First Half Movies, 2007

Based entirely on arbitrary criteria, here is my list for the first half of 2007. As I've done before, "Not necessarily the ten that I enjoyed the most, but the ten that I would make you watch if I could, perhaps the ten I would program if I had a film series." They are unordered.
  • The Ipcress File [Sidney J. Furie, 1965]
  • Woman on the Beach [Hong Sang-soo, 2006]
  • Killer of Sheep [Charles Burnett, 1977]
  • Exiled [Johnnie To, 2006]
  • Zoo [Robinson Devor, 2007]
  • The Boss of It All [Lars von Trier, 2007]
  • Mister Roberts [John Ford/Joshua Logan, 1955]
  • Memories of Murder [Bong Joon-ho, 2003]
  • Once Upon a Time in the West [Sergio Leone, 1968]
  • My Darling Clementine [John Ford, 1946]

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21st Five Films, 2007

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Donovan's Reef (John Ford) as part of MoMA's John Wayne series. A rather old Marcel Dalio appears in one of the most boring minor roles ever written for the screen. Lee Marvin has a similarly, shamefully small role, but plays it to the hilt and steals every scene he's in, relishing the mayhem he causes every bit as much as when he plays the titular villain in Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. Wayne's just a bit too crusty and old to be wooing anyone, particularly a 22-year old. If you feel like seeing a John Ford film depicting shenanigans in the south Pacific, choose Mister Roberts instead.
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El Dorado (Howard Hawks) as part of MoMA's John Wayne series. My second favorite John Wayne role (see below), and fine support from Robert Mitchum, one of Hollywood's great voices, and a very young James Caan. I really like the tone Hawks takes here, witty and at times hilarious, but not goofy. Everybody plays it cool, even when getting shot, but the acting isn't really ironic or cynical. Even the theme song is pretty great.

Also, it's been dawning on me as I see more and more westerns how nice it is to have so many common generic conventions, as it lets the story move much more quickly. We don't need a whole back story telling us that the cowboy and the lonesome woman once had a relationship and, though they rarely see each other anymore, the torch still burns. We know the town is rife with outlaws and the sheriff is fallible but good at heart. A filmmaker can jump right into specifics without taking the time to construct psychological support for the actions his characters will take later, because we already understand the psychology of the prototypical hero, anti-hero, deputy sheriff, cattle rustler, etc.
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The Last Sunset (Robert Aldrich) at BAM. I'm conflicted about whether this is really a top-tier western for me or not. Kirk Douglas is awesomely tough as always, and the uncommon poetic interludes come off far better than I'd have guessed. But I really don't get the appeal of Dorothy Malone, and in general the story feels slightly sparse, maybe because the focus here is more on the love story than on the specifics of the cattle drive. The programmers praised the cinematography in their introduction, but it didn't seem that special. Maybe a restored print would better reveal the director's handiwork, but then I really didn't like Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly nearly as much as I'd expected from it's critical reputation either.
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The Searchers (John Ford) as part of MoMA's John Wayne series. I've read and heard so much about this film that, while it was apparent throughout that this was one of the greatest films I've ever seen, I also failed to register much of a personal reaction. Visually striking in incredibly lurid Technicolor. The domestic scenes are far more interesting and funny and real and fleshed-out than a lot of what you get in most westerns, for a variety of reasons. I have no problem with the assertion that this is not only John Wayne's greatest role, but one of the classic American performances of all time. Not that it's necessarily that different from what he does elsewhere, but his stubborn, reactionary sarcasm, masking a more complex set of inner drives and feelings that he's violently unwilling to discuss or perhaps even consider himself, just seems exactly right in every scene. I recall thinking that this was supposed to be unremittingly dark and savage, but for the most part it's good-natured with a lot of humor, though there are dark spots.

As an afterthought, I'll add that John Wayne's good friend and arch-conservative Ward Bond (here he plays Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton) is one of my few very favorite character actors, although he has the unfair advantage of being in basically everything. He has 271 credits on IMDb over a span of 30 years and apparently appeared in 30 movies in 1935 alone.
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The Show Must Go On (Han Jae-rim) at the IFC Center for the New York Asian Film Festival. Song Kang-ho here exhibits the same brilliant befuddledness and inner frustration that mark his performances for Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host). He plays a hapless gangster trying his best to provide for his family despite inept and ungrateful associates and several dangerous rivals. A plot synopsis would probably look pretty bleak, but Han plays the hardships for laughs, albeit tastefully--we're not talking Todd Solondz here, or anything.
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20th Five Films, 2007

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12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu) at Film Forum. They handed out a few DVDs of the director's short film, Liviu's Dream, beforehand--this is his first feature. I got a copy but haven't seen it yet. The feature is hilarious and paced more briskly from what I'd expected per the reviews. While the recording of the television show is funny in a lot of ways, for my money the firecracker gag is the best.
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They Were Expendable (John Ford) as part of MoMA's John Wayne series. Includes some beautifully evocative shots with great lighting, particularly in the first half. The best image might be John Wayne and Donna Reed silhouetted on the porch after the dinner party, although their scene at the dance is perhaps more interesting. I didn't really like how peripheral the love story was, though that could have been helped by chopping of 15-20 minutes of the last half of the film. The visual parallel between the hospital and the rescue plane (an otherworldly or underworldly tunnel of unpleasant escape) was also nice.
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Dog Bite Dog (Soi Cheang) at the IFC Center for the New York Asian Film Festival. Nasty, brutally nihilistic, and very loud. it's also rather thrilling with moments of effective but extremely dark comedy. Bizarre, distended epilogue. Not sure I could or would stomach this again.
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Hard Boiled (John Woo) in a 15th anniversary screening at the IFC Center for the New York Asian Film Festival. I think this might have been partly sponsored by the producers of the videogame sequel Stranglehold, that's supposed to come out later this year. It's impressive to note how much more compressed the sound is in this compared to Dog Bite Dog. The gunshots in that movie are so loud as to provide a new shock time each time you hear one, but in Hard Boiled they play at roughly the same volume as the dialogue. This, though, is loads more fun, more action packed, and certainly more physically dazzling. I think at least half of the two hour running time is devoted to gun battles--IMDb lists the bodycount at 230. Also, bonus points for a mob hit taking place in the library.
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Manderlay (Lars von Trier) at home on DVD. Critics complained a lot about the bizarre racial commentary here, but I think it's just not as good a film as Dogville. That film felt more densely packed with story, more fable-like, whereas here the focus is somewhat more on the expressions actors, who aren't given great lines and seem to speak them all sotto voce. I don't quite understand why anyone involved felt all dialogue needed to be delivered at or just above a whisper, but it got maddening very quickly.

J. Hoberman: "Dogville was an allegory as elemental and slippery as the songs of John Wesley Harding. Manderlay is far less ambiguous." As I've always been a sucker for allegory, this could be a big reason for such different reaction to a pair of films with so many similarities.

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The Pool Party, Movie-style

In a copy of The L Magazine that I picked up today at BAM, I noticed their summer screening series at McCarren Park Pool includes Night of the Hunter, near the top of my list of older American films to see, and Dazed & Confused, which I am very excited to watch outside on hot summer night as part of what will likely be a hilariously inebriated mass of hipsters.

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Midsummer Meander

Well, that didn't take long. I filled in a rough draft of this thing in Ableton last night and then mixed it live tonight. Mostly the DJing consists of basic transitioning from track to track, though I did take advantage of the equalizer a bit here and there, isolating the bass or cutting the midrange, what have you. I could imagine really killing it in this fashion on a radio show; it'd be a much easier method than I was employing in 2005 (burning tracks to a pair of discs with notes on how to mix them togeter) and probably a better-sounding one as well.

It's mostly easy-going minimal of various shades and stripes. With thought-provoking album art as usual. Largely stuff released this year, but not necessarily a "best-of" compilation.

01 Reinhard Voigt "Charge Your Dreams" [Kompakt]
02 Pantha du Prince "Asha" [Dial]
03 Bebel Gilberto "Bring Back the Love (Prins Thomas Miks)" [Ziriguiboom]
04 Junior Boys "FM (Marsen Jules Remix)" [Domino]
05 Eluvium "Ostinato" [Temporary Residence]
06 Shackleton "Blood on My Hands" [Skull Disco]
07 Junior Boys "Like a Child (Kode 9 Carl Craig Remix)" [Domino]
08 Loco Dice "Paradiso" [Cadenza]
09 Ripperton "10a" [Liebe*detail]
10 Stardiver "Another Moment of Silence" [Kompakt Extra]

"Midsummer Meander" (1:00:01, 72 Mb)

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Slapdash

I grabbed a copy of Ableton Live 6 this past Saturday and was at first dumbfounded as to how to use it, even after a few of the explanatory "Lessons" that are included.

I think I've got a pretty good grasp on how to mix with it now, though, so I'm hoping to put together some projects in the near future. I haven't really been able to mix music properly since leaving the radio station over two years ago, so this feels really nice.

It seemed necessary to slap together some sort of audio confection just to prove to myself that I have some idea of what I'm doing, so, exploiting the beatmatching and crossfading features I matched up Antony & The Johnsons with the Arctic Monkeys, mostly because they both start with the letter A.

"Antony & The Arctic Monkeys" (2.5 Mb)

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Past Capacity

It was kind of nice to see this report on subway crowding in the news today. Not that any real solutions are suggested, but it's sort of comforting to have confirmation that it's not just me, but that my trains really are the most crowded in the morning.

It makes me more inclined to take the orange and yellow lines when possible, which I've been doing lately, as they have a view from the Manhattan bridge, slightly higher ceilings, and far emptier cars. If only I could reliably close the gap between Atlantic Avenue and my apartment, I'd be set.

19th Five Films, 2007

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Before Sunset (Richard Linklater) at home on DVD. I mostly listened to this away from the television, but I don't think it really suffered much. I've got nothing to say about it, but I wonder what might Linklater's next project(s) be?
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Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard) at BAM with Kevin. As I said afterwards, actually watching Godard's movies is an exhausting experience because they're so crammed with ideas, but that just means they're more fun and more fruitful to think about afterward than almost anything else.
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Mata Hari (George Fitzmaurice) at MoMA. I mostly watched this because I needed to kill some time in Manhattan before Panda Bear played at the Bowery Ballroom, but I also thought I saw that it starred Greta Garbo and John Barrymore. It turned out to be Garbo and LIONEL Barrymore, who I've really never liked much, and this did not sway my opinion.

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The Big Trail (Raoul Walsh) at MoMA as part of the John Wayne 100th Birthday series. This is an interesting film mainly because it's Wayne's first starring role and because it was one of three movies shot in Fox's experimental widescreen process, Grandeurscope, way before that sort of thing became standard. However, neither Wayne nor the other actors are all that interesting, and basically Walsh just sets the camera up far enough away to capture all members of a scene and lets them play it out within the frame. This is not a case of particularly artful use of the long shot, but rather an inability to provide much interest with the camera. The lack of close-ups or really any variable viewpoint hurts an already kind of wooden film.
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The Proposition (John Hillcoat) at home on DVD. I think this is as good an example as any of why I'm often hesitant to bother with contemporary westerns. The visual focus is on the grime and the gore and the general filth of frontier living, although there is a bit of attention paid to landscape. Generally, I take pleasure in the laconic and taciturn nature of the western heroes, the aestheticized western landscape, and the interesting variety of male companionship rarely done as well in other genres, but there's also something about the tone and the pace of, say, My Darling Clementine, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, or Monte Walsh, to name a few I've watched this year, that isn't often by shared by more recent projects, although Kevin Costner's Open Range is a notable exception.

I was surprised by how little the characters were developed over 104 minutse, although there were a lot of them. Thus, the final shootout felt more like another in a series of gruesomely mundane events, rather than a climax. It did include one hilarious quote, however: "<1> A misanthrope is someone who hates humankind. <2> Are we misanthopes? <1> Lord no, we're a family!"
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Rainout

I was hoping to hear Richard Thompson play tonight in Prospect Park. Even with storms in the forecast, the early evening news claimed they'd have passed through by 7:30 pm. But as it's past 8:30 with the second round of lightning and thunder just now strengthening I doubt I'll venture out.

I'm pretty sure this is at least the fourth time I've missed a Richard Thompson show, which is one more than I'd logged for the Clientele prior to a couple weeks ago. While I'll still put LCD Soundsystem at the top of my list of acts unseen (hopefully I'll get to rectify that at the as-yet-unannounced New York date this fall with the Arcade Fire), I've probably not gone to more Richard Thompson shows than I've not gone to for anyone else. A dubious distinction, to be sure.

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18th Five Films, 2007

This is probably my favorite crop of five so far.

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Mala Noche (Gus Van Sant) at the IFC Center. Grainy and very dimly lit, though in a thoughtful rather than a slapdash fashion. Another (the first, actually) of Van Sant's young hustlers, though much of the time the film is dealing with the question of who is exploiting whom exactly--slumming white native versus opportunistic Mexican immigrant.
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The Boss of It All (Lars von Trier) at the IFC Center. This film contains possibly the most hilariously absurd ending I know of. Edited in computer-directed Automavision (seemingly random cuts to slightly different shots within scenes) and shot almost entirely in an antiseptic office environment, it's about as far as you can get from beautiful, but that fits the ugly behavior. The narrative is based on the idea that the head of some software company hates to be disliked and thus created the imaginary titular figurehead to take all the blame. He finds an actor to play the role when it's time to sell the company, though the actor becomes much more emotionally involved than either party planned on. Von Trier makes very clever use of omniscient voiceovers in a few key places, hypermediating the experience for us.
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The White Dog (Sam Fuller) at MoMI. I got the sense that, apart from The Big Red One, I'm not really that into Fuller, even his pretty good stuff.
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The Big Red One (Sam Fuller) at MoMI. The rest of his films I've seen are written, shot, acted, and edited for maximum impact, but here Fuller attempts to pull back from the fast and furious violence of the traditional war picture by interweaving the monotony and the fearsome excitement of World War II. None of the performances stood out to me except Lee Marvin's, but it was a nice ensemble and the wry dialogue conveys the message ("the only glory in war is surviving") indirectly very well in both tone and content.
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Exiled (Johnnie To) at MoMI for a Stylus review. This doesn't get a theatrical release until August 24, so the review probably won't be up for a while. Basically it's a great gangster movie (I enjoyed it more than either Election or Triad Election) with a solid sense of humor and full of humane detail.
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Overload

Recently I've stumbled on a few more events upcoming this summer, including the New York Asian Film Festival, which starts Saturday.

As I try to do periodically, I compiled what I could tonight into a list and it's rather stunning. In addition to the eighteen outdoor concerts still to come before Labor Day, we have retrospective upon retrospective: Kino, Rialto, Chabrol, Aldrich, John Wayne, etc.

Here, then, are just the events taking place on Saturday and Sunday, June 30 & July 1.
  • Chaplin's The Great Dictator (Lincoln Center)
  • Von Sternberg's Morocco (MoMA)
  • DFA Party (Tim & Tim, The Juan Maclean, Shit Robot) (MoMA PS 1)
  • Cukor's The Marrying Kind (MoMA)
  • Hawks' El Dorado (MoMA)
  • Chabrol's Les Bonnes femmes (Lincoln Center)
  • Park Chan-wook's I'm a Cyborg but That's O.K. (NYAFF)
  • Wong Kar-wai's Fallen Angels (Lincoln Center)
  • Kim Dae-sung's Traces of Love (NYAFF)
  • Chaplin's Modern Times (MoMA)
  • Cronenberg's Rabid (MoMI)
  • Rodrigo y Gabriela (Central Park Summerstage)
  • Zyvagintsev's The Return (Lincoln Center)
  • Raul Ruiz's Time Regained (Lincoln Center)
  • Lee Jeong-beom's Cruel Winter Blues (NYAFF)

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Top 1125 Songs of All Time

Note: This list consists only of what's currently in my collection, so we should probably add at least another 250 that I wouldn't be able to list even if I tried real hard.

Air “Venus”
Air “Run”
Air “Alone in Kyoto”
Alison Krauss “Down to the River to Pray”
Alison Krauss & Gillian Welch “I'll Fly Away”
The Alley Cats “Puddin’ n’ Tain”
Andy Stott “Handle with Care”
Animal Collective “Did You See the Words”
Animal Collective “Grass”
Animal Collective “People”
Animal Collective “Who Could Win a Rabbit”
Annie “Chewing Gum”
Annie “Heartbeat”
Annie “Happy Without You”
Annie “The Greatest Hit”
Antony and The Johnsons “Hope There's Someone”
Aphex Twin “Fingerbib”
Aphex Twin “Xtal”
Aphex Twin “Ageispolis”
Aphex Twin “Actium”
Appleblim “Vansan”
The Arcade Fire “Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels)”
The Arcade Fire “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out)”
The Arcade Fire “Crown of Love”
The Arcade Fire “Wake Up”
The Arcade Fire “Rebellion (Lies)”
The Arcade Fire “In the Backseat”
The Arcade Fire “Keep the Car Running”
The Arcade Fire “Antichrist Television Blues”
Arctic Monkeys “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor”
Aretha Franklin “Do Right Woman, Do Right Man”
Art Brut “Formed a Band”
Art Brut “My Little Brother”
Art Brut “Emily Kane”
Art Brut “Good Weekend”
Asobi Seksu “New Years”
At the Drive-In “One Armed Scissor”
Audio Werner “Flatfunk”
Audion “I Gave You Away”
Audion “Mouth to Mouth”
Avenue D “2D2F”
Badly Drawn Boy “The Shining”
Badly Drawn Boy “Pissing in the Wind”
Band of Horses “The Funeral”
Band of Horses “The Great Salt Lake”
The Beach Boys “Surfin Safari”
The Beach Boys “409”
The Beach Boys “Surfin USA”
The Beach Boys “Fun, Fun, Fun”
The Beach Boys “Do You Wanna Dance”
The Beach Boys “California Girls”
The Beach Boys “Barbara Ann”
The Beach Boys “Wouldn't It Be Nice”
The Beach Boys “God Only Knows”
Beachwood Sparks “You Take The Gold”
Beachwood Sparks “By Your Side”
Beastie Boys “Intergalactic”
Beastie Boys “Root Down”
Beastie Boys “Girls”
Beastie Boys “Fight For Your Right”
Beastie Boys “Brass Monkey”
The Beatles “Love Me Do”
The Beatles “Please Please Me”
The Beatles “From Me To You”
The Beatles “I Want To Hold Your Hand”
The Beatles “All My Loving”
The Beatles “Can't Buy Me Love”
The Beatles “A Hard Day's Night”
The Beatles “And I Love Her”
The Beatles “Ticket To Ride”
The Beatles “Yesterday”
The Beatles “Help!”
The Beatles “You've Got To Hide Your Love Away”
The Beatles “Day Tripper”
The Beatles “Strawberry Fields Forever”
The Beatles “Lady Madonna”
The Beatles “Hey Jude”
The Beatles “Revolution”
The Beatles “Get Back”
The Beatles “Don't Let Me Down”
The Beatles “Let It Be”
The Beatles “Come Together”
The Beatles “Octopus's Garden”
The Beatles “Her Majesty”
The Beatles “A Day In The Life”
The Beatles “Back In The U.S.S.R.”
The Beatles “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
The Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”
The Beatles “Happiness Is A Warm Gun”
The Beatles “Blackbird”
Bebel Gilberto “Bring Back the Love (Prins Thomas Remix)”
Belle & Sebastian “The Stars of Track and Field”
Belle & Sebastian “Me and the Major”
Belle & Sebastian “Like Dylan in the Movies”
Belle & Sebastian “Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying”
Belle & Sebastian “If You're Feeling Sinister”
Belle & Sebastian “Judy and the Dream of Horses”
Belle & Sebastian “The State I Am In”
Belle & Sebastian “Sleep The Clock Around”
Belle & Sebastian “Is It Wicked Not To Care?”
Belle & Sebastian “The Boy With The Arab Strap”
Belle & Sebastian “Expectations”
Belle & Sebastian “She's Losing It”
Belle & Sebastian “I Don't Love Anyone”
Belle & Sebastian “I'm a Cuckoo (The Avalanches' Version)”
Belle & Sebastian “Your Cover's Blown”
Ben Allen “Fiska”
Ben Folds Five “Julianne”
Ben Folds Five “Best Imitation Of Myself”
Ben Folds Five “Video”
Ben Folds Five “Mess”
Ben Folds Five “Magic”
Ben Folds Five “Brick”
Ben Folds Five “Kate”
Ben Kweller “Wasted & Ready”
Big Star “In the Street”
Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”
Billy Bragg & Wilco “Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key”
Billy Bragg & Wilco “Hesitating Beauty”
Black Devil Disco Club “The Devil In Us”
Black Devil Disco Club “I Regret The Flower Power”
Black Dice “Smiling Off (DFA Remix)”
Black Flag “Rise Above”
The Black Keys “10 A.M. Automatic”
The Black Keys “Girl Is On My Mind”
The Black Keys “Grown So Ugly”
The Black Keys “Act Nice and Gentle”
The Black Keys “Hard Row”
The Black Keys “Have Love Will Travel”
Black Mountain “Don't Run Our Hearts Around”
Black Mountain “Druganaut”
Black Sabbath “Paranoid”
Black Sabbath “War Pigs”
Black Sabbath “Iron Man”
Black Sabbath “Fairies Wear Boots”
Blitzen Trapper “Wild Mountain Nation”
Bloc Party “Like Eating Glass”
Bloc Party “Helicopter”
Bloc Party “Banquet”
Bloc Party “This Modern Love”
Bloc Party “So Here We Are”
Blondie “Heart of Glass”
Boards of Canada “Turquoise Hexagon Sun”
Bob Dylan “Visions Of Johanna”
Bob Dylan “Stuck Inside Of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”
Bob Dylan “Just Like A Woman”
Bob Dylan “Sad Eyed Lady Of the Low Lands”
Bob Dylan “Tangled Up In Blue”
Bob Dylan “You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”
Bob Dylan “Lily, Rosemary And The Jack Of Hearts”
Bob Dylan “Shelter From The Storm”
Bob Dylan “Blowin' In The Wind”
Bob Dylan “The Times They Are A-Changin'”
Bob Dylan “Mr. Tambourine Man”
Bob Dylan “The Mighty Quinn (Quinn, The Eskimo)”
Bob Dylan “A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall”
Bob Dylan “It's All Over Now, Baby Blue”
Bob Dylan “I Shall Be Released”
Bob Dylan “Ballad of a Thin Man”
Bob Dylan “Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues”
Bob Dylan “Desolation Row”
Bob Dylan “John Wesley Harding”
Bob Dylan “I'll Be Your Baby Tonight”
Bob Dylan “Girl From The North Country”
Bob Dylan “Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You”
Bob Dylan “Don't Think Twice, It's All Right”
Bob Dylan “Trying To Get To Heaven”
Bob Dylan “Make You Feel My Love”
Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Ain't You Wealthy, Ain't You Wise?”
Bonnie "Prince" Billy “Wolf Among Wolves”
Booka Shade “Mandarine Girl”
Booka Shade “Point Break”
Booka Shade “Night Falls”
Booka Shade “In White Rooms”
Booka Shade “In White Rooms (Elektrochemie Remix)”
Brian Eno “The Big Ship”
Brian Eno “Another Green World”
Brian Eno “Golden Hours”
Brian Eno “Everything Merges With The Night”
Bright Eyes “Land Locked Blues”
Bright Eyes “Waste of Paint”
Bright Eyes “Let's Not Shit Ourselves”
Bright Eyes “One Foot in Front of the Other”
Bruce Springsteen “Nebraska”
Bruce Springsteen “Mansion on the Hill”
Bruce Springsteen “Highway Patrolman”
Bruce Springsteen “Used Cars”
Bruce Springsteen “My Father's House”
Buddy Holly “That'll Be the Day”
Buddy Holly “Not Fade Away”
Buddy Holly “Everyday”
Buddy Holly “Oh, Boy!”
Buddy Holly “Peggy Sue”
Bulgur Brothers “My Mao”
Burial “Distant Lights”
Burial “Spaceape”
Burial “Night Bus”
Burial “Forgive”
Bush Tetras “Can't Be Funky”
The Buzzcocks “Orgasm Addict”
The Buzzcocks “What Do I Get?”
The Buzzcocks “I Don't Mind”
The Buzzcocks “Ever Fallen In Love?”
The Buzzcocks “Promises”
The Byrds “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season)”
Cadence Weapon “Oliver Square”
Camaro “Easier”
Camera Obscura “Let's Get Out of This Country”
Camera Obscura “Country Mile”
Camera Obscura “Suspended from Class”
Camera Obscura “I Don't Want to See You”
Candidate “Anticipation”
Caribou “Hello Hammerheads”
Caribou “I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life”
Caribou “Hendrix With Ko”
Caribou “Jacknuggeted”
Caribou “Bijoux”
Caribou “Every Time She Turns Round It's Her Birthday”
Caribou “Medium Sized Working Dog (Steady Steady)”
Caro “My Little Pony”
Caspa “For the Kids”
Cat Power “Colors and The Kids”
Cat Power “Good Woman”
Cat Power “He War”
Cat Power “Names”
Cat Power “I Found a Reason”
The Chemical Brothers “Asleep from Day”
Chic “Good Times”
Chris Price “Charge Me Up”
Chuck Berry “Maybellene”
Chuck Berry “Roll Over Beethoven”
Chuck Berry “Brown Eyed Handsome Man”
Chuck Berry “School Day”
Chuck Berry “Rock And Roll Music”
Chuck Berry “Sweet Little Sixteen”
Chuck Berry “Johnny B. Goode”
Chuck Berry “No Particular Place To Go”
Ciara “Oh (Cadence Weapon Smart Bomb Remix)”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Let the Cool Goddess Rust Away”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Details of the War”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “In This Home on Ice”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah “Upon This Tidal Wave of Young Blood”
The Clash “London Calling”
The Clash “Brand New Cadillac”
The Clash “Rudie Can't Fail”
The Clash “Lost in the Supermarket”
The Clash “Death or Glory”
The Clash “Train in Vain (Stand by Me)”
The Clash “Clash City Rockers”
The Clash “I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.”
The Clash “Complete Control”
The Clash “White Riot”
The Clash “(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais”
The Clash “I Fought the Law”
The Clash “Janie Jones”
The Clash “Career Opportunities”
The Clash “Police & Thieves”
The Clash “Garageland”
The Clash “Should I Stay Or Should I Go”
The Clientele “Since K Got Over Me”
The Clientele “Rain”
The Clientele “Reflections After Jane”
The Clientele “(I Want You) More Than Ever”
The Coasters “Poison Ivy”
Coldplay “The Scientist”
Coldplay “Clocks”
Coldplay “Warning Sign”
Counting Crows “Raining in Baltimore”
Counting Crows “Catapult”
Counting Crows “Angels Of The Silences”
Counting Crows “Daylight Fading”
Counting Crows “A Long December”
Counting Crows “Colorblind”
The Coup “My Favorite Mutiny”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Susie Q”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Proud Mary”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Bad Moon Rising”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Down on the Corner”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Fortunate Son”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Travelin' Band”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Up Around the Bend”
Creedence Clearwater Revival “Lookin' Out My Back Door”
Crime Mob “Stilettos (P. Neezy Mix)”
The Crystals “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town”
The Crystals “He Hit Me (It Felt Like a Kiss)”
The Crystals “Da Doo Ron Ron”
The Crystals “Then He Kissed Me”
The Cure “Boys Don't Cry”
The Cure “Close to Me”
The Cure “Friday I'm in Love”
Cut Copy “Saturdays”
Cybotron “Alleys of Your Mind”
Cybotron “Clear”
D12 “Rap Game”
Damien Jurado “Ohio”
Darlene Love “Winter Wonderland”
Dave Alvin “Surfer Girl”
David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust”
David Bowie “Suffragette City”
Death Cab for Cutie “Bend To Squares”
Death Cab for Cutie “A Movie Script Ending”
Death Cab for Cutie “All is Full of Love”
Death Cab for Cutie “Expo '86”
Death Cab for Cutie “The Sound of Settling”
Death Cab for Cutie “Tiny Vessels”
Death Cab for Cutie “Transatlanticism”
Death Cab for Cutie “Passenger Seat”
Death Cab for Cutie “We Looked Like Giants”
Death Cab for Cutie “Photobooth”
Death from Above 1979 “Romantic Rights”
Death from Above 1979 “Sexy Results”
Death from Above 1979 “Better Off Dead”
Death from Above 1979 “Romantic Rights [Erol Alkan's Love From Below Re-edit]”
Death in Vegas “Girls”
The Decemberists “July, July!”
The Decemberists “Los Angeles, I'm Yours”
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom “Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)”
Demon “I Won't Change”
Depeche Mode “Just Can't Get Enough”
Depeche Mode “Lilian (Pantha Du Prince Raboisen Ecke Burstah Remix)”
Depeche Mode “The Sinner in Me (Ricardo Villalobos Conclave Remix)”
Devendra Banhart “Heard Somebody Say”
Devendra Banhart “This Is the Way”
Devendra Banhart “The Body Breaks”
Devendra Banhart “Autumn's Child”
Diana Ross & The Supremes “Baby Love”
Diana Ross & The Supremes “Where Did Our Love Go?”
Dick Dale & the Del-Tones “Miserlou”
Dinosaur Jr “Little Fury Things”
Dinosaur Jr “The Lung”
Dismemberment Plan “Time Bomb”
Dismemberment Plan “Ellen and Ben”
Dismemberment Plan “You Are Invited”
Dismemberment Plan “Gyroscope”
Dismemberment Plan “The City”
Dismemberment Plan “Back And Forth”
Dismemberment Plan “The Ice of Boston”
DJ Assault “Ass and Titties”
DJ Copy “Emotions”
DJ Khaled “Holla at Me”
DJ Koze “Hicc Up”
DJ Shadow “Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt”
DJ Shadow “Stem/Long Stem”
DJ Shadow “Organ Donor”
DJ Shadow “Midnight in a Perfect World”
Dntel “(This Is) The Dream of Evan and Chan [Original Version]”
Do Make Say Think “Frederica”
Do Make Say Think “Auberge le Mouton Noir”
Do Make Say Think “Ontario Plates”
Donna Summer “I Feel Love”
Donna Summer “Love to Love You Baby”
Douglas Greed “Fresh and Clean”
The Drifters “There Goes My Baby”
Drive-By Truckers “The Deeper In”
Drive-By Truckers “Sink Hole”
Drive-By Truckers “Marry Me”
Drive-By Truckers “My Sweet Annette”
Drive-By Truckers “Outfit”
The Durutti Column “Sketch for Dawn I”
The Durutti Column “The Missing Boy”
Electric Light Orchestra “Mr. Blue Sky”
Elliott Smith “Because”
Eluvium “Ostinato”
Elvis Presley “Blue Suede Shoes”
Elvis Presley “That's All Right”
Elvis Presley “Mystery Train”
Elvis Presley “Heartbreak Hotel”
Elvis Presley “Hound Dog”
Eminem “Lose Yourself”
Escort “Love in Indigo (Extended)”
ESG “You Make No Sense”
The Essex Green “The Late Great Cassiopia”
Fat Boys “All You Can Eat”
The Field “Action”
The Field “Over the Ice”
The Fiery Furnaces “Here Comes The Summer”
The Fiery Furnaces “Tropical-Iceland”
The Fiery Furnaces “Inca Rag/Name Game”
Filastine “Terrorismo”
Fischerspooner “Emerge”
Five Deez “Fugg That”
The Flaming Lips “Strychnine/Peace Love & Understanding”
Fleetwood Mac “Second Hand News”
Fleetwood Mac “Go Your Own Way”
The Flying Burrito Bros. “Sin City”
The Flying Burrito Bros. “Do Right Woman”
The Flying Burrito Bros. “Dark End Of The Street”
The Flying Burrito Bros. “Juanita”
Fog “Pneumonia”
Fold Zandura “Deep Surround”
Foo Fighters “This Is A Call”
Foo Fighters “Big Me”
Four Tet “Smile Around the Face”
Four Tet “Tangle”
Four Tet “My Angel Rocks Back and Forth”
Four Tet “As Serious As Your Life”
Four Tet “Slow Jam”
The Four Tops “Reach Out, I'll Be There”
Frank Black and the Catholics “Nadine”
Franz Ferdinand “Take Me Out”
Fugazi “Waiting Room”
Fugazi “Suggestion”
Fugazi “Burning Too”
Fujiya & Miyagi “Ankle Injuries”
Fujiya & Miyagi “Collarbone”
Fujiya & Miyagi “Cassettesingle”
The Futureheads “Le Garage”
The Futureheads “Robot”
The Futureheads “Decent Days and Nights”
The Futureheads “The City Is Here for You to Use”
The Futureheads “Stupid and Shallow”
The Futureheads “Hounds of Love”
The Futureheads “Man Ray”
The Futureheads “Skip to the End (Digitalism Remix)”
Galaxie 500 “Ceremony”
Galaxie 500 “Blue Thunder”
Galaxie 500 “Isn't It a Pity”
Galaxie 500 “Listen, the Snow Is Falling”
Galaxie 500 “Don't Let Our Youth Go To Waste”
Galaxie 500 “Instrumental”
Galaxie 500 “Tugboat”
Gang of Four “Ether”
Gang of Four “Natural's Not in It”
Gang of Four “Not Great Men”
Gang of Four “Damaged Goods”
Gang of Four “Guns Before Butter”
Gang of Four “At Home He's a Tourist”
Gang of Four “Anthrax”
Gene Autry “Back in the Saddle Again”
George Thorogood & The Destroyers “Move It On Over”
George Thorogood & The Destroyers “Who Do You Love?”
George Thorogood & The Destroyers “One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer”
Geto Boys “Damn It Feels Good to Be a Gangsta”
Giorgio Moroder “Utopia (Todd Terje Edit)”
Glenn Branca “Lesson No. 1 for Electric Guitar”
Gnarls Barkley “Crazy”
The Go-Go's “We Got The Beat”
Gorillaz “Feel Good Inc.”
The Gossip “Listen Up! (MSTRKRFT Remix)”
Gram Parsons “That's All It Took”
Gram Parsons “I Can't Dance”
Gram Parsons “In My Hour Of Darkness”
Grand Archives “Sleepdriving”
Grandmaster Flash “New York New York”
Grandmaster Flash “The Message”
The Grateful Dead “Box of Rain”
The Grateful Dead “Friend of the Devil”
The Grateful Dead “Truckin'”
The Grateful Dead “Casey Jones”
Greg Davis “Nicholas”
Greg Davis “Campestral (Textured)”
Grizzly Bear “Knife”
Gui Boratto “Arquipélago”
Gui Boratto “Like You (SuperMayer Mix)”
Guided by Voices “I'll Replace You With Machines”
Guided by Voices “She Goes Off At Night”
Guided by Voices “The Best Of Jill Hives”
Guided by Voices “Dead Cloud”
Guided by Voices “Apology in Advance”
Guided by Voices “I Am a Scientist (EP Version)”
Hank Williams “I Saw the Light”
Hank Williams “Move It on Over”
Hank Williams “I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry”
Hank Williams “Your Cheatin' Heart”
Harald Björk “Brus”
Harald Björk “Luftlust”
Harry McClintock “Big Rock Candy Mountain”
Hashim “Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)”
Hedwig & the Angry Inch “Tear Me Down”
Hedwig & the Angry Inch “The Origin Of Love”
Hedwig & the Angry Inch “Angry Inch”
Heiko Voss “I Think About You (DJ Koze Mix)”
Hollertronix “Snoop vs. The Cure”
Hollertronix “Tippin Toxic (Mike Jones & Paul Wall Vs. Britney Spears)”
Hot Chip “Crap Kraft Dinner”
Hot Chip “You Ride, We Ride, In My Ride”
Hot Chip “Baby Said”
Hot Chip “And I Was a Boy from School”
Hot Chip “The Warning”
Hot Chip “No Fit State”
The Human League “Don't You Want Me”
Ink & Needle “Seven - Original Mix”
International Pony “Our House (12" Version)”
Interpol “Next Exit”
Interpol “Slow Hands”
Interpol “Untitled”
Interpol “Obstacle 1”
Interpol “NYC”
Interpol “Stella Was a Diver and She Was Always Down”
Interpol “Roland”
Iron & Wine “Lion's Mane”
Iron & Wine “Bird Stealing Bread”
Iron & Wine “Upward Over The Mountain”
Iron & Wine “Southern Anthem”
Iron & Wine “Weary Memory”
Iron & Wine “The Sea & The Rhythm”
Iron & Wine “Waitin' for a Superman”
Isolée “Hermelin”
J-Kwon “Tipsy”
James Taylor “Carolina In My Mind”
James Taylor “Fire And Rain”
James Taylor “Sweet Baby James”
James Taylor “Break Me or Take Me”
Jason Anderson “The Library”
Jason Forrest “Satan Cries Again”
Jason Forrest “10 Amazing Years”
Jay-Z “December 4th”
Jay-Z “Encore”
Jay-Z “Dirt Off Your Shoulder”
Jay-Z “99 Problems”
The Jesus & Mary Chain “Just Like Honey”
Joanna Newsom “Bridges and Balloons”
Joanna Newsom “This Side of the Blue”
Joanna Newsom “Clam, Crab, Cockle, Cowrie”
Joe Jackson “One More Time”
Joe Jackson “Is She Really Going Out With Him?”
John Daly “Sky Dive”
John Lennon “Imagine”
John Lennon “Oh Yoko!”
John Tejada “The End of It All (Single)”
Joy Division “Warsaw”
Joy Division “Digital”
Joy Division “Transmission”
Joy Division “Dead Souls”
Joy Division “Atmosphere”
Joy Division “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Joy Electric “Mono Synth”
The Juan Maclean “Give Me Every Little Thing”
The Juan Maclean “Dance with Me”
Junior Boys “In the Morning (Hot Chip Remix)”
Junior Boys “Like a Child (Carl Craig Remix)”
Junior Boys “Double Shadow (Kode 9 Remix)”
Junior Boys “FM (Marsen Jules Remix)”
Junior Boys “More Than Real”
Junior Boys “Last Exit”
Junior Boys “Birthday”
Junior Boys “Teach Me How To Fight”
Junior Boys “When I'm Not Around”
Junior Boys “Last Exit [Fennesz Mix]”
Junior Boys “Birthday [Manitoba Mix]”
Junior Boys “Double Shadow”
Junior Boys “First Time”
Junior Boys “Count Souvenirs”
Junior Boys “In the Morning”
Junior Boys “Like a Child”
Junior Boys “When No One Cares”
Junior Boys “FM”
Jürgen Paape “Cream”
Justice “Waters of Nazareth (Erol Alkan's Dur Dur Durrr Re-Edit)”
Justin Timberlake “My Love”
Kalabrese “Skamel”
Kano “P's & Q's”
Kano “Mic Fight”
Kano “Layer Cake”
Kano “Signs in My Life”
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Stereo Music for Yamaha Disklavier Prototype, Italia Modena Electric Guitar and Computer”
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Italia Modena Electric Guitar and Computer, Pt. I”
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Stereo Music for Acoustic Guitar, Buchla Music Box 100, Hewlett Packard Model 236 Oscillator, Italia Modena Electric Guitar and Computer, Pt. II”
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Track3a (2waynice)”
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Feedback Zwei”
Keith Fullerton Whitman “Modena”
Kelis “Milkshake ”
Kid Dakota “Pairin' Off”
The Kinks “Victoria”
The Kinks “Village Green Preservation Society”
The Kinks “All Day and All Night”
Kode 9 and the Spaceape “Glass”
Kraftwerk “The Robots”
Kylie Minogue “Can't Get You Out of My Head”
La Peste “Better Off Dead”
Lady Sovereign “Ch Ching (Cheque 1-2 Remix)”
Lady Sovereign “Random”
Latex “The Porcupine”
Lawrence “Friday's Child”
Lawrence “Place to Be”
LCD Soundsystem “Daft Punk Is Playing At My House”
LCD Soundsystem “Get Innocuous”
LCD Soundsystem “Someone Great”
LCD Soundsystem “All My Friends”
LCD Soundsystem “Sound of Silver”
LCD Soundsystem “Beat Connection”
LCD Soundsystem “Losing My Edge”
LCD Soundsystem “Yeah (Crass Version)”
LCD Soundsystem “Yeah (Pretentious Version)”
Led Zeppelin “The Girl I Love She Got Long Black Wavy Hair”
Led Zeppelin “Over The Hills And Far Away”
Led Zeppelin “Good Times Bad Times”
Led Zeppelin “Babe I'm Gonna Leave You”
Led Zeppelin “Dazed and Confused”
Led Zeppelin “Communication Breakdown”
Led Zeppelin “Whole Lotta Love”
Led Zeppelin “What Is And What Should Never Be”
Led Zeppelin “Rock & Roll”
Led Zeppelin “Stairway To Heaven”
Led Zeppelin “Going To California”
Lindstrøm “There's a Drink In My Bedroom and I Need a Hot Lady”
Lindstrøm “Further into the Future”
Lindstrøm “I Feel Space”
Lindstrøm “The Contemporary Fix”
Lindstrøm “Another Station (Todd Terje Remix)”
Liquid Liquid “Optimo”
Loco Dice “Seeing Through Shadows”
Loscil “Sickbay”
Lou Reed “Walk On The Wild Side”
Lou Reed & John Cale “Open House”
Love “Alone Again Or”
Love “A House Is Not A Motel”
Love “Andmoreagain”
Love “Always See Your Face”
Lovebirds “Behind You”
Low “Nowhere Man”
Lucky Soul “Add Your Light To Mine, Baby”
Lucky Soul “Lips Are Unhappy”
Lucky Soul “The Great Unwanted”
Lucky Soul “Baby I'm Broke”
Lucky Soul “Ain't Never Been Cool”
M. Ward “Vincent O'Brien”
M. Ward “Sad, Sad Song”
M. Ward “Helicopter”
M. Ward “Let's Dance”
M. Ward “Fuel For Fire”
M83 “Run into Flowers”
M83 “In Church”
M83 “Beauties Can Die”
M83 “Don't Save Us from the Flames (Superpitcher Remix)”
M83 “Run into Flowers (Jackson's Midnight Fuck Remix)”
M83 “Teen Angst (Luciano Mix)”
Madonna “Like a Prayer”
Martin Buttrich “Cloudy Bay”
Martin Buttrich “Full Clip”
Martin Buttrich “Well Done”
Martin Buttrich “What's Your Name?”
Martin Landsky “1000 Miles”
The Mary Onettes “Lost”
Massive Attack “Teardrop”
Matthew Dear “Pom Pom”
Matthias Tanzmann “Nip Slip”
Melchior Productions “Different Places”
Metallica “One”
Metallica “Seek & Destroy”
Metallica “Master Of Puppets”
Metallica “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)”
Metallica “For Whom The Bell Tolls”
Metallica “Fade To Black”
The MFA “The Difference It Makes”
The MFA “The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Remix)”
Michael Jackson “Billie Jean”
Michael Jackson “Thriller”
Michael Jackson “Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough”
Minilogue “The Girl from Botany Bay”
Mission of Burma “Academy Fight Song”
Mission of Burma “That's When I Reach for My Revolver”
Mission of Burma “This is Not a Photograph”
Missy Elliott “Get Ur Freak On”
Missy Elliott “Lose Control”
Mobius Band “The Loving Sounds of Static (Junior Boys Remix)”
Moby “Go”
The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner”
Modest Mouse “Lounge (Closing Time)”
Modest Mouse “Trailer Trash”
Modest Mouse “Polar Opposites”
Modest Mouse “Bankrupt on Selling”
Modest Mouse “Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice on Ice, Alright”
Modest Mouse “3rd Planet”
Modest Mouse “Wild Packs of Family Dogs”
Modest Mouse “Paper Thin Walls”
Modest Mouse “Dramamine”
Mooney Suzuki “Electric Sweat”
Mooney Suzuki “In a Young Man's Mind”
Mooney Suzuki “Natural Fact”
The Mountain Goats “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton”
The Mountain Goats “Fall of the Star High School Running Back”
The Mountain Goats “Jenny”
The Mountain Goats “The Mess Inside”
The Mountain Goats “No Children”
The Mountain Goats “International Small Arms Traffic Blues”
The Mountain Goats “This Year”
The Mountain Goats “Dance Music”
The Mountain Goats “Love Love Love”
Mouse on Mars “Frosch”
My Cousin Roy “Bobbi's Back”
My Morning Jacket “At Dawn”
My Morning Jacket “Lowdown”
My Morning Jacket “The Way That He Sings”
My Morning Jacket “Death Is The Easy Way”
My Morning Jacket “Hopefully”
My Morning Jacket “Phone Went West”
My Morning Jacket “Mahgeetah”
My Morning Jacket “Dancefloors”
My Morning Jacket “Golden”
My Morning Jacket “One Big Holiday”
My Morning Jacket “I Will Sing You Songs”
My Morning Jacket “Just One Thing”
My Morning Jacket “O Is The One That Is Real”
My Morning Jacket “Heartbreakin Man”
My Morning Jacket “The Bear”
My Morning Jacket “Nashville to Kentucky”
My Morning Jacket “Old Sept Blues”
My Morning Jacket “Evelyn Is Not Real”
My Morning Jacket “I Will Be There When You Die”
My Morning Jacket “By My Car”
My Morning Jacket “Wordless Chorus”
My Morning Jacket “Gideon”
My Morning Jacket “What a Wonderful Man”
My Morning Jacket “Anytime”
My Morning Jacket “It Makes No Difference”
Mylo “In My Arms”
Neil Young “Sugar Mountain”
Neil Young “Cinnamon Girl”
Neil Young “Down By The River”
Neil Young “Cowgirl In The Sand”
Neil Young “After The Gold Rush”
Neil Young “Harvest”
Neil Young “Heart of Gold”
Neil Young “Winterlong”
Neil Young “Like A Hurricane”
Neil Young “Love Is A Rose”
Neil Young “Cortez The Killer”
Neil Young “Campaigner”
Neil Young “Revolution Blues”
Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Thrasher”
Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Powderfinger”
Nelly Furtado “Promiscuous”
Neutral Milk Hotel “King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1”
Neutral Milk Hotel “King of Carrot Flowers, Pts. 2-3”
Neutral Milk Hotel “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
New Order “Ceremony”
New Order “Blue Monday”
New Order “Age of Consent”
Nick Drake “One of These Things First”
Nick Drake “Fly”
Nick Drake “Time Has Told Me”
Nick Drake “Way to Blue”
Nick Drake “Cello Song”
Nick Drake “The Thoughts of Mary Jane”
Nick Drake “Fruit Tree”
Nick Drake “Pink Moon”
Nick Drake “Place to Be”
Nick Drake “Road”
Nick Drake “Which Will”
Nick Lowe “Heart of the City”
Nico “Chelsea Girls”
Nine Inch Nails “Head Like A Hole”
Nine Inch Nails “Closer”
Nirvana “Plateau”
Nirvana “Lake Of Fire”
Nirvana “Where Did You Sleep Last Night”
Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
Norman Blake “You Are My Sunshine”
Nouvelle Vague “I Melt with You”
Oasis “Wonderwall”
Oasis “Don't Look Back in Anger”
Oasis “Champagne Supernova”
Olympic Hopefuls “Shy”
Olympic Hopefuls “Motobike”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “Enola Gay”
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark “If You Leave”
Out Hud “Dad, There's a Little Phrase Called Too Much Information”
Out Hud “The L Train Is a Swell Train and I Don't Want to Hear You Indies Complain”
Panda Bear “Comfy in Nautica”
Panda Bear “Bro's”
Panda Bear “Track Four”
Pantha Du Prince “Asha”
Pantha Du Prince “Saturn Strobe”
Papa M “Turn Turn Turn”
Pearl Jam “Spin The Black Circle”
Pearl Jam “Tremor Christ”
Pearl Jam “Corduroy”
Pearl Jam “Daughter”
Pearl Jam “Rearviewmirror”
Pedro “Assembled by 33”
Pedro “Field Angels”
Pedro “Chapel Was My Dream”
Pedro “Blessed Is the Savant”
Pedro “Demons in Cases”
Pedro “Intro”
Pedro the Lion “Options”
Pedro the Lion “Indian Summer”
Pedro the Lion “The Longer I Lay Here”
Pedro the Lion “Big Trucks”
Pedro the Lion “When They Really Get to Know You They Will Run”
Pedro the Lion “The Well”
Pedro the Lion “Criticism As Inspiration”
Pedro the Lion “Be Thou My Vision”
Pedro the Lion “Slow and Steady Wins the Race”
Pedro the Lion “Simple Economics”
Percy Sledge “When A Man Loves A Woman”
Pere Ubu “Final Solution”
Peter Bjorn and John “Young Folks”
Philip Glass “Koyaanisqatsi”
Phish “Billy Breathes”
Phish “Prince Caspian”
Pier Bucci “L'Nuit”
Pimpadelic “White Trash”
Pink Floyd “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun”
Pink Floyd “Speak to Me/Breathe”
Pink Floyd “Time”
Pink Floyd “Money”
Pink Floyd “Us and Them”
Pink Floyd “Lucifer Sam”
Pink Floyd “The Gnome”
Pink Floyd “Chapter 24”
Pink Floyd “Bike”
Pink Floyd “Mother”
Pink Floyd “Comfortably Numb”
The Pipettes “We Are the Pipettes”
The Pipettes “Pull Shapes”
The Pipettes “Judy (Single Version)”
The Platters “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
The Police “Roxanne”
The Police “Can't Stand Losing You”
The Police “Message in a Bottle”
The Postal Service “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight”
The Postal Service “Sleeping In”
The Postal Service “Nothing Better”
The Postal Service “Recycled Air”
The Postal Service “Clark Gable”
Prefuse 73 “Plastic”
Prins Thomas “Goettsching”
Public Image Ltd. “Public Image”
R.E.M. “Drive”
R.E.M. “Everybody Hurts”
R.E.M. “Nightswimming”
Radiohead “Sit Down Stand Up”
Radiohead “Where I End And You Begin”
Radiohead “Everything in Its Right Place”
Radiohead “Kid A”
Radiohead “The National Anthem”
Radiohead “How To Disappear Completely”
Radiohead “Treefingers”
Radiohead “Paranoid Android”
Radiohead “Exit Music (For a Film)”
Radiohead “Creep”
Radiohead “Stop Whispering”
Radiohead “High And Dry”
Radiohead “Fake Plastic Trees”
Radiohead “Street Spirit (Fade Out)”
Rainer Maria “Ears Ring”
The Ramones “Cretin Hop”
The Ramones “Rockaway Beach”
The Ramones “Sheena Is A Punk Rocker”
The Ramones “Do You Wanna Dance?”
The Ramones “Blitzkrieg Bop”
The Ramones “Beat On The Brat”
The Ramones “Let's Dance”
The Rapture “Sister Saviour (DFA Dub)”
The Rapture “Olio”
The Rapture “House of Jealous Lovers”
The Rapture “Get Myself Into It”
The Rapture “The Devil”
The Rapture “Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks”
Ratatat “Seventeen Years”
Ratatat “Cherry”
Reinhard Voigt “Charge Your Dreams”
The Rentals “The Love I'm Searching For”
The Rentals “Friends Of P.”
The Rentals “Please Let That Be You”
Rex the Dog “I Look into Mid Air”
Ricardo Villalobos “Duso”
Ricardo Villalobos “Serpentin”
Ricardo Villalobos “Hello Halo”
Ricardo Villalobos “Miami”
Ricardo Villalobos “True to Myself”
Ricardo Villalobos “Dexter”
Ricardo Villalobos “What You Say Is More Than I Can Say (Isolee Remix)”
Ricardo Villalobos “Mormax”
Richard & Linda Thompson “Don't Renege on Our Love”
Richard & Linda Thompson “Shoot Out the Lights”
Richard & Linda Thompson “Wall of Death”
Richard Thompson “Cooksferry Queen”
Richard Thompson “Sights And Sounds of London Town”
Richard Thompson “1952 Vincent Black Lightning”
Rick Ross “Hustlin'”
The Righteous Brothers “You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'”
Ripperton “10a”
The Rolling Stones “Rip This Joint”
The Ronettes “Frosty The Snowman”
The Ronettes “Be My Baby”
The Ronettes “(The Best Part of) Breakin’ Up”
The Ronettes “Is This What I Get For Loving You?”
Roy Orbison “Crying”
Roy Orbison “In Dreams”
Run-D.M.C. “Rock Box”
Sam Cooke “You Send Me”
Sam Cooke “Another Saturday Night”
Schneider TM “The Light 3000”
SCSI-9 “When She Said Goodbye”
Sean Paul “Like Glue”
Sebo K, Metro “Transit - Original Mix”
Sex Pistols “God Save The Queen”
Sex Pistols “Anarchy In The UK”
Shackleton “Blood on My Hands”
Shackleton “Blood on My Hands (Villalobos Apocalypso Now Remix) ”
The Shins “New Slang”
The Shirelles “I Met Him On A Sunday”
The Shirelles “Will You Love Me Tomorrow?”
Shit Robot “Triumph”
Sigur Rós “Track 1”
Sigur Rós “Track 3”
Sigur Rós “Svefn-g-englar”
Sigur Rós “Starálfur”
Sigur Rós “Olsen Olsen”
Simian Mobile Disco “Hustler”
Simon & Garfunkel “Bridge Over Troubled Water”
Simon & Garfunkel “Cecilia”
Simon & Garfunkel “The Boxer”
Six Organs of Admittance “School of the Flower”
Six Organs of Admittance “Wolves' Pup”
Skatebård “Data Italia”
Skream “Bahl Fwd”
Skream “Midnight Request Line”
The Smiths “Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want”
The Smiths “There Is A Light That Never Goes Out”
The Soft Boys “I Wanna Destroy You”
Soft Cell “Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go”
The Soft Pink Truth “Kitchen (L.Voag)”
Songs: Ohia “Farewell Transmission”
Songs: Ohia “I've Been Riding With The Ghost”
Songs: Ohia “Just Be Simple”
Songs: Ohia “John Henry Split My Heart”
Songs: Ohia “Hold On Magnolia”
Sonic Youth “Teen Age Riot”
The Sonics “Have Love Will Travel”
Soundgarden “Outshined”
Soundgarden “Spoonman”
Soundgarden “The Day I Tried To Live”
Soundgarden “Black Hole Sun”
Soundgarden “Pretty Noose”
Soundgarden “Burden In My Hand”
Soundgarden “Blow Up The Outside World”
Spank Rock “Sweet Talk”
Spiritualized “Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space”
Spiritualized “Cool Waves”
Spoon “The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine”
Spoon “I Turn My Camera On”
Spoon “Sister Jack”
Spoon “Everything Hits at Once”
Spoon “The Fitted Shirt”
Spoon “The Way We Get By”
Spoon “Stay Don't Go”
Stardiver “Another Moment of Silence”
Stars of the Lid “Even If You're Never Awake [Version]”
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks “Fractions and Feelings”
Stevie Wonder “I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever)”
The Stone Roses “I Wanna Be Adored”
The Stone Roses “She Bangs the Drums”
The Stone Roses “Waterfall”
The Stone Roses “I Am the Resurrection”
The Stooges “Search and Destroy”
The Streets “Could Well Be In”
The Streets “Blinded by the Lights”
The Streets “Dry Your Eyes”
The Streets “Let's Push Things Forward”
The Streets “It's Too Late”
The Streets “Irony of It All”
The Streets “Weak Become Heroes”
The Strokes vs Chemical Brothers “The Modern Chemical Age”
The Strokes “Is This It?”
The Strokes “The Modern Age”
The Strokes “Barely Legal”
The Strokes “Someday”
The Strokes “Last Nite”
The Strokes “0.535416666666667”
Sun Kil Moon “Glenn Tipton”
Sun Kil Moon “Salvador Sanchez”
Sunset Rubdown “Stadiums and Shrines II”
Superpitcher “Tonite”
Supersystem “Born into the World”
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra “Jolene”
Susanna and the Magical Orchestra “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
Swayzak “Mike Up Your Mind”
T.I. “What You Know”
Taco “Puttin' on the Ritz”
Ted Leo “Dirty Old Town”
Ted Leo “Loyal To My Sorrowful Country”
Ted Leo “Timorous Me”
Ted Leo/Pharmacists “I'm A Ghost”
Ted Leo/Pharmacists “Hearts Of Oak”
Television “See No Evil”
Television “Venus De Milo”
Television “Friction”
Television “Marquee Moon”
The Thermals “Our Trip”
The Thermals “Every Stitch”
The Thermals “When You're Thrown”
The Thermals “Remember Today”
The Thermals “A Stare Like Yours”
The Thermals “God and Country”
The Thermals “Keep Time”
The Thermals “It's Trivia”
The Thermals “No Culture Icons”
The Thermals “Goddamn the Light”
The Thermals “Out of the Old and Thin”
The Thermals “I Know the Pattern”
The Thermals “Overgrown, Overblown!”
The Thermals “Back to Gray ”
The Thermals “Born Dead”
The Thermals “Here's Your Future”
The Thermals “A Pillar of Salt”
The Thermals “Returning to the Fold”
The Thermals “Test Pattern”
The Thermals “Back to the Sea”
The Thermals “Power Doesn't Run on Nothing”
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators “You're Gonna Miss Me”
Thom Yorke “Analyse”
Thom Yorke “Atoms for Peace”
Thom Yorke “Harrowdown Hill”
Thomas Melchior & Luciano “Father”
Thomas Melchior & Luciano “Solomon's Prayer”
Three 6 Mafia “Stay Fly”
Tiga “Far from Home (DFA Remix)”
Timbaland “Give It to Me”
Tinchy Stryder “Move”
Todd Terje “Eurodans”
Tom Petty “Free Fallin'”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “American Girl”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers “Runnin' Down A Dream”
The Tornados “Telstar”
Tortoise “TNT”
Truckasaurus “Angels Sound Like Bottle Rockets”
Turner “After Work (Carsten Jost Dial-Remix)”
TV on the Radio “Ambulance”
TV on the Radio “Wolf Like Me”
TV on the Radio “A Method”
TV on the Radio “Staring at the Sun”
TV on the Radio “Young Liars”
TV on the Radio “Mister Grieves”
U2 “Where The Streets Have No Name”
U2 “With Or Without You”
The Unicorns “I Was Born (A Unicorn)”
Van Halen “Eruption”
Van Halen “You Really Got Me”
The Velvet Underground “Who Loves The Sun?”
The Velvet Underground “Sweet Jane”
The Velvet Underground “Rock & Roll”
The Velvet Underground “New Age”
The Velvet Underground “I Found A Reason”
The Velvet Underground “Oh! Sweet Nuthin'”
The Velvet Underground “Prominent Men (Demo)”
The Velvet Underground “Candy Says”
The Velvet Underground “What Goes On”
The Velvet Underground “Pale Blue Eyes”
The Velvet Underground “Jesus”
The Velvet Underground “Beginning To See The Light”
The Velvet Underground “After Hours”
The Velvet Underground “Sunday Morning”
The Velvet Underground “I'm Waiting For The Man”
The Velvet Underground “Femme Fatale”
The Velvet Underground “Venus In Furs”
The Velvet Underground “All Tomorrow's Parties”
The Velvet Underground “Heroin”
The Velvet Underground “I'll Be Your Mirror”
The Velvet Underground “White Light/White Heat”
The Velvet Underground “Sister Ray”
The Ventures “Penetration”
The Verve “Bittersweet Symphony”
The Von Bondies “C'mon C'mon”
The Walkmen “The Rat”
Waylon Jennings “Lonesome, On'ry & Mean”
The Weathergirls “It's Raining Men”
Weezer “My Name Is Jonas”
Weezer “No One Else”
Weezer “Buddy Holly”
Weezer “Say It Ain't So”
Weezer “Holiday”
Weezer “Only In Dreams”
Weezer “Tired of Sex”
Weezer “Getchoo”
Weezer “Why Bother?”
Weezer “The Good Life”
Weezer “El Scorcho”
WestBam “It's Not Easy”
The White Stripes “You're Pretty Good Looking (For A Girl)”
The White Stripes “Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground”
The White Stripes “Fell In Love With A Girl”
The Who “I Can't Explain”
The Who “My Generation”
The Who “Happy Jack”
The Who “I Can See For Miles”
The Who “Magic Bus”
The Who “Pinball Wizard”
The Who “Baba O'Riley”
The Who “Won't Get Fooled Again [Full Length Version]”
The Who “The Real Me”
The Who “Love, Reign O'er Me”
The Who “The Kids Are Alright”
The Who “Behind Blue Eyes”
Wighnomy Brothers “Wombat”
Wilco “More Like The Moon”
Willie Mae 'Big Mama' Thornton “Hound Dog”
Willie Nelson “Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain”
Willie Nelson “If You've Got The Money (I've Got The Time)”
Willie Nelson “Uncloudy Day”
Willie Nelson “Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys”
Wire “Three Girl Rhumba”
Wire “Ex-Lion Tamer”
Wire “Strange”
Wire “Mannequin”
Wire “Champs”
Wire “Feeling Called Love”
Wire “12XU”
Wolf Parade “You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son”
Wolf Parade “Grounds for Divorce”
Wolf Parade “We Built Another World”
Wolf Parade “Shine a Light”
Wolf Parade “Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts”
Wolf Parade “I'll Believe in Anything”
Wolf Parade “This Heart's on Fire”
X-Press 2 “Kill 100 (Carl Craig Remix)”
XTC “Making Plans for Nigel”
XTC “Helicopter”
XTC “Life Begins at the Hop”
XTC “Real by Reel”
Yo La Tengo “Last Days of Disco”
Yo La Tengo “You Can Have It All”
Yo La Tengo “Tears Are in Your Eyes”
Yo La Tengo “Cherry Chapstick”
Yo La Tengo “The Story of Yo La Tengo”
Yo La Tengo “Return To Hot Chicken”
Yo La Tengo “Sugarcube”
Yo La Tengo “Deeper Into Movies”
Yo La Tengo “Autumn Sweater”
Yo La Tengo “Little Honda”

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Commercial Identity

A lot of people riding the subway don't have backpacks or messenger bags or purses and tend to carry things around in a shopping bag from, as far as I can tell, the store whose brand they'd most prefer to associate with: no grocery bags or discount stores but a lot of Donna Karan, Victoria's Secret, Barnes & Noble or The Strand.

Then today, ascending the stairs from the Franklin Ave. station, I spotted a fairly prim and proper-looking young woman carrying a blue bag which I didn't recognize until she turned at the top of the steps and I saw the logo on the side: Babeland!

Mundane Championships

I've watched my favorite teams play in six championship or finals games so far this year. Three have been brutally disappointing, two have been mildly disappointing, and one was close enough that it was actually fun to watch. I'm hoping for some kind of spark from the Cavs in Game Four on Thursday, but so far there's really no reason to believe that will happen.

However, as I've been noting for a couple years now, the NBA Finals are perhaps the most dynasty-riddled in all of sports. A Cavs championship would easily have been the weirdest since 1977 when the Portland Trailblazers, after their first-ever winning season, somehow marched to a victorious Finals over the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Cavs have at least made the conference finals before, but they really have no winning tradition. The Heat might have been a bit of a surprise last year, but they had Shaquille O'Neal and Pat Riley, two men who had previously dominated the Finals for several years with the Lakers, albeit in different decades. The Cavs are coached by Mike Brown, who is just a bit older than reserve guard Eric Snow, with a maximum of one future hall-of-famer in LeBron James.

Then again, as they say, stranger things have happened.

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The Most Colossally Self-Involved Blog Post Ever... Is Coming

Yes, that would be my Top 1000 Songs Of All Time, forthcoming maybe by July, depending. I'm just down through The Strokes right now (Room on Fire seems far less enjoyable than I recall thinking back in college though Is This It? holds up), but I need to go back and get stuff that I added or re-added to the iTunes library since I started making it way back in October or so. It's not likely to be exactly 1000 songs, but probably pretty close.

The project is aimed more at utility than close analysis; as someone who keeps a ton of new music on the iPod, I sometimes find it hard to remember what I was listening to last year or five years ago, so this should come in handy.

As I was at the Museum for the Moving Image watching three rather violent movies this weekend (White Dog, The Big Red One, and Exiled), I also toured the exhibits for the first time. My favorite part was a simulated control room for a baseball telecast. All eight feeds plus the main monitor were running along with the soundtrack of the director "calling the shots," which seemed like a very hectic job, although I assume the process is largely routinized and perhaps even a little boring for him at times.

There were also a number of playable video games: I partook of Donkey Kong, Tron, and Karate Champ in the arcade versions, as well as Road Rage and Katamari Damacy on the PS2. I saw a couple variations on Dance Dance Revolution, some horrifically complicated Star Wars computer from '05 which nobody played, a Star Wars arcade game, Death Race (arcade) and a few others.

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Summer Music Report, Pt. 1

Tonight's show at the Bowery Ballroom was probably the most pleasant I can ever remember having attended. For one, I really liked the space: It sounded great (good acoustics AND a good system), and I liked how the journey through the basement bar to the main area at ground level gave the sensation of being deep inside the building even though the sidewalk just on the other side of the back wall. Also, after going to shows for years in Seattle and Minneapolis, I'm very pleased to be in a city with clubs that provide air conditioning in the summer.

Beach House started up just as I got there. They actually sounded fine in the downstairs section, though once I found the entrance I heard most of their set from the main floor (didn't try the balcony). They played some new stuff which sounded as wonderfully blissed out as the songs from their first album.

The Clientele were basically just as I'd hoped they'd be; I feel like their show now is probably a little more lively than back when they'd only recorded the really quiet stuff on Suburban Light and The Violet Hour. Mel Draisey, the only female member of the band, received a couple birthday cakes in recognition of her 24th. [What are the dynamics like for her in a band otherwise consisting solely of thirtysomething males?] They closed with a Television cover which I didn't recognize ("The Fire" from 1978's Adventure), though I was completely unsurprised at the choice of band as Alasdair MacLean pulled out a guitar solo near the end of the set proper that sounded a lot like the serpentine climax of "Marquee Moon," maybe from a track on the new album. Surprisingly, it was the first time since seeing Television on the bill for Central Park next Saturday that I recalled the night a couple summers back when the brilliance of that album and particularly the title track suddenly exploded upon me in its fearsome glory.

This will leave LCD Soundsystem as my favorite unseen band, by probably a fairly wide margin, though I'll have to get back to you on that.

Last weekend I saw Animal Collective at South Street Seaport, which was a less than ideal location, but it was exciting to hear the wealth of new material they played (lots of bass, hi-hat, and synthesizer) and to be outside. I also caught the performance of Brian Eno's Music for Airports at the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center, a large ovoid atrium. The experience really improved when I left the seats at ground level and laid down at the top of the stairs to stare at the ceiling.

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Old Television

I'm working my way through the first season of The Bob Newhart Show. I borrowed it from the library partly because of this American Masters episode I saw on PBS last month, and partly because of a New York Times article I'd read a couple years ago.

The writing felt a little clunky in the first few episodes but after a dozen or so it's really humming along. I know I'd probably seen it a time or two on Nick at Nite back when they were doing the seventies, but I'd forgotten how good the cast is, particularly Marcia Wallace as Carol, the receptionist, who also does Edna Krabappel on The Simpsons.

What struck me initially was the the height of the set and the camera movement, both of which are quite a bit grander than sitcoms even from the eighties. However, I'm more pleased with how relatively natural-seeming yet sophisticated the characters are. They're not buffoons, nor are they melodramatic or witheringly ironic; they just seem smart, sure of themselves, and dryly humorous, but not in a larger than life manner.

I'll probably watch a season or two of Taxi next, which is right up there near the very top of the pile with Fawlty Towers in my opinion, Seinfeld and Cheers just a hair lower.

Memory Lane

Charles and I journeyed back in time musically this evening. I don't recall exactly why; we started out listening to my new favorite album, Lucky Soul's The Great Unwanted, and I think Charles made some comment about his "folder of shame" which consisted of a lot of mildly to extremely un-hip compact discs from his youth. We then made use of the internet to venture even further.

Thoughts:
  • Stereo Angel, from Charles's hometown of Lewiston, Idaho, isn't half bad, maybe because they try hard to sound like Built to Spill
  • I was not swayed to become a Barenaked Ladies fan
  • Still not an Ace of Base fan either
  • This Spice Girls video was mesmerizing; like almost all music videos, I did not catch it when it first came out
  • While not wholly a poptimist, I do admit to enjoying all four of these New Kids on the Blocks songs; sometimes splashy overproduction irks me, but this stuff hits my eardrums just right
  • I like the Smashing Pumpkins much less now than I did five-ten years ago

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