Roxy Music Love is the Video Remix

ROXY MUSIC Everything from the studio officially released

CD1: Roxy Music

1. Re-make/Re-model
2. Ladytron
3. If There Is Something
4. 2HB
5. The Bob (Medley)
6. Chance Meeting
7. Would You Believe?
8. Sea Breezes
9. Bitters End

Bonus Tracks:

10. Virginia Plain
11. The Numberer

CD2: For Your Pleasure

1. Do The Strand
2. Beauty Queen
3. Strictly Confidential
4. Editions Of You
5. In Every Dream Home A Heartache
6. The Bogus Man
7. Grey Lagoons
8. For Your Pleasure

Bonus Tracks:

9. Pyjamarama (Island Mix)
10. Pyjamarama (Polydor Mix)
11. The Pride And The Pain
12. Do The Strand (USA 7” Mix 3:19) **never been available on CD before**

CD3: Stranded

1. Street Life
2. Just Like You
3. Amazona
4. Psalm
5. Serenade
6. A Song For Europe
7. Mother Of Pearl
8. Sunset

Bonus Track:

9. Hula Kula

CD4: Country Life

1. The Thrill Of It All
2. Three And Nine
3. All I Want Is You
4. Out Of The Blue
5. If It Takes All Night
6. Bitter Sweet
7. Triptych
8. Casanova
9. A Really Good Time
10. Prairie Rose

Bonus Tracks:

11. The Thrill Of It All – 1977 Greatest Hits Edit (4’20) ) **never been available on CD before**
12. Your Application’s Failed
13. The Thrill Of It All (USA 7” Mix 3:20) **never been available on CD before**

CD5: Siren

1. Love Is The Drug
2. End Of The Line
3. Sentimental Fool
4. Whirlwind
5. She Sells
6. Could It Happen To Me?
7. Both Ends Burning
8. Nightingale
9. Just Another High

Bonus Tracks:

10. Love Is The Drug (USA 7” Mix 3:00) **never been available on CD before**
11. Sultanesque
12. Both Ends Burning (7” Mix 3:58) **never been available on CD before**
13. For Your Pleasure – Live **never been available on CD before**

CD6: Manifesto

1. Manifesto
2. Trash
3. Angel Eyes (***rock version***)
4. Still Falls The Rain
5. Stronger Through The Years
6. Ain’t That So
7. My Little Girl
8. Dance Away (***ballad Version***)
9. Cry, Cry, Cry
10. Spin Me Round

Bonus Tracks:

11. Trash 2
12. Dance Away (Single Version)
13. Dance Away (Canadian Extended 12” Mix)
14. Angel Eyes (Single Version)
15. Angel Eyes (12” Single Version)

CD7: Flesh And Blood

1. The Midnight Hour
2. Oh Yeah
3. Same Old Scene
4. Flesh And Blood
5. My Only Love
6. Over You
7. Eight Miles High
8. Rain Rain Rain
9. No Strange Delight
10. Running Wild

Bonus Tracks:

11. Oh Yeah (7” Version) **never been available on CD before**
12. Manifesto (Remake)
13. South Downs
14. Lover
15. Jealous Guy
16. To Turn On You (1981 B-Side Version) **never been available on CD before**

CD8: Avalon

1. More Than This
2. The Space Between
3. Avalon
4. India
5. While My Heart Is Still Beating
6. The Main Thing
7. Take A Chance With Me
8. To Turn You On
9. True To Life
10. Tara

Bonus Tracks:

11. Avalon (7” Single Version) **never been available on CD before**
12. Always Unknowing
13. Take A Chance With Me (7” Single Version) **never been available on CD before**
14. Take A Chance With Me (USA 7” Mix) **never been available on CD before**
15. The Main Thing (12” Single Version)
16. The Main Thing – Remix **never been available on CD before**

Doctor Who. Click on this for full display.

Via: CableTV.com

Happy Birthday MTV

I WANT MY MTV

I loved MTV. New York City didn’t get it right away. I got cable tv the moment it was picked up by Manhattan Cable. I would video tape 6 hr blocks of programming at SLP standard – not pretty, and zip through to watch the good videos. I would then dub favorites onto another tape. You can imagine the quality!

Through the hiss and snow of that corrupting video tape memories are distorted. So here are some recollections of not so good MTV.

The Bottom Ten of MTV

1. Mark Goodman and Nina Blackwood’s hair. Yikes. OK. It was the 1980s.

2. The very slow recognition of black performers. It’s all rock ‘n roll. Really stupid.

3. The lazy and choppy coverage of Live Aid. It made the First Five VJs into true media stars, but it was a little creepy watching cutaways of them poignantly swaying to the beat.

4. Courtesy of CD super-sellers Dire Straits some lyrics best left unwritten, but smart to get heavy rotation by having Sting sing “I Want My MTV” right at the top of the song:

The little ****** with the earring and the makeup
Yeah buddy, that's his own hair
That little ****** got his own jet airplane
That little ****** he's a millionaire

Ironically, last year GLAAD recognized MTV for including more content than any other tv channel reflecting the lives of gay, bisexual and transgendered people

5. In those pre-Tivo days. TOO MANY COMMERCIALS!

6-10 Al Yankovic

Teatime with the Grandkids

New Year Old Pictures

Scrapbook time. Duplicating what may be on Facebook. Here are some images from the archives (box in the closet) that need to be kept somewhere -- here.

French Bulldog exploitation

Here is a link to the trailer imdb.com

Movie projected to gross $33.5 M this weekend -- second to "Megamind."

Voice of Hudson, NY

Conscience of Millerton

Columbia County Fair Labor Day Weekend 2010

Crowded House West Coast tour interviews

San Francisco Examiner: Interview with Neil Finn

San Diego Union Tribune: Interview with Neil Finn

Best Thing in Paris Right Now

The Yves Saint Laurent exhibition at Le Petit Palais. Almost 400 incredible costumes in a magnificent building. Buy tickets at FNAC ahead of time. Closes at the end of August (2010)!

More Crowded House press from US tour

Here's an "Intriguer" album review from the LA Times. "Ridiculously infectious," says Randy Lewis about Crowded House.

Gatehouse News Service (!) interviews "energized once again" Nick Seymour.

Courier-Journal from Kentucky gives a 3 1/2 star review to the new album.

NewsOk says "the lights are back on in the House."

Crowded House play in Toronto, ON and finally release the Intriguer album in North America

Here is the review in the Toronto SUN. 3 1/2 Stars (out of 5).

Crap CD review from J.D. Considine picked up by the Toronto Globe and Mail. (Jerk).

Nice Shawn Amos gives nice review in Huffington Post. He's nice.

"Don't Dream It's Over" -- Intriguer is a dream come true says SAME SAME blog.

Ken Shane's excellent review of the album on Popdose.

David Hiltbrand gets it wrong in the Philadelphia Inquirer. A 2 1/2 star album review.

Usual intelligence from the great Jeff Giles on esdmusic.com about the album.

Pop Matters' John Bergstrom gives the very long 7 out of 10 treatment to the Intriguer album.

That's enough for now, I think.

Crowded House NA Media Blitz begins

Click here to find out about Neil Finn's controversial moustache and the answer to the question, "Have the Finns become the Partridge Family?" as told to the Toronto Sun.

“We've probably spent more time in Toronto than any other city" says Neil Finn. More Canada-love in this Toronto Star interview. Click here.

Click Here to see what Neil says to the Montreal Gazette about the second album by the second incarnation of Crowded House.

"Neil Finn lives in New Zealand, bassist Nick Seymour in Dublin, multi-instrumentalist Mark Hart in Los Angeles and drummer Matt Sherrod in Nashville." Insight provided by Hour.Ca here.

July 4, 2010

Well, it's been a very long time since the last posting. Blame Twitter, Facebook, iPad, and life. The diary aspect of a blog becomes more interesting with passing time. It's July 4th. Falling on a Sunday. It's is blissfully hot (not to be working and certainly shite for Broadway attendance) and popping out to do quick heartening and cathartic gardening errands with one eye on Wimbledon and some recessed thoughts that there might be FIFA football on somewhere too -- no Brazil/Argentina showdown, smart ass. How lucky to be in the middle of wooded Columbia County on this most beautiful day with the prospect of another day off work tomorrow. A little peace. And the bonus of wifi and a/c gratification...Last night we went to Tanglewood to see James Taylor and Carole King. We were fortunate enough to be sitting in the front row. Two more legends to tick off the list -- alot of history and so many great standards. Tanglewood is too far from us in Ancram, but the trip was worth it. They play again tonight -- there will be fireworks offstage as well.

French Bulldog moment

New York Post Feb 5, 2010

Hana's puttin' on the dog

In a French (bulldog) twist outside The Plaza yesterday, statuesque Czech model Hana Soukupova is pretty in pink with the latest Jimmy Choo creation. The photo shoot was part of the run-up to Mercedes-Benz Fall 2010 Fashion Week, which starts next Thursday at Bryant Park.

Not worth the calories

Not as bad the the strawberry-flavored Ms of last year. Taste a little bittersweet and smell like the ambient scent in the Mandalay Bay properties in Las Vegas.

Another Year Over and a new one has begun

So the blog as scrapbook seems to be drifting off into cyber history. How many tweets a day am I sending? As you can tell by the lack of entries, the need to post (and the time to post) just isn't there. There is still something satisfying about the relative longevity of the blog post. Ever tried to track down a tweet sent last week in a hurry?

In an effort to do things that should be done before it's too late, I took the BW to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Annex in Soho which closes this weekend. Why is it closing? Too expensive and lousy merch. And rock and roll is dead (long live rock). The exhibit overall is for the ADD crowd. The special John Lennon in New York exhibit was not as special as The Clash show which I saw there when the museum first opened. Alot of facsimile manuscripts and 45rpm sleeves. No green card. Child asking a parent why the eye-glasses on display were covered in blood -- "read what it says." The museum was pretty crowded. Leaving we marvelled at the line stretching down Mercer Street to get into the Uggs store -- now that's Rock 'n' Roll!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Website

about music

Nick Hornby's new book, "Juliet, Naked" is the first book I have downloaded to my Kindle, for fun, rather than work. Here is a really good interview with Hornby on NPR from Weekend Edition. Very eloquent about how the characters of "High Fidelity" don't exist anymore -- they download, they don't browse. Actually, I think I saw some of them (the old sort) yesterday on St. Marks Place, but not many.

link to Weekend Edition

The New York Times has done two stories recently that you could say feed into the Hornby train(spotting) groove.

One ran today about touring the East Village looking for vinyl (records). Other Music of course was featured, along with Rockit Scientist. Restaurants and bars also featured. Link not working right now. I will put it up later.

Records stores in the East Village

Two weeks ago, Ben Sisario did an amazing story for the NYT finding out where all the retailers had gone. Working online and in their large apartments, it seems. I am surprised that the Times would devote so much space -- good thing. It's a fascinating story.

Record Stores: Out of Sight, Not Obsolete

Worth the Calories

The Archive

Passed 200 days of content in the archiving of the CD library. That 72,500 songs so far. Feeling like a character from Nick Hornby's "Juliet Naked." On "Various Artists." The end is in sight.

Worth the Calories

Not Worth the Calories

Millerton, NY

June 6 to August 29, 2009

By the time we got to Woodstock...it was too late