"This music is the glue of the world, Mark. It's what holds it all together. Without this, life would be meaningless".
Don't steal music! This is music for my friends to check out so we can all be on the same page. Borrow these tunes, listen a dozen-ish times... then decide if you should buy it or delete it. xoxo
Rating: 9.999789 Loops, Post-Hardcore, One Man Band, Yelling, Emotional, Guitar Rock
Girlfriends is one dude, Jerry Joiner. He plays live looped guitar and keyboard, then sings and drums along. The closest i can describe it is to say it is like the guitarist from Don Caballero playing with Black Eyes.
Anybody pay any attention to this? More likely than not, the answer is a very loud "NO"! (if no one says no, can you still hear it?)
I am thinking about picking this back up. I have been avidly digging into the Free and glorious music available throughout the internet. Sometimes it is just some entirely random person's personal twiddles, sometimes it is a PR move from some soon-to-be unleashed "next be thing". It's fun. It gives me the thrill of the hunt, the undeniable satisfaction of knowing things others don't know, and it is a LEGAL way to constantly enjoy new stuff for free.
Here are a couple of the most super cool things. If i have the time in the future, i will try to post listings as i find things.
I am currently reading Keith Richards' autobiography, LIFE. As with most rocker bios, i have gotten much more into the main character's discography than ever before. Sure, i have owned Hot Rocks for ten years, and i enjoy listening to their late-60s / early-70s discography with my father-in-law... but i don't think i ever appreciated them. I grew up in the 80s, and by then, the Stones were just the epitome of rock n roll excess and nothing more.
But these guys used to ROCK and write really good tunes. Excellent chord changes, interesting rhythmic phrasing and the occasional brilliant lyric. "The sunlight bores the daylights outta me." - beat that line, dude!
Dearest world-wide recording industry conglomerate and associated secret police types:
My external hard drive crashed, taking with it approximately seventy-five gigabytes of music and thirty gigabytes of video. While i do honestly own at least eighty percent of these documents, time is money. I feel i will get a much bigger bang for my "buck" by downloading bit torrents of whole discographies rather than sitting down for days loading each individual disc into the computer and/or re-converting my LPs to mp3 format. I hope you can see the sense in this and not sue me like money-grubbing a-holes.
Dearest world-wide recording industry conglomerate and associated secret police types:
My external hard drive crashed, taking with it approximately seventy-five gigabytes of music and thirty gigabytes of video. While i do honestly own at least eighty percent of these documents, time is money. I feel i will get a much bigger bang for my "buck" by downloading bit torrents of whole discographies rather than sitting down for days loading each individual disc into the computer and/or re-converting my LPs to mp3 format. I hope you can see the sense in this and not sue me like money-grubbing a-holes.
I resisted it. No, really. Soooo trendy as far as i can tell. I hate to be the 2nd-to-last guy to jump on the train of something that's been making the hipster circuit for a season already. And that is definitely what this is.
But i'll be damned if it isn't great.
It sounds like the perfect sound track for the party and follow-up "necking" scene in a horror movie. And it gives that same sense of fun and impending doom.
I don't know if this fellow does his own production. I doubt it. But i hope he does. If not, it will be another Kid Cudi story: awesome weird production on the free interblog mixtapes, and settle down to normal after signing. As it is, this stuff is fab. Dark, moody, lots of real guitar and bass.
Lyrics are so bad you'd have to pull out an R Kelly record to beat it, but at the same it is so ugly and weird.
"She gave me sex and a handbag
i got her wetter than a wetknap...
I heard he do drugs now;
you heard wrong, i been on it for a minute
.....Bring out the glass tables"
Why am i spending so much time on justifying this? Because, frankly, it sounds a little like Usher... and my kid's babysitter loves Usher. So that's kind of like a double dip of dis, right?
Never been an Animal Collective fan. They seem cool enough, but i just haven't gotten into them. However, their "drummer", Panda Bear, released a solo album a couple years ago that i really liked. Weird sample collages mixed with Beach Boys-esque vocals. Very neat.
Panda Bear's new album is more catchy and more guitar based. While it lacks a lot of what i liked so much about the last album, i have to say i enjoy it more.
I have listened to the new TVOTR album straight through a couple of times now (thanks, internet!), and i must say my opinion is raising. It is a very different type of music from what they did eight years ago when i first got into them, but what good band keeps doing the same thing for that long?
One big factor in shaping my high opinion of the album has been this movie:
Apparently, the TV guys have decided to do what i dearly love, and make a full movie-length companion to the album. Much like Sonic Youth's "GOO" before it, it is essentially a collection of music videos for each song, however the thread that holds it together really helps to color your impression of what they are going for. Plus, it makes more sense out of the fact that the first song on the album is titled "the second song".
My vinyl copy of "nine types of light" is waiting at Ear X-tacy, and i won't have time to pick it up until Friday. BOOOOO
I have previewed is a little, and i'm not sure i am going to feel about it. Hopefully, it is one of those really great albums that takes a while to sink in. All of their previous releases have been that way for me. But the is something a little less adventurous and certainly less noisy... We shall see.
Meanwhile, i LOVED the single the moment it came out. Just saw the video today, and love it equally much.
I should mention that a recent All Songs Considered podcast has me in the thros of a shallow 90s nostalgia period. After listening to this song perhaps a half dozen times on repeat, i just COULDN't find any flaws in it. Plus the live video with all the throwing of stuff and mic dropping just makes it even cooler. This was the song that turned me on to NIN when "head like a hole" hadn't done it - i blame the video for that. Do i really think this is the best 90s song ever? Hell no! OF course not... but it is fun to use hyperbole.
Nope, not an indictment of James' hygiene habits. This is a post about the musician called Baths. I told Jamesi would post it, because i thought he would be particularly into it.
Here are 3 (count 'em, three!) videos of my three favorite songs of his. The first video is freaking radical, to boot!
If you really dig the dude, here's a link to an upload someone gave for the whole album.
How about a trifecta. I'm not going to say any of these artists are trying to bring anything "back to the future", or even that they are trying to remind us of any certain decade that many of us grew up in...
BUT... They all seem to have SOMETHING in common that i just can't put my finger on.
What up? I should be doing Algebra homework, but college algebra is for suckers and it makes me want to claw my eyes out.
So, check out this yummy nibblet of psychedelic rock. It came out this year, but sounds pretty convincingly like a time machine set to 1969 and pumped full of hash smoke.
I just saw the movie "Fantastic Planet" for the first time. Super cool, neat allegory, trippy imagery, "fantastic" soundtrack. It sounds like Miles Davis in the 70s trying to make music for aliens to do drugs to.
Apparently three dudes i think are awesome also find each other awesome. Sound like they exchanged email addresses and threw together some tracks for fun. By no means the best stuff any of them have done, but certainly not half bad.
I am busy. Too busy. Meanwhile, i am still digging and navigating the web and "borrowing" music i have not heard, purely for research purposes. I don't get to talk to you guys EVER anymore, so i wanted to start a fake bloggy-majig that will allow me to communicate with you all about the #1 thing we have in common: a music obsession. I just plan to post tunes whenever i get the chance. Sort of "hey, i like this today!". I don't expect that any strangers will ever wander over to this wing of the interface, so if you like something, let me know and i can send the whole album your way. Likewise, since you all know each other personally or by reputation, feel free to shoot my way anything you'd like to see posted.
Let's kick off with something fun AND creative:
Das Racist - hahaha J/K
(rap)
http://www.mediafire.com/?f33z74k63y9j9c7
The production for these guys is pretty neat, but the thing that really gets me is the uber clever word-play they can get into.
