'Train in Vain' - The Clash London Calling
'Thunder Road' - Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
'(I Know) Im Losing You' - Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story
'Dreams' - The Cranberries Stars: The Best of 1992-2002
'I Gotta Get Drunk' - The Little Willies The Little Willies
'One Step Up' - Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
'Better Things' - The Kinks Give the People What They Want *
'Live and Die' - The Avett Brothers Live and Die
'Come Monday' - Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart
'The Middle' - Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
*perhaps one of the sunniest breakup songs in pop music
Nice list!
Cheryl "I Wish I Had a Beard" Hoffmann's favorite song is "Thunder Road." I love it too.
I'm listening to "Live and Die." I dig it. This might be the mood I'm actually in today.
Its the only song I like by them. They performed a different song on Letterman earlier this week, and it was kinda blah.
I have their previous album and love it. I like a few of their other songs too, and really enjoy "Live And Die."
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* I'm Not a Punk - The Descendents - Milo Goes to College
* I Don't Live Today - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
* Lux Aeterna - Kronos Quartet - Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack (C. Mansell)
* The Great Golden Baby - Circa Survive - Juturna
* Nobody's Fault but Mine - Led Zeppelin - Presence
* Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus) - Grimes - Visions
* Where the Birds Always Sing - The Cure - Bloodflowers
* Champagne Supernova - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
* The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
* Weak and Powerless - A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
It's a SpookySampler day!
I'm listening to "The Great Golden Baby." I've always been curious about how this band sounds. I'm also curious as to how I accidentally skipped past wattsy.
Heavy but lucid. Interesting. I think I'll give a listen to more. Seems like music for hopeless moods, which I appreciate.
My favorite Circa Survive song is probably "Stop the Fucking Car", it's an easy one to find yourself singing along to.
1. Tujiko Noriko + Takemura Nobukazu “Kirei” East Facing Balcony
2. Flavor Crystals “Boris in the Pool” Three
3. Linfinity “Molly Mar of Rome” Martian's Bloom
4. Nine Inch Nails “Eraser” The Downward Spiral
5. Palace Songs “Agnes, Queen of Sorrow” Hope
6. Eric Copeland “Reptilian Space Beings Shapeshifting Bloodsucking Vampires” Alien in a Garbage Dump
7. Andy Stott “Work Gate” We Stay Together
8. Shabazz Palaces “Youlogy” Black Up
9. A Winged Victory for the Sullen “A Symphony Pathetique” A Winged Victory for the Sullen
T. The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Fontella Bass “All That You Give” Every Day*
B. Conway Twitty “You've Never Been This Far Before”* Silver Anniversary Collection
Notes:
1. Not sure why Takemura's name is credited that way rather than as "Nobukazu Takemura" but one listen will tell you it's the same man. Not quite at the level of his peaks Child and Magic and Funfair, but it's good to know he's making music after basically a decade of disappearance. (Not sure what happened: For the non-Japanese speaker, I'd venture it's as difficult to follow Japanese musicians that aren't having US releases as it is following Japanese Baseball.)
T. Just one of my favorite albums of all time. Nearing 11 years old. Hey, even Pitchfork liked it!
B. I think this is the most embarrassing song I own. 40-year-old Twitty singing about taking a girl's virginity on the night she breaks up with her boyfriend. And the song reaches climax in two and a half minutes and then there's a 30-second denouement. Eww eww eww. I feel cheap and used just listening to it. Enjoy!:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1fX-FvKW8
I'll pull up your opening track.
...8:33? Good Lord, AMR.
Seems like writing music. I didn't totally engage, but it's nice.
So far, I'm meh on the whole thing.
If it weren't for my history with Mr. Takemura, I don't know that I'd've ever bothered.
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1. Walk On By - The Explorers Club - The California Suite
2. Beat Surrender - The Jam - All the Choice Cuts
3. Be Stiff - Devo - The Big Stiff Box Set
4. Consider Me - Jennifer Lara - Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women
5. Barstool Blues - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma
6. This Train - Rev. Ballenger - Trains & Cars
7. Blues to Elvin - John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
8. One of Must Know - Mick Hucknall - Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan
9. Someday - Los Lobos - Just Another Band From East LA
10. The Hula Hula Boys - Warren Zevon - The Envoy
B. We Can Work It Out - Steel Pulse - Reggae Summer
"This Train."
I liked this. I like gospel in general, actually. I've heard this song somewhere, but never this arrangement.
The Explorers Club didn't seem to fit until I realized it was a cover.
I actually like the Explorers Club. Grand Hotel is one of the few cds I own that is relatively recent.
1. Girl Afraid -- The Smiths
2. Thank You -- Led Zeppelin
3. Anytime -- My Morning Jacket
4. Straight Line -- Wire
5. Song to Woody -- Bob Dylan
6. I Shot The Sheriff -- Bob Marley & The Wailers
7. Top Of My Game -- Robert Pollard
8. The Late Greats -- Wilco
9. Seymour Stein -- Belle & Sebastian
10. Barnaby, Hardly Working -- Yo La Tengo
B1. Bye Bye Blackbird -- Joe Cocker
B2. Granadaland -- The Wedding Present
Nice list free - great variety!
I'm listening to Robert Pollard, the only one I didn't immediately recognize. I've seen Steven Soderbergh's Bubble, though, so on some level I've experienced him.
Took a while to find the track. This guy's got a pretty large catalog.
I think I could while away a day or two just marathonning his stuff.
I think I could while away a day or two just marathonning his stuff.
Careful, you may become addicted like I have. With such a prodigious output you'll come across a lot of chaff, but man the gems are well worth the search. Unfortunately Top of My Game isn't one of the gems.
Yeah, it didn't jump out at me as its own track, but I could tell from his sound that there was gold to be mined.
I was shocked that you didn't have any GBV, but you have Pollard, so I'm counting it.
Since I've went through my i-pod purge, the percentage of GBV (and related) songs has shot up from 5 percent to nearly 7 percent of total songs (out of ~7,500), thus they appear to be showing up almost every week. (waiting for the obligatory AMR response)....
With ten tracks and 7% of your library, You should expect at least one GBV (or related) track in 52% of your random tens.
If it's actually 10% of your library, 35% of your random tens would have at least one.
(Again this assumes pure randomness.)
7% leads to 52%, but 10% leads to 35%?
That seems wrong, somehow.
Whatever you say Greekhouse.
If you had a loaded coin that flipped heads 93% of the time, what percentage of the time would you flip a tails at least once in ten flips?
vs.
If the coin only flips heads 90% of the time.
Shouldn't it be 35% of the lists don't have GBV (or related) if they make up 10% of the library?
Crap. Typo I even missed on rereading when you pointed it out.
Damnit. Good at arithmetics, bad at Englishs.
'Thank You' by Zeppelin is fantastic. One of my faves.
I picked up Wire's Pink Flag through the library earlier this week (I guess Im going through this punk/new wave/whathaveyou phase) and I dont know what to think of the album. I like it enough to have listened to it more than once but nothing has stuck in my head.
'Thank You' by Zeppelin is fantastic. One of my faves.
Dido
I think Pink Flag is awesome and by far my favorite Wire album of the original 3 they did. Chairs Missing is good and 154 is o.k. (too sludgy for me, but I know E-6 likes it).
Dido. The first time I heard "Mannequin" I went out and bought the album. Not a single regret.
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1. Talk Show Host Radiohead*
2. Shoot To Thrill AC/DC
3. Brevony Ramona Falls
4. Don’t Ride That Horse Old Crow Medicine Show
5. Steam Will Rise Silverchair
6. Follow Us Big Boi
7. Brain Stew Green Day
8. No Cars Go Arcade Fire
9. I Will Follow You Into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie
10. Shoes For Running Bing Boi
B. Bodies of Water Ramona Falls**
*From the Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack – first place I heard Radiohead.
**Probably my favorite track from Prophet – even more amazing when performed live.
even more amazing when performed live.
jealous.
I'd say Spore is number one for me, followed by Sqworm and Proof.
I couldn't argue with any of those, "Bodies" was just the most immediatly accessible song from the album (for me).
Do you want a list that brings you back to middle school and high school? Look at this one. Seriously, every song, but 2, are pre-2000.
1. Vanilla Ice - "Dancin'" - To the Extreme
2. Will Smith - "Miami" - Big Willie Style
3. Better Than Ezra - "Scared of You" - Friction Baby
4. Sugarland - "Already Gone" - Love on the Inside
5. Garth Brooks - "She's Every Woman" - Double Live
6. Michael Jackson - "Smooth Criminal" - College Mix (yes, this was a mix CD I made in college - probably burned from some website that no longer exists)
7. Barenaked Ladies - "Have You Seen My Love" - Everything to Everyone
8. Indigo Girls - "Galileo" - College Mix (yup, same one as above, except I know my sister owned the album. Not sure which album it came from)
9. Oasis - "Champagne Supernova" - Familiar to Millions
10. Gnarles Barkley - "Gone Daddy Gone" - St. Elsewhere
BONUS: Vanilla Ice - "Hooked" - To the Extreme
I think I have a story for each of these songs, or at least the artist.
Though I'm familiar with the band, I listened to the only song I wasn't completely sure I'd heard ("Already Gone"). I'm not a country guy, but my dirty little secret is that I don't dislike Sugarland. I think it's her voice, primarily. It sort of...turns me on, I think. TMI?!
I like Sugarland only for Jennifer Nettle's voice. I really like the song "Northern Town" Check that one out.
What I've heard of her/them, I've generally liked. "Stay" was pretty phenomenal, and the first thing that made me pay attention.
I'm not a big country fan either, but Sugarland did a great job on "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" on the Chimes of Freedom compilation.
Hey, Champagne Supernova twins! That makes sense, our music tastes are obviously similar.
I love Oasis, but Champagne Supernova is my least favorite song off that album.
I had a dream in high school that Oasis got super baked before a show and accidentally changed "Champagne Supernova" to "Chicken Salad Sandwich." Every time I hear the song, I sing "Like a chicken salad sandwich in the sky." The right lyrics sound wrong to me.
I like your lyrics better than the original. You should change all the lines and record yourself singing that. I'd listen to it.
And you know I'd do it.
"Galileo" is from Rites of Passage - pretty good album. This one brings me back pre-high school. The Indigo Girls at Northrop Auditorium (July 1994) was - I think - the first concert I ever attended. Attended with my first girlfriend (as in, the first girl with whom I understood what that title connoted) and her father.
Galileo is totally pre-high school for me. It is a camp song for me. 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
It was on a mix tape I got as a Christmas gift from my older "cool" cousin in 1993 (would have been 7th grade...I think). Did you know both Jackson Browne & David Crosby provided backing vocals on the song? Me neither!
Rites of Passage was a victim of my great 2012 Ipod purge.
I don't think I ever owned Rites of Passage but it felt like I did, given how often I heard "Galileo" in college. It wasn't new then, but it always seemed to be playing.
"Don't Ride That Horse." Their sound is so familiar I can't decide if they sound like someone or if I just constantly forget that I've listened to them before.
Okay, this is for CoC.
I have no answer - Americana/Progressive Bluegrass bands have a ton of similarity in terms of instruments, themes and execution, so I'd say that they probably sound like someone you've listened to before (which could have been them).
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01. Jag Panzer - "The Age of Mastery", The Age of Mastery
02. Nuclear Assault - "Brainwashed", Survive
03. Corrosion of Conformity - "Shake Like You", Deliverance
04. Symphony X - "Accolade II", The Odyssey
05. Darkest Hour - "Eclipse", The Mark of the Judas
06. Meshuggah - "Mind's Mirrors", Catch Thirtyth33 (Ugh, I keep forgetting to take this album off my iPod.)
07. Blind Guardian - "Another Holy War", Imaginations From the Other Side (Nice save, iPod. \m/)
08. Skyclad - "Still Spinning Shrapnel", The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
09. The Tim Malloys - "Monto", Bloody Irish Music Live at Kieran's
10. Mastodon - "Naked Burn", Leviathan
The usual channels didn't have "The Age of Mastery" so I listened to Jag Panzer's "Children of the Sea" instead.
I kind of dig this, but the vocals are very...'80s metal. Do these guys go back a while? Hell, maybe this song goes back a while.
Heh, that version of "Children of the Sea" is Jag Panzer's cover of the Black Sabbath song. Look that song up under Sabbath, it'll sound a million times better. (and then listen to "Heaven and Hell" and not have to feel the need to ever listen to music again, as you'll have reached the pinnacle.)
Jag Panzer does go back to the early 90's or so, and Harry Conklin's vocals were... less good prior to The Age of Mastery. See if you can find something like "King at a Price" (or just about anything off of Thane to the Throne, really) or "The Moors" to get a good idea of what they are all about.
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. 1. Bon Iver - Hinnom, TX - Bon Iver, Bon Iver 2. Daft Punk - Derezzed - Tron Legacy Soundtrack 3. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow - Loveless 4. Prime STH - Believe - Underneath the Surface 5. Further Seems Forever - Light Up Ahead - Hide Nothing 6. Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark* 7. The Joy Formidable - This Ladder is Ours - Wolf's Law* 8. Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars - Treats 9. Lotus Plaza - Monoliths T. The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It - Is This It
B1. James Blake - Retrograde - Overgrown* B2. Frank Ocean - Forest Gump - Channel Orange*
6: Guh, what??
7: Thanks again to Brooks for the heads up. I really like this album.
B1: New James Blake! It sounds like a James Blake song, only I like it more than most of the stuff on his self titled. Now I'm excited for Overgrown.
B2: I like the album version of this song. I went into the Grammys hoping for precisely one thing: that Frank Ocean wouldn't suck. So much for that.
Prime STH - "Believe." It's a little pop rock. I don't have strong feelings for it in any direction.
That is exactly what that band was, start to finish - generic pop-rock that evoked no particular feelings one way or the other. A friend of mine adored them back in 2001-ish, so he gave me a copy of the CD. I'm not sure how it's on my iPod.
I was definitely wondering how it found itself to your device.
Funny enough, it's the one Sampler song I listened to where I accidentally listened to a couple more because it's so generic I didn't realize the track was changing as my mind was on other things.
And alongside Hoobastank of all bands. My iPod is apparently feeling angsty today.
I went on a James Blake run on youtube the other night: it never occurred to me there could be videos for these.
I think I'd like his music a lot better if he'd go back to not singing on it.
The "retrograde" video came out on Sunday. It features a meteor streaking through the sky and hitting a building. Weird timing.
The song itself has this nice buzzing bees synth thing going on and adding pressure. Very cool, stop singing over it, James.
Re: The Joy Formidable
"Maw Maw Song" may be the dumbest song title I've ever heard. Good song, though.
Agreed.
I will forever be convinced that the world's dumbest song title is "Sk8r Boi."
I always thought "Beethoven's C***" was particularly stupid and vulgar in an incredibly non-interesting way. (from Serj Tankian's solo album)
Agreed. I hated that song title. I think that one is the winner in my mind, though this does seem like exactly the type of rabbit hole I'd love to go down sometime.
I suppose I'll disclaimer that with "worst song title other than ones by Anal C***, whose only reason for existing as a band seemed to be coming up with jokey, pointlessly hyper-offensive song titles."
I thought of them too, but when they're all obviously intentionally offensive, it sort of kills the impact.
The only A.C. I've ever heard is their acoustic album, which I found pretty amusing. Admittedly I was 18 when I heard it, I assume my reaction would be a lot different now.
Right, pretty much any band of their ilk gets lumped into the "trying too hard" category.
Blech...that's pretty bad.
Trey Songz released a song called "LOL:-)" that's about as bad as it gets for me.
Coming up with a favorite is pretty damn hard, though. The first that comes to mind is "Futurism vs. Passéism" by Blonde Redhead.
Swamped, but here's the first Pandora track of the day. Are these lyrics forbidden topic? 😉
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zo8hbxR1g
I don't yet live in the twenty-first century, so my music player doesn't tell me the last 10 tracks I've listened to, but I've been listing to Little Plastic Castles by Ani Difranco this morning. I liked it okay when it came out forever ago, but I'm only now realizing how good it is as an album in its entirety.
I'm also falling pretty hard for Fell Asleep on a Train by the Quavers.
(Also: Hi, I'm Pepper. Hope you don't mind if I join you.)
Welcome!
Always welcome here!
PEPPER!!1!!!!!!1!11 WORLDS COLLIDE. Nice to see you. You are 32 flavors and then some.
I've heard that disc (many times) so I can't really SpookySample it.
Welcome to the site. Fortunately, I don't think we've ever had a "No Pepper" policy.
You would have one of those up your sleeve.
Welcome to the fold Pepper - If you stick around, Mags may have his first BKaC in quite a while!
Okay, I'm going to need a translation on that one.
"Better Know a Citizen." They're introductory surveys to our regulars.
I've been meaning to do some WGOM podcasts, too. If anyone feels like doing one today (not tonight, though; I have a Vogon roundtable to host tonight), I'm around.
And "Mags" is MagUidhir, the citizen who handles the survey/interview.
and "quite a while" is...well, I think you get the idea.
Added to the Lexicon.
As someone who is still relatively new around here (about a year), I would appreciate some BKAC entries.
Emailed Mags about it.
*retreats to the corner to weep quietly*
But really, thanks for the warm welcome!
we're allowed to have one
httpv://youtu.be/tdCq7HZ3zRE
This was my thought.
Welcome! Are you playing werewolf? Why not?
Why not?
I have heard rumors and I'm frightened. Also, I can't even keep up with the comments on the signup post.
The rumors are untrue. I totally won't kill you immediately if I'm a wolf.
Spooky is a wolf. That's all you need to know.
But . . . I thought he was a silverback gorilla. Or was that last week?
Flawless victory.
Yeah. Look who's been lurking in the shadows, just ready for the right moment.
We're always glad to have new people around here. In fact, we wish it happened more often.
Some have suggested new people get intimidated. Please don't feel that way. Believe me, if a fifty-four-year-old pastor can hang with these people, it can't be that hard.
Believe me, if a fifty-four-year-old pastor can hang with these people, it can't be that hard.
I love it. Not sure if that's a compliment or a slam.
You are like the target demographic.
1. "Psycho Killer" - Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
2. "Love Is Only A Feeling" - The Darkness - Permission To Land
3. "Ballad Of A Comeback Kids" - The New Pornographers - Electric Vision
4. "Business Casual" - Viva Voce - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
5. "Don't Go Away" - Oasis - Be Here Now
6. "Just A Girl" - No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
7. "Here Comes The Sun" - The Beatles - Abbey Road
8. "Fortunate Son" - CCR - Willy And The Poor Boys
9. "100 Days, 100 Nights" - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
10. "Smooth" - Santana and Rob Thomas - Supernatural
B. "Suddenly Seymour" - Little Shop Of Horrors Soundtrack
x2B. "Rose Tint My World" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
2. I've been really digging Permission To Land lately.
B: This is one of my favorite musicals. It's absurd and campy and the music is fun and that's all I want from the medium.
x2B: This is one of my other favorite musicals. Same reasoning. The music is really freaking good. Also, there might be a picture of me in some closet somewhere wearing, well, I've probably said too much.
It's absurd and campy and the music is fun and that's all I want from the medium.
It's actually much more. The composer did a speech when I friend of mine was in treatment, and it's about the destructiveness of drug addiction.
I can see that. I've always thought there was some depth there, what with the unhappy ending and social commentary and such. Still, it takes the most fun path through those things possible.
Yes. It's very well done.
Yeah, my phone contains a very limited selection of music.
01. Gucci Mane ft. Kirko Bangz, Waka Flocka Flame, and Young Scooter - "F*ck Something" from Trap God
02. My Bloody Valentine - "New You" from mbv
03. UGK ft. Big Daddy Kane - "Next Up" from Underground Kingz
04. Lil Ugly Mane - "Throw Dem Gunz" from Mista Thug Isolation
05. 100s - "1999" from Ice Cold Perm
06. SpaceGhostPurrp ft. DoughDough - "Rep Dhat" from B.M.W. EP
07. Gorgeous Children - "Black Palsm" from Gorgeous Children
08. Gucci Mane - "Pistol in the Party" from Trap God 2
09. A$AP Rocky - "Phoenix" from Long.Live.A$AP
10. Future - "I'm Trippin" from Pluto
BT. Pissed Jeans - "Male Gaze" from Honeys
This new Pissed Jeans record absolutely rips. Do you love sludge rock from the early-mid 90s? If so check it out immediately.
This new Pissed Jeans record absolutely rips. Do you love sludge rock from the early-mid 90s? If so check it out immediately.
Awesome! I'll check it out tonight. Thanks for the rec, Zack.
edit: what do you think of Long.Live.A$AP?
Second. It's bookmarked in the 'to listen' folder.
Overall, I like Long.Live.A$AP a whole lot.
I liked the Life.Love.A$AP mixtape alright, but I didn't really understand why it was so adored. I prefer this, but the middle of the album is kind of a chore. The first five tracks are excellent. The next three are middling. I like "F*ckin' Problems" but it's definitely pandering to be a radio hit, and it doesn't really fit in the aesthetic of the album overall. The other two tracks I could do without. "1Train" is good, but overly long and I only like about half the verses. "Fashion Killa" is an interesting idea, but I don't really listen to it. "Phoenix" & "Suddenly" are both wonderful ("Suddenly" is pretty easily my favorite thing on the album), and I like most of the bonus tracks.
I think there's a great album in there, if some fat (and A$AP Ferg's all time terrible verse in "Ghetto Symphony") was trimmed. But as it stands, it's good. He has a really good ear for beats, and he's improving as a writer. And I like that something with such heavy southern sensibilities is getting a fair bit of press since that's definitely my favorite geographical area for rap.
Musical coup of the day, I just picked up The Jayhawks "Hollywood Town Hall" for $2 at my local HPB.
1. "Washington School" - Atlas SoundLogos
2. "Helium" - Ramona FallsProphet
3. "Shook Down" - YuckYuck
4. "All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth" - The New PornographersChallengers
5. "No More Runnin" - Animal CollectiveMerriweather Post Pavilion
6. "Fire's Highway" - JapandroidsCelebration Rock
7. "Pharoahs & Pyramids" - Cut CopyZonoscope
8. "Lightning Blue Eyes" - Secret MachinesTen Silver Drops
9. "Take Care" - Beach HouseTeen Dream
10. "New Fang" - Them Crooked VulturesThem Crooked Vultures
I like Kyuss, Foo Fighters, and QOTSA, but never really got into Them Crooked Vultures. It seems like I should be more enthusiastic about them.
It's always seemed to me like just another QOTSA album with a few more sort-of unique instruments (mandolin, clavinet, etc.) courtesy of John Paul Jones.
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1. The Bad Plus - "Heart of Glass" - These Are the Vistas
2. Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" - 21
3. Wilco - "Company in My Back" - Kicking Television
4. Radiohead - "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" - In Rainbows
5. Lupe Fiasco - "The Die" - The Cool
6. Johnny Cash - "We'll Meet Again" - American IV: The Man Comes Around
7. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - "Jungleland" - Born to Run
8. B.B. King - "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer" - Best of RPM and Kent Recordings
9. Flight of the Conchords - "The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)" - Flight of the Conchords
T. Ben Folds Five - "Missing the War" - Whatever and Ever Amen
B. Wolfmother - "Love Train" - Wolfmother
1. Neil Young - "Old Man" - Decade
2. Cody Canada & The Departed - "Ballad of Rosalie" - This Is Indian Land
3. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly" - Once Soundtrack
4. Toad the Wet Sprocket - "Torn" - Pale
5. Def Leppard - "Photograph" - Vault: Best of Def Leppard
6. Steve Earle - "Trancendental Blues" - Trancendental Blues
7. Nine Inch Nails - "Dead Souls" - The Crow Soundtrack
8. Soul Asylum - "Lately" - The Silver Lining
9. Dawes - "A Little Bit of Everything" - Nothing is Wrong
10. Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth" - ...Retrospective
'Train in Vain' - The Clash London Calling
'Thunder Road' - Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
'(I Know) Im Losing You' - Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story
'Dreams' - The Cranberries Stars: The Best of 1992-2002
'I Gotta Get Drunk' - The Little Willies The Little Willies
'One Step Up' - Bruce Springsteen Tunnel of Love
'Better Things' - The Kinks Give the People What They Want *
'Live and Die' - The Avett Brothers Live and Die
'Come Monday' - Jimmy Buffett Songs You Know By Heart
'The Middle' - Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
*perhaps one of the sunniest breakup songs in pop music
Nice list!
Cheryl "I Wish I Had a Beard" Hoffmann's favorite song is "Thunder Road." I love it too.
I'm listening to "Live and Die." I dig it. This might be the mood I'm actually in today.
Its the only song I like by them. They performed a different song on Letterman earlier this week, and it was kinda blah.
I have their previous album and love it. I like a few of their other songs too, and really enjoy "Live And Die."
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* I'm Not a Punk - The Descendents - Milo Goes to College
* I Don't Live Today - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
* Lux Aeterna - Kronos Quartet - Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack (C. Mansell)
* The Great Golden Baby - Circa Survive - Juturna
* Nobody's Fault but Mine - Led Zeppelin - Presence
* Colour of Moonlight (Antiochus) - Grimes - Visions
* Where the Birds Always Sing - The Cure - Bloodflowers
* Champagne Supernova - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
* The Man Comes Around - Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around
* Weak and Powerless - A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
It's a SpookySampler day!
I'm listening to "The Great Golden Baby." I've always been curious about how this band sounds. I'm also curious as to how I accidentally skipped past wattsy.
Heavy but lucid. Interesting. I think I'll give a listen to more. Seems like music for hopeless moods, which I appreciate.
My favorite Circa Survive song is probably "Stop the Fucking Car", it's an easy one to find yourself singing along to.
1. Tujiko Noriko + Takemura Nobukazu “Kirei” East Facing Balcony
2. Flavor Crystals “Boris in the Pool” Three
3. Linfinity “Molly Mar of Rome” Martian's Bloom
4. Nine Inch Nails “Eraser” The Downward Spiral
5. Palace Songs “Agnes, Queen of Sorrow” Hope
6. Eric Copeland “Reptilian Space Beings Shapeshifting Bloodsucking Vampires” Alien in a Garbage Dump
7. Andy Stott “Work Gate” We Stay Together
8. Shabazz Palaces “Youlogy” Black Up
9. A Winged Victory for the Sullen “A Symphony Pathetique” A Winged Victory for the Sullen
T. The Cinematic Orchestra feat. Fontella Bass “All That You Give” Every Day*
B. Conway Twitty “You've Never Been This Far Before”* Silver Anniversary Collection
Notes:
1. Not sure why Takemura's name is credited that way rather than as "Nobukazu Takemura" but one listen will tell you it's the same man. Not quite at the level of his peaks Child and Magic and Funfair, but it's good to know he's making music after basically a decade of disappearance. (Not sure what happened: For the non-Japanese speaker, I'd venture it's as difficult to follow Japanese musicians that aren't having US releases as it is following Japanese Baseball.)
T. Just one of my favorite albums of all time. Nearing 11 years old. Hey, even Pitchfork liked it!
B. I think this is the most embarrassing song I own. 40-year-old Twitty singing about taking a girl's virginity on the night she breaks up with her boyfriend. And the song reaches climax in two and a half minutes and then there's a 30-second denouement. Eww eww eww. I feel cheap and used just listening to it. Enjoy!:
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1fX-FvKW8
I'll pull up your opening track.
...8:33? Good Lord, AMR.
Seems like writing music. I didn't totally engage, but it's nice.
So far, I'm meh on the whole thing.
If it weren't for my history with Mr. Takemura, I don't know that I'd've ever bothered.
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1. Walk On By - The Explorers Club - The California Suite
2. Beat Surrender - The Jam - All the Choice Cuts
3. Be Stiff - Devo - The Big Stiff Box Set
4. Consider Me - Jennifer Lara - Feel Like Jumping: The Best of Studio One Women
5. Barstool Blues - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma
6. This Train - Rev. Ballenger - Trains & Cars
7. Blues to Elvin - John Coltrane - Coltrane Plays the Blues
8. One of Must Know - Mick Hucknall - Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan
9. Someday - Los Lobos - Just Another Band From East LA
10. The Hula Hula Boys - Warren Zevon - The Envoy
B. We Can Work It Out - Steel Pulse - Reggae Summer
"This Train."
I liked this. I like gospel in general, actually. I've heard this song somewhere, but never this arrangement.
The Explorers Club didn't seem to fit until I realized it was a cover.
I actually like the Explorers Club. Grand Hotel is one of the few cds I own that is relatively recent.
1. Girl Afraid -- The Smiths
2. Thank You -- Led Zeppelin
3. Anytime -- My Morning Jacket
4. Straight Line -- Wire
5. Song to Woody -- Bob Dylan
6. I Shot The Sheriff -- Bob Marley & The Wailers
7. Top Of My Game -- Robert Pollard
8. The Late Greats -- Wilco
9. Seymour Stein -- Belle & Sebastian
10. Barnaby, Hardly Working -- Yo La Tengo
B1. Bye Bye Blackbird -- Joe Cocker
B2. Granadaland -- The Wedding Present
Nice list free - great variety!
I'm listening to Robert Pollard, the only one I didn't immediately recognize. I've seen Steven Soderbergh's Bubble, though, so on some level I've experienced him.
Took a while to find the track. This guy's got a pretty large catalog.
I think I could while away a day or two just marathonning his stuff.
I think I could while away a day or two just marathonning his stuff.
Careful, you may become addicted like I have. With such a prodigious output you'll come across a lot of chaff, but man the gems are well worth the search. Unfortunately Top of My Game isn't one of the gems.
Yeah, it didn't jump out at me as its own track, but I could tell from his sound that there was gold to be mined.
I was shocked that you didn't have any GBV, but you have Pollard, so I'm counting it.
Since I've went through my i-pod purge, the percentage of GBV (and related) songs has shot up from 5 percent to nearly 7 percent of total songs (out of ~7,500), thus they appear to be showing up almost every week. (waiting for the obligatory AMR response)....
With ten tracks and 7% of your library, You should expect at least one GBV (or related) track in 52% of your random tens.
If it's actually 10% of your library, 35% of your random tens would have at least one.
(Again this assumes pure randomness.)
7% leads to 52%, but 10% leads to 35%?
That seems wrong, somehow.
Whatever you say Greekhouse.
If you had a loaded coin that flipped heads 93% of the time, what percentage of the time would you flip a tails at least once in ten flips?
vs.
If the coin only flips heads 90% of the time.
Shouldn't it be 35% of the lists don't have GBV (or related) if they make up 10% of the library?
Crap. Typo I even missed on rereading when you pointed it out.
Damnit. Good at arithmetics, bad at Englishs.
'Thank You' by Zeppelin is fantastic. One of my faves.
I picked up Wire's Pink Flag through the library earlier this week (I guess Im going through this punk/new wave/whathaveyou phase) and I dont know what to think of the album. I like it enough to have listened to it more than once but nothing has stuck in my head.
Dido
I think Pink Flag is awesome and by far my favorite Wire album of the original 3 they did. Chairs Missing is good and 154 is o.k. (too sludgy for me, but I know E-6 likes it).
Dido. The first time I heard "Mannequin" I went out and bought the album. Not a single regret.
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1. Talk Show Host Radiohead*
2. Shoot To Thrill AC/DC
3. Brevony Ramona Falls
4. Don’t Ride That Horse Old Crow Medicine Show
5. Steam Will Rise Silverchair
6. Follow Us Big Boi
7. Brain Stew Green Day
8. No Cars Go Arcade Fire
9. I Will Follow You Into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie
10. Shoes For Running Bing Boi
B. Bodies of Water Ramona Falls**
*From the Romeo & Juliet Soundtrack – first place I heard Radiohead.
**Probably my favorite track from Prophet – even more amazing when performed live.
jealous.
I'd say Spore is number one for me, followed by Sqworm and Proof.
I couldn't argue with any of those, "Bodies" was just the most immediatly accessible song from the album (for me).
Do you want a list that brings you back to middle school and high school? Look at this one. Seriously, every song, but 2, are pre-2000.
1. Vanilla Ice - "Dancin'" - To the Extreme
2. Will Smith - "Miami" - Big Willie Style
3. Better Than Ezra - "Scared of You" - Friction Baby
4. Sugarland - "Already Gone" - Love on the Inside
5. Garth Brooks - "She's Every Woman" - Double Live
6. Michael Jackson - "Smooth Criminal" - College Mix (yes, this was a mix CD I made in college - probably burned from some website that no longer exists)
7. Barenaked Ladies - "Have You Seen My Love" - Everything to Everyone
8. Indigo Girls - "Galileo" - College Mix (yup, same one as above, except I know my sister owned the album. Not sure which album it came from)
9. Oasis - "Champagne Supernova" - Familiar to Millions
10. Gnarles Barkley - "Gone Daddy Gone" - St. Elsewhere
BONUS: Vanilla Ice - "Hooked" - To the Extreme
I think I have a story for each of these songs, or at least the artist.
Though I'm familiar with the band, I listened to the only song I wasn't completely sure I'd heard ("Already Gone"). I'm not a country guy, but my dirty little secret is that I don't dislike Sugarland. I think it's her voice, primarily. It sort of...turns me on, I think. TMI?!
I like Sugarland only for Jennifer Nettle's voice. I really like the song "Northern Town" Check that one out.
What I've heard of her/them, I've generally liked. "Stay" was pretty phenomenal, and the first thing that made me pay attention.
I'm not a big country fan either, but Sugarland did a great job on "Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You" on the Chimes of Freedom compilation.
Hey, Champagne Supernova twins! That makes sense, our music tastes are obviously similar.
I love Oasis, but Champagne Supernova is my least favorite song off that album.
I had a dream in high school that Oasis got super baked before a show and accidentally changed "Champagne Supernova" to "Chicken Salad Sandwich." Every time I hear the song, I sing "Like a chicken salad sandwich in the sky." The right lyrics sound wrong to me.
I like your lyrics better than the original. You should change all the lines and record yourself singing that. I'd listen to it.
And you know I'd do it.
"Galileo" is from Rites of Passage - pretty good album. This one brings me back pre-high school. The Indigo Girls at Northrop Auditorium (July 1994) was - I think - the first concert I ever attended. Attended with my first girlfriend (as in, the first girl with whom I understood what that title connoted) and her father.
Galileo is totally pre-high school for me. It is a camp song for me. 6th, 7th, and 8th grade.
It was on a mix tape I got as a Christmas gift from my older "cool" cousin in 1993 (would have been 7th grade...I think). Did you know both Jackson Browne & David Crosby provided backing vocals on the song? Me neither!
Rites of Passage was a victim of my great 2012 Ipod purge.
I don't think I ever owned Rites of Passage but it felt like I did, given how often I heard "Galileo" in college. It wasn't new then, but it always seemed to be playing.
"Don't Ride That Horse." Their sound is so familiar I can't decide if they sound like someone or if I just constantly forget that I've listened to them before.
Okay, this is for CoC.
I have no answer - Americana/Progressive Bluegrass bands have a ton of similarity in terms of instruments, themes and execution, so I'd say that they probably sound like someone you've listened to before (which could have been them).
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01. Jag Panzer - "The Age of Mastery", The Age of Mastery
02. Nuclear Assault - "Brainwashed", Survive
03. Corrosion of Conformity - "Shake Like You", Deliverance
04. Symphony X - "Accolade II", The Odyssey
05. Darkest Hour - "Eclipse", The Mark of the Judas
06. Meshuggah - "Mind's Mirrors", Catch Thirtyth33 (Ugh, I keep forgetting to take this album off my iPod.)
07. Blind Guardian - "Another Holy War", Imaginations From the Other Side (Nice save, iPod. \m/)
08. Skyclad - "Still Spinning Shrapnel", The Silent Whales of Lunar Sea
09. The Tim Malloys - "Monto", Bloody Irish Music Live at Kieran's
10. Mastodon - "Naked Burn", Leviathan
The usual channels didn't have "The Age of Mastery" so I listened to Jag Panzer's "Children of the Sea" instead.
I kind of dig this, but the vocals are very...'80s metal. Do these guys go back a while? Hell, maybe this song goes back a while.
Heh, that version of "Children of the Sea" is Jag Panzer's cover of the Black Sabbath song. Look that song up under Sabbath, it'll sound a million times better. (and then listen to "Heaven and Hell" and not have to feel the need to ever listen to music again, as you'll have reached the pinnacle.)
Jag Panzer does go back to the early 90's or so, and Harry Conklin's vocals were... less good prior to The Age of Mastery. See if you can find something like "King at a Price" (or just about anything off of Thane to the Throne, really) or "The Moors" to get a good idea of what they are all about.
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1. Bon Iver - Hinnom, TX - Bon Iver, Bon Iver
2. Daft Punk - Derezzed - Tron Legacy Soundtrack
3. My Bloody Valentine - Only Shallow - Loveless
4. Prime STH - Believe - Underneath the Surface
5. Further Seems Forever - Light Up Ahead - Hide Nothing
6. Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark*
7. The Joy Formidable - This Ladder is Ours - Wolf's Law*
8. Sleigh Bells - Infinity Guitars - Treats
9. Lotus Plaza - Monoliths
T. The Strokes - Take It Or Leave It - Is This It
B1. James Blake - Retrograde - Overgrown*
B2. Frank Ocean - Forest Gump - Channel Orange*
6: Guh, what??
7: Thanks again to Brooks for the heads up. I really like this album.
B1: New James Blake! It sounds like a James Blake song, only I like it more than most of the stuff on his self titled. Now I'm excited for Overgrown.
B2: I like the album version of this song. I went into the Grammys hoping for precisely one thing: that Frank Ocean wouldn't suck. So much for that.
Prime STH - "Believe." It's a little pop rock. I don't have strong feelings for it in any direction.
That is exactly what that band was, start to finish - generic pop-rock that evoked no particular feelings one way or the other. A friend of mine adored them back in 2001-ish, so he gave me a copy of the CD. I'm not sure how it's on my iPod.
I was definitely wondering how it found itself to your device.
Funny enough, it's the one Sampler song I listened to where I accidentally listened to a couple more because it's so generic I didn't realize the track was changing as my mind was on other things.
And alongside Hoobastank of all bands. My iPod is apparently feeling angsty today.
I went on a James Blake run on youtube the other night: it never occurred to me there could be videos for these.
I think I'd like his music a lot better if he'd go back to not singing on it.
The "retrograde" video came out on Sunday. It features a meteor streaking through the sky and hitting a building. Weird timing.
The song itself has this nice buzzing bees synth thing going on and adding pressure. Very cool, stop singing over it, James.
Re: The Joy Formidable
"Maw Maw Song" may be the dumbest song title I've ever heard. Good song, though.
Agreed.
I will forever be convinced that the world's dumbest song title is "Sk8r Boi."
I always thought "Beethoven's C***" was particularly stupid and vulgar in an incredibly non-interesting way. (from Serj Tankian's solo album)
Agreed. I hated that song title. I think that one is the winner in my mind, though this does seem like exactly the type of rabbit hole I'd love to go down sometime.
I suppose I'll disclaimer that with "worst song title other than ones by Anal C***, whose only reason for existing as a band seemed to be coming up with jokey, pointlessly hyper-offensive song titles."
I thought of them too, but when they're all obviously intentionally offensive, it sort of kills the impact.
The only A.C. I've ever heard is their acoustic album, which I found pretty amusing. Admittedly I was 18 when I heard it, I assume my reaction would be a lot different now.
Right, pretty much any band of their ilk gets lumped into the "trying too hard" category.
Blech...that's pretty bad.
Trey Songz released a song called "LOL:-)" that's about as bad as it gets for me.
Coming up with a favorite is pretty damn hard, though. The first that comes to mind is "Futurism vs. Passéism" by Blonde Redhead.
Swamped, but here's the first Pandora track of the day. Are these lyrics forbidden topic? 😉
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zo8hbxR1g
I don't yet live in the twenty-first century, so my music player doesn't tell me the last 10 tracks I've listened to, but I've been listing to Little Plastic Castles by Ani Difranco this morning. I liked it okay when it came out forever ago, but I'm only now realizing how good it is as an album in its entirety.
I'm also falling pretty hard for Fell Asleep on a Train by the Quavers.
(Also: Hi, I'm Pepper. Hope you don't mind if I join you.)
Welcome!
Always welcome here!
PEPPER!!1!!!!!!1!11 WORLDS COLLIDE. Nice to see you. You are 32 flavors and then some.
I've heard that disc (many times) so I can't really SpookySample it.
Welcome to the site. Fortunately, I don't think we've ever had a "No Pepper" policy.
You would have one of those up your sleeve.
Welcome to the fold Pepper - If you stick around, Mags may have his first BKaC in quite a while!
Okay, I'm going to need a translation on that one.
"Better Know a Citizen." They're introductory surveys to our regulars.
I've been meaning to do some WGOM podcasts, too. If anyone feels like doing one today (not tonight, though; I have a Vogon roundtable to host tonight), I'm around.
And "Mags" is MagUidhir, the citizen who handles the survey/interview.
and "quite a while" is...well, I think you get the idea.
Added to the Lexicon.
As someone who is still relatively new around here (about a year), I would appreciate some BKAC entries.
Emailed Mags about it.
*retreats to the corner to weep quietly*
But really, thanks for the warm welcome!
we're allowed to have one
httpv://youtu.be/tdCq7HZ3zRE
This was my thought.
Welcome! Are you playing werewolf? Why not?
Why not?
I have heard rumors and I'm frightened. Also, I can't even keep up with the comments on the signup post.
The rumors are untrue. I totally won't kill you immediately if I'm a wolf.
Spooky is a wolf. That's all you need to know.
But . . . I thought he was a silverback gorilla. Or was that last week?
Flawless victory.
Yeah. Look who's been lurking in the shadows, just ready for the right moment.
We're always glad to have new people around here. In fact, we wish it happened more often.
Some have suggested new people get intimidated. Please don't feel that way. Believe me, if a fifty-four-year-old pastor can hang with these people, it can't be that hard.
Believe me, if a fifty-four-year-old pastor can hang with these people, it can't be that hard.
I love it. Not sure if that's a compliment or a slam.
You are like the target demographic.
1. "Psycho Killer" - Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
2. "Love Is Only A Feeling" - The Darkness - Permission To Land
3. "Ballad Of A Comeback Kids" - The New Pornographers - Electric Vision
4. "Business Casual" - Viva Voce - The Heat Can Melt Your Brain
5. "Don't Go Away" - Oasis - Be Here Now
6. "Just A Girl" - No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
7. "Here Comes The Sun" - The Beatles - Abbey Road
8. "Fortunate Son" - CCR - Willy And The Poor Boys
9. "100 Days, 100 Nights" - Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights
10. "Smooth" - Santana and Rob Thomas - Supernatural
B. "Suddenly Seymour" - Little Shop Of Horrors Soundtrack
x2B. "Rose Tint My World" - Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
2. I've been really digging Permission To Land lately.
B: This is one of my favorite musicals. It's absurd and campy and the music is fun and that's all I want from the medium.
x2B: This is one of my other favorite musicals. Same reasoning. The music is really freaking good. Also, there might be a picture of me in some closet somewhere wearing, well, I've probably said too much.
It's absurd and campy and the music is fun and that's all I want from the medium.
It's actually much more. The composer did a speech when I friend of mine was in treatment, and it's about the destructiveness of drug addiction.
I can see that. I've always thought there was some depth there, what with the unhappy ending and social commentary and such. Still, it takes the most fun path through those things possible.
Yes. It's very well done.
Yeah, my phone contains a very limited selection of music.
01. Gucci Mane ft. Kirko Bangz, Waka Flocka Flame, and Young Scooter - "F*ck Something" from Trap God
02. My Bloody Valentine - "New You" from mbv
03. UGK ft. Big Daddy Kane - "Next Up" from Underground Kingz
04. Lil Ugly Mane - "Throw Dem Gunz" from Mista Thug Isolation
05. 100s - "1999" from Ice Cold Perm
06. SpaceGhostPurrp ft. DoughDough - "Rep Dhat" from B.M.W. EP
07. Gorgeous Children - "Black Palsm" from Gorgeous Children
08. Gucci Mane - "Pistol in the Party" from Trap God 2
09. A$AP Rocky - "Phoenix" from Long.Live.A$AP
10. Future - "I'm Trippin" from Pluto
BT. Pissed Jeans - "Male Gaze" from Honeys
This new Pissed Jeans record absolutely rips. Do you love sludge rock from the early-mid 90s? If so check it out immediately.
Awesome! I'll check it out tonight. Thanks for the rec, Zack.
edit: what do you think of Long.Live.A$AP?
Second. It's bookmarked in the 'to listen' folder.
Overall, I like Long.Live.A$AP a whole lot.
I liked the Life.Love.A$AP mixtape alright, but I didn't really understand why it was so adored. I prefer this, but the middle of the album is kind of a chore. The first five tracks are excellent. The next three are middling. I like "F*ckin' Problems" but it's definitely pandering to be a radio hit, and it doesn't really fit in the aesthetic of the album overall. The other two tracks I could do without. "1Train" is good, but overly long and I only like about half the verses. "Fashion Killa" is an interesting idea, but I don't really listen to it. "Phoenix" & "Suddenly" are both wonderful ("Suddenly" is pretty easily my favorite thing on the album), and I like most of the bonus tracks.
I think there's a great album in there, if some fat (and A$AP Ferg's all time terrible verse in "Ghetto Symphony") was trimmed. But as it stands, it's good. He has a really good ear for beats, and he's improving as a writer. And I like that something with such heavy southern sensibilities is getting a fair bit of press since that's definitely my favorite geographical area for rap.
Musical coup of the day, I just picked up The Jayhawks "Hollywood Town Hall" for $2 at my local HPB.
1. "Washington School" - Atlas Sound Logos
2. "Helium" - Ramona Falls Prophet
3. "Shook Down" - Yuck Yuck
4. "All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth" - The New Pornographers Challengers
5. "No More Runnin" - Animal Collective Merriweather Post Pavilion
6. "Fire's Highway" - Japandroids Celebration Rock
7. "Pharoahs & Pyramids" - Cut Copy Zonoscope
8. "Lightning Blue Eyes" - Secret Machines Ten Silver Drops
9. "Take Care" - Beach House Teen Dream
10. "New Fang" - Them Crooked Vultures Them Crooked Vultures
I like Kyuss, Foo Fighters, and QOTSA, but never really got into Them Crooked Vultures. It seems like I should be more enthusiastic about them.
It's always seemed to me like just another QOTSA album with a few more sort-of unique instruments (mandolin, clavinet, etc.) courtesy of John Paul Jones.
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1. The Bad Plus - "Heart of Glass" - These Are the Vistas
2. Adele - "Rolling in the Deep" - 21
3. Wilco - "Company in My Back" - Kicking Television
4. Radiohead - "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" - In Rainbows
5. Lupe Fiasco - "The Die" - The Cool
6. Johnny Cash - "We'll Meet Again" - American IV: The Man Comes Around
7. Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band - "Jungleland" - Born to Run
8. B.B. King - "When My Heart Beats Like a Hammer" - Best of RPM and Kent Recordings
9. Flight of the Conchords - "The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room)" - Flight of the Conchords
T. Ben Folds Five - "Missing the War" - Whatever and Ever Amen
B. Wolfmother - "Love Train" - Wolfmother
1. Neil Young - "Old Man" - Decade
2. Cody Canada & The Departed - "Ballad of Rosalie" - This Is Indian Land
3. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - "Falling Slowly" - Once Soundtrack
4. Toad the Wet Sprocket - "Torn" - Pale
5. Def Leppard - "Photograph" - Vault: Best of Def Leppard
6. Steve Earle - "Trancendental Blues" - Trancendental Blues
7. Nine Inch Nails - "Dead Souls" - The Crow Soundtrack
8. Soul Asylum - "Lately" - The Silver Lining
9. Dawes - "A Little Bit of Everything" - Nothing is Wrong
10. Buffalo Springfield - "For What It's Worth" - ...Retrospective