Sample Tuesday

I know there’s something wrong about putting the Thong Song next to The Beatles and Wes Montgomery but think about it in these terms: two really good producers made a beat thinking about giving it to Michael Jackson, and the violin player on the track was a serious musician.

• The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
• Wes Montgomery – Eleanor Rigby
• Sisqo – Thong Song (produced by Bob Robinson and Tim Kelley)

Too Good Monday

I’ll have to check but this might have been the last good Rock band. There was good a lot of good music after 2001 but I’m not sure I can name a band that has made an impact like this. The White Stripes, of course, but …

• The Strokes – Last Nite

Future Thursday

“Inspired by the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Burroughs explores the after-death state by means of dream scenarios, hallucinatory passages, talismanic magic, occultism, superstition, and his characteristic view of the nature of reality.”

• Material feat William Burroughs – Seven Souls

Sample Tuesday

I think the first time I heard about unauthorized sampling was when the Stones were suing “the fuck out” of The Verve. I didn’t quite understand what the Stones had to do with the song; I expected Jagger, guitars, and drums when I thought about them, so this seemed unrelated …

• The Andrew Oldham Orchestra – The Last Time
• The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony

Future Thursday

Work me, gadamit!!

“From the age of fifteen. Mark Laird has been playing clubs and shows around Ireland in venues like Sandinos. The Factory and a residency in Voodoo Venue. Dropping his debut release on Jelly Red. Laird continues to fly the flag for his country as a stellar producer and now joins Fabrizio Ulivieri’s Hopera Records. Artwork by Giulia Passaretti. Mastered by Ten Eight Seven”

• Mark Laird – Funk That

https://hoperarecords.bandcamp.com/album/mark-laird-funk-that-ep