10/8/08

Never noticed Interpol much until now, but "Our Love to Admire" is a great CD.

10/7/08

Radiohead Song of the Week??
The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold) off of Hail to the Thief.

Such an awesome song. Such an awesome word--gloaming. I don't know what it means, but I know exactly how it sounds and how it feels--shadowy, dark, foreboding and lurking from point a to point b. The song warrants a listen for even non-Radiohead fans (which really, pretty much everyone should be by now in one way or another). Even if it's just because it's a great example of how much energy a song can capture with relatively simple choices.

Whatever. Just listen to the damn song, especially if you can find a decent live clip. Now I'm listening to "Silver Spring" anyway, because it's been at least two weeks.

10/1/08

I'm working playlists tonight!
These are just songs.

Just take them as music. Not songs that are the best anything, they're not this, they're not that. They're just...21st century popular music songs. How they sound under the context of that..it's so hard to define, isn't it?

Just read an essay about that--about the finesse of popular music that musicologists cannot make the right term for. It's not complicated or complex the way "classical"era music was. A new term will hopefully be made someday, probably in terms of times and eras. The Pre-Rock era/Post-Rock era? The switch is mid 20th century, 20s-60s? It's so bizarre, and hard to pin down, so I don't know why I'm taking classes in it.


Love is Real, Ode to Darryl, Newerwaves-Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
..other stuff unconsciously on shuffle
2)tonight, tonight--smashingpupmkins 40 sec.
which led to for me this is heaven-jimmy eat world (first 30 seconds), started over, finsihed, which led to Sympathy of the devil for a nice rolling stones marathon followed by feist, followed by sarah mclachlan for like 6 songs within 50 seconds, until the thing went on shuffle and picked Ckaustrophobic Sting by The Prodigy which actually fit the mood REALLY well. Fun, crazy shit is great to listen to sometimes. Followed by this song We Both Go Down Together by Colin Meloy that i found on a sampler from a Paste album, I think...which sounds eeriely like 'choosing my religion.'

I might do my pop music term paper on how music magazines pick the samplers.


Also, iTunes interface is killing me lately. It's not set up as well as the iPod touch. With that, you can do so much more--for example, when you're on shuffle and hear an artist you want the full album of you can get it pretty easily by clicking the list button on the upper right hand corner. If you click the arrow by the album title in iTunes, it brings You to the store. Goddamn it. That's cause it's free. i'd love to see a music playing program Apple put money into...

(If anyone knows a feature that would fix that--a button or a good program!-- let me know, and then if that's the case, istillloveyouApple! Steve Jobs, Keep it Up Buddy!!!!1)

9/23/08

...this is a great song.


I roll the window down
And then begin to breathe in
The darkest country road
And the strong scent of evergreen
From the passenger seat as you are driving me home

Then looking upwards
I strain my eyes
And try to tell the difference
Between shooting stars and satellites
From the passenger seat as you are driving me home

"Do they collide?"
I ask and you smile
With my feet on the dash
The world doesn't matter

When you feel embarrassed then I'll be your pride
When you need directions then I'll be the guide
For all time
For all time
-Death Cab For Cutie, Passenger Seat
Transatlanticism


Ben Gibbard--maybe one of the 21st century's best pop music lyricists? Death Cab reaches the ears of enough of the majority. What I love about this song is how well it captures a moment. There's a pleasant ambiance, and it sounds like it could be sad song, but it's not. It can describe so much--those simple moments with friends, or the careful moments with a more-than-a-friend. The times when you're really seeping in the atmosphere around you.

I'm pretty sure you never can get enough of those.

9/23/08

Wtf mate?
Apparently this was for a week in August, and then went away...but now, again, you can purchase your own Say Anything song.

Max Bemis Song Shop....what a concept. THAT is something new. How interactive is music going to get? I wonder how it would feel to hear a song written JUST about you. And not by a musician you know, who is involved in your personal life, but a total stranger or one of your favorite musicians.

Let's see how far this goes. Not gonna lie, if I had $150 to throw around right now I'd so do it just to hear what it sounds like.