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.

July 31, 2014

Tough couple weeks. Not getting as much music as I wish. Getting lost in music is important for me and when I don't have that chance things are harder. It's the way I lose myself for small bits of time. The songs that seem to be catching my ear today are unfamiliar songs by favorite and comfortable bands. Ready for the weekend!


Think You Can Wait (From the Film "Win Win") - The National
Anna Freud - The National
Little Faith - The National
The First Song - Band of Horses
Love Like a Sunset Part II - Pheonix
Lasso - Pheonix
Eyes - Rogue Wave
Phantom Limb - The Shins
When I'm Small - Phantogram
Under the Milky Way - Starflyer 59
Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) - The Pixies