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FTR: First Listen #11
Album #285: Quincy Jones – “I Heard That!!” (1976, A&M) Side One: 1. I Heard That!! 2. Things Could Be Worse For Me 3. What Good Is A Song 4. You Have To Do It Yourself Side Two: 5. There’s A Train Leavin’ 6. Midnight Soul Patrol 7. Brown Soft Shoe 8. Superstition Side Three: 9. Summer In The City 10. Is It Love That We’re Missin’ 11. Body Heat 12. If I Ever Lose This...
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FTR: First Listen #10
Album #277: Quincy Jones – “The Dude” (1981, A&M) Side One: 1.     Ai No Corrida 2.     The Dude 3.     Just Once 4.     Betcha’ Wouldn’t Hurt Me Side Two: 5.     Somethin’ Special 6.     Razzamatazz 7.     One Hundred Ways 8.     Velas 9.     Turn On The Action Sometimes, I’m not quite sure about Quincy Jones. There, I said it. He is indeed a veritable giant of the music world. He is...
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I have a tendency to second-guess myself. I do it all the time, particularly musically. I’ll start on an idea, get through it halfway, and then scrap it, doubting myself. For the ninth experiment from my “For The Record” Randomized Sample Experiment, I decided to simply stick with my first idea and go with my gut. The focus was on speed of turnaround; I sampled, chopped, and...
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FTR: First Listen #9
Album #286: Rose Royce III: Strikes Again! (1978, Warner Bros.) Side One: 1. Get Up Off Your Fat 2. Do It, Do It 3. I’m In Love (And I Love The Feeling) 4. First Come, First Serve 5. Love Don’t Live Here Anymore Side Two: 6. Angel In The Sky 7. Help 8. Let Me Be The First To Know 9. That’s What’s Wrong With Me As a person born long after the seventies were over, it has...
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April 2012
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Here’s the eighth installment of my “For The Record” Randomized Sample Experiment. Glad to finally get back at it. Stay tuned for further experiments!
Apr 29th
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Practicing my best Bill Summers hindewho impression on the beer bottles. Will end up on a few projects once I master it.
Apr 28th
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FTR: First Listen #8.
Album #72: Dakota Staton Sings Ballads and the Blues (1960, Capitol) Side One: 1. Someone To Watch Over Me 2. I Need Your Love So Bad 3. Why Don’t You Think Things Over 4. Romance In The Dark 5. My One And Only Love 6. Love Me Side Two:  7. I’ll Know 8. Where Flamingos Fly 9. Time Was 10. My Babe 11. Come Home 12. Seems Like You Just Don’t Care While this is definitely not one...
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Somebody needs to pay Jay. →
Apr 26th
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Maybe Don't 'Play With The Changes'?
No, Kamal, it’s not “okay.” I have this pet peeve that is oddly specific.  Every now and then, there’s a song that just has utterly dope chord changes. I hear them, and I immediately sit down at the piano to learn what’s going on. An early example of one of those songs for me was when I first listened to The Roots’ Things Fall Apart and heard “Act Too...
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The Return.
After finally sorting through and cataloguing (peep the archives for #vinylmondays) most of the vinyls I own (a fun exercise for my musical compulsivity) I am getting ready to return to For The Record, my randomized sample project I lazily abandoned last year. Time to get back at it. -BrotherSpanky P.S.: Check out my vimeo channel for some of last year’s experiments.
Apr 25th
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3 Reasons Why I Love Vinyl Records.
Hello. My name is Brother Spanky, and I’m a vinyl addict. I have recently come to terms with the severity of my condition. I was exposed to the habit several years ago, and I have realized that it is indeed incurable. While my collection of records isn’t huge by any means, it does consume my time, energy, attention, and funds.  And I love every minute of it. Here are three reasons why: 1. Analog...
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“INSPIRED BY THOSE WHO CREATE (Or, if I had to write a Black artist’s...”
– Courtney McSwain (via columbianights)
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DIY: The Headhunters End Tables.
Every now and then, I come across albums without inner liners. Sometimes, I have to replace old paper ones with better plastic ones. A while back, I ran up to Joe’s Record Paradise in Silver Spring to pick up some plastic sleeves. While they unfortunately didn’t have any, the clerk handed me a huge stack of old paper sleeves from various records that they recycle in the shop. I took...
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