Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Podcast #3

Podcast #3 can be found here:

http://ourmedia.org/node/482347

All tracks are by The Velvet Underground. Featuring:

From The Velvet Underground and Nico:
1. I'm Waiting for the Man (4:40)
2. Femme Fatale (2:39)
3. Run Run Run (4:23)
4. Heroin (7:13)

From White Light/White Heat:
5. White Light/White Heat (2:48)
6. Sister Ray (17:27)

From The Velvet Underground:
7. Candy Says (4:04)

From Loaded:
8. Rock & Roll (4:39)

Lyrics found here: http://www.lyricsty.com/lyrics/v/velvet_underground/

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Podcast #2

Until I can figure out a better way of doing this, here are links for the songs for next week. Links are also given to youtube when available (not all the videos are actually of the bands performing, but I wanted to put up backup audio files just in case).

In one big file: http://ourmedia.org/node/480675

1. William and Versey Smith, "When That Great Ship Went Down"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480574

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7dMF-QH4GI

2. Frank Hutchison, "Stackalee"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480575

3. Count Five, "Psychotic Reaction"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480576

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODR6rGcluRs

4. Count Five, "Out in the Street"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480577

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5CoGOumv9E

5. Holy Modal Rounders, "Indian War Whoop"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480578

6. Screamin' Jay Hawkins, "I Put a Spell on You"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480581

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR81PGlBeqE&feature=related

7. Vince Taylor, "Brand New Cadillac"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480582

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56XgO4MKIjI

8. The Balloon Farm, "A Question of Temperature"

9. The Castaways, "Liar, Liar"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480586

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsFK3JJ_-E

10. The Barbarians, "Moulty"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480584

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25x3aIWs76E

11. The Elastik Band, "Spazz"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480585

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFKWsfOKLsQ

12. The Fugs, "I Couldn't Get High"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480587

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vHZv7jbICg

13. The Fugs, "Nothing"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480588

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HmJX11_AQE

14. Silver Apples, "Oscillation"
http://ourmedia.org/node/480589

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S09jb-eBcGE

Homework for 1/21

Links to videos of the two songs we listened to in class:

The Shangri-Las, "Leader of the Pack"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FxSM88H-G4


Sam Cooke, "A Change is Gonna Come" - apologies for audio and for this being a political video, but it was the only copy of Sam Cooke singing it I could find.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si8p2NSfrSo&feature=related

Monday, January 19, 2009

Podcast #1

Here's the link to the first podcast. A listening response is not required for this, but please let me know if you have any difficulties accessing the files.

http://www.archive.org/details/RhetoricofPunk1_522

The lineup includes:

Sam Cooke, "A Change is Gonna Come": One of the hallmark songs of the civil rights movement.
Bob Dylan, "Subterranean Homesick Blues": Nice overview of 60s counterculture, good example of Dylan going electric.
Percy Faith, "Theme from a Summer Place": Number one song of 1960.
Jackson 5, "I Want You Back": Pop from the late 60s, with young Michael Jackson.
Shangri-Las, "Leader of the Pack": Girl group music.
Crystals, "And Then He Kissed Me": Girl group again, this time with Phil Spector production.
Aretha Franklin, "Think (Freedom)": Circling around the feminist movement.
The Band, "The Weight": Old-time music recorded up in Woodstock but not connected to the hippie movement.
Bob Dylan, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll": Early Dylan folk song, telling a story about the slaying of a black woman by a white man.
The Beatles, "The Word": The Beatles on Love