Ode to Procrastination

I switched storage sites. This one is less messy, but only holds the file for 7 days or 25 downloads. If you try it and it doesn't work then email me or post a comment. Then I'll reupload it and let you know.

Podcast#2 is here. This week is songs that have been getting stuck in my head lately. All songs here but 1 were posted to the hype machine (link in the links section) recently. I love the hype machine so I pimp it like crazy. I barely got this one in this week, and in my rush its not as cool as I wanted but it'll do.

Tracklist:

Grand National - Drink to Moving On

Found this one online recently and liked the smooth disco feel. It makes me want a jack and coke.

Hot Chip - Over and Over

Hot Chip is all over the internet these days. This song has been playing on repeat in my head for the past week. Love the driving beat, the repetitive chorus and the salute to repititon itself. And the monkey!

Why? - Rubber Traits

Why? was a part of the Anticon experimental hip-hop collective, but its not very hip-hop these days. This song is ridiculously catchy (especially the "weee-ooh"s) and has some nice sample work.

Macha/Bedhead - Only the Bodies Survive

My friend Dave turned me on to this awhile ago because he's really into his Macha and this type of stuff. The vibraphone or bells or whatever is being played that sounds all dingdongy is the highlight for me.

Dan the Automator - Satchidananda

Dan the Automator has been involved with numerous succesful rap projects. This song shows his skill at finding samples and turning a simple melody into something memorable.

The Beatles - I am The Walrus

I think I first heard this as a freshman in high school. Our local radio station had a Breakfast with the Beatles segment that always ran as my sister drove me to school. My exposure to music had been limited to top 40 and 50s/early 60s pop. MTV was still playing Paula Abdul and Warrant videos nonstop. Nirvana wouldn't break through for another year or so. My Beatles exposure was She Loves You or I Want to Hold Your Hand. That type of thing. Then I heard I am The Walrus on there and my ears were opened to musical potentialities I had no idea existed.

The Knife - Heartbeats (OneMusic Session)

The Knife is an internet music darling so you can find a crapload of their work online if you look. I heard the cover of this by Jose Gonzalez (also very good), this special radio-station session or something version and a remix incorporating both the original and the cover version before I finally heard the original this week. I love the internet. The repeating ascending synth line drives me crazy in a good way.

No update this week

So I went to Vegas after posting last week. As soon as I got home I ran off to Chicago. All this is great but it means I have no access to my mp3s and no update for you, my adoring fans. Try not to be sad or angry. I will have a fresh mix up next week. And I still love you.

This is the first song on our new album

Podcast #1 is here*. Its on a crappy website (advertising makes it free so look around for the link to the mp3) and saved with a crappy audio quality. Its the opening one so its all opening songs. 33MB and 37 min. long.

Tracklist:

The Dandy Warhols - Be In
I have not been too impressed with songs I've heard off their other records (or how they come off in the documentary Dig!), but Be In and a good portion of the other songs on Come Down are solid. Long intro (noise, then guitars, then drums and bass) and lazy verses with the still lazy but more insistent chorus, what's not to like?. Very good way to wake you up and start off the whole shebang.

Bloc Party - Like Eating Glass
This song also does the noise start and then introduces the all the instruments, an opening song standard, and I love it all the more for it. And those Brits are just adorable with their accents. Slent Alarm, which Like Eating Glass kicks off, is a top 5 album in 2005 according to no lesser authority than my own self.

Manitoba - I've Lived on a Dirt Road All My Life
That reverse echo thing with the vocals is money in the bank. If you are making some sort of psychedelic hazy song and don't use that effect you should be burned alive. Also, I'm not sure how well it comes across in the crappy quality of this podcast, but the drumming is fantastic. Seeing them drum it live, also fantastic, but not included with this podcast.

Ris Paul Ric - Purple Blaze
This is the new project of former Q and not U frontmanguy chRIS PAUL RIChardson. I just sort of threw this in because I kinda liked it and its new and a provides a short break for you to get wasted before Ester Drang makes it all heavy again.

Ester Drang - GoldenWest
Pitchfork did a review of this album and they talked about how the video for this song should be a helicopter crashing into and ocean with a sunset in the background in extreme slow-motion. I listened to the song soon after and I totally got it. That really should be the video. Some jackass kid with iMovie and a helicopter should make it happen.

Radiohead - Airbag
You know who they are and what they do. This is their best opening song (which they do quite well) off their best album.

Modest Mouse - Dramamine
I've listened to this song so many times its kind of hard to recreate the impact it had on me when I first heard it. So I guess you need to listen for yourself. I think Weezer described one of their own songs this way. "It makes me feel nostalgic for a time in my life that wasn't that great." That's how this song makes me feel.

Boom Bip - Roads Must Roll
Nice instrumental song thats the fadeout-iest of all these fade-ins.


I am going to try to put out 1 of these a week at this site. Unlike this first one, they will consist mostly of songs I have recently found on the internet. The internet is a crazy place full of odd covers, amateur mashups, and bizarre remixes. So if this was all a bit too mainstream for you then the next one should get a little weirder.

Also if the website hosting this is really problematic I will look for yet another one. So far they all suck.

*I know its not a real podcast and you can't subscribe to it, so its really just a weekly music mix in mp3 format that you actually have to click and download. I ain't paying for hosting. I am calling it a podcast, deal with it.