Mar 22, 2009
Broked
My computer broke so I'm waiting for a new one to come in the mail. Therefore it might be a while before music makes its way onto Oyez.
Mar 3, 2009
Vetiver
Their new album Tight Knit makes me happy. So give it a listen and then the happiness will be yours also.
from: vetiverse.com
More Of This Tight Knit (2009)
Another Reason To Go Tight Knit (2009)
Some older songs because it's all quite good:
Blue Driver A Thing of the Past (2008)
Idle Ties To Find Me Gone (2006)
Buy Tight Knit and other Vetiver albums at Amazon, Insound, or iTunes
More Of This Tight Knit (2009)
Another Reason To Go Tight Knit (2009)
Some older songs because it's all quite good:
Blue Driver A Thing of the Past (2008)
Idle Ties To Find Me Gone (2006)
Buy Tight Knit and other Vetiver albums at Amazon, Insound, or iTunes
Feb 22, 2009
I want to walk around with you
Since I haven't posted much in a long time I'm going to post a buttload of songs now since the favorites have been building up and you need to know about all of them. So here I go.
1. Animal Collective Summertime Clothes
Merriweather Post Pavilion (2009)
2. Little Joy The Next Time Around
Little Joy (2008)
3. Sam Prekop C + F
Who's Your New Professor? (2005)
4. Beirut The Concubine
March of The Zapotec and Realpeople Holland (2009)
5. Alela Diane White As Diamonds
To Be Still (2009)
6. The Thermals Now We Can See
Now We Can See (2009)
7. Department of Eagles Teenagers
In Ear Park
8. Bowerbirds My Oldest Memory
Hymns For A Dark Horse (2008)
9. Bishop Allen The Monitor
The Broken String (2007)
10. The Dodos God?
Visiter (2008)
11. The Shivers Lonely Road
Beaks To The Moon (2008)
12. Andrew Bird Effigy
Noble Beast (2009)
13. Grizzly Bear While You Wait for the Others
Morning Becomes Electric (2008)
14. Diane Cluck Easy To Be Around
Oh Vanille/Ova Nil (2005)
15. Okkervil River On Tour With Zykos
The Stand Ins (2008)
If you like what you hear then do some artist supporting: Amazon / Insound / iTunes
Feb 9, 2009
Too cute to be eaten
Last night I had a terrible dream that my family was starving so we were going to cook Devendra Banhart and eat him. I felt like I was losing a brother. It was a tragedy.
Sort of felt like this song:
Devendra Banhart Remember
Smoky Rolls Down Thunder Canyon, (2007)
If you actually look at this blog, I'm sorry I haven't updated in a while. I've been feeling discouraged about the point of keeping this up, but sometimes I can't help it, I get in a creative music blogging mood. So far I've been able to ignore it but today not so much.
Oct 13, 2008
Derderder
Chill list. Stuff I've liked that is calm, instrumental, or dark.
By Kelly McKernan
Throw Me The Statue Moonbeams
Moonbeams
The Whitest Boy Alive Burning
Dreams
Kings Of Convenience Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix)
Versus
Radiohead The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
B-sides
Holy Shit Rough & Tumble
Rough & Tumble 45
Eluvium I Will Not Forget That I Have Forgotten
When I Live By The Garden And The Sea
By Kelly McKernan
Throw Me The Statue Moonbeams
Moonbeams
The Whitest Boy Alive Burning
Dreams
Kings Of Convenience Weight Of My Words (Four Tet Remix)
Versus
Radiohead The Amazing Sounds of Orgy
B-sides
Holy Shit Rough & Tumble
Rough & Tumble 45
Eluvium I Will Not Forget That I Have Forgotten
When I Live By The Garden And The Sea
Sep 30, 2008
Sep 8, 2008
I wonder if the days I've lived through count
Finally a post featuring an actual band...or two. I'm too lazy for this usually and my interests are scattered week to week. However, today that's not the case because I'm in school again now. This means I seem to pay more attention to music. It has to do with the whole being immersed in the pursuit of knowledge, growth, and self thing that's supposed to happen when one takes college seriously. Although I'm not sure if I do that enough or not. Anyway...
The Clientele
This band has taken a few years to grow on me because I didn't particularly care for the singer's voice. It's like an exaggerated Beatles-esque stoned sounding voice that tends to make me feel dopey for listening. I'm not sure that makes sense as I'm not very good at describing these kinds of things, but on to my point. Somehow once I got over the voice, The Clientele's music actually became rather groovy/pleasant and suitable for procrastinating with instead when assigned to read articles on the Bush Doctrine. So there you go. They're catchy, so listen.
Share The Night That Night, A Forest Grew (2008)
Bookshop Casanova God Save The Clientele (2007)
E.M.P.T.Y. Strange Geometry (2005)
When the night it comes to me
I wonder if the days I've lived through count
With the world strung like a rosary
Through faces moving in the crowd
What is the color, and the number
When happiness begins?
When the night waits in the laurels
There's a dream
Alela Diane
Alela Diane, I've also known about for a while. It's simple folk music that feels like a story unfolding, a rustic cabin, and sepia tinted old pictures. Also her voice is nice and a little different.
The Pirate's Gospel The Pirate's Gospel (2006)
Foreign Tongue The Pirate's Gospel (2006)
(Click the artist names above for their website. And to download now, just click the link, rather than right click and save as.)
This band has taken a few years to grow on me because I didn't particularly care for the singer's voice. It's like an exaggerated Beatles-esque stoned sounding voice that tends to make me feel dopey for listening. I'm not sure that makes sense as I'm not very good at describing these kinds of things, but on to my point. Somehow once I got over the voice, The Clientele's music actually became rather groovy/pleasant and suitable for procrastinating with instead when assigned to read articles on the Bush Doctrine. So there you go. They're catchy, so listen.
Share The Night That Night, A Forest Grew (2008)
Bookshop Casanova God Save The Clientele (2007)
E.M.P.T.Y. Strange Geometry (2005)
I wonder if the days I've lived through count
With the world strung like a rosary
Through faces moving in the crowd
What is the color, and the number
When happiness begins?
When the night waits in the laurels
There's a dream
Alela Diane, I've also known about for a while. It's simple folk music that feels like a story unfolding, a rustic cabin, and sepia tinted old pictures. Also her voice is nice and a little different.
The Pirate's Gospel The Pirate's Gospel (2006)
Foreign Tongue The Pirate's Gospel (2006)
(Click the artist names above for their website. And to download now, just click the link, rather than right click and save as.)
Jul 13, 2008
I am so jealous one moment although that first physical pang of jealousy stays in my stomach for hours.
Then I am realizing what emotion I always feel. Unfulfillment. I guess it's not a real word in this form but it works because whatever it is, it is. It is something that won't leave, it's always here. It makes everything lacking, dull, graphite pencil. I'm avoiding "empty". It has been used too many times before with not quite the level of meaning I wish to convey. Words won't help me now though. Only pictures and songs can try to explain so here is what I heard when I felt something:
Before I felt anything. Just cute.
Antsy Pants Vampire
Juno OST
Then I felt like listening to this song because I remember it taking over me this one time I was parked in someone's gravel driveway sitting in the car looking at the raindrops falling on the windshield and then putting my head on the steering wheel and thinking about the air in my lungs, feeling sort of alive. Then thinking about how someone used this song to get over a relationship and they listened to it on repeat and I wanted to remember them and think about how much I missed them and how jealous I felt about some petty thing having to do with them.
The Dandy Warhols The Last High
Welcome To The Monkey House
Then this came on and it closely matches whatever it was that I felt. It reminds me of Waking Life, of floating through the air, feeling aimless and lost, in a never ending pattern, and not caring much more about it for any longer. And because this reminds me of Waking Life I might have to find my favorite part in the movie and show it to you.
Grizzly BearMarla
Yellow House
This Sigur Ros song followed right after to pick up on my emotions more. Like that strange floating feeling, and the feeling that some truths are unfolding, and some dark days are going to come and some hard rain is going to fall, and then boom I'm jealous, I'm conflicted, I'm missing him terribly, I'm terrified of what my existence has come to mean, I'm scared of days ahead, I'm so blank, and all is quiet and I'm floating again, forgetting what I needed to remember and pay attention to.
Sigur Ros I Gaer
Hauf/Heim
A few hours later the feelings subside. I have someone to talk to. I am feeling a little better. And there's a part about "pretty soon I would be in your arms" and a comforting voice and sort of reminds me of myself if I was happier and had someone to see when I am feeling like this. It's a song that is like the next morning when everything is forgotten or thought of as silly and pointless and the sun is out.
Julie Doiron I Left Town
Woke Myself Up
Part from Waking Life that I like:
"If you can wake up you should, because one day you won't be able to."
Then I am realizing what emotion I always feel. Unfulfillment. I guess it's not a real word in this form but it works because whatever it is, it is. It is something that won't leave, it's always here. It makes everything lacking, dull, graphite pencil. I'm avoiding "empty". It has been used too many times before with not quite the level of meaning I wish to convey. Words won't help me now though. Only pictures and songs can try to explain so here is what I heard when I felt something:
Before I felt anything. Just cute.
Antsy Pants Vampire
Juno OST
Then I felt like listening to this song because I remember it taking over me this one time I was parked in someone's gravel driveway sitting in the car looking at the raindrops falling on the windshield and then putting my head on the steering wheel and thinking about the air in my lungs, feeling sort of alive. Then thinking about how someone used this song to get over a relationship and they listened to it on repeat and I wanted to remember them and think about how much I missed them and how jealous I felt about some petty thing having to do with them.
The Dandy Warhols The Last High
Welcome To The Monkey House
Then this came on and it closely matches whatever it was that I felt. It reminds me of Waking Life, of floating through the air, feeling aimless and lost, in a never ending pattern, and not caring much more about it for any longer. And because this reminds me of Waking Life I might have to find my favorite part in the movie and show it to you.
Grizzly BearMarla
Yellow House
This Sigur Ros song followed right after to pick up on my emotions more. Like that strange floating feeling, and the feeling that some truths are unfolding, and some dark days are going to come and some hard rain is going to fall, and then boom I'm jealous, I'm conflicted, I'm missing him terribly, I'm terrified of what my existence has come to mean, I'm scared of days ahead, I'm so blank, and all is quiet and I'm floating again, forgetting what I needed to remember and pay attention to.
Sigur Ros I Gaer
Hauf/Heim
A few hours later the feelings subside. I have someone to talk to. I am feeling a little better. And there's a part about "pretty soon I would be in your arms" and a comforting voice and sort of reminds me of myself if I was happier and had someone to see when I am feeling like this. It's a song that is like the next morning when everything is forgotten or thought of as silly and pointless and the sun is out.
Julie Doiron I Left Town
Woke Myself Up
Part from Waking Life that I like:
"If you can wake up you should, because one day you won't be able to."
Jul 7, 2008
I got car.
Yar. The other week I bought a 1993 Mercedes Benz 300 CE coupe. It's super nice, and in really good shape with low miles. But alas, I think it's a gas guzzler. I didn't really have a choice at that point though. My parents were pushing me to get it because it's heavy and safe and reliable and whatever else it is that parents care about.
Theme song for owning a car:
The Cars Here In My Car
Theme song for owning a car:
The Cars Here In My Car
May 29, 2008
Storm clouds are gathering,the wind is gonna blow.
The race of man is suffering, and I can hear the moan,
But nobody, no nobody, can make it alone.
--Alone by Maya Angelou
It's been a while since an update. I'm not sure why. I'm supposed to have more free time in the summer but alas. Work sucks up my life and time. So here's a buttload of things I've enjoyed when I've had time to listen to music.
Grandaddy A.M. 180
Under The Western Freeway, 2001
Sigur Ros Gobbledigook
Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust, 2008, coming out June 24th (This is Sigur Ros? Wow. Also it starts out sounding like this Dave Matthew's Band song)
Jose Gonzalez Love Will Tear Us Apart
Veneer, 2006
Weezer Burndt Jamb
Maladroit, 2002
Hanne Hukkelburg A Cheaters Armoury
Rykestrasse 68, 2007
The Beatles Goodbye
Not for Sale
Rocky Votolato Tinfoil Hats
Makers, 2006
The Clockwork Army Father Feed Me
Pall Rough
Ryan Adams English Girls Approximately
Love is Hell, 2004
Eddie Vedder Hard Sun
Into The Wild Soundtrack, 2007
Vetiver Roll On Babe
A Thing of the Past, 2008
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