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June 25, 2008
The Ocean Blue
MP3: The Ocean Blue - The Relatives (1993)
Another one from the olden days that I encountered whilst listening to music on random. The lyric vacillates between a distaste for hyperbole and homages to Elvis, The Beatles, and The Doors (the relatives, I suppose). The Ocean Blue managed to put a lot of enjoyable hooks in their music, at least on "Beneath the Rhythm and Sound." Their music wasn't quite 80s and it certainly wasn't 90s. At least the 80s and 90s I went through.
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June 23, 2008
"Blue Gene" Tyranny
MP3: "Blue Gene" Tyranny - Next Time Might Be Your Time (1978)
Something went awry with my iTunes and I lost all my playlists, play counts, etc. Anyway, I started to reacquaint myself with my library by playing on random. This track came up and I was like, "what?" So I listened again. And again. I'm still kinda baffled/bemused. There are some almost irritating bits that demand the track be changed. Except I'm not so sure about that. I mean, I guess I'm just ambivalent about the saxophone. I really don't know what to say so I just keep listening. Thanks to whomever it was that furnished this track in the first place.
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June 12, 2008
Women
MP3: Women - Cameras (2008)
MP3: Women - Black Rice (2008)
Pretty excited about this record, which comes out July 8. Can't remember the last time that happened, can we? If you remember how exciting The Shins were before Zach Braff ruined them, that's the kinda thing going on here. Something about the lo-fi-ness of the production. I think this is also the first time in this life where I actually wanted a song to be longer.
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June 10, 2008
Headlights
MP3: Headlights - Owl Eyes (2006)
I don't care much for the lyric here. It's the overall crescendo and the syntax of the music. The arrangement of sounds is well-timed and well-placed and this is what I care for in this track. From "Kill Them With Kindness," which is a solid record.
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June 01, 2008
Fred Astaire
MP3: Fred Astaire - Night and Day (1932)
From Cole Porter's Gay Divorce. Never mind that the singer is an orally-fixated insatiable uber-libidinal stalker type, the song works.
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