The Click Wheel Five
I love this idea of putting rock stars' iPods on shuffle and having them explain (or apologize for) whatever comes up. I did the same (not suggesting that anybody cares what I have on my iPod), and here's what turned up:
Funny, Kevin from So Much Silence just told me that DJ Shadow grew up in Davis, CA, my erstwhile and future home. Endtroducing..... is a classic, the result of what must have been intense cratedigging. Sampled in "Changeling" are:
"Soft Shell" by Motherlode
"Klondyke Netti" by Embryo
"Touching Souls" and "Inner Mood I" by Kay Gardner
"The Man Who Couldn't Cry" by Loudon Wainwright III
"Invisible Limits" by Tangerine Dream, and
"Here Comes the Meterman" by The Meters
...none of which I'm familiar with.
This is a ridiculous song. A ridiculously awesome song, yes, but really - what is he talking about? Read this hilarious pop-song correspondence from McSweeney's.
I think this is one of the finest songs ever written. Lyrically it can't be matched, containing verse after timeless verse of embittered resolutions. "A statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better...as if you were talking to yourself," Dylan called it. Musically, contrasting the boldness of the lyrics, a beautifully understated clawhammer phrase plays in the background, only to be bled upon by Dylan's harmonica at the end.
This is a good example of Before The Dawn Heals Us' dark and urban-sleek sound, though its intensity is blemished by a series of awkward and overlong pauses at the beginning.
Another masterful songwriter! "My garden will grow so high/ My garden will grow so high/ That I will be completely hidden" - archetypic Mountain Goats.
DJ Shadow - Changeling [mp3] [buy]
Funny, Kevin from So Much Silence just told me that DJ Shadow grew up in Davis, CA, my erstwhile and future home. Endtroducing..... is a classic, the result of what must have been intense cratedigging. Sampled in "Changeling" are:
"Soft Shell" by Motherlode
"Klondyke Netti" by Embryo
"Touching Souls" and "Inner Mood I" by Kay Gardner
"The Man Who Couldn't Cry" by Loudon Wainwright III
"Invisible Limits" by Tangerine Dream, and
"Here Comes the Meterman" by The Meters
...none of which I'm familiar with.
This is a ridiculous song. A ridiculously awesome song, yes, but really - what is he talking about? Read this hilarious pop-song correspondence from McSweeney's.
I think this is one of the finest songs ever written. Lyrically it can't be matched, containing verse after timeless verse of embittered resolutions. "A statement that maybe you can say to make yourself feel better...as if you were talking to yourself," Dylan called it. Musically, contrasting the boldness of the lyrics, a beautifully understated clawhammer phrase plays in the background, only to be bled upon by Dylan's harmonica at the end.
This is a good example of Before The Dawn Heals Us' dark and urban-sleek sound, though its intensity is blemished by a series of awkward and overlong pauses at the beginning.
Another masterful songwriter! "My garden will grow so high/ My garden will grow so high/ That I will be completely hidden" - archetypic Mountain Goats.
by brian at 4/25/2006 06:19:00 AM
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I'm on shuffle now, to do a copy-cat entry tomorrow, and I thought you might be amused, as I am, that after being very urbane (John Cale, tMG, LCD Soundsystem), my iPod has gone all twee: Voxtrot, Camera Obscura, DCFC.
dear brian
i will play along
1. Ben GIbbard from KEXP- "Reasons to stay"
i have no idea where things come from. This song is simple and amazingly calming, bens voice is clear and oh so dreamy. The kind of song that makes all my mushy-girly-tendencies explode and dream about breaking some sensitive boys heart so he'll right amazing songs about me, or making it work out with some sensitive boy do he'll write amazing songs about me (and then hope we dont break up so i wont have to hear them again)
2. Mountain goats- "it froze me"
when i met theo, this is the song that was stuck in my head that week, i kept finding myself singing it. not that the 2 incdents are related, just coincidental. im no music blogger/critic, the song is again simple (seeming, as in guitar + recorder) but thats more than enough and pretty much all i need.
3. Bosque Brown- "Walk Slow"
i heard her name thrown around the blogs earlier this year, liked what i heard and bought the album, its pretty. i like on 'i think it snowed' how the whole song is backed by the sound of rain, when the vocals stop i enjoy listening to the rainfall that plays out until the end of the song.
4. Birdmonster- "resurrection song"
recently blog-discussed, i very much enjoy the 'all the holes in the wall', this one i enjoy less, it sounds the same so im ok with it, long instrumental open about half the song, im excited about what they will put out.
5. Karen O- "Hello tomorrow"
from what i recall, i remember reading this was for an adidas commercial, its about 1 min 40, whenever it finishes i always wish it went on longer, i dont know what its called if anything in music terms, but i enjoy the part where it picks up about 30 seconds in. the whole thing has a dreamy-vulnerable feel.
-heather
Damn! I just spent my commute home thinking up quickie posts and this was what I came up with. But then it would seem like I'm just copying you...and Cindy. Plus, I'd have to cheat because I'd never come up with such good selections as yours on first shuffle.
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