Me, A Machine, And My Obsession: Transmission 267, 2016 March 16

Live albums seem to polarize people, for reasons I don't understand. "I don't like listening to people clap for things that happened when I wasn't there," I seem to recall a friend writing. Friend: if you're reading this, rest assured that the clapping on "Live At The Venue" is not very audible! Still, I love this recording, bootleggy though it may be.

In a previous life, I "did" live performance and I had/have some hangups about the recording of it. Not the paranoid hangups--I don't mind there being documentary evidence that I did a thing in a place at a time--but simply the aversion to watching / hearing myself do / say things in the past. The laws of space / time suggest that there are places where the past is always happening, but I don't have to visit those places! HOWEVER, I have no philosophical issues with recordings of OTHER people. Is this hypocritical, or just blithe? I'm going with the latter.

For damn sure I don't have any serious feelings about the ontology of live tapes. I'm fine with their being whatever the performers want them to be.

BOMBAST playlist, 2016 March 16, 2100-2300:

1. "Gremlin Stomp" | Hammerhead | Dope, Guns & Fucking In The Streets: 1988-1998 Volume 1-11 | Amphetamine Reptile
2. "Self Portrait" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
3. "Chase" | Go March | Go March | Unday
4. "Jacqueline" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
5. "Uthers Dub" | Glove of Bones | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
6. "Farver / Filmrer" | Skatebard | CDIII | Balsa Wood
7. "Kobane Iraq" | Abu AMA | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
8. "I Got a Woman" | Booker T. & The M.G.'s | Green Onions | Rumble
9. "The Beggar" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
10. "ONE CHORD" | David Ramos | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
11. "Gettin' to Business" | Morgan | Gettin' to Business / Cooker | Funk 45
12. "Ham and Fish Pasty" | Heads of State | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
13. "Party" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
14. "I Get Excited" | The Comsat Angels | Waiting for a Miracle | Edsel
15. "All the Reasons Slide" | Breathless | Blue Moon [reissue] | Tenor Vossa
16. "In" | Gary Bromley | Outside | Assembly Field
17. "Winter Tale" | Ummagma | Frequency | Moon Sounds
18. "Sigh Becomes a Scream" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
19. "The Things You Crave" | The Astronauts | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
20. "Creature of Habit" | Starclash | Rhodes Inspirational: From East to West | Klik
21. "Black Diamond" | The Replacements | Let It Be | Twin/Tone
22. "Running" | ASYMMETROI FAROI | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
23. "Work Is a Four-Letter Word" | The Smiths | Girlfriend In a Coma | Rough Trade | "Listening Parlour"
24. "Shimmering Dawn" | Finglebone | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
25. "Croupier" | Adam Johnson | Chigliak | Merck
26. "boom boom chac REMIX" | Rapoon | A Warmer Welcome | digitalDIZZY
27. "Christine" | The House of Love | Still In a Dream - A Story of Shoegaze | Cherry Red
28. "Never Known" | The Durutti Column | Live at the Venue | Durutti | "Physical Evidence"
29. "Bobo on the Corner" | Beastie Boys | The In Sound from Way Out! | Grand Royal - Capitol

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