S5E236 - Bonus Mixtape Episode #2 with Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Pylon Reenactment Society)
Singer/Artist Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Supercluster, Pylon Reenactment Society) joins us for another BONUS "Mixtape Episode", where we invite a special guest to curate a mixtape for our listeners and dig into their musical selections. ...
Singer/Artist Vanessa Briscoe Hay (Pylon, Supercluster, Pylon Reenactment Society) joins us for another BONUS "Mixtape Episode", where we invite a special guest to curate a mixtape for our listeners and dig into their musical selections.
Vanessa's mixtape:
1. What is Life - George Harrison
2. Space Oddity - David Bowie
3. If There is Something - Roxy Music
4. Dancing Barefoot - Patti Smith
5. Dance This Mess Around - B-52’s
6. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
7. Damaged Goods - Gang of Four
8. Planet Rock - Afrika Bamabatta & Soul Sonic Force
9. The Robots - Kraftwerk
10. Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
11. Man on the Moon - R.E.M.
12. Na Nanana - The Squalls
*Other songs featured in this episode: Cool, Beep - Pylon; Messenger - Pylon Reenactment Society; You Can't Hurry Love - The Supremes; Trans Europa Express - Kraftwerk; Crazy - R.E.M.; Stop It - Pylon
**Additional listening recommendations from Vanessa:
Nina Simone - Feeling Good
Olivia Tremor Control - Jumping Fences
Beach Boys - God Only Knows
Leonard Cohen - Boogie Street
DAR Williams - I Won’t Be Your Yoko Ono
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile - Over Everything
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Blondie - One Way or Another
The Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
Bush Tetras -Too Many Creeps
Fleetwood Mac - You Make Loving Fun
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Delta 5 - Mind your own business
Heart - Barracuda
Joy Division - She’s Lost Control
Pere Ubu - Non-Alignment Pact
Sly and the Family Stone - Everybody is a Star
The Staple Singers - I’ll Take You There
Green Day -Boulevard of Broken Dreams
The Go-Go’s - We Got The Beat
ESG - UFO
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Parliament - Flashlight / Strobelight
****Spotify Playlist Link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6wJCWreeeazii4awAUVEko?si=d5fd81dcb81b49b8
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Vanessa Briscoe Hay
Mom / Singer / Painter
Vanessa Briscoe Hay has been making art since she was very young. Her upbringing in a small Southern community taught her self-sufficiency but also heightened her sense of otherness. She was the first in her family to attend a university to study art – although she was surrounded by female kinswomen who quilted, crocheted, and painted in their spare time for both pleasure and to beautify their homes.
While attending the University of Georgia art school, she was exposed to new ideas, and to thinking outside the box by her classmates and instructors. Vanessa graduated from UGA with a BFA in 1978. In 1979, some of her fellow students —Randy Bewley, Michael Lachowski and Curtis Crowe — invited her to join the band Pylon - basically an artist’s collective- with the goal of playing New York City and then disbanding. They playfully approached the creation of music like they approached their art. Written up in Interview Magazine after their first performance, they decided to keep going as long as it was fun. 1979-83 were heady years for both the music and art scene. They met many interesting artists during her band's travels —like Warhol, Haring, Basquiat —and Pylon performed alongside bands like Gang of Four, Talking Heads, B-52s, R.E.M., U2. Pylon first disbanded in 1983 because the band was becoming more like a business and less fun. However, Pylon reformed, disbanded, and reformed once again, only to finally formally disband in 2009 upon the death of guitarist Randy Bewley. She had started another recording project called Supercluster shortly before that to … Read More