Posted by Tabernacles E. Townsfolk (@billstrudel) on Jan. 27, 2024, 12:45 a.m.
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - “Come On Eileen” (sic)
Culture Club - “Karma Chameleon”
Gary Numan - “Cars”
Kool & The Gang - “Celebration”
Pete Townshend - “Let My Love Open the Door”
Soft Cell - “Tainted Love” (I play this one a lot even outside of the comp)
I’ve been too busy to do much listening, and playlists figure heavily, but some notables:
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us: really climbing my favorites list; I used to think it fell apart in the second half, with a million covers and whatnot undercutting the madcapness of the first side. But if you allow for that, it’s a great album!
The Cramps - Fiends of Dope Island: their last. It’s good, but it’s a typical late-career water tread of an album and they had long simce settled jnto firnula, but it’s a great time regardless. I think the determining factor is if you’ve heard a late Cramps album before.
Erasmo Carlos - Carlos, Erasmo: stoll getting into this one.
Schumann - Carnaval, Kinderszenen, Waldszenen (Claidio Arrau): good performance of great music. Schumann’s piano music, like Liszt’s, I came to pretty late and never overplayed.
Slavonic Orthodox Chants: a $1.99 special – to ne fair, so was the Schumann – that didn’t work out. The 1960s Nonesuch LP Russian Liturgical Misic* is much better. Bassi profondissimi on that motherfucker.
Some games:
I’ve started playing through adventure games with walkthroughs. This is the only way to justjfy having so many of them, mostly untouched.
King’s Quest 2
Conquests of Camelot: Search for the Grail
Super Mario Bros. (playing through it with a save stare at the start of every world and rewind mapped to L2)
Kingdom Hearts
Super Mario Sunshine
Secret Agent (remember me talking about this one? I plowed through the last ten or so levels in episode 1 of the shareware game. This game is really a cross between platformer and puzzle, with certain items that nust be collected to finish the level, keys, a floppy disk that yiu take to a computer terminal to deactivate laser fields that hamper your progress. The object is to destroy a satellite dush in each level and get the dynamite to blast open the exit door. This can get prerty intrucate with much backtracking. Highly recommended.)
I plan to play more games soon.