Song of the Day, 1/10/11

So Sebadoh popped up in my Zune recommendations a couple months ago -- a band I had completely forgotten about (and so have you) and that you'll instantly recognize when you hear it.

The real music video for Ocean has embedding disabled (are you out there label wanks?? I hate you.) and there are tons of old TV live versions - but I specifically wanted to link to the album version of the song.



You can watch the super 90s alt-ed out music video here if you want.



Anyways, I'm linking this because I was listening to this song (and album) on the bus this morning, and damn, this is just one of those great sounding tracks. I love the riff at the beginning, how it sounds good on its own right and how the song just gets HUGE when the other instruments come in... pretty much immediately.

Let's not forget the lyrics - such a perfect example of rambling 90s song writing. You know you were dancing around in your room listening to this pretending you really 'got it' and that it 'spoke to you'. It's okay, I was too.

Song of the Day, 1/9/11

So, I forgot to post a song yesterday while I was working on fixing my insomnia problem. It worked, though. So. You know.



For Sunday, you get Mad Rad. My favorite guilty pleasure music for the last 7-8 months or so. Someone from the Stranger recently called their records unlistenable and asked - 'WHO exactly would listen to this outside of a Mad Rad show?'

ME. IN MY MOTHERFUCKING CAR. ON THE WAY TO WORK. That's about right.

Song of the Day, 1/8/11 -- Doozo Yoroshiku Edition

I hope to get to the point where I actually post on the correct day and give this slightly more thought ahead of time.

So a few weeks ago I was talking with my friend Amanda, about folk and bluegrass music and banjos (did you know Steve Martin plays the banjo? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gnr9xkJbfhY).

Anyways, somehow because of this conversation I ended up watching most of the videos in this Youtube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/pappyredux). Like, whoa. I hope that someday, videos from Late Night with Whoever seem as like, charming and strange as these videos seem to me.


So anyways, today you get Bobby Troup doing Sweet Georgia Brown on Japanese television. Dig this attempt at Japanese!




Bonus Track:

Tex Williams - That's What I Like About the West

"You can prove that you're a man drinking fruit juice from a can!"



I also like the schitzo fiddles during the first chorus, and the slide guitar int he second chorus.

Song of the Day, 1/7/11

It is FRIDAY NIGHT!!! After the first work week of the year!!! I FOUND OUT TODAY I'M GETTING AN OFFICE AT WORK! WITH A DOOR MOTHERFUCKERS!!!! Doesn't it make ya'll want to get stupid, get crunk, on some malt liquor?!?!

I DO. Except I haven't had a single night with more than four hours of sleep this week, so I can't really even bring myself to pop a cap or flip a tab.

In honor of my urge to party party party, I'm sharing with you a song I've probably made you listen to at least once. Done by some friends of a friend (and a friend?) All of occurrences of the word friend make me feel really popular.

Song of the day 1/6/11

The Fall – Blindness




The Fall almost always make me feel uncool, they’re name checked by artists I love and by people whose opinions about music I respect. They’ve done twenty-four Peel sessions and have some of the best named albums you’ve ever heard. They’re post-punk, avant-garde, indie-rock legends.

And yet I find it really hard to like much of their stuff.

However, this is one of their songs that I got immediately and for the last few months I’ve had that uncompromising, immutable bass riff stuck in my head.

This is an excellent performance from the TV show Later With Jools Holland, and a few things stand out:

• The band are totally unfazed when Mark E. Smith starts making unmusic on the keyboard, I understand this is standard operating procedure at Fall gigs, nice to see it on TV too.
  
• It’s much shorter than the studio version (which is over 8 minutes and still has the same bass line all the way through) and hardly any of the lyrics actually make it.
  
• Despite this, and the song being a repetitive, signpost-free wilderness the band are super tight and make the changes seemingly without looking at each other.
  

Also: Mark E. Smith is wearing only one glove, which raises the question: Who is the real king of pop?

Song of the day 1/5/11

Wait, what time is it? Probably a song about insomnia or something like that would be more appropriate right now, but instead you get Drumming Song. Because it's lovely. Enjoy it. Relish it.

Song of the day 1/4/11

It's past midnight, I got really obsessed with recording a song and then accidentally deleted the vocals and uke.

This has to be the song of the day though. I'm so excited for these kids to release a record.

Campfire Ok at Oddfellows from Christian Sorensen Hansen on Vimeo.