Friday Playlist: Too Much Perspective

June 25, 2009 is the day many of us will remember as the day a visionary musical oddball died: Sky Sunlight Saxon of The Seeds.

For more detail, I'll point you to Nels Cline's piece about his experiences with Sky Saxon.

Grooveshark doesn't have a lot of Sky's music, but there was enough to assemble a playlist with more than enough for most (and really, all 15 minutes of "Up in Her Room" is more than enough for anybody).

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Too_Much_Perspective/9344323

Friday Playlist: ...For the Whole World to See

The continued supply of newly unearthed, long-lost and/or forgotten music gives old people like me less incentive to keep up with anything new. Thanks (I guess), Drag City records for reissuing (or maybe just "issuing") this lost mid-70s album from 3 Detroit brothers who called themselves "Death" (why so negative, young African-American brothers from mid-70s Detroit?).

If you don't feel up to listening to the whole album, just go with the last song, "Politicians in my Eyes".

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Death_For_the_Whole_World_to_See/8036889

Friday Playlist: Antique Homes and Plastic Cones

Pavement was (probably by design) an eccentric band. How eccentric? Their "classic lineup" of Malkmus, Kannberg, Ibold, Nastanovich and Young never even recorded an album.

They did record though. Piecing together tracks from an EP, B-sides and Peel sessions, this is what Pavement's missing album number one-and-a-half circa 1992/1993 might have been.

http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/playlist/Antique_Homes_and_Plastic_Cones/8865288

I think "Relight the Burnt Match (and Stick a Flag on it)" would make a better title, but Grooveshark does not give users a way to rename playlists, other than recreating them under a different name. In Computerese, that's "there is no mv, only cp and rm."