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.