Friday Music Day

FMD: June 8, 2012

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"What about Ha Ha Tonka?"
"Yes."
"Lydia Loveless?"
"Yes."
"Scott. H. Biram?"
"Yes."
"Bobby Bare Jr. or the Bottle Rockets?"
"Dad! Those all come from the same label!"
"Yeah, right Lisa. A wonderful, magical label."

That's how I feel some days. Whenever Bloodshot announces a new artist on their label, I figure there's a 50/50 chance they're soon gonna be my new favorite band.

Anyways, share your lists below.

59 thoughts on “FMD: June 8, 2012”

  1. 'Houdini' - Foster the People Torches
    'Do the Evolution' - Peral Jam Yield
    'Are You In?' - Incubus Morning View
    'Baby Wants a Diamond Ring' - Squirrel Nut Zippers Bedlam Ballroom
    'Volunteers' - Jefferson Airplane Voltneers

    'Walking Down Your Street' - The Bangles Different Light
    'Badge' - Cream The Cream of Clapton
    'What's the Frequency, Kenneth?' - REM Monster
    'Bobby Booshay' - Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears Tell Em What Your Name Is
    'Lovefool' - The Cardigans

  2. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdlyi5mckg0

    No time for a list. We're bound for New Orleans.

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    01. Armored Saint - "Chemical Euphoria", Raising Fear
    02. Iced Earth - "Greenface", The Glorious Burden
    03. Iron Savior - "Brothers (Of the Past)", Unification
    04. Dysrhythmia - "And Just Go", Pretest
    05. Skyclad - "Come on Eileen", Oui Avant-Garde a Chance
    06. Halford - "Crucible", Crucible
    07. Iron Maiden - "The Pilgrim", A Matter of Life and Deat
    08. Iron Maiden - "Murders in the Rue Morgue", Killers
    09. Cage - "Hell Destroyer", Hell Destroyer
    10. Nevermore - "Passenger", The Politics of Ecstasy

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    1. Joy Formidable - "The Greatest Light is the Greatest Shade" - The Big Roar
    2. Cat Stevens - "Matthew and Son" - Moon Shadow
    3. The Postal Service - "Natural Anthem" - Give Up
    4. Neko Case - "Margaret vs. Pauline" - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
    5. Sonic Youth - "Antenna" - Live Current, Vol. 6
    6. Oasis - "Don't Go Away" - Be Here Now
    7. Big Al Carson - "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out" - New Orleans: Rebuild Restore Rejoice
    8. Guster - "So Long" - Lost and Gone Forever
    9. Placebo - "Nancy Boy" - Shine: Best of 97*
    10. Mitch and Mickey - "The Ballad of Bobby and Jane" - A Mighty Wind Soundtrack
    B. Arcade Fire - "Intervention" - Neon Bible

    *Definitely one of my "favorite" album purchases of all time. I bought this double-CD album at the Tower Records in Piccadilly Circus when I was there for New Year's '98. I knew about three songs on the album (Radiohead, Oasis, Bush), but it exposed me to a bunch of great bands who were "big in Europe" but hadn't really crossed over (at least to mainstream Twin Cities radio).

    1. Any chance that SY track is acoustic? I know that Thurston & Lee did a few acoustic radio shows alone on that tour. (Which now appears that maybe it should have been a sign of the impending split.)

  5. I really shouldn't take the time to expand upon these, so I won't...

    1. Kode9 + The Space Ape “Promises” Black Sun
    2. Nearly God (vocals by Tricky and Martina Topley-Bird) “I Be the Prophet” Nearly God
    3. Patrick Doyle (vocals by Emma Thompson) “Mrs. Brown's Lullabye” Nanny McPhee Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
    4. Oval “Shop in Store” 94diskont
    5. Soundgarden “Face Pollution” Badmotorfinger

    6. Peaking Lights “All the Good Songs Haave Been Written” Imaginary Falcons
    7. Sonic Youth “Mariah Carey Kim Gordon and the Arthur Doyle Hand Cream” Sonic Nurse
    8. Ed Rush & Optical “Wormhole” Wormhole
    9. Concept 1 “11:21” 96:VR
    T. M.I.A. “Paper Planes” Kala

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    1. “another day full of dread” – bonnie “prince” billy – i see a darkness
    2. “she belongs to me” – bob dylan – bringing it all back home
    3. “i feel it all” – feist – the reminder
    4. “ST 100/6” – big star – #1 record
    5. “simple twist of fate” – jeff tweedy – i’m not there
    6. “hey joe” – nick cave and the bad seeds – kicking against the pricks
    7. “headphones” – i’m from barcelona – who killed harry houdini?
    8. “shane” – liz phair – whip-smart
    9. “betty” – walt mink – el producto
    10. “ribbon bows” – joanna newsom – have one on me

    1. When I first downloaded the album from illicit sources, the title that appeared on the file was "Another Day Full of Bread".

  7. 1. Madman -- The Jayhawks
    2. I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor -- Arctic Monkeys
    3. Earthquake Weather - Beck
    4. Pleasant Valley Sunday -- The Wedding Present
    5. The Hardest Part -- Blondie
    6. Dead Souls -- Joy Division
    7. Exho/Always On/EZ Con -- Blitzen Trappen
    8. Hate It Here -- Wilco
    9. Anytime -- My Morning Jacket
    10. Living and Learning -- The Wedding Present

    Bonus: Guns Before Butter -- Gang of Four

    In light of my Weezer review yesterday, here is a video I always thought was pretty funny:

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCRuGrnj-3Y

  8. 1. "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops)" - Blu Cantrell - So Blu
    2. "What Was I Thinking" - Dierks Bentley - Dierks Bentley
    3. "California" - Mason Jennings - Mason Jennings
    4. "Close To Me" - The Cure - The Head On The Door
    5. "To Love Somebody" - The BeeGees - BeeGees 1st
    6. "Reptilia" - The Strokes - Room On Fire
    7. "Tears Dry On Their Own" - Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
    8. "Jealousy" - Natalie Merchant - Tigerlily
    9. "Cherry, Cherry" - Neil Diamond - The Feel of Neil Diamond
    10. "Electric Avenue" - Eddy Grant - Killer On The Rampage
    Bonus: "Can You Picture That" - The Muppets

    Notes:
    1 & 2 - Remnants of a past taste that I'd be happy to purge from my library if I ever did that kind of thing.
    5. When this song comes on I'm always kind of surprised by it, and, you know, kind of enjoy it.
    7. Possibly my favorite Amy Winehouse (but probably only because Rehab was so overplayed)
    Bonus: It makes me so happy that this song came up in a list. I had totally forgotten about it, but yup, the Muppets do music well.

    1. "Hit 'Em Up Style (Oops)" - Blu Cantrell

      Whatever summer it was this song came out was the first time I met/stayed with my really good friend in the Cities. He'd just moved down there, a friend of a guy I went to college with. We went down to stay with him one weekend. I primarily went down to play the Dance Dance Revolution machine at the Maplewood Mall. Anyway, as we drove around that weekend, he had KDWB on in his car the whole time. We heard this song and "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" by Eve & Gwen Stefani every time we got in the car to go from one place to the next. It went from annoying to hysterical pretty quickly as we started to predict exactly when it would come on.

      Anyway, the moral of the story is that seeing this on your list has put "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" in my head all day, so thanks PHIL.

      1. Sorry.

        Also, I've heard a bluegrass version of "Hit 'em Up Style" by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. It's interesting the first time, and after that it, like the original, is bad.

    2. 1 & 2: The only two of yours that I might have had on my iPod. I don't, but I might have.
      I always get "Hit Em Up Style (Oops)" confused with Tweet's "Oops (There Goes My Shirt)", which I've had on my iPod with frequency.

      1. I find it surprising that you wouldn't have had some of the others. Is that an indictment of my music?

        1. Not all of it, but the closest I ever got to the BeeGees was almost going after ABBA's "Dancing Queen" a few years back. I was afraid it would only push me deeper into depression, so I relented.

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    01. Careless Love - Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - The Dylan/Cash Sessions
    02. Police Car - Larry Wallis - The Big Stiff Box Set
    03. New Zandu - Los Lobos - Just Another Band From East LA
    04. Oh, Lonesome Me - Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
    05. Nutted By Reality - Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
    06. Oblivious - Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
    07. Rock & Roll - Lou Reed - Rock N Roll Animal
    08. Mother Nature's Son - Beatles - White Album
    09. You Still Believe in Me - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
    10. When I Paint My Masterpiece - The Band - Greatest Hits

    B. Left of the Dial - Replacements - Tim

  10. Has anyone ever changed a battery in an iPod? I have some serious battery issues with my 32g ipod. I know there are videos on youtube and you can buy a battery for relatively cheap on-line but was wondering if anyone had actually done it successfully. I really don't want to buy a new ipod but I know it might be in the cards if I can't the battery issue solve.

    As an alternative has anyone done iTunes Match? It looks pretty interesting. iTunes will look at your entire library and save it to the cloud, including cds you ripped, music you got from a different service, or even illegally downloaded. If they have the song in iTunes they will use that version at the highest bpm. If they don't they will use your version. Then those songs will be available to any device you own and with a wireless connection. I would then have my entire library available to my 16g iPhone. It costs $25.00 a year for the service. Something I'm seriously thinking about. Thoughts?

    1. i needed a new battery. i walked into the apple store, handed them my ipod and $50, they went in the back a grabbed a new (well, most likely refurbished) ipod.

      1. This is what I'm afraid of. See I keep meticulous records of what songs I play (for instance I make sure and play every song on my ipod once a year). I don't sync the iPod with the home computer because the rest of the family's crappy songs are also on it. If they gave me a new ipod would I lose all that history?

        1. if it's not synced on the computer then how do you keep track of it?

          but yes, it's a blank ipod. if everything's in itunes though, it will just add it on the ipod with resetting everything (i can relate as i like to keep track of play counts, and have had it reset a couple times so far).

    2. I've changed the battery with good success two or three times in the past. The case will get scuffed up a bit in the process, though. Still, I use the thing for music, and $12 or $15 or whatever is much less than $50.

  11. Day Dreams Raphael Saadiq Stone Rollin'
    This Magnificent Bird Will Rise Deerhoof Reveille
    When the Catfish is in Bloom John Fahey The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick
    Je Ne Suis là Pour Personne Françoise Hardy Françoise Hardy
    Moya Godspeed You! Black Emperor Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada

    My Father's House Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
    Lonesome Day Blues Bob Dylan Love And Theft
    Miner At The Dial-A-View Grandaddy The Sophtware Slump
    Good Morning, Captain Slint Spiderland
    Younger Than Yesterday Real Estate Days

    bonus: Butchie's Tune The Lovin' Spoonful Daydream The Best Of

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn15NphtYaI

    Goodbye, Lane.

  12. 1. A Lovely Day Bill Withers*
    2. Enemy Eve 6
    3. Comforting Lie No Doubt
    4. Eight Days a Week The Beatles
    5. Wonderful Remark Van Morrison

    6. Rosetta Stoned Tool
    7. One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21 The Flaming Lips
    8. This Is Who I Am Millencolin
    9. Let's Spend The Night Together The Rolling Stones
    10. High Speed Coldplay

    Bonus: Right In Two Tool

    *This version has a bit more cowbell than mine:
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSK3aibKmeQ

  13. First list in a long time. The random 10 is from a Spotify playlist of summer jamz my friend & I are collaborating on.

    01. Your Enemies Friends - "A Figure of Speech" from The Wiretap E.P.
    02. Harlem - "Friendly Ghost" from Hippies
    03. The Raveonettes - "Lust" from Lust Lust Lust
    04. Hot Snakes - "LAX" from Suicide Invoice
    05. Sonic Youth - "Chapel Hill" from Dirty
    06. Japandroids - "Young Hearts Spark Fire" from Post-Nothing
    07. Pretty Girls Make Graves - "More Sweet Soul" from Good Health
    08. Pavement - "Fillmore Jive" from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
    09. Obits - "Pine On" from I Blame You
    10. iceage - "New Brigade" from New Brigade

    BT. Curren$y ft. Daz - "Fast Cars Faster Women" from The Stoned Immaculate

    And the bonus track is because I love Spitta and I'm glad his new album finally dropped.

  14. I felt the same way about Matador Records as you do about Bloodshot, AMR. If it said Matador on the spine, quality was within. In addition to seminal records from the likes of Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power, Belle and Sebastian, and Guided by Voices, they had a slew of other "lesser" acts that released some very cool music on the label: Bettie Serveert, Quickspace, Interpol, Chavez, Silkworm and Helium, to name a few. It was also the home of Teenage Fanclub's debut and Liz Phair's Exile in Guyville.

    1. And then, probably ten plus years after you've kindof moved on, they go and sign Sonic Youth!

  15. Modest Mouse – World at Large
    The White Stripes – Seven Nation Army
    Blink-182 – I Miss You
    MGMT – Time To Pretend
    Modest Mouse – Dashboard
    Arctic Monkeys – Mardy Bum
    Cage The Elephant – Ain't No Rest for the Wicked
    Gorillaz – Clint Eastwood
    Metric – The Police And The Private
    The Cardigans – Lovefool

      2. I have noticed that crowds at sporting events (mainly soccer) will chant that bass part from Seven Nation Army (whooooaaaaa whoawhoawhoa whoa).

      4. I think I remember reading that it's not actually bass, Jack White just used some crazy pedal effect to make his guitar sound like a bass.

        1. i also believe this to be true, though i don't think it's that crazy of an effect.

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    Deep Water - Portishead - Third
    Pigs in Zen - Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
    Standing in the Shower ... Thinking - Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
    Pictures of You - The Cure - Disintegration
    Small - Portishead - Third
    Last Spring: A Prequel - Ktl - V
    Red Star - EMA - Past Lives Martyred Saints
    Hotel Yorba - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
    Drunkship of Lanterns - The Mars Volta - Deloused in the Comatorium
    Monsoons - Puscifer - Conditions of My Parole

  17. The Hives have a new album out called Lex Hives. I have given it a couple of listens and its a good, but not great album. Its sounds like a rougher version of their last release The Black and White Album, and with less The Neptunes influence. Tyrannosaurus Hives remains my favorite Hives (and one of my favorite, 'inner circle HOF') album.

    Some standout songs are: '1000 Answers', 'Patrolling Days', 'These Spectacles Reveal the Nostalgics'

    2. I should really give it a try. I've never disliked a thing they've done, including Black and White Album (different and scattershot as hell, but good).

      I'm not nearly as excited for this as I would've been maybe two or three years ago, though.

  18. Ugh, The Black and White Album. What a terrible idea that was. I'm glad that they're going back to a rougher sound, but I don't think they'll ever recapture the infectious lighting-in-a-bottle energy of their early stuff.

    1. Oops, this is supposed to be in reply to dw's Hives discussion. I'm struggling today.

  19. 01. Walk On By – Dionne Warwick
    02. Faded Love – Patsy Cline
    03. Mr. Magic – Grover Washington, Jr.
    04. Fool for a Cigarette – Ry Cooder
    05. Pencil Thin Mustache – Jimmy Buffet
    06. Nowhere Man – The Beatles
    07. Johnny B. Goode – Stray Cats
    08. Tobacco Road – Johnny and Edgar Winter
    09. There’s a Tear in My Beer – Hank Williams, Sr.
    10. Wild West End – Dire Straits

    This list probably ought to carry an Old Fart warning label on it. Also, none of the songe from it came up today, but I've really been enjoying Love is a Four Letter Word by Jason Mraz.

    1. 09. There’s a Tear in My Beer – Hank Williams, Sr.

      I would maintain that you never have to put the Sr. behind Hank's name. HWII should always be identified as Jr. but Hank needs no such identifier.

  20. I didn't see this post last week, but thank you for referencing the best Simpson's episode of all time as well as one of the greatest exchanges from that episode. Others include:

    The morning when Homer's not talking to Lisa
    The "It's still good, it's still good"
    And of course the whole educational video on meat.

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