iPod, rock!
- The Soft Boys - I Love Lucy
- Spoon - Chips And Dip
- Led Zeppelin - Candy Store Rock
- Bob Dylan - Meet Me In The Morning
- Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
- Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick (skip!)
- Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way
- The Flaming Lips - When You're Twenty-Two
- The Cure - Grinding Halt
- A Tribe Called Quest - The Business
Was there rocking? Yeah, maybe a little.
Let there be tunes!
1. Thom Yorke – The Eraser
2. The Good, The Bad & The Queen – History Song
3. Radiohead – I Want None Of This
4. Sufjan Stevens – Casimir Pulaski Day
5. Foals – Olympic Airways
6. The Shins – Split Needles
7. Tapes ‘n Tapes – Insistor
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Cheated Hearts
9. Wilco – I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
10. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Shuffle Your Feet
That’s a selection to make Monday more bearable.
and they’re off!
1. John Scofield “Old Soul”
2. Vera Bila “Cirikloro Mirikloro”
3. Club D’Elf “Actual Smiles”
4. Danilo Perez “Round Midnight”
5. Tony Allen “Eparapo”
6. John Pengu “Isidwaba”
7. John Fleagle “Twa Corbies”
8. The Willows “Radio”
9. Yusef Lateef “Juba Juba”
10. Gilberto Gil “Baba Alapala”
Vera Bila’s a gypsy with a great voice, her stuff sounds like pop music written by Django.
Tony Allen was Fela’s drummer.
John Pengu is a South African zulu singer.
John Fleagle was a Boston area guy who started out as a jazz bass player and ended up writing original music to medieval texts, on instruments he built himself. On paper that sounds kind of cranky weirdo-ish, like a musical version of the Unabomber, but he was a beautiful singer and performer.
The Willows are a local alt-country-ish band I work with.
OK I’m including a bonus to see what else ipod wants to cough up today:
11. Chuck Prophet “What Makes The Monkey Dance”
Alrighty then.
hmmm… i have some Scofield. i don’t think i’ve even heard of any of the others.
heh :)
yeah, that was a pretty odd set.
When I got the ipod I basically threw everything I owned on it. Since then, if I hear of anything interesting I grab it on ITunes — a buck a song, it’s hard to go too far wrong.
A lot of times I get stuff on shuffle that I don’t even know what the hell it is, or how and when it got on there.
The stuff I’d really recommend from this particular outing would be Scofield, Gil, and Perez. Maybe Lateef if you are into old school afrocentric hard bop.
Anyway, thanks for letting me play along. Please let me know if the sets get annoyingly weird…
annoyed? hell no. other people’s lists are the fun part of this. i already know what i have on my own iPod! :)
So, music. Fleet Foxes. Discuss.
i do not know the Fleet Foxes.
but after a quick iTunes preview … hey, did My Morning Jacket change their name ? :)
though that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
It’s … interesting, although half-way through my first listen last night I grew bored, thinking it a little samey, and stuck on some Talking Heads (‘The Name Of This Band Is…’, surely THE best live album in my collection) instead.
But it’s certainly worth another shot. The reviews are _flaming_ too. Check metacritic.com and you’ll see what I mean.
wow. err. they sure do like it! i guess i can give it another listen.
i certainly like some of the “freak folk” (and related) stuff: just bought Vetiver’s “To find me gone” and am liking it muchly. also like Iron And Wine, and Bears, and Andrew Bird, etc..
OK, so here was my experience.
I hadn’t heard of the fleet foxes before so I checked them out on YouTube.
They definitely are working the hippy thing, with the beards and the mandolin. But if I close my eyes and just listened, the band they reminded me of the most was The Association, from way back in the day.
Clean, simple pop music, with high close-voiced harmonies. And, goats.
Plus ca change.
If anyone is interested, here is a complete list of my 2008 music purchases so far and a current 5 star rating for each (some albums may yet grow on me, as is music’s prerogative).
Bloc Party, Intimacy ***
British Sea Power, Do You Like Rock Music? **
The Charlatans, You Cross My Path **
Cold War Kids, Loyalty To Loyalty **
Coldplay, Viva La Vida, ***
Duffy, Rockferry ****
The Duke Spirit, Neptune ***
Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid *****
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes **
Foals, Antidotes ***
Fratellis, Here We Stand *
Glasvegas, Glasvegas ****
Guillemots, Red *
Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue ****
Kaiser Chiefs, Off With Their Heads **
Keane, Perfect Symmetry **
Kings Of Leon, Only By The Night *****
The Kooks, Konk *
The Last Shadow Puppets, The Age Of The Understatement ***
The Long Blondes, “Couples” ****
M83, Saturdays = Youth ****
Madonna, Hard Candy *
Muse, HAARP Live From Wembley *****
Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul ***
Portishead, Third *****
R.E.M., Accelerate ****
The Raconteurs, Consolers Of The Lonely *****
Tapes ‘N Tapes, Walk It Off **
The Ting Tings, We Started Nothing ****
The Verve, Forth ***
We Are Scientists, Brain Thrust Mastery **
The Young Knives, Superabundance **
Foxboro Hottubs, Stop Drop and Roll!!! *****
Very disappointed with Tapes ‘N Tapes as I loved their debut, ditto We Are Scientists and The Young Knives. The R.E.M. record is their best for 10 years. Probably and you could argue that isn’t much of an achievement considering their output since New Adventures In Hi-Fi. The Foxboro Hottuns is a Green Day side-project and was actually released in 2007, although I didn’t hear it until recently. It’s a brilliant pop album and I highly recommend it. The Ting Tings will be HUGE, Muse are basically Pink Floyd crossed with Radiohead which suits me just fine, Glasvegas are dark with Scottish accents so thick you may need an interpreter present. Jenny Lewis never fails to disappoint me, and I think I have a bit of a crush on her (along with Gillian Anderson and Meg White obviously). Duffy is a Welsh girl with a soulful voice and the whole 60’s vibe thing that Amy Winehouse has helped cement. Bloc Party are trying to go a bit dance and the jury is still out. Sorry boys, but Radiohead do it better and if you’re going to change direction – which is fine – have the balls to go for it instead of seeing what sticks. Cold War Kids have also disappointed me, as I raved about their debut.
And Jack White is still a god among men.
a list! who among us does not love a list…
out of that whole list, i only have one: Portishead. i will have to investigate the rest.
i heard some new Bloc Party on XM the other day. took me a while to figure out who it was – didn’t sound anything like their other stuff.