11 thoughts on “Start Your iPods

  1. The Modesto Kid

    That should be a great show. I hadn’t thought about Dan in a while when one of their hits came up on a mix tape I was listening to yesterday to remind me.

  2. cleek

    heh.

    actually, i did a top 50 books post a while back, and people made a bunch of suggestions. i’m working my way through a few of them.

    i’m really digging Slaughterhouse-Five, though. i had no idea Vonnegut was so good – the other things i’ve read by him seemed pretty weak.

  3. Rob Caldecott

    Gloomy Monday. More redundancies (third round this year already.) Come on iPod, cheer me up.

    1. Kings of Leon – Camaro.
    2. The Beatles – I Want To Tell You.
    3. Nirvana – Stay Away.
    4. The Smiths – That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore.
    5. Jenny Lewis – Bad Man’s World.
    6. Blur – Bugman.
    7. Teenage Fanclub – Guiding Star.
    8. Goldfrapp – Strict Machine.
    9. Cold War Kids – Saint John.
    10. The Clash – I’m So Bored With The USA.

    If you watch any of the above, make sure it’s Goldfrapp. :)

    Pity the 46.

  4. R-Jud

    “the other things i’ve read by him seemed pretty weak.”

    Yep, I agree. I read Slaughter House-Five first, then went through pretty much everything else on the advice of a Vonnegut-lovin’ ex, and nothing really hits at the same level, though you get the odd flash of it now and then. I suppose it is because it was so personal to him.

    What do you think of The Once and Future King? I love the first two books– there is an impulsive quality to them; you can tell he’s in love with the story he’s telling, and that he really loved that time period.

    On to the Pod. Soundtrack for a project I’m working on:

    War on War – Wilco
    Minuet from Anna Magdalena’s Notebook – JS Bach
    The Music Lovers – Destroyer
    Cello Suite #1, prelude – JS Bach
    Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, IL – Sufjan Stevens*
    Judy and the Dream of Horses – Belle and Sebastian
    Sing Me Spanish Techno – New Pornographers
    Coriolan Overture – Beethoven
    Violin Partita #3, Prelude – JS Bach
    Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town – Talking Heads
    Fake Empire – The National
    House of Cards – Radiohead
    Lost in the Paradise – Caetano Veloso
    Sugar Spun Sister – The Stone Roses
    How Can You Be Sure? – Radiohead
    We Are The Sleepyheads – Belle and Sebastian
    In the Aeroplane Over The Sea – Neutral Milk Hotel
    Middle Cyclone – Neko Case

    Rob, Strict Machine is always always always on my running playlist. For like years now.

    *whose preciousness makes my back teeth ache but the piano intro is swell

  5. cleek

    What do you think of The Once and Future King? I

    i liked the first book, especially the animal “lessons”. i’m somewhere in the middle of the second right now – they just got done with the Questing Beast puppet. but i needed a break from TH White’s rapid-fire jokes – my ribs are sore from him constantly ramming his elbow into my side. so i started Slaughterhouse-Five.

    Sufjan Stevens

    tried. failed. can’t take him. precious, indeed.

    Lost in the Paradise – Caetano Veloso

    the only Caetano Veloso i’ve ever heard is this crazy medley of Billie Jean and Elanor Rigby. ah, here it is. someone gave me a copy of that MP3 as a joke. and it was years before i learned he is an actual well-known artist, if not a superstar (at least in the genre). still haven’t heard anything else from him, tho.

    where should a noob start?

    aiiiieeee! and here he is doing Come As You Are!

  6. Rob Caldecott

    How Can You Be Sure? by Radiohead is an awesome B side. Mrs C and I love it to bits. Easy to strum along with too.

    Tried to teach myself House of Cards via a tutorial on YouTube but couldn’t quite nail it.

  7. R-Jud

    Rob: How Can You Be Sure also has a lovely little bassline for us amateur plunkers. I am a little more adept with the keyboard bit. If you mess around with pianos at all “Cuttooth” is fun for that.

    cleek: Caetano Veloso gets called “The Brazilian Bob Dylan”. Certainly his career has been almost as long. I found him through a Brazilian pal, who recommended this compliation as a good place to start with Tropicalia in general. Then I just sort of picked through iTunes. Not much hipster cred here, I’m afraid.

    Also, do you read Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science? It seems of a piece with some of your other links.

  8. Fleem

    In considering the extremely small sampling of Brazilian music I’ve heard, very little beats Os Mutantes for sheer wackiness. I like the Seu Jorge David Bowie covers too. Heckuva voice on that guy.

    BTW Vonnegut varies wildly — Slaughterhouse-Five and Cat’s Cradle are genius IMHO, with Breakfast of Champions sort of a guilty pleasure, since it includes amusing pictures. A few of them, like Player Piano, are pretty much slogs.

  9. R-Jud

    Yep, Os Mutantes are genuinely psychedelic. There is a good compilation that David Byrne put together floating around out there, some of which sounds very Sgt. Peppery in spite of predating Sgt. Pepper. Much like Byrne got into afropop before Paul Simon did.

    Gilberto Gil and Gal Costa are also worth exploring if you get bit by the bug.

  10. The Modesto Kid

    1. Next to Your Mother Who Do You Love, Louis James String Band
    2. Demons and Fiends, Robyn Hitchcock
    3. Everybody Needs Love, Robyn Hitchcock
    4. The Green Boy, Robyn Hitchcock
    5. Cry a While, Bob Dylan
    6. Heart Full of Leaves, Robyn Hitchcock
    7. I Want You Back, David Ruffin
    8. I’m Falling, Robyn Hitchcock
    9. The Romish Lady, Monroe Gevedon
    10. Ain’t Nothing Like Togetherness, Willie Hutch

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