Friday Music Day

FMD: Jan 11, 2013

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Happy Friday Music People! I hope that you are enjoying the fine weather out there in Music Land! Why don't we start things off with everyone telling us ten songs that show up on a "random" or "shuffle" feature of their music device or service of their choice? Then we can just riff from there, ya dig?

30 thoughts on “FMD: Jan 11, 2013”

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    * Movies - Senking - Ping/Thaw
    * Blew - Nirvana - Live at Pine Street Theatre: Bleach [Deluxe]
    * Heavy Soul - The Black Keys - The Moan
    * Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop - Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
    * When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!
    * She's Always Dancing - Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
    * Wash the Day - TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
    * Matt Damon - Bang on a Can All-Stars - Big Beautiful Dark and Scary (D. Longstreth)
    * Sunspots - Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
    * Prison Sex - Tool - Undertow

    1. * When Worlds Collide - Powerman 5000 - Tonight the Stars Revolt!This was the only song in their set at 93X-Fest (Somerset, WI: circa 2000) that I - or anyone there - knew. The same is probably true today...but still a fun song.

      1. Oh, X-Fest, how I loathed that time of year. I worked at the DQ in town and those festivals were brutal on us. The owners of the DQ also own the River's Edge, so they'd bus people to and from the DQ to get to and from the concert. (That said, I went to it once and a few Ozzfests for free, so there's that. Its good to know people.)

        1. My buddies and I used to wonder how the "townies" put up with all of us drunken idiots. Also, there's a song dedicated to you in my FMD list...just sayin'.

          1. My buddies and I used to wonder how the "townies" put up with all of us drunken idiots.

            Not happily, which is why you don't tend to see many concerts like that there these days. (I think, anyway.) Then again, maybe my perception is skewed since I wasn't really a townie as I lived out in the country and went to high school across the river. Anyway, the place used to be owned by about the worst people you can imagine, which didn't help with local tension.

    2. my old roommate bought that Powerman 5000 album the day it was released and played it about 3 times a day for 6 months. I hated it at first, then I warmed up to it, but by about Christmas that year, I wanted to flush it down the toilet. I cant listen to the Cars 'Good Times Roll' because it of.

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    1. Oasis - "Columbia" - Definitely Maybe
    2. Dr. Dog - "Mirror Mirror" - Raise Your Voice
    3. Mayer Hawthorne - "Stick Around" - How Do You Do
    4. Brian Eno - "Slow Ice, Old Moon" - Small Craft on a Milk Sea
    5. Sufjan Stevens - "Inaugural Pop Music for Jane Margaret Byrne" - The Avalanche
    6. Bush - "Glycerine" - Sixteen Stone
    7. The New Main Street Singers - "Potato's in the Paddy Wagon" - A Mighty Wind Soundtrack
    8. Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger" - (What's the Story) Morning Glory
    9. Ted Leo & the Pharmacists - "Under the Hedge" - Be on the Lookout!
    T. Boston - "Peace of Mind" - Greatest Hits
    B. Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals - "Excuse Me Mr." - Live From Mars

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    01. Dark Tranquillity - "Lost to Apathy", Character
    02. Megadeth - "Five Magics", Rust in Peace
    03. Opeth - "Bleak", Blackwater Park
    04. Jag Panzer - "Take to the Sky", Mechanized Warfare
    05. Testament - "Envy Life", Practice What you Preach
    06. The Black Dahlia Murder - "Statutory Ape", Miasma
    07. Iron Maiden - "Weekend Warrior", Fear of the Dark
    08. Epica - "The Phantom Agony", The Phantom Agony
    09. Black Sabbath - "Hand of Doom", Paranoid
    10. Epica - "Storm the Sorrow", Requiem for the Indifferent

  4. 1. A Pair of Brown Eyes -- The Pogues
    2. Communication Breakdown -- Led Zeppelin
    3. Mercury -- The Wedding Present
    4. Falling Star -- The Jayhawks
    5. Surgical Focus -- Guided By Voices
    6. Cars -- Gary Numan
    7. White Cross -- Sonic Youth
    8. Heroes -- David Bowie
    9. Whiskey Bottle (live) -- Uncle Tupelo
    10. Little Boxes -- Malvina Reynolds
    B1. Cortez the Killer (live) -- Neil Young

  6. 'Last Night on Earth' - U2 Pop
    'Man in a Suitcase' - The Police Zenyatta Mondatta
    'Raging Eyes' - Nick Lowe Basher:The Best of Nick Lowe
    'Death Valley Queen' - Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies
    'When the Whip Comes Down' - Rolling Stones Some Girls

    'Contrast' - The Features Contrast EP
    'Blister in the Sun' - Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
    'Jinx' - Green Day Nimrod
    'Hot in the City' - Billy Idol Greatest Hits
    'Maps' - Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fever To Tell

    Bonus: I found this song while browsing the free MP3 section at Amazon. I want to hear more from Nick Waterhouse. This song is called 'Is That Clear'

    httpv://youtu.be/UygTqIAPvl4?t=20s

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    1. “this is no place” – urge overkill – exit the dragon
    2. “crazy love, vol. ii” – paul simon – graceland
    3. “ah, weir” – yeasayer – all hour cymbals
    4. “if i equals u” – ramona falls – prophet
    5. “should have taken acid with you” – neon indian – psychic chasms
    6. “rambling man” – laura marling – i speak because i can
    7. “lucky guy” – the muffs – the muffs
    8. “the bride” – dirty projectors – bitte orca
    9. “only one who knows” – arctic monkeys – favourite worst nightmare
    10. “i’m shakin’” – jack white – blunderbuss

      1. Yes. While it's not the greatest of their musical conquests, there are some salient lyrics that will leave you thinking about your own experiences, as Alex Turner's tend to do for me. Most tracks are written as if he's explaining himself to an estranged girlfriend, which seems to be their forte.

  10. To piggyback on my Jeff Mangum rant from yesterday, I find out today that Leonard Cohen is on tour. This is his mid-march itinerary:

    March 11 -- Winnipeg
    March 13 -- Chicago
    March 15 -- Milwaukee
    March 18 -- Tampa

    1. You literally drive through Minneapolis to get to Chicago from Winnipeg (if Cohen is taking a bus that is).

  11. 1. Retribution Gospel Choir “Workin' Hard” 2
    2. Bonny 'Prince' Billy “After I Make Love to You” So Here's My Plan
    3. Linfinity “Chateau” Typewriter
    4. Billie Holiday “Some Other Spring” Lady Sings the Blues
    5. Ken Ishii “Echo Exit (Boom Boom Satellites Remix)” Echo Exit

    6. Naughty By Nature “O.P.P.”* Anthems Inc.
    7. Matthew Dear “Innh Dahh” Slowdance EP
    8. Colin Stetson “Judges (Damian Taylor Concretification Mix)” The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man EP
    9. Murder By Death* “Those Who Stayed” Like the Exorcist, But with More Breakdancing
    T. Peaking Lights “Morning Star”* Lucifer
    E. Palace Songs “Agnes, Queen of Sorrow”* Hope

    *Notes:
    6. 2011 Re-recording without samples. They reconstructed the song (and several other of their biggest hits as bonus tracks on this album) with newly recorded backing tracks that don't use originals and probably don't even interpolate or interpret the original samples. Probably so they can stop paying Michael Jackson's estate every time they perform it, or giving any licensing proceeds to the same. Doesn't sound quite as good, but hey the living will make a living off their works rather than the dead. And part of my problem is just the re-recorded Treach vox: more refined and polished. He's not a young guy reaching for the ring, but an established pro with the easy confidence of Jay-Z. I listened to NxN for the tension in Treach's voice (and KayGee's early beats, and Vinnie was a good backup rapper with a nice contrast to Treach, though I wouldn't want to listen to a solo album from him). Less tension = less gold. Though maybe I just want the vocal takes I'm used to.
    9. Wish I could like MBD more, but this is my favorite album of theirs. This song is an instrumental, pretty cool actually. I need to remember to keep this one next time I remove a lot of MBD from my iPod.
    T. Just the outro track. I might have put the song "Dream Beat" and it's Dub version on my "Best of 2012" if I had felt like re-writing the review of Lucifer in Dub
    E. Another song that sounds great in the Greatest Palace Music version. There it's turned into a duet. "If you wait another day, I will wait a day." "If you wait another day, I will wait a day" back and forth. Original is worth it on its own, though this is a different reading of the lyrics, as a conversation. EAR hates both though, Oldham's voice grates on her on this and similar tracks.

  12. At work today (barely) so this is from my Pandora stations:
    1. Imogen Heap Aha
    2. Led Zeppelin The Lemon Song
    3. Frank Ocean Super Rich Kids
    4. Ellie Goulding Wish I Stayed
    5. Megadeath Dread And The Fugitive*

    6. Muse Madness
    7. Weezer I Want To Be Something
    8. Gorrillaz Broken
    9. Purple Ribbon All-Stars Kryptonite (I'm On It)**
    10. Adele That's It, I Quit, I'm Moving On (Live)
    B. Trampled By Turtles Jars At Home

    *From the station based on cheaptoy’s music
    **From the station based on Zack’s music

  13. 1. Soul Position - "The Jerry Springer Episode" - 8,000,000 Stories
    2. Barenaked Ladies - "Straw Hat and Old Dirty Hank" - Rock Spectacle (Live)
    3. Michael Franti & Speadhead - "Stay Human" - Stay Human
    4. 3 Doors Down - "Away from the Sun" - Away from the Sun
    5. Will Smith - "It's All Good" - Big Willie Style
    6. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - "Awake (Feat. Evan Roman)" - The Heist
    7. The Hold Steady - "Charlemagne in Sweatpants" - Separation Sunday
    8. Blueprint - "Inner-City-Native-Son" - 1988
    9. Girl Talk - "The Feeling" - Unstoppable
    10. Will Smith - "Miami" - Big Willie Style

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