Music Monday 3.16.09

News...

The new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Beware, is getting good reviews. Sample it at Amazon. Review and song preview at Paste. It releases tomorrow (download, CD). Remember Radiohead's great performance of "15 Step" with the USC Marching Band?  Awesome.  Go watch the nearly 9 minute video behind the scenes.

On My iPod...

I'm listening to a lot of John Coltrane's The Ultimate Blue Train. You can still download it for $1.99 and I highly recommend it. Sale won't last much longer. DM Stith's Heavy Ghost (great reviews!) is eerie and wonderful so far (download, CD). The Pogues are perfect for St. Patrick's Day and a Shamrock Shake. Really, they are great any time of year. No question their If I Should Fall From Grace With God is worth a lot more than Amazon's $3.99 price! Our Sunday morning at-home music before gathered worship was David Crowder Band's Remedy. Only $5 right now.

Videos...

I grabbed the 2008 Missy Higgins album, On A Clear Night, because it was only $5 (still is!) and it's just the kind of music my wife loves. I'll be honest, I really like it too.  Here's a great quality live version of "Where I Stood." This chick can sing...

Don't miss this last video. Maybe the most important song ever made...

Comments

[Joel Taylor]

I absolutely love it! Thanks for posting.

[Rod McWilliams]

Steve,

Look forward to Monday's every week. Thought I'd give something back. I read somewhere on one of your posts ages ago that you were something of a Midnight Oil fan. Well, last weekend the band reformed for one gig only in support of a benefit concert for the 210 people who perished in the bushfires in Victoria Australia last month. They have not played together for six years [Peter Garrett is now the Federal Environment Minister] but you wouldn't know it. These guys are all in their mid fifties. But for 40 wonderful minutes last Saturday evening a whole new generation of fans [85,000] saw why, at their peak, they were the best live band in the world. Please enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Ktq7L5d-o

cheers from Oz
Rod

[John]

Yeah, I thought Missy Higgins was only an Aussie phenomenom. Being a Triple J listener I kind of stopped following her when she went mainstream after 'The Sound of White' went big. She is good stuff though - thanks for the reminder.

[Steve McCoy]

Thanks Rod!

[Jared]

WOW! I had never heard Missy Higgins. Great stuff!! Thanks for the post

[Steve McCoy]

Glad to help.