November 04, 2004

• Iron & Wine while I waited out my hangover, and the classic spazzy punk since then.
• My dad's copy of Tubular Bells, over and over again, 'cos I'm at home and it's the only CD he owns that I can bear to listen to.
• Muse - Absolution
• Comedy. Lots of comedy.
• Random shuffle in iTunes, 4 & 5 star music plus everything ripped in the last month. Heavy on electronica and covers and happy pop, and skipping anything too depressing.
• Lots and lots of Radiohead, but primarily, and ironically, 'Optimistic'.
• There's no future, no future for you!
• Mostly, it's movies and not music that offer me proper distraction. This week, I've seen 'Sideways', 'Primer', 'I Heart Huckabees', and 'The Grudge'. The first three were very good, and the last was at least time-consuming.
• Right now -- The Beatles, "Getting Better"
• "Has Been." William Shatner.
• Where is my mind - Pixies
• Yesterday: Leonard Cohen's "The Future" Today: Dead Kennedys
• Yesterday: Deicide, "Serpents of the Light/Legion" Today: Liz Phair, "Exile in Guyville" and Tom Waits "Mule Variation."
• s/b "Variations"
• "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)", John Williams "Beelzebubba", Dead Milkmen
• "Bone Machine," Tom Waits "Cold Mountain" Soundtrack
• I've been playing mostly random oggs from my collection, but I keep revisiting the new Die Warzau album Convience, and Assemblage 23's Storm every few songs. Oh, and do check out Die Warzau's label Pulseblack's FAQ and their novel ideas about file sharing. Too cool.
• The Shins, The Vapors and Split Enz.
• Today: Death In June - "But what ends when the symbols shatter?" Morbid Angel - "Gateways to annihilation" Yesterday: Scanner - "Sound for spaces" Summoning - "Stronghold"
• le tigre, team dresch, sleater-kinney, heavens to betsey, bikini kill...
• Hooverphonic — A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular Gavin Bryars, Tom Waits, and Tramp — Jesus Blood Never Failed Me Yet
• I'll own up to it. Not post-election, but in the I Am So #$(&ing Sick of Politics run-up to the election, "Land of Confusion" by Genesis was constantly on my pseudo-'pod. I am a dork; please kill me. thank you. Since then I've been soundtracking according to the other things going on in my little life.
• I've been listening to creepy hillbilly banjo tunes from the 20's like Clarence Ashley's "Dark Hollow", Dock Boggs' "Country Blues", and Bascom Lunsford's "I Wish I Was a Mole in the Ground". Another one that hits the spot is my all time favorite hip hop track, the Ghetto Boys' "My Mind's Playing Tricks on Me", a song that positively drips drugged-out paranoia. And a couple of days ago I found an .mp3 of Sleater-Kinney doing "Fortunate Son", a song that seems very appropriate these days.
• If any of you monkeys know of legal mp3 samples of what you're listening to, please include them in your comment. I know I'd like to get a listen.
• Futureheads - 'Piece of Crap' made me laugh a lot yesterday when I was bummed.
• fuyugare: I've been wanting to hear Jesus' Blood for sometime now. Good, I presume?
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• Zombie from the Cranberries keeps going through my head...
• listenin' to Lila Downs and Bjork (amphibian)
• Sloop John B, Seasons in the Sun, and I Believe I Can Fly: as covers done by Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Same thing I'm always listening to: Scott Joplin and Operation Ivy.
• I listen to an oldies station at work. The song playing right now is Neil Sedaka's "I Hear Laughter in the Rain." Outside of that, a lot of NPR.
• mct: it's perfect meditation music. The tramp's voice is so unique that I think the quality goes down slightly when Tom Waits joins in for the coda.
• A lot of classical music (Ravel, mostly). Alone In Kyoto by AIR and Beach Party Tonight by Yo La Tengo as well.
• You are all pansy asses: Fela Kuti - Coffin For Head Of State Part II On repeat, again, and again, and again.
• Paul Oakenfold, Paul Van Dyk, St. Germain, Bebel Gilberto, The Porn Kings, Salt n Pepa, N.E.R.D and the Ying Yang Twins. And I've been downloading Angelique Kidjo, Crime Mob, Bizet, and Lil Jon and the Eastside Boyz, plus a bunch of new Green Day after seeing a thing on the new album, American Idiot. The single, 'American Idiot' is great.
• Elliott Smith's "From a basement on the hill" and Arcade Fire's "Funeral". Both excellent and recommended.
• In the car: Absolution by Muse The Remote Part by Idlewild Soundtrack to FLCL by various artists. At my desk: Hot Fuss by the Killers Oh, and "Hoist that Rag" by Tom Waits off Real Gone.
• fuyu -- have you heard Bryars' Titanic record? Also excellent.
• I wish Ronnie Van Zant was still around, because in my imaginary world he'd be kicking Charlie Daniels' stupid fucking cracker ass all over the place right now. Patti Smith Group, Wave. (The old stuff is comforting.) Ooh, and I saw the Me First and the Gimme Gimmes list above, and it makes me realize that I want to hear "Good Vibrations" (the original) more than anything right now.
• Thanks, you people, for getting me to start listening to music again. I'd kind of stopped during the past couple of days. Weird. (Next up, the 80s. Replacements and Husker Du, to start.)
• A Distorted Reality Is Now a Necessity To Be Free, by Elliott Smith. Summed up by the last few lines: so disappointing so first i put it all down to luck god knows why my country don't give a fuck fuck Windows media sample | Real Audio sample Full lyrics On preview: glad to see another fan, stepself
• I've spent lots of time listening to Elliott Smith's first album, but lately, that's somehow segued into "Slow Jamz" by Twista. She got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson
• I've been listening to Mos Def's Black on Both Sides (don't start me on his new album though), Let's Get Free by Dead Prez, and DJ /rupture's Gold Teeth Thief mixtape (which can be downloaded in its entirety here) because they remind me of the things I like about America, and that Americans are not all bad.
• "The Big Country," Talking Heads. I'm tired of looking out the window of the airplane I'm tired of travelling, I want to be somewhere. It's not even worth talking About those people down there. Goo Goo Ga Ga Ga Goo Goo Ga Ga Ga
• "Say hello to the new boss/ Same as the old boss!" "Our president's crazy/ Did you hear what he said?" "Texas has religion/ REVOLTING COCKS ARE GOD!" "Kill kill kill kill kill the poor!" "Niggers are scared of revolution!" "No no no no no no Mr. Suit!" "Spanish bombs/ in Andulucia..." And lots and lots of '70s afrocentric jazz...
• HawthorneWingo wins for listening to Patti Smith.
• Bob Dylan. Lots of Dylan. 'Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again." Anything off "Blood on the Tracks." "Desolation Row" seems strangely appropriate: Yes, I received your letter yesterday (About the time the door knob broke) When you asked how I was doing Was that some kind of joke? All these people that you mention Yes, I know them, they're quite lame I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name Right now I can't read too good Don't send me no more letters no Not unless you mail them From Desolation Row
• What about "With God on our Side?" Maybe that one's too obvious. Also, y'all need to get over to the MoFi AudioScrobbler group (because it can never be mentioned too often).
• Also "Masters of War" or "Hard Rain." But I was going a little abstract I suppose. Oh and I am reading (certain parts) "fear and loathing on the campaign trail '72" by Hunter S. Thompson. I dont feel like typing the quotes now but if substitute "Kerry" for "McGovern" and "Bush" for "Nixon" the paralells are striking.
• Oh and randomly after "desolation row" on my playlist is "No Depression in Heaven" by the Carter Family, which seems oddly appropriate for several reasons.
• IndignantBlink: you too? ::: raises an eyebrow ::: Portishead's "Glory Box" is currently playing in iTunes...
• "Lump" The Presidents of the United States of America
• ...okay, post-E my rotation has turned to happy cynicism. Morrissey, "Interesting Drug." A lovely string remake of a Cure song that is an automatic three-minute sunny Saturday afternoon. I am still a dork; kill me again. But hey, I don't even pretend to be indie, so I make no apologies for that part.