Days chasing days
This musical baton thing is being passed around, and Rodcorp asked Danny Kelly to take it. Danny is a music and sports journalist and broadcaster with BBC Radio London.
Total volume of music on my computer:
I have gone mad putting all sorts of stuff on my Archos Jukebox in recent weeks. Thus I have about 13,000 tunes on it now. About 34 days worth of continuous listening. [But the bulk of his music is still on the shelves of his underground bunker deep inside a disused and un-marked tin mine: an estimated 3,000 LPs, 1,500 12" records, 2,000 CDs, 6-10,000 singles and "several hundred" CD singles adds up to a good 250+ days worth.]
The last CD he bought:
Truthfully? King Crimson: Epitaph Vols 3 & 4, fan-club only live recordings of the great prog-art-improv-guitar band at their late '60s peak. One from the "Chesterfield Jazz Club" the other from the "Plumpton Festival". All together now, sing along...
"Cat's foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoia's poison door
Twenty first century schizoid man.Blood rack barbed wire
Politicians' funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.Death seed blind man's greed
Poets' starving children bleed
Nothing he's got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man."
Dig that sixth form poetry, man. Plus...
Various: Safe Travel: The Rare Side Of Rock Steady With Phil Pratt And Friends
Edan: Beauty And The Beats
Song playing right now:
She Shot A Hole In My Soul (Clifford Curry) [from She Shot A Hole In My Soul]
Five songs he listens to a lot, or that mean a lot to him:
Five? FIVE? How can you select five? [Yes, only five. To mark the new millennium, Mr Kelly commissioned "2000
for 2000", an epic and very useful editorial project presenting "the essential 2,000
albums" across a wide range of genres in modern music. This work is
feared to have been deleted from the old Music365 server farm; at best,
it's merely lost inside a dusty hard-drive on a shelf or at a car boot
sale. Now we'll never know. What a waste.]
Today's selection...
The Byrds: I See You [from Fifth Dimension]
Zerben R Hicks & The Dynamics: Lights Out [from eg Dave Godin's Deep Soul Treasures Vol.1]
Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? [from Who Knows Where The Time Goes]
Killah Priest: Heavy Mental [from Heavy Mental]
Flaming Lips: Fight Test [from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots]
Five people to whom Danny is passing the baton:
I'll have to think about this.
The musical baton elsewhere: Dan Hill, Anne Galloway, Celia Romaniuk, Things magazine, Molly Steenson.
King Crimson. Sweet. Poetry bested only by Captain Beefheart. There is also an excellent Peel Session recording of 'In the Court of the Crimson King' ...
Posted by: Anne | May 24, 2005 at 08:42 PM
Nice list! And agree RE the five songs issue. Though as I just posted on Simon Waldman's blog - http://www.50quid.org/2005/04/oh_my_prog_in_t.html#c5812386 - there's a better side of King Crimson than that late-60s version ...
Posted by: Dan | May 25, 2005 at 10:56 AM