Today I made a tab for Knotty Pine off of Dark was the Night. Hopefully it will be posted onto Indie Guitar Tabs soon.
Also, I've decided to revoke any music Saturdays. I was using them mostly to listen to whatever I want, rather than researching music for the playlist. Instead, if it has to do with playlist research, I can listen to any music I want. This probably will be more limiting, because I'm deciding what to do for playlists very early in the week, even though they will still come out on Saturday.
This week the playlist will be a study of artists who put out music in 2009, but have also put out much older music. For example, U2's new album opposed to their older ones. There will be one song from this year, or something from at least 2006 on, and something from beyond at least 1995.
And also one of the first that's been posted on a Saturday for awhile. Sorry about that.
This playlist is going to be some music from a Jazz station I was listening too, as well as songs from bands Animal Collective was influenced by, because I was listening to Jazz music in the situation I was placed in, but I wanted to study these other bands Animal Collective was influenced by.
1. You Don't Know Like I Know - Sam & Dave (1966)
2. Marvin Gaye - Stubborn Kind of Fellow (1962) (The version I heard must have been from earlier, and it was a young Marvin Gaye backed by The Temptations, or at least that's my understating from the radio station as I was following people places and worrying about my at-the- moment non working iPod. If your really interested in the version that I heard which was absolutely amazing, the website for the radio station is http://www.wbgo.org/)
3. Contract on Love - Stevie Wonder (1962)
4. CluaKoonde - S. E. Rogie (the playful simplicity and delivery, but truly rich and complex beat most obviously influenced Animal Collective.)
5. Ena Eye A Mane Me - African Brothers Dance Band (International)
The beginning of this song seems way too modern, and could be almost an exact sample from many recent works, along with Animal Collective.
I wasn't going to post a video for a few posts, but I just found where all the cool you tube videos went, and though I'd share one that's amazingly related to music.
I'm sorry to say there will be no playlist from last week. It was a sick weekend break, of which I enjoyed far too many movies and far too much television, but I'm glad to be back, and more alive.
While becoming couch fungus, I watched all of the current episodes of US of Tara. From which I have heard and seen some excellent use of music. Particularly the suiting (on purpose) intro to the episodes is The Polyphonic Spree - United States of Tara.
Other good music they have used come from Liam Finn (who seems to be every were in the past few weeks) and several others I should have written down. Anyways, I'm giving The United States of Tara a gold medal for music supervision. YayDiablo Cody, you've officially won more awards than people though you deserved.
Happy- St. Vincent has named and set a release date for her album, along with an MP3.
Actor is out May 5 and the song is The Strangers. Dance beat to a sarcastic musical is what it's reminding me of
No more graduations related tests left, but some very good music got me through it.
Tightrope- Yeasayer
This would be the fourth song on the blogger playlist Dark Was the Night offers, but they only allowed three songs. As a late but much deserved treat, here in a video of the studio recording of the song. Definitely, this song is the most addictive one of the CD, though I'm still to debate if it is the best.
Neko Case's new album is all over pretty solid. The only songs that really impresses me though is "This Tornado Loves You" which I just find brilliant. Some of the lyrics bother me, like when she says she needs to take a bus to the fact that she needs love. Honestly taking a bus to a fact just bothers me in general. It seems to be too well appreciated for my response, so I'm gonna keep listening to it. Repetition seems to attract me to an album and appreciate it more (for example my change of hart concerning Bruce Peninsula http://onlyof09.blogspot.com/2009/02/eighth-day.html). I'll tell you how it all goes.
Today I sadly couldn't place The Clash to their music. I had absolutely no idea who it was when my friend put it on. Loosing touch with some of my 8th grade roots, but this experiment still has more pros than cons.
Finally got USB cord for the iPod. Oh technology..
I also got 2 new albums, both compilation cds. One's absolutely fantastic. The other is all covers and I only got 5 songs off of my dad. Some are good, but others miss out.
One is called Dark is the Night. It is insanely amazing, and almost exactly what I need, many amazing artists with fantastic tracks from all of them. Andrew Bird, Arcade Fire, Beirut, Bon Iver, Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues, The Decemberists, Dirty Projectors and David Byrne, Feist does two separate tracks with Ben Gibbard (of Death Cab for Cutie) and Grizzly Bear, Grizzly Bear, Iron & Wine, My Brightest Diamond, My Morning Jacket, The New Pornographers, Conor Oberst and Gillian Welch, Spoon, Sufjan Stevens, and Yeasayer are all the things that excited me about this album. There are also plenty of other bands that I don't listen to as much, but the whole two CD collection is amazing.
The Sufjan Stevens track "You Are the Blood" is particularly satisfying to me. I'm lacking in a vital music vitamin without him. It's 10 minuets on the album, and is basically a battle between Sufjan's very computer and technical side (ie. Enjoy Your Rabbit) and his much more acoustic classical side (ie. "That Dress Looks Nice on you"). It was a fantastic find, and I'm happy to have it for this year.
Representing Sufjan's music label Asthmatic Kitty, My Brightest Dimond covers "Feeling Good" and when I was watching the few middle school-ers on my bus looking confused as the bus door wouldn't open, I was much happier. It made the situation much more humorous even though I thought we'd be late to school on the day of the HESPAs(NJ state Highschool test, you need to pass to graduate). It's not to innovative, but the song is and always will be fantastic, and anyone that can sing it well should record it.
Yeasayer and Arcade Fire's songs are also among my favorite on the album, but I put the Feist + Grizzly Bear track on the offered blog playlist from the album site. (They know their audience too well.. and I'm one of the suckers that bought into it... oh well. Good music streamed for free is worth it.)
Sweetheart is a Starbucks offer, but there are some decent covers. Actually She & Him cover "I Put a Spell on you" and it's brilliant, and A.C.Newman (of the The New Pornographers) cover "Take On Me" and it's very good even though he kind of sounds like he's swallowing his tongue on the high note, who can blame him?(pop songs where so high pitched in the 80s) Jem covers "Yellow" in a wonderful stripped piano and vocal version, with strings later in the song.
Rouge Wave cover "Maps" but seemed to miss the memo about how slow acoustic songs and lyric repetition don't always mix. Anyway, it was a good attempt at one of my favorite songs. "Love Song" covered by Death Cab for Cutie is decent, but I'm bias in that "Love Song" never really interested me. Sorry Robert Smith.
Now I have to go get Neko Case's new album Middle Cyclone. They stopped free streaming today with it's release.
Pale Young Gentlemen cover M.I.A in a way that only fans of both the Clash and M.I.A with out any apparent attempt at using computer sound.
Neko Case's new album is due out in a week, but to fall in love with it now, NPR is streaming the whole thing. Just listening to it now, the very first song is in no way lacking in quick-spit witty lyrics reminiscent of Jenny Lewis with a less groove and more banjo beat in the background.
Sorry for the late post. I usually post at night, but I wasn't home last night.
In honor of the featured play lists in Spin (?) Magazine. Such as Songs I like Biscuits with play list created by Elvis Costello.
Things I like to harmonize too
1. Obstacle 1- Interpol
2. Sea of Love- Cat Power
3. 17- Field Music
4. Walcott- Vampire Weekend
5. Knocked Up- Kings of Leon
6. Fix You- Coldplay
Today, the 22nd, I got to listen to some awesome 70's music. My friend only had her old iPod, and that was the only good thing on it, Best of the Seventies Albums. We specifically listened to 1978. Good year for the best of music I guess.
Check it out. Until We Bleed is my favorite of the bunch, and even within that song there are several amazing remixes.
Today I lost my iPod for the time being. Computer is the only source of music becuse I don't know the last time I had a clear burnable CD. Maybe I'll find one.
Having lost my iPod connector to my computer, I could not get the new Psapp album onto my iPod. That left me with The Joy Formidable to continue to rave over. The only problem is that five songs can get fairly overplayed quite quickly. It's amazing how quickly a music collection has already built this year.
My Collection
-a CD of MP3 I could download (We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - LosCampesinos!, 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 & RealpeopleEP and Holland EP- Beirut
-A Mountain Is A Mouth- Bruce Peninsula
- A Balloon Called Moaning - The Joy Formidable
-The Camel's Back- Psapp
-In Her Gentle Jaws- The Depreciation Guild
Though the single on The Joy Formidable album is "Astere" it seems that "The Greatest Light is the Greatest Light" is more memorable, I often look forward too it as the album plays. Not quite what I expected, Psapp's album is still a perfect happy rock album. It's like a good very good children's book, in music form. Take for example the train noises in "Mister Ant"
I figured I'd show where I come from musically. It doesn't really go into much of what I listen too now, because it'd be much to much to write, but it's pretty detailed concerning my far past. This might explain why I'm doing this experiment, but probably won't. Oh well.
It all started with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Thanks to Power Rangers (2:00-about5:00). I watched that clip way to many times, not only for the extraordinary non-suited power rangers action, but also for the song. At the time I was 4, and other than Sesame Street, it was probably the only music I would choose to listen too.
For most of my childhood, I listened to the Pure Funk CD. This was mostly a family consensus. My little brother sang "Brick House" for much of his childhood, and the KungFu Fighting chipmunk was a revelation when it came out.
During this time Sunny Came Home was my favorite song for about three years.
From there I got in to Brittany Spears and B*Witched like any 8 year girl would. I only got into B*Witched because of a stocking stuffer that was a VHS of a music video for Jesse Hold On. Being obsessed with music and video at a young age, you can not even imagine how obsessed I got about 3 other girls to make a music video recreation of this. Sadly we never did, because those dance moves are insanely amazing.
After that I listened to Nellyville for a few months straight.
In about 6th grade I got intensely into Nirvana and dyed my hair different colors, and from Yahoo Video Station (which was basically a poorly though out Pandora) I got into The Distillers, and many other bands. Luck for me, I got really into them about a month before Coral Fang came out. With harder sounding music on my mind, my brother and I began sharing similar tastes in music, which got me into screamo music. Nevea Tears, a very unknown screamo band, being the best of all and the only one I still listen too (but was unaware of a second album until just now). The downfall for this type of hardcore music was when I started listening to Lamb of God, which basically scared me out of pursuing it further.
Bored and in search of more music, I adventured in local concerts (at which I often felt very young) and the occasional warped tour.
My salvation from decent music to amazing music came in the form of Sufjan Stevens. My Dad has always put on bands that he think I might like throughout my life, he didn't and probably still doesn't notice the impact of putting that on had on me. It was a simple ride to pick up one of my friends at the time, but I remember it very clearly.
From that point I started on a mission to find anything better, so I could duel with my father for who found the better band (basically) and I just began to get sick of anything without as much thought and effort behind the layers of Illinoise, Seven Swans, and even his Christmas album.
About early sophomore year, I became content with my collection and decided to do the exact opposite of what I'm doing now, I let music find me. With a very full iPod I found no need to search for more exciting and new music, but people still gave me recommendations.
Now a Junior, with a path in mind for my future, I felt I needed to mix up myself up somehow. This is my own experiment, with almost no purpose, but none the less, it has already been extremely enjoyable and eye opening.
Today I listened to Animal Collective's album through twice. What a fantastic album.
My day was also filled with a bunch of awesome songs off of a mix CD made by my friend when she was like 14ish. "Linger" by Cranberries made me remember the whole Buzz Ballad album, which is essential to reminisce amazing songs from your childhood. So happy to have that to, for future listens of course.
Look for the Ideas to Go interactive stands and you'll see my Dad working.
Sadly he can't take me because he'll be to busy with that. Maybe next year.
Yesterday, with my iPod on hand, my little brother put on Fleet Foxes. I'm so happy I've rubbed off on him, that album is definitely missed in my 2009 catalog.
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)
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.
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.
-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 & RealpeopleEP 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.
