Last 25 from my iTunes
You are the Light - Lone Justice
Interlude (Milo) - Modest Mouse
Little Sister - Dwight Yoakam
I Got to Let You Know - Los Lobos
Pa Pa Pa Palavas - Ben Charest
I Guess I Planted - Billy Bragg & Wilco
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft - Babes In Toyland
Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who
Jerusalem - Sinéad O'Connor
Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Remix) - Kanye West Feat. Jay-Z
Kick Out the Jams - The Presidents Of The United States Of America
Calvary Cross (Live) - Richard & Linda Thompson
I Won't Back Down - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Black Gold - Soul Asylum
Ophelia - Vince Gill
Untitled - Mary J. Blige
It's a Long to the Top - AC/DC
Mama Said - Lenny Kravitz
Money Honey - Bay City Rollers
Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
Dry Your Eyes (Live) - Neil Diamond
Go Home - Barenaked Ladies
The Kaleidoscope Affair - Swing Out Sister
The Rest Of My Life - Sloan
Black Cadillacs - Modest Mouse
so, I am listening to my first full Guster album. what do people think of them?
I heard them for the first time just yesterday. I have to say I wasn't paying any great amount of attention but I can remember thinking "This song is very Elliot Smith-y. This song is very Simon and Garfunkel-y. This song is very ..."
This is for Corwood: Tom Verlaine attempting to teach "Venus" to a clueless Richard Hell:
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so, I am listening to my first full Guster album. what do people think of them? I'm liking it.
I love Guster. Which album are you listening to? The one I know best is
Keep It Together.
Okay, so I'm putting together a summer mix (why yes, I am in possesion of some free time all of a sudden), and I thought I'd ask in here for suggestions. It's all stuff that either reminds me of summer, is about summer, or just sounds summery. Here's what I have so far -
Woo Hoo- The 5, 6, 7, 8's; Firecracker - Ryan Adams; Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmerelda; La Femme d'Argent - Air; Handclapping Song - The Meters; Greatest Hit - Annie; Concrete Sky - Beth Orton and Ryan Adams; Big Trucks - Buck 65; The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice; Wake Up Little Sparrow - Devendra Banhart; Pop Singer's Fear of the Pollen Count - The Divine Comedy; Boys of Summer - Don Henley; There is a Mountain - Donovan; Day Dreaming - Groove Armada; Naked as we Came Iron and Wine; Three HUndred Pounds of Joy - Howlin' Wolf; Bridges and Balloons - Joanna Newsome; Lola - The Kinks; Heartbeats - The Knife; Blue Jeans - Ladytron; Deceptacon - Le Tigre; Love Lots of Lovin - Lee Dorsey and Betty Harris; Goddess on a Highway - Mercury Rev; Love Will Tear us Apart - Nouvelle Vague; One/Take 5 - Rodrigo y Gabriela; Super Sexy Woman - Sufjan Stevens; Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses; Son of a Preacher man - Dusty Springfield; Feet of Clay - Vashti Bunyan; Slip into Something More Comfortable - Kinobe; His Majesty King Raam - Lemon Jelly; The Joker - The Steve Miller Band; The Boy with the Arab Strap - Belle and Sebastian; Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz; Did you Give the World Some Love Today - Doris.
So, summer. Anyone? Bueller?
Three HUndred Pounds of Joy - Howlin' Wolf
HOY! HOY! I'm the boy!
I got 300 lbs of heavenly joy!
Awright, back to work.
Yo La Tengo - "The Summer" or "Beach Party Tonight"
Beach Boys - "Cool, Cool Water" or "'Til I Die" or (what the hey) "Good Vibrations" or "The Warmth of the Sun"
Big Star - "Till The End Of The Day"
Beat Happening - "Indian Summer"
Camper Van Beethoven - "Opi Rides Again/Club Med Sucks"
Jonathan Richman - "Ice Cream Man"
Talking Heads - "Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)"
(my iPod just served this up - it's free on emusic right now) The Pipettes - "Dirty Mind" (this sounds like the two female vocalists from The B-52s)
Fela Kuti - "Zombie"
Konono No. 1 - "Kule Kule"
Tom Ze - "Ma"
Caetano Veloso - "Tropicalia"
Os Mutantes - "Ave Genghis Khan"
Love - "Bummer In the Summer"
the Clean - "Trapped In Amber"
The Chills - "Heavenly Pop Hit"
the Bats - "Western Isles"
the Verlaines - "Joed Out"
Li'l Cap'n Travis - "Little Drops of Summer"
Luna - "California (All The Way)"
The Feelies - "Let's Go"
OK, that's all off the top of my head.
Most excellent! Thanks Corwood!
If you definitely want to use any of those songs and have trouble finding mp3s, lemme know.
