It's Friday again, just when I was getting a good rhythm going at work.
Well there its anyways so let's talk about music. If you want.
36 thoughts on “Friday Music Day: November 15, 2013”
1. Man Out Of Time -- Elvis Costello -- Imperial Bedroom
2. Une Annee Sans Lumiere -- Arcade Fire -- Funeral
3. Gouge Away -- Pixies -- Doolittle
4. Exit Flagger -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
5. Shutup (Demo) -- The Replacements -- Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash!
6. I'm Hurtin' -- Roy Orbison -- The All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison
7. Dead Souls -- Joy Division -- Still
8. Play Station Bordello -- The Soundtrack Of Our Lives -- Gimme Five!
9. Forces At Work -- The Feelies -- Crazy Rhythms
10. Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox (live) -- Guided By Voices -- Live At The Wheelchair Races
B1. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker -- The Ramones -- Ramones Mania
B2. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time) -- The Jam -- All The Mod Cons
Lots of great shows this week... Old 97s, Mazzy Starr, 757s, Skrillex, Dave Chappelle, a few others too. Me? I'm going to Built to Spill Sunday night. Diarrhea Planet is playing in The Entry the same night.
Oh and Colin Meloy solo with Eleanor Friedberger opening was this week too. My nieces went to this show and said it was amazing. Novak, apparently he ended the show with Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3.
Eh, I've been way less into the Decemberists for a while now. Meloy solo + Friedberger... that smacks of way too much effort and pretension.
Effort and Pretension not as the means to an end, but as the ends itself.
Laying it on so thick that it crumbles. I can see the value in that, but I'm not sure I'd like to listen that much.
I think the closest I've been to that is Ariel Pink and he's like the Mike Scioscia of my music universe, only much less pleasant.
Except maybe Pink's pretension is lack of the common artifice of pretension. Crap, I've wrapped my brain in a knot now. Thanks a lot Mr. Pink and Ms. Friedberger! Ariel Pink can suck it: that's the point.
Meloy solo + Friedberger... that smacks of way too much effort and pretension
Well I have to disagree wholeheartedly with that statement.
No shit.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G7ReotNLA8
I don't mean it as a slight to the music itself. I do routinely listen to The Decemeberists, I'm just not as in to them as I used to be, and I appreciate the heck out of The Fiery Furnaces, and have defended them against detractors several times.
Edited to add: Seriously? She introduces the song with a dedication to a 1964 mint green valiant. That seems to fit with the "effort" assessment.
I just listened to The Hazards of Love the other night. Just as good as ever. I like Meloy in his own way, and while I haven't listened to much of Friedberger's solo stuff, the Fiery Furnaces are alright in my book, too.
I would go to the aforementioned show.
Again, I didn't mean it as a slight to the music. The music is good. I've been to a Decemberists show. I have one of their songs on today's playlist. I just don't think I'd be too interested in a Meloy solo though.
This is true enough.
'Mother Mary' - Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!!
'Dancing in the Dark' - Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
'Waitress in the Sky' - The Replacements Tim
'Doo Wop (That Thing)'- Lauryn Hill
'Long As I Can See the Light' - Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
'We've Got Tonight' - Bog Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Stranger in Town
'Maggie May' - Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story
'One Less Set of Footsteps' - Jim Croce Photographs and Memories
'Roxanne' - The Police Outlandos d'Amour
'Low' - Cracker Kerosene Hat
This song is getting airplay lately on the local college station, and I've been enjoying it a lot. Recorded at Electric Fetus...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKVyZRMfFrU
.
* Sassafrass Roots - Green Day - Dookie
* Metro - System of a Down - Dracula 2000 Soundtrack
* I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
* Blues From Down Here - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
* Love Dump - Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
* Silvergun Superman - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
* Tourniquet - Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget (The Best Of)
* Wrap Your Arms Around Me - The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
* My Hero - Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
* Bright Tomorrow - Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
No random 10 today, but I did hit the library pretty hard last weekend. 8 new CDs in the collection
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? Dr. Dog - Be The Void Dr. John - Locked Down Gary Clark Jr - Blak and Blu The Band - Music From Big Pink The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love Titus Andronicus - The Monitor Various Artists - Son of Rogues Gallery Pirate Ballads
And you know what incoming music means - gotta have some out-go too. First Great Purge in two years looks likely.
I'm up to my version of a great purge about annually now.
Mostly because I'm not constantly adding and updating things and culling as I go.
My purges are opt-in, not opt-out though.
Everything goes except those things I want back.
Doesn't hurt that I'm not short on disc space, so there's no reason for me to wipe files completely.
Back when I was short on disc space, purging was a lot harder. I'd put things on my iPod, then delete the file, meaning if I removed it from my playlist, it'd be gone for good.
I never purge anything from my MediaMonkey music library. Ever.
And now that I've got 160GB iPod, I probably won't ever have to purge anything from that, either.
It's awesome.
I'm thinking of getting a refurbished iPod of similar size some time.
Still like my 16GB nano though. When I drop it, it doesn't fall to the ground because it's light enough for my earbuds to stop it.
I think I'd ruin a real iPod.
.
.
1. Katie's Been Gone - Dylan & the Band - Basement Tapes
2. War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo - The Story of Jamaican Music
3. Up on Cripple Creek - The Band - The Band
4. Sarah Smiles - Bram Tchaikovsky - Strange Man, Changed Man
5. The Scarecrow - Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
6. David Watts - Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
7. City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson - Revolutions of Time
8. Simmer Down - The Wailers - The Story of Jamaican Music
9. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis
10.Monday - The Jam - Sound Affects
B. Slippin' Away - Big Sandy & His Flyrite Boys - Turntable Matinee
DW sighting!
😮
It's been at least a month since I've put up a list. I'm pretty happy with this return:
1. "Harlem" - New Politics - Bad Girl In Harlem
2. "Till You're Gone" - The Gabe Dixon Band - The Gabe Dixon Band
3. "Ooh La La" - The Faces - Ooh La La
4. "Staying In Love" - Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
5. "Blue" - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
6. "Surrender" - Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
7. "Steal My Sunshine" - LEN - You Can't Stop The Bum Rush
8. "July, July" - The Decemberists - Castaways And Cutouts
9. "Day Too Soon" - Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
10. "Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
B. "Crystal Blue Persuasion" - Tommy James and The Shondelles - Crimson And Clover
1. Tricky (feat. Alison Goldfrapp) “Pumpkin (ambient)” Pumpkin EP
2. Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Wolf Among Wolves” Master and Everyone
3. Aphex Twin “Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix)” Come to Daddy EP
4. Chatham Rise* “She” Chatham Rise
5. The Field “Sweet Slow Baby” Looping State of Mind
6. Bad Bad Hats “A Bout” It Hurts EP
7. The Field “Arpeggiated Love” Looping State of Mind
8. Pan Sonic “Mutaattori/Mutator”* Kesto (Disc 1)
9. Lydia Loveless “More Like Them (Live)”* Daytrotter Session, 10/18/2011
T. Ha Ha Tonka “Cold Forgiver” Lessons
*Notes:
4. Brother-in-law's shoegaze-psych band.
8. Had this not come up, track 1 from this disc of this album would have been my bonus cut. This is the first Pan_Sonic album I don't own, I was a bit letdown by Aaltopiiri and Kesto was a four-disc box. But I had burnt it to CD from an illicit download, and finally thought to put it on my iPod. Disc 1 is really awesome for fans of the Väisänen/Vainio (Ø) sound. (Daneeka's Ghost, I believe this means you.) Not sure what they've sounded like since, but Disc 1 is their most agressive album to that point and might be said to "leave you gasping for air" or some other such cliché that I'm not going to bother to find an original phrase for. Now that my Random 10 is done, I'm going back to listen to the rest of this album. I'm not really sure what's on Discs 2-4, as I spent most of my time with Disc 1.
9. This is the track that got me hooked.
Speaking of Ms. Loveless, I listened to the Boy Crazy EP the other day. Solid stuff, as one would expect.
I haven't listened yet. I doubled-up my order of the CD with my order of the Bottle Rockets' first-two-albums' reissue.
Not officially released until Tuesday, so maybe it comes then or maybe Monday or Today or Tomorrow? I can dream, right?
In the press for Boy Crazy, it was mentioned that this was recorded after her forthcoming album. Which means that's in the can and should come in early 2014. I'm excited just to see a song list, know which of the songs she tried out on tour made the cut. Hoping for at least "Chris Isaak/Do My Best" and "Head".
I might pick up that Bottle Rockets reissue. I listened to Boy Crazy on Spotify. Pretty decent.
But what will I search for in Cheapos now?
If you like Peaking Lights, or are curious about them or their lo-fi chillwave-influenced dub-reggae, they've set up a soundcloud playlist with all of their remixes [that are available{?}]. Good stuff for almost two hours, listened last night.
This one should tick off the neighbors.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbK9QgvDp8Y
I recently moved to Spotify Premium for my music. Not exactly sure how to make a random list until I build up more in the way of playlists. So far today my soundtrack has been Muse, Wilco, and Weezer.
So far, seems like a good start to the day!
No time for a random list today, but I do want to say that I've really enjoyed "DW Week" in the guest DJ spot!
Someone named Dean just requested GBV on The Current...
hipster.
😛
Heh, that was me through Twitter. On her Twitter feed Barb Abney asked for classic 90's songs. I posted Game of Pricks by GBV, Rebound by Sebadoh, and Brasskneck by The Wedding Present. I see she got to one of them.
1. Man Out Of Time -- Elvis Costello -- Imperial Bedroom
2. Une Annee Sans Lumiere -- Arcade Fire -- Funeral
3. Gouge Away -- Pixies -- Doolittle
4. Exit Flagger -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
5. Shutup (Demo) -- The Replacements -- Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash!
6. I'm Hurtin' -- Roy Orbison -- The All-Time Greatest Hits Of Roy Orbison
7. Dead Souls -- Joy Division -- Still
8. Play Station Bordello -- The Soundtrack Of Our Lives -- Gimme Five!
9. Forces At Work -- The Feelies -- Crazy Rhythms
10. Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox (live) -- Guided By Voices -- Live At The Wheelchair Races
B1. Sheena Is A Punk Rocker -- The Ramones -- Ramones Mania
B2. To Be Someone (Didn't We Have A Nice Time) -- The Jam -- All The Mod Cons
Lots of great shows this week... Old 97s, Mazzy Starr, 757s, Skrillex, Dave Chappelle, a few others too. Me? I'm going to Built to Spill Sunday night. Diarrhea Planet is playing in The Entry the same night.
Oh and Colin Meloy solo with Eleanor Friedberger opening was this week too. My nieces went to this show and said it was amazing. Novak, apparently he ended the show with Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3.
Eh, I've been way less into the Decemberists for a while now. Meloy solo + Friedberger... that smacks of way too much effort and pretension.
Effort and Pretension not as the means to an end, but as the ends itself.
Laying it on so thick that it crumbles. I can see the value in that, but I'm not sure I'd like to listen that much.
I think the closest I've been to that is Ariel Pink and he's like the Mike Scioscia of my music universe, only much less pleasant.
Except maybe Pink's pretension is lack of the common artifice of pretension. Crap, I've wrapped my brain in a knot now. Thanks a lot Mr. Pink and Ms. Friedberger! Ariel Pink can suck it: that's the point.
Meloy solo + Friedberger... that smacks of way too much effort and pretension
Well I have to disagree wholeheartedly with that statement.
No shit.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G7ReotNLA8
I don't mean it as a slight to the music itself. I do routinely listen to The Decemeberists, I'm just not as in to them as I used to be, and I appreciate the heck out of The Fiery Furnaces, and have defended them against detractors several times.
Edited to add: Seriously? She introduces the song with a dedication to a 1964 mint green valiant. That seems to fit with the "effort" assessment.
I just listened to The Hazards of Love the other night. Just as good as ever. I like Meloy in his own way, and while I haven't listened to much of Friedberger's solo stuff, the Fiery Furnaces are alright in my book, too.
I would go to the aforementioned show.
Again, I didn't mean it as a slight to the music. The music is good. I've been to a Decemberists show. I have one of their songs on today's playlist. I just don't think I'd be too interested in a Meloy solo though.
This is true enough.
'Mother Mary' - Foxboro Hot Tubs Stop Drop and Roll!!!
'Dancing in the Dark' - Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA
'Waitress in the Sky' - The Replacements Tim
'Doo Wop (That Thing)'- Lauryn Hill
'Long As I Can See the Light' - Creedence Clearwater Revival Cosmo's Factory
'We've Got Tonight' - Bog Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Stranger in Town
'Maggie May' - Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story
'One Less Set of Footsteps' - Jim Croce Photographs and Memories
'Roxanne' - The Police Outlandos d'Amour
'Low' - Cracker Kerosene Hat
This song is getting airplay lately on the local college station, and I've been enjoying it a lot. Recorded at Electric Fetus...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKVyZRMfFrU
.
* Sassafrass Roots - Green Day - Dookie
* Metro - System of a Down - Dracula 2000 Soundtrack
* I'm Finding it Harder to be a Gentleman - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
* Blues From Down Here - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
* Love Dump - Static-X - Wisconsin Death Trip
* Silvergun Superman - Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
* Tourniquet - Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget (The Best Of)
* Wrap Your Arms Around Me - The Knife - Shaking the Habitual
* My Hero - Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
* Bright Tomorrow - Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
No random 10 today, but I did hit the library pretty hard last weekend. 8 new CDs in the collection
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Dr. Dog - Be The Void
Dr. John - Locked Down
Gary Clark Jr - Blak and Blu
The Band - Music From Big Pink
The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor
Various Artists - Son of Rogues Gallery Pirate Ballads
And you know what incoming music means - gotta have some out-go too. First Great Purge in two years looks likely.
I'm up to my version of a great purge about annually now.
Mostly because I'm not constantly adding and updating things and culling as I go.
My purges are opt-in, not opt-out though.
Everything goes except those things I want back.
Doesn't hurt that I'm not short on disc space, so there's no reason for me to wipe files completely.
Back when I was short on disc space, purging was a lot harder. I'd put things on my iPod, then delete the file, meaning if I removed it from my playlist, it'd be gone for good.
I never purge anything from my MediaMonkey music library. Ever.
And now that I've got 160GB iPod, I probably won't ever have to purge anything from that, either.
It's awesome.
I'm thinking of getting a refurbished iPod of similar size some time.
Still like my 16GB nano though. When I drop it, it doesn't fall to the ground because it's light enough for my earbuds to stop it.
I think I'd ruin a real iPod.
.
.
1. Katie's Been Gone - Dylan & the Band - Basement Tapes
2. War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo - The Story of Jamaican Music
3. Up on Cripple Creek - The Band - The Band
4. Sarah Smiles - Bram Tchaikovsky - Strange Man, Changed Man
5. The Scarecrow - Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
6. David Watts - Kinks - Something Else by the Kinks
7. City of New Orleans - Willie Nelson - Revolutions of Time
8. Simmer Down - The Wailers - The Story of Jamaican Music
9. Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On - Jerry Lee Lewis
10.Monday - The Jam - Sound Affects
B. Slippin' Away - Big Sandy & His Flyrite Boys - Turntable Matinee
DW sighting!
😮
It's been at least a month since I've put up a list. I'm pretty happy with this return:
1. "Harlem" - New Politics - Bad Girl In Harlem
2. "Till You're Gone" - The Gabe Dixon Band - The Gabe Dixon Band
3. "Ooh La La" - The Faces - Ooh La La
4. "Staying In Love" - Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
5. "Blue" - The Jayhawks - Tomorrow The Green Grass
6. "Surrender" - Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
7. "Steal My Sunshine" - LEN - You Can't Stop The Bum Rush
8. "July, July" - The Decemberists - Castaways And Cutouts
9. "Day Too Soon" - Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
10. "Zero" - Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
B. "Crystal Blue Persuasion" - Tommy James and The Shondelles - Crimson And Clover
1. Tricky (feat. Alison Goldfrapp) “Pumpkin (ambient)” Pumpkin EP
2. Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Wolf Among Wolves” Master and Everyone
3. Aphex Twin “Come to Daddy (Pappy Mix)” Come to Daddy EP
4. Chatham Rise* “She” Chatham Rise
5. The Field “Sweet Slow Baby” Looping State of Mind
6. Bad Bad Hats “A Bout” It Hurts EP
7. The Field “Arpeggiated Love” Looping State of Mind
8. Pan Sonic “Mutaattori/Mutator”* Kesto (Disc 1)
9. Lydia Loveless “More Like Them (Live)”* Daytrotter Session, 10/18/2011
T. Ha Ha Tonka “Cold Forgiver” Lessons
*Notes:
4. Brother-in-law's shoegaze-psych band.
8. Had this not come up, track 1 from this disc of this album would have been my bonus cut. This is the first Pan_Sonic album I don't own, I was a bit letdown by Aaltopiiri and Kesto was a four-disc box. But I had burnt it to CD from an illicit download, and finally thought to put it on my iPod. Disc 1 is really awesome for fans of the Väisänen/Vainio (Ø) sound. (Daneeka's Ghost, I believe this means you.) Not sure what they've sounded like since, but Disc 1 is their most agressive album to that point and might be said to "leave you gasping for air" or some other such cliché that I'm not going to bother to find an original phrase for. Now that my Random 10 is done, I'm going back to listen to the rest of this album. I'm not really sure what's on Discs 2-4, as I spent most of my time with Disc 1.
9. This is the track that got me hooked.
Speaking of Ms. Loveless, I listened to the Boy Crazy EP the other day. Solid stuff, as one would expect.
I haven't listened yet. I doubled-up my order of the CD with my order of the Bottle Rockets' first-two-albums' reissue.
Not officially released until Tuesday, so maybe it comes then or maybe Monday or Today or Tomorrow? I can dream, right?
In the press for Boy Crazy, it was mentioned that this was recorded after her forthcoming album. Which means that's in the can and should come in early 2014. I'm excited just to see a song list, know which of the songs she tried out on tour made the cut. Hoping for at least "Chris Isaak/Do My Best" and "Head".
I might pick up that Bottle Rockets reissue. I listened to Boy Crazy on Spotify. Pretty decent.
But what will I search for in Cheapos now?
If you like Peaking Lights, or are curious about them or their lo-fi chillwave-influenced dub-reggae, they've set up a soundcloud playlist with all of their remixes [that are available{?}]. Good stuff for almost two hours, listened last night.
That sounds.....awesome.
If you've missed my previous recommendations, start with their album 936 (also here and here), and this key Adrian Sherwood remix.
This one should tick off the neighbors.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbK9QgvDp8Y
I recently moved to Spotify Premium for my music. Not exactly sure how to make a random list until I build up more in the way of playlists. So far today my soundtrack has been Muse, Wilco, and Weezer.
So far, seems like a good start to the day!
No time for a random list today, but I do want to say that I've really enjoyed "DW Week" in the guest DJ spot!
Someone named Dean just requested GBV on The Current...
hipster.
😛
Heh, that was me through Twitter. On her Twitter feed Barb Abney asked for classic 90's songs. I posted Game of Pricks by GBV, Rebound by Sebadoh, and Brasskneck by The Wedding Present. I see she got to one of them.