July:

• be your own pet . “thresher’s flail”
• be your own pet . “we will vacation, you can be my parasol”
• belafea . “tara”
• cold war kids . “hang me out to dry”
• cold war kids . “hospital beds”
• cold war kids . “saint john”
• dears . “ticket to immortality”
• jesu . “dead eyes”
• jesu . “silver”
• john frusciante . “communique”
• john frusciante . “sphere”
• john frusciante . “walls”
• ladyhawk . “the dugout”
• mischa . “cubicle”
• mission of burma . “2wice”
• my latest novel . “sister sneaker sister soul”
• primal scream . “country girl”
• primal scream . “dolls”
• primal scream . “the 99th floor”
• spangle call lilli line . “b”
• spangle call lilli line . “piano”
• spoon . “idiot driver”
• spoon . “mountain to sound”
• sunset rubdown . “stadiums and shrines ii”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

• blowoff . “hormone love”
• bruce springsteen . “john henry”
• curve . “chinese burn”
• faders . “no sleep tonight”
• fiona apple . “not about love”
• justine electra . “defiant & proud”
• kristin hersh . “echo”
• liars . “the other side of mt. heart attack”
• ll cool j . “mama said knock you out”
• matt pond pa . “holiday road”
• mercers . “sexy youth”
• mercers . “use for abuse”
• smoosh . “find a way”
• thom yorke . “and it rained all night”
• thom yorke . “the clock”
• tilly & the wall . “bad education”
• tilly & the wall . “rainbow in the dark”

[tags]loose music[/tags]

…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]

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]

• 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]

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]

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]

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]

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]