May 2008 Archives

• excuse me, this is the yah mos def - yah mos def
• a guide to love, loss and desperation - the wombats
• i know you’re married but i’ve got feelings too - martha wainwright
• i love your glasses - russian red
• propeller - guided by voices
• the virginia ep - the national

guided by voices: where the fuck have i been?

or

just used bee thousand as counter-example to polish-the-turd production (madonna, if you must know).

• blastic scene - sonic youth
• the con - tegan and sara
• maldoror - mão morta
• silent shout - the knife
• walk it off - tapes ‘n tapes

• cross - justice
• in camera - arthur & yu
• live 81-82 - the birthday party
• under the bushes under the stars - guided by voices
• smile - boris
• lusitânia playboys - dead combo
• the slip - nine inch nails
• ray of light - madonna
• amanecer en puerta oscura - orthodox
• gran poder - orthodox

andy baio digs out a veritable treasure for music fanatics^Wlovers, the whitburn project. he will post more analysis of the data in the coming days.

synths have the same lure electric guitars do: they make sounds that don't really exist! however, they have the unfortunate property of being discrete, and discrete is boring (unless you pile up a huge number of discrete things and set them off at slightly different times).

electric guitars, on the other hand, are continual, and can be double plus continual with the right effects' pedal. or pedals.

1. fuck the pain away, peaches
2. fade into you, mazzy star
3. closer, nine inch nails
4. oil 1, moby
5. blue monday, new order
6. vamos, pixies (a live version, stock up on fruit and water)
7. providence, sonic youth
8. venus in furs, the velvet underground
9. hey boy hey girl, the chemical brothers
10. quero morder-te as maos, mao morta

when i was a kid, i had piano lessons, like every other middle-class kid my age. my teacher had a yamaha synth next to the piano, which i oggled through most of my practice. i wasn’t allowed to touch it, because it would corrupt my tiny little soul and ruin my piano learnings. well, guess what, i dropped out and have spent my life listening to noise. hope you’re happy.

can you imagine jimi hendrix’s dad going “sorry kid, no electric guitar for you, otherwise you’ll never be able to play it properly”? or slash’s? paul mccartney’s, sure.

(to be continued)

1. the draize train, the smiths

so yeah, there’s the tv on the radio dude, the bowie, a bunch of tom waits’s songs and the most perfect human being to ever walk the planet. it’s got to be good, right?

well, it isn’t. in fact, it’s incredibly bad (with the exception of falling down, one of the 2 songs bowie “touched”). musically speaking, the album is extremely limited, and downright boring at times. and scarlett can’t sing, period. not to mention that most of waits’s music is not supposed to sound like you’re in a kindergarten. unless you’re the sort of drunk person who hangs around kindergartens.

2-word review: phone me

• guided by voices - bee thousand
• el perro del mar - from the valley to the stars
• the mountain goats - heretic pride
• scarlett joahnsson - anywhere i lay my head
• i was a cub scout - i want you to know there is always hope
• cut copy - in ghost colours
• she and him - kcrw open road
• m83 - saturdays = youth
• mission of burma - signals, calls and marches
• fuck buttons - street horrrsing
• fleet foxes - sun giant
• the breeders - we’re gonna rise
• high places - 03/07 09/07
• adele - 19