Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: Oct 26, 2012

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1. This is my song for this week:

I've had it on my iPod for a month or so now and it just hit me like on Monday. Then yesterday I realized that it's like Sigur Rós in English. Does this actually have the same tune as a Sigur Rós song? I'm actually curious if the reason it hit me is because I'm remembering a different song that I liked but never really paid attention to. I'm going to be seeing this guy/these folk in St. Paul one week after Thanksgiving, because Dolfish is opening.

2. Dolfish has an album out and it's great. It doesn't have the organ-drone backdrop of the (still free!) Your Love Is Bummin' Me Out (and it reprises four of those five songs), but it's got a ridiculous amount of variety and has the immediacy of being recorded in one take (I don't know that it was, just it feels that way).

3. I've just been mixing up my iPod be decent degrees, ripping CDs I hadn't yet, removing stuff even though I still like it just to get different stuff on there, etc. Given me a bit of pep.

54 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: Oct 26, 2012”

  1. 'Ho Hey' - The Lumineers The Lumineers
    'Reboot the Mission' - The Wallflowers f. Mick Jones Glad All Over
    'Free to Decide' - The Cranberries Stars:The Best of 1992-2002
    'Oh! Sweet Nuthin' - The Velvet Underground Loaded
    'Mendocino' - Sir Douglas Quartet

    'Never Been to Spain' - Three Dog Night 20th Century Masters
    'Novacaine for the Sould' - Eels
    'I Want You' - Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
    'Im Yours' - Jason Mraz
    'Tommy Rockwood' - The Little Willies For the Good Times

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    01. Overkill - "Fatal if Swallowed", Taking Over
    02. Bathory - "Great Hall Awaits a Fallen Brother", Nordland I
    03. Accept - "Fast as a Shark", Restless and Wild
    04. Dark Tranquillity - "The Endless Feed", Character
    05. Black Label Society - "I Never Dreamed", Mafia
    06. Meshuggah - "Soul Burn", Destroy Erase Improve
    07. Slayer - "Piece By Piece", Reing in Blood
    08. Light This City - "Letter to my Abuser", Remains of the Gods
    09. Shadows Fall - "Prelude to Disaster", The Art of Balance
    10. Anthrax - "Any Place But Here", We've Come For You All

    Looks like my drive home will start off pretty good, but die off near the end.

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    1. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Gold" - The Heist
    2. The Decemberists - "Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect" - Castaways and Cutouts
    3. Wilco - "What Light" - Sky Blue Sky
    4. Bud Powell Trio - "Get Happy" - Ken Burns Jazz
    5. Better Than Ezra - "Desperately Wanting" - Friction, Baby
    6. Sly & the Family Stone - "You Can Make It If You Try" - The Very Best of Sly & the Family Stone
    7. The New Pornographers - "Sing Me Spanish Techno" - Twin Cinema
    8. The Beatles - "All You Need is Love" - Magical Mystery Tour
    9. Ray Charles & Johnny Mathis - "Over the Rainbow" - Genius Loves Company
    10. Generationals - "Wildlife Sculpture" - Con Law
    B. U2 - "One" - Achtung Baby

    5. and B. - Friction and Achtung, Baby! I'm starting to sound like George Costanza.

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    1. Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey - McCartneys- Ram
    2. Take the Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven - Left of the Dial
    3. World Party - Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
    4. Volver, Volver - Los Lobos - Just Another Band From East LA
    5. Gotta Serve Somebody - Eric Burden - Chimes of Freedom
    6. Heavy Chevy - Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
    7. Borneo - Firewater - The Golden Hour
    8. Lighting Strikes - the Clash - Sandinista
    9. Cheek to Cheek - Mel Torme - The Velvet Fog
    10. She's So Cold - Stones - Emotional Rescue
    B. I'll Call You Mine - the Zombies - Anthology

  5. 1. Daisy Glaze -- Big Star
    2. Golden Boys/Serpentine Pad -- Pavement
    3. Wouldn't It Be Nice -- The Beach Boys
    4. Oblivious -- Aztec Camera
    5. Now I'm Here -- Queen
    6. Somewhere -- Soundgarden
    7. Surfin' Safari -- The Beach Boys
    8. State Trooper -- Bruce Springsteen
    9. Sweet Thing -- Van Morrison
    10. Nice and Easy -- Frank Sinatra

    Bonus: I'm Stranded -- The Saints

    2 -- Love that song, quintessential Pavement

  6. Stumbled across neo-prog band Big Big Train, and like the lush vocals a lot on the recent release, like this one:
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4JeLGchO7s

  7. 1. Coldcut “Space Journey” Let Us Play!
    2. Sonic Youth “Skip Tracer” Washing Machine
    3. Soundgarden “4th of July” Superunknown
    4. Burning Spear “I & I Survive (Sub Dub Remix)”* Dubmission 2: the Remixes
    5. Lydia Loveless “Things I Do”* Daytrotter Session, 10/18/2011

    6. Eric Copleland “Spangled” Waco Taco Combo
    7. Dolfish “I'm Proud of You, Joanna” Your Love is Bummin' Me Out
    8. Dosh “If You Want to You Have to” Daytrotter Session 6/23/2008
    9. The Cinematic Orchestra “Durian (vocal)” Motion
    T. Andy Stott “North to South” Passed Me By
    E. Arvo Pärt “Magnificat (AMR Mix 7)”*

    *Notes:
    4. Sub Dub's Remix of the Burning Spear's Dub Version of Burning Spear's “Slavery Days”.
    5. "I'm not that hard to please / Although some people say I am / Why else would have picked someone like you / to be my man? / Now that's nothin' against you darlin' / I like it simplified / An' men like that are always very very hard to find."
    E. Is it funny to listen to music one made themselves? In this case, the main reason I made it is because I wanted to have it and listen, that I wished someone else had made it, and better, but given the absence, I went for it myself.

      1. I think I didn't want to know what he looked like. Ooh, this track is cool.
        Still gotta pickup the CD for Passed Me By/We Stay Together. I wavered the one time I saw it due to its price, but learned it is two discs and has four bonus tracks. Maybe I should wait til this is out and just make a full order of those and the new one and the old compilation Unknown Exception.

        Still listening to this track. Wow I want to hear this on something better than my office computer speakers; I want to be swallowed up in it.
        If you've listened to my Pärt Remix, you can hear some of that sound in it, which I really dig.

        I just looked it up on discogs. It was released on my birthday!!!!

  8. This is one of my favorite lists I've ever had come together.

    1. "Pancho and Lefty" - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson - Pancho and Lefty
    2. "We're The Replacements" - TMBG - Don't Let's Start
    3. "About Her" - Malcom McLaren - Kill Bill, Vol. 2 Soundtrack
    4. "Hold On" - Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
    5. "Psycho Killer" - Velvet Revolver - Libertad
    6. "Changes" - David Bowie - Hunky Dory
    7. "Fake Empire" - The National - Boxer
    8. "Can't Stand Me Now" - The Libertines - The Libertines
    9. "Weapon Of Choice" - Fatboy Slim - Halfway Between The Gutter And The Stars
    10. "Wedding Bells" - Lissie - Why You Running'
    Bonus: "Since You've Been Gone" - "Weird Al" Yankovic - Bad Hair Day
    Bonus2: "Season Of The Witch" - Donovan -     Sunshine Superman

    5. I like the original better, but this'll do.
    10. I like this better than the original, but that'll do too.
    Bonus: Still one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Seriously, if you ever get a chance, check out a Weird Al concert.
    Bonus2: I was going to put up a comment about Halloween music anyway, but then this was the 12th song that came up. Nice.

    1. We got invited to a family Halloween party - costumes required. I tried to convince my wife that one of us should wear a Steve Carlton jersey and the other a poncho. She claimed that no one would get it (including her).

      1. Nice.

        I always thought a good couples' costume would be a polar bear (and/or Santa Claus) and a penguin. You could be "Polar opposites".

    2. I'll second the Weird Al recommendation. We saw him a few years back and he does do a great show.

    3. That's what point #4 in today's header was supposed to be: looking at the calendar and realizing it was time for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's Confessions of a Knife to make it annual visit to my iPod. I really don't think that much else is needed. I've got a H'ween playlist on my iPod with that album and a few other Tracks. Very little vocally thematic, just sonically fitting. Or vice-versa, like "Die, Dead, Die"* by Big Smith.

      *Read that as a command.

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    1. “words & a piece of paper” – hanne hukkelberg – little things
    2. “make everyone happy/mechanical birds” – modest mouse – this is a long drive for someone with nothing to think about
    3. “are you ready for the country” – neil young – harvest
    4. “the obvious child” – paul simon – rhythm of the saints
    5. “coeur d'alene” – the head and the heart – the head and the heart
    6. “talking about money” – wye oak – the knot
    7. “be my head” – the flaming lips – transmissions from the satellite heart
    8. “time keeps on slipping” – deltron – deltron 3030
    9. “toby” – vietnam – vietnam
    10. “no provenance” – joanna newsom – have one on me

  10. Here's what's on my Halloween Music Mix (made last year):

    1. Monster Mash - Bobby Pickett
    2. Werewolves Of London - Warren Zevon
    3. The Curse - Josh Ritter
    4. Season OF The Witch - Donovan
    5. Friendly Ghost - Harlem
    6. A Boy, A Girl & A Graveyard - Jeremy Messersmith
    7. Wolf Like Me - TV On The Radio
    8. Walking With A Ghost - Tegan & Sara
    9. Zombie - The Cranberries
    10. Shankill Butchers - The Decemberists
    11. There's A Ghost In Me - Ladytron
    12. Spooky - Classics IV
    13. I Put A Spell On You - Nina Simone
    14. Superstition - Stevie Wonder
    15. Thriller - Michael Jackson
    16. Science Fiction Double Feature - RHPS Soundtrack

    There's another Jeremy Messersmith Reluctant Graveyard track, but I don't remember which one. And one or two others that I'd cut, if I was remaking it. And one more I'd add, if I was making another this year: "Marty Beller Mask" - They Might Be Giants.

    1. Any mix that has 'Wolf Like Me' on it is a successful mix. I always toy around with the idea of doing something like this. Harley Poe seems like it would be made for something like this.

      1. Just be careful - there are a lot of songs that fit the theme that will kill a mix. This is at least my third iteration.

        1. This is the problem I always have with making mixes. "Hey this is an awesome song, I NEED to put it on this awesome mix." The problem, of course, is that acoustic horror folk doesn't often work well with... well... any other genre.

    2. Suggested additions, once you've got five or so songs from Confessions of a Knife:
      Animal Collective - Panic
      Animal Collective - Slippi
      Autechre - Teartear*
      Beck - Mutherf--er*
      Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Death to Everyone
      Eels - My Beloved Monster
      Eels - Fresh Blood
      Einstürzende Neubauten - Headcleaner*
      Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
      Lateef The Truth Speaker - The Wreckoning*
      Lo Down - Mad Fright Night*
      Low - Witches
      Meat Puppets - Vampires
      Ministry - Scare Crow
      Moby - Thousand*
      Moloko - Killa Bunnies*
      Monster Magnet - Heads Explode
      Monster Magnet - 19 Witches
      Monster Magnet - See You in Hell
      Monster Magnet - Goliath And the Vampires
      Photek - UFO*
      PJ Harvey - Meet Ze Monsta
      PJ Harvey - Down By The Water
      Portishead - Cowboys
      Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69
      Sonic Youth - Shaking Hell
      Tricky vs. The Gravediggaz - Psychosis*
      Tricky vs. The Gravediggaz - Tonite Is A Special Night (Chaos Mass Confusion Mix)*
      Zola Jesus - Six Feet (From My Baby)*

      *Starred ones definitely probably aren't your style, Phil, but I put them there for others to consider.

  11. I went into Target the other day to pick up the new P.O.S. album. Sometimes I forget that mid-central Minnesota just isn't a very good place to be a music fan. Since they didn't have the album I wanted, and since I really wanted to walk out the doors with some manner of CD, I bought the new Kendrick Lamar album, good kid, m.A.A.d city. It's quite good. The guy's a good lyricist, and most of the songs bring some oomph to them. I don't know if it's quite as flawless as some publications are making it out to be (91 on Metacritic seems a bit high), but I'm quite liking it.

    1. Clams Casino - I'm God - Instrumentals 2*
    2. Dan Deacon - Build Voice - Bromst
    3. Yasunori Mitsuda - Chrono Trigger Theme - Chrono Trigger Soundtrack*
    4. Boards of Canada - An Eagle In Your Mind - Music Has the Right to Children
    5. Prime STH - Believe - Underneath the Surface
    6. Zeptepi - The End
    7. Lady Gaga - Alejandro - The Fame Monster*
    8. Mindless Self Indulgence - You'll Rebel To Anything (As Long As It's Not Challenging) - You'll Rebel to Anything
    9. mewithoutYou - O, Porcupine - Brother, Sister
    T. Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha - Food and Liquor

    B. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Mladic - 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

    1. Thanks again, Clams. Now I don't have to listen to Lil B ever again.

    3. My four year old niece came over for a bit yesterday. When she got in, I was listening to the Chrono Trigger soundtrack. When she heard the music, her face scrunched up, and she asked "Pete, what are you listening to?" in the cutest little "what is this crap?" way. So I have a four year old judging the weird music I listen to, which is funny.

    7. I wonder if I'd enjoy this song as much if it didn't remind me of game 7 of the 1991 World Series?

    1. I'm quite fond of Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul, a couple of Kendrick Lamar's Black Hippy cohorts (and if you haven't, I'd definitely recommend checking out their albums from this year), but K-Dot I haven't listened to much. I feel like I'm about the only dude relatively into hip hop who hasn't listened good kid, m.A.A.d. city yet. I'm not sure why. I'll blame part of this on me being sick all week, but I plan on fixing this today.

      1. Thanks again, Clams. Now I don't have to listen to Lil B ever again.

      Now that's just a shame. If I'm not careful, my next action after posting this LTE will be going to listen to "Wonton Soup" and travelling down a rabbit hole of Lil B songs I love and cooking at my desk all day. I think when the guy is on, he's really damn good. But he just puts out soooo much stuff that the majority is crap. Honestly, if you haven't listened to Angel's Exodus or I'm Gay (I'm Happy) you should give them a shot. They're not quite as on the WOOP WOOP SWAG tip as his other stuff, but they're REALLY good. Also, his rock single "California Boy" sounds like it's 20 years old in the best way possible.

      1. I listened to part of Schoolboy Q's album, then got called away and never came back to it. This was in March. I remember liking most of what I'd heard from it, and I picked up "There He Go" somewhere and I really, really like that song. I'll have to get back to it at some point. You should definitely hit up the Kendrick Lamar, though. Did you like Section.80?

        Okay, I certainly get the idea of liking certain songs from an artist, even if the vast majority of their output is crap. The only problem is that with Lil B, I don't even know where to start. According to RateYourMusic, the guy has put out 20 album-length releases THIS YEAR. He has less quality control than any other artist in the history of recorded music, of this I'm quite sure. Everything he thinks up, he records, everything he records, he puts on a tape. I listened to God's Father, since that's the one that everyone was all crazy about this year, and while there were a couple songs that caught my attention, most of it annoyed me. I think I just need a couple of his more level-headed fans (i.e. people who don't go to his last.fm or RYM pages and say "perfection. i'm crying. thank you, BasedGod" for every single release) to just give me a primer of 20 songs so I can make an informed opinion of the dude's better music.

        1. I actually had only heard half of Section.80, but dug what I'd heard. I'll go back to it I suppose. Listened to GKMC today. It's very good, but nothing earth shattering, so I agree with you on that. I probably prefer Habits & Contradictions to be honest. One listen, so we'll see. It seems like it could be a grower. I also listened to it on a head full of Robotussin, so that may have skewed my perceptions.

          Definitely understand that with Lil' B. Don't forget, he put out a collection of 848 FREESTYLES earlier this summer too. I find it pretty overwhelming too, to be honest. (I feel this same way about a lot of noise artists, as well. Merzbow in particular.) Most of the stuff I know is actually probably a year or two old since I just can't keep up. I'd be willing to make you a list like this. Not sure I'd go to 20 songs, but I could get you a pretty good selection. The mixtapes are incredibly hit and miss, but his album albums are fairly solid.

          1. Honestly, if you were able to come up with even ten to fifteen definitive Lil B songs, I'd be obliged.

            GKMC is overhyped. I say that as a fan of the album (just based off what I've heard, it'll be in my top 20 for the year). It has no obvious singles ('Swimming Pools' and 'Backseat Freestyle' being the closest things to 'bangers' on the album), and most of it is a lyrical exercise. I'm finding myself liking it more with continued listens, though, so that bodes well. I'll give Schoolboy Q a good, full listen tonight, though.

      1. Same. I do love GYBE (or is that GY!BE? GYBE! G!YBE??), but even when I'm in a "sit down and listen to a big, crushingly epic album for the next hour and a half" mood, I'll usually put on Fuck Buttons or Sigur Rós. This new one doesn't really change that. It's an excellent album, and I completely love the idea of it and the execution of it, they just always exhaust me if I'm giving them an intensive listen, and just putting them on in the background doesn't really do them justice or give you much in terms of a listening experience.

        1. If you want to mix up the F--- Buttons, Sigur Rós thing, try Black Dice's Beaches & Canyons. But not their other albums, cos they're way denser. Creatures might be borderline, I guess.

          1. I'm going to be checking out that album, immediately, because anything that is even remotely comparable to the atmospherics of F-Buttons or Sigur Rós needs to be capitalized on right off.

  12. .

    * Pittsburgh to Lebanon - Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician**
    * All This is Ours (Sunrise) - Demdike Stare - Elemental ***
    * The Path - Zoë Keating - Into the Forest ****
    * Magnetic - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Social Network *****
    * Very Ape - Nirvana - With the Lights Out ******
    * Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie - A Perfect Circle - eMotive *******
    * Subside - Gowns - Red State ********
    * Who is Tyler Durden? - The Dust Brothers - Fight Club Soundtrack *********
    * Dive - Nirvana - With the Lights Out **********
    * Untitled 1 - Indignant Senility - Plays Wagner ***********

    ** My list lurches drunkenly into motion with this one, interesting choice for a leadoff track.

    *** Elemental didn't hold my attention the way Tryptych did, but these guys haven't lost the ability to make some creepy drone music.

    **** I really like what Ms. Keating does with the cello (multi-tracking/looping/etc.) but I'm worried that she'll just keep making more and more of this same type of music.

    ***** This is a really great soundtrack, that fits the movie perfectly, but, as an album I wish there weren't so many pieces that were just re-hashes of the stuff on Ghosts. Like this one, for example.

    ****** Kurt Cobain recording this into a handheld recorder with an acoustic guitar. Nothing too remarkable.

    ******* I'm just going to complain about every song on this list. What a disaster this album was (except for 'Passive' which almost saves it).

    ******** This song really fits the atmosphere of the album, but doesn't quite make it into the "songs I look forward to hearing" category.

    ********* My friends and I made a spy/detective movie short while we were in high school. This was the music we chose for when we were tailing a car through the mean streets of Marshall, MN.

    ********** Live version, slowed down from the version on Incesticide, I think it needs the energy of the faster tempo. Plus, there can't be many Nirvana songs over 5 minutes as this one is, can there? (research: 2 songs off studio albums over 5 minutes - Sifting (5:22), Smells Like Teen Spirit (5:02))

    *********** I think I need a better footnote system.

  13. It doesn't have the organ-drone backdrop of the (still free!) Your Love Is Bummin' Me Out

    Having now listened to the stream, I can say I'm a bigger fan of the EP versions of those songs - mostly because of the backdrop.

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    Jesus Saves, I Spend - St. Vincent
    Take the World, But Give Me Jesus - George Jones
    Jesus Christ - Big Star
    Like a Girl Jesus - Game Theory
    Jesus Fever - Kurt Vile
    Ye Sleeping Knights of Jesus - Robyn Hitchcock
    Jesus Gonna Be Here - Tom Waits
    Jesus is Waiting - Al Green
    Jesus - Velvet Underground
    Jesus Gave Me Water - Sam Cooke
    God's Children - The Kinks
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSciUplVZrA

  15. I just read the intro to "Our Band Could Be Your Life" I'm super excited to get reading it. I had this idea that I'll listen to the albums as I read them, like "Let It Be" for the Replacements chapter, and write about it after. We'll see how ambitious I get.

      1. He did "Thinkin Bout You" for his first song. Dude has an unbelieveable voice, and backed by the live band, it was one of the best SNL performances I've heard. I would've played it for my guest week.

          1. Nice. I see John Mayer played guitar for both songs. Hope Frank realizes Mayer is the love em and leave em type.

        1. That shows how attuned I am to SNL. Only other SNL I watched this year was when Lana Del Rey bombed.

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