Re: L.A.
Our friend, the Drunkard, has posted a pretty essential mix over at his site, called the L.A. Burnout mix (actually, it's only the first installment). As the name implies, the songs all refer to the City of Angels, a subject I find endlessly fascinating. The well-chronicled love-hate relationship many people have with Los Angeles is like no other, and is responsible for some undeniably classic songs, from "L.A. Woman" to "Free Fallin'" to (as much as I hate to admit it) at least 30 Chili Peppers tunes.
I've got a few L.A. songs that probably won't make the Burnout mix, though they're entirely worthy. The first is a bit of a throwback for me-- Bran Van 3000's "Drinking In L.A." It's a burnout song if ever one existed, it kinda just sounds like failure.
Buy Glee.
These Lennon impersonators have hooked me, bad, along with anyone else who's heard them. I'd call their From The Decker House the best EP of '06, and quite honestly can't wait to hear a full-length.
Visit the Rosewood Thieves and buy From The Decker House.
I'd put that Shawn Mullins song, "Lullaby", here, but I don't own it. This will do for an equally appropriate guilty pleasure tune, though.
Buy Recovering the Satellites.
Get that new Catbird!
I've got a few L.A. songs that probably won't make the Burnout mix, though they're entirely worthy. The first is a bit of a throwback for me-- Bran Van 3000's "Drinking In L.A." It's a burnout song if ever one existed, it kinda just sounds like failure.
Buy Glee.
These Lennon impersonators have hooked me, bad, along with anyone else who's heard them. I'd call their From The Decker House the best EP of '06, and quite honestly can't wait to hear a full-length.
Visit the Rosewood Thieves and buy From The Decker House.
I'd put that Shawn Mullins song, "Lullaby", here, but I don't own it. This will do for an equally appropriate guilty pleasure tune, though.
Buy Recovering the Satellites.
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Get that new Catbird!
by brian at 1/04/2007 03:09:00 PM
6 Comments:
The Rosewood Thieves are great! Definitely underrated.
My LA songs would have to be, obvious though they are, Angeles- Elliott Smith and Under the Bridge-RHCP.
don't forget Soul Coughing's "Screenwriter's Blues"
Four words: Blood Sugar Sex Magik. Fantastic album and since the peppers are experts(to a fault) on the subject of california, Under the bridge would be at the top of my list.
Shawn Mullin's "Soul Core" album definitely ranks as a guilty pleasure. But, his "9th Ward Picking Parlor" definitely has some moments worth checking out.
For a continued journey south -- check out the producer on that album, Mike West. His studio in pre-Katrina New Orleans is the namesake of the album.
peace
wow bran van 3000, that song... i havent heard it in so long. reminds me of silent, sad but happy car drives with friends all piled into one car with this streaming loudly on the radio...
thanks for the memory :)
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