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Some Songs I Liked in 2015

Posted by hope on December 16, 2015

  1. Beck – Dreams
  2. Big Data – Dangerous 
  3. Billy Gibbons – Treat Her Right
  4. Blitzen Trapper – All Across This Land
  5. Bob Moses – Tearing Me Up
  6. Boots – I Run Roulette
  7. Calexico – Cumbia De Donde
  8. Charles Bradley & LaRose Jackson – Luv Jones
  9. Daley – Look Up
  10. Django Django – Shake and Tremble
  11. Grupo Fantasma – Roto Corazon
  12. Here We Go Magic – Falling
  13. Lianne La Havas – What You Don’t Do
  14. Mikal Cronin – Say 
  15. My Morning Jacket – Compound Fracture
  16. Nneka – Pray For You
  17. Prince – Like a Mack
  18. Quiet Company – Mother Of A Deal 
  19. Robert De Long – Long Way Down
  20. Saintseneca – Sleeper Hold
  21. Sweet Spirit – Baby When I Close My Eyes
  22. Tameca Jones – Hot And Bothered
  23. T Bird & The Breaks – Livin’ With Love
  24. Tuxedo – Do It
  25. Walker Lukens – Every Night

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Some Songs I Liked in 2014

Posted by hope on December 16, 2015

  1. Kat Edmonson – Rainy Day Woman
  2. Lee Fields & The Expressions – Eye To Eye
  3. Dan Mangan & Blacksmith – Vessel
  4. Sturgill Simpson – Life of Sin
  5. King Tuff – Eyes of the Muse
  6. The New Basement Tapes – Nothing To It
  7. Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
  8. Spoon – They Want My Soul
  9. Caroline Rose – Blood On Your Bootheels
  10. Elbow – New York Morning
  11. Nickel Creek – Rest Of My Life
  12. The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger – Midnight Sun
  13. Mike Doughty – Light Will Keep Your Heat Beating In The Future
  14. Spanish Gold – Don’t Leave Me Dry
  15. Shakey Graves – Dearly Departed
  16. Courtney Barnett – History Eraser
  17. The Strypes – What A Shame
  18. Glenn Tilbrook – Everybody Sometimes
  19. tUnE-yArDs – Water Fountain
  20. The Wind & The Wave – With Your Two Hands
  21. Jungle – Busy Earnin’
  22. Old 97s – Let’s Get Drunk & Get It On

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Some Songs I Liked in 2013

Posted by hope on December 16, 2015

  1. Weight – Mikal Cronin
  2. Am I Wrong – Mikal Cronin
  3. Antiphon – Midlake
  4. When I’m Alone – Sam Phillips
  5. Broken Heart – Dr. Dog
  6. Gone And Done It Now – What Made Milwaukee Famous
  7. Bracing For Sunday – Neko Case
  8. California – Mazzy Star
  9. Born Too Late – Dent May
  10. Her Favorite Song – Mayer Hawthorne
  11. Mono – My Jerusalem
  12. Do I Wanna Know – Arctic Monkeys
  13. Refuse To Be Saved – Elvis Costello and The Roots
  14. Tangled – Caro Emerald
  15. Doo Bop – Iva Lamkum
  16. Swimming In The Sea – Bob Schneider
  17. What Doesn’t Kill You – Jake Bugg
  18. At Night In Dreams – White Denim
  19. Over The Edge – Sarah Jarosz
  20. From The Right Angle – Dawes

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on April 24, 2009

Facebook and Twitter make blogging seem like so much work.

  1. Season Cycle – XTC
  2. What A Drag – Sugarbomb
  3. Love Is The Answer – England Dan and John Ford Coley
  4. We’ve Got It Made – The Major Labels
  5. Release The Stars – Rufus Wainwright
  6. Golzar – Niyaz
  7. Slipping Away – Dave Edmunds
  8. Charlotte – Air Traffic
  9. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien – Edith Piaf
  10. History Never Repeats – Split Enz

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on March 27, 2009

I haven’t done one of these in awhile…

  1. Tough – Kurtis Blow
  2. History Never Repeats – Split Enz
  3. No Reply At All – Genesis
  4. Call Me No. 5 – Paul Weller
  5. Oblivious – Aztec Camera
  6. Shake It Up – The Cars
  7. We’ll Never Have To Say Goodbye Again – England Dan & John Ford Coley
  8. Sure Hope You Mean It – Raphael Saadiq
  9. Stoned, Part 2 – Lewis Taylor
  10. Hasta Manana – ABBA

Very 80s heavy. And how did the iPod gods know England Dan died yesterday?

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Music For A Rainy Day

Posted by hope on March 26, 2009

It is rainy and a bit chilly here today. I’ve gotten very little accomplished, and decided just to enjoy my tea and listen to some music before I pick the kids up from school.

Above The Clouds – Paul Weller

Stop, Look, Listen (To Your Heart) – Lewis Taylor

Go Down – Sam Phillips

Sinner – Neil Finn

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on January 9, 2009

I am happily sitting here with a glass of wine, waiting on the pizza to be delivered and listening to the kids play. They each have a friend for a sleepover tonight. Life is good.

  1. Last One Standing – Neil Finn
  2. Whoever – Lewis Taylor
  3. Throw Me A Line – Lewis Taylor
  4. One Day – Alana Davis
  5. Dying – XTC
  6. Rapper’s Delight – Sugar Hill Gang
  7. Before My Heart Attacks – Jason Falkner
  8. Sahra Saidi – Gamal Gommaa
  9. Look Out Sunshine! – The Fratellis
  10. Nothing – The Vestals

And three non-random songs about Friday and weekends:

DJ Don’t – Gerald LeVert

Weekend Girl – Eric Benet

Just Got Paid – Johnny Kemp

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Now Playing

Posted by hope on January 3, 2009

Here are some things I have been listening to recently.

Radio Friction, Shane Barry and The Distractions. First album from this Irish band with a great take on power pop. The whole album is pretty strong, but the songs I like best are “The Strangest Hours”, “Kites”, “Let It Be Known” (named one of the best power pop songs of 2008 at Absolute Powerpop), “The Finest Line”, and “Stop”, roughly in that order.

Under The Radar, The Goldbergs. Another power pop album that is pretty strong overall. The song “Water Line” is also one of Absolute Powerpop’s best songs of 2008, and while I like it alot, I think “I’ve Had Enough” gives it a run for its money as the best song on the album.

“I’m Outta Time”, Oasis. (I promise, my list is not all power pop.) I have not yet listened to all of Dig Out Your Soul, but I really like this song – it is standard Oasis, but standard Oasis is pretty solid power pop, IMO. I also like “The Shock Of The Lightning”.

As I said, my list is not all power pop. I have also been listening to alot of neo-soul/R&B recently:

“Work That” and “Til The Morning”, Mary J. Blige. I predict Work That will be a radio and club hit. It has a good beat, you can dance to it — and it has a positive message, what’s not to like? Til The Morning has a 70s feel to it.

“Bust Your Windows”, Jazmine Sullivan. I suppose she will be categorized as another Winehouse wanna-be. But this a catchy song. And I love that the video shows her tossing out his 45s. I also like her song “My Foolish Heart“.

“Weekend Girl” and “Iminluvwichoo“, Eric Benet. Benet is the artist formerly known as Halle Berry’s boyfriend. Both songs sound like they might have been recorded in the very early 80s. Weekend Girl has an Earth Wind & Fire vibe, while Iminluvwichoo apparently borrowed the Wikki-Wikki guys from Jam On It. I plan to listen to the rest of Benet’s album Love & Life at some point, there’s at least one other song on it (“Love Patience and Time”) that I like.

“Hate On Me”, Jill Scott. This woman’s voice is a freaking force of nature. And this song has joined David Naughton’s “Makin It” on my list of Songs For Kicking Ass And Taking Names. So shall it be.

“Rocksteady”, Remy Shand. You hear this song and think “white boy who likes Al Green”. His voice doesn’t bring much to the song, but the song itself is pretty good.

“Got 2 Be Down”, Robin Thicke feat. Faith Evans. I have listened to Thicke’s newer album, Something Else, and don’t like any of the songs on it as much as I like this song from his previous album, The Evolution of Robin Thicke. The song is really and surprisingly good. Of course, his voice is just eh. But Evans is good and the song is good, so eh works well enough here. Off his newer album, I quite like “Magic” and “Ms Harmony”, but as I said before, I would like his songs better if Justin Timberlake sang them. Something about Ms Harmony makes me think of Paul Weller.

“Words”, Anthony David feat. India.Arie. David’s voice has that nasal quality that sometimes annoys me, but it also has a roughness and strength to it that balances the nasal-ness (is that a word??). He and Arie sound good together. This is a nice slow jam.

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Season Pass

Posted by hope on December 14, 2008

This is a great idea.

Michael Rapino says that the average Live Nation customer goes to a show fewer than two times a year. Live music is not a regular habit, but a special event.  Hard to make your numbers on a once a year transaction.  The key is to get people to come more.  And spend more, on merch, peanuts, popcorn, beer…

I’m not talking about those special sales.  Discount tickets close to show date, four packs…  Those devalue the music.  But how about a pass to the club, where the developing acts play, sold in advance, for $150. Or maybe $200.  Suddenly, it truly is a club.  It’s not about where the act you want to see plays, but a venue you’ve got an investment in, that you own.  It’s YOUR PLACE!

That’s social networking in the physical world.  You own a little piece of the rock.  And you’ll go on a Tuesday night to hear an act you’ve only read about.  Or the one with one single you like, but you wouldn’t pay full price to see.

People buy season tickets to the opera or the symphony, why not to a club? Someone in Austin should do this.

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Christmas (W)rapping

Posted by hope on December 14, 2008

I have a bunch of gifts I need to wrap. So, naturally, my thoughts turned to –

Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses

Christmas Wrapping – The Spice Girls

Christmas Wrapping – The Donnas

Christmas Rapping – Kurtis Blow

And two sure to become classics:

Christmas Rap – Boom Chicago

Christmas Rap 2007 – Ce-Real

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John Legend

Posted by hope on December 12, 2008

John Legend is apparently some music biz hotshot whose career has taken off in recent years via collaborations with stars like Kanye and Jay-Z. Well, I had never heard of him until earlier this year when I started listening to Estelle‘s album Shine, on which Legend is featured.  I read a few things about his work on that album then promptly forgot about him.

Then recently, Legend appeared on Stephen Colbert’s A Colbert Christmas. He sang a goofy song about nutmeg which was actually pretty good.

About two days later, John Aielli played the song Quickly from Legend’s new album, Evolver.  I liked it quite a bit, even though Brandy mostly oversings. Then it occurred to me that, after running across Legend three times this year, I was clearly being directed by the universe to check out his album.

The first single, Green Light (with Outkast’s Andre 3000) is OK. The song he sang at the Democratic National Convention, If You’re Out There, is really nice, and my daughter Amelia (a huge Obama supporter) loves it. There are a few other songs I like, a few I am not that into.

But I really dig It’s Over, featuring Kanye West. I have listened to this one over and over. It has a very Earth Wind & Fire vibe. The song’s only flaw is the part Kanye sings. Musically its all right, but the lyrics about Bobby and Whitney and Pamela Anderson just don’t fit. And frankly, I can do without the whole “shorty” thing in any song. But otherwise, It’s Over is a fantastic song, and definitely worth the time I spent looking more closely at Legend.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on December 12, 2008

Happy happy hour, everyone!

  1. I Would Die 4 U – Prince
  2. Don’t Fight It – Kenny Loggins
  3. Hello – The Cat Empire
  4. Midnight Rendezvous – The Babys
  5. World Party – The Waterboys
  6. Kiss On My List – Hall & Oates
  7. Suddenly – Olivia Newton John
  8. Hello – JUNIOR SENIOR
  9. Big Log – Robert Plant
  10. Broadway – Alison Krauss

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on December 5, 2008

Oh, hello blog. I forgot you were here.

  1. Nothin’ – Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
  2. If I Ever See The Girl Again – Happy Rhodes
  3. Jukebox Hero – Foreigner
  4. Don’t Go – Nouvelle Vague
  5. Say That You Want Me – Ice Cream Hands
  6. Monochrome – The Sundays
  7. Nha Cancera Ka Tem Medida – Cesaria Evora
  8. Sanssouci – Rufus Wainwright
  9. Mars Needs Guitars! – Hoodoo Gurus
  10. L’Accordeoniste – Edith Piaf

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Jamie Oliver – Fingers In Many Pies

Posted by hope on November 20, 2008

Jamie Oliver has a pretty full plate. He cooks, he does TV, he runs a charitable restaurant, he tries to improve the healthiness of UK school lunches – and he sings!

Check out his lamb curry music video.

Could he possibly be more adorable?

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Me Myself I

Posted by hope on November 15, 2008

Did you ever realize how popular this song title is? Here are a few.

Me Myself and I – De La Soul

Me Myself I – Joan Armatrading

Me, Myself and I – Billie Holiday

Me, Myself and I – Beyonce

Me Myself & I – Jive Jones

Me, Myself & I – L7

Me, Myself and I – Derailers

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on November 14, 2008

Fridays are not as much fun when you know you will be working all weekend.

  1. Moi Et Toi – Abdel Ali Slimani
  2. I’m Free – Kenny Loggins (don’t fight it – you know you like him too)
  3. Make Me – L.E.O.
  4. Two Less Lonely People – Air Supply (now, that is just embarrassing)
  5. Oops I Did It Again  – Britney Spears
  6. Vegetables – The Beach Boys
  7. I’m Bad – LL Cool J
  8. Gone – Sugarbomb
  9. Feet Don’t Fail Me Now – Utopia
  10. I Can’t Understand – Air Traffic

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Songs I Heard This Week

Posted by hope on November 14, 2008

Three songs I heard for the first time this week:

Go – Daisy. Daisy is a band from Finland that I’d never heard of. This song is featured on International Pop Overthrow Vol. 11. The verses make me think Ramones, the choruses make me think The Outfield. Very 80s sound. Listen a couple of times and you will have a hard time getting it out of your head.

You Don’t Know Me – Ben Folds feat. Regina Spektor. I grew tired of Ben Folds awhile back, and since I am not nuts about Spektor I would not have listened to this on my own. But I heard it on Eklektikos (great radio show) and really liked it.

Wissions (Of Vu) –  Stanton Moore. I heard this one on Eklektikos as well. You can check out several songs here.

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Who Is Dan Black?

Posted by hope on November 13, 2008

The very little I can find online about Dan Black indicates that he lives in France and recently remade Notorius B.I.G.’s song “Hypnotize”.

Otherwise, all I know about him is that his song “Yours” is pretty good, and that the video makes me like it even more. Bungee bouncing! Party people! Guy with a gun for a head! Hippity hops in fun colors! Whee!!!

I guess that’s all I need to know.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on October 24, 2008

Its my favorite day of the week.

  1. Shotgun Down The Avalanche – Shawn Colvin
  2. I’m Alright – Kenny Loggins
  3. Into Tomorrow – Paul Weller
  4. Over My Shoulder – MIKA
  5. Time For Me To Fly – REO Speedwagon
  6. Astro – Neil Finn
  7. Habibi Min Zaman – Balkan Beat Box
  8. Whistle In – Beach Boys
  9. Jerusalem Ridge – Kenny Baker & Bill Monroe
  10. Vertige – Camille

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In Recent Rotation

Posted by hope on October 17, 2008

I’ve been busy over the last few weeks and haven’t had as much time as I would like to listen to music. But this week I have been interspersing periods of frantic work with musical interludes. Here are a few songs I am wearing out.

Ja Vidi (Christophe Goze). While most of my listening has been power pop (as you will notice below), one song on heavy rotation this week is this Middle Eastern-flavored electronica/drum piece. I first heard it from my belly dance teacher a few years ago and did a group choreography to it. She wasn’t sure of the title or artist, and had copied what she thought was the track listing onto a CD for me. However, it turns out she had both title and artist wrong. This week I fell over it while I was browsing for new belly dance music, and now know who the actual artist is. Unfortunately, this is the only song of his so far that I like.

I Let Her Get Away (Candy Butchers). After discovering Mike Viola and the Candy Butchers several months ago, I have slowly but surely been going through the back catalog. I adore Mike Viola. He gets compared to Elvis Costello, which is somewhat apt. This one, from the 2002 album Play With Your Head, is a bit slowed down and regretful. Very nice.

So Much Better (Mike Viola). This is off of his most recent album, Lurch. I think I’ve blogged about it before. If it were just 52 seconds longer, it would be the perfect pop song.

Insanity (The Nines). I’ve just discovered the pop brilliance that is Steve Eggers. There’s a YouTube video of him with just his keyboard, sounding very like Paul McCartney. His stuff makes me think of XTC.

Mary Jane (The Nines). This one is more melancholoy. If XTC and Chicago had written a song together, this is what it would sound like.

When Are We Gonna Do It? (Linus of Hollywood). Another band I have just become aware of, and wow is he good. Even if the lyrics were nonsense, I would love this song. It is just yummy. But the lyrics are funny. The whole album, Triangle, is total sugary goodness. Try (It Might Be) Too Late For Us, for instance. I haven’t listened to the band’s entire catalog (yet). But I’ve checked out his album Reheat and Serve, which I like so far. My favorite on that album is “Let’s Take A Holiday Together.”

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Chick Music v Dude Music

Posted by hope on October 17, 2008

Is musical taste driven by gender?

We all know they exist, but we seldom speak of them: artists whose fanbase skews violently towards one sex, frequently leaving the other irritated or just perplexed. On the men’s side, the Smiths spring to mind as a band whose devotees tend to be male, others being Led Zeppelin, the Fall and geezer’s geezer Neil Young. On the feminine side, scarcely a man on earth professes to understand the appeal of Barry Manilow or his inheritor James Blunt, while mere mention of the name Alanis Morissette has been known to induce hives.

Well, I like the Smiths. And my husband, who isn’t much of a music lover, likes Alanis Morissette (*shudder*). And I like about an equal number of the bands listed at the end of the article as being loved by one gender and hated by the other.

This article flirts briefly with brain science, but would have been much more interesting had there been a little more information on research regarding the relationship between gender and musical taste. I know there’s been a good bit of research on the relationship between musical taste and personality, but I haven’t seen much on how gender might influence it.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on October 17, 2008

Let’s see what pops up today…

  1. A Voice From On High – Kentucky Thunder & Ricky Skaggs
  2. January Man – Nick Heyward
  3. Millimillenary – Cocteau Twins
  4. 279 East 10th Street – Mike Viola
  5. The Teddy Bears’ Picnic – Frank Devol
  6. I’ll Get Through It – Linus of Hollywood
  7. The Chosen One – Bryan Ferry
  8. Knuckle Down – XTC
  9. Grow Up – Freddy
  10. Dreaming My Dreams With You – Alison Krauss

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on September 26, 2008

Now what did I do with that iPod…oh, here it is.

  1. We Live For Love – Pat Benatar
  2. The Other Side – Scissor Sisters
  3. Evil Woman – E.L.O.
  4. Et Maintenant – Aurele Lacombe
  5. Between My Legs – Rufus Wainwright
  6. All I Want To Know – Nick Heyward
  7. Sunset – Kate Bush
  8. Witchita Lineman – Glen Campbell
  9. We Run This – Missy Elliot
  10. No Better – Jonatha Brooke

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on September 19, 2008

I almost forgot.

  1. Djobi Djoba – Gipsy Kings
  2. Ridin’ The Storm Out – REO Speedwagon
  3. Digging Your Scene – The Blow Monkeys
  4. American Affluenza – Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
  5. Want – Rufus Wainwright
  6. Hell Is For Children – Pat Benatar
  7. Meet Me By The Moonlight – The Stanley Brothers
  8. Paralyzer – Finger Eleven
  9. Fall Back Down – Mike Viola and The Candy Butchers
  10. Heaven’s Gonna Burn Your Eyes – Thievery Corporation

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on September 12, 2008

Batten down the hatches, Texas.

  1. Chains Of Love – Erasure
  2. One In Ten – UB40
  3. Somewhere In Between – Kate Bush
  4. Time Goes By – Air Traffic
  5. Radio Song – Jet
  6. Zaz Turned Blue – Polly Jean Harvey & Eric Drew Feldman
  7. Melt The Guns – English Settlement
  8. Jumelles – MC Solaar
  9. Shop Around – Captain & Tennille
  10. So Much Out The Way – Estelle

And one for Ike.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on August 29, 2008

Barack Obama gave a great speech last night. I find it difficult to believe that anyone who isn’t a hardened partisan would vote for McCain instead.

  1. Live Free – Son Volt
  2. Cruel Light of Day – Del Amitri
  3. Every Little Step – Bobby Brown
  4. Launceston – Ice Cream Hands
  5. Save It For A Rainy Day – The Jayhawks
  6. Headlock – Imogen Heap
  7. Wheel Of The Broken Voice – Sam Phillips
  8. Still On My Brain – Justin Timberlake
  9. Caitlin’s 60s Pop Song – Adrian Whitehead
  10. Kidda – Natacha Atlas

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Josh Fix

Posted by hope on August 25, 2008

There are few things that make me happier than finding a great song – something so good I almost laugh to myself while I listen to it. Of course, finding an entire album that good is even more of a rush.

The latest what-a-rush album in my life is Josh Fix‘s Free At Last. The song that drew me in was the super-fabulous “Don’t Call Me In The Morning”, but the whole album is fantastic. Josh is clearly a guy who was influenced by Queen. Soaring harmonies, layers of sound – so yummy. There’s also a strong Elton John feel to some of it, particularly on “Jethro” and “Burn It Down”. “Rolled In From The South” sounds like Elton teamed with the Little River Band. If you had told me Rufus Wainwright had written “Free At Last” I would totally have believed you. With all the piano there are bound to be Ben Folds comparisons too, and while I like Ben well enough, I like Free At Last way better than any Ben Folds I’ve ever heard.

The album is amazing enough, but get this:

With the exception of the drums, every vocal and vocal harmony, every bass line, every guitar solo, every classical piano run, percussion groove, soundscape, drum loop, handclap, footstomp, glockenspiel, shaker and cowbell(!) – everything is – JOSH FIX.

Fix might be a genius. Go listen.

A huge thanks to Hopelessly Pop for the introduction.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on August 22, 2008

What will the iPod gods give us today?

  1. Leafy Mysteries – Paul Weller
  2. Prologue – Kate Bush
  3. Rapper’s Delight – Sugar Hill Gang
  4. Bluegrass Breakdown – Ricky Skaggs
  5. Catch Me – Supreme Beings of Leisure
  6. Party Started – The Cat Empire
  7. Disillusion – ABBA
  8. Weary – Amel Larrieux
  9. Crashing Down – Del Amitri
  10. Sloop John B – The Beach Boys

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Brothers and Sisters

Posted by hope on August 20, 2008

Eklektikos has been playing a band called Brothers and Sisters recently. They’re from Austin, which is cool because I (shamefully) don’t tend to keep up with the Austin music scene.

I really like their song You’re Gone (first one on their MySpace player). It sounds like they lifted it from Life’s Rich Pageant, with Peter Holsapple taking Michael Stipe’s place on lead vocal. Or maybe like richer-sounding Let’s Active.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on August 15, 2008

Happy Friday!

  1. You Can’t Change That – Ray Parker Jr & Raydio
  2. Feeling No Pain – Jason Falkner
  3. Hula Hoop – Billy Pilgrim
  4. I’m In Great Shape/I Wanna Be Around/Workshop – Brian Wilson
  5. Stars – Alison Krauss & Union Station
  6. Cold As Ice – Foreigner
  7. Goody Two Shoes – Adam Ant
  8. Back On My Feet Again – The Babys
  9. A Solid Bond In Your Heart – The Style Council (love this video – the subtitles, the 45s, Weller dancing)
  10. Top Of The World – Dixie Chicks

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on August 8, 2008

Another week, another shuffle…

  1. All Bent Out Of Shape – Mike Viola
  2. An American Dream – Nitty Gritty Dirt Band (OMG, the hair…the mustache…)
  3. Summer Love – Justin Timberlake
  4. Never Be My Woman – Lewis Taylor
  5. Forget About Dr – Dr Dre
  6. Sacrificial Bonfire – XTC
  7. Litany (Life Goes On) – Guadalcanal Diary
  8. I Should Have Been There To Inspire You – Paul Weller
  9. Walk Like An Egyptian – The Bangles
  10. Just Abuse Me – Air Traffic

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Melissa

Posted by hope on August 5, 2008

I had a friend in college named Melissa. She was one of those people who never seemed to have a cross word to say and was unfailingly nice to everyone – sweet was the first word that came to mind to describe her.

We waitressed together at a Mexican restaurant, and later at an Italian restaurant. She ended up marrying Dave, one of the owners of the Italian restaurant, who was kind of a hippie at the time. He liked the Grateful Dead and other 60’s/70’s bands like the Allman Brothers. There was a tape they would play at the restaurant with “Sweet Melissa” on it, so I started thinking of her whenever I heard the song.

There’s no point to this post, “Sweet Melissa” just played on Eklektikos and I thought it was funny that all these years later, I still think of her when I hear it.

Interestingly, the name Melissa originated from the word for honey, so “sweet Melissa” is sort of redundant.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on August 1, 2008

Sssshhhhhhuffle!

  1. If It Wasn’t For The Nights – ABBA
  2. Flower Girl – Marmalade Army
  3. Revelation – Jason Falkner
  4. Musette And Drums – Cocteau Twins
  5. In Da Club – 50 Cent
  6. Animals On Wheels – Sam Phillips
  7. You Know I’m No Good – Amy Winehouse
  8. Sparkle – Fono and Serafina
  9. When Two And Two Are Five – The Story
  10. Every Little Step – Bobby Brown

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Ladies Of The World

Posted by hope on August 1, 2008

Put Justin Timberlake and Andy Samberg in this and you’ve got the perfect follow-up to Dick In A Box.

When will the governments realize, its got to be funky, sexy ladies?

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New Links

Posted by hope on July 21, 2008

For those of you who need something to do, I included a few more links in my blogroll. I also added some music sites I like, under the blogroll.

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Todd Rundgren

Posted by hope on July 21, 2008

I saw Todd Rundgren on Saturday at Antone’s with Sam, Kirby and Liz. I think the last time I went to a club for live music was in 2004 – Rufus Wainwright at La Zona Rosa.

Most of the audience looked to be in their mid to late 50s. Which makes sense, given the timeframe of Rundgren’s career. Still, it felt odd being one of the “young” people there.

Aside from a few of his old songs and a couple of covers, Todd played songs from his new album Arena. As in arena rock – classic, crunchy guitar, bang your head/raise your lighter stuff. Even though that isn’t typically a type of music I listen to, I really enjoyed it. A couple of the new songs felt a little disjointed to me – it was as if he were trying to combine parts of different songs into one and I didn’t exactly get how the parts related to one another. I suppose that’s his prog thing and I am just not arty enough to get it.

Sam tracked the set list: (click on a link to listen)

Encore:

I took a few photos with my camera but I can’t find the cable that connects my phone to my computer to upload them, and in any case they aren’t very good.

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It Would Be More Magical If You Were JT

Posted by hope on July 19, 2008

You might know that Robin Thicke, son of Growing Pains actor Alan Thicke, is an R&B singer. I’ve never listened to him but recently have seen his new song “Magic” mentioned in several places. So I checked it out. Here’s the video.

I sort of like the song itself – the disco beat, the strings. Kinda catchy. But I would like it (and the dancing in the video) alot more if Justin Timberlake were singing it. Its right up JT’s vocal alley and Thicke just can’t touch him.

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I Don’t Feel Like Dancing

Posted by hope on July 18, 2008

The excellent original by Scissor Sisters.

The remarkably fun re-make by Hayseed Dixie. Highlights: the addition of “oom-papa-mow-mow” and the guy in overalls (sans shirt) breakdancing.

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Friday Random Ten

Posted by hope on July 18, 2008

I feel just like a contestant on The Price Is Right.

  1. Straight Lines – Suzanne Vega
  2. Forever Your Girl – Paula Abdul (ouch – how embarrassing)
  3. Forget About Dre – Dr. Dre
  4. Reasons For Living – Duncan Sheik
  5. I Melt With You – Nouvelle Vague
  6. This Guy’s In Love WIth You – Fastball
  7. Oliver James – Fleet Foxes
  8. In My Arms – Rufus Wainwright
  9. Too Many – Sloan
  10. She’s Going – The English Beat

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Into The Galaxy

Posted by hope on July 17, 2008

This song is catchy. The lead singer has a David Bowie thing going.

Via Powerpopaholic.

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