The blog seems to have gotten away from
“top [fill-in-the-blank] of [today's date]” format, which was
really the format of the (off-line) music journal I'd been keeping
for myself, largely as a writing exercise (itself, largely as an
effort to “just do something”). The process of singling out a
song, or two, or five, or whatever to write about has largely been
replaced by adding said two-to-whatever songs to the playlist for the
next webcast. So now, to get some more writing done, and, let's face
it, create some more “content” for the blog, I'm going to try (at
least this week) to write some “program notes” for the webcast.
I first heard Katie Lee singing Real
Sick Sounds on a compilation called “Beat Jazz - Pictures from the
Gone World volume 2” and enjoyed it's depiction of the lover of
dissonant and off-beat music. Further research led me to the album
“Songs of Couch and Consultation” a sort-of song cycle of
psychologically themed songs which also include The Will to Fail, the
Guilty Rag, Shrinker Man, and others, collectively a
hoot-and-a-holler.
