Jeff Buckley - “All Flowers in Time” (live)
This is the same recording that I was talking about earlier, but someone got it a bit cleaned up. I always try to have multiple versions for the sake of comparison
oh phantom elusive thing…
one that can never be known
either all drunk with the world at her feet
or sober with no place to go
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Jeff Buckley feat. Elizabeth Fraser - “All Flowers in Time”
For years, I’ve had a live recording of this song that I loved. The sound quality was crap, but it’s a song where Buckley’s like a ghost during the verses—you can’t really grasp what he’s doing and it feels like he’s already passed into another being—but then… but then the lines and the rhythm all come together for the chorus. The quality of this recording is 10x better than Buckley live solo version, but the spirit of it changes with this girl who’s singing the verses. I’m not sure that I like it as much. She’s a little out of control, and it doesn’t come off as cool as for the girl in “Gimme Shelter.” But it’s so worth it just to listen for the bridge from Buckley:
when will you weep for me, sweet willow?
All flowers in time bend towards the sun
I know you say that there’s no one for you,
…but here is one.
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David Byrne - “Glass, Concrete, & Stone”
David Byrne rocks. I’ve been listening to his whole 2004 album. I still like his best stuff live, but all I can say for this recording is, “Philip Glass, eat your heart out.” …Who knows, the song’s title may contains a purposeful reference to the composer.

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Beach House - “Norway”

The way it starts - mechanical drum machine hits and organ blast - makes you think that it is just another track off of their self-titled debut. “Get out of 2006, Beach Hou…” But before you finish that thought, the track has exploded. Compared to their somnambulatory jams of years past, this track is Babe Ruth calling his shot in the bottom of the ninth. Phrases like “hazy and ambling,” which once seemed so appropriate for their past work have no place alongside Victoria Legrand’s pant-and-yell chorus routine. The woozy guitars are still firmly in place, and the organ is still the backbone of the track, but the drums have sprung to life and the contrast between the verses, which feel like stretched taffy, and the lush, powerful chorus provide a dynamic which Beach House has never achieved before. This is the sound of a band stepping up its game.
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Sea Wolf - “Wicked Blood”
I think I could have lied to you and said that this was an Arcade Fire song.

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Gregory Alan Isakov - “Evelyn”
G. Isakov has made my morning a number of times recently. This is a driving song. You can hear, it has the pulse of the road.

I love it when the banjo softly begins picking as he sings, “There’s an old folks’ song on the radio…”