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Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F♯ A♯ ∞

Good 'un.


I'm listening to The Music's self-titled. So good.

It certainly is, although I'm going to be wary of telling my friends that I listen to weird shit like that.

Now: Surfing on Sine Waves, by Richard D. James (as Polygon Window this time)

had to take a few days detour but im back on the rolo tomassi track



this is great but there are certain parts of i dont like, like when the vocals and one-note keyboards do a kind of chorus thingy, like some millennial pop shit, you know the kind, the millennial hey and clap and singing together shit. cheapens the moment. it’s still great though, overall.

Just got a ticket for BMSR's Norman show. Very small/tight venue. Have wanted to see them for a long, long time. Quite excited.

I am starting today off with Breeders' All Nerve. I can't get over how much I have fallen in love with this album.

I'm jealous.
I'm afraid I won't get many chances to see them (or tobacco or aesop) here.

"We like to keep a cooler of beer on stage... because we're hopeless, pathetic alcoholics... and we say fuck you, that's what we say to it. Everyone that says we have a drinking problem, we say fuck you. I said it to my mom."

—Bob Pollard, from the stage

Well then fuck you Bob Pollard on behalf of Bob Pollard because he says he’s an alcoholic right bloody here!

Anyway, Car Seat Headrest is like Guided by Voices, the Strokes and fucking Fleetwood Mac or something all got together, isolated the parts of their music that didn’t work or were boring and shoved all those elements up each other’s assholes.

It’s true prog-indie shit. It’s good, goddammit

St. Vincent doing "Kerosene" at the Our Concert Could Be Your Life show (2011) celebrating 10 years of Michael Azerrad's book:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TuWsQ1smQo

Also covering "Bad Penny", from Songs About Fucking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqww-dIya2Q

But his emails ER I MEAN but his songwriting. Every Spiritualized album since Ladies And Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space has strong songs but this time they're all strong and they make a strong whole, you dig?

Now I'm gonna sip some earl grey from my Spiritualized cuppa:



Guaranteed to make any kinda tea bitter ER I MEAN better.

Oh for sure.

Honestly the last song that really knocked my socks off was “Baby I’m Just A Fool” from “Songs in A&E.” That’s a goddamn great tune, but in that album’s case it was, like, the one song that stood out strongly. The one “year-end list” kind of song.
“Sweet Heart/Sweet Light” Maybe didn’t have any of those standouts.

This one has songs that sound at first like standard fair, but then, somehow, all kinda feel like standouts. Meaning, I guess, that the album is super good as a whole, yes.

(But that’s how I felt about the last two initially as well. Still think they’re good, don’t think they’re great from start to finish. “Let I’d Come Down” is better. “Ladies & Gentlemen...” and everything before it is... fucking masterful.


😲😮😵 SHUT YOUR FUCKING FACEIWANITNOW

Classic case of the cover artwork not fitting the tone of the album. And that is a good thing.

Considering his history with Cat Power, I think that cover is great.

Oneohtrix Point Never - Betrayed in the Octagon

i thought i was gonna have a 30 second laugh but... nope... still listening

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool

I got it from the old Spiritualized website... remember that one, with the background that very gradually changed colors? That was pretty cool. I also got a few CDs from the Treader label there: J Spaceman's Guitar Loops, J Spaceman and Matthew Shipp's SpaceShipp (heh), Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith's Abbey Road Quartet, Han Bennink's Amplified Trio. All sent to me by Mr. John Coxon himself! All that stuff is out of print but they're resurrecting the label with vinyl releases now.

ANYWAY, it's not like you can't have your own Ladies And Gentlemen... mug, Snoop — check this one from the current site/shop:

https://www.spiritualized.com/browse/spiritualized-global-merch-uk/products/ladies-and-gentlemen-mug-2

Sweet! Just don't buy one before I buy one myself, because who knows, there may be few left. And if your girlfriend gives you shit for spending your dough on it, you can pull a Bob Pollard and tell her you know what...

Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun

YEEZUS

The second half just feels super Christmasy to me. Don’t ask me why.

So far today:
Jebediah - Slightly Odway
Nirvana - Nevermind

on the way home through a dark mountain road tired after a long day of errands blasted deep purple’s machine head because nothing wakes you up to driving like the screeches of highway star

Selected Ambient Works Volume II

My mom used to work til midnight and would blast the stereo to stay awake. One time she got pulled over for one of those sobriety checks over the holidays and the cop did a double take after he had her roll down the windows.

hahaha what did she have on?

It would've been a 'classic" rock station, so anything from Hendrix to Floyd to Tom Petty.



On another occasion the cop asked if she'd had anything to drink and she just laughed and told him she'd just gotten off work 5 minutes ago. He let her go.


(and if I remember correctly that last one happened on September 10th, 2001).

dang, i remember that night too, i happen to have been up all night and it was a massive full moon

then i get to work all bleary-eyed and it’s the alpacalypse

anyway, for a drive, loudness and speed are not enough— science proved a while ago that having something singable wakes you more.

maybe that’s the origin of the road trip singalong

mamma mia let me go

Singability isn't discussed enough, in my opinion.



Yeah the next day was completely surreal. I had a college radio show back then and I was thinking: should I go in today? Yeah it felt like this huge disaster, that even though we were so far away from New York City, it was felt in every corner of North America.



Listening to Pretty Girls Make Graves again (self-titled EP)

Descendents - Milo Goes to College

Alone and chill at the local art space, this coming from the speakers. Fucking love it.

Listening to the first song on Daughter's album You Won't Get What You Want.


His voice reminds me of someone, Interpol's lead singer?



I saw SY's name mentioned in a review on RYM and it earned their #1 of the year also.


Not sure if it's my cup of noise.

Does Interpol's lead singer have a voice? Last time I checked he was aping Ian Curtis left and right...

You may have a point there.


I heard that new lead singer of Journey, and his voice does sound a lot like Steve Perry's, but he is so clearly imitating his delivery on the older Journey tunes.


So in both cases it's like having an impersonator as your lead "singer". Hmm.

By the way, stuck around for the whole album. Pretty good. First impression is that there may be a bit too much vocals and not enough "music" to really satisfy on repeated listens.

Bought last Christmas. Revisiting before tomorrow.

right.

also, i should go there, a catchy tune is a great technological advancement. often derided by snots, but a dominant technology for ages.

i mean, how else did you carry music with you before spotify, before the ipod, before the walkman and portable headphones, before the transistor radio?

in your head, of course.

i go on morning marches (lol) and some days i have headphones on some days i get some sticky sticky tune and i keep beat to it with my left foot.

sometimes these tunes mutate into others, like...

oh i forget. i had some jazz in my head and ended with hole somehow because some notes matched and the thing mutated. like dawkins’ memes



o man i was right in line with the plane that was supposed to hit the white house. no joke. like if the passengers would not have downed it in pa it could have potentially flattened my neighborhood cuz i lived right off 16th st and if you go down 16th st on say a skateboard you slam right into the back of the white house

a very weird morning. uffffff....

i did not look at the tv

ah, flashbacks...!

Ha I was just watching a Ted talk about repetitiveness in pop songs and his conclusion was that it was a good thing.

He's not wrong!


That's wild! Yeah that was a crazy time.



And yes, it's a good EP. I love them!

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