81 thoughts on “FMD: July 18, 2014”

  1. 1. California Zephyr -- Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard -- One Fast Move Or I'm Gone Music From Kerouac's Big Sur
    2. The Drinking Jim Crow - Guided By Voices -- Sandbox
    3. If Reagan Played Disco -- Minutemen -- Ballot Result
    4. Hash Pipe -- Weezer -- Weezer (Green Album)
    5. The Place I Love -- The Jam -- All The Mod Cons
    6. No One Like You -- Best Coast -- The Only Place
    7. Down There By The Train -- Tom Waits -- Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards
    8. Mr. Soul [Live] -- Neil Young -- Sugar Mountain Live At Canterbury House 1968
    9. Honey Power -- My Bloody Valentine -- Tremolo EP
    10. Take The Skinheads Bowling -- Camper Van Beethoven -- Telephone Free Landslide Victory

    B1. As We Go Up, We Go Down -- Guided By Voices -- Alien Lanes
    B2. Marlboro Country -- Charlie Pickett -- Bar Band Americanus

  2. * Deep, Deep - Have a Nice Life - Deathconscious
    * The Worst Hangover Ever - The Offspring - Splinter
    * Letting You - Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
    * Tenebrae: Second Movement - Kronos Quartet - Oceana (O. Golijov)
    * Otsego Undead - Static X - Machine
    * Sin-Nanna - Sunn O))) - Black One
    * I Did My Best - Soul Asylum - Let Your Dim Light Shine
    * Tetrishead - Zoe Keating - Natoma
    * Parsley Halo - The Goslings - Occasion
    * St. Robinson in His Cadillac Dream - Counting Crows - This Desert Life

    1. The Counting Crows doesn't seem to fit.
      Maybe with Soul Asylum on there, though.

      Also: NIN Buddies!

    2. Deep, Deep - Have a Nice Life - Deathconscious

      Nice.

      I've mostly forgotten to listen to HaNL's new one. Have you kept up with it? Is it as good as Deathconscious?

      1. I really like a few songs (Defenestration Song, Dan and Tim Reunited by Fate, Guggenheim Wax Museum) so it's certainly worth a listen. I'd still put Deathconscious ahead of it though.

  3. 1. Session – Linkin Park
    2. Hova Song (Intro) – Jay-Z
    3. But You Know I Love You – Kenny Rogers
    4. If You’re Not Scared – K’s Choice
    5. Wild Horses – The Rolling Stones

    6. Tourist – Julian Casablancas
    7. Northern Whale – The Good, The Bad & The Queen
    8. Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland) – Jimmy Hendrix
    9. Take It As It Comes – The Doors
    10. Die Eier Von Satan – Tool

    B. Girl Gone Bad – Van Halen*

    *For free

    1. Re: 10.
      "Und Keine Eier!"
      Nothing like a "skit-type" track which requires translating German into Spanish and knowing Spanish idioms to get (one of) the joke(s). Maybe Adam Jones should stick to his baseball career.

  4. Lots of content there today, AMR.
    I forgot it was Friday until I woke up.
    I guess that's OK. No one reads your intros anyway.
    Jerk.
    Who you calling a jerk, jerk?
    Myself.
    That's right.

        a. American Golden-Plover “Low-Intensity Alarm Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
    1. Lauryn Hill “Can't Take My Eyes Off You (Bonus Track)” The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
        b. American Three-Toed Woodpecker “Pwik Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
    2. Ha Ha Tonka “Giant Strides” Novel Sounds of the Nouveau South
    3. Nine Inch Nails “Hurt (Quiet)”* Further Down the Spiral
    4. Lorde “Team”* Pure Heroine
        c. Black-Backed Woodpecker* “Kyik Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
    5. Lydia Loveless “Steve Earle” Indestructible Machine

        d. Vesper Sparrow “Songs and Calls” (Ohio Division of Wildlife)
    6. Emot “Ancients” Make You Electric
    7. Lydia Loveless “Learn to Say No” Indestructible Machine
    8. Dolfish “I'm Proud of You Joanna”* I'd Rather Disappear Than Stay the Same
    9. Dessa “Mineshaft” Daytrotter Session 6/8/2012
    T. Einstürzende Neubauten “Blume” Tabula Rasa
    E. Aphex Twin “IZ-US” Come to Daddy

    *Notes:
    3. I don't think I ever figured out how this is any different from the original version on The Downward Spiral.
    4. h/t Can of Corn
    c. Black-Backed Woodpeckers also have three toes and are American. Three-Toed Woodpeckers do not have black backs. But Pileated Woodpeckers have black backs.
    8. This is good, but a pale imitation of the excellent version on the Your Love is Bumming Me Out EP.

    1. No one reads your intros anyway.

      Hey now, I read them! ... sometimes ... okay, once in a while.

        1. Indeed. Now could you please invent time travel so that I can go to the concert back in April with y'all?

  5. 01. King Diamond - "A Broken Spell", Them
    02. Ensiferum - "White Storm", Dragonheads
    03. Metal Church - "Sunless Sky", The Weight of the World
    04. Megadeth - "Almost Honest", Cryptic Writings
    05. Jag Panzer - "Tragedy of MacBeth", Thane to the Throne
    06. King Diamond - "The Girl in the Bloody Dress", Give Me Your Soul...Please
    07. Primal Fear - "Sacred Illusion", Devil's Ground
    08. Iced Earth - "Angel's Holocaust", Night of the Stormrider
    09. Morgana Lefay - "Sorrow Calls", Past Present Future
    10. Iron Savior - "Mind Over Matter", Unification

  6. 1. "West Coast" - Coconut Records - Nighttiming
    2. "Pale Blue Eyes" - The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground
    3. "Unwell" - Matchbox 20 - More Than You Think You Are
    4. "Pictures Of Success" - Rilo Kiley - Take Offs And Landings
    5. "Closing Time" - Semisonic - Feeling Strangely Fine
    6. "Peggy Sue" - Buddy Holly - Buddy Holly
    7. "Samson" - Regina Spektor - Begin To Hope
    8. "Crying" - Flight Of The Conchords - The Distant Future
    9. "Ho Hey" - The Lumineers - The Lumineers
    10. "Let It Be" - The Beatles - Let It Be
    B: "Prince Of Parties" - Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords

    10. So we got a new priest a few weeks ago. He happens to be the priest who was at my in-law's church just prior to this assignment, so we were familiar with him. He is... and interesting guy. Very long-winded and quite taken with himself. He loves to show off. Sometimes it's things like paintings he's done, but usually it means playing the guitar/singing. He takes full advantage of his captive audience congregation. His first week in his new parish he played "Let It Be." It had nothing to do with anything else, but that was what he picked. It wasn't half bad, but it was quite odd. Odd is the new normal for us with this guy, I guess.

    1. WARNING - Do not, repeat not, listen to this you ever want to hear "Ho Hey" normally again.

      httpv://youtu.be/PPftVQwyPs0

    2. I haven't seen/heard Flight of the Conchords in a long time - probably since the HBO show was canceled. This needs to be remedied.

  7. 1. "Lovesick Blues" Patsy Cline The Ultimate Collection
    2. "Heavy Metal Drummer" Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    3. "Good Morning Good Morning" The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club*
    4. "Reservations" Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
    5. "Avant Gardener" Courtney Barnett The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
    6. "If You Want Me" Marketa Irglove and Glen Hansard Music from the Motion Picture Once
    7. "City Girl" Kevin Shields Lost in Translation soundtrack
    8. "Getting Better" The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
    9. "Where It's At" Beck Odelay
    10. "Niamey Jam" Bombino Nomad

    *whenever I type "Beatles" I think "beat-less" in my head to remind myself not to spell it like the insect

      1. I might go with "Dawned On Me" or “Nothing’severgonnastandinmyway (again)” but 'Drummer' is definitely a great choice.

    1. The 4-year-old will still randomly say "two turntables and a microphone" even though it has probably been a year since he heard that song last.

      1. I'm impressed. The jalapeno will be 4 in a few weeks, and most of his random statements seem to be "stinky butt" or "poopy butt."

  8. 1. Amy Winehouse - "Know You Now" - Frank
    2. The Replacements - "Back to Back" - Don't Tell A Soul
    3. Japandroids - "Avant Sleepwalk" - No Singles
    4. Diarrhea Planet - "White Girls (Student of the Blues, Pt. 1)" - I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
    5. Alice In Chains - "Godsmack" - Dirt
    6. Drive-By Truckers - "(It's Gonna Be) I Told You So" - The Big To-Do*
    7. U2 - "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses" - Achtung Baby
    8. Eels - "Sweet Li'l Thing" - Blinking Lights and Other Revelations
    9. The Soundtrack of Our Lives - "Independent Luxury" - Behind the Music*
    10. Band of Horses - "On My Way Back Home" - Infinite Arms
    B. Arctic Monkeys - "Piledriver Waltz" - Suck It and See

    *6 One of the few DBT tracks with Shonna Tucker on lead vocals. Wish there were more.
    *9 Added to my Spotify list due to free's recommendation.

    1. Just finishing my first full listen to our "WGOM Summer" mix on Spotify - thanks (again) for putting that together. I'm fairly confident that it would have taken me two or three months to seek out all of those songs.
      Also, nice list!

      1. Putting it on Spotify was a fairly quick process - AMR did the heavy lifting with his mix tape-making powers. It is a good list though - it has been my running soundtrack for the past couple of weeks.

        BTW- they haven't popped up on any of my random lists but I have also been listening to the Sudden Lovelys a lot recently - they opened for Lydia back in April. I wouldn't mind seeing them again.

        1. The mix is good - very nice flow to it (belated shout out to AMR!).
          goodness, has it been since April already!?

          1. Oh, I am awesome.
            I know where the flaws are in the sequencing, too, but fixing them made bigger problems and I had set my constraints.
            Good quality material contributed by most. And Bootsy and Algonad saying "Sturgill would have been mine" gave me flexibility to pick my faves.

            I'm only about half-done with my regular summer mix. I spent a lot of time working around the wgom songs.

          2. I'll second this, particularly the flow. It's lacking the sing-along quality I aim for with summer mixes, but plenty of that is probably that I don't know too many of the songs well.

            My only question is... how did The Darkness not make the cut?

            Thanks AMR for the labor on it. Truly excellent job. You know what you're doing, and it shows.

              1. Awww. Had it not gotten so much general love from the Nation that it seemed a lock, I absolutely would have moved it to #1. Either that or "American Girl". I made my list of 3 without being aware of the "top spot" rule, and just left it...

                1. I doubt I would have picked the Bragg without it being your number 1.
                  But since I had to, I made it work, and I think it turned out great.
                  "The song which the DJ rejected became the closing track."
                  Psalekta 118:22

                2. "general love from the Nation" was just Free. (at that time.)
                  I don't think you can trust him. His #1 was the thing I could not fit.

        2. I forgot about the Sudden Lovelies.
          I bought on CD and CanofCorn grabbed me their free one and I've never even ripped them into iTunes.

    2. I was going to give you a rad list shoutout then I came across #10 and the bonus.

  9. Tomorrow is our once-a-month singing at the nearby nursing home, and we've come up with the set list:
    1) Proud Mary
    2) Johnny B. Goode
    3) Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
    4) Peaceful Easy Feeling
    5) Take Me Out to the Ballgame
    6) Shower the People
    7) I'm a Believer
    8) Can't Buy Me Love
    9) Born to be Wild
    10) Brown Eyed Girl
    11) Take It Easy
    12) Country Roads

    Different guitarist this month, and he's younger so the list is trending more 70's than 60's, but the residents will certainly still be singing along. Not sure who else can make it, but at the least it'll be a duet. I'm really enjoying the opportunity to sing in a smaller group, and it's fun to see everyone there having a good time ... or napping -- whatever, I don't take it personally 😉

    1. My daughter learned "Take Me Out To The Ballgame" this summer - one of her go-to tunes for singing in the car.

      1. That was the jalapeno's favorite song for me to sing to him at bedtime for a while. And then he started requesting that I tailor the lyrics to his interests, so it somehow morphed into "Take Me Out to the Old Fire Station."

      1. This made me laugh - perhaps just caught off guard, but no matter, thanks for the laugh!

      2. When we thought about it, 1964 is 50 years ago, so picking songs out of the 60's should be right in the wheelhouse. Sure enough, all the residents sing along. Plus, I (barely) grew up with them, so they're songs I really enjoy singing too (sorry Elvis).

  10. 01. Danny Boy - Willie Nelson & Leon Russell
    02. Dream Weaver - Gary Wright
    03. That Green Gentleman - Panic At The Disco
    04. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
    05. Spill the Wine - War
    06. Dance To The Music - Sly and the Family Stone
    07. I'm Looking Through You - The Beatles
    08. Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young - Fire, Inc.
    09. Be My Lover - Alice Cooper
    10. Smiling Faces Sometimes - The Undisputed Truth

    Bonus Track: Without You - Harry Nilsson

      1. I was getting down on myself again for not having much new music on my device, but then I realized something. It's not that I'm completely GOML out of touch, I listen to a fair share of new music, its just that I don't buy music very much anymore, not even in digital format. I listen to The Current on radio and stream stuff on the intertubes and borrow from my kids and catch newer bands on TV appearances or look them up on YouTube. I guess I don't really feel the need to own that much musical content when I can access it freely in so many ways now.

        1. ...its just that I don't buy music very much anymore...

          This in spades for me. I'd like to buy more new music, I just can't justify the expense any more.

  11. 01. RiFF RAFF ft. Slim Thug & Paul WAll - "How to Be the Man (Houston Remix)" from NEON iCON
    02. Juan waters - "Sanity or Not" from N.A.P. North American Poetry
    03. Gobby - "Rangishiff" from Wakng Thrst For Seeping Banhee
    04. Rick Ross ft. Kanye West & MediumBig Sean* - "Sanctified" from Mastermind
    05. Sun Kil Moon - "Jim Wise" from Benji

    06. ScHoolboy Q** ft. 2 Chainz - "What They Want" from Oxymoron
    07. Paws - "YCF" from Youth Culture Forever
    08. Parquet Courts - "Dear Ramona" from Sunbathing Animal
    09. Total Control - "Flesh War" from Typical System
    10. Frameworks - "Familiar Haze" from Loom***

    BT. Gucci Mane - "Nasty" from Trap House 4

    * I had to skip this. I really, really do not like Big Sean.
    ** I stayed on Fig(ueroa) when I was in LA, but I'm guessing it's not the same part of Fig Q always references.
    *** That makes two albums on my 2014 music list titled Loom. Can we get a third?

  12. Explosions in the Sky - "The Only Moment We Were Alone" The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place*
    Lupe Fiasco - "Pressure" Food & Liquor
    The Hold Steady - "Charlemagne in Sweatpants" Separation Sunday
    Queen - "We Are The Champions" Platinum Collection
    Sufjan Stevens - "Jacksonville" Illinoise!

    Oasis - "Columbia" Definitely Maybe
    Japanese Cartoon - "Heirplanes" In The Jaws Of The Lord Of Death
    Coldplay "Violet Hill" Viva La Vida**
    Wilco - "Deeper Down" Wilco (The Album)
    Lauryn Hill - "Nothing Even Matters" The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

    Swung by the library on the way back from an appointment today. Picked up five new CDs

    ~Adele 21
    ~Silversun Pickups Swoon
    ~Mission of Burma Unsound
    ~Childish Gambino Because the Internet
    ~Weezer Blue Album

    *I've been plowing through "Friday Night Lights" on Netflix, and an attendant EitS kick. EitS is the perfect band for the soundtrack to that show. I love the atmosphere their music puts into the scenes.

    **I could have sworn I purged this like a month ago.

  13. "Howlin For You" - The Black Keys
    "Drivers Seat" - Sniff N the Tears
    "Misery" - Soul Asylum
    "Kool Thing" - Sonic Youth
    "Radiation Vibe" - Fountains of Wayne

    "My Lonely Sad Eyes" - Them
    "Backwater" - Meat Puppets
    "Sister Havana" - Urge Overkill
    "When the Sun Goes Down" - Arctic Monkeys
    "Lawyers, Gun, and Money" - Warren Zevon

    1. I didn't want to like Arctic Monkeys when they came out because everyone was like "OMG, you have to listen to Arctic Monkeys" and my default response to that sort of zealousness is "eff off". That said, I have found myself enjoying their latest album.

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      1. I bought that album because of "...Dance Floor", but instantly fell in love with it. I need to check out the new releases.

  14. I saw Sharon Van Etten on Wednesday and she did not disappoint. A 90-minute set that was wonderfully paced, and surprisingly loud (in the best possible sense.) Highlights were many. I'm pretty sure her solo encore of "Perfect Day" was the greatest version of all time. Seriously. (I'm bummed no one put it up on YouTube.) And then there was Justin Vernon joining her on vocals for "Love More" and providing some tasteful electric guitar during the night's final tune "Every Time the Sun Comes Up". If I could vote over, I'd put her "Tarifa" on the Summer Mix. My favorite song of the year, so far. And as much as I kind of missed the horns from the studio version, it still gave me goosebumps.

    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNGg1huw4bk
    (version not First Ave, but a month earlier in LA--She was wearing the same skirt here.)

    1. I read those reviews of the show you linked to.
      It sounded good. I'm not sad that I missed it, but I'm sure I would have enjoyed it.
      I'm into the new album, but not as much as the prior. The arrangements on this one make the feelings sound rawer. The atmosphere on Tramp gave more ironic distance from the subject. Like on "Give Out", she's enough removed from the situation so she can make it haunting and build with the word play.

  15. I'm at Betty's Pies (caramel apple) after a full day of hiking and biking on North Shore. The in store music is definitely soft rock hits of the 70s: piña colada song followed by really want to make it with you. Now staying alive. I'm done eating otherwise i'd provide a FMD list.

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