28 posts tagged “music”

I am guest DJ-ing on Hollow Earth Radio from 8-11 on Monday 1/19. I'll be playing songs and talking and drinking wine. So listen. And we'll be taking callers at 206.905.1250. It shall be awesome.

I almost always do a year-end  best music releases list. I'm having a very hard time remembering what came out this year...

Bomb the Bass - Future Chaos
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything that happens will happen today
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig! Lazarus! Dig!
She & Him - Volume One
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
Portishead - Third
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Fennesz - The Black Sea
Flight of the Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
The Wedding Present - El Rey

There are a few I haven't listened to yet, so I may revisit this later. Or maybe not.

This was "the year of my affair with a married man" and the year I fell in love with Lush. They remained my favorite band until Spiritualized dethroned them in 1997. And this song seem rather appropriate for the unfortunate circumstance...

I can't keep up with homebody and M-----l but I did have a mini-spree this afternoon:

This would be an awesome party!....I think.

1. 

   Distortion

   Magnetic Fields

Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.

I usually do the year-end top-ten or twenty new records (and persist in calling them records though they are primarily ones and zeroes these days).  I scraped together the new music I've listened to this year and I can't find much that I think deserves to be top-tenned.  They are all runners up.

1. Blonde Redhead: 23
This may well be the one record that gets a number.  It's a dreamy record, and although dream-pop doesn't suit me everyday, there are some days that it's more refreshing than limeade in August.

• Low: Drums & Guns\Low fans generally don't like this overtly poppy and unusually positive record.  I've always found Low's sound a bit too melancholy for everyday listening, so I actually find Drums & Guns rather refreshing.  Still, it's not great enough for the top 10.
• Radiohead: In Rainbows\ Clever marketing aside, this record is just ok.  There are a couple of great tracks, but even those tracks don't beat OK Computer in my book.
• The Shins: Wincing the Night Away\ I'm sick of The Shins.  I'm also sick of Interpol, Arcade Fire, Franz Ferdinand, Art Brut, and The Arctic Monkeys, while I'm at it.
• Feist: The Reminder \ This is a nice record. Critically acclaimed. Extremely fucking boring.
• Amy Winehouse: Back to Black \ I'm glad she finally agreed to go to rehab.  I love the motown thang, but the hype got a bit big for its britches. Just not excessively great.
• Cinerama: The Complete Peel Sessions \ I would like to give this a number, but I had already heard all the songs three years ago. Cinerama (Wedding Present side project) holds a special place in my heart for numerous reasons.
• Justice: The Cross \ Ah, French disco.  Excellent dance music, but not really something to write home about.
• Tiny Vipers: Hands Across the Void \ This is a quite nice record. Not sticking, but I think quite good.
• Jose Gonzales: In Our Nature \ Jose deserves the hype, but this is just not up to the songwriting of Veneer.
• PJ Harvey: White Chalk \ OK, this is really close to getting a number 2.  It's a new sound for PJ, with traces of old-school Phil Specter production values.  It's just so grim.

Please, tell me what I've missed this year.

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) 

1. Aphex Twin: Yellow Calx
2. Jamie Liddell: A Little Bit More
3. Blondie: Kung Fu Girls
4. The Fall-Outs: What Does That Make You?
5. Clinic: Anne
6. Out Hud: The Song So Good They Named It Thrice
7. Cocorosie: Noah's Ark
8. Sufjan Stevens: What Child is This Anyway?
9. The Beatles: Good Morning Good Morning
10. The Undertones: Beautiful Friend

I'll write something fer real soon, meanwhile entertain yourself by trying to glean meaning from my "musical horoscope"... I certainly can't.

Do you tend to like music in particular genres, or are your tastes all over the place?  What are your most and least favorite musical genres?

According to iTunes, I listen to:

• Alternative
• Alternative & Punk
• AlternRock
• Ambient Pop
• Blues
• Chanson
• Classical
• Country
• Dream
• Easy Listening
• Electronic
• Electronica
• Electronica/Dance
• Emo
• Folk
• Folk-Rock
• General Electronic
• Gothic
• Hip-Hop/ Rap
• Holiday
• House
• Indie
• Indie Rawk
• Indie-rock
• Industrial
• InstrumentArt
• iTunes Latino
• Jazz
• New Age
• Other
• Pop
• Pop/ Rock
• Pop/ Rock 2000's
• Post-punk
• Progressive
• Psychedelic Rock
• R&B
• R&B/ Soul
• Reggae
• Rock
• Soul and R&B
• Soundtrack
• Tribal
• UK Rock
• Unclassifiable
• Vocal
• World
• 03.14
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