Music

This is a simple mix. The theme: songs I've been singing along to.

It includes:

Water Curses by Animal Collective
Most of the Time (Alternate Version) by Bob Dylan
Time Trap by Built to Spill
Straight to Hell by The Clash
Five Years (Live) by David Bowie
What Else Is New by Dinosaur Jr.
Livin' Thing by ELO
Daniel by Elton John
What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding by Elvis Costello
Invitation by The Feelies
Sara (Edit) by Fleetwood Mac
Cattle and Cane by The Go-Betweens
The Swimming Song by Loudon Wainwright III
Two Characters In Search of a Country Song by Magnetic Fields
California Earthquake by Mama Cass Elliot
Drive It All Over Me by My Bloody Valentine
Pocahontas by Neil Young
Naomi by Neutral Milk Hotel
Unsatisfied by The Replacements
Prayer to God by Shellac
Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away by Stevie Wonder
Outdoor Miner by Wire

Some of these songs have appeared on mixes before. Most of them have not.

I hope you dig.

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- Where can I download this mix? (answer: HERE!)

1. Tom Waits - Army Ants [Orphans 3]
2. Silver Jews - Send In The Clouds [American Water]
3. My Morning Jacket - Smokin' From Shootin' [Evil Urges]
4. Remains - Don't Look Back [Nuggets]
5. The Flying Burrito Brothers - Dark End Of The Street [Guilded Palace of Sin]
6. Forro In The Dark - I Wish (Bundle of Contradictions) feat. David Byrne [Bonfires of Sao Joao]
7. Todd Rundgren - Just One Victory [A Wizard, A True Star]
8. T. Rex - Is it love? [T. Rex]
9. Wire - Outdoor Miner [Chairs Missing]
10. Jim O'Rourke - 94 The Long Way [Bad Timing]

This week's toxic heat could only mean that summer's already here. Thus I present what will surely be the first of many mixes offered this summer.
BONUS! While listening consider these questions:
- Have Sigur Rós been listening to a lot of Animal Collective?
- Why did the Beach Boys drop this superior chorus?
- Is anything more pleasurable than hearing Prince sing the words "Does Not Compute"?
- Was the Tiffany version necessary after listening to the original?
- Is Ladyhawke ripping Cyndi Lauper?
- Is this Love song my favorite song of ever, at this very moment? (answer: YES.)
- Will the Hold Steady ever give their livers a rest? (answer: NO.)

- Where can I download this mix? (answer: HERE!)

1. The Hold Stead - 'Constructive Summer' [Stay Positive]
2. Sigur Rós - 'Gobbledigook' [Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust]
3. Ike & Tina Turner - '(As Long As I Can) Get You When I Want You' [Workin' Together]
4. Tommy James & the Sondells - 'I Think We're Alone Now'
5. Desmond Dekker - '0.0.7. (Shanty Town)' [The Harder They Fall Soundtrack]
6. White Williams - 'Violator' [Smoke]
7. The Beach Boys - 'Hold On to Your Ego' [Pet Sounds Bonus Tracks]
8. Lykke Li - 'I'm Good, I'm Gone (Fred Falke Remix)' [I'm Good I'm Gone]
9. Kenna - 'Freetime' [New Sacred Cow]
10. Ladyhawke - 'Back of The Van'
11. Yellow Magic Orchestra - 'Day Tripper' [Sold State Survivor]
12. Prince - 'Something In The Water (Does Not Compute)' [1999]
13. Impressions - 'They Don't Know' [This Is My Country]
14. Bo Diddley - 'Infatuation' [Where It All Began]
15. Love - 'Everybody's Gotta Live'
16. Ratatat - 'Mahalo' [Schiller 7"]

I listened to this Elephant Man song about 10-12 times today. I learned a lot of things. First, the CLOWN WE OUT refrain is just retardedly banging. Second, it's on the Carrot Oil riddim. Third, did everyone else already realize how hardcore Elephant Man's lisp is? Funny on several levels that is. And fourth, and probably the most fantastic, is that Elephant is likely the only person to ever record the phrase "clown we out" in any type of cultural sense. A Google search displayed results 1-10 of 13. It sounds like it's referencing natural sexual lubrication in some way. It could just be about his hair. But you know, guess is as good as mine. And no he's not shouting out Cate Blanchett at the beginning I don't think.

This mix haz a flavor. And it's mostly disco.
[Download.]

Andrew WK - ”McLaughlin Groove” (w/ video!)
Neon Neon – “Dream Girls” [Stainless Style]*
Louis La Roche – “Love”**
M.I.A. – “Paper Planes (DFA Remix)” [Paper Planes Homeland Security Remixes]***
Jamie Lidell – “Hurricane” [Jim]^
Sebastien Tellier – “Divine” [Sexuality]
Juvelen – “Don’t Mess”
MGMT – “Electric Feel” [Oracular Spectacular]
Yeasayer – “Sunrise” [All Hour Cymbals]

Bag Raiders – “Fun Punch” [Fun Punch EP]
Radio Dept. – “Bad Reputation” [Annie Laurie EP]^^
Hercules & Love Affair – “Hercules’ Theme” [Hercules & Love Affair]
Gonzales – “Slow Down (ft. Teki Latex)”
The Whitest Boy Alive – “Golden Cage” (Fred Falke Remix)
Map of Africa – “Map of Africa” [Map of Africa] (MORE)

Did Rapidshare always have kittens on these?

Rhianna's "Umbrella" may have lost the Best Song Grammy to Amy Winehouse's "Rehab," but given the number of different ways this song has been reinvented or "remixed" in live settings - with Chris Brown at the VMA's, with Morris Day and the Time at the Grammy's, and most recently with the Klaxons at the Brit Awards, there has got to be some kind of a new category created for this song. Most Versatile? Most Flexible? Song with the Stongest Pathological Fear of Getting Old? Whatever it is, this song will not go gently into that good night (rage, Rhianna, rage against the dying of the light).

Here, in all its transmogro-rific glory, is Umbrella Cubed.

w/ Chris Brown at the VMA's

w/ Morris Day and the Time at the Grammys