Notify, Volume VII

Notify is back after a bit of a hiatus. You're welcome.

A Notify Update! 

Spotify has listened to our pleas / ridiculing and has reinstated (or just instated) the following:

• Smithereens, Especially for You, featuring "In a Lonely Place," "Behind the Wall of Sleep," and "Blood and Roses"
• Total Coelo, "I Eat Cannibals"
• Kiss My Ass: Classis KISS Regrooved, featuring the stellar Garth Brooks cover of "Hard Luck Woman" and Toad the Wet Sprocket deconstructing "Rock and Roll All Nite"

That there is what mild success looks like, gheorghies.

We received 2 recent entries in reader mail from a "Zman" in "New Jersey."

-- The Beatnuts album Stone Crazy, featuring "Off the Books"

-- The Walkmen, "Greasy Saint"

Keep those requests pouring in... like The Clash's "Pouring Rain," still not available on this mass music streaming platform. 

On to the Notify show!

I was in the Windy City last month, and I went to the Art Institute solo. So choice. Though I dressed up as Ferris last Halloween, I was Cameron on this outing, spending some time in my thoughts gazing at A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Mesmerizing. 

And yes, I was tuned in on the phone to the Dream Academy's cover of the Smiths' "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want," but for authenticity, I wanted the instrumental version. Notify.

Is there any good reason this song isn't everywhere? The answer is No. 

Ray LaMontagne's rendition of Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy."

This dude is another Zman dig-on. I saw him co-headline with Isbell a couple of years ago. Zed shoulda joined me!

It's understandable why this rando cover outtake isn't widely available. But it still should be. 

Father John Misty, "The Suburbs."

Finally, this one goes out to my good old buddy rob.  Lucky even to locate this long lost gem.
Bruce Greenwood & Circle the Wagons, "2 Ft. O' Butt Crack"