The Memory Trap
Notes: I started a music diary. TF else am I going to do these days?
This week!
I discovered, about 40 years too late, about Buffy Sainte-Marie's incredible run in music.
I learned that Pink Floyd's Dave Gilmour, like Stevie Nicks, is quite popular amongst the younger set for some mysterious reason, and, by accident, how drummer Nick Mason drove that band.
I took umbrage (again) at the player of the green tambourine.
My friend Enne has a new single!
Also, below, is
an in-car tribute to how WFMU is getting me through this bleak pandemic. I'm not crying; it's just raining.
She was a pioneer in #electronica too. Growing up, I thought of @BuffySteMarie as a #FolkMusic singer, though thru the late 1960s and well into the 1970s, she was busting some serious moves https://t.co/VNRmbnkuK6 #FolkAF #Cree pic.twitter.com/feTXKnnyVS
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 8, 2020
#LeChocDeFutur is a love letter to gear, the first machines that made people dance. #SXSW #Film #AmazonPrime #Film https://t.co/9V4D0hmgq9 #Electropop #Electronica #ShockOfTheFuture #IndieFilm #NouvelleVague #AlmaJodorowsky pic.twitter.com/WKz8xpSBvj
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 8, 2020
#Electropop #Electronica #ShockOfTheFuture #IndieFilm #NouvelleVague #AlmaJodorowsky #MarkCollins #SXSW2020 https://t.co/Fq4UsAgEgu #LeChocDuFutur pic.twitter.com/RTWivt3TMY
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 17, 2020
I did not know this but it appears to be near-consensus among the younger generation that #PinkFloyd's David Gilmour was quite the hottie back in the day. #LiveAtPompeii #ProgRock pic.twitter.com/rAJpR7mCXW
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
Seriously, why can't we buy shirts like this any longer? #RichardWright #PinkFloyd pic.twitter.com/ffLH0fPUGu
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
Here Nick Mason loses his drum stick and swiftly grabs another without breaking the beat #PinkFloyd #LiveAtPompeii pic.twitter.com/lrm3Bah1MA
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
"Echoes" remains my favorite Pink Floyd song, even if they never did quite workout that part in the middle... pic.twitter.com/8ng1k5CcVt
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
#LittleRichard is pretty much the reason we’re all here today... #RIP https://t.co/ZO96Z9eGnn pic.twitter.com/ge96gMrpDK
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
The only thing that’s getting me through this pandemic is @WFMU (a series) #BeachBoys April 18 pic.twitter.com/YPD2ccmjil
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 10, 2020
April 4, #ProspectPark #NYC @WFMU #PANDEMIC pic.twitter.com/m8ifxpB2q9
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 10, 2020
Feb 23: “Meet Me at the End of the World Again” @jesse_malin @WFMU #NYC https://t.co/82Q8eTlMBX pic.twitter.com/hOGDWg0Asf
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 10, 2020
BIG chorus on #Bedstuy’s #Enne on her new single, “Piece of the Pie” #Nyc #CountryMusic #IndiePop https://t.co/kd1uHLhCI4 pic.twitter.com/xRboVOZFQ3
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
Probably the only song featuring a “double ugly stick”: “Ugly In Laws” by Elliot Shavers. @WFMU #DJ: #MichaelShelley https://t.co/Jw2okERuks @Shazam
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 9, 2020
“Watermelon Crawl”
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 10, 2020
by #TracyByrd. https://t.co/6nqAM2JRRz @wfre #CountryMusic #WV #Overheard @Shazam
Ha! The DJ ON @wfre called #MerleHaggard’s “Mama Tried” the best #CountryMusic song about mothers and that sounds about right... https://t.co/BBfJRPqPpH #MothersDay #WV #radio
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 10, 2020
A decade earlier, Ram Jam guitarist Bill Bartlett played in the #LemonPipers, a surprisingly not-bad #psychedelic pop band, also a one hit wonder ("Green Tambourine.") So, a pretty nice run of luck for Bill... https://t.co/nLDWjWMRfz pic.twitter.com/8K1MHnmicU
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 12, 2020
Even when I was a kid, I wondered why anyone would pay to see some loser rattle a tambourine, even a green one. Kinda weak pickup line, and further undercut by the creepy vibe of the song itself ("Soundtrack of My Life," May 10, 2020) https://t.co/omx36UlHBw #Psychedelia @lastfm
— CheapDJ (@DiscCheap) May 16, 2020
# | Artist | Tracks Played |
---|---|---|
#1 | Buffy Sainte-Marie |
113 |
#2 | Harry Nilsson |
50 |
#3 | Steve Roach |
43 |
#4 | Buck Owens |
42 |
#5 | Jean Michel Jarre |
29 |
#6 | Lemon Pipers |
29 |
#7 | Pink Floyd |
20 |
#8 | Bob Dylan |
19 |
#9 | Grateful Dead |
17 |
#10 | Steely Dan |
16 |
# | Name | Artist |
---|---|---|
#1 | Illuminations |
Buffy Sainte-Marie |
#2 | Green Tambourine |
Lemon Pipers |
#3 | It's My Way! |
Buffy Sainte-Marie |
#4 | Quiet Music |
Steve Roach |
#5 | Harry |
Harry Nilsson |
#6 | Ummagumma |
Pink Floyd |
#7 | Magnetic Fields |
Jean Michel Jarre |
#8 | Fire and Fleet and Candlelight |
Buffy Sainte-Marie |
#9 | All Things Must Pass |
George Harrison |
#10 | She Used To Wanna Be A Ballerina |
Buffy Sainte-Marie |
# | Song | Artist | Times Played |
---|---|---|---|
#1 | Green Tambourine |
Lemon Pipers |
14 |
#2 | God Is Alive, Magic Is Afoot |
Buffy Sainte-Marie |
8 |
#3 | Row Jimmy |
Grateful Dead |
8 |
#4 | Isn't It a Pity [Version One] |
George Harrison |
7 |
#5 | Shoeshine Boy |
Lemon Pipers |
7 |