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I really like this song by Graffiti6. I had saw a review say it sounds like nothing they had ever heard before, but I think it is quite the opposite. It is little psychedelic, folky, and pop rock, with spashes of soul, all mishmashed. Yet, I strain for a prefect match.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Angus & Julia Stone
• Fleet Foxes
• Tame Impala

I also suggest the music genre:

• Psychedelic Rock

Click here for more info on Graffiti6 – Colours – "Annie You Save Me".

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Graffiti6 - Colours

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxvf7gR4-2M

2010 was a good year for music. Some of you may have noticed the 2010 songs are rolling out from TSotD now! While hunting around for what songs to end and start the year with, I had considered this good one from Tame Impala from Australia. More to come!

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• The Black Angels
• Dirty Little Rabbits
• Yes

I also suggest the music genre:

• Psychedelic Rock

Click here for more info on Tame Impala – Innerspeaker – "Solitude is Bliss".

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Tame Impala - Innerspeaker

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvKjpGP6P5Y

I've been a little sick the past week, but unable to take any days off because I have to finish a project related to studying influenza. Ironic, no? This song has a nice "dragging my sick ass through the day" pace and is nice and dark for the coming end.

…I mean the end of the month, Halloween, of course.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• The Black Keys
• The Dead Weather
• The Doors

I also suggest the music genre:

• Neo-psychedelia

Click here for more info on The Black Angels – Passover – "Young Men Dead".

The MP3 may be purchased here…

The Black Angels - Passover

Like the sunset on a summer's night… Like a dream… Like a slow dance with the one you love… Like the perfect song at the end of the day.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Julee Cruise
• Silversun Pickups
• The Sundays

I also suggest the music genre:

• Dream Pop

Click here for more info on Mazzy Star – So Tonight That I Might See – "Fade Into You".

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Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See

G sometimes tires of people in general. I know this because she'll yell at them from within the car, even if the windows are closed and there isn't any way they could possibly hear the reasons they are bad and why they should will themselves out of existance. I'm not talking suicide, just *poof* you're there one moment, you're gone the next. Unfortunately it frequently sounds more like she is yelling at me even though I am sitting quietly and tired from a long week. It is no wonder I had a dream last night that we had decided to move to a house in the forest, not another person or house in sight. Deer came to greet us at the windows. I could see the benefits but even in my dream I knew I would miss our old house, and even some sense of being part of a community in some way. Mostly I was lamenting that the "new" house was actually in need of a lot of work and investment. Ceilings coated with wallpaper that disintegrated at the touch. Plaster help up by tape. I knew it had to be a dream though because the smell was of mold and old people. G would never have accepted those smells. And yet perhaps it was not a dream about moving at all.

Perhaps it was just us, getting older. Stiffer and less patient with a touch of grey.

That was all I had to say
And it's all right
I will get by
I will survive
We will get by
We will survive

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Crosby, Stills & Nash
• Pink Floyd
• The Steve Miller Band

I also suggest the music genre:

• Blues Rock

Click here for more info on Grateful Dead – In the Dark – "Touch of Grey".

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Grateful Dead - In the Dark

www.youtube.com/watch?v=byeSPOIffVE

I took a generic antihistamine. That was last night. I am still out of it, but this song seems all the more brilliant. Hopefully I'll be a little less "psychedelic" before I hop in the car to go to work.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Jethro Tull
• The Moody Blues
• Rush

I also suggest the music genre:

• Psychedelic Rock

Click here for more info on Yes – Fragile – "Roundabout".

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Yes - Fragile

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y070Q8HMyJ0

This song is representative of what Dirty Little Rabbits is. It sounds like a mesh of different styles (e.g. the opening where it is like Bjork and As I Lay Dying got together) and it is indeed the coming together of a few people who already had other musical careers, including Stella Soleil and Shawn Crahan of Slipknot. I think it is a great idea. Once you've made a certain kind of music for a while, working with others will bring out other qualities and the end result will be something new, instead of the same old same old. I like it!

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• As I Lay Dying
• Bjork
• Fun

I also suggest the music genre:

• Indie Rock

Click here for more info on Dirty Little Rabbits – Breeding – "Hello".

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Dirty Little Rabbits - Breeding

Occasionally I like to turn on my random 80s one-hit-wonders playlist. It includes songs like Franky Goes To Hollywood's "Relax", Tommy Tutone's "867-5309", and Nena's "99 Luft Balloons". Good stuff.

Somehow this song "In The Darkness" by Orchards & Vines ended up in the list even though it is not from the 80s. I thought it odd. I ask G if she knew about it or the band. Nope. So I search YouTube for "Orchards & Vines". Nothing. It materialized apparently. What is also odd is how little information about them is on the Internet. All I can find of substance are some rave reviews (like this one), the Orchards & Vines website and MySpace page, and the place on Amazon where their album, "Tomorrow's Yesterday", was sold, once upon a time. No Wikipedia page. Weird.

It is as though the band disappeared, and the album with it. However there is no indication of this Jefferson Airplane like band disbanding. There is even a mention of new albums being in the works but the only date to cling to is the 2009 copyright at the bottom of the website. Did singer Cindy Tomlinson and the band memebers Ted Koppman, Elinor Harshenin, Jesse Cullen and Ron Mann all just fall off the face of the planet? I have no idea. They are from Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. Perhaps they are at the Olympics?

I have to wonder though, how many bands that did not score radio time and whose album failed to earn much for their record label, just kind of fade away? I suppose some bands are destined to be forgotten, unable to grasp the great success they had hoped for. I'd like to believe this one should not be one of them.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Jefferson Airplane
• Sonic Youth
• Trifonic

I also suggest the music genre:

• Psychedelic Rock

Click here for more info on Orchards & Vines – Tomorrow's Yesterday – "In The Darkness".

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Orchards & Vines - Tomorrow's Yesterday

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq9sMsd7Qdg

Not a moment of downtime yesterday. It sucks. Perhaps I should steal a cheesecake truck, leave town, and start over. I wonder how one might go about that. I wonder if I can find a song to guide me?

….and apparently my tired state prevents me from being able to spell "cheesecake" and "missile". I misspelled every instance and had to up them all. Some twice! Oi! I don't know what a "chescale missle" is, but it is not right.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Colorblind James Experience
• The Pixies
• They Might Be Giants

I also suggest the music genre:

• Spoken Word

Click here for more info on King Missile – Mystical Shit – "Cheesecake Truck".

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King Missile - Mystical Shit

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CY5IEsms6ck

Today is the last day of "vacation". My next day off is possibly not until May. Ouch. At least it is Sunday though.

Sunday comes alone again
a perfect day for a quiet friend
…
i guess its true its never too late
still i don’t know what to do today
…
sunday comes and sunday goes
sunday always seems to move so slow
…
to you – lonely sunday friend
with you – sunday never ends

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Foo Fighters
• The Pixies
• Smashing Pumpkins

I also suggest the music genre:

• Psychedelic Rock

Click here for more info on Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves – "Sunday".

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Sonic Youth - A Thousand Leaves

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZeqwdWoeo

I have read different interpretations of this song. Some say it is about Eric Clapton's cocaine habit back in the 60s. Others say it relates to the Vietnam War. I think it is just about lost and lonely people, wandering the shadows. Great song whatever Cream intended.

Oh also during the line "Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows" I keep hearing it as "Platform dickhead". Perhaps it is just me?

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• The Doors
• Jefferson Airplane
• Led Zeppelin

I also suggest the music genre:

• Acid Rock

Click here for more info on Cream – Wheels of Fire – "White Room".

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Cream - Wheels of Fire

www.youtube.com/watch?v=adOP3OC8njg

I actually worked for music once. I did some web development for a guy who was into writing critiques for Indie music. A writer by trade, I'm sure he'd laugh at this blog. Whatever. I am not here to bore you with 10 paragraphs for each and every song or to rip apart artists who are just starting out, or that I do not like. I want to share the song with you, give you my 2 cents, and then move on! No critique other than "Hey man, this is good stuff! I think you should hear it!"

Anyway, working for CDs was hardly worth it in retrospect. He clearly gave me a bunch of albums that were "thumbs down" material. I eventually had to tell him I was not interested in working with him because he was: A. only interested in unknown and obscure Indie music (it was his niche) and B. never ever going to be able to compensate me for the serious amounts of time I had put in. I know we need guys like him to filter out what is good and what is not, but we clearly had some artistic differences. When I "quit", I ended up with a fistful of CDs that I did not care for at all. Baïkonour was the one exception though and I always thought this song stuck out.

Song Recommendations

If you like this song, I also suggest:

• Brian Eno
• Jaffa
• Morcheeba

I also suggest the music genre:

• Electronica

Click here for more info on Baïkonour – For the Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos – "Colton Anyone".

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Baïkonour - For the Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos