Songs to listen to while dining with your Vicodin-addicted grandmother
01. Low - "On The Edge Of" (The Great Destroyer)
02. A Sunny Day In Glasgow - "Watery (Drowning Is Just Another Word For Being Buried Alive Under Water)" (Scribble Mural Comic Journal)
03. Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - "Mitleid Lady" Mitleid Lady)
04. Lungfish - "Black Helicopters" (Artifical Horizon)
05. Brightblack Morninglight - "All We Have Broken Shines" (Brightblack Moorninglight)
06. Broadcast - "Pendulum" (Haha Sound)
07. A Place To Bury Strangers - "I Know I'll See You" (A Place To Bury Strangers)
08. Cold Cave - "Hello Rats" (Love Comes Close)
09. Japanther - "Untitled" (Skuffed Up My Huffy)
10. My Bloody Valentine - "Glider" (Loveless)
11. Neil Young - "What Happened Yesterday" (Mirrorball)
12. Nadja - "Needle In the Hay (Elliot Smith Cover)" (When I See The Sun Always Shines On TV)
13. Neu! - "Negativland" (Neu!)
14. Alan Vega - "Thirteen Crosses (Live 2008)"
15. Prurient - "Cocaine Death" (Cocaine Death)
16. Public Image Limited - "Careering" (Metal Box)
Bands That Are Trying To Make Pet Sounds, Again
"It was Pet Sounds that blew me out of the water. I love the album so much. I've just bought my kids each a copy of it for their education in life ... I figure no one is educated musically 'til they've heard that album ... I love the orchestra, the arrangements ... it may be going overboard to say it's the classic of the century ... but to me, it certainly is a total, classic record that is unbeatable in many ways ... I've often played Pet Sounds and cried. I played it to John [Lennon] so much that it would be difficult for him to escape the influence ... it was the record of the time. The thing that really made me sit up and take notice was the bass lines ... and also, putting melodies in the bass line. That I think was probably the big influence that set me thinking when we recorded Pepper, it set me off on a period I had then for a couple of years of nearly always writing quite melodic bass lines. "God Only Knows" is a big favourite of mine ... very emotional, always a bit of a choker for me, that one. On "You Still Believe in Me", I love that melody - that kills me ... that's my favourite, I think ... it's so beautiful right at the end ... comes surging back in these multi-coloured harmonies ... sends shivers up my spine." -Paul McCartney
01. Beulah - "If We Can Land A Man On The Moon, Surely I Can Win Your Heart" (When Your Heartstrings Break)
02. The Explorer's Club - "Don't Forget The Sun" (Album)
03. Tenki - "Desirous" (Red Baby)
04. The Grifters - "Mysterious Friends" (Sub Pop 20th Anniversary Sampler)
05. Sufjan Stevens - "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" (Illinoise)
06. Olivia Tremor Control - "I Have Been Floated" (Black Foliage: Animation Music Vol.1)
07. Apples In Stereo - "Submarine Dream" (Discovery of a World Inside the Moone)
08. Frank Black - "Hang On To Your Ego" (Frank Black)
09. The High Llamas - "Sparkle Up" (Retrospective Rarities & Instrumentals)
10. Beachwood Sparks - "Something I Don't Recognize" (Beachwood Sparks)
11. Bullion - "God Only Knows" (Pet Sounds: In the Key of Dee)
12. Animal Collective - "Winter's Love" (Sung Tongs)
13. Golab - "Wouldn't It Be Nice" (http://www.golabgo.com/petzounds.html)
I Don't Want To Live Here Anymore
I know the feeling.
01. The Smiths - "London" (Louder Than Bombs)
03. The Postal Service - "This Place Is A Prison" (Give Up)
04. Pavement - "Box Elder" (Westing (By Musket & Sextant))
05. Joy Division - "Something Must Break" (Still)
06. The Rolling Stones - "No Expectations" (Beggars Banquet)
07. Stiff Little Fingers - "Gotta Gettaway" (Nobody's Heroes)
08. Mogwai - "Take Me Somewhere Nice" (Rock Action)
09. The Fall - "English Scheme" (Grotesque (After The Gramme))
10. Soundgarden - "Boot Camp" (Down On The Upside)
If I could find a dive bar with indie karaoke, these songs would be in the first few pages of new ad
01. Santogold - "LES Artistes" (Santogold)
02. Against Me! - "Thrash Unreal" (New Wave)
03. Saves The Day - "At Your Funeral" (Stay What Your Are)
04. Band of Horses -"The Great Salt Lake" (Everything All The Time)
05. Ben Kweller - "Wasted and Ready" (Sha Sha)
06. The Black Keys -"So He Won't Break" (Attack and Release)
07. The Replacements - "Pool & Dive" (The Best of The Replacements)
08. The MISFITS -"Die, Die My Darling" (Earth A.D.)
09. The Flaming LIps - "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" (At War with the Mystics)
10. Cut Copy -"Feel the Love" (In Ghost Colours)
11. Yeasayer - "Tightrope" (Dark Was The Night)
12. The Decemberists - "Sons and Daughters" (The Crane Wife)
13. Rilo Kiley - "Portions For Foxes" (More Adventurous)
Why the fuck can't I sleep? Please, please, make me a tape that will relax me and not distract me in
Ahhhh... Sleep.
Side A:
01. Josh Ritter - "The Temptation of Adam" (The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter)
02. Bon Iver - "Blood Bank" (Blood Bank - EP)
03. Youth Group - "Dying At Your Own Party" (The Night Is Ours)
04. Wilco - "We're Just Friends" (Summerteeth)
05. Ryan Adams - "Starlite Diner" (29)
06. Hayden - "More Than Alive" (In Field & Town)
07. Regina Spektor - "Human Of the Year" (Far)
Side B:
08. Faded Paper Figures - "North by North" (Dynamo)
09. Ray LaMontagne - "Lesson Learned" ('Til The Sun Turns Black)
10. Neil Halstead - "Elevenses" (Oh! Mighty Engine)
11. Neko Case - "Hold On, Hold On" (Fox Confessor Brings the Flood)
12. Jump, Little Children - "Cathedrals" (Magazine)
13. Death Cab for Cutie - "Transatlanticism" (Transatlanticism)
14. The National - "Green Gloves" (Boxer)
15. Bloc Party - "Signs" (Intimacy)
You Say Potato, I Say Get The Fuck On The Dancefloor
01. Amanda Blank- "Get It Now"
02. Ellie Goulding - "Starry Eyed" (Ellie Goulding)
03. Florence + The Machine - "Howl" (Lungs)
04. Chew Lips - "Salt Air" (IM // UR)
05. Neon Indian - "Terminally Chill" (Psychic Chasms)
06. Sam Sparro - "21st Century Life" (Sam Sparro)
07. Ra Ra Riot - "Can You Tell (Discovery Remix)"
08. Biggie Smalls - "Hypnotize"
09. Spiral Beach - "Rocket Fuel" (Ball)
10. Brazillian Girls - "Good Time" (New York City)
Are We Boyfriend & Girlfriend or Not?
I'd be much more inclined to be your boyfriend if you were a Trending
Topic on Twitter.
01. The Buzzcocks - "Ever Fallen In Love?" (Singles Going Steady)
02. Lick The Tins - "Can't Help Falling In Love" (Some Kind Of
Wonderful Soundtrack)
03. Fugazi - "Do You Like Me" (Red Medicine)
04. Third Eye Blind - "Faster" (Out Of The Vein)
05. Mineral - "Slower" (The Power Of Failing)
06. Kid Kilowatt - "Rushing To Relax" (Guitar Method)
07. The Wedding Present - "This Boy Can Wait" (NME C86)
08. Pretenders - "The Wait" (Pretenders )
09. Seaweed - "Go Your Own Way" (Clerks Soundtrack)
10. Texas Is The Reason - "If It's Here When We Get Back" (Texas Is
The Reason EP)
11. Walking Concert - "What Does Your Heart Say?" (Run To Be Born)
12. Hot Snakes - "Why Does It Hurt?" (Suicide Invoice)
13. Seven Storey - "Dress Rehearsal" (Dividing By Zero)
14. Feelies - "Loveless Love" (Crazy Rhythms)
15. Shiner - "Too Much Of Not Enough" (Starless)
16. The Draft - "Stop Wastin' My Time" (Digital - EP)
17. Engine Down - "The Offer Of Something" (Under The Pretense Of Present Tense)
18. Monorchid - "What We Need Is More Than This" (Who Put Out The Fire)
19. PJ Harvey - "This Mess We're In" (Stories From The City, Stories
From The Sea)
20. Knapsack - "Steeper Than We Thought" (Day Three Of My New Life)
21. Pavement - "Two States" (Slanted & Enchanted)
22. Hoover - "Pretender" (The Lurid Traversal of Route 7)
23. The Replacements - "Unsatisfied" (Let It Be)
Moving into your first apartment
01. Shift - "Starting Over" (Get In)
02. Seaweed - "What Are We Taking?" (Actions and Indications)
03. Jawbreaker - "Pack It Up" (Bivouac)
04. Elliott - "Suitcase and Atoms" (U.S. Songs)
05. Death Cab For Cutie - "Why You'd Want To Live Here" (The Photo Album)
06. Chavez - "New Room" (Ride The Fader)
07. Quicksand - "Dine Alone" (Slip)
08. Giant Drag - "Pretty Little Neighbor" (Hearts And Unicorns)
09. Samiam - "Home Sweet Home" (Samiam / Texas Is The Reason - Your
Choice Live Series Split)
10. Desaparecidos - "The Happiest Place on Earth" (Read Music Speak Spanish)
Fuck you, I don't need a hall pass
01. Mötley Crüe - "Smoking in the Boys Room" (Theater of Pain)
02. Sebadoh - "Smoke a Bowl" (III)
03. Smashing Pumpkins - "Fuck You (An ode To No One)" (Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
04. Sonic Youth - "Teen Age Riot" (Daydream Nation)
05. Black Lips - "Bad Kids" (Good Bad Not Evil)
06. Animal Collective - "College" (Sung Tongs)
07. Fuck Buttons - "Colours Move" (Street Horrrsing)
08. M83 - "We Own the Sky" (Saturdays=Youth)
09. Boards of Canada - "Smokes Quantity" (Music Has The Right To Children)
Something for the asshole who keeps putting Arcade Fire on the mix tapes, to show him/her better mus
I hate Arcade Fire too. These bands deserve/deserved to be bigger than them.
01. Deerhoof - "The Perfect Me" (Friend Opportunity)
02. Torche - "Grenades" (Meanderthal)
03. Lightning Bolt - "Mohawkwindmill" (Hypermagic Mountain)
04. No Age - "Boy Void" (Weirdo Rippers)
05. Comets On Fire - "Lucifer's Memory" (Avatar)
06. These Arms Are Snakes - "Prince Squid" (Tail Swallower and Dove)
07. Awesome Color - "Come and Dance" (Electric Aborigines)
08. Harvey Milk - "Motown" (Life...The Best Game In Town)
09. Future Of The Left - "The Lord Hates A Coward" (Curses)
10. Mika Miko - "Business Cats" (C.Y.S.L.A.B.F.)
11. Deerhunter - "Saved By Old Times" (Microcastle)
12. Coalesce - "The Plot Against My Love" (Ox)
Corny makes me uncomfortable, but I love you
Not conventional love songs, but not filled with typical wannabe indie-rock bullshit irony. Just good and simple. A personal favorite is Bishop Allen's "Corazon," a love song to a piano.
01. The Walkmen - "Canadian Girl" (You & Me)
02. Grizzly Bear - "I Live With You" (Veckatimest)
03. Ben Sollee - "Prettiest Tree On The Mountain" (Learning to Bend)
04. We Are Scientists - "After Hours" (Brain Thrust Mystery)
05. Pomegranates - "In The Kitchen" (Everything Is Alive)
06. The Acorn & Ohbijou - "Steep (Steep)" (The Acorn + Ohbijou)
07. Harlem Shakes - "Natural Man" (Technicolor Health)
08. Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - "HEERS" (Perishing)
09. Blind Pilot - "3 Rounds And A Sound" (3 Rounds And A Sound)
10. Born Ruffians - "Hedonistic Me" (Red, Yellow & Blue)
11. Say Hi To Your Mom - "These Fangs" (Impeccable Blahs)
12. Arthur & Yu - "1000 Words" (In Camera)
13. Bishop Allen - "Corazon" (The Broken String)
13. Fleet Foxes - "Your Protector" (Fleet Foxes)
