Comments on: my spring mix

By: Baby name meaning and origin for Glasser

Baby name meaning and origin for Glasser — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:34:48 +0000

[...] my spring mix at 17 dots [...]

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:25:06 +0000

So anyway, I’m a week late because I’m a retard and agonize over stuff like this. Also because I’m a retard, I insist on staying under 74 minutes, the original capacity of a CD. Gotta have rules, man. Like a sonnet. Or a filthy limerick.

I also realized that spring means a retreat from irony and the edge as I step, blinking, barely, into the light. Nothing clever or overly obscure. No Black Saint. The presence of Collective Soul is enough to forever destroy my indie cred…

…except that ALL of my list is at emu, where I’ve bought ALL my music since 2006. Spending money elsewhere? What the FOOK?!

Yancey, I stole another idea from you: opening and closing with the same artist — definitely a rule I’m adding to the 74-minute/emu-only axis.

Crooked Fingers – Twilight Creeps
Jay Farrar – 6 String Belief
Prints – Fire Days
Chris Letcher – Deep Frieze
The Free Design – Make the Madness Stop
Shack – Butterfly
Bruce Cockburn – Creation Dream
The Three 4 Tens – Everyday
Ultra Vivid Scene – Staring at the Sun
Califone – The Orchids
Williams – Glitch Cowboy Local 16044
The Fireman – Sing the Changes
Collective Soul – Home
Hatcham Social – So So Happy Making
Teenage Fanclub – It’s All in My Head
Bill Lloyd – Back to Even
And You Will Know Us, etc. – Festival Thyme
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – Winchester
Starling Electric – To Flunker With Love
Crooked Fingers – Under Pressure

There you go. 74 minutes. Sweet in its own pathetic way.

By: flamgirlant

flamgirlant — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:44:08 +0000

You know, I started up a new blog not too long ago and the last song I posted was “Had Not A Body”. Give it a listen (or 3 – it’s one of those songs that I need to hear more than once). http://flamgirlant.tumblr.com/

By: yancey

yancey — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:46:03 +0000

i want to hear it and can’t find it! pls help!

By: flamgirlant

flamgirlant — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:39:17 +0000

oh and Yancey, take a listen to Cotton Jones’s “Had Not A Body”. It is (arguably) a Perfect Song.

By: flamgirlant

flamgirlant — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:33:09 +0000

Mixtapes are one of my most favorite things. My latest is called Mixtape 53. Actually, I sent a copy of it off to you guys at eMusic. I made good on my threat to send you guys a naughty VD card and included a copy of the mix. So you got one floating around there somewhere. Super music nerdy, I know, but I’m a super music nerd.

Anywho, most tracks are available on eMusic:
1. The Long Blondes – “The Unbearable Lightness of Building”
2. Little Joy – “The Next Time Around”
3. Entire Cities – “Cop Song”
4. White Denim – “Transparency”
5. The Homosexuals – “Let’s Celebrate”
6. Stricken City – “Bardou”
7. The Oranges Band – “All Around”
8. A.R.E. Weapons – “F What You Like”
9. The Kiss Offs – “Let Me Find The Good In You”
10. The Shaky Hands – “Loosen Up”
11. Young Lords – “Rodeo Songs”
12. She Keeps Bees – “Get Gone”
13. The Lord Dog Bird – “Song For Woodthrush”
14. The Felice Brothers – “Frankie’s Gun”
15. Welcome – “Actual Glad”
16. Late of the Pier – “Random Firl”
17. Thee Oh Sees – “It Killed Mom”
18. Grand Ole Party – “I.N.S.A.N.E.”
19. Nat Baldwin – “One Two Three”
20. Chairlift – “Make Up Your Mind”

By: alex

alex — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 21:33:30 +0000

Awesome Wells, nice! Also, Cotton Jones… <3 <3

By: ptolemyclark

ptolemyclark — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 19:32:08 +0000

My most recent mix is called “Everything’s Alright. Yes, Everything’s Fine (or, The Rise and Fall of the Religious Tribes of Rural America)”. Nearly all the tracks are on Emu.
1. The Builders and the Butchers “The Gallows”
2. Man/Miracle “Pushing and Shoving”
3. Surf City “Canned Food”
4. Golden Holy “Sons of Dreams”
5. Paavoharju “Tytto tanssii”
6. Awesome Wells “I Think Thanks-Giving Will Turn Kurt Cobain Around”
7. Our Brother the Native “Warm Refines”
8. Bon Iver “Blood Bank”
9. Choir of Young Believers “She Walks”
10. Wildbirds & Peacedrums “The Window”
11. Fire On Fire “Heavy D”
12. Bruce Peninsula “Crabapples”
13. Teeth Mountain “Keinsein”
14. Friedrich’s Teeth “Prophets and Saints”
15. Megafaun “Tired and Troubled”
16. The Good Players “David’s Lamentation”
17. Justin Vernon “Ring Out”
18. Welcome Wagon “I Am a Stranger”

By: yancey

yancey — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:10:59 +0000

cotton jones = really cool cowboy songs, your twenties sounds like the rakes and both sound like really good british indie. dion is perfect. alexis taylor is my favorite record of the past three or four months. i listen to it all the time. neil young is the best of course, and two of my faves of his are on here. the love story are a new brooklyn band — friends with she keeps bees — and that one song (hear it on the myspace link) is spectacular but too short. glasser is on the selects comp, built to spill is perfect, fever ray is the knife and spooky and gorgeous, retro stefson is icelandic and rad, john maus is this really creepy booming-voiced thing, the stilts are our boys forever, let’s wrestle are our other boys forever and this final cotton jones song sounds like bradford cox and jeff tweedy collaborating. phew!