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The Most Ut in 2006 - Part IDecember 15, 2006... 2006 has been a exhausting year. After starting a new job in a new city and living out of a suitcase for a couple months, I retrieved my belongings from the storage locker they'd been moldering away in for three years and moved into my own place. Since then, between the demands of the job, the challenge of so-so health, and the slow, slow process of unpacking, restocking and building anew, I haven't had a lot of energy left to devote to seeking out and listening to new music. In a way, though, it's been a relief. People engaged in keeping up with what's new end up with music collections full of flavour-of-the-month stuff with a very limited shelf life. (Anyone want my copy of the Strokes' Is This It?? No? Me neither!) Catching up on old music is much easier. When some venereal, old blogger posts oldies, it's because that shit has stood the test of time. It's still relevant, five, ten, or sixty years after the fact. If it wasn't, ain't nobody'd be listening to it and writing about it no more. That's why my "Best of 2006" posts will actually be "Best in 2006" posts. This is the stuff I listened to most in 2006, though very little of it was actually released in 2006... #13. Young Tiger - Calypso Be (1953). A 1950s Calypsonian confused by the modern music of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, with all its "ooh-baba-dah / bee-obba-doo-lah / bee-blee..." Thanks to Moistworks for turning me on to this song and to many other great songs this year, including "Children of the Revolution" by T. Rex, now one of my favourite songs to sing in the shower, and "Hitch Hike" by Marvin Gaye, introduced in the most informative wordless blog post ever. (Sorry, can't find the link.) Young Tiger - Calypso Be#46. Slim Gaillard - Laughin' in Rhythm (1938). An artist about whom I'd read for years, but whom, thanks to Badminton Stamps and others, I finally heard this year. Slim is the spirit Afterbirth is channelling in its current Mission Statement: "Daz mcskivven vouts-oroonie con lo pandolo ova day." Slim Gaillard - Laughin' in Rhythm#8. Teddy and the Frat Boys - Alophen Baby (1981). Another kind of scat singing altogether. Thanks for this shit, Post-Punk Junk! Teddy and the Frat Girls - Alophen BabyStay tuned for more of The Most Ut in 2006... Permadink | | |
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