Xander ,'Get It Done'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Track 14 is maybe one of the most frightening things I have ever heard come out of my stereo.
Heh. I just came back from a Somervillain Buffista gathering where I mentioned how suprprised I was that no one here had commented on the Bags tune.
"Witch, in the sky, surrender, D-O-R-O-T-H....YYYYYYYYY"
(writing it out does not come close to doing it justice)
Good music day. I made a mix while I was watching b-ball and listening to our first big storm of the season. It's a "going to and fro" theme mix and has a lot of stuff I've downloaded recently from emusic on it. I haven't done a theme mix in a while - and I tried really hard not to use stuff I had put on mixes before (wanted to put "Everybody Knows this is Nowhere" on there real bad).
Anyways. This is what I did with my evening:
1. Get Me Away from Here, I'm Dying - Belle and Sebastian, If You're Feeling Sinister
2. There's No Home for You Here - The White Stripes, Elephant
3. Departure - REM, New Adventures in Hi-Fi
4. Los Angeles, I'm Yours - The Decemberists, Her Majesty
5. Tallahassee - The Mountain Goats, Tallahassee
6. One Horse Town - The Thrills, So Much for the City
7. Thrice All American - Neko Case, Furnace Room Lullaby
8. Mining Town - Whiskeytown, Faithless Street
9. Little America - REM, Reckoning
10. Looking for a Way Out - Uncle Tupelo, Anthology
11. Reno Dakota - Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs Vol. 1
12. Sodom, South Georgia - Iron and Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days
13. Home - Leona Naess, self-titled
14. Between the Bars (lv) - Elliott Smith, Live in Stockholm
15. In the Garage (lv) - Weezer, WFNX studio recording
16. This Place is a Prison - The Postal Service, Give Up
17. Song for Myla Goldberg - The Decemberists, Her Majesty
18. Gone for Good - The Shins, Chutes Too Narrow
19. Mississippi - Bob Dylan, Love and Theft
20. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
21. Home Again Garden Grove - The Mountain Goats, We Shall All Be Healed
22. My Wandering Days Are Over - Belle and Sebastian, Tigermilk
Btw, Hec, I love the comp CD lots.
Btw, Hec, I love the comp CD lots.
It's fun, huh? Worth it for me, just to find such a classic glam track as "Roxy Roller" which I'd never heard before though apparently both Nick Gilder and Bryan Adams re-recorded it. It's Nick's composition, and he originally did it in his band Sweeney Todd. When he left that band, the sixteen year old Bryan was recruited to be in it. Weird, huh? All kinds of odd corners of Canadian rock and roll to explore. (Nick Gilder, of course, is best known for his solo hit "Hot Child In the City.")
That's a great geography lesson mix, tina. I think you're eager for a road trip.
I really dig Belle and Sebastien.
I really dig Belle and Sebastien.
It took me a while to get into them... but now I love 'em.
I heard em on RadioIO eclectic a lot, but they're used on all the teen dramas and genre shows I love, so I've heard them before.
I think you're eager for a road trip.
Yeah. It's the not having to work plus it being spring break at KU. It's great because us townies get the bars back for a bit - but it still does trigger the road trip lusting reflexes. (Also that is soo weird about Bryan Adams.)
I really dig Belle and Sebastien.
Almost all of their albums are available on emusic. And I downloaded them all and then promptly forgot which server I stashed them on at work (that'll be a fun surprise for some future IT guy). So I've been recollecting the albums all week (with dial up. sigh). I didn't plan for them to bookend the mix like that - but it seemed to work.
I stumbled across Belle & Sebastian's Dear Catastrophe Waitress a while back, and I really liked it. I still need to get some of their other albums.
"Tigermilk" is by far my favorite B&S album.
I admit, I've been v. bad about forwarding on the mixes I got. I got a couple in a batch, and haven't sent them on lately. I suck.
I threw all the songs from them on my iPod, and have been listening as they come up. (It always startles me--I'm listening for a moment, and then go "wait, I don't KNOW this song! What is...oh, a buffista song...").
Recent "Ooh I like this!": from Erinaceous' mix, "Welcome to Chicago, Motherfucker". Heh.