Bonus Playlist from the Magic Jukebox

When Rodger started his NuVoid, he would post lists of what he'd been listening to each week. I like seeing his playlists; it constantly reminds me of how much I don't know.  I've always liked keeping lists of various things going. Back in 1965, I began keeping a list of every book I read and every movie I watched. I still keep both of those lists, handwritten in a big green ledger book.  So I began submitting my own playlists as comments on Rodger's blog, since I had never been in the habit of actually making note of all that I listened to. For my weekly playlists, I only list full albums that I get through, but that's not the whole story. I also get in at least an hour or two of listening to individual songs on my iPod (affectionately dubbed "The Magic Jukebox," after an old 45 EP I had of Howdy Doody). I tend to play shuffle, so I cover a lot of ground. I don't have the time or inclination to record every single song I listen to there, but every so often I'll stick in a random run from the Magic Jukebox to convey an idea of what else I'm listening to.  So here's a bonus playlist, from earlier this month.

Magic Jukebox Playlist, 1st couple of weeks of November 2013:

1. Anthony Braxton Quartet: No. 23N (Willisau)

2. Boston Spaceships: Inspiration Points

3. Circulatory System: Diary of Wood

4. Touch: Miss Teach

5. Impressions: Little Young Lover

6. Funkadelic: Butt-to-Butt Resuscitation

7. Charlie Parker: Ah-Leu-Cha

8. Louis Armstrong & Clarence Williams: Coal Cart Blues

9. Sun Ra: Early Autumn

10. Beach Boys: Won’t You Tell Me

11. Billie Holiday: Your Mother’s Son-in-Law

12. Marvelettes: Danger Heartbreak Ahead

13. XTC: Washaway

14. Olivia Tremor Control: Green Typewriters

15. Pavement: Grave Architecture

16. Circulatory System: Forever

17. Collegians: Zoom Zoom Zoom

18. Rolling Stones: Out of Time

19. Negro Problem: Peter Jennings

20. Sun Ra: Somebody Else’s Idea (Nightstage, 1989)

21. Sun Ra: El Viktor

22. Beach Boys: Good Good Good Vibrations (1st version w/overdubs)

23. Husker Du: 59 Times the Pain

24. Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas: I’ll Be on My Way

25. Sun Ra: Bygones

26. Charles Mingus: Pipe Dream

27. Beatles: Shimmy SHake (Star Club)

28. Duke Ellington: The Mystery Song

29. Marvelettes: Twistin’ Postman

30. Robert Wyatt: Life Is Sheep

31. Raymond Scott: The Paperwork Explosion

32. Beatles: Only a Northern Song (ant mix)

33. Tad Thaddock: Clunky Funky

34. Beatles: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

35. Howlin’ Wolf: Baby Ride with Me

36. Robert Pollard: The Original Heart

37. Bettye Swann: Time to Say Goodbye

38. Breeders: Lime House

39. Robert Pollard: How Many Stations

40. Beatles: You Can’t Do That (live Philadelphia)

41. Marvelettes: Beechwood 4-5789

42. Beatles: Lady Madonna

43. OOIOO: [Japanese title]

44. Carla Thomas: Little Boy

45. Billie Holiday: That’s Life I Guess

46. Funkadelic: She Loves You

47. Bud Powell: Somebody Loves Me

48. Weather Report: Man in the Green Shirt

49. Freddie Scott: He Ain’t Give You None

50. Miles Davis Quintet: This (live ‘69)

51. Beatles: Mean Mr. Mustard (demo)

52. Rodger Coleman/Sam Byrd: Number 1 (from “Eras”)

53. Beatles: Think for Yourself

54. Patsy Montana: Cowboy’s Sweetheart

55. Jerry Lee Lewis: What’d I Say

56. Anthony Braxton: Comp. 8 A/B Blues/8E

57. Mike Ladd: Untitled

58. Quiet Elegance: I Need Love

59. Parliament: Peek-a-Groove

60. Bettye Swann: Today I Started Loving You Again

61. Art Tatum: Tiger Rag

62. Wilson Pickett: You Can’t Stand Alone

63. John Lennon: Oh Yoko

64. Bubble Puppy: Hot Smoke and Sassafras

65. Beatles: She’s a Woman (take 4)

66. Jimi Hendrix Experience: Can You See Me

67. Kim Weston: Take Me in Your Arms

68. Jackie Wilson: Open the Door to Your Heart

69. Mothers of Invention: You Didn’t Try to Call Me

70. Fela: Eko

71. Lata Mangeshkar: Sari Sari Raat

72. Beach Boys: caroline No (stereo, original speed)

73. Duke Ellington: Ko-Ko

74. Lesley Gore: I Just Don’t Know If I Can

75. Steely Dan: Peg

76. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Real Emotional Trash

77. Premiers: Farmer John

78. Dubs: Don’t Ask Me to Be Lonely

79. Louis Armstrong: Oriental Strut

80. Bootsy Collins: Munchies for Your Love

81. Frank Zappa: Lather

82. Duke Ellington: Hayfoot Strawfoot

83. Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever (“Let It Be” sessions)

84. Beatles: 8 Days a Week (take 2, partial)

85. Jimi Hendrix: I Don’t Live Today (live Berkeley)

86. Zach Hill: Memo to the Man

87. Sir Mack Rice: Love Sickness

88. Deerhoof: Heart Failure

89. John Coltrane: Configuration

90. Steely Dan: This All Too Mobile Home (live)

91. Louis Armstrong: Muskrat Ramble

92. Deerhoof: Kidz Are So Small

93. Maurice Williams & the Zodiacs: Stay

94. Beatles: Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds (takes 6-8)

95. Hatfield and the North: Rifferama

96. Southern Serenaders: I Miss My Swiss

97. High Llamas: Nomads (live)

98. Soft Machine: Dedicated to Hugh (But You Weren’t Listening)

99. UYA: Void Dancing

100. Miles Davis Quintet: The Theme (take 1)

101. Lou Johnson: Always Something There to Remind Me

102. Grateful Dead: “Live/Dead” radio ad

103. Surfaris: Wipe Out

104. Billie Holiday: Good Morning Heartache

105. Beatles: With a Little Help from My Friends (backing track)

106. XTC: You’re the Wish You Are I Had

107. Andy Partidge: I Defy You Gravity

108. Dennis Wilson: Are You Real

109. Anthony Braxton: Comp. 69K

110. Neil Young: When You Dance You Can Really Love

111. Tad Thaddock: Toasted Baby

112. Duke Ellington: Sonnet in Search of a Moor

113. Kingpins: It Won’t Be This Way (Always)

114. Louis Armstrong: Jazz Lips

115. Harvey Scales & the Seven Sounds: It’s Too Good to Be True

116. Bee Gees: Birdie Told Me

117. Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues

118. Guided By Voices: Sot

119. Dr. Dog: The Girl

120. Anthony Braxton: Comp. 40O