September 13, 2013 Playlist

        
"Songs From Midnight Cowboy" (1970)
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Elephants Memory  "Songs From Midnight Cowboy"  1970 (USA)
Here's a first for the KR show: our classic album this week is a listener request from last week.  Inspired by other listener requests for Lucifer's Friend, The Pretty Things and It's A Beautiful Day, here comes an even more obscure group from the psychedelic era: Elephants Memory (usually spelled without apostrophe).  This group is basically known for two things: they hooked up with John & Yoko in NYC in the early seventies, and they had songs in the Oscar-winning film Midnight Cowboy (in this DJ's opinion, the finest American film of the sixties).  The John & Yoko stuff is actually quite mediocre (their 1972 album on Apple produced by J&Y, and backing up the Lennonos on their Sometime In New York City album).  However, one of their tunes from Midnight Cowboy -- "Old Man Willow", played during a psychedelic party scene (featuring notables from the Warhol scene) -- is an absolutely mind-meltingly wonderful seven minutes of psych-rock.  Although this CAOTW is a quickie cash-in compilation featuring mostly previously released tracks from their debut album (and is not the movie's official soundtrack album), it does contain their one masterpiece track plus a handful of other fun period pieces.
 
(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request
 
Artist Song Album Year Country
Sly & The Family Stone (as The French Fries) Small Fries
Higher! (N - box set reissue)rec. 1968? (2013 Epic/Legacy)USA
Coachwhips Hands On The ControlsHands On The Controls (N - reissue)2002 (2013 Castleface)USA
Thee Oh Sees NightcrawlerFloating Coffin (N)2013 (Casteface)USA
Medicine Long As The SunTo The Happy Few (N)2013 (Captured Tracks)USA
King Tuff Kind Of GuyWas Dead (N)2013 (Gaga Digi)USA
Savages HusbandsSilence Yourself (N)2013 (Matador)UK
Grooms Very Very LibrarianInfinity Caller (N)2013 (Western Vinyl)USA
 
 
Elephants Memory (R)
Super Heep
Songs From Midnight Cowboy
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1970
USA
Elephants Memory (R)
Old Man Willow
Songs From Midnight Cowboy
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1970
USA
Elephants Memory (R)
Takin' A Walk
Songs From Midnight Cowboy
CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
1970
USA
Elephants Memory (R)
Power Boogie / Local Plastic Ono Band
Elephant's Memory 1972
USA
Meat Puppets
Everybody's Talkin' (Nilsson - the theme from Midnight Cowboy)
Meat Puppets (bonus track on CD reissue) rec. 1981
USA
   
 
The Luck Of Eden HallSassafras Overcoat (single version)
Victoria Moon (N - forthcoming)2013 (self release)
USA
King Khan & The ShrinesSo Wild
Idle No More (N)2013 (Merge)
Canada
Grant Hart GloriousThe Argument (N)2013 (Domino)USA
Nova Mob
Wernher Von Braun
   / Space Jazz
The Last Days Of Pompeii 1991
USA
The Stark Reality Too Much Tenderness
Acting, Thinking, Feeling (N - reissue box set)rec. 1969 (2013 Now Again)USA
   
 
The Orb & David Gilmour
Metallic Side
Metallic Spheres 2010
UK
MaduraTrappedMadura1971USA
Daryl Hall & John Oates
When The Morning Comes
Abandoned Luncheonette 1973
USA
Shuggie Otis
Island Letter
Inspiration Information 1974
USA
 
 
Black Sabbath Zeitgeist
13 (N)2013 (Mercury)UK
Quasimoto (Madlib) Seasons Change
   / The Front
Yessir, Whatever (N)2013 (Stones Throw)USA
David Lynch Star Dream Girl
The Big Dream (N)2013 (Sacred Bones)USA
David Grubbs The Plain Where The Palace StoodThe Plain Where The Palace Stood (N)2013 (Drag City)USA
 
  
Kurt Vile Wakin On A Pretty DayWakin On A Pretty Daze (N)2013 (Matador)USA
Eleanor FriedbergerI Don't Want To Bother You
Personal Record (N) 2013 (Merge)USA
Ty Segall CrazySleeper (N)2013 (Drag City)USA
Charles BradleyStay AwayHeartaches And Pain EP2012USA
      
   
   
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