Friday Music Day

Friday Music Day: June 28, 2013

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I made some music comments this week. To summarize:
Daft Punk album: Joy-Destroying
Scout Niblett's cover of "No Scrubs": Opinion contaminated by Daft Punk
Yeezus: Palate-Cleansing
Scout Niblett's cover of "Uptown Top Ranking": Great.
Miley Cyrus single: awful, but I can get past it.

More thoughts:
Scout Niblett's got some greatness in her, and some stretches on her albums that absolutely get lost and have nowhere to go. (Oddly reminds me of Regina Spektor, who she sounds nothing like.) So far, I've mostly needed a hook to get into her songs, like if it's a cover (two listed above, plus a take on Palace [Will Oldham]'s "Trudy Dies"), or a Will Oldham duet ("Kiss")

Yeezus: I don't really think this entirely works, especially lyrically. (Not only is there little coherence within the album, but single tracks are all over the place, except for anger. Which makes it feel more genuine.) I'm glad there's someone with big pop success who's willing to take big artistic risks like these. I betcha Alec Empire (Atari Teenage Riot) and Kevin Martin ("The Bug", "Techno Animal") are kicking themselves for not getting involved with this album. The beat for "Black Skinhead" is pretty fantastic; it's got the swing from "Gold Digger", the drums from "Love Lockdown". And if Miss Cyrus is singing (autotuning) "We like to party / dancin' with Miley" in her single, then Mr. West could be singing (autotuning) "When we tried our first Miley / and came out of our body". I could listen to this album a lot.

You can download Aaron Dilloway's Siena for free. Or just listen. I believe this is what the kids are calling "Noise". It'll probably be on a best-of-the-year list for me in about six months.

Some random tracks I listened to that appeal a lot to me:
Mikal Cronin "Shout it out"
Disclosure "When a Fire Starts to Burn" (Hadn't looked at the video before, ignore it.)

And two old songs that are great, just because:
Mylo "Need You Tonite" (feat. a Judie Tzuke sample)
Camp Lo "Luchini AKA This Is It"

33 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: June 28, 2013”

  1. 'Crackin Up' - Nick Lowe Labour of Lust
    'Misunderstanding' - Genesis Duke
    'Memphis' - Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight
    'Black Gold' - Soul Asylum Grave Dancers Union
    'This Disorder' - The Features The Features

    'Bell Bottom Blues' - Derek and the Dominoes Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
    'Thunder Road' - Bruce Springsteen Born to Run
    'Some Nights' - Fun. Some Nights
    'The Way' - Fastball All the Pain Money Can Buy
    'Bastards of Young' - The Replacements Tim

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    * Tentative - System of a Down - Hypnotize
    * 51st Anniversary - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced?
    * My Michelle - Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
    * New Resolution - Heartless Bastards - Stairs and Elevators
    * For All the Cows - Foo Fighters - (self-titled)
    * The Noose - A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step
    * Sin-Nanna - Sunn O))) - Black One
    * Temptation & Desire - Silent Servant - Negative Fascination
    * Hey Now! - Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
    * The End of All Things to Come - Mudvayne - The End of All Things to Come

  3. 1. Oh Caroline (live) -- Cheap Trick -- Live At Budokan
    2. Birds (live) -- Neil Young -- Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968
    3. I've Been Loving You Too Long (live) -- Otis Redding -- Live On The Sunset Strip
    4. Melted Pat (live) -- Guided By Voices -- Live At The Wheelchair Races
    5. Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon -- Neil Diamond -- The Greatest Hits 1966-1992
    6. No No No -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- Fever To Tell
    7. The Chain -- Fleetwood Mac -- Rumours
    8. Pins And Needles (In My Heart) -- The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -- Will The Circle Be Unbroken
    9. A Million Miles -- The Wedding Present -- George Best
    10. Way Down -- The Feelies -- Here Before

    B1. Corona -- Minutemen -- Double Nickels On The Dime
    B2. Nobrainer -- The Soundtrack Of Our Lives -- Gimme Five!

    1. "Live at Budokan" was at my record store in DSM once for like $4 and I thought, "I'll come back for that tomorrow" because I didn't have any cash on me, but it was gone. I was a bit disappointed

      1. The original Live at Budokan was only a few songs from the actual show and not necessarily in the correct playing order (which is pretty common for "live" albums). Sometime in the 90's Cheap Trick released Live at Budokan II which included other songs from the show. (subsequently they released a CD with the whole show on a double disc).

        What's really cool is that through the power of teh interwebz one can find the actual set list for the Budokan concert. Since I had Live at Budokan and Live II, I have been able to reconstruct the actual playing order of the show on my I-pod. I still call it Live at Budokan but it's quite different than that version you saw for $4 in DSM.

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    1. Is It a Crime - Sade
    2. Penny Lane - Beatles
    3. Come On - Rolling Stones
    4. Raining In My Heart - Graham Nash
    5. Shake, Rattle and Roll - Bill Haley & the Comets
    6. Camino - Gipsy Kings
    7. Robber - Bram Tchaikovsky
    8. Total Control - Michael Nesmith
    9. One for Tom - Caribbean Jazz Project
    10. Northern Muse (Solid Ground)- Van Morrison

    B. All Through the Night - Charlie Haden & Quartet West

  5. 1. Underworld “Stagger” Second Toughest in the Infants
    2. Alvo Noto “Xerrox Monophaser 2” Xerrox Vol.2
    3. Massive Attack “Dissolved Girl” Mezzanine
    4. Boom Boom Satellites “Scatterin' Monkey” OUT LOUD
    5. DJ Krush feat. Deborah Anderson “Skin Against Skin” MiLIGHT

    6. Fever Ray “I'm Not Done” Fever Ray
    7. Kris Kristofferson “You Don't Tell Me What to Do” Daytrotter Session, 2/28/2013
    8. Stan Tekiela “Spotted Sandpiper” Birds of Minnesota
    9. Rubberoom feat. Thawfor “Vertigo (Extended Mix)”* Architechnology
    T. Tricky “Piano (The Green Stinky Mix by A Guy Called Gerald)” Makes Me Wanna Die - Pt. 2

    *A Chicago Hip-hop group from the late 90's that should not be forgotten, even if they only had the one album (well, they had a cassette-only album, which I do have as well). Their producers, the Opus, are still recording. Here's a better song than the one from my list.

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    1. “paranoia in b-flat major” – the avett brothers – emotionalism
    2. “unsatisfied” – the replacements – let it be
    3. “they won’t go when i go” – stevie wonder – fufilliness’ first finale
    4. “two doves” – dirty projectors – bitte orca
    5. “atlantic city” – bruce springsteen – nebraska
    6. “this side of the blue” – joanna newsom – yarn and glue
    7. “next messiah” – jenny lewis – acid tongue
    8. “shine” – laura marling – alas i cannot swim
    9. “neighborhood #2 (laika) – arcade fire – funeral
    10. “sioux city” – the jayhawks – blue earth

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    01. Meshuggah - "Abnegating Cecity", Contradictions Collapse
    02. Dream Evil - "By My Side", Evilized
    03. Jag Panzer - "Lustfull and Free", The Age of Mastery
    04. King Diamond - "This Place is Terrible", House of God
    05. Ozzy Osbourne - "Fire in the Sky", No Rest for the Wicked
    06. Black Label Society - "The Blessed Hellride", The Blessed Hellride
    07. Dio - "One Night in the City", The Last in Line
    08. Dark Tranquillity - "Crimson Winds", Skydancer
    09. Judas Priest - "Worth Fighting For", Angel of Retribution
    10. Nevermore - "Beyond Within", Dreaming Neon Black

    Bonus Video because I found their new album at Best Buy last night for just $8 (Best Buy removing cd's from their stores looks to be a good thing for cheap guys like me):

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOwD6vs5g-k

      1. I can't confirm, but they completely removed all traces of the cd racks from my local store and it looked like they were moving that way with both CDs and DVDs in the store I was at last night. So based on that sample size, yes, they are doing that at all stores.

        1. On the bright side, people like you and me can lecture those damn kids on how great cds sound compared to digital and how they aren't real music fans unless they have a collection of "polycarbonates".

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    1 “World of the Heart – Main Title” – Randy Edelman, Dragonheart soundtrack
    2 “Four Horsemen” – Junichi Nakatsuru, Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War
    3 “The Temple of Artemis” – Rick Wakeman, The Seven Wonders of the World
    4 “Chase the Clouds Away” – Chuck Mangione, Chase the Clouds Away
    5 “Thunder in Paradise” – Pablo Cruise, Thunder in Paradise soundtrack
    6 “The Packing Horse” – Djam Karet, Recollection Harvest
    7 “Homecoming” – Yellowjackets, Samurai Samba
    8 “Unfamiliar Wind” – Brian Eno, Ambient 4 – On Land
    9 “Mariachi Funeral” – Roger Eno, Lost in Translation
    10 “Singularity” – Gordian Knot, Gordian Knot

  9. I just listened to R.A.P. Music for the first time this past week. Good Lord, that's a good album.

    I also went out and bought the new Sigur Ros CD. That is also an extremely good album. Everyone's talking about how much darker it is than their previous stuff, but that's only really true of about half the songs (particularly the opener 'Brennisteinn'). It's a talking point, but a better one would be how the drums are back. Rejoice! Sigur Ros is a percussive band again!

    1. Ben Folds Five - Brick - Whatever And Ever Amen
    1. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Round and Round*
    1. Liz Phair - Divorce Song - Exile in Guyville
    1. FMLYBND - Electrcity
    1. Sufjan Stevens - Vesuvius - The Age of Adz
    1. Cut Copy - Sun God - Zonoscope
    1. Frank Ocean - Pilot Jones - Channel Orange
    1. Hoobastank - Crawling in the Dark - Hoobastank*
    1. Matt Uelmen - Tristram - Diablo Soundtrack
    1. The Magnetic Fields - Three Way - Distortion

    * I'm not sure I even like this song. I know I don't like certain parts of it, I know I do like the bass line and the "Hold on, I'm calling" parts. I also know I like the cover.

    * ...??

    1. I guess that ten random-ones lists counts as well, but no extra points for degree of difficulty.

      1. Haha, I always do up the first entry, then copy/paste it ten times so that I don't have to keep bolding and italicizing. Usually, I remember to change the numbers.

    2. I just listened to R.A.P. Music for the first time this past week. Good Lord, that’s a good album.

      Oh heck yes. I played this for my friend the first time last weekend on our daytrip to Minneapolis. I'm really fond of I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II and Pl3dge, though they're not as good as R.A.P.. Still, "God in the Building" is probably the best thing Mike's ever done. What a song.

        1. I haven't had time yet, unfortunately. I downloaded Tuesday but I've been bombarded with crap to deal with since. I'm hoping to check it out tonight or tomorrow while I'm doing homework.

  10. 1. "The Infanta" - The Decemberists - Picaresque
    2. "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" - Crash Test Dummies - God Shuffled His Feet
    3. "Pinball Wizard" - The Who - Tommy
    4. "Somebody To Love" - Queen - A Day At The Races
    5. "Awkward" - San Cisco - EP
    6. "Babylon" - David Gray - White Ladder
    7. "Be My Yoko Ono" - Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
    8. "Some Kind Of Zombie" - Audio Adrenaline - Hit Parade
    9. "Fake Empire" - The National - The Boxer
    10. "When Will I Be Loved?" - The Everly Brothers - Single
    B: "The Beautiful People" - Marilyn Manson - Antichrist Superstar

  11. 1. "My Name is Jonas" - Weezer - Weezer (Blue)
    2. "Crazy" - Aerosmith - Get a Grip
    3. "Into the Groove" - Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
    4. "Deep" - Pearl Jam - Ten
    5. "To Last a Lifetime" - Del Amitri - Change Everything
    6. "Only the Good Die Young" - Billy Joel - Greatest Hits
    7. "Might" - Modest Mouse - This is a Long Drive For Someone With Nothing to Think About
    8. "Homecoming: The Death of St. Jimmy/East 12th Street/Nobody Likes You" - Green Day - American Idiot
    9. "Everything's Not Lost" - Coldplay - Parachutes
    10. "Golden Slumbers" - The Beatles - Abbey Road

  12. No list today; the soundtrack of the moment is Grunty Baby Noises. But I do want to share an interview with Dessa by other Doomtree members. My favorite question is:

    Q: At what age did you realize you were the most serious person in the room?

      1. Yes--Parts of Speech, which came out on Tuesday. I haven't heard anything from it yet, but I hope to rectify that situation soon.

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