Help, please!
I am making mix discs to play at the Snail, and want suggestions.
If you have a moment to indulge in a little Nick Hornby-style listmaking, please comment on your current top-ten favourite songs for my consideration (aiming for store-appropriate, no excessive obscenity, sleepy classical or rave-like beatz).
Here’s my current list:
1. Bug Powder Dust (Bomb the Bass)
2. A to G (Blackalicious)
3. Fish (Mr. Scruff)
4. Mashin’ On the Motorway (DJ Shadow)
5. The Sea (Morcheeba)
6. Protection (Massive Attack)
7. History Repeating (Propellerheads)
8. Isobel (Bjork)
9. Nadia (Nitin Sawhney)
10. Clocks (Coldplay)
I’m thinking of making a lounge disc, too, if you’re into that sort of thing. Here’s where I’m at with that so far…
1. Squirrel Nut Zippers – Hell
2. Peggy Lee – Fever
3. Dean Martin – Cha Cha Cha d’ Amour
4. Frank Sinatra – Bewitched
5. Wayne Newton РDanke Sch̦en
6. Flying Lizards – Money
7. Combustible Edison – Spy vs Spy
8. April Stevens – Teach Me Tiger
9. Louis Jordan – Knock Me a Kiss
10. Louis Prima – Jump, Jive, An’ Wail
as far as SNZ go, i actually like “blue angel” way better than “hell”…maybe it’s the part about the latter getting way too much airtime in DC. i would recommend “slap that bass” or “angel eyes” by ella fitzgerald, and some stan getz or jobim as well…girl from ipanema is excellent loungy style music. andrew bird’s bowl of fire has some weird stuff as well (a la SNZ), but some of it (like depression pasillo) is really good too. also, etta james – “at last” or “trust in me” are so good.
hope this helps
speaking of jazz-type stuff, gotta get to rehearsal! hugs.
Hey, how about a little Zero 7? Something like “I have seen”, or “In the waiting line”…?
How I love Fish. 😉 Great song.
Tom Waits?
for the beat-style CD, try some music from Lamb. and for the lounge CD, I DEFINITELY recommend some remixed Shirley Bassey (“Spinning Wheel” is my fave). Suba or Thievery Corporation are also good choices, if you’re into bossanova or Brazilian sounds…
Mad Waits. Mega Waits. Lotsa Waits.
There are at least 2 Tom Waits disks in the changer already, and I have decided the CD player has a personality of its own, and that personality is heartbroken or an old drunk, because it plays Waits *all* the time.
Apologies, M., but I must curb your desire for yet more Waits to be played at the Snail. We are chock full o’ Waits.
I’ll avoid the obvious pun, and suggest Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave and Peter Murphy.