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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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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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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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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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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MP3: Jim Noir - On a Different Shelf (2008)
Highly rec'd. His last album had a bunch of keepers and this track is on par with all of those.
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MP3: (link removed by request) (2008)
You'll have fun with this.
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MP3: Chica and the Folder - I'll Come Running (2003)
Thinking about sticking with a German theme for the next few entries. So many reasons to do this.
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MP3: Deadmau5 - The Reward is Cheese (featuring Jelo)
This is me trying to be open-minded and pulling it off. I dunno if this is techno, trance, house, or what. And about 2 minutes into the track, it kinda doesn't matter. Pronounced "Deadmouse."
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MP3: Yelle - Je Veux Te Voir (2006)
Crap, if only I was into aerobics.
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MP3: Stereolab - Need to Be (2004)
If you ever read any reviews of David Mamet's Winslow Boy, you likely encountered some comment about how this G-rated movie was a departure from Mamet's usual foul-mouthed fare. The reviewer wasn't writing this fyi, but to show you that he gets Mamet because he saw "Glengarry Glen Ross" on Broadway (and secretly hated it). And you end up reading the same review over and over.
Same thing with Stereolab. In almost any review of their recent albums, pick any of the last three, there is some disparaging and totally unoriginal horseshit comment about how Stereolab lost it's freshness and is now regurgitating dry iterations of old content. Because that reviewer gets Stereolab. He was there when Emperor Tomato Ketchup came out and has one of those (actually very cool) Cliff t-shirts. Truth is that reviewer needs to stop reading The Secret, set aside his lazy entitlement, and learn how to listen to music.
For example, this song is one of the few songs ever written in the history of the world ever by any artist that approaches the vicinity of perfection. Spontaneous, exciting, unpredictable, and full of unanticipated turns. Bracket your phenomenal ear, set it aside, and approach this track with eager and unassuming curiosity.
We have to wait until August for their new album, Chemical Chords. In the meantime you can get a track from said album on iTunes.
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MP3: Modeselektor - Happy Birthday! (2007)
Germans.
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MP3: Free Blood - Grumpy (2008)
Lots of new stuff to post. Last year was lousy music-wise, then it started getting good again. Obviously this was a musician problem and had nothing to do with me.
Free Blood, I think, has some connection to !!!. And an album coming out. Hard to find info on them. Myspace. Fun beatz here.
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MP3: Kelley Polar - A Dream In Three Parts (On Themes By Enesco) (2008)
New album "I Need You To Hold On While The Sky Is Falling" is good enough to get me to make a post.
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Department of Eagles - Romo-Goth (2007)
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