It's been a while since I posted a bunch of tunes. So here what I've been feeling for a minute:
Krautrock!!!
Massive influx of krautrock: here's a couple gems
Faust - It's A Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl [bluesy piano and drum lock-groove + plus interlacing guitars, organs, vocals = genius!]
Harmonia - Notre Dame [the opening minute and of this is just jaw-dropping]
Favorite tune off the new Avril Lavigne. Starts a bit generic pop-punk, but man, that is a high-powered chorus!
Avril Lavigne - Runaway
"Bombastic" electro tune ripped from last years CBS (Cybernetic Broadcasting System, natch) top 100
Fockewulf 190 - Gitano
Go here and download Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights for some serious slow-build euphoric techno.
Go here and download the Sebo K resident advisor podcast for what one commentator described as "pretty much the bible for neo deep house/minimal"
Oh ya! And what's turning out to be my favorite album of '07 so far, Stars Of The Lid and their refinement of the decline, just a stunningly beautiful album, so warm and enveloping. The sound of warm slow summer evenings, still and peaceful (or at least, that's when I've been listening to it). This has been my "recharge" music for the last couple of weeks, when things were getting just a bit too crazy and stressful. I could pick almost any tune from it, but I'll choose this one:
Stars Of The Lid - A Meaningful Moment Through A Meaning(less) Process
It's summer, it's warm, and June 2007 is looking like a motherfucking COLOSUSS. I wish you all the best.
Friday, June 01, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Short first impressions...
...on 3 recently downloaded (and only partially listened to) albums:
Battles - Mirrored: Finally some indie-ish rock I might like! Sigh...too complex rhythmically to be hypnotic, not riff-y enough to be catchy. I support it in theory though.
Hilary Duff - Dignity: Terrible title, disapointing production. A couple good'uns though.
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing: Well named! Summertime joy :)
Avril wins hands down.
Battles - Mirrored: Finally some indie-ish rock I might like! Sigh...too complex rhythmically to be hypnotic, not riff-y enough to be catchy. I support it in theory though.
Hilary Duff - Dignity: Terrible title, disapointing production. A couple good'uns though.
Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing: Well named! Summertime joy :)
Avril wins hands down.
Thursday, May 17, 2007
MUST GO.
Why the hell didn't I see this before??? Booka Shade are maybe top 3 on my all-time list of people I want to see in concert but haven't. Here's a link to their essential mix from last year, the first hour of which is them playing live. Also, here's a mashup of "mandarine girl" with a brandy's "what about us" that's pretty much one of the greatest pieces of music ever. I AM SO FUCKING HYPED FOR THIS.
Monday, May 14, 2007
This song is also making me very happy right now. Might I make a request? Do you know anything about funk, soul and/or r&b? Particularly stuff from the 60's & 70's. If you do, please recommend me some, I want to listen to way more of this stuff. I've seriously listened to this song 5 times in a row now. I got it off some random collection of chicago soul. WANT MORE!
peace.
(ps. boo data analysis. yay internet!)
peace.
(ps. boo data analysis. yay internet!)
I am happy because the preliminary data analysis from my experiment last week looks like it's going to be significant. Yippee!
I'm also happy because this Lindstrom & Prins Thomas essential mix is pretty damn great so far. S P A C E D I S C O .
(check out the rest of that site too: essential mix goldmine!)
I'm also happy because this Lindstrom & Prins Thomas essential mix is pretty damn great so far. S P A C E D I S C O .
(check out the rest of that site too: essential mix goldmine!)
Wednesday, May 09, 2007
3 Things
I went to Berlin and didn't go to Berghain/Panoramabar and I've been kicking myself for it ever since
This really makes me want to watch Half Nelson again, because it was a pretty good movie the first time around.
I don't know if this really is going to be an anthem, but it's excellent anyway and you should download it.
Having just moved, and now shifting into heavy get-the-mutherfucking-thesis-done mode I may not be posting too much 'round here for the next couple of months. but i'll be alive somewhere, doing something.
This really makes me want to watch Half Nelson again, because it was a pretty good movie the first time around.
I don't know if this really is going to be an anthem, but it's excellent anyway and you should download it.
Having just moved, and now shifting into heavy get-the-mutherfucking-thesis-done mode I may not be posting too much 'round here for the next couple of months. but i'll be alive somewhere, doing something.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
On Virginia Tech...
read this; a very insightful take on the motivation behind such murders. I think this question (posed to the author that is being interviewed) really hits it:
Maybe I'll expand on some things I've been thinking about this later, but I want to get some stuff down quickly while that article still has me fired up.
Tess, my roommate, said yesterday "I don't understand how anyone could do that." But I disagree, we all can understand far too easily, I think that's what makes these events so horrifying. As the author says in the above article, in a lot of ways it's all too easy to understand and sympathize; you just pick up the gun and shoot. We've seen it a million times on tv and in movies, done it hundred times from video games to water guns...hell, shooting people is fun! The only thing is the switch, what makes them decide to do it. To loose connection to the reality that these are people, who have clearly not done enough to you to deserve such cruelty.
Again, as the article discusses, who does these things? White people, middle class people, males, "normal" people, who "rationally" set about murdering as many people as possible (edit: well yeah the Virginia Tech shooter was of Korean descent, but the rest still applies). I think it's a) the disconnect from reality that comes from living a sheltered life where the only danger you ever see in life is simulated on some screen and b) the helplessness and powerlessness often felt by people in such a situation, the feeling that nothing you can do (not voting, not protesting, nothing) can really make a difference on all the wrongs we see in the world.
Lastly, I think if you read this article by Jean Baudrillard who discusses the motivations behind terrorism as the response of people who have been given so much, but are unable to give anything in return (not, as we tend to think, the response of a people who have had everything taken from them), I think you can draw a clear parallel to the possible motivations behind such attacks the as Virginia Tech shootings. The actions of a person humiliated by all that is given to him, unable to respond to an impersonal system, they make a category mistake and decide that is the people themselves that are the enemy, rather than the system in which they exist.
****
Hmm, all this could be probably be taken a whole bunch of ways that I don't intend, and much of it is still only half thought out...hope no one takes offence...just trying to say something a little more subtle than "guns are bad"
You demonstrate that there is absolutely zero accuracy in the psychological profiles that "experts" have assembled to predict what kind of young student might start another Columbine, and you instead advocate profiling schools that could prompt a deadly massacre.
Maybe I'll expand on some things I've been thinking about this later, but I want to get some stuff down quickly while that article still has me fired up.
Tess, my roommate, said yesterday "I don't understand how anyone could do that." But I disagree, we all can understand far too easily, I think that's what makes these events so horrifying. As the author says in the above article, in a lot of ways it's all too easy to understand and sympathize; you just pick up the gun and shoot. We've seen it a million times on tv and in movies, done it hundred times from video games to water guns...hell, shooting people is fun! The only thing is the switch, what makes them decide to do it. To loose connection to the reality that these are people, who have clearly not done enough to you to deserve such cruelty.
Again, as the article discusses, who does these things? White people, middle class people, males, "normal" people, who "rationally" set about murdering as many people as possible (edit: well yeah the Virginia Tech shooter was of Korean descent, but the rest still applies). I think it's a) the disconnect from reality that comes from living a sheltered life where the only danger you ever see in life is simulated on some screen and b) the helplessness and powerlessness often felt by people in such a situation, the feeling that nothing you can do (not voting, not protesting, nothing) can really make a difference on all the wrongs we see in the world.
Lastly, I think if you read this article by Jean Baudrillard who discusses the motivations behind terrorism as the response of people who have been given so much, but are unable to give anything in return (not, as we tend to think, the response of a people who have had everything taken from them), I think you can draw a clear parallel to the possible motivations behind such attacks the as Virginia Tech shootings. The actions of a person humiliated by all that is given to him, unable to respond to an impersonal system, they make a category mistake and decide that is the people themselves that are the enemy, rather than the system in which they exist.
****
Hmm, all this could be probably be taken a whole bunch of ways that I don't intend, and much of it is still only half thought out...hope no one takes offence...just trying to say something a little more subtle than "guns are bad"
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Oh house music
Stunning, soulful house mix here from Dixon. So lush and warm. Lovit.
Tracklist:
01. Amp Fiddler - Faith (Jazzanova Remix)
02. Alice Smith - Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix)
03. Kelis - 80s Joint
04. Owusu & Hannibal - Lonnies Secret
05. Kathy Diamond - Album Track 13
06. Paul Randolph - Believer (Jazzanova Remix)
07. Demba - Louder (Henrik Schwarz Main Mix)
08. Martin Landsky - Let Me Dance (Sebo K Remix)
09. Telepopmusic - Love Can Damage Your Health (Ferrer Remix)
10. Tracey Horn - It's All True (Martin Butrich Remix)
11. Mattew Herbert - Moving Like A Train (Smith n Hack Remix)
[I think I need to do more short posts, otherwise I'll never update this damn thing. So here it goes.]
Tracklist:
01. Amp Fiddler - Faith (Jazzanova Remix)
02. Alice Smith - Love Endeavor (Maurice Fulton Remix)
03. Kelis - 80s Joint
04. Owusu & Hannibal - Lonnies Secret
05. Kathy Diamond - Album Track 13
06. Paul Randolph - Believer (Jazzanova Remix)
07. Demba - Louder (Henrik Schwarz Main Mix)
08. Martin Landsky - Let Me Dance (Sebo K Remix)
09. Telepopmusic - Love Can Damage Your Health (Ferrer Remix)
10. Tracey Horn - It's All True (Martin Butrich Remix)
11. Mattew Herbert - Moving Like A Train (Smith n Hack Remix)
[I think I need to do more short posts, otherwise I'll never update this damn thing. So here it goes.]
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Ultimate procrastination
This site is the single greatest collection of stupid photos of cats ever. I have wasted SO MUCH TIME looking at them. Why are picutres of cats with poorly-spelt caps-locked captions so damn hilarious? You tell me, internet, you tell me.
Anyway, here are some of my faves, just from this latest round of browsing through them (I've been meaning to post this site for a while). Please feel free to waste a good portion of your life looking through them all. LOLZ
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
"laser hotness"
So I have criminally been missing out on 20 Jazz Funk Greats an excellent mp3 blog that I had seen mentioned in a few places but had never checked out because of the alignment of venus in the fourth quadrant or something. Their focus seems to be more on the beardo-disco (aka the kosmiche/space/italo/kraut/prog/disco/edits scene) which, despite me giving it a rather ridiculous name right there, I don't know a heck of a lot about, except that involves finding lots of old, pseudo-disco tracks and playing it alongside some new-school shit like quiet village project or prins thomas remixes. Y'know!
Okay, so ignore that crazy talk: download this. The mix at the bottom of the post is mostly italodisco and I've pumping it the last few days because it is catchyX1000+8!! Italodisco is just more euro and a bit odder (cuz of them italians) version of disco, with some of the best use of synthesizers ever (aka, the above mentioned "laser hotness"). Do you dislike laser hotness? What are you, some inert lump of ore deposits that needs LASERING?!!?!?
Okay, so ignore that crazy talk: download this. The mix at the bottom of the post is mostly italodisco and I've pumping it the last few days because it is catchyX1000+8!! Italodisco is just more euro and a bit odder (cuz of them italians) version of disco, with some of the best use of synthesizers ever (aka, the above mentioned "laser hotness"). Do you dislike laser hotness? What are you, some inert lump of ore deposits that needs LASERING?!!?!?
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Tearjerker techno is not an oxymoron!!
Firstly let me say I'm thrilled janssen has decided to come out of the woodworks and pick a few fights in the comment sections. As you may or may not have figured out, I'm desperate for some intelligent conversation 'round here! Debate me! Or do you all just think I'm totally right about everything?
Second: nicole yesterday told me that the phrase "tearjerker techno" is an oxymoron, to which I point to this thread and even more importantly to this song, which I see has already been added to the list on above thread:
pantha du prince - saturn strobe
absolutely heartrending. I don't know why I still have to try and convince people that techno can be warm or emotional, but if this doesn't convince you, than I question whether you actually have any emotions at all, and aren't some sort of heartless robot killing machine sent here from the future to destroy the human race. No destroying the human race! Anyway, this track is just stunning. I'm absolutely obsessed with it right now.
Lastly: here's a reason why the "whishlist" feature on soulseek is excellent. In my first real post on this blog, way back in july of last year, i posted a youtube video of this weirdo italopop video from the late 70s, which I thought was damn catchy. Anyway, I entered the track into my wishlist on soulseek and promptly forgot about that for a good long while. But then the other day as I was downloading some tunes, the wishlist thing pops up with a returned search result for this very song, and I, not really even remembering what the hell it was, but trusting the judgement of my past self, downloaded it, and lo and behold, it is indeed a great track. So here it is for all y'alls enjoyment:
franco battiato - l'era del cinghiale bianco
Second: nicole yesterday told me that the phrase "tearjerker techno" is an oxymoron, to which I point to this thread and even more importantly to this song, which I see has already been added to the list on above thread:
pantha du prince - saturn strobe
absolutely heartrending. I don't know why I still have to try and convince people that techno can be warm or emotional, but if this doesn't convince you, than I question whether you actually have any emotions at all, and aren't some sort of heartless robot killing machine sent here from the future to destroy the human race. No destroying the human race! Anyway, this track is just stunning. I'm absolutely obsessed with it right now.
Lastly: here's a reason why the "whishlist" feature on soulseek is excellent. In my first real post on this blog, way back in july of last year, i posted a youtube video of this weirdo italopop video from the late 70s, which I thought was damn catchy. Anyway, I entered the track into my wishlist on soulseek and promptly forgot about that for a good long while. But then the other day as I was downloading some tunes, the wishlist thing pops up with a returned search result for this very song, and I, not really even remembering what the hell it was, but trusting the judgement of my past self, downloaded it, and lo and behold, it is indeed a great track. So here it is for all y'alls enjoyment:
franco battiato - l'era del cinghiale bianco
Thursday, March 15, 2007
68%
(click for full view)
I really should be working right now, but I just want to point this out real quick before I forget.
68%. That's the percentage of the total attacks in Iraq directed against coalition forces, according to the latest US Gov't report on Iraq, covering the last quarter of 2006 (see also lenin's commentary). Just remember that number the next time you hear about civil war in Iraq, and how they need MORE troops, else Iraq descend into chaos.
You remove the troops, you remove 68% of the attacks. Simple as that. The US occupying force is still, by far, the most damaging problem in Iraq right now. Plain and simple.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
Post of Questionable Legality
...but undoubtable awesomeness.
I like to listen to music in my spare time. Here are some things I love
This post has the following sections, visit those you please:
great techno (yousendit only! get it while it's HOT)
albums (electronic version)
albums (folk rock version)
albums (krautrock version)
First off, we've got both sides of a release from what is apparently the new "it" label, Liebe Detail. Sherburne's been bigging it up in his techno column for pitchfork, and it's getting name dropped all over the place, and what do ya know? Turns out it kicks ass! The matthias meyer track is absolute gigantic techno monster, the ndru track slinky schaffel mood music. Keep tabs on this
matthias meyer - reichenbach
ndru - a pony named clipklop
Best track from that gustavo lamas 12" i blogged about below. Absolutely blissful techno, teeming with warmth. perfect first-thing-in the morning track
gustavo lamas - jovenes
I went on a bit of a binge downloading all sorts of remixes from Hot Chip's last album. Here are a few of my favorites.
hot chip - (just like we) breakdown (booka shade vocal mix)
hot chip - colours (jeff samuel rmx) [love the descending bassline on this one!]
hot chip - boy from school (cosmic sandwich remix) [deep. house.]
Lovely new one on Kompakt--pretty damn big-room and trancey, which is, what? TEH GREBT
Aril Brikha - Winter
This one's kinda old, but i realized i never posted it, and i LOVE it. Absolutely evil. Released on Richie Hawtin's M_nus imprint, and is very reminiscent of plastikman at his best.
heartthrob - baby kate
the following two from the excellent blog House is a Feeling
Faze Action - In the trees (carl craig mix)
H.O.S.H - suestoff
Well, Sherburne listed this as his favorite album of '06, so I had to check it out. Turns out it's one of those back-and-forth, record then remix then record some more deals, going back and forth between burnt friedman and a jazz group called flanger. A nice change of pace for me this one, pretty mellow, but with a good beat to it--not crappy easy-listening jazz but nice jazz (me once again wishing I new more about jazz). I think it gets stronger as the album progresses. Moody, organic...but then you notice, wtf, every track is exactly 5:00 long??? Awesome
root 70 - heaps dub
Before Hot Chip's breakout '06 release, there was the '04 first album. A little more lo-fi, a bit more low-key, and a lot weirder lyrically (those "fey white-boy copping hardcore hip-hop lingo" lyrics are far more in effect), it's still just as charming and fun to listen to. I've decided I really rate Hot Chip highly right now, I think they're one of the best things going these days. (plus i threw in one bonus track, "ABC," that was on the US release, das is also gute)
hot chip - coming on strong
If you liked that track "Tam Lin" I posted a while back, you'll like this. 1969 combination of psychedelic rock, english folk and american blues produces solid, catchy, epic, beautiful LP. And Sandy Denny! Apparently Denny left fairport convention not too long after this album, and I don't seem myself investigating that period of the band any time soon. Sandy Denny is the bees knees.
fairport convention - unhalfbricking
I really like both Tago Mago and Ege Bayami, so I don't know what took me so long to get to Future Days, but it turns out I like it too. Mark me down as predictable I guess. Though I don't think it hits the highlights of say "Paperhouse" (which i just posted below), it may actually be the most consistently enjoyable Can album. Sometimes all the weirdo-acid-freakout stuff can get a bit tiring, and thankfully they seem to keep it on a tighter leash for this album, concentrating more on the groove. the groove!
can - future days
I like kraftwerk, but was curiously always a bit underwhelmed by them, considering all the praise heaped on them as "the godfathers of techno" and all that. Wasn't really all that caught up by their live double-cd they put out a while back, even though everyone else seem to love it. But this! This i like a whole lot. Lock in the motorik beat, cold teutonic vocals, occasional synthesized string, and I'm in! Connection to krautrock a lot clearer too, I would say. Seems the old Kraftwerk is where it's at, both of these albums are just great. [NOTE: my roommates (well, matt and russ) just told me to shut my door cuz they couldn't handle the kraftwerk I was pumping. philistines! go listen to some 10th generation watered-down mall-punk]
kraftwerk - trans europe express
kraftwerk - autobahn (yousendit link only!)
I actually downloaded this album by accident when i was trying to get the soundtrack to Aguirre, but it turned out to be a great find. I was kind of right anyway, given that half the album is comprised of tracks from the Aguirre soundtrack, but the other half has two other long moody tracks on it from somewhere else in the popol vuh back catalogue. Basically just 3 long (~20min) tracks plus the title track from Aguirre (only six minutes, psssh!), I think this is, again, the most consistently enjoyable Vuh album I've heard (lots of "consitently enjoyable" albums these days it seems. hence the full-album posting). The other track from the Aguirre soundtrack is a long, quiet piano piece, really quite beautiful, while the other two tracks are a bit more freeform, otherworldly ambience, but done with enough awareness of melody and rhythm to really create engrossing and hypnotic atmospheres. Quite varied, and highly enjoyable, this one.
popol vuh - gardens of the pharao / aguirre
Well, after a little poking around, looks like really, it's a combined release of these two albums (great covers!)
Lastly! Have you people heard avril lavigne's new single, "Girlfriend"? She's gone all girly dance-rock! Outstanding! Check it out, she's even doing choreographed dance moves...the video's kinda mean though isn't it? Oh well...
I like to listen to music in my spare time. Here are some things I love
This post has the following sections, visit those you please:
great techno (yousendit only! get it while it's HOT)
albums (electronic version)
albums (folk rock version)
albums (krautrock version)
great techno
First off, we've got both sides of a release from what is apparently the new "it" label, Liebe Detail. Sherburne's been bigging it up in his techno column for pitchfork, and it's getting name dropped all over the place, and what do ya know? Turns out it kicks ass! The matthias meyer track is absolute gigantic techno monster, the ndru track slinky schaffel mood music. Keep tabs on this
matthias meyer - reichenbach
ndru - a pony named clipklop
Best track from that gustavo lamas 12" i blogged about below. Absolutely blissful techno, teeming with warmth. perfect first-thing-in the morning track
gustavo lamas - jovenes
I went on a bit of a binge downloading all sorts of remixes from Hot Chip's last album. Here are a few of my favorites.
hot chip - (just like we) breakdown (booka shade vocal mix)
hot chip - colours (jeff samuel rmx) [love the descending bassline on this one!]
hot chip - boy from school (cosmic sandwich remix) [deep. house.]
Lovely new one on Kompakt--pretty damn big-room and trancey, which is, what? TEH GREBT
Aril Brikha - Winter
This one's kinda old, but i realized i never posted it, and i LOVE it. Absolutely evil. Released on Richie Hawtin's M_nus imprint, and is very reminiscent of plastikman at his best.
heartthrob - baby kate
the following two from the excellent blog House is a Feeling
Faze Action - In the trees (carl craig mix)
H.O.S.H - suestoff
albums (electronic version)
Well, Sherburne listed this as his favorite album of '06, so I had to check it out. Turns out it's one of those back-and-forth, record then remix then record some more deals, going back and forth between burnt friedman and a jazz group called flanger. A nice change of pace for me this one, pretty mellow, but with a good beat to it--not crappy easy-listening jazz but nice jazz (me once again wishing I new more about jazz). I think it gets stronger as the album progresses. Moody, organic...but then you notice, wtf, every track is exactly 5:00 long??? Awesome
root 70 - heaps dub
Before Hot Chip's breakout '06 release, there was the '04 first album. A little more lo-fi, a bit more low-key, and a lot weirder lyrically (those "fey white-boy copping hardcore hip-hop lingo" lyrics are far more in effect), it's still just as charming and fun to listen to. I've decided I really rate Hot Chip highly right now, I think they're one of the best things going these days. (plus i threw in one bonus track, "ABC," that was on the US release, das is also gute)
hot chip - coming on strong
albums (folk rock version)
If you liked that track "Tam Lin" I posted a while back, you'll like this. 1969 combination of psychedelic rock, english folk and american blues produces solid, catchy, epic, beautiful LP. And Sandy Denny! Apparently Denny left fairport convention not too long after this album, and I don't seem myself investigating that period of the band any time soon. Sandy Denny is the bees knees.
fairport convention - unhalfbricking
albums (krautrock version)
I really like both Tago Mago and Ege Bayami, so I don't know what took me so long to get to Future Days, but it turns out I like it too. Mark me down as predictable I guess. Though I don't think it hits the highlights of say "Paperhouse" (which i just posted below), it may actually be the most consistently enjoyable Can album. Sometimes all the weirdo-acid-freakout stuff can get a bit tiring, and thankfully they seem to keep it on a tighter leash for this album, concentrating more on the groove. the groove!
can - future days
I like kraftwerk, but was curiously always a bit underwhelmed by them, considering all the praise heaped on them as "the godfathers of techno" and all that. Wasn't really all that caught up by their live double-cd they put out a while back, even though everyone else seem to love it. But this! This i like a whole lot. Lock in the motorik beat, cold teutonic vocals, occasional synthesized string, and I'm in! Connection to krautrock a lot clearer too, I would say. Seems the old Kraftwerk is where it's at, both of these albums are just great. [NOTE: my roommates (well, matt and russ) just told me to shut my door cuz they couldn't handle the kraftwerk I was pumping. philistines! go listen to some 10th generation watered-down mall-punk]
kraftwerk - trans europe express
kraftwerk - autobahn (yousendit link only!)
I actually downloaded this album by accident when i was trying to get the soundtrack to Aguirre, but it turned out to be a great find. I was kind of right anyway, given that half the album is comprised of tracks from the Aguirre soundtrack, but the other half has two other long moody tracks on it from somewhere else in the popol vuh back catalogue. Basically just 3 long (~20min) tracks plus the title track from Aguirre (only six minutes, psssh!), I think this is, again, the most consistently enjoyable Vuh album I've heard (lots of "consitently enjoyable" albums these days it seems. hence the full-album posting). The other track from the Aguirre soundtrack is a long, quiet piano piece, really quite beautiful, while the other two tracks are a bit more freeform, otherworldly ambience, but done with enough awareness of melody and rhythm to really create engrossing and hypnotic atmospheres. Quite varied, and highly enjoyable, this one.
popol vuh - gardens of the pharao / aguirre
Well, after a little poking around, looks like really, it's a combined release of these two albums (great covers!)
Lastly! Have you people heard avril lavigne's new single, "Girlfriend"? She's gone all girly dance-rock! Outstanding! Check it out, she's even doing choreographed dance moves...the video's kinda mean though isn't it? Oh well...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Paperhouse? Oh yeah!
Feeling the urge to post a whole bunch of music...i've been all over the place recently, lot's of good things. But for now here is the question: "paperhouse" or "oh yeah"? 1st and 3rd track's off of Can's classic Tago Mago. Similar length, somewhat similar structure, alternating between more melodic periods and more up-beat sections driven by that drum beat (oh god I love the drumming in Can. It is all about the drumming in Can. Same with Neu! actually, i really need to post tracks by them too, they're awesome), and all with damo suzuki madly singing god-knows-what over top.
So which is the winner? I think paperhouse is a little more melodic, oh yeah a bit more drum-driven. But I can't decide, they are both awesome. Really feeling the krautrock these days. Why is all the music I listen to so german?? (don't answer that)
Can - Paperhouse
Can - Oh Yeah
(ps. sorry the tracks are .ogg files, i just ripped them to my hardrive here at school and linux does that by defualt (stupid, worthless linux!), but winamp has no prob playing them. don't know about itunes/ipod though).
So which is the winner? I think paperhouse is a little more melodic, oh yeah a bit more drum-driven. But I can't decide, they are both awesome. Really feeling the krautrock these days. Why is all the music I listen to so german?? (don't answer that)
Can - Paperhouse
Can - Oh Yeah
(ps. sorry the tracks are .ogg files, i just ripped them to my hardrive here at school and linux does that by defualt (stupid, worthless linux!), but winamp has no prob playing them. don't know about itunes/ipod though).
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