Always liked "Plum Wine". That song just sounded like desperate action.

Bela Fleck and the Flecktones - Rocket Science

It just put me in the right mood for this Thursday morning.

Bernice Summerfield: Oh No It Isn't! by Paul Cornell. Found a great deal on a bunch of the Bernice Big Finish audios, which almost never show up on eBay. This is the first one they ever recorded, and co-stars Nicholas Courtney as Wolsey the cat. Lisa Bowerman, who I've heard as Benny before in the Doctor Who audio Shadow of the Scourge (also by Paul Cornell, incidentally) sounds exactly like I always imagined her reading the New Adventures novels. While the story leaves something to be desired (I always hated when the novels went into the "alternate reality/inside someone's mind" area), the performances are excellent. I understand Nick Courtney was a major part of why this series was a success, by lending it some real Who cred in its infancy.

Jill Read's "Maybe" sounds like a lost Joe Meek track; it was released on Stiff Records in 1977. The drums are pushed to the front of the mix, the backing vocals sound like a chorus of angels, and the guitar part is distorted to the point where you can't really tell what instrument it is; there's also the "key change for final verse" cheap emotional boost that Meek used all the time.

But none of those things are the real reason that it's a Joe Meek Fights Back From the Grave! contender. This is: "Jill Read" doesn't exist. It's Dave Edmunds singing the vocal track slowly and speeding his voice up to sound like a woman, matching the instrumental tracks perfectly. The entire single is one big gimmicky sound trick. And it sounds right.

I had a bit of mental dissonance with this one. The intro sounds JUST enough like the intro to the Ink Spots's "Maybe" that I was expecting the lyrics to be the same, but then it diverged wildly.

Tolkein's Children of Hurin read by Christopher Lee. It's every bit as metal as you think.

Warriors by Thin Lizzy.

There is a fourth versionof "Shombalor".

Kung Fu Movie Stock Music that includes:

The Big Gundown theme by Ennio Morricone
"Magic Fly" by Space
"Oxegene part 2" by Jean-Michel Jarre

Love that, but when was it ever in a kung fu flick? All I ever recall was it being used briefly in a great scene in the sprint scene from Mel Gibson's other breakthrough movie - Gallipoli

That's a movie I'd like to see again.

On the music front, Alison Kraus and Union Station's Paper Airplane is everything its billed to be. I resisted buying it - AKUS often does not meet or exceed the hype surrounding them, but this is flat their finest release ever. Beautiful body of work.

It shows up in Jackie Chan's Snake in the Eagle's Shadow during the training sequences. Let me note, for the record, that the movie also stars Legendary Super-Kicker Hwang Jang Lee.

Goatwhore - Blood for the Master Possibly even better than Carving Out the Eyes of God. Further listens needed to confirm.

I have been listening to 'Bloody Red Shoes', which is new to me. And the soundtrack to 'There Will Be Blood'. Just something to play in the background.

I sense a theme, Junie.

ooohh .. with the blood thing! yikes ... that's purely coincidental. I'm not Dexter!!