Speaking of Hunky Dory...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4c9ffs8Huo&feature=fvst
1972
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Loading... celebration time.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jBfZXVbXV0
1985
(4 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... Dan Bejar, of New Pornographers fame, is making some of the most enjoyable music out there today in my opinion. There isn't a ton of great materiel out there but I suggest picking up any of his/their albums.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36T-B256ODM
Live at Webster Hall in Toronto, 2011.
(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... many thanks to DK for a great week. please forgive me for jumping on his coattails and also playing a band with 2+ established singers. chicago based urge overkill should have received a lot more love than they did, but, alas, it was not to be. nash and the king traded off vocal duties about 50/50, but it's nash taking the mic on this track.
httpv://youtube.com/watch?v=wMVibRRBhPk
1994
please ignore the team rocket-esque t-shirts; they really were one of the best dressed bands in the business. also, nash, while being one of the ugliest men in rock 'n' roll, had one of the best voices in my opinion, and some nice chops besides.
(2 votes, average: 8.50 out of 10)Loading... I was thinking about playing something really weird to end it here, with lots of cheesy synths, because if we've learned anything this week, I think it's that I have a healthy appetite for cheesy synths. But I decided to just give you some Spoon instead, for MPR's own 89.3 The Current. Thanks to the VJs for giving me the reins this week, and to everyone for indulging my tastes, past and present.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO8kRCwPJQk
(7 votes, average: 8.86 out of 10)Loading... Alright, let's get back to what we're here for. Here's Deerhunter performing this song from their 2010 album Halcyon Digest on Conan.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsmSIyUDQeM
(and more...)
Continue reading Deerhunter – Helicopter
(5 votes, average: 6.00 out of 10)Loading... I figured I'd do a Friday post using last week's Stuff I Listened to in High School theme, with the band Guster. Their big gimmick used to be that they used only percussion played by hands - no sticks - but they don't do that exclusively any more since hand percussion is pretty hard on your hands after a while. I think I first heard of them opening for Barenaked Ladies at a show I went to in high school; yeah, when the other dudes I knew were listening to your post-grunge, your pop-punk, and your nü-metal, I was pretty solidly in what seems to me now like the adult-alternative arena. Anyway, they were pretty funny and I still like some of their harmonies. Ryan Miller sings the lead on the verses in this one, at Bonnaroo in 2004.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjJF3SYe57M
(There's another one down here...)
Continue reading Guster – Fa Fa
(3 votes, average: 6.00 out of 10)Loading... Here's one of my favorite songs from my favorite album of 2010, High Violet, on Letterman in May of that year. They only have one lead singer, so this is all you get today.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C2WVCruPM
(9 votes, average: 8.44 out of 10)Loading... Some time last year, I asked Bootsy and everyone else to give me some direction on where to go with expanding my knowledge of Sonic Youth. He responded with a music post packed with several fine videos, which is now lost to the aether of the internets (the post, not the videos, I'm sure there'll all still up on the Tube, and one of them, I think, will be here by the end of this post.) In order to prove I learned something from his tutelage, and to show I do listen to something from before 2000, here's several more videos. (Although this first one isn't pre-2000, it's from their 2004 album Sonic Nurse - probably my favorite post-2000 SY album. Except for maybe Murray Street.)
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XszqgxBt5WE
Continue reading Sonic Youth – Unmade Bed
(6 votes, average: 8.17 out of 10)Loading... Here's the Canadian group performing a song from their 2010 album Expo 86 on the CBC's Q TV show in November, 2010.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYp2GrPceWU
(But wait, there's more!)
Continue reading Wolf Parade – Ghost Pressure
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