FMD: 8/8

I long for the day that my life's regular enough where I recognize a Friday before I wake up in one.

Sorry about the long-running lack of content here. Here's some:
I like some songs on the Angel Olsen album, but I don't think I like the album as a whole.
I like some songs on the Weird Al album, but I don't think I can take the album as a whole. I may go back and collect all his Polka medleys and put them on a CD for road trips.
The Sturgill Simpson album is pretty good, and it's a bummer he's not playing a free stage at the state fair like originally slated. That might have been the recipe for a good WGOM Get-Together at Great State Caucus.
What's with that new single from Grimes? It's not good as a Grimes song or as a pop song.

Late enough for your song of the summer nominations to stick.

24 thoughts on “FMD: 8/8”

  1.     a. American Goldfinch “Song and Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
        b. Great Blue Heron “Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
    1. Neotropic “Cornershop Candy” La Prochaine Fois
    2. Grimes “Crystal Ball” Daytrotter Session, 7/27/2011
    3. Aaron Dilloway “Tremors (Raw 1)” After the Showers
    4. Catherine Wheel “Show Me Mary”* Chrome
    5. Arvo Pärt* “Zwei Slawische Psalmen - Psalm 131” Da Pacem

    6. Dr. Octagon “Blue Flowers” Dr. Octagonecologyst
    7. Dolfish “Dear Voicemail — 3 Things” Your Love Is Bumming Me Out
        c. American Woodcock “Flight Display and Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
        d. Orchard Oriole “Chuck Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
        e. Black-Throated Green Warbler “Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
    8. Tricky “Makes Me Wanna Die” Pre-Millennium Tension
        f. Northern Waterthrush “Song Type A2” (The Warbler Guide)
    9. Röyksopp* “What Else Is There?” The Understanding
    T. Merle Haggard and the Strangers “You Don't Have Far to Go”* Branded Man

    *Notes:
    4. h/t Rhubarb_Runner
    5. Composer; Performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
    9. featuring Karin Dreijer (of the Knife and Fever Ray)
    T. "If you're trying to break my heart..."

    1. E. Autechre “Teartear” Amber
      So good and just next, heard it walking to the Passport office to have to abandon my pocketknives outside.
      I spent my whole time waiting thinking "I should have hid them in the grass next to the steps" and "I should have at least removed the toothpicks and tweezers"
      Thankfully, They were still there when I cam back.

  2. 1. Oh, Bury Me Not -- Johnny Cash -- American Recordings
    2. Pipeline/Kill Time -- Sonic Youth -- Sister
    3. School's Out -- Soul Asylum -- After the Flood: Live From the Grand Forks Prom, June 28, 1997
    4. Sunshine Superman -- Hüsker Dü -- Everything Falls Apart And More
    5. Damn Good Mr. Jam -- Guided By Voices -- Suitcase 1: Failed Experiments and Trashed Aircraft
    6. Oblivious -- Aztec Camera -- High Land, Hard Rain
    7. King Horse -- Elvis Costello -- Get Happy!!
    8. Jesus Christ Pose -- Soundgarden -- Badmotorfinger
    9. Devil's Haircut -- Beck -- Odelay
    10. Seymour Stein -- Belle & Sebastian -- The Boy With The Arab Strap

    B1. Pretty Good Guy -- Fred Eaglesmith -- Ralph's Last Show
    B2. Full Sun (Dig The Slowness) -- Robert Pollard -- Normal Happiness

  3. Tonight is the free Hold Steady show. The drawing for tickets is sometime today. They're being very vague about it and it's annoying. But, hey, free Hold Steady so I can't complain too much. At least not until I don't get tickets.

      1. haHA i got a ticket. Two actually, one of which I traded for a shot and a beer. Tonight is gonna be the best.

  4. AMR, which songs do you like from Burn Your Fire for No Witness? I got the album a few weeks ago; I'm enjoying it, though it did occur to me the other day that if you look up laconic in the dictionary, you might well find a song by Angel Olsen.

    1. The first three for sure.
      "Unf***theworld", "Forgiven/Forgotten", and "Hi-Five". It kindof sprawls out from there. I don't think any of the others have stuck the same way, but I might be forgetting one or two.

        1. I couldn't recall which it was, so I just pulled it up. Hmmm... I like the poppier side of projects like this.
          It reminds me a bit more of EMA and Grouper.
          With EMA, I like her poppier side, too... "Milkman", "Satellites", "F***in' Around".
          With Grouper, there is no poppier side to pull me in and I'm lost without a compass.

        2. "White Fire" is so good. Far and away my favorite on that album.

          Big co-sign. I'm lukewarm on the rest of the album (I enjoy some of it at times, but most of it sort of just passes time for me), but "White Fire" is a truly great song.

        1. Yes. The lyric "I'm neither innocent or wise when you look me in the eyes" is so far my favorite of the album.

  5. "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears For Fears Songs From the Big Chair
    "Candy-O" - The Cars Candy-O
    "Barely Breathing" - Duncan Shiek
    "Madness" - Muse The 2nd Law
    "Intergalatic" - Beastie Boys Hello Nasty

    "Red Red Wine" - The Replacements Pleased to Meet Me
    "Show Me the Way" - Peter Frampton Frampton Comes Alive!
    "Shattered" - Rolling Stones Some Girls
    "Cracking Up" - Nick Lowe Labour of Lust
    "Femme Fatale" - Velvet Underground & Nico Velvet Underground & Nico

    Bonus: The Refreshments "Yahoos and Triangles"
    yeeeehaw

  6. * Lost - Korn - Life is Peachy
    * Psychedelic Pill - Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
    * Cover the Long Way - Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
    * For Prayer - Wye Oak - The Knot
    * Complication - Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
    * The Dimming of Road and Rights - Raime - Quarter Turns Over a Living Line
    * Observatory - Monolake - Silence
    * While Waiting - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack
    * Taking Control - Aphex Twin - Drukqs
    * Take California - Propellerheads - Decksanddrumsandrockandroll

  7. Better late than never.

    1. Yo La Tengo - "You Can Have It All" - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
    2. Sturgill Simpson* - "Life of Sin" - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music
    3. The Kinks - "Beautiful Delilah" -Kinks
    4. Eels - "Souljacker Part 1" - Souljacker
    5. Drive By Truckers* - "Cassie's Brother" - Southern Rock opera
    6. The Velvet Underground - "Lonesome Cowboy Bill" - Loaded
    7. Rilo Kiley - "Pictures of Success" - Take Offs And Landings
    8. The Baseball Project* - "The Death of Big Ed Delahanty" - Vol 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails
    9. Ha Ha Tonka - "Staring at the End of Our Lives" - Lessons
    10. Modest Mouse- "Dark Center of the Universe" - The Moon & Antarctica

    2. I see he is opening for Drive By Truckers on their West Coast swing. Please come this way...
    5. Speaking of DBT, one of my least favorite songs on one of my favorite albums
    8. Funny this shows up. Perhaps an induction coming soon?

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