Friday Filler

Some shit I've been listening to. Most of it's old news, but some's new, some's devil, some's lamp, and dem's the breaks. Listen. Then light. Yourself. On fire.

Foreign Born // Vacationing People
Watch for this album, Person To Person, coming out very soon. Promises to be quite swell.
Bad Veins // Dry Out
Kasabian // Fast Fuse
Guillemots // Clarion
Nine Inch Nails // Echoplex
Jaguar Love // Jaguar Pirates
Bastila // Heart(don't)Beat
Ladytron // Tomorrow
Metronomy // Holiday
M. Ward // Fisher Of Men
Shocking Pinks // I Want U Back
Human Highway // My Beach
The Walkmen // If Only It Were True
Beach House // Used To Be
Joy Division // Atmosphere

Five Songs I liked More Than Some Others In The Year 2008

This is ridiculous. A category like this is for the dogs and is way more pointless than my other top 5 post. So here it goes.


Apes & Androids - Hot Kathy
Oddly enough, the name suits the band perfectly. Bar none, my favorite song of the year. Haunting and epic at the same time.




Black Mountain - Bright Lights
The great thing about this song is that it's almost 7 hours long. Ok, 16 minutes, but there’s basically an entire rock opera involved.




The Teenagers - Homecoming
I had completely forgotten about this until I heard it in American Apparel the other day. Of course, that’s where I heard a song about fucking a virgin cheerleader. I think you have to take an "I don't care about things or stuff" quiz before you can work there. I just realized Mary Claire posted about this song recently. Double bonus.




The Phoenix Foundation - Hitchcock
From the film Eagle vs. Shark with Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords. The song and film are equally good. The bonus to all this is that the video for the song is as equally badass.


From Eagle vs. Shark


Hitchcock Video




The Notwist - Boneless
Is it no twist or not wist? Whatever it is, it’s good. This song kind of makes me want to jump off a building and graduate high school at the same time.




The Do - On My Shoulders
Wait. This is six. Who edited this thing? Modern Fleetwood Mac outfit. Or something.

Five Albums I Listened To More Than Others In The Year 2008

Top 5 lists are typically self-serving and worthless. So I thought I'd make one or two. I figured it's the worst I could do. Here you'll find five albums with bullshit descriptions next to them. Prepare for disappointment.

Right, right, there's no mention of Radiohead, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes, Beck and on and on. Rest assured, if I were the only person on Earth, they'd be here. Then again, if I were the only person on Earth, my top 5 would more likely be bark, sand, water, lettuce and chickens.



Kyle Andrews - Real Blasty
Nothing super different here, just some consistently catchy pop songs. Despair meets Shiny Happy People.

Polar Bear



Electric President - Sleep Well
This reminds me of what Grandaddy would have turned into if they decided to care. Wide range of sounds, but all fairly melodic and in need of Prozac. Call me crazy (you always do), but I hear some Beach Boys in this song.

All the Bones



The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
From synthesized pop to bluesy folk guitar to modern pop rock. It's all pretty good. Some of this reminds me of Doves before they disappeared off the face of the planet. I'm goin' with the title track here 'cause I'm that much of an asshole.

Keep Your Eyes Ahead



The Mystery Jets - Twenty One
For some reason, I don't think they ever released this album in the states. It has the new eighties thing going for it, but it's not as repetitive as a lot of the newer stuff can be. I give it a C+. I mean A, it gets an A. This song has a bit of Oingo Boingo in it.

MJ



Detektivbyrån - E18 Album
If you like hardcore music box, this will be gold for you. E18 Album would be the perfect soundtrack for an animated French film where everyone ended up dying from a mysterious disease caused by human boredom. Their second album of the year is basically the same thing, but with more of a Trans- Siberian Orchestra flare to it. This one gets an E for Err.

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