I believe this program takes you on a
journey. Or, perhaps it picks you up off the street and into a
windowless van and drops you off in a completely different
neighborhood (with the best of intentions, of course), with a side-trip across the faces of Mt. Rushmore.
We start off with some mellow,
classical sounds before we go into some jazzy neighborhoods, before
ending up with some "popular" sounds where we ponder the
compatibility of such possibly incompatible philosophies as "fear
is a man's best friend," "purity of heart is to will one
thing," and "we all shine on" (and perhaps even "shut
up and eat.") (Albeit, with some moments of raucousness.)
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The first five tracks came around in
that order on the shuffle play one day during my evening
constitutional, the rest were added haphazardly over time until I had
achieved critical mass for a playlist. Finding the right order
actually came about rather easily considering the arbitrary selection
process.
And yes, this episode of "Unpopular
Music" does contain a hit song by one of the most popular
musicians of all time. (Sorry for the inconsistency, but where else do
you hear him paired with Eric Dolphy and Buxtehude?) It showed up in some of the appreciations of the producer when he died earlier this year, and it struck me as being the sort of thing that a Beatles/Spector collaboration was expected to sound like, discussions of which will start up again in the fall, for sure.
See the playlist after the break...