We had an intern at my last company that I kind of took under my wing. He was 21 and a lover of music. He liked both old and new stuff and when we traded, I had little time to listen to everything as it was close to 10 gigs of music. As I was perusing some clip links, I caught this fantastic performance of Death From Above 1979 on Conan O'Brian. It's a duo consisting of only Bass and Drums. Cool. Max even runs over to cover the drums for a while. Pretty cool. You have to hover the mouse around the dead black space until you find the controls for the player. Anyway, they were in the stuff I took from the intern and I've now listened to it all day. Read more about them here. They disbanded already and there isn't much of them out there - but I really dig the one studio album that they put out. If they got together with The White Stripes I guess they would have a full band. Sorry Stilladog, I stole your column! I didn't think you'd mind.
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First a comment on Death From Above 1979 and then on to what I've been listening to.
I have their album "You're A Woman, I'm A Machine." And it's really good. So if you want to check out Fan's suggestion, that's the one to look for. It's amazing the sound they get out of just two instruments but particularly the bass! And they are waaaaaaay better than the White Stripes (who I detest).
As for what I've been listening to... well I've been all over the map musically speaking lately. And that probably explains why Fan hijacked my column. I haven't been able to focus.
Anyway here's the top 10 as we sit here at the beginning of Daylight Savings Time:
10. Big Al & The Heavyweights - Midnight Gumbo Party
9. Coleman Hawkins - Blues Wail
8. G.E. Smith & The SNL Band - Get A Little
7. Jerry Reed - Live Still!
6. Dexter Gordon - The Comeback
5. Muddy Waters - "Unk" in Funk
4. Third World - Aiye-Keta
3. Funkadelic - The Original Cosmic Funk Crew
2. Ruthie Foster -The Truth According to Ruthie Foster
1. Jimmy Dawkins - Kant Sheck Dees Bluze
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