I'm almost always checking out new music and cycling music onto and off of my player. But right now I've got a backlog of stuff downloaded but not imported or uploaded. The new baby and the need to finish Downton Abbey before my MiL takes it back with her to Glenwood has kept me from fixing that.
Also, my good friend from High School, West, is the primary member of A Whisper in the Noise (like Reznor in NIN or David Tibet in C93). I've probably seen him less than a dozen times since graduation and maybe only once since 2003. Apparently they're big in Germany. His Their new video just showed up on my FB. The video itself isn't that great, but I find the song quite cool. It reminds me less of Sigur Ros and more like Cinematic Orchestra, which is a good thing for me.
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1. Sia - "Breathe Me" - Live Current, Volume 1
2. The Postal Service - "Brand New Colony" - Give Up
3. They Might Be Giants - "Shoehown With Teeth" - Lincoln
4. Ryan Adams - "AMY" - Heartbreaker
5. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Greeting Song" - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
6. Pink Floyd - "The Great Gig in the Sky" - Dark Side of the Moon
7. The Presidents of the United States of America - "Peaches" - The Presidents of the United States of America
8. Guster - "Happier" - Lost and Gone Forever
9. We Are Scientists - "Inaction" - With Love and Squalor
10. Common - "Southside" - Finding Forever
B. Jonsi - "Go Do" - Live Current, Volume 7
'Sea of Love' - The Honeydrippers The Honeydrippers Vol. 1
'Im Goin Down' - Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
'Candle in the Wind' - Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
'The Stake' - Steve Miller Band Young Hearts:Complete Greatest Hits
'Comin On Strong' - Brenda Lee
'War on War' - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
'Darts of Pleasure' - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand
'Welcome To Paradise' - Green Day Dookie
'The Midnight Special' CCR Willie and the Poor Boys
'How Do You Like Me Now?' - The Heavy The House That Dirt Built
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* Simple Feeling - Heartless Bastards - Arrow
* Mocking Solemnity - Sunn O))) - Flight of the Behemoth
* Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) - The Offspring - Americana
* Israel's Son - Silverchair - Frogstomp
* Rocket - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
* Next Girl - The Black Keys - Brothers
* Gwely Mernans - Aphex Twin - Drukqs
* 9-9 - R.E.M. - Murmur
* Vitium - The Goslings - Occasion
* 6 - Three Trapped Tigers - EP2
Nice list.
This week, I've been going through old tapes of stuff I recorded off the radio when I was 11. Nostalgia is a funny thing. This is terrible music that I recorded, but I can remember the radio announcer lead ins like I heard them for the first time yesterday. It's been fun, even if I haven't found anything worth salvaging just yet.
That's the thing about music. I can hear a song from the seventies (when I was in high school), know it's a terrible song, and still enjoy hearing it again.
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01. Rainbow - "Stone Cold", Catch the Rainbow - The Anthology
02. Dream Evil - "Kingdom at War", United
03. Volbeat - "Danny & Lucy" (11 pm)", The Strength/The Sound/The Songs
04. Sodom - "Minejumper", M-16
05. Astral Doors - "Ocean of Sand", Of the Son and the Father
06. Dream Evil - "Frotbite", In the Night
07. Kalmah - "Hades", Swamplord
08. High on Fire - "Nemesis", Surrounded by Thieves
09. Mettalica - "The Thing That Should Not Be", Master of Puppets
10. Astral Doors - "Time to Rock", The Best of European Rock, Vol 1
Took my buddy to the Atmosphere show at First Ave on Wednesday for his birthday. A good time was had by all, but between the 4 opening acts, the beers consumed while waiting for the headliner and the contact high, yesterday was pretty rough going. 32 is not old, 32 is not old, 32 is....old?
1. I’ll Stay Here Tantric
2. So Pure Alanis Morissette
3. Make You Feel Better Red Hot Chili Peppers
4. Innocent Fuel
5. If I Had Eminem
6. The Times They Are A-changin’ Bob Dylan
7. Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy Queen
8. In Your Eyes SR71*
9. Alright Hear This Beastie Boys
10. Out of My Head Lupe Fiasco
Bonus: Funny Little Frog Belle and Sebastian
*Yep. That “In Your Eyes”…
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czbHUmz1uyI
I like the cover.
I like the concept for the video, too, but it seems like the director just learned jump cuts, or overestimated the power he could get from them. That got irritating.
SR-71. Wow, haven't heard that name in a while.
I haven't heard it ever.
This is... unsurprising. They were a pop-punk group in the early 2000's. They had a low level hit with 'Right Now'. One of my friends was a big fan.
Given the generic-looking letter-number name, that's where I figured they must have come from. What a stupid trend that was.
Generic!?!?! Take that back!
Well, I did say generic-looking.
At least that one has a fairly accessible meaning, then, although the trend as a whole was annoying.
Yeah, I was gonna say, the name was the coolest thing about them.
I had the opportunity to see the Blackbird doing touch-and-go landings at Edwards AFB before they were decommissioned. Faster than a speeding bullet, indeed.
I would love to see that in person.
haven't hear that name in a while
That's what I thought too.
1. Jimi Hendrix “Catfish Blues” Blues*
2. Jóhann Jóhannsson “Theme” ...And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees
3. Erykah Badu “Searching” Live
4. Arvo Pärt (composer, performed by Theatre of Voices, conucted by Paul Hillier) “De Profundis (Psalm 129)”* De Profundis
5. Will Oldham “Idea and Deed” Joya
6. XXXX “1111 11 (Elite G'z Version)” Gizzard Greens Vol.1*
7. Girls “Lust for Life” Album
8. Soundagarden “Rusty Cage” Badmotorfinger
9. Luomo “Class” Vocalcity
T. Bonny Billy & The Picket Line “Ohio River Boat Song” Funtown Comedown
B. KMFDM “Trust”* Nihil
*Notes:
1. Is this still in print? I have Jimi's three studio albums, two concert records, greatest hits, and a few compilations. I prefer this to all of them. I think Jimi was his best when he was taking more traditional blues and adding his guitar to it.
4. "Out of the depths, you have called me, O Lord..." Choral with Organ and Percussion. Each syllable has the same length
6. An Elite Gymnastics digital 12". Like most of their other releases, it can be found for free on < ahref="http://elitegymnastics.tumblr.com/tagged/RELEASES">their website. "This track is a house tempo edit of Rusko x Caribou." It's dubsteppier than the rest of their output, perhaps due to the Rusko.
B. By far my favorite KMFDM track. It has everything that I've liked in their music in it and none of the stuff I don't like.
Listened to "Trust"...it was very, uhm, I don't know. I can't think of anything that it reminded me of - at least not in my collection.
Then you're missing out on a lot of mid 90's industrial!
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Ministry, Gravity Kills, Einstürzende Neubauten,
Nine Inch Nails (first album), Front 242, Meat Beat Manifesto...
Don't forget Pop Will Eat Itself and Skinny Puppy!
Can't say I ever got into either of these.
I cheated and looked at the Wax Trax catalog to get Front 242 and MBM.
I listened to MBM more in their late 90's big-beat style.
Gravity Kills is a lot crappier than the rest of the list.
And Einstürzende Neubauten was a bit more than the rest of the list.
I bought Nihil because KMFDM was going to play Edgefest, but they didn't perform due to the risk of torrential rains ruining their equipment. "Trust" wasn't even a single, but it's really the only track from the album that's stuck with me. XTORT was better, but then they broke up and reformed as MDFMK and then again as KMFDM, and they released an album without a five-letter title, and I just lost track of what happened to them. If someone told me that they were making great music again or absolute crap, I'd believe them, but my guess would be something in the middle, like NIHIL.
Still, they have my favorite T-Shirts ever (not that I own one), and a longstanding dream of mine was to find kid-sized KMFDM tees (or even onesies).
PWEI was pretty great, but definitely a bit different than the rest of the stuff. Skinny Puppy borders on too dark for me; I'd usually just rather listen to Ministry problem.
I'm surprised you like NIHIL more than XTORT. I definitely prefer the former, though quite a few songs from XTORT ("Power", "Son of a Gun") stuck with me quite a bit. The last two KMFDM albums before they broke up, the one with five symbols for the title and ADIOS are both great. The MDFMK album was pretty good. The KMFDM stuff after they reformed wasn't all that interesting to me. Their last album was named WTF!?, I find that somewhat saddening.
Ogre from Skinny Puppy contributed a couple of songs to the Descent 2 soundtrack. I remember thinking that was pretty awesome, since I liked both of those things.
In honor of Mardi Gras this week my list is a random sampling from "Doctors, Professors, Kings and Queens: The Big Ol' Box of New Orleans".
01. 'Tits Veux Noirs (Little Black Eyes) - Savoy-Doucet Cajun Band
02. Rocking Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu - Huey "Piano" Smith
03. Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Lloyd Price
04. Dr. Jazz - Ellis Marsalis
05. Iko Iko - Dr. John
06. Confidentail - The Radiators
07. I'm Walkin' - Fats Domino
08. Not Too Eggy - New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars
09. Foot of Canal Street - Paul Sanchez
10. Para Donde Vas (Where Are You Going) - The Iguanas
Bonus: Poop Ain't Gotta Scuffle No More - James Andrews
1. "'Cross the Breeze" - Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
2. "Why Would You Wanna Live" - Wilco Being There
3. "(Maruyama)" - The Joy Formidable The Big Roar
4. "The Absentee" - The Boxer Rebellion Exits
5. "Rememo" - Kings of Leon Aha Shake Heartbreak
6. "Cavalettas" - The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath
7. "Way Out of Here" - Porcupine Tree Fear of a Blank Planet
8. "All Falls Down" - TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light
9. "Things I Did When I Was Dead" - No Age Nouns
10. "Heaven Is a Truck" - Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain