Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: Sept 7, 2012

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A few things:
1. Dolfish is touring this fall. He's playing the "Amsterdam Bar and Hall" in/near downtown St. Paul on Thursday, Nov. 29. That's a week after Thanksgiving. I don't know what cover will be (if there will be). Also playing: We Are the Willows.

I mentioned Dolfish once before, but, short songs that hit like the best Fiction 59 Spookystories. He packs more weight, depth, humor, regret, and human weakness into a very affecting two minutes than I've heard just about anyone else fit into a full album. I guess it's singer-songwriter stuff, but his instrumentation isn't like that, and his voice sounds like a gruff woman. I dowloaded his one release to date, the free EP "Your Love Is Bumming Me Out," without any idea what was on it (I think HHT shared a bill with him in Columbus and linked to it), and it grabbed me and hasn't let go. I really think you should go download it now and listen to it. If you don't like it, you're out what...? $0 and 8 minutes. Anyways, I'm excited for this show, it's all I've got on my fall calendar so far (music-wise).

2. Animal Collective released an album this week and I haven't even tried to listen to it. Enthusiasm fades, I guess. SPIN had a list they compiled of 127 artists that inspired them (mostly musicians, but not entirely). I liked seeing Gas, the Orb, Basic Channel, Black Dice, and Vladislav Delay listed. I've never listened to Gas, but I've been listening to the Burger/Ink album the past week between Dolfish and Pete Tosh. (The Ink half of Burger/Ink is Mike Ink who is actually Wolfgang Voigt a/k/a Gas.)

3. I swear I had one more thing I wanted to say but, I guess not.

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Now please share your list.

54 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: Sept 7, 2012”

  1. Apparently it's Repetitive-With-Exclamation-Point Day. If only Tora! Tora! Tora! was a song, then it would turn up in my list.
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    1. The Decemberists - "July! July!" - Castaways and Cutouts
    2. The Smashing Pumpkins - "Galapogos" - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
    3. Fatboy Slim - "Praise You" - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
    4. Pete Seeger - "Turn! Turn! Turn!" - Greatest Hits
    5. Uncle Tupelo - "Moonshiner" - 89/93: An Anthology
    6. The Replacements - "Takin a Ride" - Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?
    7. Louis Armstrong - "Rockin' Chair" - Ken Burns's Jazz
    8. Prince - "Uptown" - The Hits/The B-Sides
    9. Arcade Fire - "Deep Blue" - The Suburbs
    10. TV on the Radio - "Heroes" - War Child Presents Heroes
    B. Wilco - "Sky Blue Sky" - Sky Blue Sky

    2. "They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!"

      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e0Ju4eDROE

    3. Love me some bonus Wilco but I don't know much about Sky Blue Sky. What are your thoughts about it?

      2. I'm with Mags. It's perfectly good Wilco, but I would rather listen to Kicking Television, YHF, or Wilco (The Album) ahead of SBS.

      3. i'm not quite sure where i'd rank it in their releases, but i really do enjoy it (though it did take a little bit for me to get into it). check out the opening track (and the title track for that matter). they really set the tone for the rest of the album. if you like those, you should like it.

        also, "walken" is probably in my wilco top 10, or very close to it.

  2. 1. Sunday's Best -- Elvis Costello
    2. See Saw -- Aretha Franklin
    3. You Can Live at Home -- Husker Du
    4. Big Sur -- Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard
    5. Travelin' Band -- Creedence Clearwater Revival
    6. Big Boys -- Elvis Costello
    7. Flamenco Sketches
    8. To Call My Own -- Golden Smog
    9. I Am Crazy -- Mekons
    10. See You Later -- Soul Asylum

    Bonus: Autumn Shade -- The Vines

  3. .

    * Vultures - The Offspring - Conspiracy of One
    * V. Heart of Light - Kaija Saariaho - Notes on Light
    * The Warmth - Incubus - Make Yourself
    * Inspection Wise 1999 - Veni Vidi Vicious - The Hives
    * Embrace - Korn - Untouchables
    * Lateralus - Tool - Lateralus
    * Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
    * Butterfly Knife - EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints
    * Totally Natural - ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Madonna
    * A Little More For Little You - The Hives - Tyrannosaurus Hives

    My Chemical Romance, Korn, Incubus, and The Offspring. I think this is a shoo-in for free's "rad list" designation.

    1. At first I thought you had a song from Madonna which would almost be an immediate disqualification. Also Dread's got a good entry but it's early.

      1. wow. I had to look at it 3 or 4 times to figure out what you were talking about.

        I'll blame the baby for that one, his dictation-taking skills are still developing.

  4. I have never had a list start off this "girly," but since I am a girl, I guess that is OK. Actually, looking at the whole list, it is pretty girly. Thanks Pandora:

    1. Jack Johnson - If I had Eyes
    2. Wilson Philips - Release Me
    3. Nas - Hustlers
    4. Indigo Girls - Wild Horses
    5. Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
    6. The Hold Steady - Most People are DJs
    7. Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
    8. Fun. - Benson Hedges
    9. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
    10. Jason Mraz - I'm Yours

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    1. “fallen in love” – smith westerns – dye it blonde
    2. “the neighbors” – st. vincent – actor
    3. “hour follows hour” – ani difranco – not a pretty girl
    4. “friend of mine” – the national – the alligator
    5. “a light on a hill” – margot & the nuclear so and so’s – the dust of retreat
    6. “five cups of coffee” – the jayhawks – blue earth
    7. “lucky” – radiohead – OK computer
    8. “we all belong” – dr. dog – we all belong
    9. “thief” – belly – now they’ll sleep
    10. “superwoman (where were you when i needed you)” – stevie wonder – music of my mind

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    The Baseball Project - "The Death of Big Ed Delahanty" Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
    Stelios Kazantzidis - "Efuge Efuge" The Wire soundtrack
    Foo Fighters - "See You" The Colour and The Shape
    Foo Fighters - "Disenchanted Lullaby" One by One
    Foo Fighters - "February Stars" The Colour and The Shape

    Jay-Z - "American Gangster" American Gangster
    Oasis - "Swamp Song (Excerpt 1)" (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
    Less Than Jake - "Process" Pezcore
    Shinedown - "45" Leave A Whisper
    Justin Timberlake - "Until The End Of Time" Futuresex/Lovesounds

  7. .

    1. Serenade The Naked and Famous
    2. Little Secrets Passion Pit
    3. Feel Good Inc. (Stanton Warriors Remix) Gorillaz
    4. Black Hole Sun Soundgarden
    5. Everybody Wants To Rule The World Tears For Fears

    6. Stairway To Heaven (Live 1973) Led Zeppelin
    7. Don't You Know I Care (Or Don't You Care To Know) Johnny Hartman
    8. I Wish I Knew Bill Evans Trio
    9. Set Fire To The Rain Adele
    10. One Big Holiday (Live) My Morning Jacket

    B. Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers

  8. 1. Noel Gallagher - If I Had a Gun - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
    2. Nobuo Uematsu - Searching For Friends - Final Fantasy VI
    3. Vitalic - Poney, Part 1 - OK Cowboy
    4. Hot Chip - Night and Day*
    5. Wavves - No Hope Kids - Wavvves
    6. Bad Brains - Banned in DC
    7. Sleigh Bells - True Shred Guitar - Reign of Terror*
    8. Memoryhouse - When You Sleep*
    9. Michael W. Smith - Love Me Good - Live the Life
    T. Opeth - The Leper Affinity - Blackwater Park

    B. M83 - Raconte-Moi Une Histoire - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

    4. The whole "yaknowithinkaboucha" part in this song is one of my favorite parts to a song all year.
    7. What a truly useless starting track. Luckily the album picked up considerably from this point.
    8. My Bloody Valentine cover. If you've heard Memoryhouse's The Years EP, then you pretty much know what this sounds like, but it's still a very nice cover.

      1. I was lukewarm on the album last year, but I've listened to it several times in 2012, including one perfect drive in July where I ended up taking random back roads so that I could finish the album in a sitting.

    2. I was listening to this great Grimes single/video* last week and my first thought was "This sounds like Vitalic's 'Poney (Pt. 1)' but with Julianna Barwick vox."
      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtH68PJIQLE

      *Not sure if the song is great. I haven't gotten the same feel from the song without the video, so maybe I just really like the marriage of the video to the song.

      1. OK, not that she sounds like Ms. Barwick, but that she layers and echoes her vocals over themselves until they're smeared and barely decipherable, which is what Barwick does.

        Also, I now know she's not a teenager (this vid, linked-to by Plastikman, was the first I've heard of her: I've fallen behind on what Pitchfork's selling), but I enjoyed the idea of this music coming from a good-looking teenager. I'd always dreamed of the day that some Disney-channel-type child actor would release her album and instead of being crappy pop, it'd be a collaboration with Panacea or Aphex Twin or something. I guess I'll have to settle for this.

      2. I've found that I greatly prefer Purity Ring to Grimes. They mix in a bit of an almost Witch House-y sort of vibe with a very similar style of music.

        1. you and your witch house!
          Actually, I've got their "ungirthed" on mp3 and was meaning to check out more. But it seems more erratic than Grimes, which I dug because it sounded so housey.

          1. erratic's not the right word. Zammuto-y? From this one song, Purity Ring sound like an art-pop band with electronic instruments, while Grimes sounds like house tracks with non-house vox.

          2. I love one very thin subsection of the genre. Most of the stuff is about on par with bad chopped'n'screwed, and is unlistenable.

            "Fineshrine" is probably my favorite song off of Shrines. It's certainly what I would check out first if you wanted to check out more.

  9. Buddy Holly would have been 76 today. Sigh.

    1. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? - Dave Brubeck - Interchanges '54
    2. Bewitched, Bothered, And Bewildered - Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Sings the Rodgers & Hart Songbook
    3. Rough Rider - English Beat - You Just Can't Beat It
    4. I'm Set Free (Alternate Closet Mix) - Velvet Underground - Peel Slowly and See
    5. Rollin Hard - Lalo Schifrin - Mission: Anthology
    6. Crying, Waiting, Hoping - Karen Elson - Rave On Buddy Holly
    7. Tennessee Ghost Train - Jimmie Dale - Trains & Cars
    8. Morning Light - Girls - Album
    9. Just Like Honey - Jesus and Mary Chain - 21 Singles
    10. Down in the Dive - Brinsley Schwarz - Surrender to the Rhythm

    B. Lovesick Blues - Ryan Adams - Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute

  10. Alright, lets see what girly stuff I can expect to listen to while I spend the afternoon writing test reports:

    01. Type O Negative - "Hail and Fairwell to Britain", Dead Again
    02. Death - "1,000 Eyes", Symbolic
    03. Morbid Angel - "This Means War", Domination
    04. Savatage - "Strange Wings", Hall of the Mountain King
    05. Iron Maiden - "Total Eclipse", The Number of the Beast
    06. Ozzy Osbourne - "Shot in the Dark", The Ultimate Sin
    07. Grave Digger - "Dolphin's Cry", Heart of Darkness (ugh, skip)
    08. Light This City - "Remains of the Gods", Remains of the Gods
    09. Dio - "Invisible", Holy Diver
    10. Iced Earth - "Slave to the Dark", Dark Saga

        1. I knew Black Sabbath by reputation only...wasn't until you (or someone here, but likely you) pointed to Paranoid that I learned who Dio was (edit: you know, repository reading about Sabbath...not that he was part of that album). Well, that and from this:
          NSFW
          httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmU7FshBwgg
          NSFW

  11. 1. Aimee Mann - Freeway
    2. Cold Play - Green Eyes
    3. Til You're Gone - Gabe Dixon Band
    4. Johnny Cash - Cry, Cry, Cry
    5. Does He Love You - Rilo Kiley
    6. The Mesopotamians - TMBG
    7. Long Train Runnin' - Doobie Brothers
    8. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Hank Williams
    9. Neon Bible - Arcade Fire
    10. Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings
    Bonus: Man On The Moon - R.E.M.

  12. .

    Twins The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Higher Than The Stars EP
    Our Faces Split The Coast In Half Broken Social Scene Broken Social Scene
    Run Down The Saints Eternally Yours
    Inflammatory Writ Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
    I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry Giant Sand Glum

    So You Say You Lost Your Baby Gene Clark Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers
    OK Pal M83 Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
    Lupus Fripp & Eno The Equatorial Stars
    C.C. Rider Bobby Powell The Heart of Southern Soul - From Nashville to Memphis & Muscle Shoals
    Homely Girl The Chi-Lites Greatest Hits
    Blueberry Boat Fiery Furnaces Blueberry Boat
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8j3C3VsEzE

  13. 1. Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet “Different Trains - 3. After the War” Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
    2. Made Man “Industry” DJ Kicks: Claude Young*
    3. Mr. Scruff “Chipmunk” Keep It Unreal
    4. Sonic Youth “Death to Our Friends” Evol
    5. Flavor Crystals “Age of Aquariums” Three

    6. Ice Cube “Wicked” The Predator
    7. The Spring Standards “Bells and Whistles” Would Things Be Different
    8. Jóhann Jóhannsson “Entering the City” ...And in the Endless Pause There Came the Sound of Bees
    9. Linfinity “Tweedy”* Live at Marcata: Demos
    T. Murder by Death “Brother”* In Bocca Al Lupo

    *Notes
    2. Don't know exactly what it is, but this is my favorite DJ Mix album of all time (and yes I do own a copy of Coldcut's Journeys By DJ). (Caveat: most DJ mixes bore me so I haven't listened to that many.) Great mid-90s house music. Claude Young scratches and beat-juggles a bit, creating tension and vibrancy rather than just playing a series of different tracks together seamlessly.

    9. Wonderful song, wonderful live recording, Dylan Von Wagner solo acoustic with tons of echo that just really fits his voice. Wilco fans can tell me if Jeff Tweedy's got a song about a man meeting his wife in the rain after she's done surfing and she's insane and then they reconsummate there in the rain.

    T. A MbD fan said this was a song I should really pay attention to so I can understand whatever it is that I'm missing about the band. Now's not that moment.

  14. 'You're Sixteen You're Beautiful (And You're Mine)' - Ringo Starr Photograph...
    'Breakin the Chains of Love' - Fitz and the Tantrums Pickin Up the Pieces
    'Antidote' - The Hives Tyrannosaurus Hives
    'Octopus' Garden' - The Beatles Abbey Road
    'Chasing Cars' - Snow Patrol

    'My Favourite Game' - The Cardigans
    'Backwater' - Meat Puppets To High to Die
    'Drives Seat' Sniff N the Tears
    'Against the Wind' - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Against the Wind
    'Pure' - Lightning Seeds Like You Do

  16. I don't know how I've missed the "Bad Girls" video for this long, but I made up for it tonight by watching it about 7 times.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYs0gJD-LE

    1. Dear Fast and Furious movie producers/series rightsholders,
      This is what it would take to get me in the theater for one of your films.

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