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Matthew Fluxington
09:49 / 12.02.02
okay, here's the deal: let's give each other a helping hand by recommending songs for those of us with Audiogalaxy, Limewire, whatever to search out -- but let's avoid just posting huge lists of songs. Try to describe the song so we have an idea of why we should even bother. Please, you don't have to actually have Audiogalaxy or whatever to participate - just recommend songs!

The first song I shall pimp is:

The Danielson Famile
"Fathom The Nine Fruits Pie"

This song is just pure euphoria... literally a family of Christian 20somethings from suburban New Jersey who play music which sounds like a much crazier Syd Barrett performing children's music after taking hits of helium. And it's recorded by Steve Albini! It will make you smile, it will brighten your day. For more about the Danielson Famile, go here.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
12:57 / 12.02.02
Of course, the genius of Audiogalaxy is that we can provide a direct link to the songs...

First choice this week:

Princess Superstar featuring J-Zone - 'I Love You (Or At Least I Like You)'

Hilarious role-reversal of the usual hip-hop battle of the sexes. He says: "well if you ever feel freaky I'll be your ho, but if you ain't got my cash I'll be out the do'", demanding to be paid in exchange for sex (in typical J-Zone self-deprecatory fashion). She says: "if you were wearing a skirt, I'd tell you to hike it", warns him that she might spike his drink, and threatens to make him her housewife. It's inspired, and it's the perfect solution to those Valentine's Day blues for all you unsentimental cynics.
 
 
_pin
19:54 / 12.02.02
The Flaming Lips - Be My Head

Charmingly infantile, and yet also really lovely and sweet lyrics, with the production equivilent of a 5 year old's child family portrait.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
10:48 / 13.02.02
Okay, this recommendation is especially for those of you who are into folks like Peaches & Gonzales, Fischerspooner, the really fun Le Tigre songs, and other fun 80s-style dancepop - "Extensive Care" by Crossover

The whole album is a lot of fun, but this song is the standout, all synths and drum machines with a girl intoning some great ambiguous lyrics in the perfect matter-of-fact tone... "she's loved downtown for exactly what she does/you should see yourself the way I see you/handle me with care/it's controversial/but I'm not Prince"
 
 
Spatula Clarke
10:51 / 13.02.02
Bonnie Prince Billy - One With The Birds

Released as a single a few years back, I don't think this ever made it onto album. A beautiful melody, remarkably similar to Gram Parsons' Hickory Wind (and, therefore, always going to be a hit with me). The trademark forlorn lyrics, except without the hateful undercurrent that regularly peppers the work of Oldham's 'Prince' alter-ego.

quote:Like so many robins,
Like so many doves,
Like so many lovebirds,
With so many loves,
Like the songs of the bobwhite,
Without any words,

When we are inhuman,
We’re one with the birds.

Lovely.

[ 13-02-2002: Message edited by: E. Randy Dupre ]
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
11:08 / 13.02.02
Ok, being a trifle more obvious than you lot, but someone might not have it. Bless 'em.

The Stooges - Search And Destroy

quote:The mighty opening track "Search and Destroy," written on heroin one afternoon in Kensington Gardens, used military metaphors to declare war on the universe...The sound is crude and vicious, with Iggy howling over the slash and burn shapes of guitarist James Williamson and the murky bass-and-drums thump of brothers Ron and Scott Asheton, but it's undeniably raw and powerful -- garage rock allied to performance-art confrontation. quote: "The reason to put this new record out," [on his remixed Raw Power. Bowie pooed up the og.] Iggy said in 1997, "is that what you had there at the time was a rip-snortin', super-heavy, nitro-burnin', fuel-injected rock band that nobody in this world could touch …" Nobody did, and nobody has.

quote:I'm a streetwalking cheetah with a hide full of napalm,
I'm the runaway son of the nuclear A-bomb,
I am the world's forgotten boy,
The one who searches and destroys,
Honey gotta help me please!
Somebody gotta save my soul!
Baby detonate for me!
Owwwww!

Yes! Yes! Yes!

[ 13-02-2002: Message edited by: Sweet Jane ]
 
 
rizla mission
12:39 / 13.02.02
Yes Indeed!

Can we who know nothing of all this high falutin' computer/music iinterface shenanigans reccomend songs too?

Just, like, ones that we've (lo-tec equivalent) recorded off the radio?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
00:48 / 14.02.02
Yes, of course Rizla - just pimp a song. We can figure out how to acquire the song in our own way - maybe some of us will actually buy a copy of the record! What a novel concept.

Anyway, my song selection today will be another happy joyous number, this one by a mysterious one-off band called Banjo V, who have written and recorded a brilliant song called "Experimental Fashion" for a website called SongFight. Every week, a title is posted on the site, and amateur bands must come up with a song by the end of the week, and people vote for their favorite.

Banjo V won the "Experimental Fashion" contest, and for good reason - it's just so much fun, it's a super indie rock tune in the tradition of Pavement, Modest Mouse, and especially the Flaming Lips - the song sounds like an outtake from Clouds Taste Metallic, really, it does.

"Skinny girls are fasting/they cannot eat cos they're too busy laughing!"

The song can be found here, in the archives. Look for the title "Experimental Fashion" and it will be right there.

There's some other interesting tunes in that archive too, but I'll leave it to you to find them for yourselves...

(note: you can find this song on Audiogalaxy, but I suspect you will only be able to download it if I happen to be online)

[ 14-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]
 
 
rizla mission
00:48 / 14.02.02
ok then, my selection for today is 'Mama Gina' by Shellac, just because I listened to it this morning, and whilst previously I'd considered it self indulgent and boring I today realized how great it is. er..
 
 
theskunkymonkey
10:09 / 14.02.02
May i suggest the 'Gimix' mix by the avalanches (i know it's quite a few songs, not one). Makes me smile in so many places esp. when they mix 'since i left you' into 'Holiday' and 'Like a Rolling Stone'. Weird and twisted genius - my fav.
 
 
deja_vroom
10:46 / 14.02.02
I would like to recommend "Showroom Dummies", from this Miami band called "Harry Pussy", to which the fearsome grant was kind enough to indicate me.

That "song" is one big ridiculously ear-splitting apocalypse-inducing noise, and I wish I could scream the way their vocalist does. It's awesome.
 
 
uncle retrospective
11:19 / 14.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Marquee de Jade:
[QB]I would like to recommend "Showroom Dummies", from this Miami band called "Harry Pussy", to which the fearsome grant was kind enough to indicate me.
[QB]
Is that a kraftwerk cover? Leather strip cover it was well.
 
 
deja_vroom
15:43 / 14.02.02
I don't know, uncle. Don't know shit about Kraftwerk...
 
 
Cop Killer
19:26 / 14.02.02
Y'know, speaking of Kraftwerk, y'all should check out Big Black's cover of "The Model." They keep pretty close to the original except with a guitar bass and drum machine.
 
 
autopilot disengaged
20:01 / 14.02.02
Gimix is grrreat - and immediately makes me want to pimp one of several pre-debut avalanches tracks - but shall stay strong:

i've said it before, i'll say it again. i care not for yr scorn. the facts are unassailable - no doubt's 'making out' is song of the year so far.

DO NOT cast them out of yr heart just because they have always been wack. it's difficult to believe, i know - but this track (plus another i'll probably pimp next time) is ahead of its time in a big way - it consists. of 20seconds. repeated. for four. minutes.

it's. fantast. ic.
 
 
Ethan Hawke
09:07 / 15.02.02
We've been Had by the Walkmen. I don't know much about this NYC band (flux?) but this is a marvelous little song. I'm not sure what I'd describe it as....maybe Pulp at their most late-night desperate lyrically/vocally, with drums that sound like they came from Marquee Moon and a reverb heavy guitar at the end. A real nice melody.
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
09:25 / 15.02.02
Seconded - that song is wonderful, pretty much everything I've heard by the Walkmen has been consistently brilliant. They have been playing a show nearly every weekend in NYC for months now, and I never really get to see them, and I hope I can get it together soon...They are playing a show at Northsix in Brooklyn on Sunday, with the Moldy Peaches no less - It's frustrating, but I know I can't go, it's just too inconvenient.

Some of the members of The Walkmen used to be in Jonathan Fire Eater - they've really improved since then. I'm very much looking foward to their forthcoming debut LP, especially since the title track "Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me Is Gone" rocks my world so much. (Don't consider that a pimp, please...! I still want two more turns before Monday.) "We've Been Had" is going to be on that LP, even in spite of it being on their selftitled EP...

The lyrics of that song are great too, by the way...not to mention the lovely distant piano.

quote:
I'm a modern guy, I don't care much
for the go-go or the retro
image I see so often
telling me to "keep trying
maybe you'll get here someday
keep up the work, kid"
okay, I close the book on them right there

I see myself change as the days change over
I hear the songs and the words don't change
I write them out of the book right there

we've been had, you say it's over
sometimes I'm just happy I'm older
we've been had, I know it's over
somehow it got easy to laugh out loud

see me, age 19,
with some dumb haircut from 1960
moving to New York City
I live with my friends there
we're all taking the same steps
they're foolish...

we've been had, you say it's over
sometimes I'm just happy I'm older
we've been had, I know it's over
somehow it got easy to laugh out loud



[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]
 
 
[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]
09:25 / 15.02.02
I downloaded the Danielson Famile song last night; it's truly something. Really beautiful, I can barely hold myself while listening to it.
By the way, Flux, I think I remember you saying some time ago that you own a Dave Fridmann produced record that no one seemed to own/know/like (can't really remember which one was) Could you recommend any download from that CD (I think it shouldn't count as a pimp, since I'm asking for it)

My recommendation: Pinamar by Francisco Bochaton. Mainly because I'm listening to it right now...Can't say too much about it, it's just a really beautiful song by one of the indies from Argentina. He's not a 100% reliable artist, when he's bad, he's not just bad but disgusting, but when he's great (which happens most of the times) he does beautiful things like this.
 
 
deja_vroom
09:25 / 15.02.02
Flux, this thread = Rad!
 
 
Bear
12:07 / 15.02.02
This is indeed I great thread I've managed to add all the songs mentioned apart from Glints flaming lips but I'll use Kazzaa when I get home....

What is it about human nature that makes us want to share our music tastes anyway ?

Anyway since I'm in a very happy mood and can't think of anything serious (I'll come up with something better next week) - here mine -

bonzo dog band - The Intro And The Outro

so much better if your stoned with the giggles
 
 
deja_vroom
12:41 / 15.02.02
Here are mine for the weekend

Come Here - Kath Bloom. A sweet and calm love song.

Nausicaa - Search for the song "Requiem". It's from an anime. Classical stuff ending with a child chanting.

Zabriskie Point - Pink Floyd. A Chill-out piece, only piano. Sort of a jazz feeling. Really beautiful.

Ghost City - Ghost In The Shell Soundtrack (or you can search for "Kenji Kawaii". Beautiful opening theme from the anime. Japanese chanting and those drums.

Have fun (I'm downloading some of the songs mentioned here right now).
 
 
Saveloy
12:42 / 15.02.02
Could someone do me a big favour, please? Tell me what happens when you click on the link below:

Cats Chorus

Does it take you to a list of MP3s, or does it take you to a page asking you to sign in/sign up for a Yahoo group?

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Saveloy ]
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
12:49 / 15.02.02
By the way, Flux, I think I remember you saying some time ago that you own a Dave Fridmann produced record that no one seemed to own..Could you recommend any download from that CD (I think it shouldn't count as a pimp, since I'm asking for it)

Yes, that record is XIV by a band called Home. To get a taste of it, I would recommend the two best tracks "Truly Judy" and "So Much Love". There are some weirder tunes on the LP, but those two songs are just brilliant power pop, the former being fuzzed out and lovely, and the second being a neo-psychedelic power-folk song. For a more obviously Friddmann/Flaming Lips style song, go for "
The Fable of Salty Water".

My personal pimp today will be for "The Beginning" by Imperial Teen.

It's a wonderfully spiteful bitter song, I posted the lyrics in the lyrics o yr life thread yesterday - sonically, it's got an insistent siren-like backing vocal ("oooh-ah, oooh-ah, oooh-ah"), guitars compressed so much that they sound more like a swarm of angry bees, drums with heavy-slap echo on the breakdown, and a lead vocal immersed in severe reverb. The song has this great angry sleazy vibe, but very surf-rock too, like an evil Beach Boys from the other side of the tracks. Or an even more sinister Pixies circa Bossanova...

Sample lyric: "well, yr fucking movie stars? well, I'm fucking congressmen!"

Go get it.


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Saveloy, I got a list of five MP3s. would you mind telling us more about them?

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]
 
 
rizla mission
12:50 / 15.02.02
quote:Originally posted by Malarkey de Jade:

Nausicaa - Search for the song "Requiem". It's from an anime. Classical stuff ending with a child chanting.


I saw that film the other night. I'm about to go start a thread about it.
And you're right, that music was absolutely beautiful .. especially since the rest of the soundtrack was complete cheese..

today's choice -

Billy Mahonie - "fishing with a man for a shark"

putting the ROCK back into post-rock.
 
 
Spatula Clarke
12:54 / 15.02.02
Quasi - From A Hole In The Ground

Melodic, whimsical electro-organ-guitar-pop. How much do I love Quasi? THIS much. They're totally individual, honestly sounding like nobody else. Over the last few years, they've perfected the bubbly sounds / manic depressive lyrics contradiction. I mean, how can you not love a duo who sing

quote:Life is dull,
Life is grey,
At its best it's just okay,
But, I'm happy to report,
Life is also short.

and make it sound like the sweetest refrain you've ever heard? (That's not this song, btw.)

This is off last year's Sword Of God album.
 
 
deja_vroom
13:03 / 15.02.02
Hey, Sav, it's a list of mp3.
 
 
Saveloy
13:28 / 15.02.02
Flux and Jade> thanks chaps

Okay, GARY (who I've tried to flog to you as a fictional band before) are the Idiot wing of the legendary Les Waters (best remembered for their two drummer line up - two drummers, one kit). According to the notes in front of me, the vocals were recorded in hospital six months after the instrumental tracks and bolted on in the haphazard manner that suits the Les Waters sound. 5 tracks listed, so that's my 5 for this week.

Some tracks contain recordings of real spies and despots talking and laughing.

WARNING: there are only 2 people in the world who like this stuff, and there are 5 people in the band.

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Saveloy ]
 
 
_pin
19:21 / 15.02.02
[Ikara Colt - Sink Venice

According to The Indepenent, they'd sound like The Strokes if the only had a melody. And from that we can deduce that they play guitars. Mmm...


(edited by Flux = Moderator so that the name of the band was spelled correctly)

[ 15-02-2002: Message edited by: Flux = Rad ]
 
 
Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!
12:20 / 16.02.02
Oooooo!

Holiday in Cambodia and Moon over Marin by the Dead Kennedys. Because I just remembered how fucking good they are.

Oh, and on an Ikara Colt tip, One Note is marvellous. Like early Sonic Youth, with an English accent. My description, however, sucks...
 
 
[N.O.B.O.D.Y.]
06:02 / 17.02.02
Flux: Thanks for the recommendation. I've just downloaded Home's "So Much Love"...I liked it too, another CD to put on my list. Man, this thread is gonna be the death of me!!
 
 
bio k9
08:19 / 17.02.02
My two bits

Mark Eitzel, Can You See?
Because its just a beautiful song.

and

The Handsome Family, Lie Down
A great song about relaxing in the arms of death. Far less country than anything else on the (magnificent) album it came from. I'm going to go on pimping them until someone makes me stop.

I think both The Invisible Man (Eitzel's album) and In The Air (the Handsome Family album) were recorded at home on Macs. Hooray for technology!
 
 
Spatula Clarke
12:50 / 17.02.02
Somehow missed your mention of Home, Flux. XIV is really a rather good album, my own favourite tracks from it being Chicago and Burden. That makes two other people I know who've even heard of the record; you and Plums.

Bio, keep pimping The Handsome Family as much as you like. They're absolutely fantastic.

My rec for the day is Future Pilot AKA vs National Park - Sterling, off the album Future Pilot AKA vs A Galaxy Of Sound.

A gentle bit of post rock for all you Godspeed and Mogwai fans. Everyone needs this man in their lives. I can't really do him justice myself, so this is taken from the CD cover:

quote:A Message from your Captain:

Namaste,

Welcome on board. Future Pilot AKA present A Galaxy of Sound - a unique collection in a series of ongoing collaborations with artists from around the world.

These international 'challenges' represent work with artists involved in a range of disciplines: film-makers, illustrators, musicians, animators, writers... for many, this was their first foray into the world of sound and the magic of the studio.

The starting point for many of these pieces was quite often a simple telephone exchange, the delivery of a DAT, the birth of a tape-loop, or the beat of a drum. Freedom, openness and the willingness to exchange ideas and thoughts were always the constant. At times I would respond to musics received or often be the one waiting to hear the replies to my sonic sketches.

Without this collaborative spirit these recordings simply would not exist, and it is with this thought in mind I dedicate the collection to all the players and visual artists that have contributed to projects in the past, present and future and also especially to the creative energies and endless possibilities that lie within us, for us all to explore.

Om Namah Shivaya

Sushil K. Dade

Hell, I'm also going to pimp Ananda Is The Ocean, from the last Future Pilot AKA album, Tiny Waves, Mighty Sea. The whole experience of listening to that is like taking a trip down the Ganges, having the light of your own personal God shine on your face. It's an unbelievably gorgeous sound that he produces there.

I still can't get over the fact that he used to be a member of two-bit indie dance chancers The Soup Dragons. Truly a silk purse from a sow's ear.

[ 17-02-2002: Message edited by: E. Randy Dupre ]
 
 
Seth
18:32 / 17.02.02
quote:Originally posted by E. Randy Dupre:
Somehow missed your mention of Home, Flux. XIV is really a rather good album, my own favourite tracks from it being Chicago and Burden. That makes two other people I know who've even heard of the record; you and Plums.

And expressionless, who's also seen 'em live. They were wicked.
 
 
_pin
19:14 / 17.02.02
Encountered one slight technical hitch:

there's no mac version of audiogalaxy. Or am I just being thick?
 
 
Matthew Fluxington
19:51 / 17.02.02
Audiogalaxy is only for PC users. You should get Limewire or search the Mac section of Download.com for something else that you would like - I know Limewire is just as good as Audiogalaxy...
 
  

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