High five, shuffled-up, discuss!
- Wilco - Black Moon. A sleepy thing from their most recent record.
- Codeine - D. A very sleepy thing from the sleepiest band of the 90s.
- Alison Krauss & U.S. - So Long So Wrong. There's a line "I have given up caring anymore", which I always hear as "I have given up Karen anymore". And then I feel sad for Karen.
- De La Soul - Ghetto Thang. Groovy minimal old-school backing track, over which the guys rap about troubles in the ghetto.
- Q-Tip - All In. Another groovy minimal backing track, but Q-Tip is much livelier than the De La guys, so it's more fun to listen to. Plus, it's not about social strife.
Do it!
Vivaldi: Sonata in G Minor, RV 42, II. Largo (Eliot Fisk)
I believe this was originally composed for cello, but this track is arranged for guitar. From one of my favorite albums. Fisk has beautiful expression, though you wouldn’t know it from the one Amazon review.
Florence + the Machine – All This and Heaven Too
This track, like most on the album, is heavy with wall-of-noise production; it’s a good atmosphere, but I get pretty saturated with it. Overall I’m liking their second album less than the first, which had more variety and felt more spacious.
Lila Downs – Pa’ Todo El Año
One of several songs from La Cantina engineered to sound like it was recorded in, well, a cantina. Not bad, not my favorite, but hey, it’s about drinkin’.
Police – Hole in My Life
Enjoyably disjointed.
Pink Floyd – Speak to Me / Breathe in the Air
The real trouble with this coming up in shuffle is that it ends on a transitional chord, so you want to listen to the next track.
Snowed yesterday. SNOW. In May. Unusual, even for Norway. Or my city in Norway anyway.
1. The Cure – The Upstairs Room
B-side to The Walk (I think it may have been on Japanese Whispers as well) is a nice little song, a decent single in its own right. Sounds an awful lot like New Order though.
2. Nirvana – Lithium
A lot of Nirvana and Foo Fighters in my randoms lately. I always liked this one and totally makes me think of ’92 in Los Angeles.
3. Arctic Monkeys – Secret Door
I haven’t heard this album as much as some of their others but I like this song. I like the march like verse and dreamy chorus.
4. B-Movie – Nowhere Girl
Back in the early 80’s, when I was totally taken by Ultravox, I almost thought this song was theirs. This is just an iconic song for my teen synth period.
5. The Tear Garden – Running Man
This band is a combination of industrial band Skinny Puppy and psychedelic/electronic band Legendary Pink Dots. I’ve heard this song is pretty awesome if you are high. So I have heard.
Proof that I do indeed listen to the classics, next up was Brown Sugar from the Stones. I have tons of good old fashioned rock and roll around here, wonder why none of it ever shows up in these lists.
i have tons of stuff that never shows up in these lists for some reason – probability, probably.
and my iPod has been playing De La Soul & Q-Tip/ATCQ all day long. it’s in a mood.
They claim these things are random but my player totally has moods. One day a rash of 90’s. Later it will latch onto one band and play them again and again. It is eerie.
And just to spam your comments here, next up was Pablo Picasso from Jonathan Richman. Love that song.
1. “Odds and Ends”, Dylan and The Band. Lost time is not found again. What more can you say about the greatness of this song?
– talk – The Soft Boys are on FMU on the Nextdoorland tour, thanking the DJ for having them on the show. Enjoy the rest of your tour.
2. “When I Was a Kid”, Robyn Hitchcock. I’m glad “Groovy Decay” sticks in my memory as little as it does. This song sounds kind of like a track from “Saucerful of Secrets” if the record had been written by a lame 80’s college band.
3. “Jo-Jo”, Fugi (odd man out on this otherwise totally-RH-and-Dylan shuffle) Far out!
4. “When You Awake”, Dylan and The Band. “Before the Flood” bugs me by not being a great concert. Almost all of the tracks are way inferior to the album versions.
5. “The Wolf House”, Robyn Hitchcock. Pfeh. Way to disappoint me, shuffle — two RH tracks and they are from “Groovy Decay” and “Luxor”? That is not the right way to shuffle.
Hey cool! The bonus track is the bass track that Mr. cleek sent me a couple of years ago when he was looking for musical collaboration.
still looking!
Public holiday yesterday = another four day week. Awesome.
1. Rilo Kiley – Accidntel Deth
2. The Long Blondes – Swallow Tattoo
3. The Charlatans – Area 51
4. James – She’s A Star
5. Vampire Weekend – California English
I really, really, really want to retire.