October 22, 2014

A handful of songs to jot down. Listened to the early stream of The Flaming Lips song by song recreation of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper. Such a wonderful mixture of weird experimentation, Interesting Collaborations, and a fresh take on this much loved and familiar music. Worth a listen for any fans out there.



On The Rocks - The Rural Alberta Advantage
Paradise Girls - Deerhoof
It's Our Game - Helado Negro
Jackie and Wilson - Hozier
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Flaming Lips
With A Little Help From My Friends - The Flaming Lips
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - The Flaming Lips
Getting Better - The Flaming Lips
She's Leaving Home - The Flaming Lips
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - The Flaming Lips
When I'm Sixty-Four - The Flaming Lips
Lovely Rita - The Flaming Lips
Sordid Affair - Röyksopp

October 13, 2014

I like ice cream a lot. I can eat ice cream about as fast as anyone I know. It is a talent / quirk / genetic predisposition. It is so tasty and creamy and rich, and sometimes gives you a headache. I've been listening to a log of EDM music lately, especially when I'm heads down working, concentrating on something else, Bass thumping in my brain and no need to concentrate. That's like ice cream - especially the headache part... It's tasty, It's enjoyable. but when you take in nothing but that for days on end after a while you start to get tired of it. I still like the lazy energy and catchy electro-sounds in EDM, I'll still enjoy it from time to time, but today I flipped over to a pandora channel spun from the National. As those first crunchy guitars, forlorn horns, and above all, lyrics with depth and meaning I realized again that this is more my speed / more of what it takes to keep my brain in the right place.

Here's a few songs, some new to me, some old favorites.



Take me to Church - Hozier
Satellite - Guster
Neigborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
For Emma - Bon Iver
Gospel - The National
Gone for Good - The Shins
Neighborhood #4 (Kettles) - Arcade Fire
Family Tree - TV on the Radio
1901 - Phoenix
We're Going to be Friends - White Stripes
Fiery Crash - Andrew Bird
Holocene - Bon Iver
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips
New Slang - The Shins
As Tall As Cliffs - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's




Plenty more to come in the days ahead.

October 7, 2014

Way way too busy. Pressure raising a bit at work. Have just completed a pretty intense 2 month long period where I couldn't listen to music much at all. Getting just a little these days. Will drop some that I found interesting lately below....

Interesting Mix from ASC. Some electronic twists in there. Not necessarily my favorite, but interesting to say the least.

Little Maggie - Robert Plant
Taranta - Mina Tindle
Nose Grows Some - Thom Yorke
CIRCLONT14 [152.97] [shrymoming mix] - Aphex Twin
The Night is Young - The Two Bears
The Way He Looks at Me - Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
Form by Firelight - Jon Hopkins
Come Unwound - The Bulls
What You Think I Am - The Choir
Two Clouds Are One - The Choir
White Knuckles - The Choir