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Thursday, March 19, 2009

march mix

there's a lot of good songs here. in particular, i've been listening to punkin' pie a lot.

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

2/11/09

carbonas "frustrate me" i finally found all three of their albums and i've been listening to them all week. so far this is my favorite. i love the heavy echo on what i guess would be the chorus:

flake music "the shins" of course they later renamed themselves after the song.

grapefruit "another game" i'll probably post another grapefruit track from the same album later, as i was back and forth between this song and another:

quasi "you fucked yourself"

todd rundgren "hope i'm around":

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Friday, February 6, 2009

whoever made this gif is a genius. it's one of the creepiest things i've ever seen.

frankmusik "that much is true" - sometimes there's one really good song on one really awful album. and, is that a feist sample?:

bastro "recidivist" my radio station music mentor in college made a mix tape for me after my freshman year. this song was on it. it sounds so good hearing it again:

ethel merman "i'm an indian too" and speaking of mixes, a couple of years ago i met this girl who made the best mixes. this track was on the last one in the exchange. other than moving to new york, she was pretty much the perfect girl:

daniel johnston and jad fair "happy talk" the above track came from "annie get your gun", and strangely enough, i remember including this cover from the musical "south pacific" on my half of the same exchange (be warned - i love it, but some might find it highly grating):

and after that, would you believe the version from the film may be even stranger:

tomita "daphnis et chloe suite no.2" as i think i've said before, in my opinion, ravel's "daphnis et chloe suite no.2" is the greates, most beautiful piece of music ever written. yesterday i came across a nice synth performance of it my a japanese artist. the effect is that it losed the pastoral feel of the syphony and trades it for vangelis synths make you think of flying cars and repliants rather than nymphs and fawns:

mike post "rockford files" a full recording of the brilliant tv show theme song. and i HATE the harmonica, but i love when it comes in here:

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

1/28/09

view from "bedroom" window.

swirlies "san cristobal de las casas' the heavy intro is a mislead as it turns shoegazer pretty quickly:

caravan "hoedown" this weeks favorite discovery:

zz top "precious and grace" i remember VH1 did a best songs (or bands, i forget) of the 80's talking heads type show, and the only time steve albini commented on anything was to talk about how amazing zz top was. after listenening through their catalogue, this was the only song i could find to justify that:

peter lang "as i lay sleeping" the beginning of the lead melody reminds me of the vocal melody in jackson c. frank's "blues run the game":

couldn't find a jackson c. frank performance of "blues run the game" but here's nick drake (along wih some awful visuals) doing it, which is actually the version i hear when i listen to the above:

the christines "secret song" i came across this song in college on a comp. at the time i had a big crush on a girl names kristine, so i remember wishing they spelled their name the way she did:

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Friday, January 23, 2009

1/23/09

the entance to the 101 n. at vermont.

corbonas "butcher" looking forward to coming across a full album from these guys:

cyndi lauper "what a thrill" i bet that during my childhood, pre-high school, there isn't a song i listened to more than this one. it was on "the goonies" soundtrack, and i used to carry around my fisher price tape recorder and listen to this on repeat for hours at a time. it holds up. too bad cyndi lauper found her way into the world of pop music cause she would have been one of the all-time great punk lead singers had she gone that route insead:

beachwood sparks "ponce de leon blues" the singer, chris gunst, gave me the weakest hanshake i've ever been given when a mutual friend once introduced us. it actually grossed me out. it was like holding soggy lettuce. anyways, he has a voice to match his hanshake. here, however, he's backed by mia doi todd, and the combination is pretty great. add to that former strictly ballroom bandmate jimmy tamborello producing, and it makes for a beautiful, and uncharacterstically well performed, song:

a camp "song for the leftovers" nina person from the cardigans solo project. produced by mark linkous from sparklehorse. i actually expected a lot more from the album when i bought it, but this song nice:

chappaquiddick skyline "courage up" i have no idea why joe pernice didn't just release this under his pernice brothers moniker. with his voice, upbeat or somber, it all sounds sad:

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

1/14/09

taken out the window from the 170 freeway on the drive home for christmas

pentagram "relentless" at least they sounded like sabbath back when sabbath was doing the same:

the collins kids "just because" note: the lead guitarist (and back up vocalist on the 2nd verse) is a 12 year old. the girl who's singing is only 15. at 17 she married johnny cash's manager, who was 34 at the time:

blue cheer "summertime blues" this track should really come after the pentagram song, as blue cheer was the pentagram singer's favorite band. oh well:

gentleman jesse and his men "the rest of my days"

picasso trigger "serve this" there was a time when this is what indie rock sounded like:

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Thursday, January 8, 2009

first of the year

my grandma made that quilt for my mom from all the outfits she wore when she was a kid in the 60's. it's very warm, and very heavy.

pete drake "hey jude" i've been listening to this on repeat. i'm so happy to have finally found the pete drake albums:

m83 "teen angst" (montag mix):

nico muhly "the only tune pt 3" not representative of the album so you know:

longobardi "ti dico ciao" (cover of dave clark five's "hurtin' inside"):

pinocchio "i've got no strings" so starts my 5 month break between seasons. and i'm single:

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longfadinginstant

Thursday, March 19, 2009

march mix

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

2/11/09

Friday, February 6, 2009

2/6/09

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

1/28/09

Friday, January 23, 2009

1/23/09

Thursday, January 15, 2009

1/14/09

Thursday, January 8, 2009

first of the year

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