4 for Friday! Except not really!

It's actually even better. I know I've been neglecting things the past few weeks, but in lieu of doing the random thing I'm going to post a bunch of songs that I've been going nuts for during my time of neglect.


Dead Man's Bones - My Body's a Zombie for You
Dead Man's Bones - Name in Stone
Dead Man's Bones - In the Room Where You Sleep
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up
Fever Ray - I'm Not Done
Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
Ryan Adams - Harder Now That It's Over
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - You Are Lost
Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
The Knife - Pass This On (Dahlback & Dahlback Remix)
Magnetic Fields - Underwear

I think that's enough for now. There may be some more later, but right now I'm going to run around in the sun, hit up the Botanical Gardens and the sculpture garden at the De Young and generally enjoy my second day off.

4 for Friday

High Five to the Universe. For Reals.

1. The Knife - Girls Night Out ...and we laughed at the moonlight far beyond. and we ran through the moonlight far beyond.
2. Placebo - Special Needs Just 19 this suckers dream I guess I thought you had the flavour
3. Kings of Leon - Cold Desert Everyone noticed, everyone has seen the signs. I've always been known to cross lines
4. Magnetic Fields - You're My Only Home I will hide what you want hidden and I'll roam if you say roam but I'd just as soon you didn't because you're my only home

4 for Friday

1. Coil - Are You Shivering - From the album "Musick to Play in the Dark Vol. 1" it is absolutely that. This might be my favorite Coil track. To me their weirdness and darkness and theatricality and intricacies of sound are totally present and at their best here.
2. PJ Harvey - Happy and Bleeding - Old school PJ, before she got all polished and theatrical. I used to have quite the angsty time singing to this album.
3. Ryan Adams - Wonderwall - I never thought an Oasis song could sound good.
4. Iron & Wine - Sea and the Rhythm - My favorite Iron & Wine song. I could die to this.

6 for Saturday

So I was terribly busy running around adventuring yesterday and wasn't able to post my 4 for Friday, so to make up for that I'll post 6 for Saturday. That's two more for the price of nothing, my friends.
1. The Knife - Got 2 Let U
2. Coil - The Tenderness of Wolves
3. Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Abattoir Blues
4. Combichrist - Sent to Destroy
5. H.I.M. - One Last Time
6. Death from Above 1979 - You're a Woman, I'm a Machine

4 for Friday!!!!

No text this week, just links to the songs. Find your own opinions of them.
1. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light
2. Front 242 - Operating Tracks
3. Placebo - Nancy Boy
4. Magnetic Fields - The Death of Ferdinand de Saussere

4 for Friday

1. Neko Case - That Teenage Feeling - This song is sooo indicative of my life 8 or 9 months ago. It's my favorite song off of Fox Confessor Brings the Flood.
2. Tracey Thorn and Jens Lekman - Yeah! Oh Yeah! - This is a great cover of a great Magnetic Fields song. I love the idea of Jens singing Stephin Merritt. And Tracey (Everything But the Girl)sounds lovely as well.
3. Propagandhi - Gifts - This is one of their more "emo" songs, solely because John Samson is singing it. Well, the lyrics are pretty emo too. John Samson is just emo. Go listen to the Weakerthans if you don't believe me.
4. Whiskeytown - Turn Around (Alternate Version) - Oh Ryan Adams. You were such a little southern-accented rough voiced boy. (I think he was like 23 when this came out). I love it.

4 for Friday

This one is gonna be quick cause I have shit to do:
1. Coil - The Dark Age of Love
2. Combichrist - god bless
3. Mika - Big Girl (You Are Beautiful)
4. The Knife - Listen Now

4 for Friday

So this is a little thing I'm going to start doing cause I've always wanted to have some sort of music feature for this blog but I didn't really know what. So on Fridays I'm just gonna hit shuffle on iTunes and post the first four songs that come up. Woohoo.

1. Jens Lekman - Run Away With Me This is one of my favorite Jens songs. I'm going to see him in a couple of weeks. I'll make sure to try to propose to him. Again.
2. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Sink Ships This is one of those Ryan Adams songs (much like Cherry Lane or Meadowlake Street on Cold Roses) that starts out fairly standard and mediocre and then switches it up at the end and becomes just sort of amazing and transcendent. I can't really describe it any better than that, but he's really fucking good at doing it.
3. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - You Remind Me of Something (The Glory Goes) A good Bonnie song. Very nice to sing along with.
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Good Morning Everybody And now for something completely different...German experimental noise music. I like Blixa. He's tied with Warren for title of my favorite Bad Seed.

So hopefully I'll keep my motivation and continue doing this. I will confess that I did skip posting the real third song that played because it was a 17 minute long spoken word type thing by Coil. Should I have gone ahead and posted that? I have a lot of weird shit like that that will probably pop up from time to time in doing this so I guess I should figure out if everything is fair game or if I'm going to keep it strictly "Music music".

I am hopeless.

So I know I just did a post about an amazing Bonnie Prince Billy song, but this may be THE MOST AMAZING BONNIE PRINCE BILLY SONG EVVVVAAAARRR!!!!!1!!

Seriously though. Every time I hear it I'm like "WTF universe. All songs should be this awesome"

(mp3 link) Bonnie Prince Billy - Birch Ballad

Neko Case is awesome.

So she has a new album coming out and the first single, "People Got a Lotta Nerve" can be downloaded here for free, which is awesome in and of itself. But the reason I'm posting it here is that for every blog that posts it, she and her label are donating 5 dollars to Best Friends Animal Society. You can find out more about that here.

Oh also, the song is awesome.

Solitary Man

Valerie put a post up about songs relating to seasons. Winter always makes me think of the album American III: Solitary Man by Johnny Cash, and in particular his cover of Solitary Man, which is fantastic. The song was actually stuck in my head all day yesterday for certain reasons, and with tomorrow being the Winter Solstice, I figured it was all nice and synchronous and all that shit.

The reasons it reminds me of winter aren't really interesting. I moved into a house in the middle of winter about 4 years ago, we didn't have cable or tv in our room, so I spent a lot of time listening to this album. I downloaded a couple of other covers of it as well, one by Chris Isaak, which is surprisingly fantastic, and one by H.I.M. which I find hilarious and at the same time appeals to my art fag emo-ness. I suggest you listen to them all.

Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
Chris Isaak - Solitary Man
H.I.M. - Solitary Man

I seriously could listen to this song all the time. Whoever sings it.
And that is the end of that. And thank the gods tomorrow is the shortest day of the year. It couldn't have come at a better time.

I just listened to this song for the first time

It gave me one of those "What the FUCK, universe?" moments. Anyway, it's Bonnie Prince Billy and Matt Sweeney. It's called "What are You?"
What are you waiting for, if not for me ?
What are you waiting for ? It must be me
To take you over my knee
And spank you mercilessly
I can do that, oh you'll see

And every day will be like free and sweet adventure you will see
And I'll have you and you'll have me
On a bench with your twisted fingers in me
In the rain with my sundress torn off of me
Sliding down grassy slopes to where we can be alone

You say I am evil, you know that I am stupid
I don't appear giving and I don't appear lucid
Yet I give you all
The truth is I give you everything

thank god for existentialism

well it's true that I cried
but then I went outside
and I stood very still in the night
and I looked at the sky
and knew someday I'd die
and then everything would be all right

it's all right
and everything comes
down to this
that everything there ever was
or will be
is all there is

Tell me what ritual I should have today..

I'm not a very nightmare prone person, my dreams are strictly of the ridiculously-symbolic type. I've been having insane nightmares lately though and reoccurring dreams of car crashes and others of fire. I think it's the end of the world, because obviously I alone can forsee it via my prophetic dreams....or you know, something is just wrong up in my subconscious. It's pretty annoying though because it's sort of this self-perpetuating thing I think....of these dreams waking me up, and not getting enough sleep, so I wake up kinda sad and hurty and then it's this current of emotion running all day, which I ignore, because I'd rather not feel like shit all day, and then I go to sleep and it comes out even stronger or something. Man there is too much I would rather keep not thinking about. Ha.

Oh, and via all of that comes this: songs about fire and songs about car crashes! Or at least songs I associate with those things, or those dreams, or something.

Fire:
Sebadoh - On Fire
Portishead - It's a Fire
The Birthday Party - Sonny's Burning

Car Crashes:
Marilyn Manson - Just a Car Crash Away
The Normal - Warm Leatherette-I could seriously do a whole post about this song. That's for another day though.

Special Added Bonus Song:
The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven-This is what the end of the world sounds like.

dope. guns. fucking in the streets. revolution.

This song just set me on fire. Take a listen.
Placebo - Spite & Malice (mp3 link)

Revolution, dope, guns, fucking in the streets (x2)
Aces take your time
Queens are left for dead
Jacks can stand in line
And touch themselves instead
Aces take your pity
And keep it warm in bed
Aces take your time

Cut the deck
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck

Aces take your time
Draw your final breath
Jacks are feeling fine
They've clubbed themselves to death
Aces take your pity
You sleep with it instead
Aces take your time

You can play your card, I'll hold onto mine
Tied up in the reasons, Ace take your time
Looks turn to lovers, flames into fires
Jack loves his tragedy, Queen her desires
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Wrap me in your trauma and I may just give you mine
Queen take your chances
Ace take your time

Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution)
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight

Cut the deck
The queens left for dead
Soft and wet, scarf tied to the bed
Jack is all tragic when he stands alone
Feeling demonic harmonic in a no go zone
You look well suited like you came to win
Lust, spite and malice, your degrees of sin
Cruising for pity and looking pretty as fuck
Ace take your chances
Queen wish you luck

Dope, guns, fucking in the streets (Revolution)
Everything will blow tonight
Either friend or foe, tonight

I never saw the morning til I stayed up all night...

Having an exchange about San Diego with someone who likes it much more than I do inspired this...
Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade - this version is from a live radio performance in 1975 at KQRS in Minneapolis.

Another...

good song for rainy days, since the sound of water is part of the song.
Empress - All We've Seen

I think I might like this song better

if it wasn't about Janis Joplin...but it's one of my favorites nonetheless.


Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
you were talking so brave and so sweet,
giving me head on the unmade bed,
while the limousines wait in the street.
Those were the reasons and that was New York,
we were running for the money and the flesh.
And that was called love for the workers in song
probably still is for those of them left.
Ah but you got away, didn't you babe,
you just turned your back on the crowd,
you got away, I never once heard you say,
I need you, I don't need you,
I need you, I don't need you
and all of that jiving around.

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
you were famous, your heart was a legend.
You told me again you preferred handsome men
but for me you would make an exception.
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
who are oppressed by the figures of beauty,
you fixed yourself, you said, "Well never mind,
we are ugly but we have the music."

And then you got away, didn't you babe...

I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best,
I can't keep track of each fallen robin.
I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel,
that's all, I don't even think of you that often.

Fuck it :)

Today is just gonna be music day...stick around and I'll be sharing all sorts of crap because I've nothing better to do.

The Trapeze Swinger is one of my favorite Iron and Wine songs, and it would still be even if it didn't contain the line
" and please remember me, my misery
and how it lost me all i wanted"

I thought it less like a lake and more like a moat....

I was lying in bed this morning, trying not to be awake, but my mind wasn't having it. At least life is becoming tv and the weather is conforming to my moods....and the Six Feet Under episode "Terror Starts at Home" was in my mind for some reason. I wish I had art school friends to come chill at my place and do random drugs with and such...ha. Oh well, I consoled myself by listening to the song from that episode Transatlanticism by Death Cab for Cutie. It's a wonderful rainy-day song.

Panda and Angel's "Mexico" is another good one. Moody, moody day.