The Second Playlist.

VALENTINE PLAYLIST!

Sorry I have to do this though. Today is valentines day, and I need to make a play list. It's only logical. The fact that it's my second play list kinda sucks... but that means I'll work extra hard on next weeks.

_____ Love

1. Hot ("Fire on your Feet" by Pop Levi)

2. Dysfunctional ("Me & Mr Jones" by Amy Winehouse)

3. Unwanted ("Save Me" by Aimee Mann)

4. Definite ("Knocked Up" by Kings of Leon)

5. Un-word-able ("The Luckiest" by Ben Folds)

6. Parent to Child ("Sweet Pea" by Amos Lee)

7. Teenage ("The Waltz" by The Afterword)

8. Beginning ("The Dress Looks Nice on You" by Sufjan Stevens)

9. Everlasting ("I Will Follow You Into the Dark" by Death Cab for Cutie)

enjoy, in whatever form of love you wish.

The Eighth Day.

Today a stream of popular songs from the early 2000's have been running through my head. Like "You Don't Have to Call" by (Insert interchangeable R&B singer/dancer) and the ever amazing "She F***ing Hates Me" by Nickleback (a friend informed me it's actually by Puddle of Mud, so Nickleback has never had a good song basically)

No time at all for Internet surfing today. In fact this was the only time I was on at all. Bruce Peninsula is a savior in a field of all ready moderately disappointing releases in 2009 (can't wait for March releases). Though it took some time to love, as most amazing albums seem to do when you first are introduced to the new style and format of the artists new sound or if it's the first time your hearing it, it now seems to be filled with completely necessary songs. My previous statement about the only really stand out songs being the ones most popularly rated in iTunes, there is in fact no song that now doesn't stand out, with either one catchy phrase or simply an amazing sounding segment, all the songs are necessary and enjoyable.

Today I got to listen to some Sublime. From this I remembered how amazing the song "Caress me Down" is. First listened to when I was about 12, it was scandalous, and I only enjoyed it because of it's taboo. Now I can see it has what every song needs. Voice distortion, a simple catchy choirs, and the fact that they are Sublime is not a damning fact either.

Oops.

Cheap and Cheerful by The Kills is from 2008... gotta research songs better I guess.

So that's off my list, but I added a iTunes exclusive live CD by The Kills, so it evens out. even though Cheap and Cheerful isn't on there... sadly.

The Fifth Day.

Today I had the manwitch song stuck in my head, almost all day. It prevented me from wanting to listen to much else, but when I got home I found some good stuff and something to look forward too.

Psapp has an album coming out in the US on the 17th, though it came out in the UK on October 17, 2008. I'm happy to take advantage of this over-seas album lag, especially because I just started listening to the band. If you are a Brit and already have the album good for you, but for those of you who don't, here are three good tracks to hold you over until next Tuesday.

Psapp – The Monster Song 

– I Want That

- Chapter

My collection so far is 

-a bunch of MP3's off the Internet that I can't download

-a CD of ones I could (We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!, Cheap and Cheerful - The Kills, Airport Surroundings- Lonely Dear, Fine For Now, 2 HUD, Two Weeks,  While You Wait For Others - Grizzly Bears)

- Merriweather Post Pavillon- Animal Collective

-March of the Zapotec & Realpeople EP and Holland EP- Beirut

-A Mountain Is A Mouth- Bruce Peninsula

Today I saw TVotR on Colbert Report. "Dancing Shoes" is fantastic whenever it is preformed, and I'm already missing Dear Science.

A difficult day.

I'm writing for Sunday the 8th, because my Internet was down yesterday and nothing exciting happened today.

Yesterday I bought the Bruce Peninsula album A Mountain Is a Mouth. The whole album is decent, but there are definitely stand out songs separate from the album. Crabapples in particular, is a fantastic track. as well shanty song. basically anything that has a high popularity in the iTunes store.

I found a website with awesome tracks, mixed in with many dance remixes that basically sound the same. Here is an example of three good tracks off of it.

-http://hypem.com/track/746795/Kleerup-Until+We+Bleed+(ft+Lykke+Li)

-http://hypem.com/track/747344/Efterklang-Mirador

-http://hypem.com/track/747336/My+Brightest+Diamond-Golden+Star

Driving home from seeing a friend who is barely awake in the ICU, two songs off of albums from this year seemed to completely fit the visit, epically how he might feel.

-Bruce Peninsula- Shanty Song

-Animal Collective- In the Flowers

Allowing others to choose music for me to listen too, my friend put Arctic Monkey on in the car on the way to see our mutual friend in the ICU. They were old albums because she hadn't updated the ipod in a long time, so stuff off of Favorite Worst Nightmares and Whatever People Say I am, That. Almost any track on those albums are amazing and I'm looking forward to the new Arctic Monkies album.

The First Playlist.

This playlist was put together just today. It honestly isn't very deep or very though into, but it does fulfill it's title. Enjoy. The prase is compleated by the song.

Those Who Try ____

1. but didn't make it (This is Not a Test- She & Him)

2.youthfully (Now, Now- St. Vincent)

3.their best (Morning Exericise- The Heavenly States)

4.(obvious choice) (Try- Nelly Furtado)

5.to forget and fail (Love U- Blitzen Trapper)

6.to search and discover (Year of the Rat- Sufjan Stevens)

The title of the playlist is from This is Not a Test by She & Him. For now all the music is almost perpousfully not current, but just what I could think of having a two day though process on the matter. 

With the day off, I'm almost looking forward to returning to my set of rules. It was too easy today and I didn't have to use time to think about what I wanted to listen too, I also didn't have to allow others to choose what to do for me. Starting the day, I accidently begain following the rules, even though I was excited the day befor to listen to anything.

The Second Day.

Today I needed to listen to St. Vincent. Truly needed it for some reason. I didn't listen to any of it, but thankfully she is putting out another album this year.

For now I will have to make due with Bat For Lashes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=CA&hl=en&v=w0oNWc2j-cI) as my only fill for amazing female solo artists. There's a gap missing (Feist, St. Vincent, Regina Spektor) that just needs to be somewhere in every ones collection.

I'm learning the amazing abilities of the Internet I usually don't explore with a satisfied abundance of things I can go back to when there is nothing else to listen too. Still, the mysteries of full album leeks eludes me. Chromewaves is often my first places to go. There are easy-to-find mp3's for featured bands, and if you didn't notice, my blog is essentially following it at the moment (hopefully that will change. 

My collection has only slightly increased from the past post

 The Kills- Cheap and Cheerful http://mp3.insound.com/download.php?mp3id=3296&file=.mp3

(I've accidently downloaded it four times)

Bruce Peninsula- Crabapples (http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Bruce%20Peninsula%20-%20Crabapples.mp3)

High Places- From Stardust to Sentience (http://thrilljockey.com/drop/freebies/High_Places_From_Stardust_to_Sentience.mp3)

All have albums coming out soon. I'm most looking forward to The Kills album. While High Places fills a much needed sound therapy, The Kills entertaining and raw music is much more satisfying, aseptically in their uniqueness even as I try to fill familiar sounds.

The Kills are also in Webster Hall in NYC. If your around go for it. HOPEFULLY I will be attending (http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0000423F9D2D545C?artistid=871058&majorcatid=10001&minorcatid=1).

Today as I released my control of my musical surroundings, I was placed listening to The Flight of the Conchords album, not their live album, the actual one. Paying attention to it I was annoyed at the amount of changes they had made from their flawless stage performance. Sometimes the producers are wrong and sometimes you need to go with what you started with. Still, the album is and will always be highly entertaining.

Saturdays I have opened up to where I can listen to any music I want to. On that day I will create a play list. This was suggested by a friend of my fathers (the play list) to help with my hopeful career in music supervision and when I mentioned it would be very hard to do with only a few albums, my mother said "is this experiment helping you reach your goal." Not willing to hinder my future, I have opened up Saturdays to all music, which also means there will be a play list on Saturdays (Yay!).

The first day.

Today was already semi-difficult. 

Yesterday I had not yet started and I was listening to a album by Pop Levi (http://www.poplevi.com/)  which sadly was not released this year. I would really like to go back to that album, but now I will have to wait a year for something that was otherwise new in my mind.

Right now I only have three albums to listen to. One of which is bootlegged, and I can't get on my iPod.

Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillon

-specifically My Girls 

- (http://www.myanimalhome.net/) there's the spectacularly created video

Beirut - March of the Zapotec/Holland EP 

- (http://www.beirutband.com/) there is the official site.

Grizzly Bear, Live at Boston November 14, 2008

- gotten off of JP's Blog (Thanks!) http://jp917.blogspot.com/2009/01/new-grizzly-bear-live-at-boston-mfa.html

-yes I know it's from 2008, but I'm only limiting my listening to only the tracks "Two Weeks", "While You Wait For Others", "2 HUD", and "Fine For Now" which will be released on their album in May.

I've heard of a few other releases. A second ago I was checking out The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/thepainsofbeingpureatheart)

Sadly it's very unexciting and I will most likely not download anything. Honestly it doesn't interest me. Very 80's pop band like. If your a fan there decent, for me the genre always comes out thin.

Allowing others to choose music out of there own free will left me making paper cranes for a friend with a group of other friends that don't even know him listening to Beck, specifically Beck remixes because those are the first in my line up of Beck on my iPod apparently. It was supriseingly entertaining and honestly helped maintain some sanity as it contrasted the tedious work of following paper folding instructions. Something about Mario sounds is soothing.

As we listened to Beck, I found that "Rental Car" by Beck has a very similar melody to one of Nirvana's songs. At first I thought Beck had covered the song (which's title I cannot remember) but it was not a cover, simply a very similar melody. Unable to check, I will only have to guess it is true.

Right now: The Kills "Cheap and Cheerful" on repeat until I finish homework

Just starting.

Only of '09 is a music experiment I'm conducting on myself. 

The experiment is that I can only listen to music released in 2009. By only listening to music that has been put out in 2009 I hope for a few things:

1. The discovery of new bands.

2. a sense of what people reacting too in 2009 concerning music.

3. Sharing bands with people.

4. Having new bands shared with me.

Along with these hopes I have established a set of my own rules:

1. I can only download and listen to music released in 2009

2. If other people choose the music, it can be anything

-but I can't force anyone to choose something for me.

3. I can play anything from any time on instruments. (being unable to listen to it will make it more difficult to learn.)

Hopefully all will work out.