Hi all,
Blogger works! Here is the song list and comments about disc 2, same thing form the email.
1. "Heaven Knows" by Squeeze
Squeeze is great and this is a great song, sweet and lovey and hey, yes, you do remember hearing that in the pool make-out scene from the movie Hackers. Should I even admit to playing this while people were finding their seats at my wedding (no, not in 1995, just 2 months ago..)?!
2. "Holes in the Sun" by The Blood Group
This is from their 2001 EP and actually not my favorite on that but I picked it as being more "accessible" so if you are thinking *this* is depressing music well have I got more of that for you..
3. "Aguas de Marco" by Cibo Matto
Cibo Matto are 2 Japanese chicks now living in NYC known for singing kooky songs about food but they are quality musicians and vocalists and this cover is really smooth and enjoyable. The male voice is Sean Lennon. There is an mp3 of the original at http://photomatt.net/2005/01/27/aguas-de-marco/ if you want to compare.
4. "Beautiful Machine" by Legendary Pink Dots
LPD is one of my all time favorites and I really struggled to pick 1 song for the disc. You might be surprised that this is one of their most commercially appealling songs in that it is not 12 minutes long with a 4 minute electric clarinet solo, you can hardly detect the singer's trademark lisp and it isn't about a mythic king, alien visitations or the end times of modern civilization.. oops.. yes it is about the end times of modern civilization. Enjoy!
5. "Uncertain Smile" by The The
The The is great and this is a sweet song. My high school band Seven Sesquipedelian used to cover this. What do you mean you never heard of us?
6. "See a Little Light" by Bob Mould
Stand-up rock from a Minneapolitan boy.
7. "Give up" by The Postal Service
Actually the song is called "Nothing Better" but I didn't fix the file name so, sorry about that. While Jaime picked the optomistic "Such Great Heights", this one is the perfect picture of the painful break up.
8. "Rainshine" by Bran Van 3000
Not enough people are completely obsessed with Bran Van 3000. They can play the ass off of any musical genre you throw at them, I nearly filled the entire disc with Bran Van 3000 disco songs.
9. "Sunshowers" by MIA
Refugees are putting out some interesting, quality tunes lately so I am not sure what that says about the world. And then sometimes I start to think MIA is really annoying and then I remember Lady Sovereign.
10. "Reward le fin" by Mach Fox
Mach Fox might be my favorite local Minneapolis band at the moment. This is the soundtrack for driving your Eagle Talon. Check out more at http://www.myspace.com/machfox
11. "Human" by Cyber-Tec
You can tell by the band name, some of you ain't going to like this - but check it out. Maybe you think "industrial" is hateful devil music but this is actually a pretty uplifting song that your Lutheran minister could really get behind. It is pretty tempting to take it sarcastically as well..
12. "Devil" by OhGr
OK this is some of that hateful devil music industrial and good for listening while you lace up your Dr. Marten's to go ass kicking or something.
13. "Sweat" Meg Lee Chin
This chick completely kicks ass! Sweat it out.
14. "Meet Sue Be She" by Miss Kittin
I am a sometime hobby Mitsubishi race car driver and this is part 1 of 2 songs about race car driving - rally racing.
15. "Dune Buggy Driver" by Future Wives
Another Minneapolis band and part 2 of 2 songs about race car driving. "Tuesday Wednesday fix the dune buggy" rings sooo true.
16. "The Globe" by Big Audio Dynamite II
When Mick Jones left The Clash he eventually started Big Audio Dynamite and experimented with different styles of music. Possibly best known for "Come on Every Beatbox" but this song was popular too back in the day. By the way if you like Squeeze, The The and Big Audio Dynamite, I could probably think of a dozen other bands from 1986-1991 that you would like.
17. "Senegal" by Bran Van 3000
A really pretty song with vocals by Youssou N'Dour. Music is a good way to learn the character of another language and how to sound like a native speaker.
18. "Butterfly Radio" by Avenpitch
OK time to get back to the Minneapolis Electropunk. This one is pretty poppy and they could be the next Panic! at the Disco, now with more 80s!
19. "Thin Ice" by the Soviettes
Tons of guitars, tons of Twin Cities chicks, and an anti-Iraq War song in 1 minute 15 seconds flat. Can't beat that.
20. "Shhh..." by Slug
Slug is another local from the group Atmosphere which has been getting some national attention. This song is a proper shout out to your awesome Midwest hometown. We have great tap water here, just the right amount iron and it's pretty important to us.
So, that's it. I am fairly sure many of you won't exactly dig 70% of this but it is an accurate representation of what is going on in my Creative Labs Nomad while strolling the airport hallways around the world.
Wishing you Peace in the New Year.
-Mara
2 comments:
Hi Mara
Thanks for the CD and all the info you posted. I've listened to it a couple of times at home, but kept getting interupted due to holidays and company. I'm going to put the CD in my car this weekend, so I can really listen to it (and then I need to match the songs with your comments.) I havent heard anything on the CD before, so there is a lot to absorb for me.. What the first 2 CDs have taught be already is how much music I've never heard of, let alone heard before. And I think I listen to a lot of music!! Makes me think that maybe the stuff I was thinking of using on my CD, which I was thinking...oh everyone has heard this... wont be so common place after all!! since we all may be listening to very different things....
Andrea
Hi Andrea,
Yes, I think you are really right! I too think I listen to a lot of music and on one hand think "no one else likes the music I do" or oh, an old Bob Mould song, who wants to hear that. At the same time, I know I also have no idea the music I'm not aware that I *would* like.
All the songs on this disc are favorites of mine and in part reflect what's going on with me right now. 6 months earlier/later I might have picked very different things. I'm really enthusiastic (aka a total spaz) about the music I like so I decided, you know what -- even if I think other people don't like it or would think it is old and boring, I should put it out there and let them decide.
Now I'm really looking forward to seeing the whole year of different people's idiosyncrasies and learning what their music is about.
Mara
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