac Wiseman (...and to each listen shall come some most excellent music.)
I Built This Garden For Us - Lenny Kravitz (so he says...)
Royal Garden Blues - Lester Lanin (...I should have lived long ago)
Haven't kept plugged into the last couple of seasons of your Garden Mix series as I left eMusic awhile back...couldn't stand the lack of focus on customer satisfaction and the bumbling, stumbling lack of usability. Oh, well! Please forgive any repeats/retreads...
Happy gardening, Eireboy
Growth by Entsounds (Track listing: Seed, Growth I, Dormancy, Growth II, Flower, Death.) Ambient music with field recordings - in places sounds like an insect's-ear-view of spring.
Rhizome by Yui Onodera - more ambient/microsound music focused on evoking microscopic growth processes. Playing this to your root crops is more or less guaranteed to increase their size.
On a more conventional songish note, how about Little Blue River/in the Garden by Over the Rhine.
I would be remiss not to suggest In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly. Not that butchered nonsense they put on the radio, you need the 17 minute version that was a whole album side.
Nothings More Important Than the Earthworm by Stackridge
Lilly of the Valley by Queen
Grass by XTC
Hard to believe, with all that vinyl in the basement and the cds in the den, that I don't have a single Queen track, until now. Like Greg, I can't find my copy of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. I blame it on my sons DJ years and although it's an album only track it's just as interesting listening to it now as it was back in '68. Thanks Dr. Mutex. I'm going to have to check out some more of that Stackridge, made me think of Ween for some reason, so Thanks for that, Lowlife.
At any rate, I've added in Green Grass by Tom Waits and It`s Gonna Be A Long Night by Ween.
A day off to work in the garden and it's been snowing and now raining. Stormy Weather coming for sure. I'll also add Rain by Jan Krist to the mix.
Here's what I've added so far.
You Get What You Give by The New Radicals from Maximum Edge - '90s Modern Rock
Arvo P
Those rainy day dream away ones, with some thunder and lightning tossed in for good measure.
Any suggestions?
Looks Like Its Going To Rain - Ken Nordine
From a Rainy Night - Jeff Gauthier Goatette
Rain by Fat Freddy's Drop
Downpour by Nels Cline, Andrea Parkins, Tom Rainey
Bucaneve - Chris Watson
-always
Ain't No Sunshine (from 'Night Covers' EP by The Watson Twins)
Monsoon from 'Between the Mountain and the Moon' by Luka Bloom
Rain Down Tears from 'Live at the Palladium in NYC New Year's '77' by Levon Helm & The RCO All Stars
Clouds and Rain from 'No Language' by Linda McLean. (This was a surprisingly good Aimee Street downloads. Great song.)
Hail, Lightning from Mount Moriah's self-titled album.
Under a Stormy Sky, from 'Acadie' by Daniel Lanois (I think available on ITunes)
Save it for a Rainy Day from 'Rainy Day' by The Jayhawks
Cloudbusting by Kate Bush
The Cloud Song from 'Draw Them Near' by Jess Klein
Flood Waters from 'Love & War & The Sea In Between' by Josh Garrels (free download on Bandcamp)
Gentle Rain from 'Sweet Minds' by Era Chorna (Pretty!)
Mostly Water from 'Domestic Blues' by Bap Kennedy
Rain Roll In from 'Sea of Tears' by Eilen Jewell
[url=]Rainmaker[/url] from 'RetroSpectro' by Eliza Gilkyson
Rains Are Gonna Come from 'Beat Avenue' by Eric Andersen
Raintree from 'Long Road' by John Nikos (another Aimee Street freebie from back when - pretty good acoustic stuff)
Rainy Night in Soho from 'The Best of the Pogues'
Staying In from 'Come the Storm' by Eileen Rose (one of my favorite artists)
:-)
The Rain, the Park, and Other Things - Cowsills
Rain - The Beatles
Who'll Stop the Rain - Creedence Clearwater Revival
It Looks Like Rain - Jann Arden
I'm looking forward to hearing that Yukitomo Hamasaki, but I must admit, seeing that something could cost 1,100 anything, kinda scared my tiny brain. I can't get around to clicking that next step and haven't yet dared to listen to it, in case the internet intercepts these messages. I'll have ponder on this one for a bit. The whole concept of album seems tailor made for the mix. Thanks, for sure, to Brighternow for all you do on these boards to tip us off to so much great music.
Once again, I'd like to thank Dr Mutex for making me dig up some old memories. That Walking in the Rain by The Ronettes has one of the stormiest starts ever. I couldn't find anything here that came close so I chose an alternate.... I must say I was truly saddened when I heard of Billy Cowsill's departure some years ago. I first heard him live at the Elks Club in Medicine Hat back in the eighties and have always admired what great shows he put on. Thanks for making me think of him..... I think there were some 35000 tracks listed as "Rain" and I ended up using a great bad cover. It wasn't easy to find & Jann couldn't be found.
-always
ps Here's my lastfm page
Warning - most of these links are for the albums I can purchase here in Canada through emusic. The others are Allmusic or YouTube. My apologies if they don't work for you.
Here's the latest additions
Black Sky by Dave Alvin
Black Sky by Sam Phillips
Ain't No Sunshine by The Watson Twins
Ain't No Sunshine & Animalitos (Ain't No Sunshine) by Woven Hand
Monsoon by Luka Bloom
Monsoon by Hooker, Miller, Ranaldo
Rain Down Tears by Levon Helm & The RCO All Stars
Rain Down Tears by Hank Ballard
Clouds and Rain by Linda McLean
Clouds & Rain by Zac Love
Hail, Lightning by Mount Moriah
Hail Storm by Carpet Musics
Lightning by Daevid Allen & Dipstick
Under a Stormy Sky by Daniel Lanois
Stormy by Leeroy Stagger
Pouring Rain At Dawn by The Jayhawks
Save it for a Rainy Day by Jimmy Cornett
Sunset by Kate Bush
Cloudbusting by Neil Halstead
City Garden by Jess Klein
Song of the White Clouds by Howard Rovics
Flood Waters by Josh Garrels
Flood Waters by Anna Kline and the Grits & Soul Band
Gentle Rain by Era Chorna
Gentle Rain by Emilie-Claire Barlow
Mostly Water by Bap Kennedy
We Are Mostly Water by Fey Moth
Rain Roll In by Eilen Jewell
It Rolls Like Rain by Jim Malone
Rainmaker by Eliza Gilkyson
Rainmaker by Go Go Market
Rains Are Gonna Come by Eric Andersen
coming storm by Bazza
Raintree by E.B.
The Song Of Raintree County by Nat King Cole
A Rainy Night in Soho by Shane MacGowan's Popes
Rainy Night in Soho by Matthew Ryan
Staying In by Eileen Rose
Staying In by Diskjokke
Sizzler by Pull My Finger
Heartbreak wonderland & Our Footsteps Are Music by World's End Girlfriend
Walking in the Rain by Show Of Hands
The Rain by Robert Burton Hubele
The Park by Robert Ashley
Other Things by The Paradise Motel
The Rain, The Park & Other Things by Cowsills
Rain by The Punkles
Who'll Stop The Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival
Looks Like Rain by Fred Neil
The Garden by Jackie Leven
That Summer Feeling by Jonathan Richman
That Summer Feeling by La Buena Vida
That's what the garden been listening to lately (i keep the window open so it gets the full effect). I haven't hooked up the fake rocks yet, I believe I'll ponder on how to make this computer talk to the speakers, instead of hauling out the old imac and hooking it up to it's grandad Harman/Kardon.
Thanks again
-always
How Can You Be Sure - Radiohead
Fake Palindromes - Andrew Bird
Freeker by the Speaker - Keller Williams
Electronic Mix for Expanded Cinema - Angus MacLise, Tony Conrad, John Cale
Rock That Body - The Black Eyed Peas
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Like a Rolling Stone (Live 2001 Digital Remaster) - Bob Dylan
Native Speaker - Braids
For many years we had a great fake standard rose tree, that had brilliant scarlet faux blossoms on it, moving around the garden delighting, amusing, and offending many folks (especially come January).
At any rate, here's what I've added
Fake It by Plants and Animals
Don't Fake It feat. Bing Ji Ling by Tommy Guerro
You Never Know by Jeff Beck
Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead
Fake Palindromes by Andrew Bird
Freeker by the Speaker by Keller Williams
Electronic mix for expanded cinema & Trance #2 - Angus Maclise, Tony Conrad And John Cale
Electric Body Rock by Alec Empire
Enter Sandman by Burton C. Bell (Fear Factory), John Christ (Danzig), Robert Trujillo (Metallica)
Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan
Native Speaker by Braids
-always
Ps. I had The cloud doctrine in the SFL since I first heard Trance #2 on An Anthology Of Noise And Electronic Music Vol.1 a few years ago (a great series btw). Thanks for the reminder.
I'm inviting all of you to suggest something for the rotation. As mentioned, this years
experiment will be conducted in a randomly selected rotation. Party runs noon til six, mix
starts at dawn and runs til we give out (let's stir the ashes one more time).
We'll see you in the garden one day.
-always
Ps Thanks again to all who provided data for the experiment.....may the Internet be with you.
We had around 150 folks drop in and have a bit of a look around. The corn went in June 7th, and now is really filling in around 4-5' (appears they're enjoying the mix).
-always
Psst Still adding to the mix...
I'd also like to recommend Broccoli by the Association; but it may not be available to you. What a wonderful song though. It's been too long since I heard it.
- Slightly far fetched, but certainly a wonderful album.
- Emusic
The new additions: (YouTube links)
Why Does the Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)(Live) by They Might Be Giants- My wife's pick. Thanks
Blue Moon by Elvis Presley - it's still one of my favourite versions. Thanks.
I Can Hear the Grass Grow by Move- Thanks, one of my favourite years. Mostly 16 years old that year.
Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited - Like Klooks Kleek, I've heard some great sessions from the Fillmores.
Fields of People
En Enfaldig Mans Klagan (Lament of a Simple Man) by Tr
Ultimate Spinach "Behold & See." A couple of the track names fit right in with a gardening theme - "Mind of Flowers" and "Genesis of Beauty."
Link
Listening to the samples now, seems to me it's held up to the test of time fairly well, albeit pretty trippy.
running water in the background
One of the best additions to the garden last year was the addition of a solar powered pump to our overflow pond. It'll run for 4 hrs every day or a couple of days on a full charge. The birds love the bath and the papyrus hasn't looked better. I added in 1,2 and 3.
Hmmm, all this talk about corn and broccoli and whatnot has made me think...
Well, there's not much i enjoy more than thinking and now I'm thinking that since Ultimate Spinach has been suggested again, I'd better add some more. I'll go with your suggestions and add in Daisy - from "Ultimate Spinach III".
Thanks
-always