12.31.2010

Headphones Recommended: Chillax, yo.

This is for one of those days where low-key/down tempo is what the mood calls for. So turn off your lights (& light some candles if you like...me, I'm more of a lava lamp person), & just chill out from the day.



Playlist:
1) Built To Spill | Things Fall Apart | There Is No Enemy
2) Mazzy Star | Fade Into You | So Tonight That I Might See
3) Au Revoir Simone | Another Likely Story | Still Night, Still Light
4) PJ Harvey | The Desperate Kingdom of Love | Uh Huh Her
5) Spoon | I Saw the Light | Transference
6) Death Cab For Cutie | Your New Twin Sized Bed | Narrow Stairs
7) Lucinda Williams | Knowing | Little Honey
8) The Duchess & The Duke | New Shadow | Sunset / Sunrise
9) Halou | Present Tense | We Only Love You (Edition Two)
10) The Cave Singers | Called | Invitation Songs
11) Mary Lou Lord | By the Time It Gets Dark | Live City Sounds
12) Joseph Arthur | Even Tho | Our Shadows Will Remain
13) Neko Case | Prison Girls | Middle Cyclone
14) Monsters of Folk | Map of the World | Monsters Of Folk
15) Wreckless Eric & Amy Rigby | I Still Miss Someone | Wreckless Eric And Amy Rigby
16) Lykke Li | Window Blues | Youth Novels
17) Ani Difranco | Callous | Knuckle Down
18) The Rolling Stones | Sympathy For the Devil | Beggars Banquet

Some songs contain cuss'n. If it offends, don't listen.

Cheers!

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Headphones Recommended: The 12.10.10 Soundtrack
Headphones Recommended: Great Songs From Fave Bands

12.13.2010

Headphones Recommended: The 12.10.10 Soundtrack

It is no secret that I have many issues with iTunes and their iPod shuffle. A blog post all in itself for sure. However, every once in awhile the tracks that surface from the pool of 650 - 725 (limited to an 8GB phone unfortunately) are in sync w/ what I want/need to hear. This happened to me on 12-10-10. All but 5 tracks are essentially my porch smoking, bus riding, & walking soundtrack from the 10th. ...& of those 5 exceptions, 2 were from the 9th.

What I am truly excited about this particular compilation is all albums included were acquired w/n the last 2 weeks. Thanks to the SPL, I pick up 13-18 new albums a week. Not to mention, Amazon.com's MP3 store has dozens of free samplers from dozens of labels. Between those 2 sources, there has been plenty of new music to explore. Exploring that culminated into an incredible mix of music on the 10th.

It was a good day.


What you're listening too...
1) Dead Weather | Bone House | Horehound
2) Them Crooked Vultures | Interlude With Ludes | Them Crooked Vultures
3) Bright Eyes | Gold Mine Gutted | Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
4) Antlers | Epilogue | Hospice
5) Elbow | Not A Job | Cast Of Thousands
6) Massive Attack | Special Cases | 100th Window
7) Hacienda | She's Got A Hold On Me | Loud is the Night (From the Alive Records 2009 Sampler)
8) Honeychild Coleman | Never Goin' Home | Halo Inside (Come La Luna) (from the Boldaslove.us Presents: Fire In The Dark sampler)
9) Strokes | The Modern Age | Is This It?
10) Xx | Shelter | xx
11) Helio Sequence | Lately | Keep Your Eyes Ahead
12) Robyn Hitchcock | N.Y. Doll | Olé! Tarantula
13) Say Hi | Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh | Oohs & Aahs (from the Barsuk Records: 2009 Amazon Digital Sampler)
14) Dog Faced Hermans | Les femmes et les filles vont danser | Those Deep Buds
15) Twilight Sad | The Neighbours Can't Breathe | Forget the Night Ahead
16) Pinback | 3x0 | Summer In Abaddon
17) Camera Obscura | You Told A Lie | My Maudlin Career
18) Heavy Trash | That Ain't Right | Going Way Out With Heavy Trash
19) Metric | Raw Sugar | Grow Up and Blow Away
20) White Stripes | A Martyr For My Love For You | Icky Thump
21) Nada Surf | Blankest Year | The Weight Is A Gift

Just so you're warned, some songs contain words which people who don't live in the real world might find offensive. So if you don't like cuss'n, then don't listen.

Cheers!

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Headphones Recommended: Great Songs From Fave Bands

11.22.2010

Headphones Recommended: Great Songs From Fave Bands



Been thinking and talking about doing this for awhile now, and finally got around to publishing the first ever Casual Rants music compilation podcast. It isn't completed...yet. Still have yet to hunt down and gather the cover art for each track. Nevermind that I have said cover art on itunes, but can't figure out how to access it...yet.

Like the title says, this is a collection of great songs from some of my favorite bands. It is actually part 1. I want to maintain a compilation format, so am limiting myself to the 1.2 hour length available on a CD-R. Initial cut of this almost doubled the time limit. Soooo, part 2 is on its way! Only real changes I made is Johnny Cash's version of Hurt closes this installment, & I added a couple of recent discoveries who are blowing my mind to the second installment.

The Lineup:
1) Sleater-Kinney | One Beat | One Beat
2) Death Cab For Cutie | Bixby Canyon Bridge | Narrow Stairs
3) Built to Spill | Out of Sight | Perfect From Now On
4) Massive Attack | Angel | Mezzanine
5) Silversun Pickups | The Royal We | Swoon
6) Tegan and Sara | The Cure | Sainthood
7) Alabama 3 (aka: A3) | U Don't Dance To Tekno Anymore | Exile On Coldharbour Lane
8) Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Midnight Man | Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
9) NoMeansNo | Machine | Why Do They Call Me Mr Happy?
10) Primus (feat. Tom Waits) | Tommy the Cat | Sailing The Seas Of Cheese
11) Lucinda Williams | Atonement | World Without Tears
12) Pixies | Subbacultcha | Trompe Le Monde
13) Neko Case | Hold On, Hold On | Fox Confessor Brings The Flood
14) Jane's Addiction | Of Course | Ritual De Lo Habitual
15) Fruit Bats | When U Love Somebody | Mouthfuls
16) Ani Difranco | Seeing Eye Dog | Knuckle Down
17) Johnny Cash | Hurt | American IV Man Comes Around

Headphones recommended. Hope y'all enjoy!

Cheers!