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