--- Capable Of More ---: May 2007

This is an amazing compilation of some rare and hard to find soul. If you like good old classic soul at all then download this. It's right up there with Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol 1.

Various Artists - Blue Light Basement Party, Vol. 1

1. Jealous Kind of Fella - Garland Green
2. Don't It Make You Feel Kinda Bad - The Radiants
3. Our Day Will Come - Ruby & the Romantics
4. I'm Still Here - The Notations
5. Casanova (Your Playing Days Are Over) - Ruby Andrews
6. Under the Street - Exits
7. Stone Good Lover - Jo Armstead
8. Go On - United Four
9. Lovin You - Gifts
10. Oh Cindy - The Vibrations
11. What More Can I Ask For - Star-Tels
12. When Love Calls - Darrow Fletcher
13. Working on a Groovy Thing - Patti Drew
14. That's How Heartaches Are Made - Baby Washington
15. Third Cup, Pt. 1 - Eddie Fisher
16. You Better Go - Nancy Wilson
17. Think About Tomorrow - Ethics
18. Forget About Me - Carolyn Crawford
19. It's a Man Down There - G.L Crocket
20. You Say You Love Me - Dee Edward
21. Mighty Lover - The Ideals
22. The Touch of You - Brenda & the Tabulations
23. Temptations 'Bout to Get Me - Knight Bros
24. Now I Know I Love You - Mandells
25. Ain't No Big Thing - The Radiants
26. ????

lost time

To make up for a week of no posts here's a few albums from around the net to enjoy. I'll get back to my own stuff soon enough.

Tomahawk - Anonymous
Joe Strummer - The Future Is Unwritten Soundtrack to the documentary
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Pass: nodatta.blogspot.com)
Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime I'm a huge sucker for her. (NEW LINK)
Jeff Buckley - So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley Kind of a lame "best of"/ money grab, but he was still pretty great.
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Password - www.blu3f0x.co.uk)
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Mum - Summer Make Good (Pass: nodatta.blogspot.com)

no time for blogging

My folks are in town so no posts for now...

Went to La Travieta last night, whoever thought a good way to update Italian Opera was by putting people in bad fetish gear has no clue.

And go see "Once" opening in many more cities tomorrow.

I'll return with a big post after the weekend.

Murder City Devils live show.

Murder City Devils were a great fucking band.
Here's the whole show of a reunion gig they did last year.

LIVE at the Showbox 7.30.06

bonne fin de semaine

Long weekend, no real plans except to go see 28 Weeks Later. Looks awesome.
In other movie news, I saw Spiderman 3. Worth seeing for Bruce Campbell's part and some of the action but it goes on too long and too boring for most of the time.
Also went to see Shrek The Third, it was free and I didn't feel my time was robbed too much. It's enjoyable enough to keep you entertained if you check everything behind. The Gingerbread man's life flashing before his eyes is truthfully hilarious. The new Eels song "Royal Pain" is pretty good as the main song, better than Smash Mouth or Counting Crows in the past. On the flipside of that song is Fergie covering "Barracuda". She has very little talent and manhands (as seen in Planet Terror). Her and Gwen Stefani have joined Paris Hilton in the useless people category.

A much better movie; "Once" is opening in select cities today (more next Friday). It's an Irish film about a busker in Dublin (played by Glen Hansard of the Frames) and a Czech immigrant (Marketa Irglova). I saw it a few weeks ago and it is fantastic, it's funny and romantic without being like Music and Lyrics, everything about it is believable and has this great quite charm to it. This video is from the screening I went to.... having girl's from the audience get up to sing can be disaster but that night was a really special thing. Also, when's the last time you were at a performance where people weren't chatting at all?

Here's a song from the movie that's on an album Glen and Marketa just put out.
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - When Your Minds Made Up

And here's some more music to start the weekend.
Primal Scream - Kill All Hippies
Centro-Matic - Covered Up In Mines
Mew - Why Are You Looking Grave (Feat- J Mascis)
Camarosmith - It's Alright
Sparklehorse - Happy Man (Memphis Version)
Steve Earle - Reconsider Me

Twilight Singers Live

Scott Ford from The Twilight Singers has an online radio show and a blog (www.fordradio.blogspot.com). And right now he has an awesome live show from Brussels dated January 15th, 2004.
Get it HERE. (edit: IT'S BEEN TAKEN DOWN, but go to Ford Radio for some other goodies.)

Enjoy.

not everyday

I won't be updated this everyday, depends how much time I have etc.
But here's a few mp3s to throw on your player, they're worth it.

Afterhours - Ballad for My Little Hyena
Curt Kirkwood - Beautiful Weapon
Arnold - Fleas Don't Fly
Fleetwood Mac - What Makes You Think You're The One

And everyone should also know that you can buy whole roasted chickens from Wal-Mart for only $6.47 (CDN). It seems so wrong but just so right too.

rock n roll dance party

I went to the Cloak & Dagger on College St (in Toronto) last night. Great little bar with lots of tasty beer and a good vibe. My friends future roomie was dj'ing and had the pretty girls dancing allowing me to simply drink and look at pretty girls... no harm in that. So here's some tunes in the spirit of that, with my own twist in a way. Enjoy.

Young/Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut
Murder City Devils - Dancing Shoes
Jay B. Lloyd - I'm So Lonely
Johnny Angel - Baby It's Love
Doug Sahm - Slow Down
Irma Thomas - Break-A-Way
Rocket From The Crypt - Tarzan
Ike Turner - (I Know) You Don't Love Me
King Curtis & The Shirelles - Ooh Poo Pah Doo
The Afghan Whigs - Chalk Outline
Martha Reeves And The Vandelles - EasilyPersuaded
Carl McVoy - Little John's Gone
The Backbeat Band - Bad Boy

And since it's mother's day.... The Frames - God Bless Mom

Sunless Saturday

I didn't go outside once while is was nice out... going out for beer soon.

Going to post an album by one of my favorite bands ever Swell - 41

I discovered the band when I saw the video for "Forget About Jesus" on Citylimits (late night indie music videos), picked up the album and fell in love. It has a dark intensity that kind of draws you in, kind of like the second Tindersticks album. There are great songs on it but it's best heard as a whole. This band should have been much bigger... not quite Nirvana size, but certainly as popular as Pavement or Guided By Voices.

Get more Swell from emusic

And here's a tune that's stuck in my head
Malcolm Middleton - Death Love Depression Love Death (get it here)

Friday night

What happened to spring? It feels like it just turned summer already... and I don't deal incredibly well with the heat.

I'm going to see Fields & Blonde Redhead tonight, really looking forward to this. You can listen to why and enjoy a few covers as well...
Blonde Redhead - 23
Fields - Song For The Fields

Slo' Tom - Gotta Get Drunk (cause that's what I'm gonna do tonight)

The Frames - One Irish Rover (Van Morrison)

Swell - Street Fighting Man (Rolling Stones)

Eric Matthews - Needle In The Hay (Elliot Smith)