Category: Listen

  • Bonus Tracks: John Lennon

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    Here are studio outtakes and home recordings collected on the 11th disc of the John Lennon Signature Box. “Mother” and more. No box necessary.

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Just Kids, by Patti Smith

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    Patti Smith’s Just Kids follows her from miserable teendom to fabulous adulthood where she makes lots of art and poetry and music and befriends all the cool folks from the Chelsea Hotel and elsewhere around NYC at the time. The songs mentioned in the book are just about all here.

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Life, by Keith Richards

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    Things remembered from reading Keith Richards’ Life: He came up with  “Satisfaction” during a dream. He ran some Italian military trucks off the road once. He once believed in purity and soul and stuff when it comes to music and touring; now he likes hanging out with the American Express VIPs backstage at shows. He’s…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Guardian Mini-Collection

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    The Guardian proclaims that these are The Best Mixtapes in Fiction. Maybe–haven’t read all the books (or listened to all the playlists), so hard to know. Below, the playlists without explanations–get those in the article, if you care to. For High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby: For Doctor Sleep, by Stephen King (his Shining sequel, his list): For…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Chronicles, Vol. One

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    Chronicles is more music appreciation text than Dylan things-I-did-style autobiography. That means there are loads and loads of songs mentioned–and you haven’t heard them all. Some intrepid interneters have made it easier for you to track down the tracks. All the way easy. Here’s a longer version, Dylan cuts included, from Art Rush: This Dylan-less one,…

  • It’s a Book, It’s a Playlist: Inherent Vice

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    Here begins an occasional series highlighting playlists based upon songs mentioned in books. Who better to get music tips from than people who spend their lives with words? For this one, Inherent Vice, by Thomas Pynchon, there’s not just an Rdio playlist, but also a Wiki walking through it all. Don’t think Pynchon was hearing…

  • Bonus Tracks: Led Zeppelin

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    Shuffle around the Led Zepplin deluxe editions without having to hear those old original versions. Just LZ1 through Physical Graffiti up on Spotify as of this typing. Mostly live stuff, early mixes, mixes minus vox, etc.  Less revelatory than than other deluxe releases. But still.

  • Bonus Tracks: Elvis Costello

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    Like streaming music? Like Elvis Costello? The first two EC records were rereleased in deluxe mode, with demos, outtakes, live performances, and such–recently-ish arrived at Spotify. Here’s a playlist with just the bonus tracks from those two releases. (That’s “My Aim is True” and “This Year’s Model,” if you’re arriving late to the party.) Enjoy…

  • Demo: “She Said, She Said”

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    Have heard a lot of this stuff, but never this: Cool. More here.  

  • Important: “Crazy Horses”

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    This is 1972. If we’d only just listened.