4,169 plays
Get Lucky (ft. Pharrell Williams) / Daft Punk
new Aimee Mann!
Lissie - Record Collector (Live on 89.3 The Current)
16,907 plays
“Maps is a classic. Stripped down it’s even more clear. Karen O’s pristine vocal shimmers when wrapped in a string arrangement.” - HappyParts
just got a bit dusty in here
10 plays
“I’ll be waiting with a gun and a pack of sandwiches.”
record player + tree rings = music
morning music
The Miles Davis / Drinkify suggestion is highly questionable at best.
Real musicians can make you dance to the saddest of songs.
If you had told me to name a band that wrote a song based on a John Irving novel, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have guessed Lagwagon, but here it is.
Thom Yorke with “How to disappear completely” lyrics.
This Is Not Okay
Esperanza Spalding won the Grammy for Best New Artist. That’s awesome. I’ve written probably 1000 words in this little box where I’m supposed to type letters only to delete them all. It’s all rage and disappointment.
Bieber fans: I understand that you’re disappointed that your boy didn’t win Best New Artist. You’re upset. I get it. But this is not okay:
Right now, “This is not okay” is the closest I can get to articulating my disappointment. I wonder if the person who tweeted that AT Esperanza Spalding understands the underlying racism in her message, or if she’s just being blatantly racist.
For everyone still wondering who Esperanza Spalding is, here she is performing at the White House.
My Favorite Albums of the Past 30 Years
A few days ago I reblogged this post by Stephon Johnson at Snare Drum Go about his favorite albums of the past 30 years. Before I post my own list, here’s an admission: 1980 was chosen because it’s close to my lifetime (I’m 27), it’s an nice even number, and so I could include Appetite for Destruction.
The conversation referenced in these tweets stemmed from thinking about Billy Corgan’s statement that people don’t listen to albums anymore because their “listening patterns have changed” and the fact that, when you play Appetite for Destruction from the beginning, those first few chords embrace you and even warn you that the next 53 minutes will be an audio experience, not just a group of unrelated songs. I started thinking about some of my favorite albums. Despite using the 1980 cutoff date, it was fun to not have a limit to how many albums could be included. The thought process of including/excluding albums became more about, as Stephon put it, albums that have had a lasting personal impact and even shaped the person I’ve become today. Unlike Stephon, I don’t have very much hip-hop on my list because I didn’t really get into hip-hop until fairly recently. I believe most of the albums on my list are from the mid- to late-nineties, since that’s when I was an angst-filled, music discovering teenager. I realize this a lot like those Facebook and email chains of “music that changed your life!” and whatnot, but I don’t care because I’ve been rediscovering some great music for the past week or so. On to the list!
1. Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
2. A Perfect Circle - Mer de Noms
3. Kanye West - The College Dropout
4. Tool - AEnema
5. The Toadies - Rubberneck
6. Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise!
7. Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
8. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple
9. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10. Radiohead - OK Computer
11. Michael Jackson - Thriller
12. Mars Volta - Deloused in the Crematorium
13. Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
14. Foo Fighters - The Coulour and the SHape
15. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
16. Jane’s Addiction - Nothing Shocking
17. Jimmy Eat World - Bleed American
18. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
20. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
21. Outkast - Stankonia
22. Outkast - The Love Below/Speakerboxx
23. Common - Be
24. The National - Boxer
25. The Faint - Danse Macabre
26. The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
27. Failure - Fantastic Planet
28. Gorillaz - Gorillaz
29. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
30. Aimee Mann - Magnolia soundtrack
31. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
32. Cake - Prolonging the Magic
33. Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
34. At the Drive In - Relationship of Command
35. The Strokes - Room on Fire
36. Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow
37. Reel Big Fish - Turn the Radio Off
38. Aesop Rock - Labor Days
39. Blackalicious - Blazing Arrow
40. Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
41. Bjork - Post
42. Deftones - White Pony
43. Prince - Purple Rain
44. Jay-Z - Black Album
45. Guster - Keep It Together
46. Everclear - Sparkle and Fade
47. Possum Dixon - New Sheets
48. Black Star - Black Star
49. Blind Melon - Soup
50. Yann Tiersen - Amélie soundtrack
51. Blackalicious - A2G EP
52. Ice Cube - The Predator
53. Aerosmith - Pump
54. The Strokes - Is This It
55. Postal Service - Give Up
56. Far - Water & Solutions
57. Live - Throwing Copper
58. Weezer - Weezer
59. Bare Jr - Boo-Tay
60. Dave Matthews - Under the Table and Dreaming
61. Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
62. Cat Power - The Greatest
63. The Toadies - Hell Below / Stars Above
64. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
65. Belle & Sebastian - Storytelling soundtrack
66. Pearl Jam - Vs.
67. Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies to Paralyze
68. Radiohead - The Bends
69. Temple of the Dog - Temple of the Dog
70. 2Pac - All Eyez on Me
71. The Faint - Blank Wave Arcade
72. Fiona Apple - Tidal
