| The
Crossing - November 2009
November brings another solid
month of tunes and cinema yet again. DVD’s/Blu-ray discs drop like rain
(possibly snow) from now all the way up ‘til Christmas. (…and even a little
into 2010.) For example, meatballs and other foods will be dropping in
early January, cloudy or not. Many live releases will be coming out as
well as they always do. Whether in CD or DVD format or both, live releases
from stellar shows given earlier in the year will be foisted upon the consuming
masses.
A question was posed to me
how I choose the Lyrics of the Month?
I try to choose songs with
universal or seasonal appeal mainly. Some songs may have something to do
with current events. I also, in most cases, try to choose an artist that
has a release during the given month. Some of the songs may also be a bit
geared to experiences that I have had personally, which I figure is natural,
but maybe they can be of help in giving a certain perspective. I kind of
think of them as thoughts of the day (in this case, a month) and a good
way to conclude this often lengthy list. Hopefully you check out the song
and maybe discover a new artist.
People close to me have described
the list as making their eyes glaze over before they are less than half
way down the page. I hope it’s not that unpleasant. I figure I’m covering
a lot of ground though. A cool thing to do is to go to the mp3 page on
Amazon.com and pick out some of the artists names on the list and listen
to some samples and see if they appeal to you. I do this fairly frequently
to get an idea of what something sounds like. You can discover a lot of
great music this way too, of course!
For any questions, comments
or to submit album release dates for obscure artists, don’t forget to see
my email address at the very bottom of the page.
Happy hunting…
Recently released and not
mentioned in last edition:
* Taylor Mitchell – For Your
Consideration (R.I.P.)
* Big Country - Peace In
Our Time: Live from Moscow 1988 (CD/DVD.)
* Marillion - Less is More
(Acoustic album.)
* Bill Mallonee - WPA 5
* Doug Burr - The Shawl
* Gregory Alan Isakov -
This Empty Northern Hemisphere
* AA Bondy - When the Devil’s
Loose
* Dead Man’s Bones - S/T
(Actor Ryan Gosling’s band.)
* Delorentos - You Can Make
Sound
* Cartel - Cycles
* Lights - The Listening
* Alec Ounsworth - Mo Beauty
* Carrie Rodriguez - Live
in Louisville
* Serena Ryder - Is it O.K?
* Joss Stone – Colour Me
Free
* Fanfarlo - Reservoir
* The TuneYards - Bird Brains
* Florence and the Machine
- Lungs
* Butterfly Boucher - Scary
Fragile
* Baroness - Blue Record
* Brian Burns - American
Junkyard
* A Rocket to the Moon -
On Your Side
* Jodis - Secret House
* The Heavy - The House
That Dirt Built
* Mayday Parade - Anywhere
But Here
* Corey Chisel - Death Won’t
Send a Letter
* Dawes - North Hills
* 1997 - Notes from the
Underground
* Jonas Sees in Color -
S/T
* Humdrum - Individual Man
* Sleeping At Last - Storyboards
* Jack Bruce & Robin
Trower - Seven Moons Live
* Various Artists - Oh Happy
Day...All Star Magic
* Various Artists - The
Music of Greenwich Village: A Celebration
* X - Wild Gift (reissue.)
* Sheryl Crow - Tuesday
Night Music Club (2 CD/1 DVD Deluxe edition.)
* Thunderclap Newman - Hollywood
Dream (Deluxe edition.)
* Winger - Karma
* Stryper: By His Strypes
(25 year visual history book.)
* Stewart Copeland - Strange
Things Happen: A Life with The Police, Polo and Pygmies (book.)
* The Velvet Underground:
An Illustrated History of a Walk on the Wild Side (book.)
11/3
* Foo Fighters - Greatest
Hits (CD/DVD.)
* Nirvana - Bleach (20th
anniversary) and Live at Reading 1992 (CD/DVD.)
* The Almost - Monster Monster
(Best Buy exclusive.)
* Kate Earl - S/T
* Carrie Underwood - Play
On
* Plumb - Beautiful History:
A Hits Collection (2 CD’s.)
* Morrissey - Swords
* Cold Cave - Love Comes
Close
* Helm - With Love
* Mesh - A Perfect Solution
* Molina & Johnson -
S/T
* Prize Country - Home
* Systems Officer - Underslept
* On Fillmore - Extended
Vacation
* We Came as Romans - To
Plant a Seed
* Jookabox - Dead Zone Boys
* Pictureplane - Dark Rift
* Dougie MacLean - Essential
* The Bee Gees - Ultimate
Collection (2 CD’s/1 DVD.)
* Guided By Voices - Suitcase
3: Up We Go Now (4 CD rarities box set.)
* Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Singles Collection (2 CD’s/1 DVD.)
* The Rolling Stones - Get
Yer Ya Ya’s Out (40th anniversary 3 CD/1 DVD box set.)
* Neutral Milk Hotel - a
few reissues
+ John Fogerty - Comin’
Down the Road
+ Jack’s Mannequin - Dear
Jack
+ Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame (3 DVD box set.)
+ Lord of the Rings trilogy
(blu-ray; theatrical versions, not the extended versions that you really
want to own!)
+ Forrest Gump (blu-ray.)
+ It’s a Wonderful Life
(blu-ray.)
+ Wings of Desire (blu-ray.)
+ Say Anything (blu-ray.)
+ G.I. Joe: The Rise of
Cobra
+ The Taking of Pelham 1
2 3
+ I Love You, Beth Cooper
+ Food, Inc.
+ Aliens in the Attic
+ The Answer Man
+ North by Northwest (50th
anniversary.)
11/10
* Tori Amos - Midwinter Graces
* A Christmas Story (Soundtrack
from Movie.)
* Blue Rodeo - The Things
We Left Behind (2 CD’s...all brand new songs.)
* Ray Davies - The Kinks
Choral Collection
* Ronnie Spector - Last
of the Rock Stars
* Robyn Hitchcock - I Often
Dream of Trains in New York
* Luther Dickinson - Onward
and Upward
* Flyleaf - Memento Mori
* Echo & the Bunnymen
- The Fountain
* Snow Patrol - Up to Now
(compilation.)
* Hollywood Undone - Desperate
Measures
* Bon Jovi - The Circle
* Graham Bonnet - Underground
* Pieta Brown - Shimmer
* Heather Masse - Bird Song
* Oliver Schroer - Hymns
and Hers
* Bad Lieutenant - Never
Cry Another Tear
* Boywonderbread - S/T
* Madison Violet - No Fool
for Trying
* The Killers - Live from
Royal Albert Hall
* The Starting Line - Somebody’s
Gonna Miss Us (Live CD/DVD.)
* Neal Morse - So Many Roads:
Live
* Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club - Live
* Jason Mraz - Beautiful
Mess: Live from Earth
* Mark Selby - Live at Rockpalast:
One Night in Bonn, Germany
* Was (Not Was) - Pick of
the Litter: 1980-2010
* The Doors - Live in New
York (box set.)
* Anthrax - Among the Living
(Deluxe edition.)
* AC/DC - Backtracks (3
CD’s/2 DVD’s/1 working amplifier.)
* King Crimson - a few Deluxe
editions
+ Meatloaf - Bat Out of
Hell: the Original Tour
+ Up
+ The Ugly Truth
+ Ballast
+ Familiar Strangers
+ Woman in Berlin
11/17
* Rush - Working Men (Live
compilation; CD/DVD.)
* Dave Rawlings Machine
- A Friend of a Friend (Featuring Gillian Welch.)
* Them Crooked Vultures
- S/T (Dave Grohl, Josh Homme and John Paul Jones.)
* John Mayer - Battle Studies
* Norah Jones - The Fall
* One Republic - Waking
Up
* Kasey Chambers - The Lost
Music (2 CD’s and a book.)
* Robin Guthrie - Songs
to Help My Children Sleep
* Hawksley Workman - For
Him and the Girl
* Anberlin - Blueprints
for City
* The YellowHammers - S/T
* Spiral Beach - The Only
Real Thing
* Night Owls - S/T
* Person L - The Positives
* Annie - Don’t Stop
* Draco - S/T
* Default - Comes and Goes
* Chief - Mighty Proud
* Dan Zanes - 76 Trombones
* Katy Perry - MTV Unplugged
(CD/DVD.)
* Robbie Williams - Reality
Killed the Video Star
* Fall Out Boy - Believers
Never Die: Greatest Hits
* Powderfinger - Golden
Rule (import.)
* The Zombies - 40th Anniversary
Concert
* The Old 97’s - Wreck Your
Life...and Then Some
* Indigo Girls - Live at
the Roxy
* Paul McCartney - Good
Evening NYC: Live at Citifield (2 CD’s/2 DVD’s.)
* Pulp - a few Deluxe editions
* Level 42 - World Machine
(Deluxe edition.)
* Keane - Hopes and Fears
(Deluxe edition.)
* David Bowie - Space Oddity
(40th anniversary Deluxe edition.)
* Motley Crue - Greatest
Hits
* Frank Zappa - Many reissues
+ Star Trek
+ Is Anybody There?
+ Bruno
+ Expired
+ My Sister’s Keeper
+ The Limits of Control
+ Thirst
+ My One and Only
+ Pray the Devil Back to
Hell
+ Gone With the Wind (70th
anniversary.)
11/24
* Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- Live Anthology (4 CD’s.)
* Tom Waits - Glitter and
Doom: Live
* Buddy Holly - Not Fade
Away (6 CD box set.)
* Steve Morse - Outstanding
in Their Field
* Susan Boyle - I Dreamed
a Dream
* Regis & Joy Philbin
- Just You, Just Me
* Nosound - A Sense of Loss
* The Mercury Program -
Chez Viking
* The Slew - 100%
+ Sting - A Winter’s Night...Live
from Durham Cathedral
+ Angels & Demons
+ Funny People
+ Shorts
+ Four Christmases
12/1
* Enya - Very Best of (CD/DVD.)
* The Bravery - Stir the
Blood
+ Terminator: Salvation
+ Night at the Museum: Battle
of the Smithsonian
+ Paper Heart
+ A Christmas Tale
+ Saturday Night Live: Complete
5th Season
12/8
* Neil Young - Dreamin’ Man
(Live 1992.)
* Camera Obscura - The Blizzard
* Downhere - Endings, Beginnings
* Lifehouse - Smoke and
Mirrors (Deluxe edition.)
* Okkervil River - Black
Sheep Boy (reissue.)
* Paul Weller - S/T (Deluxe
edition.)
* Pulp - This is Hardcore
(Deluxe edition.)
* Tricky - Maxinquaye (Deluxe
edition.)
+ Harry Potter & the
Half-Blood Prince
+ Harry Potter 1 & 2
Ultimate Edition DVD sets
+ Public Enemies
+ Julie & Julia
+ World’s Greatest Dad
+ The Cove
+ Somers Town
12/15
+ The Hangover
+ G-Force
+ Inglourious Basterds
+ The Other Man
+ Taking Woodstock
+ Herb & Dorothy
12/22
+ (500) Days of Summer
+ Extract
+ All About Steve
+ It Might Get Loud (The
Edge, Jack White and Jimmy Page.)
12/29
+ 9
+ A Perfect Getaway
+ District 9
+ Jennifer’s Body
+ Capitalism: A Love Story
1/5
+ Cloudy with a Chance of
Meatballs
1/12
* Freedy Johnston - Rain
in the City
+ The Burning Plain
+ The Hurt Locker
+ In the Loop
+ Amreeka
+ Moon
+ Departures
+ Passing Strange
+ Halloween II
1/19
+ Gamer
1/26
* Michelle Branch - Everything
Comes and Goes
* Spoon - Transference
+ Little Ashes
2/9
* Allison Moorer - Crows
LYRICS of the MONTH:
“I know when they built this
house
Out of rocks from the river
mouth
They thought it'd never
come down
Not while we're around
Some things are made to last
Other things we know must
pass
Nothing we do
Stops time coming through
My father left me here with
a map crumpled in my hand
I try to follow, but there's
days when I just don't understand
And when we fall down in
time
Washed in trouble we thought
we'd left behind
Just let the river carry
you
Lift your head back up to
the clearer view
See the high water starting
to flood
Bringing down all the rocks
and the mud
And if it won't stop
It'll wash away all we've
got
Down in the valley there's
a rumble in the trees
It's hard to keep your head
when the ground's moving ‘neath your feet
And when we fall down in
time
Washed in trouble we thought
we'd left behind
Let the storm pass on through
And work your way back up
to the clearer view.”
Blue Rodeo, the song ‘Clearer
View’ off of the album Palace of Gold released in 2002.
Have a great and hearty Thanksgiving!!
See you in December…
Chris Barlow
cbcrossing@yahoo.com
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