24 thoughts on “FMD 10-02-2015: What AMR Must Feel Like…”

  1. That's a pretty remarkable AMR impression. Now make a list that includes bird calls.

        1. Okay, so last night on my drive home, that was the episode of 99% Invisible I listened to. Weeeeeird

  2. 1. “Let It Be Me” – Ray LaMontagne - Gossip In The Grain
    2. “Dog Days Are Over” – Florence + The Machine - Lungs
    3. “(Marie’s The Name) His Latest Flame – Elvis Presley
    4. “Have You Ever Seen The Rain” – CCR - Pendulum
    5. “Don’t Let The World Get In Your Way” – The Jayhawks - Rainy Day Music
    6. “Dream A Little Dream Of Me” – The Mama & The Papas - Papas & Mamas
    7. “Mykonos” – Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant
    8. “Knights Of Cydonia” – Muse - Knights Of Cydonia
    9. “Beautiful Day” – U2 - All That You Can’t Leave Behind
    10. “Tongue Tied” – Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song
    B: “Karma Police” – Radiohead - O.K. Computer

    1-4. Oh man I love this part of the list.
    4. A couple weeks ago we saw a rainbow. Aquinas, understanding that rainbows are made when there is both sun and rain present started singing “coming down on a sunny day.” It’s good to know I’m doing something right.
    7. I’ve actually been to Mykonos. It was nothing like the song when I was there. Anyway, the point of this story is “look how well-traveled and worldly I am!”

    1. Re:4 - At one point this summer I heard Josh going between A Ship to Wreck and Ave Maria. I had the same thought.

  3. 1. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy & the Cairo Gang “Troublesome Houses” The Wonder Show of the World
    2. Ha Ha Tonka “St. Nick on the Fourth in a Fervor” Buckle in the Bible Belt
    3. DJ Food* “The Crow...” Kaleidoscope
        a. Sharp-shinned Hawk “Weak Alarm Calls”* (Cornell Master Set)
    4. Tranquility Bass “Mya Yadana” Broadcast Standard Series
    5. The Knife “Networking” Shaking the Habitual

    6. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy with Harem Scarem & Alex Neilson “Master and Everyone” Is It the Sea?*
    7. Hello Saferide “I Wonder Who Is Like This One”*
    8. Charlie Parr “Manifold”* While No One Was Looking: Toasting 20 Years of Bloodshot Records
    9. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy “Death to Everyone” Summer in the Southeast*
        b. Eastern Towhee “Calls” (Cornell Master Set)
        c. House Wren “Song with Odd Ending” (Cornell Master Set)
        d. Common Yellowthroat “Type A4 Song” (The Warbler Guide)
    T. Nine Inch Nails “Help Me I Am in Hell” Broken

    B. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy “Whipped”* Singer's Grave / A Sea of Tears

    *Notes:
    3. DJ Food is the duo's name; it's not like a Disk Jockey named "Food", but "Food for Disk Jockeys".
        a. "Weak"? Getting pretty judgemental there, Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
    6. Live album
    7. "People are like songs, it's true... Me, I'm like 'Can't Get You out of My Head'. Annoying at times, but I make you want to dance."
    8. Cover of a Devil in a Woodpile song.
    9. Live album
    B. Will Oldham, writing songs about things no one else does:
    "Yes, I'm quieter, tireder, more apt to say: 'You go on, boys, I'm good. Think I'll stay in today.'
    (You ain't older.) Yes, I'm older, but that's not why the scales have tipped.
    Oh you know I've been chosen to be whipped....

    Must be love:
    I'm whipped and cowed.
    And I'll whoop and holler,
    If I'm allowed."

  5. 1. “More Like Them” Lydia Loveless Indestructible Machine
    2. “Danny Boy” Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around
    3. “Kimberly” Patti Smith Horses
    4. “The Crow” Dessa A Badly Broken Code
    5. “En Gallop” Joanna Newsom The Milk-Eyed Mender
    6. “Caroline” Low Long Division
    7. “Prologue” The Antlers Hospice
    8. “Lights Out” Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire for No Witness
    9. “When the City Lights Dim” Cold Specks I Predict a Graceful Explosion
    T. “Streets of Laredo” Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around

    And, as predicted, I have to thank Bootsy for something new I've been listening to this past week (although it's not in the list).

    1. Speaking of #2 & 10 - I heard Johnny Cash's version of "You Are My Sunshine" on a car commercial yesterday. That is not a happy song if you read the lyrics, and his version is definitely more in line with a literal reading of the lyrics than the upbeat version most people recognize. Not a great combo. I always wonder who decides these things, and are they dense or just consider the commercial viewers dense.

      1. I learned the song from French's Mustard commercials.
        So I didn't know the verses until adulthood and still picture it as something between "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and "My Bologna has a first name..."
        There are probably others in the same boat.

    2. Since you're thanking me, I'll assume you like it. 😉

      Wonderful live solo version of "Betsy on the Roof."
      httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr6nIWQnTTI

  6. 01. Agent Steel - "Enslaved", Order of the Illuminati
    02. Xibalba - "Enemigo", Tierra Y Libertad
    03. Blind Guardian - "Journey Through the Dark", Somewhere Far Beyond
    04. Blind Guardian - "Lord of the Rings", Tales from the Twilight World
    05. Queen - "Fat Bottomed Girls", Jazz
    06. Agalloch - "In the Shadows of our Pale Companion", The Mantle
    07. Candlemass - "Through the Infinitive Halls of Death", Live
    08. Iron Maiden - "Heaven Can Wait", Somewhere in Time
    09. Iced Earth - "Creator Failure", Burnt Offerings
    10. Sabaton - "The Carolean's Prayer", Carolus Rex

  7. 1. Here Comes The Weekend -- The Jam -- This Is The Modern World
    2. Bulldog Skin -- Guided By Voices -- Human Amusements At Hourly Rates
    3. Ain't No Easy Way -- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club -- Howl
    4. Pendulum -- Guided By Voices -- Same Place The Fly Got Smashed
    5. Where Do I Begin -- Wilco -- Star Wars
    6. Living The Dream -- Sturgill Simpson -- Metamodern Sounds In Country Music
    7. Brick Walls -- Son Volt -- Honky Tonk
    8. Lake Of Fire -- Meat Puppets -- Meat Puppets II
    9. Dracula's Daughter -- Redd Kross -- Researching the Blues
    10. Bossa Nova Baby -- Elvis Presley -- Top Ten Hits

    B1. Sugarcane -- Fred Eaglesmith -- Falling Stars and Broken Hearts
    B2. Dreamer In My Dreams -- Wilco -- Being There

    Saw the Big Star shindig this week at First Avenue. Lots of fun. Man was it cool to see some of those song played live.

    1. Really bummed I missed that Big Star gig. (I was on the guest list--thx, Boquist) but a 5:15 start time at work scared me off. Cruel irony, I couldn't fall asleep and was still awake at 1 AM.

  8. 01. High on Fire - "The Cave" from Luminiferous
    02. Tidemouth - "Secrets" from Velve & South
    03. FFS - "Things I Won't Get" from FFS
    04. Titus Andronicus - "No Future Part IV: No Future Triumphant" from The Most Lamentable Tragedy
    05. Jenny Hval - "Take Care of Yourself" from Apocalypse, girl
    06. Ceremony - "The Separation" from The L-Shaped Man
    07. Gucci Mane* ft. Fredo Santana - "Play With Your Children" from Dinner
    08. Braids - "Letting Go" from Deep in the Iris
    09. Future - "Kno the Meaning" from DS2
    10. Girlpool - "Chinatown" from Before the World Was Big

    BT. Childbirth** - "Siri, Open Tinder" from Women's Rights

    * This oral history of Gucci Mane's career from people affiliated with him in Atlanta is really fantastic. He's a knucklehead for sure but his impact on modern hip hop is huge and probably not acknowledged enough
    ** Members of Chastity Belt, Pony Time, and Tacocat.

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