50 thoughts on “FMD: March 2, 2012”

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    1. The New Pornographers - "Adventures in Solitude" - Challengers
    2. U2 - "All Along the Watchtower" - Rattle and Hum
    3. Alkaline Trio - "Movin' Right Along" - The Green Album
    4. The Hold Steady - "Weekenders" - Heaven is Whenever
    5. Atmosphere - "Hockey Hair" - You Can't Imagine How Much Fun We're Having
    6. Radiohead - "All I Need" - In Rainbows
    7. The Beatles - "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" - Abbey Road
    8. The Hold Steady - "Massive Nights" - Boys and Girls in America
    9. Roma di Luna - "Miss You Too" - Local Current, Volume 1
    10. Guster - "C'mon" - Ganging Up On the Sun
    B. Gnarls Barkley - "Gone Daddy Gone" - St. Elsewhere

  2. Belle and Sebastian "The State I Am In" Tigermilk
    Cult "Go Outside" Cults
    Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! "Upon This Tidal Wave Of Young Blood" Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    Dr. Dog "These Days" Be The Void
    Sufjan Stevens "It's Christmas Let's Be Glad" Songs For Christmas Vol. 1
    Rilo Kiley "August" Take Offs and Landings
    The Rolling Stones "Sweet Virginia" Exile on Main St
    David Bowie "Changes" Hunky Dory
    The National "Green Gloves" Boxer
    Pavement "Gold Soundz" Crooked Rain Crooked Rain

      1. To be honest, I haven't really given it a third listen yet. Dr. Dog is spring music to me. Once I can open up the windows and feel a little more warmth in the air I will get back to you.

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    * Diamond Things - Indian Jewelry - Totaled
    * Inner Vision - System of a Down - Steal this Album!
    * Painted Sun in Abstract - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network Soundtrack
    * The Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
    * Cortez the Killer - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma
    * The Line Begins to Blur - Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
    * Prés: Third Movement - Kaija Saariaho - Private Gardens (K. Saariaho)
    * Mr. Rogers - Korn - Life is Peachy
    * Bbydhyonchord - Aphex Twin - Drukqs
    * Ohm Av. D - Larsen - Cool Cruel Mouth

  4. 1. Daisy Glaze -- Big Star
    2. Diddy Wah Diddy -- Captain Beefheart
    3. Now to War -- Guided By Voices
    4. It's Cold Outside -- The Choir
    5. 'Round Midnight -- Thelonious Monk
    6. Don't Forget About Me -- Dusty Springfield
    7. Get on the Snake -- Soundgarden
    8. The Girl on Heaven Hill -- Husker Du
    9. Baby Baby Baby -- The Jayhawks
    10. Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat -- Bob Dylan
    Bonus: Dan Dare -- The Wedding Present

    3 - This is the electronic version; there is an acoustic version that is just heartbreaking
    B -- The Wedding Present coming to The 400 Bar March 28th if anyone is interested.

    I listened to Andrew Bird's new album last night on NPR. I'm not a big Andrew Bird fan but there is a song that's been playing that intrigued me. I'm still not an Andrew Bird fan, but the album was ok, if a little slow. Also if you aren't accessing the NPR music service through your smartphone, tablet, or on-line you are missing a lot of cool music stuff, including streaming of albums before they are released.

  5. 'Lovesong' - The Cure
    'Black Cadillacs' - Modest Mouse Good News For People Who Love Bad News
    'The Boys Are Back in Town' - Thin Lizzy Jailbreak
    'Sneaky Feelings' - Elvis Costello My Aim Is True
    'Holiday Road' - Lindsey Buckingham

    'Can't Stand Losing you' - The Police Outlandos d'Amour
    'When I Turn Off the Living Room Light' - The Kinks The Great Lost Kinks Album
    'Hollywood Fix' - The Pink Spiders Hot Pink
    'Skateaway' - Dire Straits Making Movies
    'The Hotel Majestic' - Fountains of Wayne Traffic and Weather

    Bonus: Carole King live at the BBC doing my favorite King tunes 'Smackwater Jack'
    httpv://youtu.be/nGS-Juej-zE

  6. 1. Human Greed* “Changing of the Saddest Guard, Pt. II” Fortress Longing
    2. Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Gulf Shores” Sings Greatest Palace Music
    3. Gregory Isaacs “Stranger in Town” Night Nurse*
    4. Alva Noto “Garment (for a Garment)” For 2
    5. Sonic Youth “Thunderclap (For Bobby Pyn)”* The Eternal

    6. Soundgarden “Face Pollution” Badmotorfinger
    7. Portishead “Tribute to Monk & Canatella” Sour Times
    8. Albert Collins “When the Welfare Turns Its Back on You” Deluxe Edition
    9. The Sugarcubes “Hit” Stick Around for Joy
    T. Ha Ha Tonka “Close Every Valve to Your Bleeding Heart” Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
    E. Poe “Choking the Cherry”* Hello

    Notes:
    1. Michael Begg's project. He's collaborated with Fovea Hex, David Tibet (Current 93), Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound). So I guess Human Greed is a Brainwashed.com-type artist. The album has been too ambient for me to get into it yet, but I haven't really tried yet, either.

    3. The title track from this 1982 reggae album is a great cut, probably the best reggae song from the 80's I know of.

    5. This was the only song from this album that SY didn't play regularly on that tour.

    E. Dedicated to Bootsy.

  7. I recently came across a group called "The Powerbroker" which is Craig Finn's group between Lifter Puller and the Hold Steady.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ5KRlII5Io&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AV4oVf-d_DwKBA_OxlJKhvt9ZfA_BPMQ-V

    I feel pretty confident Tad Kubler was not involved in this project. The full playlist on youtube can be found here.

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    1. Woman and Man Ween
    2. The Suburbs Arcade Fire
    3. Shake Your Lovemaker Cherry Poppin' Daddies
    4. Theme From The Black Hole Parliament
    5. Reject Yourself Killswitch Engage

    6. Candi Ween
    7. Undone Lifehouse
    8. Glittering Prize Simple Prize
    9. Happymess Atmosphere
    10. Nookie Limp Bizkit
    Bonus: Politicians Switchfoot

    1. 3. Shake Your Lovemaker Cherry Poppin' Daddies

      I'm quite fond of this song. Well, really, all of Ferociously Stoned is awesome.

      1. I was thinking about doing some rearranging of the menu this weekend. And perhaps adding an explicit, "Help! I'm new here" page to ease people in.

    2. I seem to have done a decent job with that description.
      It was set up, like First Mondays Book Days ant Third Monday Movie Days, to sequester certain discussions from overloading the Cup of Coffee.
      The Friday Random Ten concept wasn't original to this site's predecessor, but it got popular, and made other conversations on Friday near-impossible as it became popular. Sometimes I write a lot in the "post", sometimes I don't.

      Now it's time to subject your first random ten list to derision or accolades. We'll be gentle.
      If you don't have a music service or digital player, get with the times make your own rules to collect tracks from your physical library.

          1. My Pandora stations are all pretty limited to particular musical moods. Not exactly a good representative sample. Especially for my fist one ever...

                2. It doesn't get more zombie-like than random lists. So a real zombie would never reveal that he allows them to be created for him.

                  Just sayin'

  10. Well, since one of the points of FMD is to discuss musical thoughts...

    How do people feel about the song We Are Young by Fun? I've seen some very disparate commentary on it.

    1. I like it, but that sort of music is right in my wheelhouse. I don't think that's true for most people here.

        1. people seem to be leaning a little heavier around here.

          Cheaptoy's thumb is on that scale.

      1. I thought I had never heard it either, but I did recognize it. Is this song on a commercial right now? Not really my style but chorus is definitely catchy.

      2. Forgot to give thoughts:
        1. This is gonna give the class of 2012 instant nostalgia and will be overplayed at grad parties.
        2. That kick drum/synth snare combo that shows up at the first chorus was quite unexpected and I dig it.
        3. The vox seem ironic. We're not actually young, or we won't be for long. Or something like that. I'm not gonna give it the five more listens I'd need to figure it out. If this guy actually meant these lyrics at face value, then he's doing a poor (or interesting) job of communicating them. Of course, when this is a big hit, I expect the lyrics to be taken as written.
        4. For as trivial as Monáe's appearance is, her vox seem sincere, and make me doubt my original thoughts on the song, and now I'm on my third listen. She does want to be carried home. She might be in love, or at least willing to see if she might be. Couldn't she have had a verse? She might have saved the song with her mere appearance though, as without, it would have headed into "The Song that Never Ends"/"Hey Jude" territory.
        5. I expect this to be a hit, and I won't tire of it as fast as I would an average hit. At the same time, pop-rock like this (post-emo? reminds me of Panic! At the Disco's first big hit for some reason) is not really my genre, and

        6. Except for the acapella + piano coda. I don't like that. Too "Closing Time" I'd prefer a fade-out.

    3. I quite like it, though the Janelle Monae feature is almost completely pointless. My wife loves it, and anytime our musical tastes overlap even to the slightest degree, it's something worth looking into further.

        1. I was surprised when Linds told me that she was in it. Her part could have been given to literally any female voice in existence. You do not bring in Janelle Monae to sound like a generic female voice.

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    01. Tutti Frutti - Little Richard
    02. I Forgot More Than You'll Ever Know - Davis Sisters
    03. My Name Is John Johannah - Kelly Harrell
    04. It Hurts Me Too - Tampa Red
    05. Fixin' to Die - Bukka White
    06. Delia - Blind Willie McTell
    07. Mama Let Me Lay It On You - Blind Boy Fuller
    08. When the Sun Goes Down - Leroy Carr
    09. Deep Elem Blues - The Prairie Ramblers
    10. Pony Blues - Charley Patton

  12. The Killers - "Read My Mind" - Sam's Town
    Jonathan Coulton - "You Ruined Everything" - JoCo Looks Back
    Motion City Soundtrack - "Everything Is Alright" - Commit This to Memory
    Vampire Weekend - "Holiday" - Contra
    The Airborne Toxic Event - "Half Of Something Else" - All At Once
    Foster the People - "I Would Do Anything For You" - Torches
    Flight of the Conchords - "Angels" - Flight of the Conchords
    Weezer - "El Scorcho" - Pinkerton
    Young the Giant - "Cough Syrup" - Young the Giant
    Cage the Elephant - "Aberdeen" - Thank You Happy Birthday

  13. Can't get enough Sharon Van Etten. Her new record Tramp is all sorts of awesome. Epic, the EP that preceded it, might even be better.

    Two from the latter:
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78aU3Zqjh8

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5DDgcrWv5o&feature=relmfu

  14. It feels like it's been forever since I posted a list.

    01. The Streets - "Can't Con an Honest John" from The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living
    02. Ween - "I Don't Want to Leave You on the Farm" from 12 Golden Country Greats
    03. Curren$y - "One Life" from Weekend at Burnie's
    04. The Beets - "Hens and Roosters" from Stay Home
    05. Lil B - "Finna Hit a Lick" from 6 Kiss
    06. The Raveonettes - "Breaking Into Cars" from In and Out of Control
    07. Sonic Youth - "Calming the Snake" from The Eternal
    08. Queens of the Stone Age - "Hangin' Tree" from Songs for the Deaf
    09. Smashing Pumpkins - "Siva" from Gish
    10. Devin the Dude ft. K.-Dee & K.B. - "Can't Change Me" from The Dude

    BT. Schoolboy Q ft. Ab-Soul - "Druggys Wit Hoes Again" from Habits & Contradictions

    1. Man, haven't listened to Gish for a long time, I'm going to plug that in right now.

  15. So I guess Aaron Freeman (probably better known as Gene Ween) has a solo record coming out on May 5th. This interview with him is really good, and the first song from it is definitely cool but not what I'd expect at all. Maybe that's a good thing. I didn't really love the last Ween album all that much, so maybe a break will do them both good. I'm very excited for this.

  16. In lieu of random 10, I'll just say that right now I'm listening to Holst's The Planets.

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