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September 29, 2004
That's A Hard One To Say
The Trumpeteers - This Is A Mean Old World
When my friends have hard times or whatever I kind of don't know what to say a lot of the times. But this song kind of says a lot of what I feel. It's good to be associated with quality folk. If we were all into ICP we could call each other "Jugalo" which is a die-hard ICP fan that's got your back.
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September 24, 2004
From Bottle Rocket?
I think this is a cover of that song in Bottle Rocket when Luke first hooks up with the hotel maid. At least it sound like that a bit. Anyone know? This song has good tension and immediacy whatever the hell that means.
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September 20, 2004
Having a Good Time
Party over here
This video has to be great. Since Keif showed this to me the other day I've watched it like 50 times. It has a bad swear in it so don't watch it if you can't handle bad swears no matter how hilarious they happen to be.
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More Fire
The Arcade Fire - Crown of Love (MP3)
The Arcade Fire - Wake Up (MP3)
I want to post the entire album but maybe you should just buy. Maybe I should buy as well. The first time I heard "Crown of Love" I was into it. Then I discovered it had a little treat at the end and I was more into it. However, this treat (a disco beat) is no good if you don't enjoy the main course. No good. From Pitchfork's review:
"So long as we're unable or unwilling to fully recognize the healing aspect of embracing honest emotion in popular music, we will always approach the sincerity of an album like Funeral from a clinical distance. Still, that it's so easy to embrace this album's operatic proclamation of love and redemption speaks to the scope of The Arcade Fire's vision."
Plus they're Québécois so there's that also.
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September 17, 2004
From That One Island
Augie March - The Vineyard (AAC)
Augie March - Addle Brains (MP3)
Here are a couple of tracks by an Aussie outfit I've been listening to lately. This album was released this week in the US but came out 2 years ago in Australia. I include an image of the cover as it's one of the better ones I've seen for a good spell.
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September 15, 2004
The Country (Not the State)
Gogi.Ge.Org - Post-Industrial Boys (MP3)
Post Industrial Boys have the wonderful voice.
They read some James Joyce and make a careful choice.
Post Industrial Boys subscribe to Village Voice.
They play with colored toys and make an awful noise.
This is the opening track from the debut album by Gogi.Ge.Org (aka George Dzodzuashvili). Along with his pals from Tbilisi, Georgia who form a collective of artists called Goslab, he has managed to fashion a record that is lounge-pop downbeat from leftfield. So there's that. Then I found this:
Goslab is a phantom, which manifests itself as a culture through the performances of individual members and their various projects. In this sense, Goslab is somewhat like Georgia. Georgia is a post-communist phantom - a pipeline in Off-Europe. A projection screen. There is a 5-hour time difference between London and Tbilisi. Tbilisi starts singing while America and Western Europe are still asleep.
Post-industrial: The fifth Kondratieff wave will see the transition from hardware to software. Marx is on the finish line, somewhere between the greater and smaller Caucasus. Oil is entropy, ashes. "Reproduction of what cannot be transformed" (Paul Valéry). Survival in global capitalism. Post-industrial joys. Streams. Sounds."
So there's that on top of that. I hope it entertains. It's quite good for driving and the vox sound a bit like Damon Albarn with a cold
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September 13, 2004
Bandwagonesque?
The Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #3 (Power Out) (MP3)
I saw Pitchfork gave this a favorable review this morning so I had to show how sweet I was by already being in the know. This stuff has been floating around the circuit of MP3 blogs for a few months and I haven't really been able to get into it. But within the past week this track has started to grow on me. It reminds me of my experience with Broken Social Scene where I was kind of "eh" for several months. Then all of a sudden it was as very good thing. Funny how I started liking them just as they happen to be getting popular.
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September 11, 2004
Do You Have a Scissor?
Scissor Sisters - Hidden Track (AAC)
Diane in Tai-land (not Thailand) gave this to me. Isn't the net just crazy how you can pull off such trickery? In the few minutes we chatted I think she listened to it about 20 times. It's a dancin' song, not a swimmin' song. There's no swimmin' at this website.
Also you can see their video for that Elvis Costello (you mean Elton John?) song in the video section of iTunes which Dustin showed me and it's a pretty excellent video.
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September 09, 2004
VIDEOS!!!
Gold Chains - California Nites (VIDEO)
More proof that you don't need a lot of money to make an excellent video. Not that that was ever a question. The only problem is that she has a wedding ring.
The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism (VIDEO)
Also, here's the video to an MP3 I posted the other day. Just so you know, it has mimes.
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iTunes
The Comas - The Science of Your Mind
iTunes has not a bad selection but I damn hate how you can't share your treasure with friends. So I burnt this to a disc and then re-ripped it as an MP3. So if the quality is too compromised for you but you like the song then buy it. I don't know one thing about The Comas but this song is getting pretty good PT in my car right now. I think it was featured in the "Hot Indie Rock" section of iTunes (if you're alternative like me, you'll know what that means).
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September 07, 2004
Zoib/Zlirg Zdnab
The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism
There seems to be this surge of boy/girl piano bands lately. Some of them work (not really) and some of them don't (also, not really). One of these outfits that I'm kind of into is The Dresden Dolls (not really though, mostly just this song). I can see how this might be annoying to some people (those who hate fun) but I like its energy and wish I was that good at the piano (which I am).
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