Friday, January 9, 2009

the worst



sometimes you hear tunes and think... "objectively i like this." maybe you like the guitar sound and how they're expounding upon a style that could obviously use expounding upon and you're into the aesthetics of the music but in spite of that you don't end up listening to the record all that much.

found an old record of dance/party songs from the middle ages. something i wouldn't think i'd put on with regularity, but i end up spinning it all the time. i really have no idea why it resonates profoundly with my soul.

heres a song off my middle ages party record...



in the spirit of the live stuff i posted a while back here's some lemuria live stuff...this may be a litte less difficult to track down than other stuff i posted (specifically the giant haystacks live mp3), but it's no less poignant.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

Top Ten



Top Ten songs of the 2008 calendar year

Jay Reatard - Screaming Hand
Blank Dogs - Freezing Styles
Fucked Up - I Hate Summer
Nobunny - I Am A Girlfriend
Marvelous Darlings - Teenage Targets
New Bloods - The Deadly Nightshade
XYX - Anel And Her Problem
So Cow - Commuting
Dillinger Four - Minimum Wage Is A Gateway Drug
Zola Jesus - Poor Sons

Runner up
Buckets Of Bile - Caught It Still

In an effort to make my selection process as transparent as possible(thereby once and for all silencing the haterz and absolving myself from any wrongdoing) here is a record of my computations:

Friday, January 2, 2009

8 Bit Thunder


8 Bits were the jam processers used for a lot of 70's and 80's video games... ataris etc... and some people took it upon themselves to compose epic jams on these. some created for pleasure, others for a soundtrack to the games. Once those gaming systems had become semi-obsolete several traditionalists and hobbyists still trudged on creating 8 bit jam thunder.

I was listening to an 8 bit song comp and came across this song...



I have a hunch that Usher heard that song before he penned his exhibitionist club classic...