Of Montreal - "Eagle-Shaped Mirror" (live)
Beulah - "Fooled With The Wrong Guy"
Steve Earle - "Come Home To Me"
The Arcade Fire - "The Well And The Lighthouse" (live)
Neil Young - "See The Girl Dance" (live)
Thirteen days into this little blog-xperiment and this is the first time a Neil Young song has popped up. Surprising. He happens to be my all-time favorite songwriter, musician, Canadian and iconoclast. Folk, rock, country (computerized synth, oops), NY puts his unique stamp on everything he produces - - and an absurd amount of it is now certified classic. (Need some sort of proof? See every single album he put out in the 1970s.) Of course, my iPod is dominated by a lot of new music, which I love, but Neil is a staple. This particular track comes from a BBC2 concert taped in 1971. And it may very well be the exact same recording that popped up on the Live At Massey Hall CD released in 2007, only there it's titled "Dance Dance Dance." (Update: I went back to listen, same song, but a different version. On Massey the crowd claps along and Neil also talks to the audience between verses. Surely it was from the same tour though.) Neil is in the midst of putting out a lot of unreleased stuff from his back catalog. He's rumored to have hundreds of hours of music that has yet to see the light of day. Bring it on, Uncle Neil.
Camper Van Beethoven - "That Gum You Like Is Back In Style"
Nirvana - "Serve The Servants" (solo acoustic)
Modest Mouse - "Convenient Parking"
Magnetic Fields - "Meaningless"
The Decembrists - "My Mother Was A Chinese Trapese Artist"
I talked about Midlake's "timeless" quality recently, but how 'bout The Decembrists? They are timeless as in a they can be from the 16th Century... or present day kind of timeless. Most notably in the song lyrics (although Colin Meloy & Co do sound like Renaissance bards adrift at sea). For example, this song is about a Chinese trapese artist and a French spy who meet up in pre-War Aix-en-Provence and raise the narrator in a brothel. Not your typical indie angst rock. I'm not an expert on the band, but this song comes from an excellent EP, 5 Songs, that I believe contains tracks not on any of their other releases. Check it out.
Versus - "Frederick's Of Hollywood"
And then I got to work.
Today's Stats
Total songs listened to: 11
Total minutes of music (approx.): 44
Song with the most previous plays: "That Gum You Like Is Back In Style" - 8
Miscellaneous factoid about my trip to work today: I saw a guy riding a Segway. What's the deal with those things? Viable mode of transportation or two-wheeled dork mobile?
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That Gum You Like Is Back in Style -- a line spoken by the midget in Twin Peaks. Excellent.
Woah. Nice catch, AJS. You're my fact checking cuz..
Any opinion on whether Prairie Wind, Living with War, and/or Chrome Dreams II are worth a listen or purchase, given that Are You Passionate and Greendale weren't exactly winners?
Good question, Anonymous. I basically agree with your assessment of Are You Passionate and Greendale, although I have to admit I tend to forgive NY for a lot of his crap. I think, Prairie Wind, Living With War and Chrome Dreams II are all better than those two, but still flawed. Living With War is the rocking-est of the bunch, but the over-the-top political messages are really tough to swallow. (They’re good messages, but they just make the whole thing remind me of how f’ed up real life is.) Prairie Wind has that pleasant Harvest Moon-type sound, but feels a bit too toothless. And Chrome Dreams II is a real mixed bag musically with hits (“Spirit Road”) and misses (“Shining Light”). But the most interesting thing about this album is the inclusion of the song “Ordinary People”. This song has become more and more mythic in my mind since I first heard him play it on the Bluenotes tour. Unfortunately my fond memory of the 18-minute scorcher live is better than what wound up on the album. In short, it sounds over-produced. Hope this helps.
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