Today I'm going to battle a pretty cool blog that I check out fairly regularly, http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/. They also have a show on Sirius/XM every Friday that I catch once in a while. They have this playlist available for download, I think it's a great mix, go get it. After you download it as a zip every song is available for individual download. Here's their description:
Sean Howe and Aquarium Drunkard are back with L.A. Burnout 2: Still Burnt. Continuing in the vein of last year’s L.A. Burnout, the 25 tracks compiled within exemplify the not-quite-there nature of the city, particularly what was being laid down in the 70s. Play this mix around dusk while driving through Topanga with the windows rolled down — it’s the next best thing to time travel.
And now the playlist that I will be battling...
Brian Wilson – Smog High
Shango – Day After Day
The Originals – California Sunset
Brewer & Shipley – Dreamin’ In The Shade
The Mamas & The Papas – Mansions
Hill Barbata Ethridge – L.A. Getaway
Terry Melcher – Rebecca
Terry Allen – There Oughta Be A Law Against Sunn…
The Everly Brothers – Ventura Boulevard
Boffalongo – Snow White Lady
Charles Lloyd – TM
New Riders Of The Purple Sage – High Rollers
The Main Ingredient – California My Way
Ned Doheny – Postcards From Hollywood
Orange Colored Sky – L.A. (Los Angeles)
Boz Scaggs – Hollywood
Johan Blomgren – California Sundown
Tim Buckley – Freeway Blues
Don Everly – Southern California
Terry Melcher – Beverly Hills
Bobby Womack – Daylight
Art Garfunkel – 99 Miles from L.A.
Ambulance LTD – Arbuckle’s Swan Song
Leon Ware – Why I Came to California
Gabor Szabo – Theme From Valley of the Doll
Don Everly – Southern California
and my shuffle from my Macbook iTunes:
The Beatles - "And I Love Her" (from Hard Days Night)
Antenna - "Blood Red" (John Strohm and Freda Love formed this band after the Blake Babies, the Blake Babies are better known as being the first band of Julianna Hatfield and Evan Dando (Lemonheads))
Citizens' Utilities - "A Tale of Good Living"
Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers - "13 Months of Sunshine"
bis - "Listen Up"
Clinic - "Earth Angel"
Louis Armstrong - "Indiana"
James Taylor - "Country Road" (man, this is turning out to be a kind of weird shuffle, get your act together iTunes!)
Franz Ferdinand - "Tell Her Tonight" (demo) (for all you aspiring artists this is what a band sounds like before they put some real money into the recording process)
The Pattern - "Finger Us"
Mates of State - "My Only Offer" (I've mentioned these guys as a song of the day, one of the 2 piece bands I've been talking about)
The Tragically Hip - "As Makeshift As We Are" (Did you know that Gordy Downie has a new album? I always hated the name Gordy for some reason, actually I know why, some guy in high school that bugged me was named Gordy. But I love the hip's gordy, cool, distinct voice, great songwriter. The album is called The Grand Bounce and was released a couple months ago)
Ben Lee - "Nighttime" (I've liked Ben Lee since I first heard him as a 14 year old recording artist, the songs were so raw and innocent, this song is from the album Breathing Tornadoes, which I didn't get at first because the over use of drum machine was a distraction, but now I love it for the song writing, great album)
Butterglory - "Fight Fight Fight" (one of the original indie pop bands, right up there with belle and sebastian but more lo-fi)
Red House Painters - "Between Days" (OK, it took a bit for the shuffle to warm up but now I'm in a good mood, 25 songs today since that's what Aquarium Drunkard threw out there, btw - the guy from this band, Mark Kozelek, is now the lead in Sun Kil Moon)
The Changes - "In the Dark"
Koko Taylor - "Wang Dang Doodle" (sneaking in some blues? um, nope take it back please, not today...although it is from World Cafe and a live version, kinda cool)
Sweater Girl - "Star" (sort of similar to Butterglory, unusual that these two bands would come up in the same shuffle)
Tracy Bonham - "Behind Every Good Woman" (is the song title the female version of Groucho Marx's quote "behind every good man is his wife...and behind her is his mistress"?)
The New Pornographers - "Letter from an Occupant" (Neko Case turned 40 this week, good for her, I'm not sure if she's a parent but if she is put her in the hall of fame of "parents who have not lost touch")
Liz Phair - "Stuck on a Island" (this is from a Matador Records compilation CD, this song was an outtake from White Chocolate Spaceegg and never released)
Nada Surf - "Where is My Mind?" (this is from a Pixies tribute album, BAD DAD Scotty will like this!) Saturday block party right? http://www.baddadband.com/
Athlete - "Airport Disco"
Badly Drawn Boy - "Bewilder" (not really a song, it's one of those interludes some bands like to use, so I'll put a real song from the album below, he has a new album coming out October 4th, It's What I'm Thinking)
They Might Be Giants - "Rabid Child"
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Calvin"
Friday, September 10, 2010
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Belle & Sebastian Song of the Day
Belle & Sebastian "Write About Love"
This indie pop Scottish band has been around for almost 15 years now and apparently they haven't lost their sound or their creative edge. I have a tendency to forget how much I like these guys, I think I have about 8 of their albums in my collection so they must be one of my favorites. Yep, now that I think about it, they are. It's kind of like a great restaurant that's been around for a long time, you get so caught up trying to keep up with the new places that you sometimes forget how great the old "great places" are and the next thing you know you haven't been there in a couple years. Which reminds me, when I last saw them live they praised on stage, Hot Doug's. That was back when it was still on Roscoe and not the California Ave. line around the block hipster encased meat "in" restaurant/hot dog stand that it is now. I think it's time for some duck fat fries this Friday, Hot Doug's has fallen off my radar, time to get it back on along with B&S.
So check out the new song from their album to be released October 12th. They posted it on Twitter yesterday as a free download to the first 20k people. I'm not sure how long that's going to last so you can either grab it from them or from this post.
It's an uptempo song, sounds pretty much like a lot of their stuff (which these days is refered to as twee) and features Carey Mulligan. She's one of the it girls in Hollywood right now, I saw her in An Education and she was great. I guess she can sing too.
or you can download it "officially" from their site here
It's been four years since they've toured, so if you want to check them out live, tour dates after the jump
This indie pop Scottish band has been around for almost 15 years now and apparently they haven't lost their sound or their creative edge. I have a tendency to forget how much I like these guys, I think I have about 8 of their albums in my collection so they must be one of my favorites. Yep, now that I think about it, they are. It's kind of like a great restaurant that's been around for a long time, you get so caught up trying to keep up with the new places that you sometimes forget how great the old "great places" are and the next thing you know you haven't been there in a couple years. Which reminds me, when I last saw them live they praised on stage, Hot Doug's. That was back when it was still on Roscoe and not the California Ave. line around the block hipster encased meat "in" restaurant/hot dog stand that it is now. I think it's time for some duck fat fries this Friday, Hot Doug's has fallen off my radar, time to get it back on along with B&S.
So check out the new song from their album to be released October 12th. They posted it on Twitter yesterday as a free download to the first 20k people. I'm not sure how long that's going to last so you can either grab it from them or from this post.
It's an uptempo song, sounds pretty much like a lot of their stuff (which these days is refered to as twee) and features Carey Mulligan. She's one of the it girls in Hollywood right now, I saw her in An Education and she was great. I guess she can sing too.
or you can download it "officially" from their site here
It's been four years since they've toured, so if you want to check them out live, tour dates after the jump
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
"F**K YOU!" song of the day
Cee-Lo Green "F**K YOU!"
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I'm guessing you won't be hearing this on the radio any time soon. But, wow what a great, catchy song! I really hope they don't have a version for radio that says something like "screw you", it just wouldn't be as hummable. I once worked a song from The Ying Yang Twins called "Wait (the whisper song)". The song, unedited, was straight forward about how big his dick was and that girls wouldn't be able to handle it. Not my proudest achievement. We edited it so much that you would never know what he was singing/whispering about unless you heard the original dirty version. It shot up the charts really, really fast and as soon as the people who would be offended by this sort of song (which is just about everybody) found out about the real version, it dropped off the charts just as fast.
This song is just a fun song that happens to use a dirty word in the hook. You probably know Cee-lo from Gnarls Barkley and the song "Crazy", which is his collaboration with Danger Mouse, who I recommended to you earlier for his new collabo with James Mercer from The Shins, called Broken Bells. Anyway, check it out and make sure you only play it when the kids aren't around.
I'm guessing you won't be hearing this on the radio any time soon. But, wow what a great, catchy song! I really hope they don't have a version for radio that says something like "screw you", it just wouldn't be as hummable. I once worked a song from The Ying Yang Twins called "Wait (the whisper song)". The song, unedited, was straight forward about how big his dick was and that girls wouldn't be able to handle it. Not my proudest achievement. We edited it so much that you would never know what he was singing/whispering about unless you heard the original dirty version. It shot up the charts really, really fast and as soon as the people who would be offended by this sort of song (which is just about everybody) found out about the real version, it dropped off the charts just as fast.
This song is just a fun song that happens to use a dirty word in the hook. You probably know Cee-lo from Gnarls Barkley and the song "Crazy", which is his collaboration with Danger Mouse, who I recommended to you earlier for his new collabo with James Mercer from The Shins, called Broken Bells. Anyway, check it out and make sure you only play it when the kids aren't around.
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