May 2010
2 posts
FWD: Please tell me that isn’t Sidney Ponson.
Please tell me that isn’t Sidney Ponson.
December 2009
73 posts
listening to "El-P - Stepfather Factory" →
#126 - 518 SOTD - classic feel-good track and clip from El-P. Feel the love!
listening to "Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John... →
#127 - 518 SOTD - all credit due to Pitchfork’s decade list for this one.
listening to "Tom Waits - →
#128 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Pelican - Far From Fields" →
#129 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Sigur Rós - Gobbledigook" →
#130 - 518 SOTD - Naked man-butts!
listening to "Odd Nosdam - Kill Tone" →
#131 - 518 SOTD - bee has every right to be freaked out by stoned baby doll in video. tool thinks this video is too freaky.
listening to "Little Eyes - Yo La Tengo" →
#132 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Zu - Ostia" →
#133 - 518 SOTD - Zu is Morphine (the band) on amphetamines (the drug).
#134 in the 518 SOTD - Twilight Singers “Powder Burns”. I can’t understand how this is not available on blip.
listening to "[HD] Sigur Rós - Sæglópur (a.k.a. →
#135 - 518 SOTD
listening to "The Streets- It →
#136 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Sleater-Kinney - →
#137 - 518 SOTD - God, I miss Sleater-Kinney.
listening to "Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons" →
#138 - 518 SOTD - As with #148, file under ‘Mogwai - Serene and Beautiful”
listening to "The Arcade Fire - No Cars Go" →
#139 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Parts →
#140 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Saturday" →
#141 - 518 SOTD - can’t believe the dearth of options on blip for this track. Yes, I will have put most of the tracks from this album on my Top 200.
#142 in the SOTD - Windy & Carl - “The Sun” - seek out any of their work. Great ambient/shoegaze for airplane travel.
listening to "Wilco - Kamera" →
#143 - 518 SOTD
listening to "M.I.A Bird Flu" →
#144 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Brian Wilson - Heroes and Villains" →
#145 - 518 SOTD - This song is just a representative for an album that is defines “joy” from start to finish.
listening to "Hella - Biblical Violence Live" →
#146 - 518 SOTD - Pretty rotten sound on this clip, but my God just look at them go. This is the 00s hipster “YYZ”. That is a compliment.
listening to "You Will Know Us by the Trail of... →
#147 - 518 SOTD
listening to "Mogwai - Thank You Space Expert... →
#148 - 518 SOTD - One of the more serene and beautiful tracks Mogwai has recorded in their 00s output.
listening to "Danger Mouse - 99 Problems" →
#149 - 518 SOTD - As amazing as any track on this album is, this one is awesomer by a multiple of 5.
listening to "Wilderness - Silver Gene" →
#150 - 518 SOTD - Wanted to have “Pablum” and this track together. They flow together like one song.
What’s a thirteen-letter phrase for annoying effing commercial? #fb
listening to "Hysteric - Yeah Yeah Yeahs" →
#151 - 518 SOTD. From quite possibly the most underrated album of the decade.
listening to "ISIS - DULCINEA (perfect audio)" →
#152 - 518 SOTD. Last quarter of this song is just phenomenal.
listening to "M 83 Gone" →
#154 - 518 SOTD. Much as I appreciate the homegrown music vid effort, I wish I could find a video-free copy every now and then. This is a now sitch.
listening to "Wilco - War On War (Letterman)" →
#155 - 518 SOTD. A favorite version of the track here. Tad different from the album version.
listening to "Vampire Weekend - Walcott" →
#156 - 518 SOTD. Finally, saving my boat shoes from 8th grade has paid off.
listening to "Baroness - Wanderlust" →
#157 - 518 SOTD. First repeat artist? May have served a higher spot.
listening to "Battles - Rainbow" →
#158 - 518 SOTD. Yeah.
listening to "Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass (live... →
#159 - 518 SOTC. The drumming. My god, the drumming.
listening to "Earth - Miami Morning Coming Down II... →
#160 - 518 SOTD. encourage you to seek out full track and whole album. also, get high.
listening to "Expo →
#161 - 518 SOTD. Before they *tried* to become a post-millenial Fleetwood Mac, they were a really good…post-millenial Fleetwood Mac.
listening to "Electric Six - Gay bar →
#162 - 518 SOTD. As awesome as the accompanying video is, I emplore you to seek out rathergood.com’s version. It has viking bunnies. That’s right.
listening to "Abe Vigoda - Bear Face" →
#163 - 518 SOTD. If I did a band names of the decade list, yeah of course these guys are top ten.
listening to "M.I.A. - Galang" →
#164 - 518 SOTD. Plenty more MIA to come, we ain’t even close. MIA, you’re too good for a Honda commerical.
listening to "Baroness - The Gnashing (Album... →
#165 - 518 SOTD. Way too lazy to call them Mastodon II. But I’m lazy. Mastodon II.
listening to "This is the Way" →
#167 - 518 SOTD. For roughly two albums, he decided to be a brilliant musician and not simply a fucked-up hobo.
listening to "Rosemary →
#168 - 518 SOTD. The Director’s Cut is the modern soundtrack to Halloween, and this is the lead cut. Sleep tight.
listening to "The Postal Service - The District... →
#169 - 518 SOTD. Well, moobs from the UPS commericals ruined “Such Great Heights”, so here you go.
listening to "The Forms - Bones" →
#170 - 518 SOTD. Contender for most criminally overlooked band of the decade.
listening to "Tim Hecker - Chimeras" →
#172 - 518 SOTD. I’m sure he’s a lot less creepy in person, because he’s Canadian. That’s all I have to go on.
listening to "Queens Of The Stone Age - Lost Art... →
#173 - 518 SOTD. I Miss Nick Oliveri’s barely-sustainable powder addiction.
listening to "The Books - →
#174 - 518 SOTD - Wasn’t going to pass out before getting to a Books track. One of the five most important musical artists of the decade. Reals.
listening to "Sun Kil Moon - Salvador Sanchez" →
#175 - 518 SOTD. Longer story for another time on my love for Mark Kozelek (likely similar to many other MK fans). Enjoy, nonetheless.