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- Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
- Portishead – Glory Box
- Low – Words
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Do You Love Me? - 2011 - Remaster
- Mazzy Star – Fade Into You
- Slowdive – Alison
- Pavement – Range Life
- Nine Inch Nails – Hurt
- Guided By Voices – Tractor Rape Chain
- Soundgarden – Black Hole Sun
- Johnny Cash – Bird On A Wire
- Blur – Girls and Boys - 2012 Remastered Version
- Pulp – Lipgloss
- Morrissey – Hold On To Your Friends - 2014 - Remaster
- Lisa Germano – Geek The Girl
- Tom Petty – Only A Broken Heart
- Current 93 – Moonlight, You Will Say
- Massive Attack – Protection
- Mark Lanegan – Carnival
- Soul Coughing – Screenwriters Blues
- Pearl Jam – Better Man - Remastered
- Autechre – Glitch
- Madredeus – O Mar
- Stereolab – Ping Pong - Original Version
- The Magnetic Fields – Lonely Highway
- Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
- Beck – Loser
- The Divine Comedy – Tonight We Fly
- The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Showgirl
- dEUS – Suds & Soda
- Cranes – Shining Road
- Jimmy Page – Kashmir
- Laurie Anderson – Same Time Tomorrow
- Luna – California (All The Way)
- Dirty Three – Indian Love Song
- Lambchop – Betweenus
- Tortoise – Tin Can & Twine
- Bedhead – Bedside Table
- Gavin Bryars – The Sinking Of The Titanic
- Everything But The Girl – Rollercoaster
- Ben Harper – The Three Of Us
- The Sea and Cake – Jacking the Ball
- R.E.M. – What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
- Daniel Johnston – Life In Vain
- Milla Jovovich – Don't Fade Away
- The Jesus And Mary Chain – Sometimes Always
- James – Frequency Dip
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Bongo Fury
Another offer came from Bono, singer with U2. He wrote to Van Vliet offering him a support slot on an upcoming tour and allegedly said that he would like to write with him. Far from being flattered by this invitation, Van Vliet disingenuously asked friends: "Who is this Bongo?"
In Captain Beefheart, The Biography by Mike Barnes
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1953
- Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton – Hound Dog
- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra – The Mooche
- Howlin' Wolf – All Night Boogie
- Peggy Lee – Black Coffee - Single Version
- Thelonious Monk Trio – These Foolish Things
- Frank Sinatra – I've Got The World On A String - 2000 Digital Remaster
- Eartha Kitt – C'est Si Bon
- Guitar Slim – The Things That I Used to Do
- The Dave Brubeck Quartet – How High The Moon
- Muddy Waters – Blow Wind Blow
- Dinah Washington – TV Is The Thing
- Marilyn Monroe – Diamonds Are A Girls Best Friend
- Moondog – Oasis
- Olivier Messiaen – Petites esquisses d'oiseaux (Little Sketches of Birds): II. Le merle-noir (Blackbird)
- Miles Davis – Out of the Blue
- Stan Kenton & His Orchestra – 23° N, 82° W
- Oscar Peterson Trio – Sophisticated Lady
- Little Junior’s Blue Flames – Mystery Train
- The Drifters – Money Honey
- Les Paul – Vaya Con Dios (May God Be With You)
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Psychedelic Pop
- Love – Alone Again Or
- The Zombies – Beechwood Park (Mono Version)
- Pink Floyd – Flaming - 2011 Remastered Version
- The Flaming Lips – Feeling Yourself Disintegrate
- Panda Bear – Take Pills
- XTC – 1000 Umbrellas - 2001 - Remaster
- Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes
- Brian Wilson – Wonderful
- The Pretty Things – Rain
- The Olivia Tremor Control – A Peculiar Noise Called "Train Director"
- Small Faces – Ogden's Nut Gone Flake
- The Beach Boys – Don't Go Near the Water
- The Moody Blues – Ride My See-Saw
- Bee Gees – In My Own Time - Remastered
- Robyn Hitchcock – The Lizard
- Bobb Trimble – Glass Menagerie Fantasies
- The Monkees – Porpoise Song - Theme From "Head"
- The Hollies – Elevated Observations - 1999 Digital Remaster
- Gandalf – Hang On to a Dream
- Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti – Round And Round
- The Growing Concern – Hard Hard Year
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Exploding note theory
You play every note as if it has only a tangential relationship to the preceding note and the note that follows.
Captain Beefheart, the biography. p.258
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Payola Scams: Love Makes Sweet Music
'I think that he was involved in some payola scams. I think he did that thing that they used to do, with Love Makes Sweet Music, of sending people round to buy it in hundreds from the shops, to get it into the charts. At that time, the business decided to do a clean sweep of chart fixing, and he was one of the people they chose to make an example of. And the decision made by, the BBC and people like that, was that any band that had been caught in one of these things, they wouldn't play their records on Radio 1 ever again. I think we then lost the chance to do singles, and we didn't even know why.'
in Different Every Time - The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt, Marcus O'Dair p.67
in Different Every Time - The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt, Marcus O'Dair p.67
Roots Rock
- Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ramble Tamble
- The Rolling Stones – Street Fighting Man - Stereo Version
- The Band – To Kingdom Come - 2000 Digital Remaster
- Bob Dylan – One Too Many Mornings
- Rod Stewart – That's All Right
- Wilco – Monday
- Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
- Link Wray – Rise And Fall Of Jimmy Stokes
- Ry Cooder – Tattler
- J.J. Cale – Chains Of Love
- Chris Isaak – Back On Your Side
- Steve Wynn – Silence Is Your Only Friend
- Bob Dylan – Duquesne Whistle
- Alejandro Escovedo – Thirteen Years
- John Fogerty – Creedence Song
- Tom Waits – Russian Dance
- Red House Painters – Rollercoaster
- Tindersticks – Patchwork
- Dead Can Dance – Yulunga (Spirit Dance) (Remastered)
- Morphine – Cure For Pain
- Björk – Human Behaviour
- Yo La Tengo – Big Day Coming
- Slowdive – Alison
- Pearl Jam – Daughter (Remastered)
- PJ Harvey – Rid Of Me
- Mazzy Star – Mary Of Silence
- The Flaming Lips – She Don't Use Jelly
- James – Sometimes
- Labradford – Splash Down
- Michael Nyman – The Promise
- Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
- The Smashing Pumpkins – Today
- The Walkabouts – Satisfied Mind
- The The – True Happiness This Way Lies
- Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box
- Einstürzende Neubauten – Blume (French Version)
- Mercury Rev – Boys Peel Out
- The Divine Comedy – Your Daddy's Car
- Blur – For Tomorrow - 2012 Remastered Version
- Radiohead – Creep
- Saint Etienne – You're In A Bad Way
- Gavin Bryars – Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet: 5. Tramp and Tom Waits with full Orchestra
- Julee Cruise – Questions In A World Of Blue
- Anita Lane – Sexual Healing
- PJ Harvey – Legs - 4-Track Demo Version
- Goran Bregovic – TV Screen
- William S. Burroughs – Spare Ass Annie
- Vic Chesnutt – Sleeping Man
- Red House Painters – Helicopter
- U2 – Lemon
- Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Cage Dead
- Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way
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2014
- Scott Walker – Brando
- Thurston Moore – Speak to the Wild
- Swans – A Little God In My Hands
- The Unsemble – Circles
- Silver Mt Zion – Take Away These Early Grave Blues
- Ben Frost – Venter
- The Ministry Of Wolves – Rapunzel
- Black Bombaim – Carpa
- Carla Bozulich – Ain't No Grave
- David Bowie – Sue (Or In A Season Of Crime)
- Sun Kil Moon – I Watched The Film The Song Remains the Same
- Tara Jane O'Neil – This Morning Glory
- Yann Tiersen – The Crossing
- Watter – Bloody Monday
- Marissa Nadler – Drive (Fade Into)
- Damien Jurado – Metallic Cloud
- Land Observations – On leaving the Kingdom for the well-tempered continent
- Fennesz – Liminality
- Dakota Suite – This Is My Way Of Saying That I Am Sorry
- Tape – Eagle Miaows
- Beck – Blue Moon
- Steve Gunn – Milly's Garden
- Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks – J Smoov
- Spain – Love at First Sight
- Tarwater – The Tape
- Trans Am – Insufficiently Breathless
- The War On Drugs – Red Eyes
- Angel Olsen – Hi-Five
- Damien Jurado – Magic Number
- Damon Albarn – Everyday Robots
- Neneh Cherry – Spit Three Times
- Future Islands – Seasons (Waiting On You)
- St. Vincent – Birth In Reverse
- Pixies – Bagboy
- Bruce Springsteen – Dream Baby Dream
- The Flaming Lips – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
- Mark Lanegan Band – Harvest Home
- Marianne Faithfull – Sparrows Will Sing
- Leonard Cohen – Nevermind
- Sharon Van Etten – Every Time the Sun Comes Up
- A Winged Victory for the Sullen – Atomos VII
- Bell Gardens – Darker Side of Sunshine
- Bohren & Der Club Of Gore – Segeln Ohne Wind
- Anjou – Inclosed
- Jon Hopkins – Immunity - with King Creosote
- Grouper – Holding
- Jozef Van Wissem – This Is Your Wilderness
- Christina Vantzou – Brain Fog
- James Blackshaw – Fantômas : Le Faux Magistrat Part 5
- Loscil – Bleeding Ink
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Beefheart, the dictator
"He put me in this little bathroom closet that was the size of just the toilet - you couldn't move - and made me listen to this track called 'Red Cross Store' by Mississipi John Hurt over and over and over for three hours. I'd come out and say, 'I've got to eat, I'm starving,' and he said, 'No, you've got to hear it more.' He'd go, 'No, you've got to hear it more. You haven't heard it yet.'
Captain Beefheart, The Biography by Mike Barnes, p.226
Captain Beefheart, The Biography by Mike Barnes, p.226
1992
Tom Waits – Goin' Out West Red House Painters – 24 Lou Reed – Power And Glory - The Situation Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Papa Won't You Leave Henry Morphine – Have A Lucky Day Aphex Twin – Xtal R.E.M. – Drive Pavement – Here Alice In Chains – Down In A Hole Rage Against The Machine – Take The Power Back Current 93 – A Sadness Song Aphex Twin – aisatsana [102] Sonic Youth – 100% PJ Harvey – Dress The Cure – Friday I'm In Love Morrissey – We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - 2014 Remastered Version The Young Gods – Gasoline Man James – Sound - Album Version / Full Version Luna – Slide Stone Temple Pilots – Creep Mão Morta – Amsterdão Stereolab – Orgiastic Giant Sand – Center of the Universe The Flaming Lips – Felt Good To Burn These Immortal Souls – Shamed Leonard Cohen – Waiting For The Miracle Yo La Tengo – Upside-Down Diamanda Galas – My Love Will Never Die Glenn Branca – Fifth Movement (In the late 20th Century, the Impossible Becomes Possible) (Short Excerpt) Peter Murphy – Hit Song
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