18 thoughts on “FMD: MidJuly”

  1. 01. “A Christmas Fucking Miracle” – El-P & Killer Mike Run The Jewels
    02. “Catch The Wind” – DonovanCatch The Wind
    03. “I’m Gonna Love You Too” – BlondieParallel Lines
    04. “Kiss And Run” – Sonny RollinsPlus Four
    05. “Go Sadness” – Shout Out LoudsHowl Howl Gaff Gaff
    06. “You Did It To Yourself” – Black DietFind Your Tamborine
    07. “Would You Do It For Me” – Tee FletcherEccentric Soul: The Tragar & Note Labels
    08. “The Gravity Car” – The Olivia Tremor Control Music From The Unrealized Film Script: Duck At Cubist Castle
    09. “Pyramids” – Frank Oceanchannel ORANGE
    10. “Lily Of The Valley” – QueenSheer Heart Attack

  2. On that topic, yeah, I know. I've been meaning to mess around with Spotify or something similar, but haven't set it up yet. If I use one of those (free) services, can one just set up a playlist with certain songs and only hear those songs, or does a lot of other crap get mixed in? Don't care about commercials or anything.

    1. Spotify would randomize the playlist from mobile (it would it it straight through, with limited commercial interruption on a laptop/desktop), but I don't believe you'd get anything other than an occasional commercial.

  3. 01. Roc The Mic – Beanie Sigel & Freeway
    02. Livingston Saturday Night – Jimmy Buffett
    03. Unreflected – Mazzy Star
    04. This is All I Ask – Tony Bennett
    05. Where You Wanna Go – Red Hot Chili Peppers

    06. May You Never – Land Of Talk
    07. Love 2 The 9’s – Prince & The New Power Generation
    08. Drink the Water – Jack Johnson
    09. Faker – Mikke Snow
    10. The Way We Used to Be – Jim Croce

    _B. Mr. Bitterness – Soul Coughing

  4. 1. “Morning High” La Luz It’s Alive
    2. “Dress Me Like a Clown” Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s The Dust of Retreat
    3. “All Apologies” Nirvana MTV Unplugged in New York
    4. “Thunder Peel” Beck Stereopathetic Soulmanure
    5. “Chris Issak” Lydia Loveless Somewhere Else
    6. “Strife” Savages Silence Yourself
    7. “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in New York)” Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
    8. “Cocktails and Ruby Slippers” Katzenjammer A Kiss Before You Go
    9. “We’ll Meet Again” Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
    T. “Human Racing” St. Vincent Marry Me

  5.     a. Townsend's Warbler “Two Song Types” (Cornell Master Set)
    1. Bobby Bare Jr. “Undefeated” Undefeated
        b. Bonaparte's Gull “Adult Alarm Calls Near Fledgling” (Cornell Master Set)
    2. Eric Copeland “Oreo” Hermapohrodite
    3. YUI “Sea” Again*
    4. Tricky “Bad Dreams”* Pre-Millennium Tension
        c. Short-billed Dowitcher “Tu-tu-tu Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
    5. Black Dice “The Jacker” Mr. Impossible

        d. Connecticut Warbler “Song” (Cornell Master Set)
    6. Moby “Anthem” Everything Is Wrong
    7. Arvo Pärt “Magificat (AMR Mix 2)”* Magnificat AMR Remixes
    8. The Bottle Rockets “Waitin' on a Train”* 24 Hours a Day
    9. Lana Del Rey “Shades of Cool” Ultraviolence
    T. The Dodos (featuring Magik Magic Orchestra) “Winter” Daytrotter Session at Studio Paradiso (5/24/2010)

    *Notes:
    3. B-Side of the single of one of the "Fullmetal Alchemist" intro songs.
    4. Chill Rob G cover. Yes, I have the original. Somewhere....
    7. Free Download!
    8. Could this be the best Bottle Rockets song? It's freaking cruel. So many (suppressed male) feels. "Like me [the train is] moving slow, but he's got two things on me y'know: diesel power and he feels no pain."

    All the bird songs: ear training for my Alaska trip. I leave in 12 days.

  6. 1. “1901” - Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
    2. “Build Me Up Buttercup” – The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup
    3. “Drink!” – They Might Be Giants - Mink Car
    4. “Plane Crash In C” – Rilo Kiley - Takeoffs And Landings
    5. “Have I The Right” – Vampire Weekend - iTunes Sessions
    6. “Hey Boy” – The Blow - Poor Aim: Love Songs
    7. “Help I’m Alive” – Metric - Fantasies
    8. “Heart It Races” – Dr. Dog - Heart It Races
    9. “LDN” – Lily Allen - Alright Still
    10. “Down On The Corner” – CCR - Willy And The Poor Boys
    B: “Brave Man’s Death” – J. Roddy Walston & The Business - Don’t Break The Needle

    5. I had never heard this song, but I loved it. Thanks Pandora. I have long thought Vampire Weekend had some Buddy Holly about them, and this one really rocked that.
    7. The first day I biked to work when I lived in Arlington, this song got stuck in my head as a biked. It was an exhausting ride, and there was one supremely brutal hill… Anyway, I can’t hear this song without thinking back to that ride. It’s kind of a nice association now.
    8. Apparently Pandora was really into songs that started with an ‘H’ today.

      1. BTW, while I currently have none of these songs on my iPod, I have had three in the past (not including the AIH version of HIR).

      2. I wasn't familiar with the original until the last time this came up on one of my lists and you shared it with me.

  7. 1. Lite Dream -- Diarrhea Planet -- I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
    2. Death Of A Clown -- The Kinks -- The Kink Kronikles
    3. Clowntime Is Over No. 2 -- Elvis Costello -- Get Happy!!
    4. The Killing Moon -- Echo And The Bunnymen -- Donnie Darko Soundtrack
    5. Miss Chatelaine -- k.d. lang -- Ingenue
    6. I'm Shakin' -- Jack White -- Blunderbuss
    7. There's No Home For You Here -- The White Stripes -- Elephant
    8. Rhymin & Stealin -- Beastie Boys -- Licensed To Ill
    9. Open All Night -- Bruce Springsteen -- Nebraska
    10. We Live Again -- Beck -- Mutations

    B1. I Took On The London Guys -- Boston Spaceships -- Let It Beard
    B2. Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart Tonight -- Whiskeytown -- Faithless Street

    Lydia Loveless Sunday night. Who's in? Corn? AMR?

    1. I really want to go but it'll be a gametime decision. EAR and her mother and sisters are going to a wedding shower, and my FIL and I have the kids for the day and are expected to cut down an apple tree that EAR thinks died of Fire Blight. I don't think that's what killed it, so it's not so important to remove it. Some branches still show some life and the tree's dormant. Or maybe she's right and it's not fully dead yet and likely to spread the fungal disease to the other trees if we don't remove it now.
      (Two more apples, three pears in the general vicinity, plus a crabapple on the other side of the garage.) So, how much work do I get done and how tired are I and EAR?

  8. I just learned that Michael Kandel (the only member of Tranquility Bass) died back in May at 47. Bummer, he seemed like he was back to making music after making one album and then nearly disappearing for a decade and a half (with like five remixes released during the first half-decade though). His first album Let Your Freak Flag Fly is a really cool thing of techno-ambient through a jaded post-woodstock-hippie prism. There were awesome rumors about the recording of the album, like the amount of time and money he spent on some pacific northwest island, and how many separate tracks there were in each song. Nine songs, and one's a country ballad and another Jimmie Rodgers cover (1920's music)!. On one of the "normal songs," both verses are sung at the same time and are isolated to each stereo channel. So much of the techno stuff that came out in the late 90's was so British or at least European. This was a guy that made an album that sounded American. You could tell he had spent time in the desert, and had never heard of "Top of the Pops". He sounded like an Alex Patterson for our continent. RIP.
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWjPgg6GIGw
    httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApdKmYe6Jms

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