…but “NYC” by Interpol might just be the best song of all time.
Hmmm…one of these I shall have to take a run at the 20 best songs of all time.
Suggestions?
[tags]interpol, best song of all time[/tags]
Category: Music
May loose? Mai oui.
Seriously? I am struggling with those post titles…
- 1900s . “bring the good boys home”
- detroit cobras . “boss lady”
- final fantasy . “many lives”
- final fantasy . “this lamb sells condos”
- frank black . “cold heart of stone”
- gomez . “how we operate”
- josh ritter . “girl in the war”
- katatonia . “deliberation”
- petra haden . “god only knows”
- pilate . “barely listening”
- pilate . “knife-grey sea”
- she wants revenge . “these things”
- stills . “destroyer”
- tilly & the wall . “lost girls”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
Aprilooseness
- calexico . “deep down”
- calexico . “letter to bowie knife”
- calexico . “panic open string”
- caroline . “where’s my love”
- cut copy . “going nowhere”
- elf power . “an old familiar scene”
- fembots . “history remade”
- fembots . “so long”
- human television . “in front of the house”
- imperial teen . “ivanka”
- irving . “situation”
- jason collett . “i’ll bring the sun”
- jets overhead . “seems so far”
- kt tunstall . “suddenly i see”
- kula shaker . “govinda”
- kula shaker . “into the deep”
- kula shaker . “knight on the town”
- lanterna . “luminous”
- mono . “the flames”
- pearl jam . “life wasted”
- pearl jam . “marker in the sand”
- raconteurs . “steady as she goes”
- robert cray & shemekia copeland . “i pity the fool”
- rogers sisters . “never learn to cry”
- sebadoh . “hoppin’ up and down”
- sebadoh . “the freed pig”
- sebadoh . “total peace”
- shearwater . “white waves”
- snow patrol . “chasing cars”
- snow patrol . “you’re all i have”
- velvet underground . “sister ray”
- wilderness . “emergency”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
Looseness on the march
This is fun, catching up on music that I listened to once, liked and jammed onto my MP3 player. Here’s what I collected in March:
- ben harper . “better way”
- kula shaker . “hush”
- michael meldrum . “rainstorm”
- mogwai . “1% of monster”
- pearl jam . “world wide suicide”
- prodigy . “voodoo people”
- raising the fawn . “carbon paper”
- raising the fawn . “christmastime in the fields”
- raising the fawn . “the maginot line”
- track a tiger . “sound as ever”
- wintersleep . “fog”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
More looseness
OK, I burned through the loose MP3s from January. Now on deck:
- american music club . “rise”
- american music club . “royal cafe”
- courtney love . “the 2nd most beautiful girl”
- death set . “intermission”
- early years . “all ones & zeros”
- eux autres . “le projet citron”
- grandaddy . “disconnecty”
- grandaddy . “this is how it always starts”
- gregor samsa . “young and old”
- longpigs . “on and on”
- lush . “nothing natural”
- massive attack . “live with me”
- mellowdrone . “oh my”
- my latest novel . “when we were wolves”
- sounds . “song with a mission”
- sword . “winter’s wolves”
- television hill . “easy come, easy go”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
Catching up on the loose stuff
I’ve been adding so many “loose” MP3s to my collection without ever going back to listen them that I’ve decided to go back and make daily playlists. I’ve added all the songs that I downloaded (and kept) in January:
- angels of light & akron family . “i pity the poor immigrant”
- angels of light & akron family . “raising the sparks”
- apparitions . “god monkey robot”
- baumer . “how the west 1”
- beatings . “stockholm”
- bonnie prince billy & tortoise . “cravo e canela”
- bonnie prince billy & tortoise . “daniel”
- bonnie prince billy & tortoise . “on my own”
- cardigans . “in the round”
- charlotte hatherley . “kids in america”
- city and colour . “save your scissors”
- deadboy and the elephantmen . “blood music”
- deadboy and the elephantmen . “no rainbow”
- deadboy and the elephantmen . “stop i’m already dead”
- duke spirit . “dark is light enough”
- duke spirit . “drinking you in”
- duke spirit . “howling self”
- elected . “not going home”
- feist . “it’s cool to love your family”
- giant drag . “this isn’t it”
- imogen heap . “hide and seek”
- isobel campbell and mark lanegan . “black mountain”
- isobel campbell and mark lanegan . “the circus is leaving town”
- lonnie pitchford . “lonesome blues”
- morningwood . “nth degree”
- placebo . “because i want you”
- sarah harmer . “goin’ out”
- sarah harmer . “i’m a mountain”
- sarah harmer . “will he be waiting for me”
- secret life of sofia . “hospital inside me”
- seedy gonzalez . “page 28”
- thalia zedek . “bone”
- whale . “hobo humpin’ slobo babe”
[tags]loose music[/tags]
Nothing says "I love you" like blackmail.
“War” by Ladyhawk is the catchiest song I’ve heard in weeks.
[download]
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We watched Happy Endings (imdb | rotten tomatoes) last night. It was one of those ensemble-cast, intertwining-storylines, character-driven films. It was ok…maybe a little better than average, mainly because of Maggie Gyllenhaal and Lisa Kudrow.
[tags]ladyhawk, happy endings[/tags]
Put out the fire, boys, don't stop, don't stop
I’ve sampled some of the music in my inbox that I mentioned earlier this week, and I like. The Mates Of State album’s pretty good, but The Cold War Kids EPs are killer. They sound like The Walkmen with some White Stripes welded on to the side.
[tags]mates of state, cold war kids, walkmen, white stripes[/tags]
I am not afraid of you and I will beat your ass
Just when I was getting my music inbox under control, it’s ballooned again, mostly because I finally got around to reading an Esquire article that I’d ripped out and left on my desk a month ago. It listed a few bands — the Cold War Kids and Murder By Death — whose myspace pages intrigued me enough to download their albums; if I like them (and early indications are that I will) I’ll begin the search for way to buy their obscure albums.
There are still more myspace pages in that article too; for now here’s the current playlist (including what might be the greatest album title of all time, courtesy of Yo La Tengo):
- johnny cash – a hundred highways
- yndi halda – enjoy eternal bliss
- yo la tengo – i am not afraid of you and i will beat your ass
- mates of state – bring it back
- ladyhawk – ladyhawk
- murder by death – in bocca al lupo
- cold war kids – up in rags
- cold war kids – with our wallets full
- cold war kids – mulberry street
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Connections seem to be popping up for me all over the place on LinkedIn.com. My brother invited me…more than a year ago, I think, and I didn’t pay attention until recently, and suddenly everyone seems to be using it. My friend Joe pointed out that it’s almost as gay as Friendster. He’s right…but it’s still funny to see all the ex-Delanoids and remember some names from the past.
[tags]esquire, johnny cash, yndi halda, yo la tengo, mates of state, ladyhawk, murder by death, cold war kids, linkedin, friendster, delano technology[/tags]
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Let’s Get Out Of This Country, the new Camera Obscura album, is pretty good. I bought it last night. Downloaded it on Soulseek around 8:00, listened to it between 8:30 – 9:30 while I did work, liked it, signed on to eMusic and downloaded the real version around 9:35.
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Also good (so far…I’m only a few songs in) is Or from a Japanese band called Spangle Call Lilli Line. I don’t know what it is with me and Japanese bands (or at least Japanese lyrics) lately. I heard about them on an old 75minutes podcast; I’m several months behind but doing my best to catch up.
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It’s fun to meet and talk to people who’re smarter than you, but it’s a little intimidating when they’re a freaking student. I mean, I’d like to think I’m a pretty smart guy; I read Wealth Of Nations, and I think I even understood it. It was about girls, right? Just kidding. Anyway, I should just never google people before I meet them; it’s depressing how little I’ve accomplished at the age of 30, let alone 20-whatever.
[tags]camera obscura, emusic, spangle call lilli line, 75minutes, wealth of nations, paraphrasing high fidelity[/tags]
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