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BRIAN BUSHAW:
I have been shopping at Strictly since 2001. I moved to Madison some time in 2000 and began working at the wine shop down the street soon after. Ron and Spense managed to learn my music tastes very quickly and I could no longer shop at places where the staff were not simply putting things in my hand and saying, "you should buy this." Long story short, I shop at Strictly because I am a sheep.
For more about Brian, check out his blog below.
I have been shopping at Strictly since 2001. I moved to Madison some time in 2000 and began working at the wine shop down the street soon after. Ron and Spense managed to learn my music tastes very quickly and I could no longer shop at places where the staff were not simply putting things in my hand and saying, "you should buy this." Long story short, I shop at Strictly because I am a sheep.
For more about Brian, check out his blog below.
- Luna 2: California (All The Way)
- Bloc Party: Song For Clay
- Homie: American Girls
- Otis Redding: You Left The Water Running
- Cheap Trick: Surrender
- Miles Davis: Rated X - Doc Scott
- Prince: Baby I'm A Star
- Magnetic Fields: The Book Of Love
- Bap Kennedy: Mostly Water
- Wilco (Jay Bennett): Cars Can't Escape
Brian's dog, Keegan.
Kweli,Talib Ear Drum 
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Fugees Score
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Wilco Sky Blue Sky
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Rilo Kiley Under the Black Light
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2007 |
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BRIAN BUSHAW |
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10...err...11 QUESTIONS FROM STRICTLY DISCS: 1. How long & why have you been shopping at Strictly Discs? I have been shopping at Strictly since 2001. I moved to Madison some time in 2000 and began working at the wine shop down the street soon after. Ron and Spense managed to learn and adapt my music tastes very quickly and I could no longer shop at places where the workers were not simply putting things in my hand and saying, "you should buy this." Long story short, I shop at Strictly because I am a sheep. 2. Favorite release of 2007? Tough question. Wilco is my favorite band that is still together. There is a new Wilco album in 2007. It is not my favorite Wilco album (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot), but a Wilco album nonetheless and a very good one at that. The Arcade Fire's "Neon Bible" is among the best albums I have heard since YHF. 
3. First piece of recorded music you purchased and in what format: This is the second easiest question here: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" on LP. I was six and had saved my allowance. 
4. Music guilty pleasure: Piece of cake: I was in college/high school for eight years (duh). I have a lot of live Phish recordings. I just cannot throw them away. 
5. Favorite all-time concert/show: Wilco, October 30, 2004. I had just started dating my ladyfriend, her birthday was a week later, and Wilco is/was both of our favorite band. We got bumped down from the nosebleeds at The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago to the front row by somebody from Nonesuch Records. We were actually resting our arms on the stage. Runner-up: We went to a Bloc Party Concert in Chicago this year and heard a terrible opening act. A second opening act came out and killed. I had heard several of the songs on an album I had been listening to at Strictly Discs in the weeks leading up to the show. Everyone was stunned by the second opening act. Some 22 year-old kid behind me asked if I knew who it was. I told him it was Albert Hammond, Jr. from The Strokes. I was his music geek god for five seconds. Bloc Party was great also. 6. Favorite all-time album cover: Hands down, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot 
7. If I'm tippin’ one back, I'm probably at ________ having a ________. If I'm tippin’ one back, I'm probably at home having a glass of wine, but I could be at Maduro where they have the best taps in Madison. 8. Consumer item I cannot live without: I love my iPhone. LOVE my iPhone. 
9. Percentage of time listening to music via the following medium: CD PLAYER: 20% iPod: 80% TURNTABLE: 0% 10. Favorite music website: I like the reviews on Pitchfork, but I do not read them often. I read the reviews in The Onion much more frequently. I love Sasha Frere-Jones at The New Yorker. 11. Song you never need to hear again: Anything by Steely Dan. BRIAN'S JUKEBOX RATIONALE I assumed it would take me about four hours to pick ten songs for this. It would have been easy for me to pick ten songs exclusively by Wilco and/or Miles Davis and call it a day. This actually took me about a half an hour and I think reflects where I am from, who I am, and what I like. Song 1. California (All The Way) - Luna This is probably my second favorite opening track from any album. I love the line, "If you're going to read your poetry aloud to me I'll have to show you to the door." Song 2. Song For Clay (Disappear Here) - Bloc Party This homage to Bret Easton Ellis' novel "Less than Zero" is just a great rocker and the opener to one of the best albums of 2007. 
Song 3. American Girls - Homie I was exposed to this Rivers Cuomo side project via a friend who had compiled a CD of everything Soul Coughing ever recorded as a band or in their respective side-projects (Yuval Gabay of Soul Coughing is part of the "band"). The group is actually something of a "super-group" Cuomo was joined by Greg Brown of Cake, Matt Sharp (formerly of Weezer, lead singer of The Rentals), Adam Orth of Shufflepuck and Yuval Gabay of Soul Coughing. I think that this is the only song they ever recorded but when I heard it I was absolutely floored by it. Song 4. You Left the Water Running - Otis Redding I feel no need to justify or explain this selection. 
Song 5. Surrender - Cheap Trick Like Ron at Strictly, I am a corn-fed Rockford boy. Cheap Trick played at my best friend's parent's prom. Another friend of mine dated Robin Zander's daughter for a while. Rockford is not such a big town. 
Song 6. Rated X - Miles Davis as re-imagined by Doc Scott Panthalassa is a really cool remix album. There was no reason to pick one track over another, but my dog loves this one because of the dog barking in the background. Song 7. Baby I'm A Star - Prince and the Revolution I am pretty sure that this is my favorite Prince song. It seems to sum up everything great about Prince. Rich on personality indeed. Song 8. The Book of Love - The Magnetic Fields I heard Mike Doughty cover this at the Annex in 2003. I liked his version better, but I still love this one. I wish that it didn't take Stephen Merritt four years to complete new albums. 
Song 9. Mostly Water - Bap Kennedy I found a Bap Kennedy's "Domestic Blues" in my apartment after a party in college. I have no idea how it got there or who it belonged to but I am glad it was there because it is one of my favorite albums. I tried to buy it for friends for Christmas that year only to find out it was out of print in the US. One of the tracks later appeared in my favorite movie "You Can Count on Me." Clearly this CD's appearance in my apartment was serendipitous. Song 10. Cars Can't Escape - Wilco A leftover from the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Sessions, I think that this would have been a good bookend to the album's opener ("I am Trying to Break Your Heart," the greatest opening track ever). The song did not make the cut, but is pretty widely available. It should be noted that I really thought about adding Rihanna's "Umbrella" to my tracklist. I do not care what you say--that song is infectious. |
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