Music

Spotify playlist for this quarter is here. Playlists for past quarters and years here.

Music I most enjoyed discovering this quarter:

• Godspeed You! Black Emperor: G_d’s Pee at State’s End (2021)
• Stefan Lakatos & Andreas Heuser: The Orastorios / Moondog Rounds (2009)
• Squid: Bright Green Field (2021)
• Sparks: “Moon Over Kentucky” (1973)
• BRUIT ≤: The Machine Is Burning and Now Everyone Knows It Could Happen Again (2021)
• Sons of Kemet: Black to the Future (2021)
• The Narcotix: Mommy Issues (2001)

Rediscovered or revisited, and really liked:

• The Beatles: “Yesterday” (1965), “Eleanor Rigby” (1966), Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” (1968), “Blackbird” (1968), “Hey Jude” (1968)
• The Rolling Stones: “Satisfaction” (1965), “Paint It, Black” (1966), “Sympathy for the Devil” (1968)
• The Kinks: “You Really Got Me” (1964), “Picture Book” (1968)
• The Who: Tommy (1969), “Won’t Get Fooled Again [album version]” (1971)
• James Brown: “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” (1965), “Get Up” (1970)
• Bob Dylan: “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Ballad of a Thin Man” (1965), Blonde on Blonde (1966), “Hurricane” (1976)
• Donovan: “Hurdy Gurdy Man” (1968)
• The Turtles: “Happy Together” (1966), “Elenore” (1968)
• The Mamas and the Papas: “California Dreamin’” (1966)
• The Lovin’ Spoonful: “Summer in the City” (1966)
• Tim Buckley: “Buzzin’ Fly” (1969), “The Train” (1969), Lorca (1970), Starsailor (1970)
• Frank Zappa: Hot Rats (1969), Burnt Weeny Sandwich (1970), Waka/Jawaka (1972), The Grand Wazoo (1972), Roxy & Elsewhere (1974), “Inca Roads” (1975), Orchestral Favorites (1979), Sheik Yerbouti (1979)
• Captain Beefheart: Safe as Milk (1967)
• Jefferson Airplane: “Somebody to Love” and “White Rabbit” (1967)
• Kaleidoscope: “Taxim” (1968)
• The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967), “Sister Ray” (1968)
• Iron Butterfly: “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” (1968)
• Love: Forever Changes (1967)
• The Doors: The Doors (1967), Strange Days (1967), L.A. Woman (1971)
• Spirit: Spirit (1968), The Family That Plays Together (1968)
• Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced (1967), Electric Ladyland (1968)
• Pink Floyd: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967), A Saucerful of Secrets (1968), Atom Heart Mother (1970), Meddle (1971), The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), The Wall (1979)
• Hapshash & the Coloured Coat: Featuring the Human Host and the Heavy Metal Kids (1967)
• Shocking Blue: “Venus” (1969)
• Cream: “Sunshine of Your Love” (1967), “White Room” (1968)
• Carlos Santana: Lotus (1974)
• Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968), Moondance (1970)
• The Moody Blues: “Nights in White Satin” (1967)
• Procol Harum: “A Whiter Shade of Pale” (1967)
• The Bonzo Dog Doo/Dah Band: Gorilla (1967), The Doughnut in Granny’s Greenhouse (1968), “Turkeys” (1972)
• Creedence Clearwater Revival: “Fortunate Son” (1969)
• Dr. John: Gris Gris (1968)
• The Meters: The Meters (1969)
• David Axelrod: Song of Innocence (1968)
• David Ackles: “Ballad of the Ship of State” (1972)
• Jimmy Webb / Richard Harris: “MacArthur Park” (1968)
• Norman Greenbaum: “Spirit in the Sky” (1968)
• Nico: Desertshore (1970)
• Leonard Cohen: Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967), “Hallelujah” (1984), “First We Take Manhattan” (1988), “You Want It Darker” (2016)
• Fleetwood Mac: “Tusk” (1979)
• Neil Young: “Southern Man” (1970), “Heart of Gold” (1972)
• Scott Walker: “Farmer in the City” (1995)
• Moondog: Moondog [1969] (1969), Moondog 2 (1971), Bracelli (1987), “Westward Ho!” (1991), Big Band (1995), Sax Pax for a Sax (1997)
• John Martyn: “Glistening Glyndebourne” (1971), Solid Air (1973), Inside Out (1973)
• Cat Stevens: “Wild World” (1970), “Miles from Nowhere” (1970), “Morning Has Broken” (1971), Catch Bull at Four (1972)
• Hot Butter: “Popcorn” (1972)
• Lothar & the Hand People: “Machines” (1968)
• Peter Ivers: “Traveling Lightly” (1969), “Gentle Jesus” (1969)
• The Zombies: Odessey And Oracle (1968)
• Family: Music in a Doll’s House (1968), Family Entertainment (1969), Fearless (1971)
• King Crimson: In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), Islands (1971), Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973), Red (1974), Discipline (1981)
• Van Der Graaf Generator: The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (1970), H To He Who Am The Only One (1971), Pawn Hearts (1971)
• Yes: Fragile (1971), Close to the Edge (1972)
• Third Ear Band: Elements (1970)
• Strawbs: “Tomorrow” (1972)
• Jan Dukes de Grey: Mice and Rats in the Loft (1971)
• Back Door: Back Door (1972)
• Ben: Ben (1971)
• Nektar: “Countenance” (1972)
• Jade Warrior: Waves (1975), Kites (1976), Way of the Sun (1978), Horizen (1984)
• The Kinks: Arthur or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire (1969)
• Gentle Giant: Three Friends (1972), In a Glass House (1973)
• Roxy Music: Roxy Music (1972), For Your Pleasure (1973), Stranded (1973)
• Focus: “Hocus Pocus” (1972)
• Area: Arbeit Macht Frei (1973), Caution Radiation Area (1974)
• Magma: Kobaïa (1970), Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh (1973), Köhntarkösz (1974), Üdü Ẁüdü (1976), K.A. (2004), Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré (2009), Félicité Thösz (2012), Šlag Tanƶ (2015), Zëss: Le jour du néant (2019)
• Offering: Part 1 & Part 2 (1986), III & IV (1990), A Fiïèh (1993)
• William Sheller: Lux Aeterna (1972)
• Aphrodite’s Child: 666 (1972)
• Vangelis: “Heaven & Hell, Part 1” (1975), “Chariots of Fire: Titles” (1981), “Conquest of Paradise” (1992)
• The Flock: “Truth” (1969)
• It’s a Beautiful Day: It’s a Beautiful Day (1969)
• Soft Machine: The Soft Machine (1968), Volume Two (1969), Third (1970), Fourth (1971), Fifth (1972), Six (1973)
• Caravan: In the Land of Grey and Pink (1971)
• Ian Carr / Nucleus: Elastic Rock (1970), We’ll Talk About It Later (1970), Solar Plexus (1971), Belladonna (1972), In Flagranti Delicto (1977)
• Keith Tippett: Dedicated To You, But You Weren’t Listening (1971)
• Khan: Space Shanty (1972)
• Egg: Egg (1970), The Polite Force (1971), The Civil Surface (1973)
• Gong: Camembert Electrique (1971), Flying Teapot (1973), Angel’s Egg (1973)
• Kevin Ayers: Joy of a Toy (1969), The Confessions of Doctor Dream and Other Stories (1974)
• Robert Wyatt: The End of an Ear (1970), Rock Bottom (1974), Dondestan (1991), Cuckooland (2003)
• Matching Mole: Matching Mole (1972), Little Red Record (1972)
• National Health: National Health (1978), Of Queues and Cures (1978)
• Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (1973), Hergest Ridge (1974), Incantations (1978)

Movies/TV

Ones I “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

• Duplass Brothers, Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011)
• Seligman, Shiva Baby (2020)
• Rianda, The Mitchells vs the Machines (2021) ★
• Horvat, I Blame Society (2020)
• Zobel, Mare of Easttown (2021)
• Various, Happy Valley, season 1 (2014)
• Various, Happy Valley, season 2 (2016)
• Soderbergh, No Sudden Move (2021)

Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) isn’t a particularly good movie, but I’ll give it an honorable mention for the most spectacular “giants” fight scenes I’ve seen yet.

Games

Ones I “liked” or “really liked” (no star), or “loved” (star):

• [none]

Books

• Robertson, The Enlightenment