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In My Younger Days
Zee Video Roundup...
The best music video of 2009:
Video :: All The King’s Men by Wild Beasts (Little Stolen Moments'' alternate video)
The one song on The Magnetic Fields’ new one, “Realism”, that doesn’t render me sleepy and long for the 69 Love Songs of yore...
Video :: We Are Having A Hootenanny by The Magnetic Fields
More dancing (da stanky leg variety)...
Video :: Sugarbaby by Crystal Stilts (perhaps not official)
The most anticipated album of the year is by Broken Bells (James Mercer and Danger Mouse):
Video :: The High Road by Broken Bells
The High Road
Broken Bells | MySpace Music Videos
For anyone who’s ever longed to see a guy drive to the store to get food for his dog...
Video :: In My Younger Days by eels
Scenic...
Video :: Modern Drift by Efterklang
From The First Days Of Spring film by Noah And The Whale, the excellent "My Broken Heart":
Video :: My Broken Heart by Noah And The Whale
The best music video of 2009:
Video :: All The King’s Men by Wild Beasts (Little Stolen Moments'' alternate video)
The one song on The Magnetic Fields’ new one, “Realism”, that doesn’t render me sleepy and long for the 69 Love Songs of yore...
Video :: We Are Having A Hootenanny by The Magnetic Fields
More dancing (da stanky leg variety)...
Video :: Sugarbaby by Crystal Stilts (perhaps not official)
The most anticipated album of the year is by Broken Bells (James Mercer and Danger Mouse):
Video :: The High Road by Broken Bells
The High Road
Broken Bells | MySpace Music Videos
For anyone who’s ever longed to see a guy drive to the store to get food for his dog...
Video :: In My Younger Days by eels
Scenic...
Video :: Modern Drift by Efterklang
Modern Drift by Efterklang from Rumraket on Vimeo.
From The First Days Of Spring film by Noah And The Whale, the excellent "My Broken Heart":
Video :: My Broken Heart by Noah And The Whale
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Top 28 Moments in Music :: 2009
... a countdown ::
28. Viral Videos: Staged Acts
Everyone’s trying to get their 9 minutes and 59 seconds of fame on the youtubes these days. And by the way, that wedding ceremony dance video thing was really lame. Also, I’m not a big fan of The Black Eyed Peas and I could care less about Oprah, but I have to admit this caught my attention. After all, I do like me some synchronized dance moves and seeing Chicagwegiens having fun.
27. Flight Of The Conchords...These guys continue to make me laugh and their songs are both catchy and hilarious. Too bad their show got cancelled.
26. Morrissey... What a year it was for Morrissey - his 50th. Sickness and bottles to the head meant a whole lot of shows were cancelled (or stopped suddenly), he released a new album - the average “Years of Refusal” - and dragged out a forgettable collection of recent b-side drivel. Mozzer also continues to shun Canada due to our apparent taste for seal products. As well, he is currently without a record label and is contemplating hanging up the gladiola for good. All this and I’m still not sure what to think - other than I know that if he finally found a decent set of musicians (who had at least one original idea between them) to back him up, then things would be back on track with my hero-worshipping. Hmmm, all four Smiths members are still alive!
25. Emmy The Great ... Her vocals on “Seattle” gave The BPA’s Fat Boy Slim renewed life. Meanwhile, Emma-Lee Moss has carved out for herself a fine little singer-songwriter career who’s best work is surely ahead of her.
24. Discovering/ Rediscovering the oldies... I may have been raised on early 70’s am radio, but the only Beatles music I ever really got into was Stars On 45’s medley take. As awesome as that is, hardly a primer. So it wasn’t until this year’s Beatles Rock Band that I got a new found appreciation, though I still think I prefer Wings. The Animals, The Kinks and even Pavement were other “oldies” I finally discovered.
23. Pixies reunited...
Maybe this time they’ll pump out some new tunes to go along with the reformation. Yeah they’re as “dull as butter knives” on stage but I like the fact that they toured the Doolittle songs on the occasion of that album’s 20th anniversary (and that Joey Santiago still looks like he’s 25).
22. Pet Shop Boys - Yes... “Love etc.” is a phenomenal song from a group that is not supposed to matter anymore. The remaining songs were... fine.
21. Dead Man’s Bones... Made up of actor Ryan Gossling and a friend, Dead Man’s Bones, through their daring amateurism, goes down as the band least likely to of 2009. More surprising than the storyline of an actor succeeding in music is that Gosling transformed his tween turn in the Mickey Mouse Club to that of baritone singer of ghoulish prose.
20. NSFW Music Videos... Others have pursued the NSFW/ nekidness type-video theme before, like Sigur Rós last year, but this sure was the year for pushing the envelope. Yeahsayer had naked running people, Girls showed off their own penises, Major Lazer peformed dance-based sex acts minus the nudity while Massive Attack recently released a video for Paradise Circus with clips from old porn flics. Matt and Kim were the most original with their Times Square clothes ripping FU for Lessons Learned, but the best of the bunch was The Flaming Lips’ Watching The Planets... as much as I didn’t need to see Wayne’s Coyne, it was a fairly decent video.
19. The Avett Brothers... I first heard these guys during a scene in Friday Night Lights and was blown away. Turns out they have quite the following in that southern belt of states. “I and Love and You”, released in September, is fairly conventional stuff (Starbucks sells it - yikes!) but there are enough original bits and pieces in there to hold my attention.
18. Miike Snow... This Swedish/ American band came out of nowhere to produce a handful of memorable, if slightly conventional, songs. Their videos were equally memorable.
17. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic... I have only listened to half of this album, but I like the direction these guys are going. These are not simple tunes that catch you right away - you have to work at them a bit.
16. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug... Again, for some reason I haven’t gotten around to listening to the entire thing, but I’m sure glad that the Arctic Monkeys still matter and have been able to translate all that hype and talent into high quality output. Nice lads too!
15. God Help The Girl... This film score to a non-existent (yet) movie by Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch contains all the great songwriting , hooks and necessary twee-factor of a proper B&S album but perhaps comes off a little too polished.
14. múm - Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know...
Iceland’s múm changed up their members and their sound this time around and while the vocals are a little more present, the minimalistic squeaks and blips that make their music so enduring remain. Perhaps not their best effort, but an intriguing departure from the ordinary.
13. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light... This came out way back in January. This is Antony’s most complete album to date but given his warbley vocals, I think people still either love him or hate him.
12. Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffer’s Guide to The Flight Deck... This album was actually released in 2004, but I went five years without knowing the beauty that this thing contains. Mesmerizing stuff. New work is expected from Flotation Toy Warning next year.
Song :: Popstar Reaching Oblivion by Flotation Toy Warning
11. Hello Sweden (once again)... Discovering the music of Hello Saferide, Skatan, Air France and Anna Ternheim was enough to make this list but “old” Swedish standbys like Peter, Bjorn and John and Loney Dear also pumped out reasonably decent new material.
Song :: Collapsing At Your Doorstep by Air France
10. fun. - Aim and Ignite... Nate from The Format joins forces with his buddies to create happy songs with wide reaching arrangements and tempo changes all over the place. A beauty!
9. Karen O (Karen O and The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST; Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - It’s Blitz)... I have ignored the The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s over the years but Karen O’s handling of the Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack was so brilliant that I then went back to It’s Blitz, released earlier in the year, and enjoyed that too. Next thing you know, Karen O was popping up, via telephone line vocals, on a couple of tracks on Embryonic, the new Flaming Lips album.
8. Karin Dreijer Andersson... One half of Swedish electronic outfit The Knife, Karin continued her collaborative work with Röyksopp in 2009 on a couple of tracks and also branched out as a solo artist with Fever Ray – a collection of dark and eerie tunes strung together with THAT voice.
7. Music Go Music - Expressions... Disco revival at its finest! Actually, I only need one album in the “disco revival” category... and this is a whole heap of fun.
6. The xx - xx... xx stands for twenty - the age of all four members of the band at the time of recording this, their first album. Vulnerable, exquisite, measured... their music belies and confirms their accumulated experience. The xx combine boy-girl narration with a modern, low fi sound that results in creative works of art hailed by critics and fans alike. Believe the hype!
5. Animal Collective... The band’s 2009 album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, spawned two of the best videos of the year - both for the excellent “My Girls”. Later in the year, Animal Collective released one of the best songs of 2009, ”Graze” off of their EP, Fall Be Kind. Graze contains the most awesome sample of Zamfir’s pan flute that you’ll ever hear(!)... in the dancey bit of the song no less!
4. Röyksopp - Junior... The ultimate up-beat album; benefits from the diversity of all those guest singers (Lykke Li, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Robyn). Dance music you can listen to on your commute!
Video :: The Girl And The Robot by Röyksopp
3. The Antlers - Hospice... One would think that an album entirely dedicated to songs about watching your beloved die of cancer in hospital would not be well received (or even conceived). But with Hospice, which is equal parts moving, engaging and entertaining, The Antlers manage to achieve the impossible. A must! Note: Hospice was originally distributed by the band themselves - an indie group in the truest sense of the term.
Song :: Two by The Antlers
1. The Hidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan... This is one of the two best albums of the year. There was less singing about peeing on your fellow man and more attention to detail on this, Joel Gibbs’ fourth album proper. The hooks are still there and the songs are better than ever. I would say this represents a more mature approach but past Cameras songs detailing golden showers and enemas were oddly mature in their own right. Origin:Orphan is a brilliant album by a brilliant man and it goes well beyond the band’s self described “gay church folk music” moniker.
1. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter... The other best album of the year - this by the recently-gone-solo ex-Grandaddy leader. Any commentary on this album, positive or otherwise, has strangely been absent from 99.9% of interweb music blogs: proof of my continued uncoolness I suppose. However, “Yours Truly...” will one day be looked upon as a classic! Bonus: you can get Jason’s new seven track “Christmas” album of improvised piano pieces for free here.
28. Viral Videos: Staged Acts
Everyone’s trying to get their 9 minutes and 59 seconds of fame on the youtubes these days. And by the way, that wedding ceremony dance video thing was really lame. Also, I’m not a big fan of The Black Eyed Peas and I could care less about Oprah, but I have to admit this caught my attention. After all, I do like me some synchronized dance moves and seeing Chicagwegiens having fun.
27. Flight Of The Conchords...These guys continue to make me laugh and their songs are both catchy and hilarious. Too bad their show got cancelled.
26. Morrissey... What a year it was for Morrissey - his 50th. Sickness and bottles to the head meant a whole lot of shows were cancelled (or stopped suddenly), he released a new album - the average “Years of Refusal” - and dragged out a forgettable collection of recent b-side drivel. Mozzer also continues to shun Canada due to our apparent taste for seal products. As well, he is currently without a record label and is contemplating hanging up the gladiola for good. All this and I’m still not sure what to think - other than I know that if he finally found a decent set of musicians (who had at least one original idea between them) to back him up, then things would be back on track with my hero-worshipping. Hmmm, all four Smiths members are still alive!
25. Emmy The Great ... Her vocals on “Seattle” gave The BPA’s Fat Boy Slim renewed life. Meanwhile, Emma-Lee Moss has carved out for herself a fine little singer-songwriter career who’s best work is surely ahead of her.
24. Discovering/ Rediscovering the oldies... I may have been raised on early 70’s am radio, but the only Beatles music I ever really got into was Stars On 45’s medley take. As awesome as that is, hardly a primer. So it wasn’t until this year’s Beatles Rock Band that I got a new found appreciation, though I still think I prefer Wings. The Animals, The Kinks and even Pavement were other “oldies” I finally discovered.
23. Pixies reunited...
Maybe this time they’ll pump out some new tunes to go along with the reformation. Yeah they’re as “dull as butter knives” on stage but I like the fact that they toured the Doolittle songs on the occasion of that album’s 20th anniversary (and that Joey Santiago still looks like he’s 25).
22. Pet Shop Boys - Yes... “Love etc.” is a phenomenal song from a group that is not supposed to matter anymore. The remaining songs were... fine.
21. Dead Man’s Bones... Made up of actor Ryan Gossling and a friend, Dead Man’s Bones, through their daring amateurism, goes down as the band least likely to of 2009. More surprising than the storyline of an actor succeeding in music is that Gosling transformed his tween turn in the Mickey Mouse Club to that of baritone singer of ghoulish prose.
20. NSFW Music Videos... Others have pursued the NSFW/ nekidness type-video theme before, like Sigur Rós last year, but this sure was the year for pushing the envelope. Yeahsayer had naked running people, Girls showed off their own penises, Major Lazer peformed dance-based sex acts minus the nudity while Massive Attack recently released a video for Paradise Circus with clips from old porn flics. Matt and Kim were the most original with their Times Square clothes ripping FU for Lessons Learned, but the best of the bunch was The Flaming Lips’ Watching The Planets... as much as I didn’t need to see Wayne’s Coyne, it was a fairly decent video.
19. The Avett Brothers... I first heard these guys during a scene in Friday Night Lights and was blown away. Turns out they have quite the following in that southern belt of states. “I and Love and You”, released in September, is fairly conventional stuff (Starbucks sells it - yikes!) but there are enough original bits and pieces in there to hold my attention.
18. Miike Snow... This Swedish/ American band came out of nowhere to produce a handful of memorable, if slightly conventional, songs. Their videos were equally memorable.
17. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic... I have only listened to half of this album, but I like the direction these guys are going. These are not simple tunes that catch you right away - you have to work at them a bit.
16. Arctic Monkeys - Humbug... Again, for some reason I haven’t gotten around to listening to the entire thing, but I’m sure glad that the Arctic Monkeys still matter and have been able to translate all that hype and talent into high quality output. Nice lads too!
15. God Help The Girl... This film score to a non-existent (yet) movie by Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch contains all the great songwriting , hooks and necessary twee-factor of a proper B&S album but perhaps comes off a little too polished.
14. múm - Sing Along to Songs You Don’t Know...
Iceland’s múm changed up their members and their sound this time around and while the vocals are a little more present, the minimalistic squeaks and blips that make their music so enduring remain. Perhaps not their best effort, but an intriguing departure from the ordinary.13. Antony and the Johnsons - The Crying Light... This came out way back in January. This is Antony’s most complete album to date but given his warbley vocals, I think people still either love him or hate him.
12. Flotation Toy Warning - Bluffer’s Guide to The Flight Deck... This album was actually released in 2004, but I went five years without knowing the beauty that this thing contains. Mesmerizing stuff. New work is expected from Flotation Toy Warning next year.
Song :: Popstar Reaching Oblivion by Flotation Toy Warning
11. Hello Sweden (once again)... Discovering the music of Hello Saferide, Skatan, Air France and Anna Ternheim was enough to make this list but “old” Swedish standbys like Peter, Bjorn and John and Loney Dear also pumped out reasonably decent new material.
Song :: Collapsing At Your Doorstep by Air France
10. fun. - Aim and Ignite... Nate from The Format joins forces with his buddies to create happy songs with wide reaching arrangements and tempo changes all over the place. A beauty!
9. Karen O (Karen O and The Kids - Where The Wild Things Are OST; Yeah Yeah Yeah’s - It’s Blitz)... I have ignored the The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s over the years but Karen O’s handling of the Where The Wild Things Are soundtrack was so brilliant that I then went back to It’s Blitz, released earlier in the year, and enjoyed that too. Next thing you know, Karen O was popping up, via telephone line vocals, on a couple of tracks on Embryonic, the new Flaming Lips album.
8. Karin Dreijer Andersson... One half of Swedish electronic outfit The Knife, Karin continued her collaborative work with Röyksopp in 2009 on a couple of tracks and also branched out as a solo artist with Fever Ray – a collection of dark and eerie tunes strung together with THAT voice.
7. Music Go Music - Expressions... Disco revival at its finest! Actually, I only need one album in the “disco revival” category... and this is a whole heap of fun.
6. The xx - xx... xx stands for twenty - the age of all four members of the band at the time of recording this, their first album. Vulnerable, exquisite, measured... their music belies and confirms their accumulated experience. The xx combine boy-girl narration with a modern, low fi sound that results in creative works of art hailed by critics and fans alike. Believe the hype!
5. Animal Collective... The band’s 2009 album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, spawned two of the best videos of the year - both for the excellent “My Girls”. Later in the year, Animal Collective released one of the best songs of 2009, ”Graze” off of their EP, Fall Be Kind. Graze contains the most awesome sample of Zamfir’s pan flute that you’ll ever hear(!)... in the dancey bit of the song no less!
4. Röyksopp - Junior... The ultimate up-beat album; benefits from the diversity of all those guest singers (Lykke Li, Karin Dreijer Andersson, Robyn). Dance music you can listen to on your commute!
Video :: The Girl And The Robot by Röyksopp
3. The Antlers - Hospice... One would think that an album entirely dedicated to songs about watching your beloved die of cancer in hospital would not be well received (or even conceived). But with Hospice, which is equal parts moving, engaging and entertaining, The Antlers manage to achieve the impossible. A must! Note: Hospice was originally distributed by the band themselves - an indie group in the truest sense of the term.
Song :: Two by The Antlers
1. The Hidden Cameras - Origin:Orphan... This is one of the two best albums of the year. There was less singing about peeing on your fellow man and more attention to detail on this, Joel Gibbs’ fourth album proper. The hooks are still there and the songs are better than ever. I would say this represents a more mature approach but past Cameras songs detailing golden showers and enemas were oddly mature in their own right. Origin:Orphan is a brilliant album by a brilliant man and it goes well beyond the band’s self described “gay church folk music” moniker.
1. Jason Lytle - Yours Truly, The Commuter... The other best album of the year - this by the recently-gone-solo ex-Grandaddy leader. Any commentary on this album, positive or otherwise, has strangely been absent from 99.9% of interweb music blogs: proof of my continued uncoolness I suppose. However, “Yours Truly...” will one day be looked upon as a classic! Bonus: you can get Jason’s new seven track “Christmas” album of improvised piano pieces for free here.
MixTape :: 2009 Edition
Top songs from the 76 best artists of 2009
Disk One
Bear - The Antlers
Pingvinvärmen - Tvärvägen
I Can Be A Frog - The Flaming Lips
We Almost Had A Baby - Emmy The Great (Video)
Epilepsy Is Dancing - Antony & The Johnsons
He Falls To Me - The Hidden Cameras
Brand New Sun - Jason Lytle
Arjeplog - Hello Saferide (Video)
My Timing Is Off - Eels
All The King's Men - Wild Beasts
The First Days Of Spring - Noah and The Whale
Surprises - Skatan
klass 6b - Rena Rama
Disk Two
Shot In The Back Of The Head - Moby
When I Grow Up (Version by Lissvik) - Fever Ray
The Girl and the Robot - Röyksopp
Graze - Animal Collective
Fot I Hose - Casiokids
Sleepy Head - Passion Pit
Love Etc. - Pet Shop Boys
Lisztomania - Phoenix (Video)
Paddling Ghost - Dan Deacon
Pon de floor' feat. VYBZ Kartel - Major Lazer
If I Know You - The Presets (Video)
Solid Gold - The Golden Filter
Disk Three
You Saved My Life - Cass McCombs
So Far Around The Bend - The National
Animal - Miike Snow
Sing Sang Sung - Air
Prophecies & Reversed Memories - múm
No Excuses - Air France
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Heart Skipped A Beat - The xx
Electric Car - They Might Be Giants
Mary's Market - God Help The Girl
Pa Pa Power - Dead Man's Bones
All Is Love - Karen O and the Kids
Disk Four
Knotty Pine - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
Seattle (Feat. Emmy The Great) - The BPA
The Rake's Song - The Decemberists
Lindsay Brohan - Javelin
Chase The Tear - Portishead
Paradise Circus - Massive Attack
Nothing To Worry About - Peter Bjorn & John
French Navy - Camera Obscura
Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dimmer - Bishop Allen
Shampoo - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Summers - Loney Dear
Used To Be - Beach House
Disk Five
When I'm Gone - Vivian Girls
Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys
Uprising - Muse
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time - Manic Street Preachers (Video)
Think I Need It Too - Echo & The Bunnymen
Sink Or Swim - Bad Lieutenant
Angela - Jarvis Cocker
Let's Go Surfing - The Drums
Strictly Game - Harlem Shakes
Just Me - Music Go Music
Black Swan - Sunset Rubdown
Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise - Black Moth Super Rainbow
Shame Is The Name - Morrissey
Disk Six
Nice to Come Home - Julie Doiron
Gentle Hour - Yo La Tengo
Roll Up Your Sleeves - We Were Promised Jetpacks
White Jetta - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Nice Trip - Monogold
Stillness Is the Move - Dirty Projectors
Tightrope - Yeahsayer
Lowiza - The Lovely Feathers
Modern Girl (...with scissors) - Alec Ounsworth
Slight Figure of Speech - The Avett Brothers
At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) - fun.
When Life Gives Me Lemons... - The Boy Least Likely To (Video)
Uh huh - Munchausen By Proxy (Video)
Disk One
Bear - The Antlers
Pingvinvärmen - Tvärvägen
I Can Be A Frog - The Flaming Lips
We Almost Had A Baby - Emmy The Great (Video)
Epilepsy Is Dancing - Antony & The Johnsons
He Falls To Me - The Hidden Cameras
Brand New Sun - Jason Lytle
Arjeplog - Hello Saferide (Video)
My Timing Is Off - Eels
All The King's Men - Wild Beasts
The First Days Of Spring - Noah and The Whale
Surprises - Skatan
klass 6b - Rena Rama
Disk Two
Shot In The Back Of The Head - Moby
When I Grow Up (Version by Lissvik) - Fever Ray
The Girl and the Robot - Röyksopp
Graze - Animal Collective
Fot I Hose - Casiokids
Sleepy Head - Passion Pit
Love Etc. - Pet Shop Boys
Lisztomania - Phoenix (Video)
Paddling Ghost - Dan Deacon
Pon de floor' feat. VYBZ Kartel - Major Lazer
If I Know You - The Presets (Video)
Solid Gold - The Golden Filter
Disk Three
You Saved My Life - Cass McCombs
So Far Around The Bend - The National
Animal - Miike Snow
Sing Sang Sung - Air
Prophecies & Reversed Memories - múm
No Excuses - Air France
Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear
Heart Skipped A Beat - The xx
Electric Car - They Might Be Giants
Mary's Market - God Help The Girl
Pa Pa Power - Dead Man's Bones
All Is Love - Karen O and the Kids
Disk Four
Knotty Pine - Dirty Projectors + David Byrne
Seattle (Feat. Emmy The Great) - The BPA
The Rake's Song - The Decemberists
Lindsay Brohan - Javelin
Chase The Tear - Portishead
Paradise Circus - Massive Attack
Nothing To Worry About - Peter Bjorn & John
French Navy - Camera Obscura
Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Dimmer - Bishop Allen
Shampoo - Elvis Perkins in Dearland
Summers - Loney Dear
Used To Be - Beach House
Disk Five
When I'm Gone - Vivian Girls
Crying Lightning - Arctic Monkeys
Uprising - Muse
Jackie Collins Existential Question Time - Manic Street Preachers (Video)
Think I Need It Too - Echo & The Bunnymen
Sink Or Swim - Bad Lieutenant
Angela - Jarvis Cocker
Let's Go Surfing - The Drums
Strictly Game - Harlem Shakes
Just Me - Music Go Music
Black Swan - Sunset Rubdown
Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise - Black Moth Super Rainbow
Shame Is The Name - Morrissey
Disk Six
Nice to Come Home - Julie Doiron
Gentle Hour - Yo La Tengo
Roll Up Your Sleeves - We Were Promised Jetpacks
White Jetta - Casiotone For The Painfully Alone
Nice Trip - Monogold
Stillness Is the Move - Dirty Projectors
Tightrope - Yeahsayer
Lowiza - The Lovely Feathers
Modern Girl (...with scissors) - Alec Ounsworth
Slight Figure of Speech - The Avett Brothers
At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) - fun.
When Life Gives Me Lemons... - The Boy Least Likely To (Video)
Uh huh - Munchausen By Proxy (Video)
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Avett Brothers for $9.95
Video :: Slight Figure of Speech by The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers - Slight Figure Of Speech - watch more funny videos
Monday, November 9, 2009
This one never really understood the 80s is over
Video Roundup...
This is your standard video format here (though with a minor twist at the end) but nonetheless... the first official video from fun. Finally.
Video :: All the pretty girls by fun.
The Pixies are touring Doolittle and sounding pretty decent (four free new live tracks available here via the usual circuitous route.) Live last Friday on Conan:
Video :: Here comes your man (live, 2009) by The Pixies
Mozzer got hit with a plastic cup two nights ago in Liverpool, on song number two, and immediately abandoned the show. Fans were not amused:
Video :: (18 seconds of) Black Cloud by Morrissey
No words can describe the brilliance:
Video :: Beat it (MJ cover) by Pomplamoose
This wouldn’t happen at one of those boring (and unhygienic) American football matches... While watching this live, it all seemed rather surreal and bizarre. But having viewed it again since this clip has gone viral, it now appears somewhat normal:
Video :: Orally responsible lad at footie match
Commentator :: "So you're in the football stadium, you have had your pie, you brush your teeth. I mean where do you rinse, or gargle?"
This is your standard video format here (though with a minor twist at the end) but nonetheless... the first official video from fun. Finally.
Video :: All the pretty girls by fun.
The Pixies are touring Doolittle and sounding pretty decent (four free new live tracks available here via the usual circuitous route.) Live last Friday on Conan:
Video :: Here comes your man (live, 2009) by The Pixies
Mozzer got hit with a plastic cup two nights ago in Liverpool, on song number two, and immediately abandoned the show. Fans were not amused:
Video :: (18 seconds of) Black Cloud by Morrissey
No words can describe the brilliance:
Video :: Beat it (MJ cover) by Pomplamoose
This wouldn’t happen at one of those boring (and unhygienic) American football matches... While watching this live, it all seemed rather surreal and bizarre. But having viewed it again since this clip has gone viral, it now appears somewhat normal:
Video :: Orally responsible lad at footie match
Commentator :: "So you're in the football stadium, you have had your pie, you brush your teeth. I mean where do you rinse, or gargle?"
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Dead Man's Bones
In time for Halloween... it's Dead Man's Bones. Released a few weeks back, DMB's debut, self-titled album is a monster ghost love story - that works!?! Don't be put off by the fact that this is Ryan Gosling's band - he can sing, he has a purpose, and he is no mere actor looking for some interesting little side project (hello Scarlett Johansson!). The entire album is a collaboration with the Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir (inspired by the Langley Schools Music Project) as seen here in the clip:
Video :: In the room where you sleep by Dead Man's Bones
There's a link to the mp3 of "In the room where you sleep" from the youtube page. Also, this is excellent:
Song :: My body's a zombie for you by Dead Man's Bones
Monday, October 26, 2009
Best of the Decade
Top 10 Albums of the 00's...
1. The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy (May, 2000)
2. Come on feel the Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens (July, 2005)
3. Takk... by Sigur Ros (September, 2005)
4. Chutes too narrow by The Shins (October, 2003)
5. Pleased to meet you by James (July, 2001)
6. Proof Of Youth by The Go! Team (September, 2007)
7. Waiting for the sirens’ call by New Order (March, 2005)
8. Oh, Inverted World by The Shins (June, 2001)
9. 23 by Blonde Redhead (April, 2007)
10. Talkie Walkie by Air (January, 2004)
1. The Sophtware Slump by Grandaddy (May, 2000)
2. Come on feel the Illinoise by Sufjan Stevens (July, 2005)
3. Takk... by Sigur Ros (September, 2005)
4. Chutes too narrow by The Shins (October, 2003)
5. Pleased to meet you by James (July, 2001)
6. Proof Of Youth by The Go! Team (September, 2007)
7. Waiting for the sirens’ call by New Order (March, 2005)
8. Oh, Inverted World by The Shins (June, 2001)
9. 23 by Blonde Redhead (April, 2007)
10. Talkie Walkie by Air (January, 2004)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
I can be a frog
Not the biggest Lips fan out there, but this new one is intriguing ::
The Flaming Lips "I Can Be A Frog"
The Flaming Lips "I Can Be A Frog"
Thursday, September 24, 2009
The Avett Brothers
The Avett Brothers performing and being good ol' boys in the just released video for the excellent "I and Love and You"...
Video :: I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers
All is love
Three weeks to go until the long-anticipated "Where The Wild Things Are". This song is turning me into a Yeah Yeah Yeah's fan...
Video (unofficial) :: All is love by Karen O and The Kids
Video (unofficial) :: All is love by Karen O and The Kids
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Brooklyn
Brooklyn seems to be the place to be, and be from, these days. A cool lineup of hip Brooklyn born (or based) bands includes :: The Welcome Wagon, The National, Grizzly Bear, Vivian Girls, Vampire Weekend, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Au Revoir Simone, MGMT and Dirty Projectors.
The Hold Steady are also from Brooklyn but I don’t really care about The Hold Steady. On that note, Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond also hail from New York’s most populous borough.
Vivian Girls provide some pretty standard rock (but with a stellar bass groove):
Next month Sufjan Stevens comes out with his BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) multi-media effort, which will include a “stereoscopic 3D View-Master reel”. The tunes are grand, orchestral efforts developed as a musical expression of the much-maligned BQE thorough fare. Reviews, of the music at least, have found Sufjan much-maligned as well. As in: get on with making the sequel to Illinoise and stop farting around!! At least there are hula hoopers:
Not bad. Music to drive to? I've tried and.... well.... meh!
The Avett Brothers are from North Carolina but the title track from their forthcoming album (September 29) references Brooklyn and it sounds like they'd like to live there too... so there ya go!
Song :: I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers
"I and Love and You" featurette ::
I and Love and You, the album, will be out next Tuesday. And, yes, it will be awesome!
The Hold Steady are also from Brooklyn but I don’t really care about The Hold Steady. On that note, Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond also hail from New York’s most populous borough.
Vivian Girls provide some pretty standard rock (but with a stellar bass groove):
Next month Sufjan Stevens comes out with his BQE (Brooklyn-Queens Expressway) multi-media effort, which will include a “stereoscopic 3D View-Master reel”. The tunes are grand, orchestral efforts developed as a musical expression of the much-maligned BQE thorough fare. Reviews, of the music at least, have found Sufjan much-maligned as well. As in: get on with making the sequel to Illinoise and stop farting around!! At least there are hula hoopers:
Interlude I—Dream Sequence in Subi Circumnavigation from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.
Not bad. Music to drive to? I've tried and.... well.... meh!
The Avett Brothers are from North Carolina but the title track from their forthcoming album (September 29) references Brooklyn and it sounds like they'd like to live there too... so there ya go!
Song :: I and Love and You by The Avett Brothers
"I and Love and You" featurette ::
I and Love and You, the album, will be out next Tuesday. And, yes, it will be awesome!
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