Let me just start by saying that I am not an Arcade Fire fan. Moving on.
They have a new web video that utilizes Google Maps to create a personalized video for you, depending on where you grew up. HTML5 = the future. It's all based on separate windows popping up. It's kind of amazing and makes a good argument for the viability of the web as its own medium. Also its success hinges on personalized nostalgia, so of course I like it.
Best viewed in Chrome.
Watch that shit here!
I produced a live show with this band from Colombia called Bomba Estereo for my job. Here's my 2 favorites from the show:
More here!
Useless CDs! Useless CDs! Useful CDs! Useless CDs!
DEAD MILKMEN "BEELZEBUBBA"
Dead Milkmen are great. "Punk Rock Girl" was my first taste of what snotty wise-ass punk could be. Ie- poppy, sarcastic, appealing to the 10th grade cleverer-than-you part of your brain, and way dorky. This set the stage for bands like NoFX, and also the set the bar open for abuse by bands like Goldfinger. But at the beginning, things were good!
This album has great jams like "Brat In The Frat," "I Walk The Thinnest Line," and "Bad Party." I will always have a place in my heart for Dead Milkmen, thanks to my cuz. Also, the one time I saw Eli at the Woods he requested I play this, and when you're at the Woods and Eli requests you play this, you ignore him and play La Roux, and then a few minutes later you play this, because you never hear this out.
BEST SONG: Punk Rock Girl DUH
DUKE ELLINGTON "MONEY JUNGLE"
Hey, it's jazz! Look at all these either heroin addicts or future heroin addicts hanging around recording music together. From left to right we have Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, and Reggie Watts. Thanks, guys! #racist
V/A "ELECTRO SLASH DISCO_"
This was purchased as a part of my "Because Of Serato, Get Everything At C.Q.S. (CD Quality, Son)" campaign. Actually, the track listing on this is intensely good. Like, I will never get tired of hearing Konk's "Your Life" on any comp because that song is always the best. Plus Quando Quango, Lime, the Pablovia Raban mix of "You Don't Know," etc etc. Cop this shit, son (or daughter) of my loins!
BEST SONG: Konk "Your Life"
ELLA FITZGERALD "COMPACT JAZZ LIVE"
Ella Fitzgerald is a fucking crazy woman live. I used to think that Bobby McFerrin and George Kranz in coked-up scat-off would be the most intense live show ever, but I am in fact wrong because when Ella Fitzgerald starts scatting she scats way hard and does it for like 5 minutes. I keep forgetting that for the most part, jazz musicians, despite all the album covers portraying the contrary, were all basically fuck-ups and drug addicts, and when you put them on a live stage they would go off.
BEST SONG: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" in which she impersonates both Louie Armstrong and Rose Murphy!
BELLE & SEBASTIAN "PUSH BARMAN TO OPEN OLD WOUNDS"
There was a 5 minute window of opportunity for me to get into Belle & Sebastian. It was right after I somehow convinced myself that Postal Service was a good band and I was pliantly receptive to the elitist ramblings of Pitchfork. During this standards-relaxing haze, actual literal thoughts of mine included "Belle & Sebastian is pleasant!," "Look at their Smiths-inspired packaging!" and "I'm sleepy!"
BEST SONG: Punk Rock Girl DUH
DUKE ELLINGTON "MONEY JUNGLE"
Hey, it's jazz! Look at all these either heroin addicts or future heroin addicts hanging around recording music together. From left to right we have Morgan Freeman, Bill Cosby, and Reggie Watts. Thanks, guys! #racist
V/A "ELECTRO SLASH DISCO_"
This was purchased as a part of my "Because Of Serato, Get Everything At C.Q.S. (CD Quality, Son)" campaign. Actually, the track listing on this is intensely good. Like, I will never get tired of hearing Konk's "Your Life" on any comp because that song is always the best. Plus Quando Quango, Lime, the Pablovia Raban mix of "You Don't Know," etc etc. Cop this shit, son (or daughter) of my loins!
BEST SONG: Konk "Your Life"
ELLA FITZGERALD "COMPACT JAZZ LIVE"
Ella Fitzgerald is a fucking crazy woman live. I used to think that Bobby McFerrin and George Kranz in coked-up scat-off would be the most intense live show ever, but I am in fact wrong because when Ella Fitzgerald starts scatting she scats way hard and does it for like 5 minutes. I keep forgetting that for the most part, jazz musicians, despite all the album covers portraying the contrary, were all basically fuck-ups and drug addicts, and when you put them on a live stage they would go off.
BEST SONG: "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" in which she impersonates both Louie Armstrong and Rose Murphy!
BELLE & SEBASTIAN "PUSH BARMAN TO OPEN OLD WOUNDS"
There was a 5 minute window of opportunity for me to get into Belle & Sebastian. It was right after I somehow convinced myself that Postal Service was a good band and I was pliantly receptive to the elitist ramblings of Pitchfork. During this standards-relaxing haze, actual literal thoughts of mine included "Belle & Sebastian is pleasant!," "Look at their Smiths-inspired packaging!" and "I'm sleepy!"
Matador, never one to back away from an opportunity to repackage with a tacky badge, re-released B&S's first EPs to the delight of I guess a few people and to the curiosity of me. It is this hardbound double deluxo disc that I made my first forays into the twee limp-dicked dandyisms of B&S. And I don't necessary dislike them! Jams like "This Is Just A Modern Rock Song" and "The State I Am In" make a strong case for staying in bed, drinking tea, and complaining about how difficult it is to be white and wear perfect clothes.
File Under: the thinly spun gossamer of our own fleeting youth / lilting / Virginia Astley
VELVET UNDERGROUND "VU"
Speaking of the burden of being white, I only bought this because of Stephanie Says, which I know from Wes Anderson. But it's not bad otherwise, there's an early version of "Andy's Chest," plus "She's My Best Friend" ended up on Reed's 70s album Coney Island Baby. Although I guess that doesn't detract from how shitty Lou Reed otherwise is.
By the way: poignant or cloying?
File Under: the thinly spun gossamer of our own fleeting youth / lilting / Virginia Astley
VELVET UNDERGROUND "VU"
Speaking of the burden of being white, I only bought this because of Stephanie Says, which I know from Wes Anderson. But it's not bad otherwise, there's an early version of "Andy's Chest," plus "She's My Best Friend" ended up on Reed's 70s album Coney Island Baby. Although I guess that doesn't detract from how shitty Lou Reed otherwise is.
By the way: poignant or cloying?
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