BFT 21 Short-Attention-Span answers

[Big Al]

For the three or four people who requested the disc when I did my BFT, I finally got around to putting together the answers. I hope to one day add commentary and turn it into a rambling commentary on life as we know it, thereby writing the Great American Novel in the process. For now, though, the answers will just have to do.

Each track is listed by artist, song, and source (for this particular track).

1. James Brown, Coldblooded, The Big Payback (anthology)

2. Bob Dylan, She Belongs to Me, Bringing it All Back Home

3. Beatles, Fixing a Hole, Sgt. Pepper

4. Beatles, If I Needed Someone, Rubber Soul

5. Beatles, I'll Be Back, Hard Day's Night

6. Beatles, It's All Too Much, Yellow Submarine

7. Beatles, Strawberry Fields Forever, Anthology, Volume 2

8. Talking Heads, Found a Job, More Songs About Buildings and Food

9. Phil Keaggy, World of Mine, Crimson and Blue

10. Byrds, Bells of Rhymney, Mr. Tambourine Man

11. Byrds, Everybody's Been Burned, Younger than Yesterday (CD)

12. Byrds, It Happens Each Day, Younger than Yesterday (CD)

13. Rolling Stones, Jigsaw Puzzle, Beggar's Banquet

14. Monkees, Don't Call on Me, Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn, & Jones Ltd.

15. Fleetwood Mac, Over and Over, Tusk

16. Fleetwood Mac, That's Enough for Me, Tusk

17. Fleetwood Mac, Brown Eyes, Tusk

18. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Rude Awakening #2, Pendulum

19. Creedence Clearwater Revival, It's Just a Thought, Pendulum

20. Creedence Clearwater Revival, (Wish I Could) Hideaway, Pendulum

21. Fleetwood Mac, That's All for Everyone, Tusk

22. Beach Boys, Bluebirds Over the Mountain, 20/20

23. Beach Boys, Please Let Me Wonder, Today!

24. Talking Heads, Found a Job, Stop Making Sense

25. Talking Heads, Sax and Violins, Once in a Lifetime (anthology)

26. AC/DC, Rocker, Bonfire (box)

27. AC/DC, Down Payment Blues, Powerage

28. Ten Years After, I'm Goin' Home, Woodstock

29. Broadcast, Come On Let's Go, The Noise Made by People

30. Julian Lennon, Too Late for Goodbyes, Valotte

31. Blondie, Heart of Glass, Best of Blondie

32. Bryan Duncan, After This Day is Done, WOW Hits 1997

33. Stevie Wonder, You've Got it Bad, Girl, Talking Book

34. Motels, Suddenly Last Summer, (downloaded from Napster before they went under)

35. Motels, Only the Lonely, (downloaded from Napster before they went under)

36. Jackson Browne, In the Shape of a Heart, The Next Voice You Hear (anthology)

37. Hall & Oates, I Can't Go for That (No Can Do), The Very Best of Hall & Oates

38. Hall & Oates, One on One, The Very Best of Hall & Oates

39. Hall & Oates, Method of Modern Love, The Very Best of Hall & Oates

40. Hall & Oates, Some Things are Better Left Unsaid, The Very Best of Hall & Oates

41. Monkees, Someday Man, Music Box (anthology)

42. Monkees, Long Title: Do I have to do this all over again?, Head

43. Rolling Stones, Stray Cat Blues, Beggar's Banquet

44. Genesis, Fly on a Windshield, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

45. Genesis, In the Cage, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

46. Genesis, Lilywhite Lilith, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

47. Genesis, The Supernatural Anaesthetist, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

48. Ace Frehley, Snow Blind, Ace Frehley

49. Ace Frehley, Ozone, Ace Frehley

50. Ace Frehley, I'm in Need of Love, Ace Frehley

51. Rolling Stones, Talkin' Bout You, December's Children (and Everybody's)

52. ZZ Top, I Wanna Drive You Home, Chrome, Smoke, & BBQ (anthology)

53. Phil Keaggy, Chase the Bad Away, Phil Keaggy

54. Velvet Underground, Sister Ray, White Light White Heat

55. Velvet Underground, What Goes On, Peel Slowly and See (anthology)

56. XTC, That is the Way, Drums and Wires

57. XTC, No Language in Our Lungs, Black Sea

58. XTC, Travels in Nihilon, Black Sea

59. XTC, Senses Working Overtime, English Settlement

60. XTC, All of a Sudden (It's Too Late), English Settlement

61. XTC, Wonderland, Mummer

62. Bill Evans, Elsa, Know What I Mean?

63. George Winston, Great Pumpkin Waltz, Linus and Lucy: The Music of Vince Guaraldi

64. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Ligia, Urubu

65. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dindi, Terra Brasilis

66. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars, Terra Brasilis

67. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Marina, Terra Brasilis

68. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Someone to Light Up My Life, Terra Brasilis

69. Jack Wilson, Frank's Tune, Easterly Winds

70. Cal Tjader, Reza, Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof

71. Cal Tjader, The Prophet, Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof

72. Cal Tjader, Mongorama, Los Ritmos Calientes

73. Elvis Costello, 5ive Gears in Reverse, Get Happy!!!

74. Terry Gibbs Dream Band, The Big Cat, The Big Cat

75. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Tombstone Shadow, Green River

76. Beatles, Tomorrow Never Knows, Revolver

77. Russell Malone, Sweet Little Smile, Sweet Georgia Peach

78. Paul Desmond, Bossa Antigua, Bossa Antigua

79. Joe Jackson, Breaking Us in Two, Stepping Out: The Very Best of

80. Benny Goodman, Fascinating Rhythm, Vol. 3: All the Cats Join In

81. Wes Montgomery, Four on Six, Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides

82. Joe Jackson, Friday, Stepping Out: The Very Best of

83. Grant Green, I Concentrate On You, The Complete Quartets w/Sonny Clark

84. Antonio Carlos Jobim, Triste, Wave

85. Daniel Amos, When Everyone Wore Hats, Songs of the Heart

86. Ramsey Lewis, The In Crowd, Hit Jazz (32Jazz)

87. Phil Keaggy, Like an Island, Time, Volume 1

88. Duke Ellington, Stompy Jones, Side by Side

89. Sonic Youth, Peace Attack, Nurse

90. REM, untitled segueway, Monster

91. REM, I Don't Sleep, I Dream, Monster

[RDK]

Hey Al - thanks (finally! ) I'll have to dig up my original answers to see how I did, but I remember digging this disc quite a bit. A real "name that tune" challenge!

[mikeweil]

BTW - how long did it take you to assemble this master collage?

[Big Al]

BTW - how long did it take you to assemble this master collage?

I think it took me about four hours. I didn’t have a set list of songs I was going to use, I just started grabbing CDs off the shelf in no particular order and started copying and cutting. The only criteria I had was based on a 90-minute tape that I made about ten years ago, which also is nothing but short clips of songs. The original tape starts with a Styx clip (Skid’s gotta be laughing his ass off at that! ), and ends with the REM “I Don’t Sleep, I Dream” cutoff-ending. (A lot of the clips on that tape ended up on the SAS-BFT, BTW)

Believe it or not, I’d been planning some kind of SAS CD for years, but never thought I’d be able to replicate the spirit of the original tape. I mean, when I made that tape, I was sitting around on a Saturday morning and thought, “Wonder how it would sound if.....” and I was off. That was a very spur-of-the-moment thing that I managed to stretch out over two sides of a 90-minute tape; I didn’t think that spontaneity could be recaptured. I guess the wait was worth it, as I rather enjoy this collection.

However, I still prefer that tape over the CD, because some of the clips on that tape came from LPs that I never upgraded to CD. Hopefully, someday I’ll transfer that tape to a CD, but it’s a matter of what to leave out in order to squeeze it onto an 80-minute CD.

I think I may be ready for a second volume, if you can believe that!

[mikeweil]

However, I still prefer that tape over the CD, because some of the clips on that tape came from LPs that I never upgraded to CD. Hopefully, someday I’ll transfer that tape to a CD, but it’s a matter of what to leave out in order to squeeze it onto an 80-minute CD.

I expect to hear that as a bonus to your next BFT - meanwhile I regret I didn't ask for a copy, but it was simply too much at the time. -_-

[Big Al]

meanwhile I regret I didn't ask for a copy, but it was simply too much at the time. -_-

PM your mailing address to me. I'll gladly make a copy for you.

[catesta]

Crap!

You had some Ace Frehley on there?

[Big Al]

Crap!

You had some Ace Frehley on there?

You wanna copy? I'll trade you one for a copy of your BFT!