Love is love is love is love. I'd like to ask the supporters of Prop 8, "If you are for love in general, how can you be against a specific kind of love?"
See you on the steps of City Hall tomorrow morning at 10:30. http://protest8la.wordpress.com/
Message for Barack Obama (Can You Feel It?) - Fingers Inc. f. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Obama Urikiwe - Samba Mapangala Aer Obama - Daft Punk v. Adam Freeland Barack Da Vote - Keith from Up Da Block (Electric Boogaloo song) Barock Star 2 - MIMS f. Jr. Reid
Walking with a Ghost (Rentals remix) - Tegan & Sara I'm Not Scared - Ladytron Creature Fear - Bon Iver It's Tricky - Run DMC I Want Candy - White Williams Ghosts - Laura Marling If You Take Away the Make-up (the Vampires, they will die) - Tullycraft M79 - Vampire Weekend
Just Like Heaven (Cure cover) - The Watson Twins (HT: Ten Music) Slow alt-countrified girl version. You could listen to this a couple of times before quite realizing it was a cover. Robert 'Bobby Joe' Smith would be proud.
Lost (remix) f. Jay-Z - Coldplay Epic. In that defiant fists in the air, U2 pseudo-spiritual kinda way. I can see teens listening in their bedrooms angry at the world and sure they were going to change it. And then the bedroom door opens and, uh, the HOVa comes sauntering in. I still like it.
The Shock of the Lightning - Oasis The brothers Gallagher won't be writing anything as wondrous as Champagne Supernova, Wonderwall or Live Forever ever again. But they can write a pretty serviceable rocking stomper. Hoping to see them with Ryan Adams in early December here in LAla. Give me a holler if you're interested.
Race You - Elizabeth & The Catapult This is just a demo, but she's already adorable. The lazy blogger compares her to so and so and references an iPod ad. But we don't do that here. Do we? Ah, dammit, we just did. Let's say then that she's charming and that when I was 10 I really like catapults and other assorted medieval siege weaponry.
First Sight - These United States
This is what their myspace page says: "Cumulonimbus WordPop fr th’Jangly Railyard Dreamer". Yes, gents, but which hobo most qualifies here? I say it would be: Manatee the Railyard Toreador.
Judas - the Verve Atmospheric Goodness. Lots of texture, a subtle melody strummed underneath and Richard singing "For a dream to happen, you gotta let it go" in and out of a precious falsetto. Perfect music for driving with the top down at night.
Another week of too much going on to coherently focus on some descriptions for the Friday 6-pack. I was thinking of doing an all "Joe" version of the Friday 6-pack. I was also thinking of getting a car loan, but the credit crisis killed that shit.
At least the Davy Jones Liquor Locker still accepts my credit.
Amadou & Miriam - Sabali Holly Golightly & the Brokeoffs - My 45 The Stills - Don't Talk Down Mr. Chop - Metropolis Del Ferro Calexico - Two Silver Trees Joe Purdy - Easier (HT: Lacy)
Wow. Looking at the list, 3 of the tracks are from a mix that Maxwell sent me. BIG hat tip to Max.
TV on the Radio - Golden Age Spoon - Bring it on home to me (Sam Cooke cover) Restavrant - Joe D (HT: Lindsay from emoto) Inara George with Van Dyke Parks - Duet Mitch Hedberg - Headless Horsemen De La Soul - Ego Trippin' pt. II (just for the yelling part at :14 or so. turn it up and scream out your client frustrations.) Tim DeLaughter (of the Polyphonic Spree) - Move Away and Shine (for Monica, who's moving up to SF to be with her man)
Hopefully there'll be more coherent and consistent posting in October.
No theme this week, but lotsa hat tipping for the suggestions and finds. I'm always up for new music or ideas from anyone or anywhere, even if you think I might already have a song.
Btw, I have one extra ticket to Fleet Foxes on Monday the 22nd, if you are interested. Lacy, Erika and I are currently going.
Nelly - "Hot in Herre" Why? Because it's fucking hot at Burning Man. Really, really, really incredibly hot. And the only way to deal with the heat is to sing and laugh with it. That and crack open a Tecate.
Common - "The Light" "There is a light that shines, special for you". The chorus is a love letter between everyone in my camp on Sunday, as we end our extra-special, summer camp extravaganza and head back to Reality Camp.
Ian Brown - "F.E.A.R." Amy and Mads discovered this one on their drive in last year, and we enjoyed it on the way out. Truth be told though, this one was in our iPod on the way in for 2k5. The sense of "Fantastic Expectations, Amazing Revelations" couldn't be more spot on for the playa.
Telepop Musik - "Just Breathe" This dusky gem is one of k8's favoritist on-playa songs. Reminds me of 2003, the year that we somehow convinced Hart, Bern, Annelise & k8 to go. k8 hasn't missed a year since.
Outside Lands songs
Radiohead - "House of Cards" Friday night was a nightmare for me, between work phone calls right before Radiohead started, Tokyo-like overcrowded subways and being unable to locate my friends at the show. Radiohead almost made it worth it though.
Bon Iver - "Skinny Love (live)" Sunday was the opposite of Friday night. The sun made its way through the Golden Gate fog, the good family Hazelrigg made a surprise appearance, and oh, Bon Iver restored my faith in the power of music. Redemptive and cathartic, haunting and beautiful and raw, they literally had some members of the audience in tears (including yours truly). For "Wolves (Acts I & II)", Justin taught the audience how to sing the "What Might've Been Lost" part. I turned and watched the Presidio Meadows crowd become the 5th, 6th and 3000th members of the band sans irony in a communal realness. At the end strangers were beaming at each other, and a few thousand new converts were added to the Bon Iver flock.
Footloose (Kenny Loggins cover) - Doveman Into the Groove (Sidechains remix) - Madonna The Escapist - The Streets Paper Planes - I'm from Barcelona Acquiesce - Oasis Oliver James - Fleet Foxes
NOTE: Fleet Foxes play the El Rey on September 22nd. Give me a shout if you're going.
After last week's 6-pack of comfort food in honor of my disorient campmates, this week gets boppier and a little more sun-drenched. Special happy birthday to fellow Leos Ms. Van House and Dee.
This week's descriptions, like the above movie marquee changing from Hancock to Batman(HT: Mike Ward), are full of showbiz metaphor mixing.
How Deep Is Your Love (Bee Gees cover) - The Bird and Bee Like the disco floor got transported to a beach house bedroom and the strobes replaced with sunshine through gauze curtains.
1234 (Feist cover) - Bikini If Cylons (the 70s sci-fi ones, not the new humanoid ones) followed the Battlestar Galactica all the way to Earth, then took
Kim & Jessie (Montag Remix) - M83 Music for lunch at the Breakfast Club, except this time everyone brings sushi.
Move - Cansei de Ser Sexy GetupGetupGetupGetupGetup. This is like twitter translated to the dancefloor.
Too Hot To Stop - The Bar-Kays Such funky, funky goodness that even black folk start doing the white man's overbite.
Divine - Sebastien Tellier Like the Beach Boys hiccupping while riding Segway's down the Venice boardwalk. Golden.
Tracklisting: Verve - 'BitterSweet Symphony (live in SF)' The The - 'This is the day' Modest Mouse - 'Float On' Bonnie Prince Billy - 'A Minor Place' Jeff Buckley - 'Hallelujah' Richard Ashcroft - 'Brave New World'
no notes this week (maybe later), just tracklisting:
Love Generation – Bob Sinclair Feelin’ Good Again – Robert Earl Keen Violet Hill (Coldplay cover) - The Kooks California Soul (diplo mix) - Marlena Shaw Love is Noise – the (motherfuckin’) Verve It Ain’t Easy – Robert Forster Blindfolded f. Verbal Kent - Alltruisms
America, Fuck Yeah! - Team America Freedom Isn't Free - Team America American Music - The Violent Femmes American Idiot - Green Day Kids in America - Kim Wilde US Govt Grants - John Hodgman America - Neil Diamond Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd
A little retro-tinged 6 pack, as we near the halfway point of the year. Functionality note: I added the AlbumArtist field and labeled it as Friday 6-pack. Hopefully, that'll make organizing in iTunes a little easier.
Fascination – Alphabeat 80s bopness, bopitude, bopacity. If the Fresh Prince of Bel Air had been the Fresh Prince of Silver Lake, this would’ve been the perfect Carleton dance song.
When the Child Awakes – Mount Righteous Somewhere between The Polyphonic Spree and a Texas HS marching band as led by that really cool camp counselor with the cool taste in music – the one who wouldn’t bust you for sneaking out of your cabin at night to go make out with the girls at Camp Minnehaha. I’m looking forward to putting this on the iShuffle and walking down the boardwalk and seeing what happens. The answer may be: getting laughed at.
Can I Kick It? - A Tribe Called Quest Where best to kick it? In a jeep, on the beach, in the summertime, at a house party.
Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? - She and Him I was all set to write about how much I liked Rilo Kiley and how this new song of theirs in particular was great and that I was really hoping they would stay together and record another album someday. But then I double-checked the name of the artist, and was able to confirm what we’ve always known: I’m a jackass. Still, a good song in a 70s kinda way. Kudos to Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward anyhow.
The Boy with the Thorn in His Side – The Smiths Just because.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It (acoustic) - R.E.M. Just because out of 8000 songs on the iTunes, it randomly popped up while I was trying to fill out the 6 pack.
Hands in the Air – Girl Talk Expressly because it succesfully marries ‘Whoomp! There it is!” with ‘In a Big Country’. Brilliance is as brilliance does Sr. Girl Talk.
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