We didn’t actually get to see Neko Case. It turns out that nobody else wanted to go, and neither Maria nor I owns a “car.” We’ll be at the New Pornographers show in August, though.
Category: Music
I’m about a week late on this, but as somebody who’s been singing the “Clear Channel Sucks” song since 2001, I was fascinated to learn that they actually created a fake “anti-corporate” station in order to win back the listeners they lost by… being corporate. If there is any more flagrant evidence of a harmful and necrotic monopoly extant, I’d love to see it. What’s next? Ticketmaster sponsoring fake scalpers?
It occurs to me that they might already do that.
Anyway, there’s always Indy if you want your own interweb radio station that learns what you like. I can’t give it a glowing-eyes four-thumbs recommendation because, well, most of the music it plays is by people who wanted to get signed and couldn’t. Not all, but most. Still, I’m going to keep using it and see how good its collaborative filter gets; I’ll let you know if it does ever cross that golden threshold.
I can’t stop listening to Jesusland. WHY CAN’T I STOP LISTENING TO JESUSLAND. Because it’s such an important song! Because, to Nathan Rabin’s disappointment, it’s not satire.
Tangerines and persimmons and sugarcane
Lucinda Williams songs slap you and bite you and punch you in the gut and kick your face and then when you come to afterwards they’re like “WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO DO THAT AGAIN” and you’re like “YES PLEASE LUCINDA WILLIAMS SONG”
After I finish listening to World Without Tears I feel like all the things in my chest have been busted loose, shaken up, clarified and changed.
How to tell it’s not 1956
“Rock and roll” is the most sanitized, neutral concept in Western civilization.
The Kill Satan With Music Mix
Mix CD post. You’ve been warned. Also, this is actually version 1.1; I’m using 1.0 right now, but there are a couple of songs (Marilyn Manson and Rob D) that I need to cut out.
- Maroon 5 – Harder To Breathe
- Jimmy Eat World – Bleed American
- Jimmy Eat World – A Praise Chorus
- Lunatic Calm – Leave You Far Behind
- Pearl Jam – Do The Evolution
- Foo Fighters – All My Life
- Rob Zombie – Dragula (Hot Rod Herman mix)
- Beastie Boys – Sabotage
- The Prodigy – Smack My Bitch Up
- Lo Fidelity Allstars – Battleflag
- Propellerheads – Spybreak
As far as I can tell, this works equally well on straight through or shuffle. The only constants are that the Maroon 5 song must be first, because it doesn’t fit anywhere else, and the Foo Fighters song must be sixth, because that’s about when I decide I should give up running forever and go home and get fat. There is no song in the world as good at making you run as “All My Life.”
If you think this is interesting, let me know; if I get a few requests I’ll post the mp3s.
What I would like
Music that manages to combine bossa nova with breakbeats in a non-annoying manner. I’m not sure this is possible, although I’m sure people have tried (I discovered last night that “electrobossa” is already a pretty strong subgenre, but everything I heard was a bit milquetoast, even for me).
I’m not honestly sure I like either bossa or break, but everything I’ve heard of either genre I liked, which I think is encouraging. One of my favorite albums ever is a bossa nova album! Kind of. Most of the breakbeats I like are off soundtracks.
I think 360 is my new favorite song. If you understand why, you probably also understand why I like Modern Humor Authority so much.