Again!Again! Fall Cornucopia Mix

A very random bunch of songs. Most really aren't candidates for the Best of 2006 mix(coming in mid-December, with very special exclusive photography from Amy Whitehouse).

There's a gamut of styles, from the silky Koop to the silly Timberlake cover. 80's style synth-pop (Van She) to actual 80's synth pop (Psychedelic Furs). There's even some unironic Xtina hidden amidst the usual indie wanderings.

Enjoy

DOWNLOAD:
James Mercer - "One Too Many Fights" - acoustic track from The Shins singer.
They Must Be Russians - "Don't Try To Cure Yourself" - Punk advice and education on STDs.
The Walkmen - "Many Rivers to Cross" - Faithful cover of the Harry Nilsson track
Pink Nasty f. Will Oldham - "Don't Ever Change" - previosly posted. relationship ennui.
Badly Drawn Boy - "Born in the U.K." - Was there a memo about claiming The Boss as the hippest newest influence?
the Changes - "Sexy Back" - Justin Timberlake indie cover.
Simian Mobile Disco - "Tits & Acid" - Kanyé protested their MTV Europe Best Music Video award.
The Rapture - "Get Myself Into It (Sebastien Remix)" - Dancepunk goodness.
Van She - "Kelly" - Synthpop 80s goodness. Recorded in 2006.
Beck - "Celphone's Dead" - My favorite track off the new one. Sounds vaguely Dust Brothers produced.
Christina Aguilera - "Candyman" - 30s style sample. You may hate it. I like it.
Gwen Stefani - "Wind it up" - Yodeling sampled from the Sound of Music.
Koop - "Come to me" - silky jazz smoothness. No jeans allowed at this club. Dress code strictly enforced.
Hot Chip - "Sexual Healing" - Marvin Gaye cover.
The Psychedelic Furs - "The Ghost in You"
Lavendar Diamond - "You Broke My Heart"
Husky Rescue - "Diamonds in the Sky"
Gary Jules - "Mad World" - from the Gears of War commercial
St. Vincent - "These Days" - a Jackson Browne cover
Snoop Dogg - "Think About It" - Snoop with ridiculous flow. Favorite off his new disc.
Civilian - "Just Be True for Once" - these guys came into DDB and played an acoustic set that just killed. wish we had the DAT out for these guys, because they're going to be huge in a KROQ kind of way. love the counter harmonies. don't love this recorded version.

Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good � The Thanksgiving Day Eve Mix (Gobble, Gobble)

The fine folk over at Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good have posted a Turkey Day mix that's pretty nice. Head over there and download yourself some tunes.

New Fall Cornucopia mix to be posted sometime this weekend, in between football and having to work.

I'm thankful to all 12 of you for reading.

Music For Kids Who Can’t Read Good � The Thanksgiving Day Eve Mix (Gobble, Gobble): "The Thanksgiving Day Eve Mix (Gobble, Gobble)
Music, Mix, Megapost — taylor @ 3:53 pm

Since tomorrow I’ll be dedicating most of my time to eating as much food as I can, I’m making a mix today that is so good it could last you even longer than all that leftover turkey and be just as satisfying. There’s a caption that explains what each song has to do with Thanksgiving, if you’re the curious type. Side note: my family decided that we’re all going to see Stranger Than Fiction tomorrow. Any good?"

Lazy Blogger Wednesday - THE BLOW - 'parentheses'

Didn't realize these kids were from Portland, OR.

New therapist = more feelings and emotions welling up at weird times.

Like in the deli section of the grocery store.

DOWNLOAD - The blow - "Parentheses"

New Young Pony Club

Guys, don't use this for your commercials. It's being overloaded in the new Intel spots that don't seem to make much sense unless the brief was "Look like an iTunes ad".

I recommend the Van She mix. Downloads available after the link.

kissatlanta.com: "My Love Is Like A Pony...

01167 20 71 1167901702 LMore now than ever, we gravitate around the single. I won't even throw in the tag 'indie' because at this point it doesn't even really matter. For a while now, everyone has been dancing and singing along to the track 'Ice Cream' by Australia's New Young Pony Club. 'Ice Cream' is quite impossible to avoid, whether it's one of a number of remixes being beaten to death by DJ's or the new Intel ads that appear to be the creation of Mitsubishi's hijacked ad firm. In the end, the single's staying power and popularity ride more on the remixes than the original. In fact, after listening to five different remixes of the track, I can't even go back and listen to the original."

Oasis - "Acquiesce"

Oasis - Acquiesce (2006 Promo Video)

I love this song. I've loved Oasis at times. But i'm so glad that I was 5 years too old to really model my coolness on Liam Gallagher. (instead it was the entirety of the Stone Roses.)

Listen at least to the Noel-sung chorus "We need each other...
We believe in one another".
Stirs the heart and does what most great British bands do: believe that you and your mates could conquer the world together.

DOWNLOAD: Oasis - "Acquiesce"

DOWNLOAD The Shins: “Phantom Limb”

Girl group drums, a few late ooh-ah-ooooh-wah-ooohs.

I don't think it'll change your life, unless Natalie Portman plays it for you, then sleeps with you and gets you off (of all your medications).

Update: Did anyone else notice the irony of a song by a band named after a part of a lower extremity writing about a phantom limb?

Update2: Two clips from Garden State.

1 obvious, but slightly funny:
Garden State Tip

1 horrifying en Español:
Les Shins

DOWNLOAD: The Shins - "Phantom Limb"

And read Pitchfork's review: Pitchfork: Stream: The Shins: “Phantom Limb”: "Stream: The Shins: “Phantom Limb”
Count your arms and legs (especially the bones toward the front of your calves), and slip on those big ol' Natalie Portman headphones, because the Shins have sent some ghost appendage love by way of the Internet.

Fans can now stream new track 'Phantom Limb' from the Portlanders' official website and MySpace page. The number isn't as light (read: catchy) as some of the band's better tunes, but it surely suffices as, at the very least, background music. If you can make it roughly two minutes and twenty-five seconds in, there are some halfway decent 'ooh ee ooh ee ooh's, but even those lose their charm a few runs through. Of course, "

If I only had a brain 900 foot jesus

I'm sure this is how my partner feels every so often when I get a new song in my head.

(NOTE: work partner).

Ben Folds - Learn To Live With What You Are (music video)

Cheesy video. Therapist and I to discuss.

LBF: Gears of War Commercial

Lots of props to whoever chose this music. The juxtaposition is fantastic.

LBF: Johnny Cash Tribute

Clip from God's Going to Cut You Down.

Lazy Blogger Friday THE HORRORS - SHEENA IS A PARASITE

I don't want to be anywhere near director Chris Cunningham's dreams. Egads.

protection

An adjunct to the Santa Ana mix on Monday.

The instinct to fight and protect those you love. We've got a certain friend who always seems to fall for girls who need saving.

Not suprisinly, some of them end up being total psychos.

DOWNLOAD: Massive Attack 'Protection'

Concert à emporter 2.1 - Jens Lekman - Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to Heidi: There's too many candles in your cake, but don't you worry...

Crazy at Berkley Place

To quote Jack in As Good As It Gets, "Go sell crazy somwhere else, lady. We're all stocked up here."

Berkely Place has all the remixes, mash-ups, covers and live versions of The Song of the Year you could imagine.

Includes the Prince/Gnarls mash-up, the Ray LaMontagne acoustic version, Nelly Furtado, etc. etc. etc.

Berkeley Place-A lil' bit of BK from VA: "MY BLOG’S GONE CRAAAAAAAAA-ZAY! (part two)
More versions and remixes of the best song of the year.
"

Santa Ana winds mix

Was all set to load up the Again!Again! Fall Cornucopia mix, until the Santa Ana winds blew down from the East.

Instead, here's songs that replicate the high dust chapparal and the unseasonably warm temps here in Southern California.

Starts a little warm and glam and then gets dusty, righteous and angry (Topical for the election tomorrow, too) then settles into a full moon night on the beach.

Hole - Malibu
(written by Kurt Cobain)

Neko Case - Deep Red Bells

Jenny Lewis & The Watson Twins - Rise Up With Fists

Ian Brown - So Many Soldiers

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down

Calexico - El Picador

The Coral - Don't Think You're the First

Echo & the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

Santa Ana wind - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Santa Ana winds may get their name from the Santa Ana Mountains that lie in Orange County or the Santa Ana Canyon through which the winds are noted for their high speed. Many Southern Californians believe that the traditional name is Santanas, meaning devil winds in an undetermined language. The similar word 'Satan�s' is Spanish for 'Satan.' Santanas was occasionally used in early reports,"

music is art

What a great fucking blog. Um, music, and, uh, art. Like, together.

Photograpy and mp3s. Gorgeous, both.

music is art

"words, music and art complete one another. the mission of musicisart is to show how passion creates feeling and to share on the meaning. old and new intelligent selections always inspire and will forever include uncensored thoughts, music expressions, intense details to demonstrate sincere and grateful appreciation. simply, thankyou for reading."

I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse

Confetti happiness.

Halloween weekend

Too much love. You guys make me proud to wear the gold lamé.

More stories and pictures to come.

Hip Hop Thursday - Outkast 'Slump'

Anyone for Southern Rock Sundays? No? Good. To Southernfried hip-hop then.


DOWNLOAD: Outkast - 'Slump'

Not the stand-out track from '98's Aquemini CD. That'd be a tie between Rosa Parks and the insanity that was 'Bombs Over Baghdad' (prescient by 5 years or late by 7? you decide).

Back to 'Slump' (must be said while slumpin'). Manages to be angry, happy and descriptive all in one. Somehow the line about 'buyin' all the weed and all the chickin' has stuck in my head for a while.

Think this was back when Big Boi and Dre 3k were still hangin' on the same stoop in the Dirty-dirty ATL. Big dreams in their heads, but they still hadn't moved out of the hood.

Also funny for the revelation that Andre used to work at Steak'n'Ale.

Pink Nasty - "Don't ever change [ft. Bonnie Prince Billy]"

In which you can hear the ennui and fedupness of a relationship in indie rock limbo. (Please baby, won't you shut the fuck up).

DOWNLOAD "Pink Nasty
“Don't Ever Change [ft. Bonnie Prince Billy]”

Bonus track: My favorite Bonnie Prince Billy track, "A Minor Place". Spare piano, hushed voice and I've no idea what it means but I love it. You should, too.

DOWNLOAD: Bonnie Prince Billy "A Minor Place"

LBF: Jens Lekman Live at the 2006 Pitchfork Music Festival

Guess he opened the show with this one.

LBF: Travis - Sing

Met a girl last night who's the doppleganger of my ex, Rory. Hair, body language, attitude, everything.

This song reminds me of the summer after I left my start-up and was just chilling out in Seattle at Rory's place, playing Diablo with MTV2 running non-stop on the TV.

(that was in the era that MTV2 actually played videos.)

LBF:Hotel Yorba

I said 39 times I love you to the beauty I had found.

Lazy blogger Friday: Sonnet - The Verve

My friend and me
Looking through her red box of memories
Faded I'm sure
But love seems to stick in her veins you know


Yes, there's love if you want it
Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

Positive K - I Got A Man

Rockin' like 1992!

new herman dune songs on their my space

On one of their blog posts they've got a *great* analogy about their new album, invoking the death star station toy.

www.myspace.com/therealhermandune:

"Neman And I Just Finished Mixing The New Herman Dune Album, Giant
In Paris, France, With Julien Delfaud
We Kept 16 of The 22 Tracks We Recorded, And Julien Is Going To Master It With The Guy Who Mastered Electric Warrior On Wednesday...
I Never Thought My Songs, Or Andre's Songs Could Ever Sound That Good
It's So Weird
It's So Much Better Than What I Dreamed This New Album Would Ever Sound Like
I Mean
I've Always Dreamed To Have Horns And Brass On my Songs, And The Jon Natchez Bourbon Horns Were Right On/ Right On
I Don't Know...
It's Like When You Dream Of The Starwars Death Star When You Are A Kid, And Instead Of The Ugly Toy You Thought You'd Get, You Get An Actual Mini Death Star, Like The Holographic One They Watch In Jedi, With Like An Antigravity Device Or Something
I Mean, Horns, Brass, Flute, It Is Really, A Dream Come True For Me
Then
As I Started To Do On Novascotia, And As We Did On Not On Top, There's A Lot Of Girl Singing
But Frankly
My Sister Lisa Combined With The Baby Skins
It's Far Better Than Any Female group I've Ever Heard, Except Maybe The Dixie Cups
They Are So Good
It's So Fulfilling To Hear Them Sing our Songs
Of Course Neman And Doctor Schonberg Were Crazy On Percussions
Then The Sound Is Soooo Vintage, From The Recordingg On, And Julien Mixed It Total Stereo, Rubber Soul Style, It's Cool..."

Koop-Come To Me

Gorgeous new track from Swedish cross-dressers and oddly-penciled eyebrows, Koop.

Sure to appear in something on the tv somewhere. Maybe you can be first.

The Vicodin Song

Not my usual style of music, but the subject matter seems LA-suitable.

(HT: K8)

LBF - Cat Power - Lived in Bars

I'm 100% sure I posted this before, but I'm in love with the section at the end. And I'm in love with the people in the video. And I'd pay good money to have Cat Power naked except for the tiger mask.

Wouldn't you?

LBF - Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At

MENTAL!

If you ever have the chance to see Basement Jaxx live, do it.

LBF - I'm From Barcelona - Treehouse (live)

Dedicated to Misty & Kevin and their possible surprise wedding at a Treehouse resort.

http://www.treehouses.com/treehouse/treesort/prclst.html

Lazy Blogger Friday - Guillemots - Transmission with T-Mobile

Rejoice! It's Friday.

Usually, falling in love doesn't make for brilliant pop songs.

Maybe this is the exception that proves the rule.

Put the message in the Box



Was just reading Headphone Sex . It's the 4th anniversary of the Bali bombings, and well, why not quote him directly:

"You may not realise since it's not had a lot of media coverage, but today's the fourth anniversary of the Bali Bombing. I won't bore you with my story again, however some of you will remember that I was in the Sari Club when the bomb went off, and it's nothing short of a miracle that i'm still here today.

On a couple of occasions now i've met Polly Miller, a fellow survivor of the bombing. Although the stories of how we escaped are very similar, the outcomes were very different. Polly lost her husband of 5 weeks and 8 of her best friends. She also suffered horrific burns to 43% of her body. There was an article about Polly in the Observer Magazine a few weeks ago, that i'd really urge you to read. It's very moving, and conveys what an inspirational woman she is.

Anyway, as you will discover in the article, Polly has since the moment she stepped out of hospital, put an incredible amount of energy into a charity she set up in memory of her husband. Called 'Dans Fund For Burns' (registration details here), it's now raised over £500,000 for the treatment of burns victims in the UK and abroad... and still going strong.

I've been wondering for a while how best to raise some money for the charity, and thought that since I get quite a few readers now I could try and (ab)use your generocity."

Brothers and Sisters - "One Night"

I'm a sucker for videos set at roller rinks.

And harmonies. I love harmonies. And dual tamborines.

DOWNLOAD Brothers & Sisters - One Night

kanyemahna

No, Google, I did not mean 'kanchana'. Wait, what's a kanchana?

Oh "Kanchana - a female name from Hindu meaning a celestial Apsara, gold"

back to normal posting...

where wer we, eh, oh, Kanyemahna.

it's a mash-up, and yet, somehow still relevant to the musical discussion. Gold Digger meets Mahna Mahna. but a sorta redone Mahna Mahna.

fuckit, words are failing. descriptions lacking stuff and um, description. so Download and share:

DOWNLOAD:
KanyeMahna

stereogum: The Good, The Bad And The Queen - "Herculean"

Stereogum has the new track from Damon Albarn(Gorillaz, Blur)'s new band:

Atmospheric goodness. Not nearly as accessible as the Gorillaz work. But I think I like it.

stereogum: The Good, The Bad And The Queen - "Herculean": "The Good, The Bad And The Queen - 'Herculean'

With a line-up comprising Damon Albarn, Simon Tong, ex-Clash bassist Paul Simonon, Fela Kuti-drummer Tony Allen, and a record produced by the ubiquitous Danger Mouse, the world's expecting a lot from this 'story.' Judging by this first single, the world is gonna get alot, too.

Damon is still partial to his 'Feel Good' vocal effect, and the track definitely is informed by his Demon days with Danger, but everything from Allen's deep pocket to the haunting and hypnotic backdrop make this song a sure shot. Sounds to us like someone is making himself into one of this generation's most undeniable and enduring talents.

The Good, The Bad And The Queen - 'Herculean' (MP3)

TGTB&TQ have a trio of warm-up gigs in the UK, leading up to their 10/26 performance of their entire record as part of the BBC Electric Proms season. That is one gig for which we'd surely fly, with or without carry-on liquids.

The Good, The Bad And The Queen is out 1/07."

Best movie songs, best music moments in film, best songs in a movie, best movie soundtrack

Fun debate...

Best movie songs, best music moments in film, best songs in a movie, best movie soundtrack: "Movie Tunes: The Top 40 music moments in film history

10/06/2006

ALSO: What are your favorite music-in-movie moments? Post your thoughts at Premium Hollywood and Eat Sleep Drink Music.

There’s nothing better for someone who’s a fan of both music and movies to sit down in a theater, watch a film, and find yourself in awe of how the director has utilized a pop song to set a scene or convey a mood. It’s easy to know that you need a romantic song for a romantic moment, but finding the right song…? That’s the hard bit, and it gets even harder as you have to provide the proper sonic backdrop for just about every key moment in the film. Bullz-Eye polled all of our movie and music writers (and then some) to get their favorite uses of pop songs in movies.

The only real criteria we set was this: The song couldn’t have been written specifically for the film or have made its debut on the film’s soundtrack. This was pretty rough on us at first, because it meant we had to say so long to Simple Minds’ “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” (“The Breakfast Club”), bid bye-bye to O.M.D.’s “If You Leave” (“Pretty in Pink”), and offer a fond farewell to Kate Bush’s “This Woman’s Work” (“She’s Having a Baby”).

Fortunately, we had a lot of great songs – and movie moments – waiting in the wings. But be advised: our descriptions contain spoilers galore."

Waterfall (Oakenfeld remix)

Not much done to the original (off The Stone Roses, 1989) other than beef up the dancey 'vibe' without taking away the 'guitars'.

It makes me think of going on an adventure in the tropical rainforest, and then our raft takes a turn in the river and we're back into semi-civilization, Brazilian girls and beer and music and dancing like mad until the dawn.

Your results may vary.

DOWNLOAD - The Stone Roses 'Waterfall (Oakenfeld remix)'

Battle of the album covers

Wow.

go watch this immediately.

Motionographer | Motion graphics, design, animation, filmaking, vfx and bombastic banter� Blog Archive � Ugly Pictures Man vs. Magnet: "This is the funniest bit of mograph work I’ve seen in a while. Maybe ever. Directed by Ugly Pictures and animated by man vs. magnet (both with Curious Pictures), this spot takes you on a hilarious, ultra-violent, semi-pornographic tour through just about every famous album cover known to man.

battle.jpg

My favorite bit, I think, is the Velvet Underground/Pink Floyd prism sequence. So damned clever.

The spot was created for Fluid Battle of the AdBands in NYC.

posted by justin"

Lazy Blogger Friday: The Stone Roses - Waterfall

yawn. slightly hungover.

posting the slightly remixed version below.