Posts tagged music
the faux bohemian
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You want to know what’s an inconsistent album? Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs. I mean that whole concept is pretty remarkable and impressive but talk about some highs and lows. You’ve got some tracks which are basically unlistenable and then you’ve got Kiss Me Like You Mean It.
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A new (good) Sufjan track! Rejoice!
“Which One Are You?” is a leftover from Sufjan Stevens’s 2009 multimedia project the BQE. The track was not originally included on the project due to legal issues
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I’d watch a show in which Adam Scott dissects rap lyrics.
"...and that didn't really work for me, um, because I'm Jens Lekman."
Rock ‘n’ roll is to 21st-century America what the Wild West was to 20th-century America: a closed frontier, ripe for mass mythology….Exciting new music still thrives in the subgenres, but modern musicians draw increasing amounts of inspiration from tradition, not originality. The sexagenarian Rolling Stones do serial victory laps around the world, just as an aging Buffalo Bill toured America and Europe in the 1880s and 90s, performing rope and horse tricks alongside Annie Oakley and Sitting Bull.
Closed Frontier: Is rock over? (Vice, via Metafilter)
Woaaaaaah. I’m seeing this.
Yeah, I think ‘Port Of Morrow’ kind of sums up what I’ve been thinking about lately. It’s about having children and also understanding our own mortality, and maybe even having children heightens your awareness of how short life is and how quickly… you see the children growing up and it just becomes all the more bittersweet, those moments. I remember my youth, you know? You’re reminded of your own youth when you have kids, but you look in the mirror and you’re not a child. Your youth is gone, pretty much, or mine is. But at the same time it increases your appreciation for the beautiful things in life. That tinge of sadness that beauty has is kind of new to me, I guess. I think in my twenties there was more contrast between the dark and the light, and now you sort of mourn for every good moment that happens. That probably sounds depressing, but if you know what I’m talking about its not a depressing thing. It’s just realistic, you know? Part of life as you get older, I guess.
“I Feel Like This Is My Best Work”: James Mercer Of The Shins Interviewed
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Gotta get this album.
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“It sounds like Arcade Fire,” my colleague wrote.
This makes beautiful sense. Springsteen has publicly embraced the Montreal-based band as the heir apparent to his own E Street Band. Arcade Fire is a classic rock band whose members grew up in the 1980s; they understand that synth-pop can rouse a crowd, too. The Arcade Fire sound resolves the contradictions that kept Boss fans and New Wavers apart in the 1980s.
—Ann Powers, via ‘We Take Care Of Our Own’: Springsteen New Wave Of Social Protest
Yeaaaaaaaah! The new single sounds pretty sweet!
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‘Why?’: Remembering Nina Simone’s Tribute To The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Three days after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, performer Nina Simone and her band played at the Westbury Music Festival on Long Island, N.Y. They performed “Why? (The King of Love is Dead),” a song they had just learned, written by their bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to King’s death.
How is it I never heard this song until today? I think every American History course covering the 1960s should include it as required reading.
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Sufjan Stevens
Lumberjack Christmas/No One Can Save You From Christmasses Past
I haven’t been on Tumblr much recently, as a result of the unfortunately-not-so-unique combination of work, grad school, and hours upon hours of driving. I’ll be dealing with that same combination until around Christmas but rest assured that I’ll at least have a good soundtrack. I think this is my Christmas song of the year.
Lyrics:
One, two, three, four!
Oh no, the rugged sew
The great back yard, and the cold North Pole
I resent that Santa went and left us in the Alamo
Would you like to stay a while and dance with me?
(Would you like to stay a while and dance with me?)
Would you like to wrap the gifts and have a drink?
(Would you like to wrap the gifts and have a drink?)
The only one condition, I’ve got the premonition
That Christmas is a vision, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
If drinking makes it easy (so have one here)
The music’s kind of cheesy (and share our cheer)
The specials on the TV (the specials on the TV screen)
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
The dreams go, and stay below
Cattle call, and the old dark sew
I respect that Santa left, to save his kids from the winter cold
Would you like to stay a while and dance with me?
(Would you like to stay a while and dance with me?)
Mistletoe, and chestnuts roasting on the street
(Mistletoe and chestnuts roasting)
The only one condition, I’ve got the premonition
That Christmas is a vision, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho
If drinking makes it easy (so have one here)
The music’s kind of cheesy (and share our cheer)
The specials on the TV (the specials on the TV screen)
No one save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love him, or leave him at last
No one can save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love him, or leave him at last
No one can save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love him, or leave him at last
No one can save you from Christmases past
You’ll have to love him, or leave him at last
No one can save you from Christmases …
Santa Claus can save you. I love Santa Claus. He saved Christmas from the Martians. He gave them good gifts. Santa Claus saved us from the Martians. He gave them lots of kisses, and presents. I love Santa Claus. Fun things to eat. Hi. Candy canes, marshmallows, popcorn balls. I love you Santa Claus.
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Grizzly Bear
Two Weeks
I would play the hell out of this NES game.
(via 8-bitsongs)
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Vince Guaraldi
Meet
Is it fall? Am I studying?
Well then, it must be Vince Guaraldi time.
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Belle & Sebastian
The Boy With The Arab Strap
I was seriously rocking out to this earlier. Seriously.
So you know when you desperately try to open up Soundhound to catch the snippet of a song played as a bridge between NPR stories and you miss it like four times?
When you finally do figure out what song they’re playing, it’s usually pretty great.
