iTunes Meme

Posted on January 14, 2006

Now’s your chance to explore my music library a little, in a manner dictated by me (and a blog meme that I got from Robot Johnny.)

Sort by Song Title:
First: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper | Nothin’ like a little BÖC to start out a playlist of any kind…
Last: Zumbi | Caetano Veloso, one of the finest singer/songwriters in the world.

Sort by Time:
Shortest: Untitled | Fantômas, clocking in at 0:004.
Longest: Circle | A fine comedy album performed by Eddie Izzard; the guy really is a genius. This one weighs in at 1:19:15.

Sort by Artist:
First: 1.6 Band’s Back in Church | Some math rock I picked up at epitonic.
Last: Immigrant Song, previously a single of the week, performed by (cluster of Japanese characters I can neither read, nor care to find the html code for).

Top 5 Most Played:
1. Fabulous Dramatics by 4th Avenue Jones | 24 Plays.
2. An Honest Mistake by The Bravery | 17 Plays.
3. 16 Military Wives por los Decemberists | 17 Plays.
4. Through the Walls by RJD2 and Ric Ocasek | 16 Plays.
5. Sunshine to the Rain by Miri Ben-Ari | 15 Plays.

First Song that Plays in a Shuffle:
Bruce Springsteen’s Cover Me.

Songs with x in the Title:
Sex: 11 (counting the variation “sexy”).
Love: 81 (damn).
Death: 5
Money: 4

What have you got?

Friday Random Five

Posted on January 12, 2006

Oh yes it’s Friday random five, and the feeling’s right, oh what a night.

• Supreme Beings of Leisure - Sublime | SBoL def has some good trip hop-py stuff with some good ’60s movie music sounds mixed in there too. Sublime, with it’s sitar and Indian percussion is a great tune to open up this week’s Friday Random 5.
• Ry Cooder and Manuel Galban - Dru Me Negrita | Ry Cooder seems to have some kind of obsession with Cuba, between this and the Buena Vista Social Club project. But this is a good album, a mashup of Mambo and surf guitar. Definitely the stuff for sitting back, indulging, and being mellow.
• Jerry Cantrell - Cold Piece | I was just as upset as the next guy when Alice In Chains broke up, but Jerry Cantrell did a great job of carrying the torch with his two solo albums. This is a longer piece featuring guests Fish and Angelo from Fishbone.
• Cafe Tacuba - Dejate Caer | Originally by Mexican rock group Los Tri, Cafe Tacuba decided to funk this one up on their tribute EP Vale Callampa. I spent hours figuring out the bassline to this one.
• Res - They Say Vision | I just love this song. Neo-soul is groovy, I say. It’s a shame this girl didn’t take off more than she did.

iTunes Bitches!

Friday Random Five

Posted on January 6, 2006

Whoohoo Friday!

• Josh Rouse - James | DB prolly wouldn’t like this one, because it’s got a very smooth ’70s sound (the album is titled 1972). He’s a Nebraska boy (though as far as I know he moved away pretty quickly) so I gotta give him props for that. And DB says it’s “a groovy ditty”.
• Ratatat - Lapland | Ratatat is a duo comprised of an awesome guitarist and a guy playing synth. The result is an awesome virtuosic 8-bit metal sound. This is one of their more laidback tracks.
• Galactic - Paint | I was turned on to Galactic by a music journalist out in Ventura CA, and I’m glad he did, because these guys are sweet. It’s a jazz rock sound, with a bit of voodoo funk mixed in. This album was produced by Dan the Automator as well, so you know it’s good. Don’t miss their cover of “Tenderness”, also on this album.
• Los Amigos Invisibles - Porno Song | From the Venezuelan disco-funk group, this song plays out like the soundtrack to a porno. From the introductory sounds of a guy coming home, putting a tape in his vcr, and sitting on his couch, to the slow wah-wah verse, and finally a very climactic guitar solo, you basically get what this song is about despite the language difference. Unfortunately it’s not in the iTMS, but you can find it on the file-share networks pretty easily. Ick, they just showed a cesarian section delivery on tv.
• Wes Montgomery - Caravan | Wes Montgomery was an incredible jazz guitarist, and his talent really shines in this very upbeat tune with both Moroccan and old west influences..

As always, those links open up to the iTunes Music Store. Don’t try this at home.

Fabulous Friday Random 5

Posted on December 30, 2005

• The Yardbirds - Over, Under, Sideways, Down | I first heard this classic in a Chevy commercial, of all places, and it’s a great song. The melody moves just as the song title says; it’s a great groove they have.
• Silvio Rodriguez - La Maza | Silvio is one of the greatest singer/songwriters to come out of Cuba, and this song is no exception.
• The Cars - You’re All I’ve Got Tonight | Anybody who cannot like the Cars is a soulless bastard with no respect for pop music.
• The Squirrel Nut Zippers - It Ain’t You | SNZ were kind of a flash-in-the-pan band in the late ’90s Swing Revival, and while most modern swing music sucks, these guys actually had a good thing going, maybe because they didn’t have that douchebag quality that seems to come with most swing revivalists.
• Guitar Wolf - Summertime Blues | I love garage thrash. Turn up the distortion and let the old school licks come out I say.

Friday Random Five

Posted on December 23, 2005

Who doesn’t love the Friday music posts? You get to learn all about new songs as selected at random from Joshua’s iTunes. Let’s begin, shall we?

• Café Tacuba - Alármala de Tos | This is a cover of a song by one of the groups that brought rock music to Mexico, Bottellita de Jerez (bottle of sherry). A very dramatically told story of a girl who is screwed over in life, and then raped by her father, so she takes revenge. It’s a great song and a great rendtion of a Mexican classic.
• Bossacucanova f. Celso Conseca- Just a Samba | I’m just going to come out and say it. If you’re hosting any kind of mellow party during the summer, cooking outside, mixing up drinks and hanging out, put on some Bossacucanova! A fantastic Brazilian group that renders traditional sambas and bossa nova tunes in a wonderful DJ/loungey style. Just listening to this song now, even though it’s thirty degrees out, makes me think of sitting in the backyard with a few of my best mates, a rum and coke drink in hand, and good memories.
• Electric Samurai - Immigrant Song | Apparently iTunes is in a covers kinda mood today. Even I’ll admit this one’s a bit weird. It’s a Japanese speed metal/industrial remake of the Led Zeppelin hit. If you’re in an ass-kicking mood, this is for you.
• Sergent Garcia - | The first original song of the day. A reggae tune about a missed chance for love with Cuban rhythms underneath. Good stuff.
• Prince - Kiss | Prince is teh awesome. ‘Nuff said.

Friday Random 5

Posted on November 18, 2005

In an effort to get more content on here, and get back to regular posting, I’ve decided to, every Friday, post up five random songs from iTunes, whatever comes up in shuffle. The only exceptions will be books/spoken word tracks, and those sort of things. So let’s give it a go. All links open up in iTunes.

• Juanes - La Paga
• The Urge - Frying Pan
• RZA - The Grunge
• Descendents - When I Get Old
• Cousteau - The Last Good Day of the Year

Well there you have it. Those are all great songs (the last two being particular favourites of mine) so check ‘em out. Good day.

iTunes Fight!

Posted on July 27, 2005

The other night DB and I were both cruising iTunes, when we decided to have an iTunes fight. I started by throwing down the gauntlet.

Me: Kidz Bop - Werewolves of London
DB: I’m on it
DB: oh
DB: my
DB: fucking
DB: god
DB: you ar fucking kidding…you mocked this up right?
Me: nope
Me: i wish i could
DB: dang
DB: did you buy it?
Me: …
Me: no
DB: c’mon
DB: I want to see the video now
Me: i know, me too but they don’t preview it
DB: I know
DB: what is it with you and the crappy kid music lately?
Me: it just keeps appearing in my way
DB: Mike Doughty - The Gambler
DB: ok, I’m actually diggin’ this one
Me: i think i’ll just download me some diamond rio and call it a night
DB: stop it
Me: hehe
Me: it was either that or Alabama… Alabama seemed too obvious
DB: you need some joe satriani
Me: nobody needs joe satch
DB: Joe Satriani - Circles
DB: oh snap!
DB: pantera
DB: how about some molly hatchet?
Me: i’ve got better
Me: Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy Suite: Op 5
DB: ACK!
Me: ROFL
DB: big hair yngwie
DB: ACK!
DB: of course you know
DB: this means war
Me: bring it
DB: Yanna - The Rain Must Fall
Me: Love Vein - Rocket Man
DB: The Cover Girls - Show Me
Me: Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
DB: ACK
DB: that was low
Me: ROFL
DB: ok ok
Me: there weren’t any good/bad covers of it
DB: don’t need ‘em
Me: Tim McGraw - Tiny Dancer
DB: yea
DB: but that doesn’t 100% suck
Me: Leslie & The LY’s - Gem Sweater
DB: Rick Gauthier - She’s Gone
Me: omg
Me: word art for the album cover
DB: hehe
Me: dammit dammit dammit
Me: they don’t have “Bat Dance” by Prince
DB: damn
Me: E.U. - Da Butt
DB: Kiki & Herb - The Pina Colada Song
DB: yo homeboy…that song was it back in the db club days dawg
Me: shelby always goes on about it but i have no recollection
Me: though apparently one of the bush twins was caught at a party topless and doin’ da butt
DB: word
DB: and I missed it
DB: Olivia Newton-John - Xanadu
DB: HA!
DB: Bertie Higgins - Just Another Day in Paradise
DB: the kenny rabbit gay beard thing
Me: that’s a creepy album cover
Me: trying to find some bad eddie rabbitt… but i just don’t think there is any
DB: it’s all bad
DB: too easy

And thus ended the great iTunes Fight of 2005…

Hit the Road and Go

Posted on July 13, 2005

A good playlist for when you’re out motoring in your auto-mobile.

• Johnny Cash - Hit the Road and Go
• Beastie Boys - Railroad Blues
• Kraftwerk - Tour de France (Paris)
• The Bravery - An Honest Mistake
• M.I.A./Super Mario Bros. - Superlangalang! (cry.on.my.console Mashup)
• Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
• Buck 65 - 463
• The Decemberists - Legionnaire’s Lament
• Wes Montgomery - Caravan
• Molotov - Marciano
• Gary Numan - Cars
• Ilya Kuryaki - Coolo
• Miri Ben-Ari - Sunshine to the Rain
• The Yardbirds - Over Under Sideways Down
• Caetano Veloso - Zera a Reza

If you’re an iTunes user, I made an iMix here. For some reason, it only listed 10 of the 15, even though all but one of the songs is available in the store. And 3 of the songs not listed I bought through the music store. But it’s there anyways. Cross-posted to Lincolnblog

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