Album Of Last Week

Singles

“People need people, Steve. It has nothing to do with sex. OK, maybe 40 percent. 60 percent. Forget it.”

This compilation album for the movie, “Singles,” is a soundtrack that pretty much highlights the Seattle alternative/grunge scene of the early 90’s.  I find it somewhat surreal that I am “looking back” at the 90s, but so it is.  I think it is a great thing in it’s entirety…. not my favorite soundtrack ever, but a good one, and, conveniently, what I am listening to right now.  Deja vu.

As always, you can listen to the album to the right in the sidebar widget, just click on the appropriate folder, then on the song.

 

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ec mix/playlist 1

This is a playlist I made with a bit of audio editing here and there way back in the day when we had Wednesday music hang out days.  I’m posting this now just in case I can’t post something on Sunday. 

It’s funny, relistening to this, I think about the past, and it doesn’t feel… real.  I remember select memories, remember being there, but I don’t really remember being there, if you now what I mean.  I look at pictures, I watch videos, I go through things I’ve made, think of things I’ve done, and a part of me is sincerely amazed… did I really do this? Was I really there?  It feels a haze.  Whole years have gone by, and for the life of me, I can’t really remember how they did.  I realize then that this year will also go by, like that, this day, and it will be that forgotten thing of tommorow.  I’ve never been one to hold on to things, not really, but I find myself wanting to, I feel I’m at a incremental crossroads, and though I am excited for what may come, I am saddened by the loss of what has.  I realize that even though I am in a good place right now, I am running from it, not because I love the chase, but because I am addicted… to that feeling you get when nothing is known and you embrace it. 

Something I made while listening:

Albums Of The Week – Double Feature!!!

rodrigo y gabriela – Live: Manchester and Dublin

rodrigo y gabriela – rodrigo y gabriela

I must admit that I love these albums for sentimental reasons, but if you do not love them too please die. Please. If this does not get you clapping along, head banging, shadow drumming, air plucking, god damn mother fucking VIBRATING, you are dead to me. 

The live album starts pounding, cools down, then finishes incredibly, the other album is pretty much consistently up through and through.  Pick your poision, or, better yet, take both.

As always, you can listen to the album to the right in the sidebar widget, just click on the appropriate folder, then on the song.

Album Of The Week

Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago

This album is one of those albums that justs sticks, that you can keep listening to on repeat indefinitely.  In two words? Hauntingly beautiful.  Listen.  One of my favorite albums this year. 

“Justin Vernon moved to a remote cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin at the onset of winter…He lived there alone for three months, filling his days with wood splitting and other chores around the land. This special time slowly began feeding a bold, uninhibited new musical focus…”

As always, you can listen to the album to the right in the sidebar widget, just click on the appropriate folder, then on the song.

 

Album Of The Semi-Kind Of-Maybe-FREAK!

Pere Ubu – New Picnic Time

Anarchy, whimsy, joy, hedonistic freedom, violent, loving, surreal release.  Maria, these are a few of MY favorite things. If you like this album perhaps also check out the revolutionary The Modern Dance. 

As always, you can listen to the album to the right in the sidebar widget, just click on the appropriate folder, then on the song.

“Pere Ubu is not now nor has it ever been a viable commercial venture. We won’t sleep on floors, we won’t tour endlessly and we’re embarrassed by self-promotion. Add to that a laissez-faire attitude to the mechanics of career advancement and a demanding artistic agenda and you’ve got a recipe for real failure. That has been our one significant success to this date: we are the longest-lasting, most disastrous commercial outfit to ever appear in rock ‘n’ roll. No one can come close to matching our loss to longevity ratio.” – David Thomas

Album of the Week

I’m going to upload one random album or playlist I feel like uploading every week (probably Sunday, it seems to be free day day).  I’ll probably only comment with one sentence or a couple, because, well, just because.  You can listen to the album here to the right in the widget sidebar.  I’ve decided against letting people download it because I don’t want to get, um, sued.  If you like it, download it somewhere else. Or buy it.  Or if you know me, we can share. Maybe.

So without much adue,The Black Keys – Rubber Factory.

Well known band + album, but nevertheless, my favorite Black Keys album – the White Stripes with less gimic, more garage, and the right touch of blues.  ”Thickfreakness” with more polish.  And I like polish.  Shoe polish.  Yes.   “Desperate Man” = cool.