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Murmur by REM

This album came out in 1983 when I was in high school. It's a favorite album of mine. The cover has kudzu , a vine introduced into Georgia, where the band is from.  People visit the picture on the back. It fell down and they rebuilt it.  I'm putting the lyrics to each song, perhaps mistaken, perhaps right, which I got of the internet. 1. Radio Free Europe Lyrics: [Verse 1] Beside yourself if radio's gonna stay Reason, it could polish up the gray Put that, put that, put that up your wall That this isn't country at all [Pre-Chorus] Raving station Beside yourself [Verse 2] Keep me out of country in the word Deal the porch is leading us absurd Push that, push that, push that to the hull That this isn't nothing at all [Pre-Chorus] Straight off the boat Where to go? [Chorus] Callin' on in transit Callin' on in transit Radio Free Europe Radio Beside defyin' media too fast Instead of pushin' palaces to fall Put that, put that, put that before all That this...
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October Album listenings

10/1 REM 1991 Out of Time 10/2 Automatic for the people 1992 spotify . 10/3 Maddy Prior and June Tabor 1976 Silly Sisters 10/4 Steeleye Span 1975 concert YouTube 10/5 Steeleye Span 1970 concert YouTube 10/6 Emerson, Lake and Palmer 1970 self titled album spotify 10/7 Velvet Underground and Nico 1967 spotify 10/8  Jameszoo and  Asko/Schönberg 2025 Music for 17 Muscians  spotify 10/9 Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (2019) by The Comet Is Coming   spotify 10/10 Drifting (2023) by Mette Henriette   YouTube 10/11 Conference of the Birds by Dave Holland Quartet YouTube 10/12 Born Broke (2008) by Peter Brötzmann spotify 10/13 Dreams So Real 1976 Gary Burton Quintet spotify 10/14  Jothan Callins  The Sounds of Togetherness album: Winds of change 2023 spotify 10/15  Anouar Brahem album: Le pas du chat noir (2002) spotify 1016  Ezekiel’s Wheels 2019 The Thread spotify 10/17 John Zorn  2025 Fantasma spotify 10/18...

September Music Listenings

9/1 The Fontaines D.C. 2024 Romance YouTube 9/2 The Fontaines DC 2022  Skinty Fia 9/3 The Fontaines DC 2020 A Hero's Death 9/4 The Fontaines D.C. 2019 Dogrel   Fontaines on Reddit 9/5 Neon Indian 2011 Extra Extrana spotify 9/6 I'm ending my New To Me Summer 2025 playlist , it's going to be a new new playlist moving forward. Today is the last hot day of the summer.  I started Fall/winter25 . 9/7 Higher 2 Lower soundtrack 2025 multiple artists spotify 9/8 Henhouse Prowlers 2025 Unravel spotify 9/9 Henhouse Prowlers 2023 Led and Iron spotify 9/10 Dee Dee Bridgewater , Bill Charlap 2025 Elemental spotify 9/11 Bill Charlap Trio 2024 And Then Again (Live) spotify 9/12 Bill Charlap Trio 2021 Street of Dreams spotify 9/13 Dee Dee Bridgewater 1974 Afro Blue spotify 9/14 Albert Ayler Trio - Spiritual Unity spotify 9/15 The Peter Brotzmann Octet - Machine Gun YouTube 9/16  Hermeto Pascoal 2013 Monash Sessions spotify Miles Davis calling him the most "important mus...

Public playlist for Jazz

Someone posted on Reddit you could add two songs to a jazz playlist, and two songs are always different. It's called Kind of Us .  Jazz musicians I discovered for myself: Ivie Anderson : She was Duke Ellington's go to singer until asthma took her out of it.  Sam Lanin : Early band leader.  Isach Skiedvoll : He only has German Wikipedia entry, but my browser is set to translate everything into English. Theon Cross : Cross is a core member of the jazz band Sons of Kemet . Angélique Kidjo : Beninese-French singer-songwriter, actress, and activist. Kidjo has won five Grammy Awards and is a 2023 Polar Music Prize laureate. She has released many albums, performed around the world, and frequently collaborated with other artists. I did Soppin' The Biscuit by Roy Hargrove and A Go Go by John Scofield, 19 and 20. 

Billie Holiday

I've always loved Billie Holiday  (1915-1959), even before David Sedaris wrote about singing like her. Before reading about how the FBI sent someone to get her, and he fell in love with her, chained to a hospital bed. Before learned Billie Eilish was named after her. Before I knew she was named after Billie Dove. Before I heard Strange Fruit , her greatest song, lyrics by  Abel Meeropol . Early life bio: She was born in Philadelphia, grew up in Baltimore. "Eleanora Fagan [4] [5] was born on April 7, 1915, [6] in Philadelphia to African American unwed teenage couple Clarence Halliday and Sarah Julia "Sadie" Fagan (née Harris). Her mother moved to Philadelphia at age 19, [7] after being evicted from her parents' home in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, for becoming pregnant. With no support from her parents, Sarah made arrangements with her older, married half-sister, Eva Miller, for Holiday to stay with her in Baltimore." (Wiki...

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