Tag: nigel godrich

Turning Off My Sinatra Holiday Radio Station On Pandora, Turning On Beck’s RECORD CLUB For Some Velvet Underground & Nico, Leonard Cohen and Skip Spence… And Hitting Repeat

While I’m sitting here on my Nigel Godrich trip, Aimee Kramer (thank you!) just woke me up to this newish Beck project. Beck and friends gather informally as a RECORD CLUB to record a full album in a day. So far they’ve done Velvet Underground & Nico, Leonard Cohen and (most recently) Skip Spence. Here’s…

December 30, 2009
Thom Yorke, Beck, Fleet Foxes, Cold War Kids, Gnarls Barkley, Sonic Youth, The Shins, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, CSS, The Dead Weather… All In Nigel Godrich’s “From The Basement”

Not new. Just awesome. Greg Clayman turned me on to Nigel Godrich‘s FROM THE BASEMENT a few months ago, now I just stare at these videos over and over, wondering how to someday make stuff this simple, this good. It’s like you’re the only person in the room with, say, Thom Yorke, and he’s playing…

December 29, 2009

Turning Off My Sinatra Holiday Radio Station On Pandora, Turning On Beck’s RECORD CLUB For Some Velvet Underground & Nico, Leonard Cohen and Skip Spence… And Hitting Repeat