I don't really like the other four tracks from the EP, but this song from the Norwegian singer Annie ("Heartbeat", "Chewing Gum", "Greatest Hit") really hits all my favorite parts of what I recall of early 90's techno. And all in a 4 minute pop song!
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POF-M8tW6Ec
What's on your musical docket for the day?
'Come Dancing' - The Kinks State of Confusion
'Big Sky' - The Reverend Horton Heat Liquor in the Front
'Liar, Liar' - The Castaways
'Who Can It Be Now?' - Men At Work Business As Usual
'Commotion' - The Features Contrast EP
'Star 69' - REM Monster
'Good Thing' - Fine Young Cannibals The Raw and the Cooked
'Roll Over Beethoven' - Chuck Berry The Great Twenty-Eight
'The Authority Song' - Jimmy Eat World Bleed American
'Play the Game' - Queen Greatest Hits
I haven't listened to "Star 69" in probably years, but it still gets stuck in my head sometimes.
I know you called
SpookySampler! (I really wish I had that it big, grandiose cursive.)
Since I can't recall Star69, I'll listen to it. Of course, if you say it's in your head despite years of not hearing it...
...okay, I don't recognize this. I like it. As much REM as I've listened to over the years, I'm not sure I ever heard all of Monster.
Hey Spooky, Tech N9ne (you listened to him from Sheenie in your last sampler) has the #4 selling album of last week. His song with Busta Rhymes is ridiculous.
Oh, I'm well-acquainted with TECH NAH-EEEEEEEN. Are you sure I listened to him from her list? I know I recently listened to and fell in love with Soulcrate Music from a list of hers.
I'll listen to that song later, though.
Hmmmm, I may be confused but I thought you listened to him from one of her lists. He put on a fantastic set at Soundset.
It's possible that one of her lists is where I finally decided to listen closely. It's all running together at this point, man.
DGPiggyBackDay!
I got Monster back when I had only 3 or 4 cassette albums to my name, so I listened to it a lot. This wasn't ever my particular favorite on the album though.
I don't think I ever owned it, but I had it on loan during the summer of 1999, so it always makes me think of that summer.
I think my fave was "I Don't Sleep I Dream"
I listened to the album a lot, had 3rd row floor tix to see REM at Target Center on that tour.
Which was when I first experienced Sonic Youth, whom I haven't missed since.
1. "The Scientist" - Coldplay - A Rush Of Blood To The Head
2. "Breathe" - Greenwheel - Soma Holiday
3. "The Water Buffalo Song" - Larry The Cucumber - Silly Songs With Larry
4. "One Minute Man" - Missy Elliot - Miss E... So Addictive
5. "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight" - Cutting Crew - Broadcase
6. "Kim And Jessie" - M83 - Saturdays = Youth
7. "Big Girls Don't Cry" - The Four Seasons - Sherry And 11 Others
8. "Staying In Love" - Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
9. "Travelin' Band" - CCR - Cosmo's Factory
10. "Kamera" - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
B: "Moonland" - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus Dig
4. Best possible follow up to #3? Best possible follow up to #3.
6. This makes up for the awfulness of #5.
B: I freaking love the name of this album.
B: I freaking love the name of this album.
there are some standouts on that album, the title track being one of them.
on a semi-related note, i heard one of the most awkward, uncomfortable interviews between mr. cave and the soundopinions crew awhile back. about to do some dishes a couple days ago, i heard maron's exasperation when introducing his own interview with him, and decided i'd pass.
Ooh, that reminds me to dig that album out. It's been a while.
I lel'd
#3 is good and could actually work with #4. Go back and do that again, but cut off #3 immediately after Archibald Asparagus says "Tune In Next Time to hear Larry Sing..."--> "Ooooooh, I don't want, I don't need, I can't stand no minute man..."
I now expect you to mix Larry the Cucumber with as many offensive things as possible.
That...seems like it could be easy.
Yes it does.
"Staying in Love." I have on many occasions thought I should listen to this cat, but I never really have. This has a real throwback, Chuck Berry quality to it. I can kinda dig this.
This isn't for me. It's not bad or anything, but too sunny (music-wise, I didn't parse the lyrics too closely) for me, I guess.
I would say that the lyrics are decidedly not-sunny.
Almost always lyrics are about the last thing I take in from a song.
1. Surgical Focus -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
2. Kris Kraft -- Pavement -- Wowee Zowee
3. Problems -- Sex Pistols -- Never Mind the Bollacks
4. Single Girl, Married Girl -- The Carter Family -- Anthology of American Folk Music
5. Long Distance Man -- Guided By Voices -- Sandbox
6. Heartbeat -- It's A Love Beat (Rough Mix) -- The Replacements -- Let It Be
7. Nothing Indeed -- Minutemen -- Double NickelsOn The Dime
8, Punk Rock Girl -- Dead Milkmen -- Dead Milkmen
9. Bird On The Wire -- Leonard Cohen -- The Essential Leonard Cohen
10. Whole Lotta Rosie -- AC-DC -- Let There Be Rock
B1. Bad Boys Get Spanked -- The Pretenders -- Pretenders II
B2. Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out -- The Replacements -- Let It Be
My own notes:
#2. Kris Kraft was originally a b-side release but made it on the 50 song(!) Wowee Zowee extended version. Very cool song.
#4. Single Girl, Married Girl, one of the all time folk classics.
Contrast that 70 years later with #8 Punk Rock Girl.
#B1. I got in trouble my freshmen year in college trashing a dorm room while listening to Bad Boys get Spanked at a very high volume. I think I had alcohol in my system.
"Kris Kraft." For all the props Pavement gets around here and elsewhere, I've heard very, very little of their catalog.
It's sub-three minutes, but man, this is a complex song musically. Very cool, indeed.
Pavement is one of those bands that I like when I hear them, but haven't ever given them a fair chance.
That's about where I've always been with Pavement. I should just buy some of their music and listen to nothing but for a week, just to get over that hump.
1. "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair" - Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
2. "Wake Up" - Arcade Fire - Funeral
3. "Repo Man" - Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs - God Willin' and the Creek Don't Rise
4. "Loaded Gun in the Closet" - Drive By Truckers - Decoration Day
5. "Loud as Hope" - Iron and Wine - Around the Well
6. "Radio cure" - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
7. "Cigarettes and Alcohal" - Oasis - Definitely Maybe
8. "Machu Picchu" - The Strokes - Angles
9. "Derelict" - Beck - Odelay
10. "Citrus" - The Hold Steady - Boys and Girls in America
#3 is among my favorite songs.
This - great album too.
Just recently put it back in the mix. I think it will stay.
"Loaded Gun in the Closet." Ah, I wondered when someone would drop a long track on me.
It's a good album closer (and it looks like it is one). It's not the mood I'm in, but it's a worthy contender.
I wondered when someone would drop a long track on me.
Chances are you're going to get two in a row.
EDIT - wait, 5:14 is long?
Not really, but the last couple were under three.
First impression: Drive-By Truckers are not At The Drive-In.
I'll echo spooky, this is good enough, but not my mood right now. I wonder what their non-closers are like.
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* Walking Blue - Sonic Youth - The Eternal
* Planting Seeds - Dredg - Catch Without Arms
* Miste - The Haxan Cloak - Excavation
* In the Fog II - Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
* Blaise Bailey Finnegan III - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada
* Getaway Car - Audioslave - (self-titled)
* Old Dreams Waiting to Be Realized - The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
* El Rodeo - Kyuss - And the Circus Leaves Town
* Candy Store Rock - Led Zeppelin - Presence
* L'Via L'Viaquez - The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
"El Rodeo." At 5:29, this is about the shortest song I've ever gotten from a DG list.
I like this just fine, particularly the intro. I could see listening to these guys some. I know someone I knew in high school was obsessed with them, though I don't remember who that was.
I have three Kyuss albums, and I'm not sure why. One is really enough to get the sense of what they do.
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1. "Rückzug" - Klaus Doldinger, Das Boot soundtrack
2. "To Be Over" - Steve Howe, Natural Timbre
3. "Quebec" - Geoff Downes, The World Service
4. "Can't Get It Out of My Head" - ELO, Eldorado
5. "Galois" - Gordian Knot, Gordian Knot
6. "Signals" - Brian Eno, Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
7. "Women and Men" - They Might Be Giants, Flood
8. "13/8 [Studio Session]" - Gong, The History and the Mystery of Gong
9. "Slavonic Dances Op. 72: No. 2" - Antonín Dvořák, Slavonic Dances Op. 46 & 72, American Suite Op. 98B
10. "Lucky 7" Greg Howe, Dennis Chambers, Victor Wooten, Extraction
That last one deserves a video
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhK5tokuy6k
"Galois." 2:04? That's an easy one.
...can I assume this is the intro to something?
Yep, track 1 of the album. The next track (Code/Anticode) is very different. Jazzy/electronic guitar instrumental.
I listened. Yep, kind of awesome. Now I'm still listening.
Code/Anticode is the track that drew me to them originally, and is my favorite.
btw, a closet favorite of mine is The Cleverly's, and on Woodsong's Old Time Radio Hour last Sunday they played their take on Gangnam Style 😉
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npYysIXcKk
1. Locust “Just Want You” You'll Be Safe Forever
2. Massive Attack “Superpredators (Mad Professor Remix)” Risingson*
3. Ben Klock “Gloaming” One
4. The Holocene “Ring III” Dendrochronology EP
5. Alva Noto “Xerrox Teion” Xerrox Vol.2
6. Alva Noto “03-10-06 Astoria 2” Xerrox Vol.1
7. Steve Reich* “Different Trains - 2. Europe, During the War” Different Trains/Electric Counterpoint
8. Ministry “Reload (Long Edit)” The Fall/Reload
9. Grinderman “No Pussy Blues”* Grinderman
T. The Knife “N.Y. Hotel” The Knife
*Notes:
2. In college, one of my friends picked up the clear vinyl of this at Let It Be (as well as the Portishead “Cowboys” white-label). Still my very favorite and mind-blowing experience listening to records.
7. Performed by Kronos Quartet. One of my favorite Reich compositions. Not surprised that it didn't get touched on either of the Remix compilations.
9. Damn!
Spooky, #6 is a barely-audible 30-second interlude. Not worth your sampling.
#4 Is a short bit, too.
"Xerrox Teion." Also 2:04. This is the shortest SpookySampler of all time.
This feels like a transitional track, though I don't know enough about Alva Noto to know what to expect. I assume it's meant to be listened to as an entire album (which is always my preference anyway).
You should double up, given how quick it's going.
I'm thinking I might after the ol' shower here.
The next track has a little more going on. I could see getting into this, does it ever develop into something with a beat? That seems like what it's building to, but even just the static washes remind me of a proto-Tim Hecker a little bit.
It is. I don't know that I've listened to any of his albums in order (other than his two compilations For and For 2), so I missed that one, but I actually missed the title of the Astoria track the first time so I knew that was a snip. If you wanna keep going with the Noto, could go with the next track on the album, "Xerrox Teion Acat".
He's a "clicks+cuts" or "glitch" producer, and to me he sounds like what if Ryoji Ikeda backed off the austere theoretical aspects of his music and tried to make better, more danceable compositions. Noto has collaborated with Ikeda twice (as Cyclo.), and I'm sure Ikeda thinks that Noto makes some good, if exceedingly Rococo, compositions when left to his own devices.
I've just now quickly scanned through the Xerrox albums. These seem more ambient than what I was thinking. I've four- and five-starred several tracks from Unitxt, which have more beats.
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01. King Diamond - "So Sad", The Puppet Master
02. Shadows Fall - "Prelude to Disaster", The Art of Balance
03. Bruce Dickinson - "Darkside of Aquarius", Accident of Birth
04. Battleroar - "Dreams on Steel", Age of Chaos
05. Corrosion of Conformity - "Wishbone", Wishbone
06. Megadeth - "Liar", So Far, So Good...So What
07. Sonata Arctica - "Shamandalie", Reckoning Night
08. Mercyful Fate - "Gypsy", Don't Break the Oath
09. Iron Maiden - "Afraid to Shoot Strangers", Fear of the Dark
10. Testament - "Killing Season", The Formation of Damnation
"Shamandalie." This is what I like best in a cheaptoy suggestion - classical influences and lots of pomp. The vocals get a little overwrought, but it's proper for the style, so whatever.
Sidebar: I can always tell which of your songs I'm going to like from the band name alone. There's a clear line between the good cheese and the bad cheese.
When I read "The vocals get a little overwrought" I knew I was in trouble.
And yes, I'll pretend that I just listened to Shadows Fall instead. Nice guitar work (as usual) leading into the next song.
Pandora today
1. Dawes - "Fire Away" - Nothing is Wrong
2. Amos Lee - "Arms of a Woman"
3. Jose Gonzalez - "Heartbeats" - Veneer
4. Whiskeytown - "Somebody Remembers the Rose" - Strangers Almanac
5. The Postal Service - "We Will Become Silhouettes" - Give Up
6. Cloud Cult - "1x1x1" - Love
7. Coconut Records - "West Coast" - Nighttiming
8. Iron & Wine - "Love Vigilantes" - Around the Well
9. Redbird - "Moonshiner"
T. Frank Turner - "Photosynthesis" - Love Ire & Song
B. The Avett Brothers - "The Perfect Space"
Great list Pirate. I think it's been discussed before, but I alternate between loathing and appreciation for Mr. Schwartzman. I absolutely love that song - sometimes even listening on repeat for 3-4 turns.
#8 might be the only Iron & Wine song that I kinda, sorta don't hate.
Is that a cover of the New Order song? If so I agree, one of the few songs by I&W I can tolerate. I think they have a song on the Garden State soundtrack that I liked too
Yes, it is a cover.
"We Will Become Silhouettes." One of my bestest friends (recent Survivor XIII nonsub Josh Mitchell) is crazy about these guys but I haven't heard them since I last saw him in Minnesota.
As soon as the vocals came in, I realized I've heard this. I remember liking a lot of the sounds they produce, though I'm not sure I find myself in this emotional state and feel like listening to this above anything else.
Then again, I'm absolutely nuts about your #2 track. So, ahem.
As I have never heard any of the songs being discussed in response to this list:
The Postal Service song is from the side of the indie-pop spectrum that I almost never visit.
Iron & Wine - I like the sparse feel of it, although the comments above make me leery of checking out other songs.
Amos Lee - For some reason this song, just as sparse, doesn't click for me. Eh, so it goes.
I heard the Amos Lee song for the first time when I was alone with my wife. Again...so it goes.
Iron & Wine: I saw them live at Austin City Limits. It's...lucid. To the point where I was aching for the next act. I didn't actively loathe it, but I never considered owning anything they've produced.
I can't believe how perfectly "lucid" describes my feeling about them. I get that they have a pulse, but otherwise... bleh. (Especially that godawful "I was walking... (WOOHOO) ... far from home (WOOHOO) ... where the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah" song. My gosh I hate that song. It's the Brian Oake of songs.)
"West Coast" - Another from the "indie-pop spectrum" that you rarely visit, but worth a listen.
The first bit reminds me quite a bit of Phoenix. I liked that better than the three above.
salvaged then.
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Feist - "The Park" The Reminder
Camera Obscura - "James" My Maudlin Career
Jay-Z - "No Hook" American Gangster
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated" Ramones Mania
The Baseball Project - "The Closer" Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
Childish Gambino - "Shoulda Known" R O Y A L T Y
Wilco - "Impossible Germany" Sky Blue Sky EP
Old 97s - "Murder (Or A Heart Attack)" Fight Songs
Old 97s - "Rollerskate Skinny" Satellite Rides
The Hold Steady - "Hornets! Hornets!" Separation Sunday
Pandora today…again
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1. Cemetary Silver Chair
2. 1 2 3 4 Feist
3. Come As You Are Nirvana
4. Cool Gwen Stefani
5. Do Nothin' 'till You Hear From Me Mose Allison
6. Make You Feel My Love Adele*
7. Dirty Harry Gorillaz
8. No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problems Kenny Chesney**
9. Black Tambourine Beck
10. St. Augustine Band Of Horses
B. Enter Sandman Metallica***
*I own copies of this version
httpv://youtu.be/hXBjzUkG8x4
and this version
httpv://youtu.be/czDLnVWVRkY
But not the Adele version I heard on Pandora. I really like the Adele version.
**Not my favorite country singer, but serviceable. This tune reminds me of Buffett, hardly an insightful analysis (I know), but not just the subject matter. Breezy and slightly Caribbean...man I wish I was outside today.
*** Does this give me “cheap-cred”, or detract from it?
I'm looking forward to the new Julianna Barwick record that comes out later this month. Loved The The Magic Place, and this teaser sounds promising. It was recorded at the Sigur Rós studio in Iceland with a bunch of that band's collaborators. It ain't rock and roll but it sure sounds dreamy. (If you wanna rock, that Damien Jurado tune should do the trick. Surf City, too.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTuxswB_Rew
I really like the Grouper album. I would guess it has a spot secured on my best of '13 list.
Yeah, it's really grown on me. Do you have anything else by her? I think I need to pick up Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill next.
I do not, but have targeted that same album. YouTube searches have turned up some ”interesting” drone performances, but that's as far into it as I've got.
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