Should I shut up about Lydia Loveless? OK, maybe I will, but here are two places you can download some live clips. Podcast with an interview and three songs performed. (Interesting info: first album was recorded when she was 16. That's some serious-ass songwriting from a teenager.) Mile Marker session, four songs.
Hope y'all are having a good week. Let us know what's on your player.
'Im the Man Who Loves You' - Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
'Special' - Garbage Version 2.0
'Dont Look Back in Anger' - Oasis (Whats the Story) Morning Glory
'The Difference' - The Wallflowers Bringing Down the Horse
'Sunspot Baby' - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Night Moves
'I Need to Know' - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
'Fell In Love With A Girl' - White Stripes White Blood Cells
'Im Not Down' - The Clash London Calling
'The Rescue Blues' - Ryan Adams Gold
'Love and Happiness' - Al Green Greatest Hits
I feel like I've gotten some hipster cred back here...
1. Sloop John B - The Beach Boys
2. My Girls - Animal Collective
3. Baby Doll - Dan Wilson
4. Southtown Girls - The Hold Steady
5. This Year - The Mountain Goats
6. Yours Truly, The Commuter - Jason Lytle
7. 99 Luftballons - Nena
8. Loaded - The Idle Hands
9. Time Bomb - Rancid
10. All I Have To Do Is Dream - The Everly Brothers
Bonus: Crimson And Clover - Tommy James And The Shondells
Double Bonus: On The Radio - Regina Spektor
1. I've been listening to Pet Sounds pretty much non-stop since I got it for Father's Day, so it worked out that this popped up. I've been meaning to put it back-to-back with Sargent Pepper's afterwards, but I haven't gotten around to it yet, as it's been so satisfying on its own.
4. This is the first Hold Steady song I have any memory of hearing, and I'm pretty sure I arrived at that particular party a few years late. Might actually still be my favorite of theirs.
6. When I lived in DC and traveled to MN all the time I had a pretty solid connection to this song. Especially given some of my brutal travel experiences.
8. I've probably said it before, but this is my favorite indie local track of all time, and possibly my favorite local track of all time, even among the big ones. It makes the list, that's for sure.
Double Bonus: It took me a while to type up this list, and "Crimson and Clover" turned over to "On The Radio" which is just an awesome song. I appreciate the heck out of Spektor's experimentation, but sometimes she doesn't put the polish she needs to on her songs. "On The Radio" is a perfect example of what her music can be when it's cleaned up.
Might be the best Beach Boys song of all up there.
That or "Kokomo"
I don't think it can touch "God Only Knows" but it is a strong #2. I didn't realize how many of the songs that I didn't know on that album are really really good.
"i'm waiting for the day" was my favorite of that album, strangely.
Enjoyed the Alabama Shakes show last night, but I have never seen a band engage less with their audience. We also had a psycho lady about five feet to my left. I bumped into Algonad before the start of the show and then bumped into a HS friend I hadn't seen in years. We chatted for about two minutes and the lady screams, "SHUT UP!" Nevermind the fact that she was just screaming like an idiot, "YEAHHHHHH!!" at odd times throughout the night and was so annoying that the people next to her left before the encore just to get away from her.
1. Michael Franti & Spearhead - "Never Too Late" - Everyone Deserves Music
2. Sufjan Stevens - "The Seer's Tower" - Illinois
3. Mumford & Sons - "After the Storm" - Sigh No More
4. Uncle Tupelo - "Shaky Ground" - March 16-20, 1992 [Bonus Tracks]
5. The Who - "Magic Bus" - 20th Century Masters
6. Gorillaz - "Every Planet We Reach Is Dead" - Demon Days
7. Cloud Cult - "The Departure: Today We Give Ourselves to the Fire" - Light Chasers
8. Guster - "Jesus On the Radio" - Keep It Together*
9. Drive By Truckers - "Outfit" - Austin City Limits Music Festival: 2003
10. Beyonce Knowles - "Listen" - Dreamgirls Soundtrack#
B. The Lemonheads - "Mrs. Robinson" - It's A Shame About Ray
* First line, "Five a.m., March 16 . . ." I wonder if it was March 16, 1992?
# Wow, that tenth song doesn't really fit with the rest of the list.
Yes, the woman at Alabama Shakes was REALLY annoying. It was like she was trying to belt it out like the lead singer, but it was an ultimate fail. I feel bad for the guys who were next to her. Overall, the music was great!
Today, Pandora was all over the place:
1. Jah Roots - Good Highs
2. BluePrint - Soul Music
3. The National - Racing Like a Pro
4. Jack Johnson - Never Know
5. Green Day - Basket Case
6. The Hold Steady - Chips Ahoy (live)
7. Outkast - Rosa Parks
8. Flobots - Stand Up
9. The Postal Service - The District Sleeps Alone Tonight
10. MC Hammer - You Can't Touch This
Stop - Hammer Time!
I like your pandora. Especially from #4 on.
Also, I was sad you didn't take the "there was this guy just talking to his friends at the concert so I screamed at him" gag.
I know. I lobbed that one right over the plate. Could have been a homerun. [Cut to me miming throwing a football.]
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01. Nile - "The Blessed Dead", In Their Darkened Shrines
02. Halford - "Crystal", Crucible
03. Judas Priest - "Between the Hammer and the Anvil", Painkiller
04. At The Gates - "Under the Serpent Sun", Slaughter of the Soul
05. Dream Evil - "Break the Chains", Evilized
06. Heimdall - "Black Tower", Hard as Iron
07. King Diamond - "Charon", Fatal Portrait
08. Hammerfall - "Hammer of Justice", Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
09. Force of Evil - "Mind Breaker", Force of Evil
10. Blind Guardian - "Another Stranger Me", A Twist in the Myth
Uhhhh, no stories from me other than a complaint about the iPod's inability to finish a randomized playlist without bizzarely jumping into an album, losing my place. I can get about 250 songs in, then I have to start over. Stupid Apple.
Do you just go through your stuff in a big long randomized playlist? So, you listen to your entire music collection (or at least what you have on your iPod) over the course of several months? Or what?
...because a lot of metal songs are long, and 250 songs in would be like 15 months worth of music if played straight through, wouldn't it?
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Open Up and Bleed - Mika Vainio - Life (...It Eats You Up)
Natures Mortes - Georg Friedrich Haas - Donaueschinger Musiktage 2003
Parsley Hero - The Goslings - Occasion
Untitled 8 - Indignant Senility - Plays Wagner
Ouroboros is Broken - Earth - Hibernaculum
Metastaseis - Iannis Xenakis - Xenakis: Orchestral Works
Stinkfist - Tool - Ænima
Geek Stink Breath - Green Day - Insomniac
Bone House - The Dead Weather - Horehound
Fried Eagle Mind - Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
* Finally, 7 tracks into this list and we get the first lyrics. Lots of long, loud, instrumentals here. First 6 songs average 12 minutes in length.
* The first 2 minutes of 'Metastaseis' are in the running for my favorite 2 minutes of orchestral music.
* I really like this list, it fits my mood this morning.
1. “lit up” – the national – alligator
2. “auf aches” – franz ferdinand – franz ferdinand
3. “mary ann” – harry belafonte – harry belafonte sings the blues
4. “on your way” – alabama shakes – boys & girls
5. “britney” – i’m from barcelona – we’re from barcelona
6. “3030” – deltron – deltron 3030
7. “‘en gallop’” – joanna newsom – the milk-eyed mender
8. “the stallion, pt. 3” – ween – pure guava
9. “keep yourself warm” – frightened rabbit – the midnight organ fight
10. “vampires in blue dresses” – margot & the nuclear so and so’s – the dust of retreat
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1. Lydia Loveless “Do My Best”* Mile Marker Session
2. Antony & the Johnsons “Hope There's Someone” I Am a Bird Now
3. Mylo “In My Arms (Popular Computer Remix)” Destroy Rock & Roll (US Edition)
4. Everything But the Girl “Rollercoaster” Amplified Heart
5. Bumblebeez 81 “Pony Ride (Photek Remix)” Pony Ride Remixed
6. The Cinematic Orchestra “Dawn” Man with a Movie Camera
7. Andy Stott “Cherry Eye” We Stay Together
8. Soundgarden “Let Me Drown” Superunknown
9. Tristen “Baby Drugs” Charlatans at the Garden Gate
T. Juliana Barwick “The Magic Place” The Magic Place
E. Black Dice “Peace in the Valley” Peace in the Valley
*Notes:
1. On that podcast I linked to above, she calls it "Chris Isaak".
1. Grizzly Bear - Southern Point - Veckatimest
2. Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out - Heathen Chemistry
3. The O.C. Supertones - Supertones Strike Back - Supertones Strike Back
4. Nelly Furtado - Maneater - Loose
5. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy - St. Elsewhere*
6. Quarashi - Payback - Guerilla Disco
7. Frank Black - Whatever Happened to Pong? - Teenager of the Year
8. Liars - Number One Against the Rush - WIXIW*
9. Salem - King Night - King Night
T. Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong - Rock Action
B. mewithoutYou - January 1979 - Catch For Us the Foxes
5. Linds and I were watching a music video countdown show of the top 100 hooks of the last ten years. I have to believe that this is probably my number one (I think it was mid 70's on the show in question, which is stupid). Then again, Linds says I overrate this song to ridiculous levels (it's probably in my top 15-20 favorite songs ever).
8. Haven't heard the album proper yet. I've never been a big Liars fan, but this song is great.
#3! That's a fantastic song.
Also, despite not liking them all that much generally, I somehow managed to see that band like a half dozen time when I was in high school. Their live shows were not fantastic.
Agreed on all counts. My friend was a fan, so every time they were at Sonshine, we'd end up finding our way there. I do enjoy three or four songs of theirs, but they were all around incredibly mediocre. I was always more of a Five Iron Frenzy guy, myself.
I was a W's guy.
Nearly 30 months ago, Sharon Van Etten had a Daytrotter session. "Give out" is still as affecting. Seems like she polished the lyrics a bit in the time between this and the album, but they're small changes.
At present, I'm finding it hard to say that it's not my favorite song of 2012, so I've got to check this out.