I forgot to write something here, so share your list and maybe that'll start folks talking.
73 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: Nov 9, 2012”
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1. We Are Scientists - "The Great Escape" - With Love and Squalor
2. Generationals - "When They Fight They Fight" - Con Law
3. Drive By Truckers - "Easy On Yourself" - Live Current, Vol. 2
4. Cat Stevens - "Moonshadow" - Moonshadow
5. Lupe Fiasco - "The Coolest" - The Cool
6. Soul Coughing - "Lazybones" - Irresistible Bliss
7. LCD Soundsystem - "Get Innocuous!" - Sound of Silver
8. Joy Formidible - "A Heavy Abacus" - The Big Roar
9. Queen - "The Miracle" - Platinum Collection, Vol 1
10. Uncle Tupelo - "Warfare" - March 16-20, 1992
B. The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights" - Give Up
1. The Calculation - Regina Spektor - Far
2. Homecoming: The Death of St. Jimmy - Green Day - American Idiot
3. Walking on the Moon - The Police - The Best of Sting and the Police
4. The Death of Big Ed Delahanty - The Baseball Project - Volume 1
5. Deep Blue - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Outfit - Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
7. Fire's Highway - Japandroids - Celebration Rock
8. Emergency Exit - Beck - Guero
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - The Beatles
10. Magazines - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
'Kodachrome' - Paul Simon The Paul Simon Collection
'Saved By Zero' - The Fixx
'Man on the Corner' - Genesis
'The World I Know' - Collective Soul 7even Year Itch
'Runnin Down a Dream' - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
'Im Waiting for the Man' - David Bowie Almost Famous OST
'Chop Suey!' - System of a Down Toxicity
'Tounge Tied' - Grouplove Never Trust a Happy Song
'Psycho Killer' - Talking Heads The Best of Talking Heads
'Groove Me' - The Blues Brothers Briefcase Full of Blues
1. “woman 2 woman” – urge overkill – saturation
2. “capital city” – wilco – the whole love
3. “god’s song (that’s why i love mankind) – randy newman – sail away
4. “parent’s livingroom” – shout out louds – our ill wills
5. “tiger in your tank” – muddy waters – at newport 1960
6. “papa won’t leave you, henry” – nick cave and the bad seeds – henry’s dream
7. “life is white” – big star – radio city
8. “looking for astronauts” – the national – the alligator
9. “plastic” – portishead – third
10. “express yourself” – NWA – straight outta compton
Rad list Joe.
the dichotomy of randy newman and NWA amused me.
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* Saving Us - Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
* Endlessly Making an End of Things - Yellow Swans - At All Ends
* Done Livin' - Husky Burnette - Facedown in the Dirt
* Static Test - Ben Klock - Compression Session **
* Starface - White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
* Porcelain - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
* Alice - Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
* Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave - Out of Exile
* Rags to Rags - Eels - Beautiful Freak
* Part I - Black Swan - In 8 Movements
** picked up a bunch of electronic music over the past two weeks - Emptyset - Collapsed, Andy Stott - Luxury Problems, and Marcel Fengler - Frantic. I'd recommend them in that order. I've got my eye on one more - Barker & Baumecker - Transsektoral, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers – She’s Only 18
2. Atmosphere – That Night
3. The Hold Steady – Soft in the Center
4. Lonestar – Smile
5. The Hood Internet (M.I.A & Vampire Weekend) – Giving Up The Sunshowers
6. Sister Hazel – Superman
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Animal Bar
8. Blackalicious – Rock the Spot
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah
10. Hootie & The Blowfish – Running From an Angel
I have over 1200 songs on my iPod and I get 3 Red Hot Chili Pepper songs. Something's wrong with my iPod's shuffle.
I once got the same song twice in a row with Media Player's shuffle.
I decided if today was going to be a Chili Peppers' day, I should see if Pandora agreed. My 10 Pandora songs come no where close to that. However, you will note, that in every one of my playlists I have a Hold Steady song.
1. Kanye West – “Gold Digger” – Late Registration
2. Blueprint – “Stole Our Yesterday” – Adventures in Counter-culture
3. Alabama Shakes – “You Ain’t Alone” – Alabama Shakes
4. Sweatshop Union – “Close to Home” – United We Fall
5. De La Soul – “The Corner” – The Impossible: Mission Tv Series Pt. 1
6. The Hold Steady – “The Weekenders” – Heaven is Whenever
7. Rascal Flatts – “Bless the Broken Road” (Acoustic) – Hannah Montana: The Movie
8. Michael Franti & Spearhead – “Say Hey! (I Love You)” – All Rebel Rockers
9. Spoon – “The Way We Get By” – Kill the Moonlight
10. Etta James – “I Prefer You” – The Essential Etta James
Wow some great lists right out of the chute this morning. Sorry to think that mine's not quite at the same level.
1. A-Bone -- The Trashmen
2. Turn on the News -- Husker Du
3. Your Song -- Elton John
4. Mother Mary -- Foxboro Hottubs
5. Love & Affection -- Joan Armatrading
6. On the Way -- Jesus and Mary Chain
7. Misty Mountain Hop -- Led Zeppelin
8. What Did Your Last Servant Die of? -- The Wedding Present
9. Swinging Party -- The Replacements
10. So What -- The Lyrics
Bonus: Jeremy -- Pearl Jam
Wow some great lists right out of the chute this morning. Sorry to think that mine's not quite at the same level.
only because I didn't get mine in as early as I normally do.
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01. Bolt Thrower - "Killchain", To Those Once Loyal
02. Black Sabbath - "Orchid", Master of Reality
03. The Tim Malloys - "Irish Soldier Laddie", Bloody Irish Music Live at Kieran's
04. Overkill - "Deny the Cross", Taking Over
05. Iron Savior - "Eye to Eye", Unification
06. Immortal - "One by One", Sons of Northern Darkness
07. Kreator - "Servant in Heaven - King in Hell", Violent Revolution
08. Mastodon - "Naked Burn", Leviathan
09. Sadus - "Illusions", Chronicles of Chaos
10. The Misfits - "Descending Angel", Famous Monsters
Had a coworker in Chicago who listened to bolt thrower, whenever I see them in your list, I think of Matthias. He had some wide ranging musical taste.
1. Gas “[Untitled 1]” Pop
2. The Spring Standards “Watch the Moon Disappear (Live)” Songs of the Revolution Session, October 12, 2012
3. Tracey Thorn “Swimming (Charles Webster Remix)” Night Time EP
4. Songs of Great Dane “For You and Me” You Can't Lose It All, All at Once
5. Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Afraid Ain't Me” Beware
6. Brooke Annibale “Empathy” Silence Worth Breaking
7. Sonic Youth “(She's In a) Bad Mood” Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols
8. Linfinity “Road to Nowhere”* Road to Nowhere
9. Ha Ha Tonka “Thoreau in the Woods”*
T. Massive Attack “Karmacoma (The Napoli Trip)” Daddy G: DJ-Kicks
E. Burning Spear “I & I Survive”* Dubmission, Vol. 1*
*Notes:
1. I've been sitting on Burger/Ink's sole album, Las Vegas for more than a decade, and it's really just shown itself off to me in the past week or so. That's what I would have wrote about had I written a header. So, I think, these guys are good, so I go see what else they've done.
Burger is Jörg Burger (16 Aliases, in 51 groups); Ink is Mike Ink, an alias of Wolfgang Voigt (35 Aliases including Gas; in 46 Groups). I have so little idea of where to start, or even how to judge the size of these discographies. I snabbed this first Gas album, and an EP from a different collab between the two, "Burger/Voigt". Maybe I should check out another Mike Ink release?
8. Talking Heads cover, free online single b/w a cover of Jimi's "Angel".
9. "Oh my God, we were part of that mob.
Oh my God, we got caught up in it all...
Well we're just underfunded studies in our own mythologies,
Making mountains out of every single molehill that we see.
And we don't want to know the answers
To the questions that might go to prove
That this is really all a game.
I say that this is a snipe hunt, I can't keep my mouth shut.
This is a snipe hunt, I can't keep my mouth shut."
Ea. Dub version of their own "Slavery Days".
Eb. Unfortunately, there was no Dubmission, Vol. 2
1. "Change Your Mind" - The Killers - Hot Fuss
2. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFarrin - Simple Pleasures
3. "In The Mood" - Glen Miller Orchestra
4. "Can't Buy Me Love" - The Beatles - Hard Day's Night
5. "Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
6. "I Am A Rock" - Simon & Garfunkle - The Paul Simon Songbook
7. "I Feel Lucky" - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
8. "Something You Ain't Got" - Cracker - Greenland
9. "This Too Shall Pass" - OK GO - Of The Blue Color Of The Sky
10. "Come Sail Away" - Styx - The Grand Illusion
Bonus: "Wannabe" - Spice Girls - Spice
Oh man, so much good and so much bad...
Those are some amazing extremes.
With all the recent talk of polarization, it was only appropriate, right?
I'm having a hard time finding the good. I guess I'll give you The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkle. Glen Miller is a classic too. You know you can delete songs off your Ipod. There's no real good reason to keep a Spice Girls song or Styx song.
why would a body want "don't worry, be happy" on their ipod when you can get it in your head in a fraction of a second for free?
...AW, DAMN IT!
**Involuntary whistling**
I'd put The Killers and "This Too Shall Pass" on the good list too.
"This Too Shall Pass" on the good list too
Why? is the video quirky?
Ha. Seriously though, I like the song itself.
Yeah, with Of the Blue Color of the Sky, OK Go made some actual catchy music to go with their "quirky" music videos. "White Knuckles", besides having a fantastic video with dogs in it, is a great song. "This Too Shall Pass" is in that group, too.
There's no real good reason to keep a ... Styx song.
If this expands to Kansas and REO Speedwagon, we are gonna have issues. #itsnotmyfaultiwasinhighschoolinthelate1970s
Hey, I am pretty sure we are the same age and I actually went to both a Styx concert and an REO concert (thankfully no Kansas). I also watched a lot of Hogans Heroes and Gillagan's Island too. Remember with age comes wisdom, you can repudiate the past.
I've been to Kansas. Ate dinner there and paid to drive on an interstate.
You better not be badmouthing Hogan's Heroes. General Burkhalter will not stand for it!
That's on just about every list I've ever read of "worst long-running TV shows of all time," but I've never braved it for long enough to find out if I agree.
elitist sniffling. It was amusing slapstick.
I'd rate it higher than Survivor
I'm going to calmly pretend that you didn't say that.
It's pretty funny. Never tries to do too much (other than make life in Nazi POW camps funny). Much of the humor is about inefficient bureaucracy, so it's probably not too far from the comic strip Dilbert, or the Simpsons when Homer's at work.
I still enjoy Hogan's Heroes. Yes, it was silly, and it was basically the same plot every week, but I still find it funny.
And, tying back into yesterday, it came from Bing Crosby Productions.
I am with DPWY and Jeff A. Plus, you know, funny SS officers. What's not to love?
Hooray for others sticking with me. I actually have the first season on DVD. It's perfectly enjoyable silly humor about incompetent Nazis.
I enjoy Hogan's Heroes
Ditto this. Spent a lot of summer mornings watching it.
After all this, I don't know what to believe. It's almost as if online "worst" lists are merely meant to anger people into showing up and commenting to generate ad revenue, rather than to educate.
I watched it hoping to be amused. It delivered, therefore I enjoyed it. Having oodles of free time tends to set the bar really low, but I think I would still enjoy it now.
I know, I'm really sorry I brought it up. I saw about 7 minutes at a hospital waiting room awhile back and was absolutely slack jawed at its inanity. The brain cells were practically sloughing off and disgorging from my ears as I sat there.
11:00 and 11:30a on channel 45 back in the summer of 2001 (the last summer I spent home in Minnesota).
Mmmm... post college-unemployment. EAR had a job and I think I had a secret cigarette before and after that block of programming.
Never got into Styx or REO, but I still have several Kansas favorites
You got to roll with the changes.
I liked REO as a youth ("Dreams" especially). It's stinky cheese now, but it's the kind of stinky cheese I'm not above eating now and then in my very rare nostalgic moments.
Beat me to it, free.
I once made a remix of that Spice Girls song, the kindof thing that V/VM might do, only cheaper.*
*If you know V/VM which 0 (+/-2) of you do, you're thinking "How is that possible?" Well, if I ever find it, I'll let y'all know.
Does V/VM = Leyland Kirby?
If so, I'm at least familiar with his later incarnations. And yeah, I'm not seeing a spice girls remix in that style.
They are the same person. Not sure I've ever heard a V/VM track though.
Yeah, I forgot that he was still making music.
Here's a taste:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FHn4VsU6Y
I guess mine was more upbeat. V/VM remix on helium?
1. Tegan and Sara - Monday Monday Monday - If It Was You 2. Project 86 - Molotov - Rival Factions 3. Gnarls Barkley - Going On - Odd Couple* 4. Dismantled - Purity 5. Girls - Lust For Life - Album 6. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun - Blister in the Sun 7. Tyler the Creator - Yonkers - Goblin 8. Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea** 9. Ghost Beach - Miracle*** T. Sufjan Stevens - Casmir Pulaski Day - Illinoise****
B. Ke$ha - Tik Tok
* I wish these two would put out another album. That's probably a pipe dream with Cee-Lo's suddenly omnipresent success, but I just liked the way he and Dangermouse made music.
** Neutral Milk Hotel is kind of a "good but I need to be in the right mood" sort of band, but this song is one of the best I've ever heard. The way the accordion comes in after the first verse is just... **shiver**
*** This is a fun song. You should hear this song. Use Spotify.
**** A frontrunner for "saddest song ever".
That Girls song is great. Like Japandroids' "Younger Us", wish it had less cussing.
**** A frontrunner for "saddest song ever".
He's pretty good at this. The song "The Upper Peninsula" from Michigan would be high on my list of saddest songs. Others would include "Okkervil River Song" by Okkervil River, "So Said Kay" by The Field Mice, and "Fabulous Muscles" by Xiu Xiu which pretty much destroys me every time I listen to it. That one probably tops my list.
Crap, I forgot "13 Months in 6 Minutes" by The Wrens.
You won't be happy with me, but give me one more chance. You won't be happy anyway.
"100,000 Fireflies" by The Magnetic Fields
I don't know that I've heard another song that can beat that one. The ones you listed are all gutting, too (even though I'm not a huge fan of Xiu Xiu).
I've had "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips suggested to me before. I don't agree, but it's worth throwing into the conversation.
(actually, yeah, that's way down the list of depressing songs)
The person who suggested it tended to agree with the athiestic existentialists.
as far as sufjan songs go, i always thought "the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!" was pretty damn depressing.
as far as songs in general. ohhh, i don't know. i'm sure there's tons i'm not thinking of. "soothe" by the pumpkins comes to mind.
I listen to the Seefeel album Succour when I'm down and it really reinforces the mood.
The song "Utreat" really just...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QbZHRTitw
here is some musings on a couple of albums I recently purchased
Yeah Yeah YeahsFever To Tell. The song 'Maps' come out went I wasnt listening to much music* and the only thing I knew about the band is that they had a very attractive lead singer and SPIN magazine was all over them**. So, I kinda dismissed them as 'too cool' for me.
Forward to October and I was browsing around the CD section at Amazon*** and Fever To Tell was listen under the suggestion list and I decided to buy it on the spot used for $0.99. Well, after 2 songs into the album I was hooked. The sound on this album teeters on the border of 'raw' and 'polished' and I love it. I guess it turns out 'Maps' was pretty much an instant classic of a song.
Nick LoweJesus of Cool. I have liked Lowe's music for some time. I think it started with hearing 'Cruel to Be Kind' randomly somewhere like over a movie credit sequence. I ended up buying a Greatest Hits package and really enjoyed the songs. And that lead to to discovering Elvis Costello and that turned to me branching out into about 15 different artists. Its weird how one songs leads you down this path of music bliss.
* 2003 in general was kind of a lost year for me, but Im not here to tell that story
** my friend signed me up for SPIN for some sort of promotion or something...I cant really remember, but it was a free year magazine subscription for me.
*** Because I still cling on to that silly thing of buying most of my albums on CD. Its really hard for me to have an enjoyable listening experience listening to music on my computer, I dont know..its weird and hard to explain
'Maps' is absolutely an instant classic. The rest of Fever to Tell is great, too. I actually like the Is Is EP more when it comes to their snarly stuff (as opposed to the more dance-based stuff they seem to make now, which I also love), though. YMMV.
I only like about half of Fever to Tell, and if the half I liked was an EP, it'd probably be the best EP ever. Is Is is most excellent.
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98.6 Keith98.6/Ain't Gonna Lie
Hysterical Strength St. VincentStrange Mercy
Walking On The Water Richard Hell & The VoidoidsBlank Generation
Clint Eastwood GorillazThe Singles Collection 2001 - 2011
The Circle Married the Line FeistMetals
Terra Incognita Atlas SoundParallax
Thor Pink FairiesNever Neverland
Kingfisher Joanna NewsomHave One On Me
A Secret Life Brian Eno and David ByrneMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts
My Old Man Joni MitchellBlue
bonus: In the Fog Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972*
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQLA77X6Qw
*daneeka's ghost and AMR might enjoy this.
i'm sure you heard about the st. vincent/david byrne album, right?
Creepy-ass cover art
*Rhubarb_Runner might enjoy this, also.
Here's one a stumbled across in the past week, that I really enjoy:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrlMFHX7NU
Ravedeath, 1972 was on my top 20 list last year. The entire thing plays out like a foggy, inscrutable dream. Plus, unlike many albums of its sort, you can listen to it in one sitting without feeling overwhelmed.
Did you ever hear his stuff with Aidan Baker? That was good stuff, too.
I've got that album, and you're right. I do enjoy it.
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1. We Are Scientists - "The Great Escape" - With Love and Squalor
2. Generationals - "When They Fight They Fight" - Con Law
3. Drive By Truckers - "Easy On Yourself" - Live Current, Vol. 2
4. Cat Stevens - "Moonshadow" - Moonshadow
5. Lupe Fiasco - "The Coolest" - The Cool
6. Soul Coughing - "Lazybones" - Irresistible Bliss
7. LCD Soundsystem - "Get Innocuous!" - Sound of Silver
8. Joy Formidible - "A Heavy Abacus" - The Big Roar
9. Queen - "The Miracle" - Platinum Collection, Vol 1
10. Uncle Tupelo - "Warfare" - March 16-20, 1992
B. The Postal Service - "Such Great Heights" - Give Up
1. The Calculation - Regina Spektor - Far
2. Homecoming: The Death of St. Jimmy - Green Day - American Idiot
3. Walking on the Moon - The Police - The Best of Sting and the Police
4. The Death of Big Ed Delahanty - The Baseball Project - Volume 1
5. Deep Blue - Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
6. Outfit - Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
7. Fire's Highway - Japandroids - Celebration Rock
8. Emergency Exit - Beck - Guero
9. While My Guitar Gently Weeps - The Beatles - The Beatles
10. Magazines - The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
'Kodachrome' - Paul Simon The Paul Simon Collection
'Saved By Zero' - The Fixx
'Man on the Corner' - Genesis
'The World I Know' - Collective Soul 7even Year Itch
'Runnin Down a Dream' - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
'Im Waiting for the Man' - David Bowie Almost Famous OST
'Chop Suey!' - System of a Down Toxicity
'Tounge Tied' - Grouplove Never Trust a Happy Song
'Psycho Killer' - Talking Heads The Best of Talking Heads
'Groove Me' - The Blues Brothers Briefcase Full of Blues
1. “woman 2 woman” – urge overkill – saturation
2. “capital city” – wilco – the whole love
3. “god’s song (that’s why i love mankind) – randy newman – sail away
4. “parent’s livingroom” – shout out louds – our ill wills
5. “tiger in your tank” – muddy waters – at newport 1960
6. “papa won’t leave you, henry” – nick cave and the bad seeds – henry’s dream
7. “life is white” – big star – radio city
8. “looking for astronauts” – the national – the alligator
9. “plastic” – portishead – third
10. “express yourself” – NWA – straight outta compton
Rad list Joe.
the dichotomy of randy newman and NWA amused me.
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* Saving Us - Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead
* Endlessly Making an End of Things - Yellow Swans - At All Ends
* Done Livin' - Husky Burnette - Facedown in the Dirt
* Static Test - Ben Klock - Compression Session **
* Starface - White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
* Porcelain - Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
* Alice - Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions
* Doesn't Remind Me - Audioslave - Out of Exile
* Rags to Rags - Eels - Beautiful Freak
* Part I - Black Swan - In 8 Movements
** picked up a bunch of electronic music over the past two weeks - Emptyset - Collapsed, Andy Stott - Luxury Problems, and Marcel Fengler - Frantic. I'd recommend them in that order. I've got my eye on one more - Barker & Baumecker - Transsektoral, but I haven't pulled the trigger yet.
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers – She’s Only 18
2. Atmosphere – That Night
3. The Hold Steady – Soft in the Center
4. Lonestar – Smile
5. The Hood Internet (M.I.A & Vampire Weekend) – Giving Up The Sunshowers
6. Sister Hazel – Superman
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Animal Bar
8. Blackalicious – Rock the Spot
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah
10. Hootie & The Blowfish – Running From an Angel
I have over 1200 songs on my iPod and I get 3 Red Hot Chili Pepper songs. Something's wrong with my iPod's shuffle.
I once got the same song twice in a row with Media Player's shuffle.
I decided if today was going to be a Chili Peppers' day, I should see if Pandora agreed. My 10 Pandora songs come no where close to that. However, you will note, that in every one of my playlists I have a Hold Steady song.
1. Kanye West – “Gold Digger” – Late Registration
2. Blueprint – “Stole Our Yesterday” – Adventures in Counter-culture
3. Alabama Shakes – “You Ain’t Alone” – Alabama Shakes
4. Sweatshop Union – “Close to Home” – United We Fall
5. De La Soul – “The Corner” – The Impossible: Mission Tv Series Pt. 1
6. The Hold Steady – “The Weekenders” – Heaven is Whenever
7. Rascal Flatts – “Bless the Broken Road” (Acoustic) – Hannah Montana: The Movie
8. Michael Franti & Spearhead – “Say Hey! (I Love You)” – All Rebel Rockers
9. Spoon – “The Way We Get By” – Kill the Moonlight
10. Etta James – “I Prefer You” – The Essential Etta James
Wow some great lists right out of the chute this morning. Sorry to think that mine's not quite at the same level.
1. A-Bone -- The Trashmen
2. Turn on the News -- Husker Du
3. Your Song -- Elton John
4. Mother Mary -- Foxboro Hottubs
5. Love & Affection -- Joan Armatrading
6. On the Way -- Jesus and Mary Chain
7. Misty Mountain Hop -- Led Zeppelin
8. What Did Your Last Servant Die of? -- The Wedding Present
9. Swinging Party -- The Replacements
10. So What -- The Lyrics
Bonus: Jeremy -- Pearl Jam
Wow some great lists right out of the chute this morning. Sorry to think that mine's not quite at the same level.
only because I didn't get mine in as early as I normally do.
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01. Bolt Thrower - "Killchain", To Those Once Loyal
02. Black Sabbath - "Orchid", Master of Reality
03. The Tim Malloys - "Irish Soldier Laddie", Bloody Irish Music Live at Kieran's
04. Overkill - "Deny the Cross", Taking Over
05. Iron Savior - "Eye to Eye", Unification
06. Immortal - "One by One", Sons of Northern Darkness
07. Kreator - "Servant in Heaven - King in Hell", Violent Revolution
08. Mastodon - "Naked Burn", Leviathan
09. Sadus - "Illusions", Chronicles of Chaos
10. The Misfits - "Descending Angel", Famous Monsters
Had a coworker in Chicago who listened to bolt thrower, whenever I see them in your list, I think of Matthias. He had some wide ranging musical taste.
1. Gas “[Untitled 1]” Pop
2. The Spring Standards “Watch the Moon Disappear (Live)” Songs of the Revolution Session, October 12, 2012
3. Tracey Thorn “Swimming (Charles Webster Remix)” Night Time EP
4. Songs of Great Dane “For You and Me” You Can't Lose It All, All at Once
5. Bonnie “Prince” Billy “Afraid Ain't Me” Beware
6. Brooke Annibale “Empathy” Silence Worth Breaking
7. Sonic Youth “(She's In a) Bad Mood” Confusion Is Sex/Kill Yr. Idols
8. Linfinity “Road to Nowhere”* Road to Nowhere
9. Ha Ha Tonka “Thoreau in the Woods”*
T. Massive Attack “Karmacoma (The Napoli Trip)” Daddy G: DJ-Kicks
E. Burning Spear “I & I Survive”* Dubmission, Vol. 1*
*Notes:
1. I've been sitting on Burger/Ink's sole album, Las Vegas for more than a decade, and it's really just shown itself off to me in the past week or so. That's what I would have wrote about had I written a header. So, I think, these guys are good, so I go see what else they've done.
Burger is Jörg Burger (16 Aliases, in 51 groups); Ink is Mike Ink, an alias of Wolfgang Voigt (35 Aliases including Gas; in 46 Groups). I have so little idea of where to start, or even how to judge the size of these discographies. I snabbed this first Gas album, and an EP from a different collab between the two, "Burger/Voigt". Maybe I should check out another Mike Ink release?
8. Talking Heads cover, free online single b/w a cover of Jimi's "Angel".
9. "Oh my God, we were part of that mob.
Oh my God, we got caught up in it all...
Well we're just underfunded studies in our own mythologies,
Making mountains out of every single molehill that we see.
And we don't want to know the answers
To the questions that might go to prove
That this is really all a game.
I say that this is a snipe hunt, I can't keep my mouth shut.
This is a snipe hunt, I can't keep my mouth shut."
Ea. Dub version of their own "Slavery Days".
Eb. Unfortunately, there was no Dubmission, Vol. 2
1. "Change Your Mind" - The Killers - Hot Fuss
2. "Don't Worry, Be Happy" - Bobby McFarrin - Simple Pleasures
3. "In The Mood" - Glen Miller Orchestra
4. "Can't Buy Me Love" - The Beatles - Hard Day's Night
5. "Soul Meets Body" - Death Cab For Cutie - Plans
6. "I Am A Rock" - Simon & Garfunkle - The Paul Simon Songbook
7. "I Feel Lucky" - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Come On Come On
8. "Something You Ain't Got" - Cracker - Greenland
9. "This Too Shall Pass" - OK GO - Of The Blue Color Of The Sky
10. "Come Sail Away" - Styx - The Grand Illusion
Bonus: "Wannabe" - Spice Girls - Spice
Oh man, so much good and so much bad...
Those are some amazing extremes.
With all the recent talk of polarization, it was only appropriate, right?
I'm having a hard time finding the good. I guess I'll give you The Beatles and Simon and Garfunkle. Glen Miller is a classic too. You know you can delete songs off your Ipod. There's no real good reason to keep a Spice Girls song or Styx song.
why would a body want "don't worry, be happy" on their ipod when you can get it in your head in a fraction of a second for free?
...AW, DAMN IT!
**Involuntary whistling**
I'd put The Killers and "This Too Shall Pass" on the good list too.
"This Too Shall Pass" on the good list too
Why? is the video quirky?
Ha. Seriously though, I like the song itself.
Yeah, with Of the Blue Color of the Sky, OK Go made some actual catchy music to go with their "quirky" music videos. "White Knuckles", besides having a fantastic video with dogs in it, is a great song. "This Too Shall Pass" is in that group, too.
If this expands to Kansas and REO Speedwagon, we are gonna have issues. #itsnotmyfaultiwasinhighschoolinthelate1970s
Hey, I am pretty sure we are the same age and I actually went to both a Styx concert and an REO concert (thankfully no Kansas). I also watched a lot of Hogans Heroes and Gillagan's Island too. Remember with age comes wisdom, you can repudiate the past.
I've been to Kansas. Ate dinner there and paid to drive on an interstate.
You better not be badmouthing Hogan's Heroes. General Burkhalter will not stand for it!
That's on just about every list I've ever read of "worst long-running TV shows of all time," but I've never braved it for long enough to find out if I agree.
elitist sniffling. It was amusing slapstick.
I'd rate it higher than Survivor
I'm going to calmly pretend that you didn't say that.
It's pretty funny. Never tries to do too much (other than make life in Nazi POW camps funny). Much of the humor is about inefficient bureaucracy, so it's probably not too far from the comic strip Dilbert, or the Simpsons when Homer's at work.
I still enjoy Hogan's Heroes. Yes, it was silly, and it was basically the same plot every week, but I still find it funny.
And, tying back into yesterday, it came from Bing Crosby Productions.
I am with DPWY and Jeff A. Plus, you know, funny SS officers. What's not to love?
Hooray for others sticking with me. I actually have the first season on DVD. It's perfectly enjoyable silly humor about incompetent Nazis.
I enjoy Hogan's Heroes
Ditto this. Spent a lot of summer mornings watching it.
After all this, I don't know what to believe. It's almost as if online "worst" lists are merely meant to anger people into showing up and commenting to generate ad revenue, rather than to educate.
I watched it hoping to be amused. It delivered, therefore I enjoyed it. Having oodles of free time tends to set the bar really low, but I think I would still enjoy it now.
I know, I'm really sorry I brought it up. I saw about 7 minutes at a hospital waiting room awhile back and was absolutely slack jawed at its inanity. The brain cells were practically sloughing off and disgorging from my ears as I sat there.
11:00 and 11:30a on channel 45 back in the summer of 2001 (the last summer I spent home in Minnesota).
Mmmm... post college-unemployment. EAR had a job and I think I had a secret cigarette before and after that block of programming.
Never got into Styx or REO, but I still have several Kansas favorites
You got to roll with the changes.
I liked REO as a youth ("Dreams" especially). It's stinky cheese now, but it's the kind of stinky cheese I'm not above eating now and then in my very rare nostalgic moments.
Beat me to it, free.
I once made a remix of that Spice Girls song, the kindof thing that V/VM might do, only cheaper.*
*If you know V/VM which 0 (+/-2) of you do, you're thinking "How is that possible?" Well, if I ever find it, I'll let y'all know.
Does V/VM = Leyland Kirby?
If so, I'm at least familiar with his later incarnations. And yeah, I'm not seeing a spice girls remix in that style.
They are the same person. Not sure I've ever heard a V/VM track though.
Yeah, I forgot that he was still making music.
Here's a taste:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0FHn4VsU6Y
I guess mine was more upbeat. V/VM remix on helium?
1. Tegan and Sara - Monday Monday Monday - If It Was You
2. Project 86 - Molotov - Rival Factions
3. Gnarls Barkley - Going On - Odd Couple*
4. Dismantled - Purity
5. Girls - Lust For Life - Album
6. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun - Blister in the Sun
7. Tyler the Creator - Yonkers - Goblin
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - The King of Carrot Flowers - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea**
9. Ghost Beach - Miracle***
T. Sufjan Stevens - Casmir Pulaski Day - Illinoise****
B. Ke$ha - Tik Tok
* I wish these two would put out another album. That's probably a pipe dream with Cee-Lo's suddenly omnipresent success, but I just liked the way he and Dangermouse made music.
** Neutral Milk Hotel is kind of a "good but I need to be in the right mood" sort of band, but this song is one of the best I've ever heard. The way the accordion comes in after the first verse is just... **shiver**
*** This is a fun song. You should hear this song. Use Spotify.
**** A frontrunner for "saddest song ever".
That Girls song is great. Like Japandroids' "Younger Us", wish it had less cussing.
**** A frontrunner for "saddest song ever".
He's pretty good at this. The song "The Upper Peninsula" from Michigan would be high on my list of saddest songs. Others would include "Okkervil River Song" by Okkervil River, "So Said Kay" by The Field Mice, and "Fabulous Muscles" by Xiu Xiu which pretty much destroys me every time I listen to it. That one probably tops my list.
Crap, I forgot "13 Months in 6 Minutes" by The Wrens.
"100,000 Fireflies" by The Magnetic Fields
I don't know that I've heard another song that can beat that one. The ones you listed are all gutting, too (even though I'm not a huge fan of Xiu Xiu).
I've had "Do You Realize" by the Flaming Lips suggested to me before. I don't agree, but it's worth throwing into the conversation.
I've never found that song particularly sad.
it's a perfect graveyard song.
(actually, yeah, that's way down the list of depressing songs)
The person who suggested it tended to agree with the athiestic existentialists.
as far as sufjan songs go, i always thought "the predatory wasp of the palisades is out to get us!" was pretty damn depressing.
as far as songs in general. ohhh, i don't know. i'm sure there's tons i'm not thinking of. "soothe" by the pumpkins comes to mind.
I listen to the Seefeel album Succour when I'm down and it really reinforces the mood.
The song "Utreat" really just...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17QbZHRTitw
here is some musings on a couple of albums I recently purchased
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell. The song 'Maps' come out went I wasnt listening to much music* and the only thing I knew about the band is that they had a very attractive lead singer and SPIN magazine was all over them**. So, I kinda dismissed them as 'too cool' for me.
Forward to October and I was browsing around the CD section at Amazon*** and Fever To Tell was listen under the suggestion list and I decided to buy it on the spot used for $0.99. Well, after 2 songs into the album I was hooked. The sound on this album teeters on the border of 'raw' and 'polished' and I love it. I guess it turns out 'Maps' was pretty much an instant classic of a song.
Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool. I have liked Lowe's music for some time. I think it started with hearing 'Cruel to Be Kind' randomly somewhere like over a movie credit sequence. I ended up buying a Greatest Hits package and really enjoyed the songs. And that lead to to discovering Elvis Costello and that turned to me branching out into about 15 different artists. Its weird how one songs leads you down this path of music bliss.
* 2003 in general was kind of a lost year for me, but Im not here to tell that story
** my friend signed me up for SPIN for some sort of promotion or something...I cant really remember, but it was a free year magazine subscription for me.
*** Because I still cling on to that silly thing of buying most of my albums on CD. Its really hard for me to have an enjoyable listening experience listening to music on my computer, I dont know..its weird and hard to explain
'Maps' is absolutely an instant classic. The rest of Fever to Tell is great, too. I actually like the Is Is EP more when it comes to their snarly stuff (as opposed to the more dance-based stuff they seem to make now, which I also love), though. YMMV.
I only like about half of Fever to Tell, and if the half I liked was an EP, it'd probably be the best EP ever. Is Is is most excellent.
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98.6 Keith 98.6/Ain't Gonna Lie
Hysterical Strength St. Vincent Strange Mercy
Walking On The Water Richard Hell & The Voidoids Blank Generation
Clint Eastwood Gorillaz The Singles Collection 2001 - 2011
The Circle Married the Line Feist Metals
Terra Incognita Atlas Sound Parallax
Thor Pink Fairies Never Neverland
Kingfisher Joanna Newsom Have One On Me
A Secret Life Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
My Old Man Joni Mitchell Blue
bonus: In the Fog Tim Hecker Ravedeath, 1972*
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytQLA77X6Qw
*daneeka's ghost and AMR might enjoy this.
i'm sure you heard about the st. vincent/david byrne album, right?
Creepy-ass cover art
*Rhubarb_Runner might enjoy this, also.
Here's one a stumbled across in the past week, that I really enjoy:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkrlMFHX7NU
Ravedeath, 1972 was on my top 20 list last year. The entire thing plays out like a foggy, inscrutable dream. Plus, unlike many albums of its sort, you can listen to it in one sitting without feeling overwhelmed.
Did you ever hear his stuff with Aidan Baker? That was good stuff, too.
I've got that album, and you're right. I do enjoy it.