A hot song for another hot day!
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I know for some people birthdays are exciting. Ever since (and including) when I turned 21, they've been a downer for me. Perhaps it is because my 21st was so pitiful. Now I'd rather just let them pass quietly. I'd probably stop celebrating my own at all if I could, but others seem to insist on marking the day. At least there are some presents and cake to sweeten the deal, and G did her best to ensure it was okay and not totally sucky. It kind of makes me laugh when people say "Happy Birthday", as if just saying the words would make it true.
Today is not my birthday though. It recently passed, though it is probably easy to guess. Chock full of descending minor chords, and with visions of a funeral like scene, the tone of this song is close to the tone I tend to feel on my birthday. Perhaps I'm just a birthday wet blanket at this point, but hopefully just for my own though. I'm glad it is a happy day for most people. It should be a day of celebrating being alive!
Show me the dirt pile
And I will pray that the soul can take
Three stowaways
In a passion it broke
I pull the black from the grey
But the soul can wait
I felt you so much today…
PS: Interpol recently came to town and I could've gone, but no one I asked was even a little interested in joining me. Shame on all of you! And shame on me for not just going on my own!
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Click here for more info on Interpol – Our Love To Admire – "Pioneer to the Falls".
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I keep hearing this song and thinking I need to share it with you all. It has a soothing quality.
Similar to what Daft Punk did with their video album for "Discovery", almost all the songs on One EskimO's debut album, "One EskimO", have an animated video that is part of a larger story entitled "The Adventures of One Eskimo". You can watch the whole thing here:
http://www.thewb.com/shows/one-eskimo/a-dream-revealed/7d6c9b26-7f09-4f3a-b3d0-86434bd50308
It is hardly an new idea to team up with animators to make videos (I'm also looking at you Gorillaz, Evil Nine, Radiohead and a slew of others I don't have time to list) but clearly it is a trend that is here to stay and I think adds something very cool and different to the musical arts!
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Click here for more info on One EskimO – One EskimO – "Astronauts".
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Some excellent blues rock, hot off the presses (released in May). After the Grammy Awards I had been fearful rock as dying, but as always, the real action rarely sees any awards show, and these guys give me hope.
Here is the "official video" but there is something ridiculously awesome about the dinosaur hand puppet singing and dancing to blues rock.
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Click here for more info on The Black Keys – Brothers – "Tighten Up".
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I interpret this video as a visualization of how a break up feels. Don't try this at home.
I re-enacted the video this morning during a breakup this morning (with some weeds, in the garden). I used a semi-automatic (trowel) and wore my best leather (gloves). Yeah. I'm a bad mother-fucker. Watch out or I'll bury (and compost) your ass!
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Click here for more info on The Dead Weather – Horehound – "Treat Me Like Your Mother".
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listen up the weekend is here
doesn't matter whether you dance
or sit back and open a beer
good times for you given the chance
…oh and those aren't song lyrics, just a little poem I wrote to celebrate the long weekend! The bass in this song rocks, doesn't it?
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Click here for more info on Gossip – Standing in the Way of Control – "Listen Up".
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I feel like some Regina Spektor this morning. Here is one of my favorites of her's.
Here is the "official" video, though the above one is the album version, and the one I know and I love most!
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Click here for more info on Regina Spektor – Begin to Hope – "Better".
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