Just for a change of pace here's some nerdy rock music.
There's still almost two full days of this week left. This is simultaneously not enough time to get that thing done by the end of the week and an appallingly long wait until the weekend.
Bloody hell.
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Song of the Day 1/19/12
This is odd. I don’t like The Go! Team, mainly because of their fucking stupid punctuation (although the same crimes don’t bother me when committed by Godspeed You! Black Emperor or Motörhead), and I don’t really like Best Coast (gorgeous vocals over not very good songs) and yet they combined to make this:
Which is obviously great.
Disclaimer: I’m still trying (and failing) to keep up with new music, I first heard this a couple of weeks ago (and then today in Trader Joe’s – one stop indie rock grocery shopping) so I’ve decided it counts.
Which is obviously great.
Disclaimer: I’m still trying (and failing) to keep up with new music, I first heard this a couple of weeks ago (and then today in Trader Joe’s – one stop indie rock grocery shopping) so I’ve decided it counts.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Song of the Day 1/12/12
The best new Seattle-based music. This blog just continues to deliver on its promises. Sorry, I’ve been typing and trying to eat healthy foods, this hasn’t left me much time for listening to new stuff. The upside of this is technology is getting more awesome and there are more Top Pot donuts available in the Pacific North West.
Which brings us to this great song from the AV Club’s Undercover project, The Mountain Goats explode through Boxcar by Jawbreaker, a lot of good work done in about two minutes with a handful of chords. You’d have to try really hard not to like this. And you would fail. Fail!
Music starts at 1:17 – but you should watch the whole thing.
Free extree bonus fact: That guitar is just like mine!
Which brings us to this great song from the AV Club’s Undercover project, The Mountain Goats explode through Boxcar by Jawbreaker, a lot of good work done in about two minutes with a handful of chords. You’d have to try really hard not to like this. And you would fail. Fail!
Music starts at 1:17 – but you should watch the whole thing.
Free extree bonus fact: That guitar is just like mine!
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Song of the Day 1/5/2012
Hey! Look! Song of the day is back!
I try to pick stuff that is current and based in Seattle and I almost always fail to do this. This is off the new Guided By Voices record (so 0.5 out of 2 isn’t bad).
This is them on Letterman from earlier this week, they’re kind of a sloppy mess (if you study the video really closely you might notice that the bass-player makes a tiny error), but Robert Pollard’s voice is dead on.
I don’t feel entirely comfortable saying “I like Guided By Voices” because they have so many songs and I’ve only scratched the surface (their best of “Human Amusements At Hourly Rates” seems to be the best way to start on this surface scratching: http://open.spotify.com/album/53KpX4dhIypkmTZkfgQdS6 ). Their reputation suggests that even though they’re prolific not much of their content is must-have-indie-gold, but I’m envious of this ability to just crank out record after record. Especially because at the moment I have song-writer’s block, I can’t get my guitar to make a decent original noise – a cursory inspection of every good chord pattern I come up reveals that Pixies, Sugar et al. have already written, recorded and released the exact sequence of same notes 20 years ago.
Must be more like GBV.
I try to pick stuff that is current and based in Seattle and I almost always fail to do this. This is off the new Guided By Voices record (so 0.5 out of 2 isn’t bad).
This is them on Letterman from earlier this week, they’re kind of a sloppy mess (if you study the video really closely you might notice that the bass-player makes a tiny error), but Robert Pollard’s voice is dead on.
I don’t feel entirely comfortable saying “I like Guided By Voices” because they have so many songs and I’ve only scratched the surface (their best of “Human Amusements At Hourly Rates” seems to be the best way to start on this surface scratching: http://open.spotify.com/album/53KpX4dhIypkmTZkfgQdS6 ). Their reputation suggests that even though they’re prolific not much of their content is must-have-indie-gold, but I’m envious of this ability to just crank out record after record. Especially because at the moment I have song-writer’s block, I can’t get my guitar to make a decent original noise – a cursory inspection of every good chord pattern I come up reveals that Pixies, Sugar et al. have already written, recorded and released the exact sequence of same notes 20 years ago.
Must be more like GBV.
Friday, December 30, 2011
Song of the Day, 12/30/2011
Okay, I sort of sucked at keeping the momentum going for this for the whole year. But it's been AWESOME to look back over this and see all of this stuff - and it's been super helpful as I've been trying to organize a Top Songs of 2011 list. So much goodness I forgot about!
So many photos from SxSW! So many posts about the Fleet Foxes!
I'm trying to put together my list on Spotify, and so far one of my greatest frustrations is what *isn't* available. I think my favorite song of the past year, one that I've listened to again and again, is The Round by Pickwick. This band, is worth seeing a million times over. They started as an alt-country band and got bored, and decided to get some soul.
Originally, they released The Round at a few other songs on 7" only - I have them. They're like candy. They're recording a full length early next year, and I CANNOT wait to hear it.
Another someone I think you're going to hear more about this next year is Bryan John Appleby (maybe just from me):
.... Maybe I should just do a top 10 as a blog post....
So many photos from SxSW! So many posts about the Fleet Foxes!
I'm trying to put together my list on Spotify, and so far one of my greatest frustrations is what *isn't* available. I think my favorite song of the past year, one that I've listened to again and again, is The Round by Pickwick. This band, is worth seeing a million times over. They started as an alt-country band and got bored, and decided to get some soul.
Originally, they released The Round at a few other songs on 7" only - I have them. They're like candy. They're recording a full length early next year, and I CANNOT wait to hear it.
Another someone I think you're going to hear more about this next year is Bryan John Appleby (maybe just from me):
The 2011 Doe Bay Sessions - Bryan John Appleby from Sound on the Sound on Vimeo.
.... Maybe I should just do a top 10 as a blog post....
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Song of the Day 11/5/11 - Macklemore's And We Danced
I just kind of love Macklemore. The new video is kind of ridiculous but it's a great song.
Friday, July 8, 2011
Song of the day 7/8/2011
Great song, sleazy video redeemed by that ENORMOUS chorus.
Typing for money is killing me at the moment. Is 33 too young to retire?
Typing for money is killing me at the moment. Is 33 too young to retire?
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