New Collections feature launched at Evri
Hey everyone. Our Collections feature has launched! Here's my "Watchmen" Collection. Let me know what you think.
song for some time after the middle of the night
I Can't Sleep by Sloan
Sloan's "I Can't Sleep". I will never understand why these guys weren't ever huge in the States. They have made some great records.
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Today's musical message
You Can Get It If You Really Want by Desmond Dekker
Wise words from Desmond Dekker. Seems appropriate for the day.
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Pretty much all you need in a place to stay
The great sign on the Bush Hotel, taken from the balcony at the Vulcan office.
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"Longtime music lover, chronicler Richard Wright"
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/obituaries/2008771370_wrightobit22m.html
Rickey Wright, a former colleague at Amazon, died -- much too soon -- last Thursday. Rickey was a music editor at Amazon, and launching Amazon's Music business (the 2nd "tab" in the Amazon navigation) was my first big project. Though I was the "tech" guy -- I loved hanging out with the music editors. Rickey's southern charm and soothing drawl made him a favorite. He reviewed, and liked, everything though not indiscriminately. I rarely saw him after Amazon, but he was a genuinely good guy, and will be missed.
Below, I have included two short reviews, one of the Monkees Greatest Hits, the other "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill"
"Unless you're a snob, a good Monkees collection belongs on your
shelves, not too far from discs by the Turtles, the Lovin' Spoonful,
and other avatars of clean, occasionally rocking '60s Top 40 pop. Greatest Hits
is a more than generous stack, bringing together not only the obvious
megahits ("I'm a Believer," "Pleasant Valley Sunday," the incredibly
propulsive "Valleri") but also a number of tunes that had the bad luck
to fall on the wrong side of the act's swift rise and fall. Foremost
among these is "Porpoise Song," a lyrically incomprehensible
Goffin/King stab at psychedelia that's at once a crass cash-in and one
of the loveliest, most fragile sounds to emerge from the American
hippie dream."
"The first solo album by the Fugees' most distinctive voice quickly
wipes away the pretensions of so many current hip-hoppers' discs. It
does so by both engaging their widescreen ethos--"To Zion," with its
martial drums and gospel choir, is as epic a production as has been
heard in 1998's pop music--and speaking the plain truth. Reminiscent in
its scope of nothing so much as Aretha's early-'70s Spirit in the Dark and Young, Gifted and Black, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill also easily earns its late-'90s place next to Erykah Badu's Baduizm. Even more personal, if hardly any more political, than cohort Wyclef Jean's Carnival, Miseducation
focuses equally on her life (especially the birth of her child) and
social concerns about the present and future. Its often quiet surface,
if anything, lends intensity. "Everything you drop is so tired," she
scolds artistically dead-ended rappers on "Superstar"; if more artists
shared her vision, occasional eccentricities and bottom-line talent,
she wouldn't have to complain."
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Plotting strategy in the #Evri kitchen
Big launch next week. Blunt, Carsten, Yvonne, Jonathan and Seth solve all problems in advance.
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Song of the Day: "Hey, Snow White", New Pornographers
Hey, Snow White by The New Pornographers
from the new Red Hot compilation, which you should all buy. It's for a good cause, and is really good from top to bottom. Worth it for Sufjian Steven's track, "You Are The Blood" alone.
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"Memory Circle" at Golden Gardens
We took a long walk on the beach at Golden Gardens today, and came across this in the small stand of trees near the beach. A notepad was hung from a strand of wire that described a circle around the trees. Roses had been hung at various places around the circle. The instructions said to write a memory and leave it on the wire. It looked very lovely, and lonely, on this day.
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Happy Birthday, Dad.
Today's is my father's 81st birthday. Here he is in his baseball playing prime when in the Army -- just a few short years ago. He is the one on the far right of the picture. He's a great man.
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Song of the Day: The Bad Plus w/ Wendy Lewis, "Long Distance Runaround"
Long Distance Runaround - Wendy Lewis by Wendy Lewis
From the new one (at least just released in the US a couple of weeks ago), "For All I Care".
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/For-All-I-Care/dp/B001R6OO62
Emusic: http://www.emusic.com/album/The-Bad-Plus-For-All-I-Care-MP3-Download/11376110.html
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