Great Albums That Aren’t
A Soundtrack To My Life
From Jen:
If your life had a soundtrack, what would the music be?
Here’s how it works:
1. open your library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod)
2. put it on shuffle
3. press play
4. for every question, type the song that’s playing
5. new question– press the next button
6. don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool
Opening Credits:
With All The Words [...]
Your Very Own Theme Music
Your Very Own Theme Music
Top Ten Favorite Penultimate Songs
Top Ten Favorite Penultimate Songs
The REAL Pink Floyd
The REAL Pink Floyd
Red Elvis: Stalinist Rock Star
Red Elvis: Stalinist Rock Star
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics
Bonnaroo 2007
Now that the folks at SuperFly have posted a partial lineup for Bonnaroo 2007, I am in something of a quandry; having already made plans to basically spend the month of April in the States, I am having trouble convincing myself of the sanity of turning around and heading back across the pond in early [...]
Lou Reed goes ambient
Lou Reed goes ambient
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
LCD Soundsystem - North American Scum
Courtney Love does the math
Courtney Love does the math
The Return of the Ghetto Blaster
The Return of the Ghetto Blaster
The Minimalist Manifesto
What do I mean when I say “minimalism”? Obviously I am speaking of something outside of the definitions used to describe schools of art or music - but at the same time, I am speaking of something that is linked to them, to the philosophy behind them.
I am speaking of minimalism as a philosophy - [...]
Prince Patent
Prince patented the Purpleaxxe
Alec Eiffel Rides Again
Trompe le Monde wasn’t the end! The Pixies are going back in the studio if they “can persuade Kim (Deal, bassist) to come out of her house.”
Using Technology To Simplify?
Over at Neat Living, Ariane builds on a riff that Dennis McDonald started at All Kind Food on whether or not technology can be used to simplify life. Both of them come to the conclusion that technology cannot be used to simplify, which I disagree with.
Perhaps my experiences are atypical, or perhaps theirs are. What [...]
Memorial Day
Well how do you do young William McBride
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside,
I’ll rest for a while in the warm summer sun
I’ve been walking all day, Lord and I’m nearly done
I see by your gravestone you were only 19
When you joined the great fallen of 1916
I hope you died well and I hope you died clean
Or young Willie McBride was it slow and obscene?
Playlist: May Day
A short playlist today, for May Day.
Swing Life Away - Rise Against
The Worker’s Song - Dropkick Murphys
Across The Lines - Tracy Chapman
Black Gold - Soul Asylum
Sixteen Tons - Tennessee Ernie Ford
Do You Hear The People Sing - Les Miserable London Cast
Thirteen Of My Favorite Albums
Ramones - Loco Live
Dropkick Murphys - Blackout
Camper van Beethoven - New Roman Times
Thirteen Pictures: The Charles Mingus Anthology
Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man
Jodie Manross - Still
Nirvana - With The Lights Out
Patti Smith - Easter
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
Rasputina - Frustration Plantation
Rise Against - Revolutions Per Minute
The Jesus And Mary Chain - The Sound [...]
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