Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: June 22, 2012

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Thinking about the Spring Standards on Wednesday night at the 7th street. They opened for Ha Ha Tonka at the Varsity in 2011.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoLEvg9QrGg

What have you got on your player?

30 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: June 22, 2012”

  1. 'Semi-Charmed Life' - Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind
    'America' - Simon and Garfunkel Bookends
    'And We Danced' - The Hooters Nervous Night
    'American Squirm' - Nick Lowe Labour of Lust
    'Kick It Out' - Heart Little Queen

    'Hell' - Squirrel Nut Zippers Hot
    'We Are Young' - Fun. Some Nights *
    'American Music' - Violent Femmes Add It Up (1981-1993)
    'Lavender Hill' - The Kinks The Great Lost Kinks Album
    'Come To Poppa' - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band Night Moves

    *congratulations Fun. , you win. I have heard 'We Are Young' about a million times before I broke down and liked that song and downloaded it.

      2. I did pay for it. The last time I illegally downloaded something Napster was popular.

  2. I have most of my music (it's paid for!) loaded on my pc here at work and that's what I use to listen to music. Well, lately my pc has been infected and constantly plays random ads and sound bites in the background. It's driving me crazy. It's like listening to Revolution #9 for hours on end.

  3. I'm listening to Spotify mobile for free for the next day or so. It's pretty cool. I'm actually listening to a playlist I made for my daughter:

    1. Ho Hey - The Lumineers
    2. MoneyGrabber - Fitz and the Tantrums
    3. Emmylou - First Aid Kit
    4. Evangeline - Emmylou Harris (IseewhatIdidthere)
    5. Lost In My Mind - The Head and the Heart
    6. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
    7. This Land is Your Land - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
    8. Baby Lee - Teenage Fanclub
    9. North Side Gal - J.D. McPherson
    10. Man On Fire - Edward Sharpe and his merry band of stinky hippies

    And now for my semi-monthly wondering about how to embed videos. Maybe I'll write it down.

    But probably I won't.

    1. take the main youtube URL, without the other crap, or the youtu.be URL.
      Replace the http with a httpv and just insert it plaintext into your comment.

      http v://youtu.be/08WeoqWilRQ
      (but no space there betwixt the http and v) becomes
      httpv://youtu.be/08WeoqWilRQ

      1. I totally bookmarked this comment. I mean it. Thanks.

        Anyway, the kids love this song and now I do too. The girl loves her ballet class, so the end really sealed the deal for her.

  4. 1. Cheyenne Marie Mize “Best” Before Lately
    2. Zammuto “Idiom Wind” Pitchfork-linked download
    3. the Field “Sweet Slow Baby” Looping State of Mind
    4. Bonnie “Prince” Billy “We Are Unhappy”* Wolfroy Goes to Town
    5. Eric Burdon and the Animals “Sky Pilot”* The Greatest Hits of Eric Burdon and the Animals

    6. Shabazz Palaces “Free Press and Curl” Black Up
    7. Dean Courtney “I'll Always Need You” Soul Food: An E-6 Mix
    8. Eric Copeland “Oreo” Hermaphrodite
    9. F--- Buttons “The Lisbon Maru” Tarot Sport
    T. Steve Reich* “Third Movement Part Two (Moderate)” The Desert Music

    *Notes:
    4. Was hoping that the next song would be Sharon Van Etten's "We Are Fine" as a type of point/counterpoint.

    5. Full 7.5 minute version. This may be my favorite Animals song. It's definitely the one that made the biggest impression on me when my dad would play his old LPs.** Is it about drugs, war, religion, or are they metaphors for more mundane aspects of our lives? I think the correct answer is yes! Phasing guitars and bagpipes!

    **Which probably puts it in the top five of his songs, after Gene Pitney's "(The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance", Roy's "Blue Angel" and "It's Over", and Simon & Garfunkle's "Save the Life of My Child"***. There might be some Jimi or Moody Blues that's tied with it.

    ***Okay, I don't have that last one on my iPod. Off to youtube...

    10. Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor. Performed by Steve Reich and Musicians with Chorus and Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Text by William Carlos Williams:

    It is a principle of music
    to repeat the theme. Repeat
    and repeat again,
    as the pace mounts. The
    theme is difficult
    but no more difficult
    than the fact to be
    resolved.

    ----
    Ethics Assesment:
    3 Paid for, I own a physical copy (4, 9, T; 9 was illegally downloaded before I decided I needed to own it; T was purchased secondhand)
    2 Free download (1, 2)
    4 Illegal download (3, 6, 7, 8; I would have purchased 8 at the Black Dice concert this spring had it been available)
    1 Illegal download that I don't consider unethical (5: My dad owns the LP, and doesn't really listen. I could easily have borrowed his copy indefinitely and ripped LP to MP3. Instead I just downloaded the same from a file-sharing site.)

  5. I finally gave Ramona Falls' Prophet a few good listens. That's a hell of a CD. 'Spore' is going to end up being pretty high on my favorite songs list at the end of the year.

    1. Susan Ashton - Remember Not*
    2. Frightened Rabbit - The Modern Leper - The Midnight Organ Fight
    3. Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers, Part One - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
    4. Fountains of Wayne - Valley Winter Song - Welcome Interstate Managers
    5. The Hives - Tick Tick Boom - The Black and White Album*
    6. Grimes - Oblivion - Visions*
    7. Boards of Canada - ROYGBIV - Music Has the Right to Children
    8. Mountain Goats - Sept 15th, 1983 - Heretic Pride*
    9. Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
    T. The Magnetic Fields - Andrew in Drag

    1. Susan... Ashton...? Off to a flying start.
    5. Still love The Black and White Album, but lord, is Lex Hives horrendous. When did they lose the awesome factor? How tenuous was it to begin with? They used to make it sound easy.
    6. I think I like this CD. Sort of a poppier, less morose The Knife.
    8. Huh, never noticed the title of this one. Only three days before my birthdate.

    1. Lex Hives is yeah, not good. After the excitement of a new Hives record wore off, I would say its mediocre at best. Still some enjoyable tracks. I gave The Black and White Album a listen last weekend, and while I still loathe the Neptunes influenced songs, the album seemed better than what I remembered.

      Also, 'Valley Winter Song' is an outstanding track.

        1. I agree with both of you. I thought Intuit, while good, lost some steam in the back half, but Prophet is pretty strong front to back.

  6. I have some extra tickets (2 - GA floor/standing room only) for tonight's Foster the People/Tokyo Police Club/Kimbra show at the U.S. Bank Theater at Target Center that I'm trying to get rid of. Respond here (or on the CoC), e-mail or contact me via book of faces if you're interested. bmjohnson327 at the heated mail dot com.

  7. Pursuant to a conversation a couple of weeks ago, I finally got the new Hives album, Lex Hives. I really like it. I agree that it's not as good as Tyrannosaurus Hives, but it's a nice return to form from the polished turd that was The Black and White Album.

    1. See, we're of completely opposite opinions, re:Black and White Album and Lex Hives.

      Maybe I need to give it a couple more listens.

      1. I probably need to give Black and White another shot as well. But for me the production just killed that album.

    2. Nice pull on the Zombies cover. Genre-switch covers can be a lot of fun.
      Back when EAR was EAP and she played a few coffeehouses with her acoustic singer-songwriter covers, I got her to do a cover of Metallica's "Enter Sandman" in a Jewel-y fashion, but she didn't like it too much.

  9. While at my nephew's place the other night, I heard the new Japandroids album. Kick. Ass.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0wvCmDrKE&feature=related
    (Cursing at the start. Skip to 1:10 for the song.)

  10. .
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    1. Blueprint - "The Clouds" - Adventures in Counter Culture
    2. The Smashing Pumpkins - "X.Y.U." - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    3. Ingrid Michaelson - "The Way I Am" - Girls and Boys
    4. Damien Rice - "Volcano" - O
    5. Trombone Shorty - "928 Horn Jam" - Backatown
    6. OK Go - "Maybe, This Time" - Oh No
    7. Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings - "If You Call" - I Learned the Hard Way
    8. Brother Ali - "Heads Down (You Haven't Done That Yet)" - Champion
    9. Better Than Ezra - "R3Wind" - Friction, Baby
    10. Wolfmother - "Mind's Eye" - Wolfmother
    B. Radiohead - "Anyone Can Play Guitar" - Pablo Honey

  11. Late.

    * Rewriting Beethoven's 7th Symphony, Mvmt. 1 - Michael Gordon
    * Oh, Me - Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
    * Ah Ha - Butthole Surfers - Electriclarryland
    * The More That I Do - The Field - Yesterday and Today
    * The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young - Unplugged
    * Just - Radiohead - The Best Of
    * Prison Song - System of a Down - Toxicity
    * Epitaph - King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
    * Prelude 12/21 - A.F.I. - Decemberunderground
    * Ball and Biscuit - The White Stripes - Elephant

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