Seven Songs for the Week #84 - 13th Nov 24

  1. Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, Jon Christensen

    I watched a very engaging Rick BEato video about this track this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMfchuNAvH4

    Rick Beato's YouTube varies wildly between illuminating and bad rock dad takes. This video is the former. He has a second Jarrett video that's also worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BgXCDuqZvM

  2. This was a week of gigs, three gigs to be precise. For two of those gigs, the PA playlist music being played beforehand both featured this song. Not surprising since it's great.

  3. On Friday I had cause to encounter this song twice, online and on the radio. I took it as an omen that it would be on this playlist.

  4. They Might Be Giants

    Went to see TMBG on Saturday - a joyful fantastic show that celebrated the Flood album by playing all 18 songs from it, but scattered in a random order throughout the setlist. Also, one of the songs was performed backwards.

    On Friday night (as I recounted on Mastodon) a surreal sequence of events meant that I had a voicemail from John Flansburgh on my phone. He had been doorstepped by my podcasting pal StevenC at the previous night's gig in Belfast and gave him a Nothing is Real podcast badge. When we announced our hiatus earlier this year, I was flabbergasted to get a message from Flans on Twitter that he was an avid listener. When Steven got chatting to him he joked "get Jason on the phone" and I missed the call, which is probably for the best as I gat a very amusing message from him. At the following night's show in Dublin, after the intermission he had attached the badge to his guitar strap.

  5. Ron Sexsmith

    Saw Ron Sexsmith last Wednesday, who is always worth seeing live. He dug up this track from his real first album, which was an independently released record from 1991 credited to Ron Sexsmith & The Uncool. If I could have I would have put the new song he played from his just completed 18th album - the track was possibly called "A Cigarette in one Hand and a Cocktail in the Other". It was amusing.

  6. Joy
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

    Gig number three was Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds on Tuesday night. I am not the Nick Cave fan in my house - I don't dislike him, I just don't know his stuff. So new album or old it was all fine by me. This was a very striking song at the gig, the recorded version is milder... in fact all the Wild God tracks sounded much milder after hearing the fiery live versions.

  7. Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa, Flux Pavilion

    I read Moon Unit Zappa's recently released memoir this week and it's quite affecting. I probably can't do it justice in a few sentences. Having read the Frank Zappa book as an impressionable teen, it was sad to read about how alone Moon was growing up, and all the skills and empathy that her parents lacked. Moon Unit & Dweezil Zappa were very ahead of their time, being one of the first set of famous kids who developed a type of proto-viral fame and all the associated parasocial relationships that go with it. Nobody was looking out for Moon. This remix of Valley Girl turns it into a bop, and squeezes out all the Frank distain.

Seven Songs for the Week #84 - 13th Nov 24 is an album list curated by Jason Carty:

Music listener in Dublin. Do doctory & IT things for pay. Maybe you've heard www.nothingisrealpod.com ?

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