So, after I write up my review of Merle Haggard's Mama Tried, I went looking for which of the six double-album Capital reissues I do not have. I discovered that Pitchfork agrees with me on Mama Tried. 9.2! I don't know how to feel about such editorial concurrence. While I ponder that, talk amongst yrselves.
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John Butler Trio - "Revolution" April Uprising
Sufjan Stevens - "Chicago" Illinoise!
Bonnie Summerville - "Winding Road" Garden State soundtrack
Shinedown - "Some Day" Us and Them
Korn - "Twisted Transistor" See You On The Other Side
I have to run to a meeting, so today's Top 10 is going to be a two-parter.
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1. Wilco - "Country Disappeared" - Wilco (The Album)
2. The Beatles - "I'm Looking Through You" - Rubber Soul
3. Al Green - "Look What You Done For Me" - Definitive Greatest Hits
4. Uncle Tupelo - "Gun" - 89/93: An Anthology
5. Beck - "Where It's At" - Odelay
6. The Black Keys - "Money Maker" - El Camino
7. Oasis - "Hello" - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
8. R.E.M. - "Tongue" - Monster
9. Arcade Fire - "Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)" - The Suburbs
10. Death Cab For Cutie - "Lowell, MA" - We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes
B. Counting Crows - "A Long December" - Recovering the Satellites
This list makes me think I should just go download whatever songs of yours I don't recognize. A lot of overlap here with what I like.
i kind of liked spooky's occasional tradition of going through everyone's list, listening to one song he didn't know, and reporting his findings. i really liked that, actually.
I would have done that today if I hadn't had to work. Argh, next week I do too. I guess I should have pulled the trigger last week.
Soon enough.
The Minders "Crest of the Hill" It's a Bright Guilty World
Billy Bragg + Wilco "She Came Along To Me" Mermaid Ave
Swan Lake "Shooting Rockets" Beast Moans
Old Sweethearts "Dishes" Summer Songs
Ryan Adams "To Be Young" Heartbreaker
Sam Roberts "No Arrows" Collider
Broken Social Scene "Sweetest Kill" Forgiveness Rock Record
Paul Westerberg "Bookmark" Suicane Gratification
On Beta "Used To Be Free" You've Got Blood In Your Heart
Flying Burrito Brothers "Wild Horses" Warm Evenings, Pale Mornings, Bottled Blues
'Shopping for Blood' - Franz Ferdinand Franz Ferdinand (bonus track)
'Late in the Evening' - Paul Simon The Paul Simon Collection
'Death Valley Queen' - Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies
'Just Go Away' - Blondie Parallel Lines
'Ive Got a Flair' - Fountains of Wayne Fountains of Wayne
'In Gods Country' - U2 The Joshua Tree
'I Wanna Roo You (Scottish Derivative) - Van Morrison Tupelo Honey
'Powerman' - The Kinks Powerman vs Lola and the Moneygoround Pt1
'Kiss Off' - Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
'At Least It Was Here' - The 88
1. The Ghost of You Lingers -- Spoon
2. Sugar Mountain (live) -- Neil Young
3. Never Mind -- The Replacements
4. Too Much Too Young (live) -- The Specials
5. Grass -- XTC
6. Jaded -- Green Day
7. When the Roll is Called Up Yonder -- Johnny Cash
8. We're Desperate -- X
9. Johnny Appleseed (live) -- Guided By Voices
10. Daddy's Gone -- Glasvegas
Bonus: Airshow '88 -- Guided By Voices
My big pick up this week was The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams. Some good stuff, some dreck.
What's the good stuff? That looks intriguing.
(Wrong Loveless though.)
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* Miseria Cantare: The Beginning - AFI - Sing the Sorrow
* What Is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin II**
* It's Gonna Rain, Part II - Steve Reich - Early Works (S. Reich)***
* Torn & Frayed - The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
* 37mm - AFI - Decemberunderground
* Limo Wreck - Soundgarden - Superunknown
* Erosion of Mediocrity - Demdike Stare - Elemental****
* Boom Room - Elektro Guzzi - Live P.A.
* Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr. - Bug*****
* The Rakehell - Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 2
** I got the Alabama Shakes album this week, which after one listen inspired me to listen to my entire Led Zeppelin collection (from I to In Through the Out Door). I'll have to get back to the Shakes this week (first impression - solid album with 'Hold On' sticking with me the most).
*** "It had been SEALED!!" This is my least favorite of Reich's tape works. He has so many samples going on that you can't really get the sense of repetition and gradual change that you get with 'Come Out' or even the first part of 'It's Gonna Rain'.
**** My long awaited Demdike Stare - Elemental review. It's fine but not spectacular. There are stretches of this album that just don't have the malice or dread that was such a big part of what kept me listening through the massive Tryptych. As such, my attention wavered a bit toward the end of this one. There are still some tracks that do exactly what you want Demdike Stare to do ('Kommunion' 'Mephisto's Lament' and 'In the Wake of Chronos' were my favorites) but they seem to be concentrated in the first half (third?) of the album. I think that with Elemental and Tryptych, I now have 4.5 hours of Demdike Stare, and I'm not sure that I need more than that. Their next album will have to really grab me with something to get me to devote more time.
***** Still a great song
Definitely Hold On is a great song.
(So is Freak Scene)
"Natural Blues" - Moby - Play*
Dr. Yang - Ben Folds - Way to Normal
Some Girls Do - Sawyer Brown - The Dirt Road
Help - The Beatles - Help
Only Wanna Be With You - Hootie and the Blowfish - Cracked Rear View**
Don't Let Me Get Me - Pink - M!ssundaztood
Lights Out - Santogold - I Believe In Santogold EP
She's In Love With The Boy - Trisha Yearwood - Trisha Yearwood
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose - Single
Rest Of My Life - Rilo Kiley - Take Offs And Landings
Bonus: Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright - Shrek Soundtrack***
Excluding the more recent songs, this reads like a study of what I listened to when I started college more than a decade ago. Some of these get routinely skipped, but not quite always (Sawyer Brown, Help). My musical tastes have definitely refined.
*Every time I hear a song from Play I find myself pleasantly surprised. If I was redoing my greatest albums list today I'd find a spot for it.
**Liking Cracked Rear View would qualify as a guilty pleasure, right? If so, I plead to the charge.
***My favorite version of the song, though I realize a lot of people consider that hearsay. Honestly, Leonard Cohen is my second favorite. Buckley is somewhere way behind those two. Though I understand what he was doing with it, I feel like he sacrificed the music to the emotion, instead of having the two serve each other.
a lot of people consider that hearsay
Why, did someone tell you it was your favorite?
+1 objection.
Like "statute" vs. "statue", I will never type the correct word for "hearsay" vs. "heresy". Such is the law school curse.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
I was this close --><-- to giving you a point. It was funny stuff.
I heard Moby's 'Natural Blues' (which came out of left field, so that was awesome) on the radio the other day, so I broke out my Play album. If the album stopped after track 9 or 10, it would be brilliant and get a ton more plays in my cd player. I get bored listening to the back half of that album.
I don't disagree, but I feel like if you just started at 10 and listened to the back half it would still work. Also, "My Weakness" is one of my favorite Moby songs, and that's back half.
And also if you keep listening through his discography, 18 ruins all of Play by taking the same sounds and making it trite, so that Play sounds trite in the same way, albeit with more subtlety.
I've probably listened to Play five times since 18 came out.
His releases since that point have reaffirmed my decisions to listen to him no longer.
"It's over, let go, nobody listens to techno."
I haven't listened to anything except for a few select singles since Play. Now I'm even more glad for it. I get to keep loving that album and not suffer through the Rocky 2-5 syndrome.
I'd assume his techno still sounds pretty good, but I haven't listened to Everything Is Wrong much over the past decade either.
I like the song 'We Are All Made of Stars'. It was used in a car (?) commercial back in the day and it kind of stuck with me. Other than that, the only times I have heard of Moby is sitcoms making passing references on people looking like him.
I rather like the John Cale version of "Hallelujah" from the Scrubs soundtrack.
I have to admit to not knowing the Cale version particularly well. Although it was also the one actually used in Shrek, just not on the soundtrack. Something about Wainwright's voice makes his version work for me... just that timbre is perfect for it.
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01. Stepping Out Queen - Van Morrison - Into the Music
02. Roll, Turn, Spin - Taj Mahal - World Music
03. Sometimes Always - Jesus and Mary Chain - 21 Singles
04. Cleaning Windows - Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
05. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction - The Heptones - Reggae Summer
06. Musta Notta Gotta Lotta - Joe Ely - Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
07. Changes - Bowie - The Singles
08. Sloop John B - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
09. Chasin' the Bird - Charlie Parker - Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings
10. Real Good Time Together - Lou Reed - Between Thought and Expression
Bonus: Shall We Dance? - Ella Fitzgerald - Sings the George & Ira Gershwin Songbook
1.“good morning (intro)” – kayne west – graduation
2. “old stone” – laura marling – alas i cannot swim
3. “i can’t take it” – tegan and sara – so jealous
4. “my maria” – martin sexton – the american
5. “bookworm” – margot & the nuclear so and so’s – the daytrotter sessions
6. “night driving” – throwing muses – limbo
7. “all along the watchtower” – bob dylan – john wesley harding
8. “iowa city” – eleni mandell – country for true lovers
9. “now now” – st. vincent – marry me
10. “all my friends” – john cale – all my friends
I like Kanye and that song is a good one.
1. Peaking Lights “Hey Sparrow (d'Eon Remix)” 936 Remixes (CD)
2. Jay-Z and Kanye West f. Beyoné “Lift Off” Watch the Throne
3. Twilight Circus Dub Sound System “Iguana” Dub Plates Volume Two
4. Nearly God (vocals by Tricky, Terry Hall, and Martina Topley-Bird) “Poems” Nearly God
5. Bonnie “Prince” Billy & the Phantom Family Halo “Suddenly the Darkness” The Mindeater
6. Alva Noto “Odradek (for Jhonn Balance)” For
7. Buju Banton “Time & Place” Tad's Record Dancehall & Reggae Top 10
8. Sonic Youth “Quest for the Cup” Experimental Jet Set, Trash And No Star
9. Sharon Van Etten* “Give Out” Tramp
T. Kings Go Forth “One Day” The Outsiders Are Back
B. Balloon Guy “I Ratted on You” Boogie, Rock
*Notes:
7. Still free on Amazon. Highly recommended 12-track compilation!
9. On Bootsy's repeated Recs. Haven't really listened closely yet.
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1. Bedsores Systematic
2. Eifersucht Rammstein
3. Ding Dong Daddy Of The D-Car Line Cherry Poppin' Daddies
4. Lay Me Down Ugly Casanova
5. New Deep Johns Mayer
6. Drugs or Jesus Tim McGraw
7. I Belong to You Muse
8. Valley Of Debris Heartless Bastards
9. Squeeze Box The Who
10. My Immortal Evanescence
Bonus: Been Down So Long The Doors
Last night, for some reason, I was inspired to pull out The Killers' Hot Fuss for the first time in ages. I really enjoyed that one. Plus it's got enough common-themed songs that I'd suggest it might make it towards my top 10 favorite albums too.
great album
1. "Shadows" - Red House Painters Ocean Beach
2. "Karen" - The National Alligator
3. "Gun" - Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone
4. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)" - The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. "Wailing Wintry Wind" - Baroness Red Album
6. "Lightnin'" - Sonic Youth NYC Ghosts & Flowers
7. "Pulaski" - Drive-By Truckers Go-Go Boots
8. "Sludgefeast" - Dinosaur Jr. You're Living All Over Me
9. "Soft Shock" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs It's Blitz!
10. "Pace Is the Trick" - Interpol Our Love to Admire
I love SY, but you really need a purge if you have "Lightnin'" on your player.
I have a 160 gig iPod; I don't do purges.
i just got a pretty much mint condition 120GB for $50. i'd had to cull so much off my 30GB that i'm mad with power on the new platform (my last sync on the old left me with "0.01GB free space").
My first PC never even had .01GB
Mac Plus upgraded to 4M!!!! External HD with 10M (25M?) for ~$800!!!!
Still, is there ever a time you can imagine that song being something you want to hear?
HJ: I'm struggling to keep my 16GB nano with enough space for impulse adds. I'm interested in a refurbished classic iPod soon.
I'm kind of a data hoarder. My own personal level of distaste for hearing that song wouldn't outweigh the discomfort I would feel if I didn't have the whole album on there.
(I'm totally serious, just in case it might seem otherwise. It would bug me a lot not to have completeness available to me.)
My own personal level of distaste for hearing that song wouldn't outweigh the discomfort I would feel if I didn't have the whole album on there.
actually, this is one of the things i most look forward to. while there were plenty of albums i didn't mind removing wholesale, i really hated having to only add certain tracks from albums, even if i couldn't stand the songs i omitted.
I can understand a bit, but so is Pearl Jam's "Foxymophandlemama" on there too?
Ewww...
I'd definitely take that off before I took off "Lightnin'", but...yes. Yes, it is on there too. Oh, the shame.
Time for part II
Wilco - "I'll Fight" Live at Vicar Street 8-27-09
Snoop - "Tha Shiznit" Doggystyle
The Clancy Brothers - "The Early Morning Rain" Bold Fenian Men
The Baseball Project - "The Death of Big Ed Delahanty" Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails
Wilco - "Sonny Feeling" Wilco (The Album)
Hartford's WTIC has recently been playing Somebody That I Used To Know, but the lesser (IMO) whinier version of the song. The YouTube version seems to have much better orchestration, volume control.