I am reposting this from my LJ since my day has been very boring and Meredith wanted me to:
here is the game. Shuffle your i-pod (various other mp3 player) and list the first five songs. Then write about your feelings on the song/things it reminds you of....No cheating!
I'll go first!!
1.Air- Playground Love (instrumental version). I love the Virgin Suicides score. I saw that movie when it first came out with who would soon become my boyfriend (now ex) later that night. "Playground Love" seemed very fitting for that period of time. It's slow and sad and pretty and I think I might like it better without lyrics.
2.Mark Mothersbaugh-Kite Flying Society (from the Rushmore soundtrack). I always associate Rushmore with Autumn. This always makes me want to go out and play in leaves and go kite flying in the park with Max Fischer and Margaret Yang.
3.Ryan Adams- City Rain, City Streets. This is all jangly and sad which is how I like my Ryan Adams best. I really don't like that line "is it snowing in space?" and I wasn't sure if he was saying "Spain" for a long time. I just looked up the lyrics though and it's definately Space. I really like when he goes "I am going to push them way/ Fall into the leaves of the winter trees/drowning slowly, lonely my city RAAAAAIN". Ryan Adams is so angsty and emo, I bet Parker Posey had him whipped.
4.Black Moth Super Rainbow- Hazy Field People. This list has seemed to taken on a nature theme. I find that Black Moth are highly underrated. They kind of remind me of the goofy younger sibling of Boards of Canada. This is all slow and if I made a movie where there was some dramatic, sad love scene where two people are staring at eachother from across a train track and then the train comes and whisks one of them away and then you see the other guy standing there looking all sad but THEN! he turns around and the person he was staring at is actually standing right behind him and they start kissing all passionately- this would be the song that plays.
5.Broadcast-Pendulum. Some of the tracks on the new Broadcast are a little dull but this is one of the better ones. It's got a very hynpotic vibe about it so the title of the song is very fitting. Broadcast thinks about these things....
meredith [email] said at 3:03 PM 11-08-2005: I'm using my Itunes 'Party Shuffle' to participate since I'm at work.
1. Areosmith - Kings and Queens: I love this song. It reminds me of Henry IV(part1) because it was the song that came on between two dramatic scenes either close to the end or close to intermission.
2. Sex Is Not The Enemy - Garbage: This is off of Bleed Like Me which got really good reviews from everything I read, but I kind of think it's just kind of blandly better than okay. Decent song if you like Garbage, but it blends in with all the others.
3. Muse - Muscle Museum: I like this song and always forget about it. It doesn't really remind me of anything, but now I bet it will remind me of this post.
4. Keane - Somewhere Only We Know: This song reminds me of a lot of things since I listened to it a lot two years ago. We bought this single in London and shortly after we got back Keane played in this tiny club in Chicago. We went there and actually got to talk to and hang out with the drummer, who remembered us when we saw them again at a bigger club 6 months later and even asked if I was in any new plays or anything. Then they were featured on Smallville and were like the new big thing. I didn't go with Jeremy and Tracy to see them again the third time for whatever reason, but apparently they blew them off completely when they went to say hi. I wasn't suprised, but apparently they were.
5. Brian Seltzer Orchestra - Stray Cat Strut: This is on the same mix that Areosmith came from. Me and another girl in Henry made mixes for the Hellians, which was what Falstaff's group was called, and gave them to our fellow Hellians. And this was on hers. I like it. It's fun. Let's swing!
nathan [email] said at 3:31 PM 11-08-2005: Good idea:
Astor Piazzolla - Buenos Aires Hora Cero : I didn't put this on my Ipod, Heather did- this guy is only about gesture and every song is the same gesture - like the 6th grade doors inspired poetry I used to write
Banda Oxe - Na Rede : another Heather choice, this is really an amazing song - Brazilian musicians are masters of layering and composition -
the sort of thing Brian Wilson lost his mind trying with Smile
Astrud Gilberto - It might as well be spring : One day I came home from work in New Orleans and my new roommates told me they'd just had an orgy to Astrud Gilberto - so that's my first impression of her music
I'd rather think if the Zinc bar in NYC
The Coral - Venom Cable: Oh, the Coral are so great, Manchester psychedelic rock, really good live, they make a great album every year, some crap here and there, but they're really my favorite - they're all talented and really young
Francoise Hardy - Pourtant Tu M'aimes: Between the F-train and my old company in Brooklyn, I had to walk through the projects every morning, and I'd always listen to F.Hardy on that walk, snow and French yeh-yeh can make anything nice
carla [email] said at 4:22 PM 11-08-2005: Okay, since I'm still bored and I have two hours until work is out I'ma do this again:
1.Boards of Canada-Alpha & Omega. This track is very sexual to me. Not sensual, but raw and animalistic. I basically always think about sex when I hear this. Sex in public places, like on the car of a train or something....with mist for special affects. Like what should have been playing in that scene in Risky Business.
2.The Smiths-Stop me if you that you've heard this one before. Possibly one of my favorite Smiths songs. I mean he has the lyrics "And the pain was enough to make
a shy, bald, buddhist reflect
and plan a mass murder..." and makes it sound good. Even though I love this song, it makes me think of drinking until your sick and doing it all over again the next night and having a big fat void in your life.
3.The Shins-One by one all day. I can't help but think of Pigtown and living in Baltimore when I hear anything from this album. "Oh inverted world" was a constant soundtrack for my life during that time, and I listened to it on my long walks from SoWeBo to Fells Point everyday. This album makes me think of Winter and a transitional time in my life.
4.Catpower-Bathysphere. I liked this song until I heard the original Smog version and realized that I liked his version a whole lot better. My problem with Catpower covers is that they always sound the same, much like Tori Amos covers always sound the same. The Smog version makes me feel like I'm hearing a story, the Catpower version makes me feel like I'm listening to someone recite their suicide note.
5.Iggy & The Stooges-Search and Destroy. I've never been the biggest Stooges fan but I like this one okay. It makes me wanna be sitting at a smoky dive bar getting all stinky from cigarette being blown into my hair and drinking a pint of something cheap.
Bob said at 5:27 PM 11-08-2005: 1. The Strokes "New York City Cops (Live)"
Wow... I'm not a Strokes fan at all. This is the only song of theirs I own in any (non-mashup) form. I think I downloaded it when I heard they took it off the album after 9/11. Just like back in '92 when nobody realized what a lame song "Cop Killer" was. I don't remember ever actually hearing/listening to this song before, but I guess I must have.
2. Plaid "Ti Bom"
On saturday night I went to a party after work. It was about 1AM and most of the streets were pretty empty. By the time I was two or three blocks away from the place I could hear the music, then as I got closer I heard occasional shouts. Closer still and the murmur of conversation. It got gradually louder and more layered the closer I got. As soon as I got in the door, somebody spilled beer on the turntables and the whole soundsystem shorted out.
This track totally reminds me of that.
3. "jeorghb"
I finally realized what a cultural phenomenon Homestar Runner had become not when I went to see X2 and half the line was wearing Strong Bad t-shirts, but one night when I was walking into the Black Cat, one guy tripped on his way in the door, and his friend said "Oh, good jarb!"
4. The Four Color Manual, "Pinning a Mountain"
This is a band a friend/former coworker of mine played in years and years before I met him. This reminds me of all my Boston coworkers in their early thirties who were really really cool, which is why turning thirty didn't really freak me out too much.
5. Unwound, "Equally Stupid (live in Toulouse)"
Unwound is just one of those bands, like The Velvet Underground or Jawbox, who have so become part of my idea of what good music is that I don't even need to listen to their albums anymore. The music is all on permanent shuffle in my brain's internal iPod. This is a song mocking jaded too-cool hipsters, and so reminds me of my college days for more reasons than one.
Bob said at 1:39 AM 11-09-2005: Oh yeah. I download most of the weekly quote MP3s and toss them in the mix. It makes for a nice surprise now and then. My personal favorite is Homsar saying "DuhwaI'mmmm the huuuuman wedgie."
abby [email] said at 11:55 AM 11-09-2005: thats pretty retarded that they took it off the album. "good jarb" is one of those things you try to say more but then you forget.
meredith [email] said at 6:29 PM 11-08-2005: I just got home and I wanna play again with my Itunes at home because it has more stuff.
1. Beastie Boys - Sabotage: This song reminds me of my freshman year at LSU. I did a lot of sound board work for different plays then. My first sound job was Suburbia and this song was in the sound track. I also used to like to run to it in college.
2. The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun: This is a happy song and you cannot listen to it when you are sad or angry because it will piss you the fuck off. I find it hilarious that it came on right after Sabotage. The Beatles always remind me of high school.
3. Arab Strap - Deeper: Brandon got me into Arab Strap my last year of college, so any song by them brings immediate memories of Brandon and that 1 bedroom apartment that I had my last semester of LSU. God, I loved that apartment. Weird landlord, awesome apartment. Arab Strap makes me feel chill and is good to listen to when depressed.
4. The Magnetic Fields - Xylophone: I think of the first time I saw them right across the street at the Old Town School of Folk Music. The Magnetic Fields make me happy.
5. Morrissey - Billy Budd: We have Morrissey overload on our Itunes because Jeremy decided that we needed more Morrissey than anything else in there. I saw him the last time he was in Chicago and I didn't have a good time.
myriam [email] said at 6:40 PM 11-08-2005: I like Arab Strap. Surprisingly, I've liked a lot of people's choices. And Carla, I wouldn't have guessed you listen to what you do.
meredith [email] said at 11:40 AM 11-09-2005: I loooove Arab Strap. I was so upset that I missed them when they played at the metro. I had a fucking show to do. It killed me.
myriam [email] said at 12:58 PM 11-09-2005: I'm not sure! I guess I wouldn't have thought of you listening to loungey chill electronica. You should listen to somafm's Groove Salad! Good stuff.
Also, John has mixed Mere and I up a few times. HMMMM....
meredith [email] said at 12:59 PM 11-09-2005: See I always squirt him with the water gun when he does that. This only works if BOTH of us train him in CONSISTANCY, Myriam!
cam [email] said at 1:21 AM 11-09-2005: 1. John Fahey - Amazing Grace: an amazing cover of this song, that does remind me of takoma park (obviously) more so a cold morning there. this song makes me happy and solemn at the same time...
2.Antena - Frantz: great solemn french electro-poppy. her vocals are amazing, and reminiscent of a lot of french singers, but with an atmospheric sound.
3.Kool and The Gang - Soul Vibrations: great bassline, love listening to it for the fact that joe budden's - 'pump it up' (whatever happened to that dude?!). great song though.
4. Scorch Trio - Luggumt: awesome band, not the conventional free jazz, but most of the prominent players have played with free jazz artists. thinking if guitars decided to take over the free jazz realm. the drumming buildup is so good. it's like... oh awesome, somewhat epic... then HOLY SHIT NO HE DIDN'T! (even more epic) saw the drummer a few months ago play with peter brotzmann at the black cat. wtf!! but still fucking great, can't wait to see them later this month!
5. Boris - the person who, what is she like, the one who has been determined and prepared this is from the boris/keiji haino collaboration. jesus christ, keiji haino is a madman on vocals. it sounds like he puked all over the place. there's this heavy hitting part of this song, reminds me of early swans, where you feel violated. but at the same time you want to ask yourself, 'where's the fucking hash, man???'. also fucking boris!!!
Oona said at 9:33 AM 11-09-2005: I am fascinated by the variety in the music you all listen to...Astrud Gilberto...John Fahey...Beastie Boys, et al. I don't have an Ipod so I can't play this game.
reggie [email] said at 9:40 AM 11-09-2005: 1. Cygnus...Vismund Cygnus by Mars Volta: Honestly this song really means nothing to me. It's pretty awesome until you realize it's like 13 minutes long and like most Mars Volta songs is pretty excessive. I'm one of those still holding out hope that Mars Volta and Sparta will wise up and re-form At the Drive-In.
2. Brooklyn (Acoustic) by Jesse Malin: This song I love. I have it in three different versions there's the acoustic version listed here, another one with the full band which are both off Malin's self-titled debut and then there's another earlier version which is a little more alt-rocky from Malin's band between D-Generation and before going solo called Bellvue. The song sounds good each way and conveys the same sense of loss.
3. So Stark (You're a Skyscraper) by Pavement: I'm a late-bloomer as far as Pavement goes so there are only songs of theirs that really grab me. Again I just wasn't really listening to this stuff when they were big.
4. Calendars and Clocks by the Coral: this is a really goofy band at times that you can take or leave. This song's pretty cool because it starts off very unassumingly and then at then builds into this big chorus of the band members singing the hook: Calendars, clocks and hickory-docks!. It makes no sense at all but it's a fun song.
5. Give It to 'em by Tricky: This was from Tricky's album Blowback. The Trickster's barely on it all the main vocals are by this reggae singer Hawkman who's on the album a couple of times most notably on a really good cover (I think) of Nirvana's "Something In the Way."
reggie [email] said at 9:49 AM 11-09-2005: Here's another one:
1. Such a Tw*t by the Streets
2. It Ain't the Wind, It's the Rain by Mary Gauthier
3. I Get the Job Done by Big Daddy Kane
4. Joe #1 by Fugazi
5. Adventure by Television
brandon [email] said at 10:30 AM 11-09-2005: I use mine constantly. I've got the voice-recorder/FM car-stereo transmitter. I've got my calendar on there. If you get it, you'll use it all the time.
cam [email] said at 11:56 AM 11-09-2005: i would be so into that. also if anyone wants to trade mix cds.... because my record player is a portable now, no way of taping at the moment!
kara [email] said at 12:23 PM 11-09-2005: My august mix was mostly metal/hardcore/noise, I think november will be a lot of girl groups.
if everyone from killoggs submitted a track and wrote a paragraph about it, i'd make them into CDs and make a little sleeve and make it be the 2005 souvenier
kara [email] said at 12:39 PM 11-09-2005: we should do this. people should write me their songs and their paragraph then i'll put them together and mail it out and stuff
carla [email] said at 12:53 PM 11-09-2005: Yeah, I am in the works of putting together a really good mix right now. People should let me know if they wanna do a trade in the near future.
cam [email] said at 11:53 AM 11-09-2005: here i go again
1. Josephine Foster - There Are Eyes Above this is actually a bittersweet song. i find that josephine foster is like cut way above joanna newsom (who i can't stand). sure, both have the eclectic folk vocals, but josephine foster does it better. also helps that she is pretty much shirley collins part 2. anyway, this song is a great song to walk to on a cold fall day.
2. Johnson, Hawkins, Tatum and Dur - a world without you taken from the eccentric soul: capsoul label compilation. this song is pretty simple: it's about heartbreak. but as a few soul songs of the time, with the upbeat tempo, gives you some kind of hope. i suppose. great song.
3.David Banner - My Shawty (featuring Fiend) Screwed and Chopped ok first off the mississippi michael watts screwed and chopped david banner album. so fucking insane. cough syrup, purple drank. anyway this song in particular, because it is so fucking slow, just sounds like a barry white song on drugs. enough said.
4. Pavement - Unfair hell yes, this song just sounds like what california should be 24/7. screw weezer's "beverly hills" this song takes the whole california experience. i just need a convertible blasting this song.
5. Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings - What Have You Done for Me Lately good god, her voice fucking brings it. i really want to see her live shows (which are supposedly amazing) and i was to be like FUCK YEAH YOU TELL EM! also she used to be a prison guard. definitely knows how to bring it. although i am still a bigger marva whitney fan, among the james brown girls, (followed by vickie anderson) sharon jones is fucking tight. maybe i shouldn't rank them.
ed [email] said at 12:24 PM 11-09-2005: 1. Alice Cooper - How You Gonna See Me Now From his largely ignored "From The Inside" album. It's one of my favorites, even though the album was a total flop.
2. Lisa Loeb - Dance With the Angels I love her, vocally and lyrically. Most people only know those two songs that were on MTV (back when they played music), but Lisa's very talented.
3. The Doors - Five To One No one here gets out alive, baby. Totally classic.
4. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Superstition Blistering rendition of the Stevie Wonder tune, recorded live in Paris. Guitar heroism at its finest.
5. Blondie - 11:59 A great tune to drive to, it's filled with memories of my high school angst and longing for escape.
NathanK said at 4:57 PM 12-02-2005: Q: My iPod Zepto stopped playing and now it keeps eating flakes of dead skin that have settled on my furniture.
A: That's a dust mite. Unplug the headphones from wherever you've inserted them in the mite and try to locate your iPod Zepto.
Q: I hate having to recharge my iPod Zepto every 12 minutes. Is there any way to extend the battery life?
A: Yes, if you keep your iPod Zepto's power button in the off position, the battery will last significantly longer.
