hip hop

off commons newest album- drivin me wild.

its drivin me wild.

that is all.

In with the old

A Band of Bees (The Bees)
Classic rock, meets reggae meets awesome

The Aggrolites
Accessible ska/reggae/rocksteady

Fruit Bats
Feel good indie rock with a twang of country?

mc DJ
This guy covers Sufjan Steven's Illinoise, what balls.

What Made Milwaukee Famous
Solid austin indie-electro fave

Check last.fm to find out the good songs.

Is anybody out there?

Yeah, yeah. I know we're all busy. But it's time to breathe some life into this sleeping dragon. Awake him with your tales of musical inspiration and lyrical musings.

Go!

Quickie

Ray Lamontagne covering Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"

Amy Winehouse

I think joanna posted something about amy winehouse's "rehab" song.....i didn't really like it that much......but her new single rocks. It's called "you know i'm no good"

hello my munkins

i just saw happy feet may i replay it for you? a1- penguins need a heart song to woo a mate. b2- this semi retarded penguin cant sing- but he can tap dance. c3- penguins are only suppose to waddle- NOT TAP DANCE, he becomes a freak. 4d- eventually his tap dancing saves the whole village from impending doom. THE END! incredible.


more importantly- theres this singer i like- i thought i had found her on this- but i just scrolled through the old posts and it wasnt here- so who knows - you maybe told me in person- if i ever saw you in person- which i dont- which makes me want to die...

Jenny Owen Young
http://www.myspace.com/jennyowenyoung

Panic! at the Disco

PornoMime

Your weekly YouTube dose

Riveting news report on "Emos"
Some kind of half monkey/cat with kung-fu moves
Hilarious parody of the infamous Honda "cog" commercial (Here's the original)

what the hell

how did my post get pushed down out of order?? computer i will fight you to the death.

More Resurrected Favorites

Delinquent Habits - Selt Titled

I don't know why Mexican hip/hop rules so hard, but it does. If you've never listened to this album and want to try it out, check the first two tracks: Tres Delinquentes, and Lower Eastside.

is it cruel or kind not to speak my mind

holy fuck!! devil town: bright eyes covering daniel johnson. genius of daniel j with the much more soothing voice of your favorite emo-logist. i made that word up. also i love this because i work with insane children and they tell me stories exactly like the words to this song. newest favorite.

the libertines are rocking. but their track that goes by a different sort of note is "music when the lights go out" about falling out of love. its not sappy its more like, eh i dont like you anymore- cool? "alarm bells ring when you say your heart still sings when your with me. oh wont you please forgive me- i no longer hear the music. oh no no no" also good if you are still wondering who Peter Doherty is. see also babyshambles.

on my block- scarface. this rap song makes me laugh and puts me in a good mood. perchance you will like it too.

if you want to jam in french may i suggest carla bruni. calming. what the fuck is she saying? who cares.


the albums i would take on a desert island are Tegan and Sara, Van Morrison, Ted Leo and Patsy Cline.

speakin of Ted Leo- counting down the hours moves me.

tegan and sara are lesbian gods among men.

Inspired by the Office "Desert Island"

In order to generate some group discussion and hopefully more postings.....i pose a question to you: If you were stranded on a desert island, what 3 albums would you bring with you? Another companion questions would be: If you could only take 3 albums from one band, what would they be? I don't know if i'm ready to commit to either question, so i'm just gonna give a list of some of my all time fav albums....

1. Ryan Adams - "Heartbreaker" - What can I say about Ryan Adams that you haven't already heard from me.....the man is a genius......i love sad music.......he is sad music......i love his voice.......busting out with emotion.......i love his arrangements.....sometimes sparse and sometimes lush and layered......i love his lyrics......i've definitely got a man-crush on him........this is considered to be his best cd.....very country......lots of harmonica......a few uptempo rockers and a few slow saddies.......check out "oh my sweet carolina" and "come pick me up" (considered two of his best songs).....i also really really love "call me on your way back home"

2. Ryan Adams - "Love is Hell" - probably my fav album of his......originally meant to be released as a complete album.....his label refused to release it......supposedly because it was too dark.....he went back to the studio and recorded what i consider his worst album (rock n' roll) and released it as well as love is hell in the form of 2 EPs........not country at all......this album is what i was talking about when i said awesome arrangements.......has the infamous wonderwall cover of sethandsummerslowdancinginhisroomfamewithherinahotreddress........has my fav released ryan adams song ("please do not let me go" - with some of my fav lines: "if the walls in the room could talk/i wonder to myself would they laugh/it's like some kind of jail beams of light/fall through the curtains onto the bed").......i also love "this house is not for sale" about a couple of ghosts haunting a house.......other goodies......"shadowlands" "avalanche" "world war 24" and "hotel chelsea nights"

3. Jimmy Eat World - "Clarity" - not as uptempo as bleed american which was the album that introduced JEW to most people (myself included)........."For me this is heaven" is one of my fav songs ever

4. Dave Matthews Band - "Before These Crowded Streets" - forget hating DMB and check out "the stone" and "the dreaming tree"........dreaming tree paints a really pretty picture

5. Radiohead - "OK Computer" - you know more about this album than i do.....it's awesome....and i don't usually like rocking/noisy stuff......and this is at parts rocky and noisy....but the noise fits the concept perfectly........

6. Outkast - "Aquemini" - my fav outkast album.......i think eric introduced me to this album after i had listened to stankonia..........i remember "aquemini" was in the stupid teenybopper version of othello........."da art of storytellin' (part ii)" is awesome......"the beat was very dirty and the vocals had distortion"........"chonkyfire" is my fav outkast song and its on this album

7. Dashboard Confessional - "So Impossible EP" - i was telling joanna about this album last week........it's the best 4 song concept ever........the 4 songs tell a full story about boy and girl......the first is about the guy wanting the girl to notice him........the second is the girl asking the guy to a party.....the third is about him getting ready and being nervous about the party.......the fourth is hands down.......which you've probably heard........but this is the original acoustic version (way better than the full band version of a later album)

8. Barenaked Ladies - "Rock Spectacle" - live cd.......perfect intro to the many musical styles of BNL......awesome lyrics....some of the best bands have super sad lyrics with upbeat music......BNL does this perfectly......forget about "one week" and give this album a try......check out "break your heart" and "when i fall"

i got 8 more albums.......but i'll do that later........

This Week's Fare

No Knife - Fire in the City of Automatons

I really loved this album at the pit, recently rediscovered it, and probably like it even more now. I guess I'd call it indie-pop? Just give it a listen; if you want a taste without getting the whole album, try the first track, "Academy Flight Song".



Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank

If you don't have this album yet, find it somewhere because it is amazing. Also, buy it when it comes out March 20th if you feel like it.

Again, the Winter Band is denied a Grammy

I've probably showed this to everyone I know at some point, but I seriously can't get enough of it. Is there a way that I can rip the audio from a youtube video so that I can jam to this where ever i go?




Creepiest family EVER.

Late as usual... just like getting my pubes.

So, this was at least partially my idea, and then I totally forgot it existed; so I supposed its about time that I posted something. So here we go. I can't think of anything particularly enthralling that I've been listening to lately, so I'm going to play the put my whole mp3 player on random game, and list the first 10 songs that I think are worthy of mention/make me happy/aroused/nostalgic/annoyed. Enjoy!

1) Mos Def - Love, from the album Black on Both Sides. First song to come up, and its good. If you don't listen to Mos Def, give it a shot, you'll like. Probably the only black guy to ever say "abacus". Well, since the Moors.

2) The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory - Guided by Voices, from the album Bee Thousand. Second song to come up, and also very good. If you've never listened to them, they're in my opinion a precursor to such bands as Neutral Milk, Built to Spill and Modest Mouse... Modest Mouse even opened for them on ACL, the show, not the fest.

3) Missed the Friction - Self, from Subliminal Plastic Motives. Loved these guys in high school, and am always pleased when they come on the playlist. So far mp3 player is 3 for 3. Awesome.

4) Scarecrow - Beck. Kinda pointless to put Beck on here cause he's universally awesome. I'm just amazed at the random selection from 3000 songs being so good. 4/4... eventually a very shitty annoying song like Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz is going to have to pop in there. I hope.

Tangent -do you ever walk around and imgaine what peoples' genitals look like? I mean not in a sexual way or anything, and gender blind. Just like ,"Man, I bet he/she has some weird looking junk." And then you start to imagine everyone you see having disgusting genitals. The kind that make Cyrus's look normal. Snap!

Tangent PS - Does the song This is How We Do It - Montel Jordan ever make you think of Westlake teenagers playing lacrosse in board shorts by their parents' giant pool? Me neither...

5) The Last High - Dandy Warhols, from Welcome to the Monkey House. When I was fourteen at a warehouse music, I was torn between buying their album that was out at the time with the song Heroin is so Passe or whatever its called, and Blink 182 Dude Ranch. I went with Blink. I guess I've come full circle... good song, good album.

6) Sailor Song - Regina Spektor, from Soviet Kitsch. I can't say enough good things about her, and I'd have to imagine everyone listens already; but if not, you should start. I'd have a crush on her if she wasn't such a Jew. Maybe I can just get her to sing into a sock... (you know what I'm talking about, and if you don't, who are you?)

7) Go Junior, Go Senior - Junior Senior (duh). Another one of those that probably doesn't need to be posted, but I'm stickin with what the player gives me, and I still like it. And still no Pretty Boy Floyd. Junior Senior will make you want to dance even if you just watched your dog get hit by a semi.

8) When You're Thrown - The Thermals, from Fuckin' A (See Regina Spektor, minus the Jew judgement.) One of my favorite bands forever, lo-fi just like Guided By Voices. I didn't see them recently because I was broke... bummer.

9) Open Arms - Journey. Hey, there we go! Finally something horrible. What was that asshat's name that DJ made live with us Cyrus? All he listened to was Journey and he thought it was amazing that we knew girls? Shit... I can't remember right now, but that guy sucked fat balls. I can still hear him asking me to turn the TV down all summer at 10pm, when I had the volume at such a low level I had to strain to hear it. I'm sure he's working for the GOP somewhere now...

10) Bonus Track - Ol Dirty Bastard, from Nigga Please. I couldn't have imagined a better closing song for my list. He ends the song talking about a girl sticking her tongue all up in his ass, classic. I should remember that he existed for when I get asked, "If you could have lunch with three people, living or dead...?"

Thus concludes my listing, and my fouth Lone Star. I'm going to go make Scot run around the block five times and then stick it in his sweaty mangina, cause baby I like it rawwwwwwww.

Love,

Eric

Science of Sleep

watch it....it's awesome.....i liked it more than eternal sunshine........i totally identified with the way the main character is crazy and full of self doubt and fantasies.......and i know for a fact a few of you out there are the same way......plus gael garcia bernal is awesome........now onwards to the tunes:

Bloc Party - "Pioneers" - i know they just came out with a new album, but i haven't gotten it yet, and i was listening to the old one, and this song is awesome.....simple cool lyrics......i group them together in my head with interpol and JEW because i think all of those bands do a great job of layering simple individual guitar lines over each other to make a great sound; ps - some band called Tunng also did a cover of this song that was in an episode of the OC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52jWkrfjakk (bloc party version)

Mary J. Blige - "Be Without You" - up for a grammy....typical R&B love song....total guilty pleasure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QAN7NOqXX4

Gomez - "How We Operate" - DJ introduced me to them......as i understand it they have multiple lead singers in the band......upon a little research on wikipedia....i just learned that they won the mercury prize in '98 which is a british music prize....... the list of nominees each year is a good place to discover new bands: here's an example of some from the past to prove my point (arctic monkeys, muse, coldplay, MIA, franz ferdinand, the coral, doves, portishead)
here's the list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_Music_Prize
anyway this song rocks......and it has banjo!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK-S70zfMw0

The Shins - Album "Wincing the Night Away" - the album is good; if you've heard and enjoyed their other two albums, you'll like it.........i don't find the album very original which is disappointing, but i like their old stuff so much that it's not that disappointing

while listening to Australia, Phantom Limb (1st single), and Red Rabbits I had the distinct feeling that i had heard this song or part of this song before - it almost sounds like they're ripping themselves off......but i guess that's the price a band pays for having a unique sound - all their songs sound different from other bands, but similar to each other.........Sea Legs is original sounding, but not in a way that i particularly enjoyed..........Turn on Me is my favorite song on the album by far, i love the repetition..........Black Waves and Spilt Needles and Girl Sailor are good tracks that are semi-new sounding

Warren Haynes - "Lucky" - cover version of the radiohead song on OK Computer...........warren haynes is a guitar/vocalist of Gov't Mule and Allman Brothers Band.......if you like his voice at all on this cover, check out The Deep End vols. 1 and 2......there's a great story behind these albums........basically their bass player in Gov't Mule died: "The inspiration was really not knowing how to continue forward. When Woody passed away, we were in the middle of preparing for what would be the next Gov't Mule record anyway. We didn't know how to continue that process - we didn't want to start auditioning bass players to try to find a permanent replacement. So the idea came about that all of our favorite bass players might be too busy to join the band, or even do a whole tour, but maybe they wouldn't be too busy to do one song. All these guys are different from each other, and the array of influences really covers the whole gamut, but they're all people who influenced us, especially Woody. They are all people who found their way into his playing."
some of the bass players on the album are from bands such as: red hot chili peppers, who, phish, allman brothers, metallica, dave matthews band, p-funk all stars, primus - all good peeps

Sufjan Stevens - "They Are Night Zombies! They Are Neighbors!......" - no arguments....listen to it......it's on the album called Illinoise

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Handsome Boy Modeling School- Every song is different but its hip hop for the most part. For Aaron I suggest Rock And Roll (could never hip hop like this) and for Cyrus I suggest Breakdown. Truth is good too. But all of their songs are good. Give it a go.

The Exploding Hearts- sounds like... rock n roll pop-y. maybe the clash? I cant do the comparisons. I love it. Suggestion: Rumours in Town.

Adam Green- Goofy and occasionally offensive. Suggestion: Jessica about jessica simpson. This song gets suck in my head. or Bluebirds. if you download one- you get it the idea of what you are getting into. I think it might move Dustin. Alot.

also- maybe these bands are all already famous. i never know about those sorts of things. if so, forgive me.

Some videos I saw this morning on MTV (they were playing videos cause it was 8 am)

Lady Soverign - "Love Me or Hate Me" - british female rapper.......i usually don't like british rappers or female rappers......but i like this song......and the video is pretty sweet too......"i'm english, try and deport me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1bZjbiCJDs

Silversun Pickups - "Lazy Eye" - I'd heard some positive buzz about these guys, but I don't really know anything about them........i think i had them confused with the black keys that aaron talked about recently.......if the rest of the cd is as good as this song, i might be picking it up soon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaIT82a7VjY

Fall Out Boy - "This ain't a scene, it's an arms race" - I liked the song with the deer in the video (sugar we're going down).....i really liked the dance, dance song........and i love this one......also they're on a label called fueled by ramen.........other artists on the label include less than jake, Panic! at the Disco (which deserves its own post and will get it soon), and......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvPvcV44rCc

Gym Class Heroes - "Cupids Chokehold" - aaron introduced me to these guys when i asked him for more stuff like atmosphere......the live band rather than samples is interesting and different from normal rap/hip-hop.....video is fun too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypEauGhcJz8

Lily Allen - "Smile" - i'm not a huge fan of this one, but I like it and it has stuck in my head all day......so......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_jjuCfdksQ

i just finished downloading the new shins that comes out tomorrow.......so.......i'll try and post soon about which songs i like

Go see Children of Men

Seriously. Science fiction for humans. You won't be disappointed.

8.2 IMDB (already #167 in the top 250!)

91% Rotten Tomatoes

Out with the new

Lupe Fiasco - Food and Liquor
Wow. Do not judge a book by a cover. His name and album name immediately turned me off. But, this is awesome hip-hop under the guise of mainstream radio rap. Check it out.
recommended tracks: Kick Push & Daydreamin'

The Black Keys - Magic Potion
The blues rock from Akron, Ohio does it again. Solid jams all the way.
recommended tracks: Just got to be & Goodbye babylon

Oh No! Oh My! - Self Titled
I'm not sure how to describe this band, maybe Shins meet Islands. Light and carefree listen.
recommended tracks: Walk in the Park & I have no sister

Wiley - Treadin' On Thin Ice
Dizzee Rascal take two, except I like this guy a whole lot more.
recommended track: The Game

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
This whole album just rocks! The lead's voice is no longer a shrill whine, but a beacon of rock and roll.

i liked cyrus's suggestions

and since the other members are refusing to give me any good songs- heres one for cyrus only. rewind: paolo nutini.

oh yeah

and also -

stitched up with herbie hancock f/ john mayer. i know i know- john mayer. try it.

new fav

Amy Winehouse- Rehab.

"they tried to make me go to rehab- i said no no no. "

dowload it illegally and love it.

Some of the songs that were part of the impetus for this blog

Bright Eyes - "First Day of My Life" (I'm Wide Awake It's Morning) - Oftentimes my favorite songs become my favorite songs because of a line in the song that just kills me; this song is filled with those killer lines: "Yours is the first face that I saw/think i was blind before I met you" "remember the time you drove all night/just to meet me in the morning" that reminds me of that scene in Elizabethtown, which by the way is an excellent often underrated movie. If you liked Garden State (which I did) i don't see how you could dislike Elizabethtown. Same thematic elements: boy is sad, boy goes home for parental death, boy meets girl, girl puts life into perspective....and isn't that what we all want out of life? Last awesome line in the song: "but i'd rather be working for a paycheck/than waiting to win the lottery"

Bright Eyes - "Old Soul Song (For the New World Order)" (I'm Wide Awake It's Morning) - off the same album....awesome imagery about a protest....i love the "and all the way home held your camera like a bible/just wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth"

Sufjan Stevens - "For the Widows in Paradise, For the Fatherless in Ypsilanti" (Greetings from Michigan) - i can't get totally behind sufjan....lots of his stuff is kinda boring to me even though i much prefer slow, mopey music....that being said..this song rules....love the banjo.....i read/heard one time that its way harder to play banjo slower than fast.....don't know if its true, but its sad and awesome.......does anybody know who the girl singer is? "i'll do anything for you/i did everything for you"

Ray LaMontagne - This is the guy i've been listening to the most recently.....saw him at ACL.....he was fantastic...... first 3 songs on (Trouble) will hook you: "Trouble" "Shelter" "Hold you in my arms" also check out (Till the Sun Turns Black) his new album that came out late last year......."Empty" is teh best track on there....."Lesson Learned" and "Till the sun turns black" are also incredible

so much more, but i'll quit for now........ps.....i don't think you should feel obligated to write lots of stuff about each song you pick......

Welcome

Welcome to tune swap. The idea is to exchange bands/music/songs that you are currently listening to. You should try to post at least once a month with 10 songs you are currently listening to. It's ok even if they are old songs that you rediscovered recently. This was originally intended for music, but I don't think there's anything wrong with listing books, movies, tv shows, websites that you are partaking in either.

If anybody knows the best way to set up an ftp site or something else where we can upload our monthly playlists etc... let me know please.

Let the good times roll! Woo!