1. “Wouldn’t it be Nice,” The Beach Boys
2. “Son of a Preacher Man,” The Gaylettes
3. “Only,” Okay
4. “Dignified and Old,” The Modern Lovers
5. “Underwear,” The Magnetic Fields
6. “Baby Pop,” France Gall
7. “On the Beach,” Honey is Cool
8. “08/14/04,” Rock Plaza Central
9. “She’s Comin’ On Stronger,” The Outsiders
10. “Oh Oh Cheri,” Francoise Hardy
11. “Girls on the Square,” Dent May
12. “Kiss Me Like You Mean It,” The Magnetic Fields
13. “Feast of 1000 Beasts,” Will Whitemore & Jenny Hoyston
14. “Modern Girl,” Sleater-Kinney
15. “Stand By Me,” Jean Touitou
16. “I Wanna be Your Dog,” Iggy Pop
17. “Foggy Eyes,” Beat Happening
18. “Brandy Alexander,” The Walkmen
19. “I’m Gonna Get in that Girl’s Mind,” The Reddlemen
20. “Do Wha Diddy Diddy,” Sonia
21. “I Don’t Believe You,” The Magnetic Fields
22. “Still in Love with You,” Thinker

60 Minutes, 71.4 MB
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Playlist: Longing, Sex

1. “I’m a Hard Working Man,” Abner Jay
2. “Love in Vain,” Robert Johnson
3. “Wildwood Flower,” The Carter Family
4. “Sure to Fall,” Carl Perkins
5. “Mona,” The Rolling Stones
6. “I Don’t Love You No More,” The Continental Co-Ets
7. “How Can I Love You (If You Won’t Lie Down),” The Silver Jews
8. “Poppa B,” Need New Body
9. “Coney Isle,” Roscoe Holcomb
10. “I Fall to Pieces,” Patsy Cline
11. “Too Late to Cry,” Stanley Brothers
12. “Laughing to Keep From Crying,” Holly Golightly
13. “Christine’s Tune,” The Flying Burrito Brothers
14. “Little Glass of Wine,” Stanley Brothers
15. “Dark Was the Night,” Blind Willie Johnson
16. “Some of These Days,” Charlie Patton
17. “Single Girl,” Roscoe Holcomb
18. “Fear of Trains,” The Magnetic Fields
19. “Money, Honey,” Wanda Jackson
20. “Any Way You Like It,” Holly Golightly
21. “Judgement,” Rev. Sister Mary Nelson
22. “Japanese Car,” Thinker

60 Minutes, 77.5 MB.
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Elizabeth’s Playlist

I don’t know how it happened, but I’m feeling pretty lucky to have stumbled onto this little history lesson from Liberace on the provenance of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. Play it below or follow this link.

Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata -…

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A Liberace History Lesson

wetnurse (http://www. myspace. com/wetnursenyc)
the jonbenet (http://www. myspace. com/thejonbenet)
welcome home (http://www. myspace. com/welcomearewelcomehome)
pollution (http://www. myspace. com/pollutionpollutionpollution)

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Tomorrow: Tour Comes to Brooklyn

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Great Moments in Music Video History

This is a fascinating article from Slate about a serious problem facing emcees these days: the Sample Troll. What is a sample troll, you ask? From the article:

Similar to its cousins the patent trolls, Bridgeport and companies like it hold portfolios of old rights (sometimes accumulated in dubious fashion) and use lawsuits to extort money from successful music artists for routine sampling, no matter how minimal or unnoticeable. The sample trolls have already leveraged their position into millions in settlements and court damages, but that’s not the real problem. The trolls are turning copyright into the foe rather than the friend of musical innovation.

The article is long, but it really is worth reading. There’s an audio version of it floating around somewhere, too.

This trolling thing is serious business. I hadn’t heard of the sample trolls before, but I remember reading an article in the New Yorker about a patent trolling company that was taking down RIM, the company that developed the BlackBerry. They had patented a crude wireless email system that is sort of like RIM’s, and they were suing them for like a gajillion dollars. It was going to totally sink the company but then of course Microsoft bought them out and solved the problem.

This article only relates only peripherally to what I just said. It’s interesting though, because unlike the New Yorker article, it gives suggestions about how the music industry might address the sample troll threat. I hope to see some lively discussion about this here, assuming that anyone is reading this. Post comments if you’re out there! Let’s make this a back and forth!

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Jay-Z vs. the Sample Trolls