Hello, our music loving friends, and welcome to Episode 12 of Sneaky Dragon Listening Party. We hope you’re ready to curl up in your favourite chair with your favourite drink at hand and listen to some great music.
This episode we finish up Thomas Callaway’s three-disc set of mixtapes with side 2 of disc three, featuring such fabulous songs as:
- Marshall Crenshaw – “Mary Anne” – Marshall Crenshaw, 1982
- Rockpile – “Play That Fast Thing One More Time” – Seconds of Pleasure, 1980
- Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66 – “Scarborough Hill” – The Fool on the Hill, 1968
- Knife in the Water – “Sent You Up” – Plays One Sound and Others, 1997
- Jeffrey Frederick and the Clamtones – “Stolen Guitar” – Spiders in the Moonlight, 1977
- Love – “The Castle” – Da Capo, 1966
- Laura Viers – “Icebound Stream” – Carbon Glacier, 2004
- Sparklehorse – “Hammering the Cramps” – Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, 1995
- Illinois Speed Press – “Here Today” – Illinois Speed Press, 1969
- Sufjan Stevens – “The Transfiguration” – Seven Swans, 2004
Thanks for listening.
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Once again, the conversation in this episode was hugely informative and entertaining. The songs, maybe less so. It’s interesting – and also great – that people’s musical tastes can align so closely sometimes, and be polar opposites at others. I totally loved Laura Veirs and Sufjan Stevens. Veirs was new to me, and I’ve since listened to all of Carbon Glacier on Spotify. It’s wonderful, so thank you for that introduction. Of the others, I enjoyed Sparklehorse, Jeffrey Frederick and the Clamtones, and Illinois Speed Press. The rest ranged somewhere between ‘meh’, and ‘I never want to hear that again’. Looking at you, Love and Sergio Mendez…
Oh, and ‘punk-tuation’ was an excellent dad joke.
Roll on lucky episode 13!
Hey, all. Another good show. Liked the back-and-forth between the two of you. I quite liked this disc. I’m so-so on ‘Mary Anne’ by Marshall Crenshaw, catchy song but a bit repetitive. Rockpile – well they did call the song ‘Play That Fast Thing One More Time’ but I think it suffers from a rhythm that’s actually a bit too quick. ‘Scarborough Hill’ is a song I had to sing in school so that automatically makes me prejudiced against it, and this version does not help – although there are some bits in it that would be wonderful samples, IMHO. Knife in the Water: not my fave type of music, but I love the harmonies in this. Wow. ‘Stolen Guitar’: again, another example of a musical type that I don’t like, but I love this one, and I will agree with Mary in that this is the best of all those guys. Love: nope. Laura Viers: like that one. Sparklehorse: wow, what a great, great song. agree that this should be considered in a top 100 best. And what a sad, sad story. illinois Speed Press: it was fine, a bit meh. Sufjan – yes.