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Random Vinyl 6/29-7/2

Posted at 11:52 AM on July 2, 2009 by Jill Riley
Filed under: Random Vinyl

Every weekday morning at 6:30am we pull some wax off the shelf. We call it Random Vinyl.

Monday: Jefferson Airplane, "Crown of Creation" (1968)
Grace Slick wrote the song "Lather" for Jefferson Airplane drummer Spencer Dryden's 30th birthday. He was the first to turn 30 in the group and Grace Slick felt that once you hit 30, you were no fun anymore. That's the gist of the song anyway.

Tuesday: Buddy Holly and The Crickets, "20 Golden Greats" aka "Buddy Holly Lives" (1978)
A great compilation album of some the best tunes by Buddy Holly and The Crickets. We played one of Buddy's last hits of his lifetime, "Rave On." That single was released April 20, 1958. Buddy Holly would die in the infamous plane crash in Clear Lake, Iowa on February 3, 1959.

Wednesday: Joe Jackson, "Big World"
Joe's 1985 live-to-2-track album, recorded that way to express his growing disdain for modern reliance on studio overdubs. "Big World" features another gimmick: it's three sides of music on two LPs (the fourth side is blank, featuring a label that reads in large print, "There is no music on this side"). It is also possibly his last truly decent record; too bad he didn't have enough material to fill out the fourth side. "Wild West" leads off the album.

Thursday: David Byrne, "Music for The Knee Plays"
A long out-of-print record on the jazz/avant-classical label ECM (only recently reissued on Nonesuch) featuring Byrne's score to Robert Wilson's minimalst play "The CIVIL WarS" (sic). The music sounds like The Dirty Dozen Brass Band playing Laurie Anderson. The track "In The Future" contains typical Byrne-sian observations about war, entertainment, love and sex.


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