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Popular: Parliament - Red Hot Mama (funk rock, 1970) - wait, what the funk is this doing here? Eddie Hazel's guitar is the reason. This was recorded in the sessions for the first P-Funk album, Parliament's very raw and rare Osmium. This tune was left off the album and issued only as a single for many years, and is now included on some, but not all, of the many fly-by-night CD reissues. It's better known from the later, slicker Funkadelic recording and many face-melting live versions.

Catchy: The Sonics - Louie Louie (garage rock, 1965) - One of the best versions of one of the catchiest tunes ever. The song's convoluted history is long enough to fill a book. The Sonics' version was recorded three years after the Kingsmen's hit version, and it rocks like hell.

Obscure: The Good Rats - Klash-Ka-Bob (bar band prog boogie, 1974) - The Good Rats were a great bar band from Long Island that achieved some local popularity and recorded a few albums in the '70s and '80s. I have only met a couple of people who saw them play live back in the day, but they still rave about those shows. And they still play around New York and New Jersey every now and then. This song is my favorite from their best album, Tasty. Interesting trivia: Bruce Kulick played in a later lineup of the Good Rats before joining Kiss, and their drummer Joe Franco wrote a classic instructional book on double bass drum technique.

Bonus: Randy California - I Don't Want Nobody (psychedelic rock, 1972) - This jammy Hendrix-influenced James Brown cover comes from California's first solo album, Kapt. Kopter and the (Fabulous) Twirly Birds, recorded during a hiatus from his best-known gig, Spirit.

About me - funky drummer, radio guy, and a mod at /r/nolamusic and now /r/truemusic too.

So this will be my very last post on /r/listentous. And so, I decided to share with you all a song that truly means a lot to me. It's somewhat of a sad song, but it's certainly one that cuts deep through a lot of us.

I hope you all like it. The version of this song is off the compilation album Hopelessly Devoted To You Vol. 4, not off The Weakerthans' album Reconstruction Site.

Enjoy!

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|track|Clearing, Dawn, Dance|
|album|Beautiful Mechanical|
|released|Aug 2011|
|cover|http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/252/69521766.jpg|
|artist|Judd Greenstein|
|about|Judd Greenstein was born and raised in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City, where he began his compositional life by writing hip hop beats as a teenager. His concert works reflect those origins, as well as his traditional piano background, combining an urban, beat-oriented sensibility with a late Romantic classical harmonic language. A passionate advocate for the indie classical community in New York, much of Judd's work is written for the virtuosic ensembles and solo performers who make up that community, and is tailored to their specific talents and abilities.|
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|homepage|http://www.juddgreenstein.com/|
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|lastfm listeners|307|
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That's interesting. I've only torrented music once, and that's because it wasn't available otherwise.

Growing up in a place where there wasn't a live music scene at all, I've never looked at music in anything but the long-term sense, comparing crystallized recordings from across wildly different musical eras and contexts. It's this that allows me to look at a chill-out track by Yoshinori Sunahara and say, hey, this sounds a bit like Lofticries by Purity Ring . That's probably a pretty useless connection to make, but I enjoy making it. The converse of this is that I've never learned to enjoy music as a moment, as a unique personal expression that comes only once between you and the players and then is forever lost. There might be something truly magical in that, that I will never know. I'm just a database animal.

Anyway, it's good that you've found music that speaks to you, but be aware that when I am elected next month I will get back at you by raping your ears with The Protomen, indie game soundtracks, and mod tunes.

e: also klezmer, Balkan brass, and Balkan folk. And a better example of comparing different musics might be Vlastimir Pavlović Carevac playing the Serbian folksong Bojarka vs. Smetana's Vltava/Die Moldau. Turns out, Vltava is based on an Italian melody that spread to Czech and became a folk song there. In fact, it became a folk song in a bunch of places. I'm just an amateur, but I'd hazard a guess that Bojarka has the same origin.

I didn't realize it til just now, but I was actually listening to Buddy Miles' cover of Dreams because of Youtube's autoplay when I initially made my comment. Despite that though, TABB still has done a cover of Them Changes before - from their 3/39/2009 show at the Beacon. They had former members of King Curtis' Kingpins sitting in (Bernard Purdie, Jerry Jemmott, etc.), the band that famously opened for and backed up Aretha Franklin during her 3 night run at Fillmore West in 1971. If you've never listened to those shows, Ray Charles showed up unexpectedly and sat in for Spirit In The Dark. You can read more about those performances in this post.

Basically, King Curtis and Duane Allman were very close. Shortly after King was murdered, TABB covered Soul Serenade in tribute to him during their A&R Studios show, which I consider one of the best TABB recordings out there. Gregg, Duane, and King all sat in with Delaney and Bonnie in a different A&R show that is absolutely worth checking out.

EDIT: I recommend reading these two books: Skydog: The Duane Allman Story and Chronicles of King Curtis.

He released an autobiography of the same the name. It's a great book.