for the week ending may 20, 2006.
stats: a superlative week here at tunequest. 394 songs played over 25 hours and 40 minutes. a further 5 songs were removed from the library for a net progress of 399, a new record. frankly, i'm surprised by the results. an afternoon braves game and a couple of extented meetings cut into my normal office listening time and i didn't really expect saturday's listening to be able to compensate. not that i'm complaining about it. i'm thrilled.
highlights for the week include sharing the chicago symphony's performance of mahler's no 6 with the neighborhood, revisiting some grunge and post-grunge rock from nirvana's bleach and soundgarden's down on the upside, appreciating the smooth grooves of the well-pollished idm of to rococo rot's hotel morgen, getting funky with morton steven's very compelling tv score to hawaii five-o (best tv theme song ever!), and finally finally finally finally getting through all those babylon 5 scores* (it took 7 weeks, but i did it), as well as enjoying a host of other really great music.
also mixed in this week were a couple of james bond scores (john barry's diamonds are forever and david arnold's die another day. both excellent) and william shatner's has been. now don't laugh at this, but that shatner album is some powerful stuff. he's got a very engaging spoken-word delivery as well as some respectable collaborators. the result is 11 songs that pack more heartfelt sentiment than all the songs on top 40 radio in the past 10 years combined. i mean that.
it was also apparently "records that time forgot week" here at tunequest. i only covered 7 albums in that short-lived series, and 3 of them managed to pop up this week: can's ege bamyasi, louis and bebe barron's score to forbidden planet and martin denny's space-exotica extravaganza exotic moog. as soon as i track down that file, i'll post it.
see this week's complete list of albums in the extended entry.
*technically, i have one album left, a compilation called 'the best of babylon 5.' it's currently not eligible for play because the tunequest-ipod is into the I's and it's not smart enough to ignore the "the" at the beginning of album names. artists yes, albums no.
- grooverider [mysteries of funk]
- chicago symphony orchestra performing mahler's symphony no 6 "tragic"
- can [ege bamyasi]
- david bowie [i'm afraid of americans ep]
- puffy [fever*fever
- pizzicato five [happy end of the world]
- steve reich [early works]
- new york philharmonic orchestra performing mahler's symphony no 3
- matthew sweet [girlfriend]
- poe [haunted]
- david newman [galaxy quest]
- william shatner [has been]
- john barry [diamonds are forever]
- louis and bebe barron [forbidden planet]
- christopher franke [babylon 5: war without end]
- royal scottish national orchestra performing dvorak's symphony no 1 "the bells of zionice"
- the flaming lips [fight test] ep
- aarhus symphony orchestra performing vagn holmboe's symphony no 5
- to rococo rot [hotel morgen]
- philip glass [heroes symphony]
- the simpsons [go simpsonic with the simpsons]
- martin denny [exotic moog]
- trevor jones [dark city]
- letters to cleo [go!]
- david arnold [die another day]
- dennis mccarthy [enterprise]
- hum [electra 2000]
- morton stevens [hawaii five o]
- nirvana [bleach]
- soundgarden [down on the upside]
- pearl jam live at spodek arena, katowice, poland 2000.06.15
- sarah mclachlan [fumbling towards ecstasy