Song of the day 6/23/2011

Another missed week of blogging. I am ok. I hope you all didn't faint from worry. There’s a lot going on for me at the moment, I’m mainly fixing bugs (or at least staring blankly at misbehaving code and shrugging which is almost the same thing), there’s been a huge injection of very good standup comedy that I absolutely must consume (Live, TV, podcasts and Netflix and oh my fucking god Andy Kindler is coming back to Seattle) and I’m trying to buy a new amplifier to expunge the spectre of Peavey from my band. Things are all happening.

Sugar – If I Can’t Change Your Mind

(I still haven’t justified the “let’s drown some lady” theme in A Good Idea – so I’ll go with this one).

More early nineties indie rock. I don’t accept the notion that there is other music. Ever late to the party I got this record eleven years after it came out following a horrible breakup (really, the kind with multiple, bloody exit wounds, the painful learning experience kind) – this, on repeat and gin and tonics on repeat got me through that. I like all the melodies and harmonies. I like the guitar and drum sounds. I like how this is what Husker Du would sound like if they were more commercial. And the scales at the end – YES!

Good God Bob Mould looks young in this video. Wikipedia tells me that the band Train covered this song. Train can fuck off.

All your problems are over when you listen to this record, it’s 44 minutes 58 seconds of respite.

Thanks Sugar. Thanks alcohol.

SoTD 6/14/11: Lady Gaga's Judas

I avoided listening to Lady Gaga (except the unavoidable Poker Face and Bad Romance, which is everywhere) but when Amazon had the $.99 special for the new album I figured why the hell not. Considering my love for certain kinds of 80s music (Erasure and more!) I should have realized I'd get hooked. Well played Amazon, you got another $14 out of me :P

Song of the Day 6/9/2011

Check list for a good pop song:

• Stop-Start
• Harmonizing
• Sub 3 minutes

Check! Check! Check!

I love Visqueen. They write great songs and always seem to be working very hard. I saw them twice last year and both times there were lots of tiny children around. Hopefully they’ll play in a bar soon so there can be adult beverages and language.

SotD 6/7/11: Cataldo

I don't actually remember what song this is. I tried to post the call and response song he did at the living room show but apparently other audiences don't sound as good as we did!

Song of the Day, 6/5/2011

Please stop by my bedroom and dance to this song with me. Or stop by the next Lawndree show, maybe we'll cover it.

Song of the Day, 6/4/2011

It's not really a secret is it, this one is my favorite radiohead song.



I remember wondering when I was like, 14, how I would pose if I was in this video. Oh, you so know you did too. Don't fake it.

Song of the day 2/06/2011

Seattle attracts so much music and is awesome.
Seattle also has too many stupid festivals and camping-based torture near by.

God I hope the reformed Archers of Loaf do a show actually in Seattle.

Song of the Day, 6/1/2011

Ugh, the flu. The new Death Cab for Cutie album is out this week, and I feel like I should have listened to it and have some sort of brilliant commentary on it by now. Instead I've been puking my guts up and having fever dreams for the last 48 hours.

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So instead, check out the latest sign that we're all old now - Death Cab for Cutie on VH1's Storytellers. Movie Script Ending is one of my favorite songs, it's about driving into Bellingham and it came out at a time when I was doing a lot of driving in to Bellingham - the album came out the week before I moved down to Seattle for college.

I could place most of the lines of the song, but I couldn't ever really figure out where the Bottoms on Barstools line was - but it turns out, it's about one of my favorite bars in Bellingham - the legendary Beaver Inn.

They also play and share the story behind Photobooth, another one of my favorites. When I hear it, I can smell the smells that mark the end of a Pacific NW Summer:

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There also is a house - or was house - in the lettered streets that I used to pretend this song was about. I didn't know the people that lived there real well, I was in high school, they were in college, I went to a party there, like, once I think - but I'd often drive past and see a couch on the lawn and pretend this song was happening. (And that I wasn't invited. But maybe, someday I would be.)