I've been to Canada and back. Their accent seems a lot closer to Minnesotan than, say, Texan does.
Muchmusic was celebrating 30 years and showed its "100 greatest videos" off and on.
I caught bits of that. I was surprised it wasn't all Barenaked Ladies and Kardinal Offishall. Whenever things showed up that seemed unlikely to count among "10,000 greatest videos", the only explanation we could ever figure out was that it was Canadian.
I never did see "Northern Touch".
Here are two new music videos that I liked in part:
Zola Jesus, Peaking Lights.
1. Art Of Almost -- Wilco -- The Whole Love
2. C'mon Everybody -- Eddie Cochran -- The Best Of Eddie Cochran
3. Iron Man -- Black Sabbath -- Black Sabbath Greatest Hits
4. Still Aging -- The Soundtrack Of Our Lives -- Behind The Music
5. What May Seem Like Love -- Whiskeytown -- Faithless Street
6. Rain -- The Beatles -- Paperback Writer b-side
7. Disorder -- Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures
8. One of the Good Ones -- Redd Kross -- Researching the Blues
9. Soul Barn -- Guided By Voices -- Suitcase 2: American Superdream Wow
10. Outtasite (Outta Mind) -- Wilco -- Being There
B1. Waiting For The Sun -- The Jayhawks -- Hollywood Town Hall
B2. Here Comes Your Man -- Pixies -- Doolittle
Notes:
9. This is one of those obscure little GBV songs that just blows me away. Most bands would kill for a song like this and it's buried on the 6th disk of a series of 100-song outtake compliations.
B1. Jayhawks at the Turf Club was as wonderful as it sounds. Great set, great location, great crowd. Actually the highlight was a Golden Smog tune: Until You Came Around. The whole place was just beaming during that song. They played for about 2 hours and I think eveyone could have easily gobbled up another hour.
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ShirleyMichelle.Excellent. Thought I'd get the ticket in your hand in case you get there before me.
* New Gods - Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
* Love in Mind - Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971
* Jesus Don't Want Me For a Sunbeam - Nirvana - Live at the Paramount (Nevermind Deluxe)
* Emenius Sleepus - Green Day - Dookie
* The Tooth Fairy and the Princess - Husker Du - Zen Arcade
* Tattoo - Wye Oak - The Knot
* School - Nirvana - Bleach
* Nebulous - Meshuggah - Nothing
* Fascination Street - The Cure - Disintegration
* Porphyria Cutanea Tarda - AFI - Black Sails in the Sunset
That run of songs 1-5 is pretty fun.
I need to check out more AFI. I kind of like the little bit I have heard.
AFI change their sound pretty wildly depending on what era you choose.
I liked Art of Drowning, All Hallows, Black Sails in the Sunset, and Sing the Sorrow. I've kind of tired of them since then.
Sing the Sorrow is what I've heard and liked. I'll check those others out.
1. Only The Lonely - Roy Orbison - The All-Time Greatest Hits
2. If I Needed Someone - The Beatles - Rubber Soul
3. I'm Lookin' for Someone to Love - Buddy Holly - The Buddy Holly Collection
4. Hot Tamale Baby - Buckwheat Zydeco - Menagerie
5. What'cha Gonna Do? - Peter Tosh - Legalize It
6. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Diana Krall - Love Scenes
7. Queen Majesty - The Techniques - Tougher Than Tough
8. I Wish I Was Your Mother - Mott the Hoople - Mott
9. Rikki Don't Lose That Number - Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
10. Beside You - Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
B. Night Life - The Little Willies - The Little Willies
1. "Enid" - Barenaked Ladies - Gordon
2. "Mack The Knife" - Bobby Darin
3. "She's So High" - Tal Bachman - Tal Bachman
4. "You Can Bring Me Flowers" - Ray LaMontagne - Till The Sun Turns Black
5. "The Way You Look Tonight" - Frank Sinatra - The Very Good Years
6. "Wires And Waves" - Rilo Kiley - Takeoffs And Landings
7. "Whenever You're Near Me" - Ace Of Base - Cruel Summer
8. "At The Hop" - Danny & The Juniors - Rockin' With Danny & The Juniors
9. "Gray Or Blue" - Jaymay - Sea Green, Sea Blue
10. "Heart It Races" - Dr. Dog - Heart It Races
B: "Drumming Machine" - Florence + The Machine - Lungs
2. One of my favorite songs ever.
7. CoC special.
9. This song hits a spot I didn't know I had. I think if someone had played this song for me when I was single I would have fallen for them without regard to anything else.
10. I once saw these guys at the 9:30 club in D.C. The bass player looked like a muppet, both in appearance and movement.
Re: 10. Are you familiar with the original?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjpWs1h7pU
I was not aware of the original.
But this is cool: Architecture in Helsinki also played at that show (also, it was the Black Cat, not the 9:30 club, as previously reported)(Oct. 7, 2005).
That AIH song led me to listen to dozens of other songs by them, only to realize that what I wanted was more of "Heart It Races" that I was frustrated by those other songs not being "Heart it Races" so I gave up.
01. Skyclad - "The Ilk of Human Blindness", Jonah's Ark
02. Bathory - "The Land", Nordland, Vol. 2
03. Iron Savior - "Forces of Rage", Unification
04. Hammerfall - "Take the Black", Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken
05. Running Wild - "Black Hand Inn", Black Hand Inn
06. Primal Fear - "Wings of Destiny", Devil's Ground
07. Nightwish - "Planet Hell", Once
08. Iced Earth - "The Hunter", Dark Saga
09. Jag Panzer - "Vigilant", Casting the Stones
10. Sonata Arctica - "Wildfire", Reckoning Night
1. Nine Inch Nails “Eraser (Denial; Realization)”* Further Down the Spiral
2. Everything But the Girl “Feel Alright” Worldwide
3. Angel Olsen “Unfucktheworld” Burn Your Fire For No Witness
a. Clay-Colored Thrush* “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
b. Palm Warbler “Song” (Cornell Essential Set)
4. Einstürzende Neubauten “Stella Maris (Remix by Soulwax)”* Ende Neu Remixes
c. Long-eared Owl “High Intensity Alarm Call and Bill-Clap” (Cornell Voices of North American Owls)
5. Lydia Loveless* “Wine Lips” Somewhere Else
6. SO* “09” SO
7. Ice Cube “Don't Trust 'Em” The Predator
8. The Field “Good Things End” From Here We Go Sublime
d. Common Raven “Calls”* (Dan Gibson Wildlife Identification by Sound)
9. Yello “Oh Yeah (Indian Summer Version)” Stella*
e. Northern Rough-Winged Swallow “Calls” (Cornell Essential Set)
T. Colin Stetson “Home” New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges
E. Arvo Pärt* “Fratres (for Strings and Percussion)” Fratres
*Notes:
1. Remixed by Coil
a. So, we can call New-World Warblers "Warblers" and New-World Flycatchers "Flycatchers", but no member of the genus Turdus can be called a robin except Turdus migratorius? Somewhere, a taxonomic pedant is planning on forcing Americans to call our familiar robins "American Thrushes". Expect that to go over worse than sub-planetary status for Pluto. Why stop without going for "Clay-coloured"? I, for one, should I ever see one of these, will call it a "Clay-colored Robin".
4. AJR was almost named "SMR", but not after this song. We ditched that plan after she was born. Glad that we did so.
5. LL's birthday was yesterday. HBD, LL!
6. Markus Popp (of Oval) and Eriko Toyoda
d. My first day exploring Vancouver's Stanley Park, I heard a few Ravens but didn't see them (trees there are tall!). Over the next two days, I saw a few but never heard them, and never more than a passing glimpse. I wanted more of this bird that's taken a mythical importance in my household because it's 4-letter banding code is "CORA".
9. See note on 4.
E. Performed by the Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Directed by Tamás Benedek. A Naxos release.
1. Family of the Year - "Hero" - Loma Vista
2. Patterson Hood - "After the Damage" - Heat Lightning
3. Eels - "On the Ropes" - Wonderful, Glorious
4. Rilo Kiley - "We'll Never Sleep (God Knows We'll Try)" - Take Offs And Landings
5. The Replacements - "Black Diamond" - Let It Be
6. Kimya Dawson and Antsy Pants - "Tree Hugger" - Juno
7. Yo La Tengo - "Tighten Up" - Yo La Tengo Is Murdering The Classics
8. Radiohead - "Fake Plastic Trees" - The Bends
9. The Jayhawks - "Real Light" - Tomorrow The Green Grass
10. The Flaming Lips - "Are You A Hypnotist?" - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Jayhawks sighting.
Old 97s - "Lonely Holiday" Fight Songs
Foo Fighters - "Long Road To Ruin" Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Colm Lynch - "Bleed US Dry" Whisper In A Riot
Belle & Sebastian - "It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career" The Boy With The Arab Strap
Dinosaur Jr - "Lose" You're Living All Over Me
The Hold Steady - "A Slight Discomfort" Live @ First Ave
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down - "The Give" Know Better Learn Faster
Wilco - "The Late Greats" A Ghost Is Born
The Strokes - "Under Cover of Darkness" Angles
Coconut Records - "Is This Sound Okay?" Davy
"Bound For the Floor" - Local H As Good As Dead
"Is She Really Going Out With Him?" - Joe Jackson Greatest Hits
"Second Chance" - Peter Bjorn and John Gimmie Some
"Heart of Gold" - The Kinks State of Confusion
"Stupid Girl" - Garbage Garbage
"Waitress in the Sky" - The Replacements Tim
"Treason! Animals." - Franz Ferdinand Right Thoughts Right Words Right Action
"It Hurts So Bad" - Susan Tedeschi Live From Austin TX
"Life on the Nickle" - Foster the People Torches
"Even the Losers" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Greatest Hits
I'm going to see Fargo's greatest ever band, Hammerhead, tonight. I am stoked.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QY275WStlu0