Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: May 3, 2013

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May already? I've wasted March and April/This Spring/This Year/My Life.
Oh hey, as the Hitman pointed out to me, there's a New Colin Stetson album out! New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light. Four tracks have Justin Vernon of Bon Iver singing on them and so far I haven't liked that much on passing listens, but I did closely listen to the subtitle track and it is absolutely fantastic, a 15-minute epic with all of the comparisons to Beowulf and Gilgamesh and Faith No More that description entails.

What does your music playing device or service serve up for you today?

40 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: May 3, 2013”

  1. 1. Underworld “Two Months Off” A Hundred Days Off
    2. The Opus* “Guide to the Other Side” First Contact 001
    3. Cypress Hill “Break It Up” Cypress Hill
    4. WCCO Radio “Side B” Last of the Ninth - Twins Pennant Drive in '65
    5. The Cinematic Orchestra “Yoyo Waltz” Man with a Movie Camera

    6. Eric Copeland “Double Reverse Psychology” Limbo
    7. Fila Brazillia “Weasel Out The Muck” Luck Be A Weirdo Tonight
    8. Meat Beat Manifesto “Prime Audio Soup (Edit)” Prime Audio Soup
    9. Coil “Panic (12 Inch Version)” Unnatural History III
    T. Peaking Lights “Lo Hi (Jewellers Remix)” Bootleg Remix

    *Notes:
    2. The production team of the late Chicago hip-hop group Rubberoom appears to still be making primarily-instrumental albums, although they've only released three in the 14 years since Architechnology was released (I assume Rubberoom broke up shortly thereafter).

  2. For some reason, this random top 10 from my collection

    1. Baby, Now That I've Found You--Alison Krauss
    2. Keep On Rockin' Me Baby--Joe Walsh
    3. Believe Me Baby, I Lied--Trisha Yearwood
    4. Baby Likes To Rock It--The Tractors
    5. Santa Baby--Eartha Kitt
    6. Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby--The Beatles
    7. My Baby Left Me--Creedence Clearwater Revival
    8. Hey Baby--No Doubt
    9. Cry Baby Cry--The Beatles
    10.Baby, I Believe In You--New Kids On The Block

    1. B. Baby, Baby, Baby - TLC

      News of a second?
      Your first just crying all night long?

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    1. Coldplay - "Warning Sign" - A Rush of Blood to the Head
    2. The Allman Brothers - "End of the Line" - Shade of Two Worlds
    3. Beck - "Peaches & Cream" - Midnite Vultures
    4. Trampled By Turtles - "Midnight on the Interstate" - Stars and Satellites
    5. The Shins - "Pam Berry" - Wincing the Night Away
    6. The Replacements - "Skyway" - Pleased to Meet Me
    7. Guster - "Two Points for Honesty" - Lost and Gone Forever
    8. Johnny Cash - "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face" - American IV
    9. Interpol - "Obstacle 1" - Turn on the Bright Lights
    T. Craig Finn - "Not Much Left of Us" - Clear Heart Full Eyes
    B. Radiohead - "Ripcord" - Pablo Honey

  4. 'Hey Joe' - Jimi Hendrix The Best of Jimi Hendrix
    'Black Cadillacs' - Modest Mouse Good News for People Who Love Bad News
    'Chemistry' - Semisonic All About Chemistry
    'Tired of Toein the Line' - Rocky Burnette Tired of Toein the Line
    'Dont Change Your Plans' - Ben Folds Five The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner

    'No More Looking Back' - The Kinks The Kinks Present Schoolboys in Disgrace
    'Hook' - Blue Traveler Four
    'Whole Lotta Rosie' - AC/DC Let There Be Rock
    'Clocks' - Coldplay A Rush of Blood to the Head
    'Tommy Rockwood' - The Little Willies For the Good Times

    Im pretty excited for a couple of albums coming out: The Features and Fitz and the Tantrums

  5. Dang, forgot my I-pod today. I'll do one of these later I hope. Also Andrew, I've been really digging the new Yeah Yeah Yeah album.

  6. OK, I've still got my iPod on shuffle and an instrumental droney noisey song I didn't recognize came up and I thought "This is great! Locust? Aaron Dilloway?" iPod says "Cherry on Top" by The Knife, from Shaking the Habitual. Well done, Dreijers!

    1. Well that goes for the first movement. Then it became out-of-tune harpsichord with vox and I'm not so much into it.

  7. I've been exploring the "newer" music of Italian prog band PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi*) and liked this track
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Ri4yIHU_g

    *they took their name from the bakery that they practiced above; interestingly Google Translate gives the translation of their name as "PFM" in English

  8. 1. Barenaked Ladies – Box Set – Gordon
    2. Janelle Monae – 57821 – The ArchAndroid **
    3. Eminem – Roll Model – The Slim Shady LP
    4. Boogie Down Productions – The Bridge is Over – Live Hardcore Worldwide
    5. Salt-N-Pepa – Expression – 20th Century Masters the Millennium Collection : Salt-N-Pepa
    6. Belle & Sebastian – Another Sunny Day – The Life Pursuit
    7. Buggles – Video Killed The Radio Star – College Mix
    8. Oasis – Helter Skelter – Familiar to Millions (Disc 2)
    9. Dessa – Mineshaft – Castor the Twin ***
    10. Michael Franti & Spearhead – Rock the Nation – Stay Human

    ** Janelle Monae just released a video Q.U.E.E.N. which she did with Erykah Badu (a new album is coming out soon!)
    *** Dessa is releasing a new album this summer

    1. I own exactly one of these songs on CD: Boogie Down Productions.
      The live album format disappointed me, in pretty much the same way that many future hip-hop shows would.

    2. Dessa is releasing a new album this summer

      I like the new song. She debuted another song at the show I was at in March, and it sounded... different. I'm always excited for new Dessa material, though.

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    1. Matthew Sweet Looking At The Sun
    2. Sublime Right Back
    3. Connie Francis Who’s Sorry Now?
    4. 3 Doors Down The Road I’m On
    5. Billy Bragg & Wilco Way Over Yonder In A Minor Key*

    6. Red Hot Chili Peppers Right On Time
    7. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros Home
    8. Queen I’m Going Slightly Mad
    9. Keane Everybody’s Changing
    10. Creedence Clearwater Revival Have You Ever Seen The Rain?

    B. The White Stripes Seven Nation Army

    *Though I know Mr. Bragg likely won’t be at the Midway show, I do hope Wilco brings some of the Mermaid Avenue songs into their live repertoire.

    1. I lost the second half of Mermaid Ave Vol. II when my computer crashed. I really should get around to recovering/reacquiring that.

    2. WOYIAMK is my second favorite from that album behind "California Stars"

      1. Tough for me to argue choose a favorite, I love "Eisler On The Go" and "Ingrid Bergman" as well.

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    * Matt Damon - Bang on a Can All-Stars - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (D. Longstreth)
    * Too Much Honkytonking - Indian Jewelry - Free Gold!
    * Quiet - Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
    * Where Is My Mind? - Pixies - Surfer Rosa
    * Etude 3 - Nadia Sirota - Baroque (N. Muhly)
    * Welcome to Planet Motherfucker/Psychoholic Slag - White Zombie - La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Vol. 1
    * Have Mercy, My God - David Lang - The Little Match Girl Passion (D. Lang)
    * Birds - Butthole Surfers - Electric Larryland
    * 976-EVIL - Deftones - Diamond Eyes
    * Welcome to the Black Parade - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

    Demdike Stare is at it again, releasing short EPs that will eventually be collected into what I can only assume will be a quintuple album containing 8 hours of really spooky techno.

    Testpressing#001

    Testpressing#002

    While I'm talking techno, I thought both this remix by Lucy, and the original by Eomac were pretty good.

    Eomac - Spoock (Lucy remix)

    Eomac - Spoock. The track takes a while to warm up, but it gets good, I promise.

    1. I'll have to check out the Testpressing stuff, as I've been into Demdike quite a bit lately.

      I heard 'The Weight of Culture' by Demdike Stare (they're releasing a lot of new music this year) a few weeks ago. It's a 40+ minute mixtape type thing with a lot of their spooky dark ambient with weird almost poppy electro mixed in occasionally. I'd say it's jarring, but it's more akin to the world's creepiest radio station floating in and out of signal. Come to think of it, that sounds like a good idea for an actual album - does anyone know if it's been done before?

      Speaking of creepy, Excavations by The Haxan Cloak scratches that itch pretty solidly. It's ultradark ambient with almost industrial sounding undertones. Linds heard it, said it sounded like if the Saw soundtrack went off the deep end, and left the room saying I had the worst taste in music ever.

      1. Listened to the first half of Excavations. This is something I will keep. I won't be playing it for the wife anytime soon, on your advice.

  11. Grimes fans and others:
    I was cleaning out my emails and came across my note to myself to check Brainwashed's 2012 Readers Poll.
    I did today and came across a link to this Star Tribune article, but without any context. The woman's name, age, and province of origin all match Grimes. So that's gotta be her, eh?

  12. If anyone else is watching The Sundance Channel's Rectify, you were probably wondering who played that gloriously loud and messy tune that closed the second episode. It was these guys.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lO0_T01TrI

    1. Off the awesomely titled album "Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By"

      Thanks for this E-6, I wasn't wondering, but I guess I should have been.

      1. Are you watching the show, or were you just familiar with the band? So far it's rather slow-paced, but I kinda like that. And somebody has some excellent musical taste, as Bon Iver and Sharon Van Etten songs were expertly used in the pilot. (Incidentally, I bought The Drones record yesterday, and listened to it back to back last night. I may have to find more of their stuff.)

    1. Nice - also, enjoyed your banter yesterday/last night. Couple things: 1. No apology is necessary...ever, and 2. I miss having JI JIM on the team as we don't see much of Mona Lisa around here any more and that's a damn shame.

  14. 1. "You Cheated Me" - Martha Wainwright
    2. "Fake Palindromes" - Andrew Bird
    3. "Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
    4. "On The Radio" - Regina Spektor
    5. "Independence Day" - Martina McBride
    6. "Crystal" - Ceasers
    7. "Kingdom Of Rust" - Doves
    8. "Prince Of Darkness" - Nylons
    9. "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow" - Soggy Bottom Boys*
    10. "Stairway To Heaven" - Led Zepplin
    B: "Sweet Child Of Mine" - Guns 'n' Roses

    *Not a real band.

  15. 1. I Don't Mind -- The Buzzcocks -- Singles Going Steady
    2. Better Days -- The Jayhawks -- Smile
    3. Bottle Of Fur -- Urge Overkill -- Saturation
    4. Bodysnatchers -- Radiohead -- In Rainbows
    5. Don't Let Me Down -- The Beatles -- Let It Be... Naked
    6. California Stars -- Billy Bragg & Wilco -- Mermaid Avenue
    7. In The Street, Today -- The Jam -- This Is The Modern World
    8. You Can Have It All -- Yo La Tengo -- Prisoners Of Love
    9. Rhinoceros -- Smashing Pumpkins -- Gish
    10. I Love You -- G. Love & Special Sauce -- G. Love And Special Sauce

    B1. Take It Off -- Alex Chilton -- 19 Years: A Collection Of Alex Chilton
    B2. Too Drunk to Fuck -- Dead Kennedys -- Dead Kennedys

      1. I just came out Tuesday and I really haven't had time to check it out. I did pick up the e.p. earlier this month that was recorded about the same time and was a little disappointed. I'm guessing there will be some amazing songs and some clunkers. That's pretty much par for the course. I could make one amazing album out of the three GBV released in 2012.

        1. I just came out Tuesday

          INteresting. Not that there's anything wrong with that. 😉

  16. Moneen "Passing of America" Theory of Harmonial Value
    Loretta Lynn "Little Red Shoes" Van Lear Rose
    Viktor Vaughn "Change the Beast" Vaudeville Villain
    Ornette Coleman "Beauty is a Rare Thing" This is our Music
    Fletcher Henderson "Liza (All The Clouds Roll Away" Tidal Wave
    Kurt Vile "Smoke Ring for my Halo" Smoke Ring for my Halo
    The Rentals "Hello, Hello" Seven More Minutes
    Beulah "I Love John, She Loves Paul" Handsome Western States
    Dr Dog "Dutchman Falls" Easybeat
    Guided By Voices "I am Produced" Mag Earwhig!

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