There isn’t really a theme to this particular playlist, except perhaps that all the tracks I’ve chosen have a certain quality that reflects my state of mind at the moment.
There is a kind of otherworldliness about many of these, tinged with maybe a dash of melancholy, distance or maybe detachment from the day-to-day dullness of grey, dismal February.
I’ve tried to make the playlist a kind of voyage, starting out with a dash of experimentation that flows into Jerry Garcia’s achingly beautiful “The Wheel”, via some old and new psychedelia, a dash of a Fripp and Travis soundscape, a leavening of classically lovely female singing and finally coming home again, via post-rock, to a place of aching beauty again.
The photograph that heads up this playlist is one of my own. It is the Château de Sercy in the southern part of Burgundy, just north of Cluny. I have no particular reason to post it, except that it is a lovely place and the sky is blue in the picture.
We all need a bit of blue in our skies at this time of year. I think that February is the worst month of the year, but hopefully this playlist ends on an fairly uplifting and optimistic note and leads the way to a happy 2011 for all of us ‘Spillers and our loved ones.
Anyway, now for the music;
1. Jerry Garcia – The Wheel
2. Moby Grape – Looper
3. Mazzy Star – Look Down From The Bridge
4. Warpaint – Warpaint
5. Robert Fripp and Theo Travis – Moonchild
6. It’s A Beautiful Day – Bombay Calling
7. Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan – Black Mountain
8. Sandy Denny – I’m A Dreamer
9. Mogwai – Like Herod
10. Sigur Ros – Agaetis Byrjun
Argh, too much good music suddenly posted! Breaking off for “Glee” (I know, I know) – particularly loved the Mazzy Star so far! More later…
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still barely able to type
Carole, that Mazzystar is one of the most beautiful things I have ever heard in my life. I cannot stop, and I cannot even contemplate letting anything else play
i am shaking, I am wiping away tears, I am breathless
I’m just settling in after a flriay long day. Then, I had a thought! Oh, I haven’t checked my feeds today. Not remembering that it’s FRIDAY TERICA!! I’m watching the FINALS of Who’s Got Jokes (which is a joke in itself) and YOU are much, much funnier than these guys. Thanks for giving me something to forward to my girls this weekend!Hey, I need judgement for an offense that one of my bride’s presented to me today. Wanting to use a different font on her program than her invites! Yes, the ALL SCRIPT font she FOUGHT ME FOR ON THE INVITES! Can’t nobody read that! Frickin directions cards in Bickham Script! WHAT?! People gone wreck they cars trying to read that mess and drive at the same time! UGGHH!!! I just went and picked up the Vodka bottle and called it a day!
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Absolutely stellar playlist, right up my alley. Only song that didn’t do much for me was the Warpaint. Standouts on a list of standouts – the Mazzy Star (was already a fan of theirs), Sandy Denny, and Sigur Ros. Thank you.
Thanks Carole, that was a lovely playlist – enjoyed everything.
Annoyingly, the phone rang in the middle of Mazzy Star. So I’m going back for another listen.
i liked.. amongst others..
Mazzy Star
Warpaint
Mogwai
… got another Sigur Ros album in the library disc sale on Saturday, (yeah – we love our libraries – time to bomb the two headed government monster – I say) , haven’t listened to them since () because I didn’t really get into them – time for another go.
…been getting more Hope Sandoval too… joys.
Lovely Carole, I really like Mazzy Star. Reflects my mood at the moment, I like February, given that I was born in it, but it seems to have been winter for a long time. Trying to address it by manic de-cluttering, over half-term! Out with the old …
Trying to address it by manic de-cluttering, over half-term! Out with the old…..
I’m trying that.. but the 4 month old seems to be permanently attached to his mama and she says it’s her house too… and the nearly 6 year old is big enough to say he’s not leaving EVER!
…s’pose it’s me out or we all have to cope
Finally got Mazzy Star (oh God, it is truly breathtakingly, ACHINGLY lovely: how have I never heard it before?) out of my system enough to be able to play the rest of the list – and just wait a cotton-pickin’ minute, that’s Deep Purple’s Child In Time played on a … a … a whatthehellisTHAT, Carole?
Glad this playlist worked for you DsD.
The It’s A Beautiful Day track was put in deliberately. I know there are a few Purple fans on The ‘Spill. It predates Child In Time and it is played on a violin.
So I see, looking at allmusic, by a year. Butbutbut … how on earth did Purple get away with listing Blackmore/Gillan/Lord/Glover/Paice as sole composers of Child In Time??
To my shame, I didn’t know that Sandy Denny either. You’re really pushing my buttons here, Carole.