Movits! - Äppelknyckarjazz

Swedish folk/jazz/hip hop isn't really my thing, I almost turned it off after hearing the first track but after giving it a fair listen there is something about these guys hooks that got me. The second half of the album definitely is my favorite half but the whole thing gets regular play in the mornings. This album will be the newest addition to the pubs database, though I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who will play it. As a barmaid it is really nice when people come and ask for the name of the band you're playing and it happens a lot with this band, even Swedish people. I saw that this group is playing at The Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco on Saturday January 23 and I felt really homesick because I'm sure they aren't planning a tour of the middle east anytime soon. The band is from Luleå in Sweden. Fel del av gården gets the most play at work, but that isn't because it is my favorite. I found some translated lyrics to the song here. 


I will likely forget about this band next year, few things last very long for me, but I am enjoying this album a lot at the moment.

1. Ta på dig dansskorna

2. Lite som...

3. Swing för Hyresgästföreningen

4. ...Fast tvärtom

5. A-kasseblues

6. Fel del av gården

7. Epistel N:o 1

8. Tom Jones

9. Äppelknyckarjazz

10. Stick iväg Jack del II

11. 2 Dollar på fickan

12. Det vete fan

13. Har du Soul?

14. Vals på Vinkelgränd

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Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Café

This makes me feel better when I'm sad. The first album I had of theirs was Heaven Or Las Vegas but on this album she actually has lyrics that make sense and that I understand. I attended a wedding instead of going to see them play in SF on their farewell tour. This is much more pop and cheerful than their dark and more gothic early stuff, which I love as well. This is their 8th album and must have been released around the time I got into them which was 1993ish. I have bought every album of theirs in every format I could find. They are one of the best ever. Track 1,4,6 and 10 are my favorite but the 3rd track probably is the best since it was the hit. Today was a hard day and this is all I had to help. It's pouring rain in the tin roof metropolitan.

1. Know Who You Are At Every Age
2. Evangeline
3. Bluebeard
4. Theft, And Wandering Around Lost
5. Oil Of Angels
6. Squeeze-Wax
7. My Truth
8. Essence
9. Summerhead
10. Pur

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Rodriguez - Cold Fact

The bars can stay open 24 hours here. Most close around 4 or 5 am. The bar I work at never closes before 5am and after cleaning a bar I want to go sit in one and enjoy some Captain Morgan's Original Spiced Rum in fresh orange juice (it's yummy). The bar across the street from the bar I work in is open 24 hours. It is one of the most successful bars in the city being in business for 12 or 15 years which is a huge deal in Tel Aviv considering the unstable economy tied to the political situation especially for businesses that rely at least partially on tourism. The Minzar (in English The Monastery) is a cesspool of left wing and anti-Zionist hipsters, it's also one of the few places in the world you will find Taybeh beer (Palestinian beer) on draft. About this time in the morning barmen are playing full albums and they are known for their eclectic taste which is why I started going there 7 years ago. This album has been a staple there for the last few years. It's taken a girl from San Francisco traveling half way around the world to hear some good American 60's and 70's folk music. I used to feel a little insulted that this one specific barman played this album every time I was in the bar, even when I was the only one in the bar like it was personal, but I stopped feeling that way cause I honestly don't really care one way or the other and I just enjoy the music.

Apparently Rodriguez put out 2 albums that didn't sell well and quit the music business disappearing into obscurity. Somehow the music ended up going platinum in South Africa or Australia or some place like that. There were all sorts of rumors that he died in jail or shot himself on stage, but some journalist decided to track him down and found him perusing a political career in Detroit around 1997 or 1998.

Crucify Your Mind, I Wonder, Like Janis and Jane S Piddy have to be my very favorite tracks but the whole album is really good.

1. Sugar Man

2. Only Good For Conversation

3. Crucify Your Mind

4. This is Not a Song, It's an Outburst/ The Establishment Blues

5. Hate Street Dialogue

6. Forget It

7. Inner City Blues

8. I Wonder

9. Like Janis

10. Gomorrah (a nursery rhyme)

11. Rich Folks Hoax

12. Jane S. Piddy

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