Mixtape Friday

Its Memorial Day weekend, so let's remember music from different decades.  I've got a couple songs covered from the 80's till now.  Enjoy.

Whatever Wednesday

I've been curious as to the origins of a certain Talking Heads live album called Monkey Business.  My brother brought it as an import and it is very hard to find the original now.  I was able to track down that this was actually a bootleg of a concert, although the sound quality is outstanding.  It is by far my favorite album of Talking Heads music.  Here is the album cover that I was able to track down.

  I'm not one for owning live albums.  For a long time, I hated when bands put out live albums because they didn't sound at all like the recordings.  But this is different.  A lot of the songs are similar to the live album "Stop Making Sense" but after listening to both, I felt and still feel that Monkey Business is the better sounding album and has the most energy with the crowd noises involved.  I'd say "Go take a listen at Spotify" or wherever else you can go listen to music for free, but this is no where to be found.  I will have to post some examples comparing the recording to Stop Making Sense and see what everyone else thinks.

In the meantime, here's "Found a Job" from the famous "Stop Making Sense" film.

Whatever Wednesday

The Ocean Blue

As with grunge music I was a little late to the game listening to certain bands of the 80's....namely The Ocean Blue.  Growing up with older siblings that exposed me to the best that the 80's had to offer, I didn't think at the time (2002) that I was missing anything.  Once I heard the song, "Between Something and Nothing" I was hooked.  I immediately wanted to get my hands on everything the band ever produced.  That repetitive guitar hook never stops being amazing no matter how many times its repeated. The Ocean Blue is definitely under the radar as far as good late 80's\early 90's bands go, so you should check them out.