Zig Zag Wanderer: Songs to Dance To

And the title track: another from the great Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.

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What a beautiful sight, someone carving up their groove like that. :) I am really digging Captain Beefheart’s tunes, - which I’ve never really heard, as I’ve led a really sheltered life. ;)

Here’s a micro-disco for ya’ll good people. You can dust the cobwebs off with this one for starters. Ummm, and then perhaps a bit of turtle soup. And a little fairy cake for dessert.

Lisa

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Lisa, I love the turtles! That might be the new Integral Archipelago theme song.  :)

Do you really like Captain Beefheart? Not a lot of women do. Those are great songs, though. He gets pretty far out sometimes, but he has some great ones. Can you dance to this?  :) :)

He grew up with Frank Zappa, and the two recorded and performed together sometimes. Frank talks about him here.

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Haha! Yep, it’s a perfect theme tune. Yep, I really do like Captain Beefheart. :) I used to listen to loads of stuff like that, including Mr Zappa who was a top fav. I have to admit, the latest C.B-heart installment made me laugh more than dance. :) But yep, I could have got very funny on the dancefloor to that one, he’s sufficiently quirky.

Here’s a little cutesty one for starters: Bouge de la - & one to kick your kosmic shoes off too: Revival

Lisa

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Ah, The Captain!

Here’s my favourite - Bat Chain Puller

James

PS- Does anyone know where he got the name Captain Beefheart from? I’ve heard one explanation and if true, it’s as disturbing as the music! :-)

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I digs the Captain’s Ice Cream for Crow.  Reminds me of wacky days in the AZ desert (the same mad heat that bred the Meat Puppets…)

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James, can you really dance to ‘Bat Chain Puller’ ? :) Come on, you’re free to disclose that here.

Haha, that tune really cracked me up.

Lisa

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Hi Lisa

No, I’m not sure about dancing to it either. I usually kind of just kind of shake my head in joyous disbelief at how weirdly wonderful it all is.

James

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You don’t know how happy I am that we are discussing Captain Beefheart! I never thought I would see it!  :)

James, what a great performance of Bat Chain Puller! I think I enjoyed that more than any other time I have heard the song. Lisa, yes, I think we might be able to dance to it! :) Because of the cool drummer. But those are truly danceable ones you posted.  :)

Bruce, that is a great song! I actually enjoyed that more than any other time I had listened to it as well. Maybe there’s something to listening to songs in an intersubjective space that makes it more pleasurable, but that was really cool. There’s some really cool stuff in there, as well as in the Meat Puppets song.

James, I think there are two stories that go around about his name. One is quite disturbing, yes, and I won’t repeat it. :) The other is simply that he had a beef in his heart about society, and he mentioned that one in a relatively recent interview. I kind of think that’s it.

Here is a really great one. Can you dance to that?  :)

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‘Joyous disbelief!’ Ha, that’s a good reason to shake the head James. :) I tend to dance like that at least once a week. :)

Yep David, Abba Zaba Muse was groovable! :) you are spinning a crazy disco! :)

Here’s a nice smooth one: Funki Porcini - Long Road & maybe a touch of Mr Scruff ahhhhh, nice. I am finding since I’ve been folding myself into 5 rhythms dance class that I am fully appreciating the groove of less hectic tunes. Which is a personal breakthrough, as chaos - was my former groove comfort zone.

Lisa

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Not sure about dancing, but sort of a reeling staggering around the room works…

The Host, the Ghost, the Most Holy-O

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Here is a bunch of tunes that always got my toes tappin…

 
Funky Kingston
 
 
Party Train   
 
Living Inside Me
 
I want you
 
Giant
 
“How can anyone know me,
when I don’t even know myself?”
 
Little bird
 
 
Ray of Light
 
Fly Away
 
 

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Nice e. Working my way through that disco.

Here's a bit a' Sizzla for yall good people and a bit of K & M which i've previously furnished blogville reality with: squeeze me. Yikes, that sets the feet in motion!

Lisa

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Bruce, that is a great song! Yes, eminently danceable!

I don't think I ever owned that album, but I think it is probably one of his best.

I was going to post another Os Mutantes song, but it's going have to be another from the Captain and His Magic Band (if you're only getting it out of one speaker/earphone, you're not the only one; it wasn't always that way, though). They recently took off the Captain's version.

Lisa, e, very nice!

Can we embed videos, now? Let's see (Yes, we can! I will have to suggest a way to add a title or post underneath it. It is the Captain's “Tropical Hotdog Night”):

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Os Mutantes sing a Jorge Ben song with Jorge on vocals and guitar.

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Holy smoke David! That's going to be a tough one to beat! Out-of-control! :) I would like to be trapped on the dance floor by that stuff!

Lisa :)

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I got into the Captain's 'tropical hotdog night!' The wild fruitcake. :) It's superb! Very funky music indeed! I've surprised myself there! More please.

Please keep the dance floor prayer wheel spinning!

Lisa

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Nice thread… lots of great tunes to get your grove on!

The core of this next song is decent.  It's a shorten version of the Black Eyed Peas song 'The Elephunk Theme', which is also accompanied by an excellent dance routine from an eleven year old girl.  It's a great fusion of two distinct styles of music that is bound to get most people moving.  The name of the Indian singer who is sampled in the song is S. Janaki… she has an amazing voice!

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I'm glad you liked it, Lisa. Isn't it great! I found the Captain's version!!!!! 

Seth, that is amazing! What a wild fusion. It works beautifully.

It's amazing that it can blend those hip hop rhthyms with the Indian rhythms like that. Sometimes it sounds as though it is the two going at once, and then other times it goes from hip hop right into the indian rhythm and then back.

I think we're going to see some really wild art come out of India in the coming years.

Does anyone know anything about Nandalal Bose, by the way? There is an exhibition of his art coming to Chicago soon. They describe him as being the father of modern Indian art.

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Great thread!

Wow I liked that Indian dance vid, Seth. Cool Stuff. :-)

Lately I watched 'Slumdog Millionaire' and I think it's pretty good.  Bollywood seems to get better and better each year!

Here's another Dancefloor Smasher… Hope you like it.

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Now your talking!

Christophe, I don't know about anybody else, but I cannot see that video - try posting it again maybe?

Seth - Janaki & co are really excellent. What a top tune!

Haha, David, that Captain's version is amazing, what a cool tune and hilarious lyrics. (flamingo's & fruit fights..!)I just did some scientific research on my dancefloor, and I can verify - it is indeed, a top dance and stretch yourself about tune. :) Surprising stuff!

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Uh, right, the video has been deleted from YouTube.

I guess this is due to a copyright problem here in Germany. The GEMA, a institution to protect the rights of muscians, demands to be paid by U-Tube for every single stream of a copy-protected artists. In fact, they want one cent every time someone watches the Music Vid. YouTube refused to do so (because this would totally ruin their finances) and deleted all copy-protected Music Vids from the German Version of their Website.

So if you want to listen to the song be 'The Killers' called 'Human', please buy the album to support the company errr… the artist. Thank you.

Or use Bit Torrent or Pirate Bay to download the whole album without paying a cent. Do as you like.

P.S. I found out that 'The Killers' are not trendy enough to be deleted. Only the embed function was disabled. Watch the vid here

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I'm glad you liked it, Lisa. Yes, I think wild fruitcake describes it nicely.  :)

Christophe, indeed another smash!

Yes, they're doing the same thing in the United States, taking songs off YouTube, only it's UMG here, mostly it seems, Universal Music Group. They seem to have been particularly active the first few months of this year. In some cases it's more individual, like the Zappa Family Trust.

I've found, though, if you google a song, particularly with the word “myspace” or “myspace music,” you can often find it online somewhere else.

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A funny sort of dance, courtesy of Mr Cope - ;)

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Nice voice, crazy rich tune.

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Let's get down to proper business

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Hi Lisa

Not sure if it's really possible to dance to this unless one has consumed large amounts of illegal substances, but it might bring a smile to few faces.

james

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Hahaha, James you wild nutter! There is a cleaning product theme running through a lot of your posts. :) Would you like to share what's going down in the product realms James? :) Are you having some kind of personal epiphany in the cleaning realms? :) I nearly had a heart attack listening to that! Thanks! :)

Here's one for y'all good people.

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Thomas Dolby 'the flat earth'

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Lisa, James, that's quite a disco. I really enjoyed listening to those.

The Message

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That was classic David. :) Have you got anymore Captain Beefheart corkers up your sleeve?

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Hi, Lisa. I'm glad you liked it.  :)

Yes, there are a few more Captain Beefheart corkers. Here's one to just groove to quietly while you wipe your brow and take a sip of iced tea.

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Ah Lisa! The Chemical Brothers!

My introduction to quality electronic music came around a midnight in 2001, driving back from Salisbury to Oxford in a friend's car after a drumming performance. He had just had a new stereo speaker system installed and wanted to show it off. “Choose a CD”, he said.

I fished around… “Ah The Chemical Brothers, I heard these are supposed to be pretty good”….little did I know.

Prior to this, I was strictly a “synthesisers? computers? all that bleep bleep nonsense? that's not real music!! grow your hair!!” kind of guy. Thankfully, after having the whole of the Chemical Brothers' Surrender album blasted at me for the whole journey, my idea of what good music was would never be the same again!  :-)

The Chemical Brothers are Gonna Work It Out!

james

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Okay, Lisa, here's another Captain Beefheart corker!  :)

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Hi David, thanks :), that was very wild & entertaining! A real corker! 'Tropical Hot Dog Night' still takes first prize though for me on the Captain stakes. :) It's just too good. :) I liked that little 1:19 min clip too. He's a real head bender, his music makes me feel like I've just got off a merry-go-round & I am trying to retain balance. Or is that just me getting into the Captain Beefheart spirit? :) Umm, I think the latter. :)

- That's a nice little story James. I love it when that happens, when our preconceived ideas about something, suddenly, in a flash get fully laid to rest.
The Chemical Brothers, a stereo and a long drive on a motorway seem like the perfect ingredients for that to happen. :) Excellent.

Lisa
(armed with no songs for one night only, due to a flash-player-freakout!)

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The funk always gets my toes a tapping…looks like I am not the only one!

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Funky stuff, e.

Hi Lisa, yes, “Tropical Hot Dog Night” is very hard to beat!

Here is one more corker nevertheless.  :)

Can you dance to that?  :)

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Hi David, why do I find this beautiful crack pot so funny?
It's the voice & the wild twisted music, the way he says, ''bring me my scissors'' - that was a highlight. :) Yep, I loved that one, it was a corker!

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Here's a very nice bit of Tosca, then some Kruder & Dorfmeister

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Lisa, those are very groovy indeed! They really put me in a trance. Very pleasant. I should listen to those some more. They're proper dance tunes also, aren't they?  :)

Yes, the Captain is a real classic, isn't he? Something about the way he delivers those lines and the lines themselves—kind of like you heard them before, right?

Along the perspectives line I don't think the lyrics are particularly high, but they're still kind of cool. Along the aesthetic line I think they're higher.

Here is a sweet one from him. I think it's danceable, too.

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That's a really sweet one, David. Right up there in the sweetest of sweet realms. Yep, don't know what it is about this guy, but I like him a lot. I don't actually know if the songs I posted are proper dance tunes. :) Other than they are in my house-world-continuum. :)

I like what you said about the different lines. Amazing how a song can be one part dodgy, while on another line it's way up there, reaching the moon. :)

Here's a bit more of that brain-trance-therapy-goodness. :)

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Ummmm perfect. More of a sing-a-long than grooving but, hey - feel free to do
both!

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Lisa, that was really cool! The first two put me a trance, and then one of my favorite Beatles songs!

Here's another Beatles you can dance to, though it might be hard to picture it. I think the Jerry Garcia Band might have played it—or no, the Grateful Dead used to play it, and then a group from hometown played it once.

There are pictures of Rishikesh because John wrote the song there, about Mia Farrow's sister, Prudence, as you probably know.

Actually, I was right the first time—it was the Jerry Garcia Band. The Grateful Dead used to sing “Hey Jude.”

But what was really danceable was when the Jerry Garcia Band or the Grateful Dead played “Tangled Up in Blue.”

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Grow Fins

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What a cool tune, David! and equally cool dance moves and bathing suits. :) Fantastico!

Lisa

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Sure thing, Saint Germain

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I can testify that this is a top theme tune to accompany your yoga+dance-exercise-mid-morning-freak out. beautiful - just try it. You know you want to.

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A sort of atmospheric dance :) 'Fire'

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A quirky Korean girl group, IS (“Infinity of Sound”)

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I've fallen behind on these music threads!

Lisa, those were great. I hadn't heard of any of them, but I see I probably should have heard of some of them, like Saint Germain, who I see has been pretty popular. Groovy stuff!  :)

Bruce, that's pretty cool. We'd look interesting dancing to that, wouldn't we?  :)

Here's one.

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Lisa, you wanted another Captain Beefheart corker? Here's a joint Zappa/Beefheart corker. A wicked guitar solo starts not long after the 3:30 mark.  :)

The subject matter is a little dodgy as usual, but there are some cool sounds in there.  :)

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David, you must be psychic. I just came here for music, right this minute. god bless you. x & god bless Captain beefheart & his good brother Zappa. :)

Lisa

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Hey David, that is a penultimate corker! Nice find. :) :) I just listened to it on repeat by accident about 4 times :) - I thought, wow, this is relentless, & relentlessly good in my lazy state before i realized. :) What a tune.

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Zig Zag Wanderer… Song from Mali to sway around with your eyes closed in circles to :-) 

The spirit of Jimi Hendrix is in there somewhere!

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James, - that tune was really good. What cool looking bunch too, I'd not heard of them before.

This tune is such a nice one to move to, this is my one of the day - no doubt. Love
the way they carve it up in the beginning.

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Lisa, James, that's cool stuff.

James, yes, I definitely hear Hendrix in there, circa 1970. Where are they from? I searched, but I couldn't find out.

They're from Mali; I just found out. I was going to guess Morocco. They kind of sound Moroccan, don't they? They're pretty close, probably a big influence.

I feel like going on a West Africa kick. I will have to research it a little first. There were some cool Bhundu Boys and Alpha Blondy songs, but I can't remember what they were.


Lisa, that's another groovy one, true dance music. :) I wonder if they name themselves after the fila brasileiro, which is a very aggressive dog, like a pit bull. There's a dog on one of their albums, but I can't tell whether it is that kind or not.


Here's one. The music and dancing starts shortly after the 1:00 mark.

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Everyone should do that dance routine at least once in their lives. :)

Yep, I think it could be, but it's colours make it look more like some sort of border collie than Fila Brazileiro to my eyes. :)

Here's one that you've probably heard before: All that we percieve

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Zig Zaggin' Ethiopian style

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Lisa, I think you're right: it looks more like a border collie. And they are nice dogs, aren't they?

That's a really cool Thievery Corporation song. Another true, trance-inducing dance song. Their songs do especially good work on the subtle bodies, don't they? :)

Bruce, I really enjoyed those. That is just the sort of African music I was thinking about. Mesmerizing stuff, isn't it? That's among the best stuff I've heard from there.

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I really liked that first Ethiopian number. :)

Yep, border collies are most sweet. And yep, Thievery Corporation are supreme in the subtle bodies department. :)

Here's another classic one:
 

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That's a classic indeed, Lisa! I love the Portuguese, as well as all the sounds.

We must follow, then, with something Brazilian … .

Here's a great one:

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Hi David, - you actually need the lyrics to that Portuguese number. :) It's so beautiful to sing, I had to sing it about a million times (okay 20!) after I got the lyrics, enjoy!:

Meu Destino

Eu vou sem senhuma direção
E eu so, não preciso nada mais
Lua, estrela
Meu caminho, meu destino

Lua, sol, que me dão seu calor

E eu… e eu
E eu… e eu

Chuva, seu olhar que me dá o seu calor
Que me dá a direção
Que me dá o meu valor
Que me dá seu calor

Eu vou, eu vou
Eu so, eu so

Eu vou, eu vou
Sem nenhuma direção

E eu… e eu
E eu… e eu

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David, here's another Portuguese number for you, 'So Com Voce' - which is officially 2:47 minutes worth of musical sweetness, check it out:

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The Kasai Allstars, from their album, “The Chief Turned into a Swimming Fish and Ate the Head of His Enemy by Magic.”  And then for something completely different, check this out.

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lol

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Loved the Kaisai Allstars, but couldn't dance too well to the second number!

Yes, it appears that missionaries have landed are desperate to convert all locals. However, its official, you are safe here! Keep spinning the dancefloor prayerwheel! :)
God bless them

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Lisa, thank you for posting those lyrics. I think Portuguese is really cool even to look at, don't you? I love their diacritic marks and all words that end with ão —Que me dá a direção.

“So Com Voce” is really sweet indeed.

Bruce, that is more of the best African music I have heard! That must be Kinshasha's version of acid rock! They're definitely not angling to be on the next Putomayo cd but just being themselves.

I also see a new dance craze coming down the pike: the Mūlamadhyamaka-kārikā.

Speaking of acid rock …

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Yep, David, there is no denying, the Portuguese language seems lovely on all accounts.

I am all out of Portuguese tunes this eve but alas, this one is great for dancing the inner landscape without moving whatsoever: Fila Brazillia - soft music under the stars. Mucho pleasant… & le cubist news

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They were groovy, Lisa. The first one especially put me in a trance. It even had a sitar!

I'm not out of Portuguese songs, but I think we will have to hear them on Zig Zag Wander II; this one is getting a little difficult to load.