StoryViz Outtro 12/6/12

Day 10 — Intermissions

Jazz.  No vocals.

Starts with and features two from Dave Brubeck — died today.

It's all pretty evenly paced...
could work as an intro / outro / activity soundtrack too.

Track listing:
Everybody's Jumpin' — Dave Brubeck Quartet
Caravan — Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Charles Mingus
Hurricane Camielle — Belá Fleck & the Flecktones
Chicken — Jaco Pastorius
Sea Brazil — Belá Fleck & the Flecktones
Blue Rondo a la Turk — Dave Brubeck Quartet
Straight, No Chaser — Thelonious Monk

Length: ~ 37 min.

Day 10 — Intro

Lots of short songs with a few lengthy bits.
Genres all over the place.

Echo + delay and the Bo Diddley beat show up all over this list...
even from sources pre-dating and outside the BD genre.

Herb Alpert is the flux; the whole thing teeters on shlock,
but holds together well.

Fairly lengthy (duration) playlist.

Track listing:
Rootie Tootie — Thelonious Monk
I Want More — Can
Funky Fly — Bo Diddley
Golden Years — David Bowie
Side Effects — Parliament-Funkadelic
Green Peppers — Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Band
Sneakin' Sally thru the Alley — Robert Palmer
Break up the Concrete — The Pretenders
Mexican Shuffle — Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Band
(You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care — Buddy Holly
White Lightnin' — George Jones
You've Got a Long Way to Go — Dale Watson
The Maltese Melody — Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Band
Linus and Lucy — Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
So What — Jerry Garcia & David Grisman
Sleepwalk —Los Lobos
Boots of Chinese Plastic — The Pretenders

Length: ~56 min.

Day 7 — Intro

Funky R&B.

Couple splashes of jazz.
Starts with an upbeat swing number from Stephane Grapelli
that while neither funk, nor R&B, fits well.

Track list:

Alabamy Bound - Stephane Grapelli

Jeanette - The English Beat
Country Ghetto - JJ Grey

Shake 'Em on Down - R. L. Burnside

Sneakin' with Sally through the Alley - Robert Palmer

Think - James Brown

O Me-O, My-O - Lee Dorsey

Walkin' - Sonny Stitt

Do Re Mi - Dusty Springfield
Rubberband Man - The Spinners

How Much Fun - Robert Palmer

Play time: ~ 38 min.

Activity — Ambient — Day 6

Instrumental - occasional single word or phrase.
Intended for a cognition activity - individual or group work focusing on reading or observation (as opposed to building / talking).

There is a slight "turnaround" after the first two songs: 15 min of calm ramping a bit for the next 15 min.

Track listing:
(Emphasizes a shuffle from two albums: 1) Tourist - St. Germain and 2) Brother Sister - The Brand New Heavies)


Pont des Arts - St. Germain
Ten Ton Take - The Brand New Heavies
Dog - Moby
Meteor - Tal Farlow
Latin Note - St. Germain
People Giving Love - The Brand New Heavies
For Everyone Under the Sun - Jimmy Smith
What You Think about … - St. Germain

Play length: ~ 50:30

Day 4 — Intro — 10/17/12

Full genre mix; starts with funk ends with border grunge > Petula Clark.
Sticks with 2 tunes then moves.  50/50 split with lyrics (in English) and instrumental;
instrumentals mostly in the jazz genre.

Track list:
Two Trains – Lowell George
Angela — Bob James
Rock 'N Roll — Traffic
When You Are Near — Warren Hood
Three Little Words – Stephane Grappelli
Betcha Got a Chick on the Side —Pointer Sisters
Peaches en Regalia — Frank Zappa
My Flying Saucer — Billy Bragg
Shake That Thing — Woody Allen Trio
Bodas de Oro —  Ry Cooder & Manuel Galbán
Güero Canelo — Calexico
There Goes My Baby — Yo La Tengo
With All My Heart — Petula Clark

Time: ~ 47 minutes.

storyviz day 3 outtro : FUNKY to ROCKY

Starts of mellow (but upbeat) & funky. Proceeds to get more into rock and roll when it's time for the kids to exit (a little rock n' roll nudge.)

Day 3 — Intro — 10/11/12

Love it.

Generally quite listenable, but fairly aggressive.
"Heavy Petting Zoo" has some harder guitar sounds around 2:30.
A few extended horn and guitar jams within relatively short songs.

Track listing:

Alabama Jubilee — Leon Redbone
Shake for Me — John Hammond, Jr.
On the Street Where You Live — Quincy Jones
Miss Oblivion — Bob Schneider
51 Phantom — North Mississippi Allstars
Heavy Petting Zoo — Big Ass Truck
Jazz (We've Got) — Tribe Called Quest
What is Hip? — Tower of Power
Big Thing — Deep Banana Blackout
These Strange Days — Donna the Buffalo

Time: ~34 minutes

StoryViz Day 2 — 10/04/12 — Outro

Starts PEPPY and ends BAWDY.

Couple short bouncy tunes followed by longer/louder tunes.

Length: 29 minutes

Track listing:

Viva Las Vegas - Elvis Presley
(My Heart Goes) Piddily - Nappy Brown
C'est Chaud - Sonny Landreth
Stay with Me - Faces
Watermelon Man - Jimmy Smith
Saint Dominic's Preview - Van Morrison
Guacamole - The Texas Tornados

StoryViz Day 2  — Intro 10/04/12 

Fairly aggressive Funk/Psych/Rock mix bookended by R&B flavours.
Length: 35 minutes

Track listing:
Come See about Me - The Supremes
Superfly - Curits Mayfield
You're Gonna Miss Me - 13th Floor Elevators
Mr. Soul - Buffalo Springfield
Shakedown Street - Ryan Adams
Sad Sond - Arthur Lee
Gene Autry - Beulah
Cleo's Mood - Junior Walker & the All Stars
Right Place Wrong Time - Dr. John
Doo Wop (That Thing) - Lauryn Hill

storyviz : exit music

This is upbeat exit music.

storyviz : intermezzo

This is intermission music.
It also has a sense of humor.
Play it only if you do as well.

storyviz : activity music

This list was originally designed to accompany a "story-card" activity, where students are crafting a story in 15 min. The "mysterious music" at the beginning (e.g. "There's an End") is meant to accompany that exercise. The last part of the mix is good for any activity (upbeat, regular, & lyric-less).

storyviz : entre music

Entrance music.
A long enough list to be used on multiple occasions just by starting further down the list.

StoryViz Day 9 & 10 : Palm Springs Mix

This playlist violates all most rules in tips for finding music, except that it was culled from places where the music was curated: many songs have prominent lyrics and lots of changes. Needless to say, this list should be used with caution for a class activity. That aside, for intro / outro music––that's how we used it––it's nice.

It's called the "Palm Springs Mix" because it is the musical summary of a trip to Palm Springs wherein I was exposed to the likes of a few dj's whose selections informed this list: dublab dj's frosty & turquoise wisdom, and intoxica radio's howie pyro.

Day 8 Activity

The genres are all over the place on this,
though the effort is to make seamless shifts throughout.
Lyrics are de-emphasized when present.

Track listing:


Canadian Sunset - Wes Montgomery
What Will You Do When Your Suntan Fades? - Beulah
Hard Hustling - Andre Williams
Give A Little, Take A Little - Jimmy Cliff
Doors of Your Heart - The English Beat
Flowers In The Window - Travis
The Light of the Sun - Jill Scott
Dream come true - The Brand New Heavies
Bits & Pieces - Junior Boys
Sing a Simple Song - Sly & The Family Stone

Time: ~ 44 minutes

Day 7 Outro

An attempt to blend the timelessness of reggae with the severe production of the 80s.

Day 7 Intro

Roughly symmetric content, starting off with lyrics and then moving into longer jammy tunes, then back out to lyrics.
Themed approximately around the vibe of Mexican folk tune, trumpets/brass, 70s shtick, and funk.

Track listing:

Jingy - Bob Schnieder

Wolfman's Brother - Phish

Help Yourself - Tom Jones

El Jefe - Mexican Institute of Sound

Call Me the Breeze - J.J. Cale

Fear, Hate, Envy, Jealousy - The Neville Brothers

City of Immigrants - Steve Earle

Jonny Yen - James

Length: ~ 33 min

storyviz : covers mix

This one is 100% covers mostly of glam rock and new wave titles from the late 70's and early 80's with a bunch of other stuff as well. (Yes the 80's : these songs are exceptions to the rule that the 80's were a pop culture wasteland––which is still true.) Heavily features Seu Jorge & Nouvelle Vague––and why not?––but there are plenty others like Florence and the Machine's delicious cover of Not Fade Away and some surprises like the Soul Fantastics.

Plus some other stuff. Mostly mellow, but some punchy tunes. Watch out for Seven Nation Army, this should be wielded with caution––maybe as the second song after a class ends. And there are a couple of holdovers from other mixes, but they fit so well here it is hard to imagine a good reason to leave them out. In they stay.

svc playlist : test music

This one is a set of tunes that sit on my machine in a folder called "test music". Not sure if these will work for class or not. But these seemed to do pretty well, despite some being lyrics heavy. Play during activities if you are feeling adventurous. Play as an outro if you are not.