Music Quiz

IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
Lightning Hopkins - I've been a bad man

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
Twin Peaks - Falling (Julie Cruise)

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
Last Month Of The Year - The Fairfield Four

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
See See Rider - Lightning Hopkins

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
Blistered - Johnny Cash

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
Dreams Never End - New Order

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
Rollin' Woman Blues - Lightning Hopkins

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
Bridge Over The Ash - Fairport Convention

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Stay Out Of Trouble - Kings Of Convenience

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
The Chain - Scott Bomar

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Spinal Column - Stereolab

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
Keep On The Sunny Side - The Whites - O'Brother Where Art Thou

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
Pink Love - Blonde Redhead

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
Big Sky - Rachel Loy


WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
Offend In Every Way - White Stripes

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
Man Of Constant Sorrow - John Hartford

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
This Could Go Wrong - French Kicks

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
No Quarter - Led Zeppelin

WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
Garageland - The Clash

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
Talked Myself Right Into It - Lynyrd Skynyrd

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
An Actor's Revenge - Destroyer

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
Cello Sonata In D. Minor Op. 40 - Dimitry Shostakovich

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
Fiddle About - The Who

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
Straight A's in Love - Johnny Cash

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
get up jake - The Band

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
Planet Of Women - ZZ Top

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
winter wonder land - Animal Collective

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
untitled iii (remix by loneswordsmen) - Calexico

mp3: White Whale - What's an ocean for?

White Whale mp3s

mp3: Aloha - Light Works

I am synched up to my friend on the other coast as we coast through this paper and I just finished The Square and I just read the first of John Berryman's Dream Songs cycle and here right now I want to kill pitchfork for not covering Aloha's new EP "Light Works". Aloha destroyed me in June with Brace Your Face, it was brutal on the mad-crazy alternating your life away to a free-deathbound-way. Things changed. But here they are trying to sell themselves out straight on the indie rockdom with very acoustic, very jammy ta-da ta-da ta-da overload. But it's good because it's bracing me away from the face that had the empty box of wine on it turned upside down. I love the earnestness in their sound.

Aloha -

mp3: Rademacher

Today Is Different

"woody guthrie is speaking in your ear-phones from another century"

mp3: Spin The Wink - Cum Laude - The Velvet Teen

Spin The Wink

mp3: Bombay Bicycle Club

Not something special but a great hook nonetheless.

Cancel on Me - Bombay Bicycle Club

mp3: A.A. Bondy: Vice Rag

Vice Rag

The cover art for the album is beautiful. It has a look of a cave painting. Symbols and shapes are all too familiar but they seem like a trick to a larger inherently unknowable hieroglyph that is hidden under it.

A blog link to check back later: http://buddyhead.typepad.com/medication/2007/07/aa-bondy---amer.html

mp3: The Books - Tokyo

The Books found sounds in Tokyo

mp3: Office link

Office Blog Link

mp3: Destroyer's nyc song...

New tune from New Porno's album.

Has an interesting guitar chorus at the end which started to make sense at the fourth listen. Last two lines are pure indestructible genius!

mp3: Album Leaf - Into The Sea

as, the days inch forward out of the giant orange-shaped unknown: bright, blistery, bursting... I am reminded of San Diego of summer '06 and Album Leaf

Album Leaf - Into The Sea

mp3: Patrick Watson - Great Escape

Patrick Watson - Great Escape.mp3
Bad day, looking for a way
Oh, looking for the great escape
Gets in his car and drives away
Far from all the things that we are
Puts on a smile and breaths it in and breaths it out
He says bye-bye, bye to all of the noise
Oh he says bye-bye bye to all of the noise

Hey child, things are looking down,
That’s OK you don’t need to win anyways
Don’t be afraid just eat up all the gray
and it will fade away
Don’t let yourself fall down

Bad day, looking for the great escape
He says bad day, looking for the great escape
On a bad day, looking for the great escape
Great escape

mp3: Lismore - 1979 (smashing pumpkins cover)

Lismore does Smashing Pumpkins by turning 1979 on its head.

mp3: Marie Antoinette's Soundtrack

Two mp3s from Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette. (Junaid, I don't know if your ISP in Karachi will let you download them in a decent amount of time. :P)

• "Hong Kong Garden" – Siouxsie & The Banshees
• "Ceremony" – New Order

mp3: Destroyer - The Spirit Of Giving

Destroyer - The Spirit of Giving

This is an earlier song by Destroyer, almost sounds like an afterthought, post-melodic. The superband, The New Pornographers where Destroyer does his other apprenticeship are going to release it as the closing track on their forthcoming album so I am dreading, this turning into some massive egotistically complex, layered guitar-chorus laden monster. But so far, it is giving out the right vibes. Melancholic, perhaps a little bit.

mp3: Sufjan Stevens - "Come on! Feel the IIlinoise!"

I have always been kind of confused about Sufjan's brand of "pop" and his weaving of mythologies, like there is something ungenuine about it: plastic, synthetic and safe. But somehow, well, yes, somehow this tune is on my playlist for a day or two now. He references The Cure's "Close to me" in an interesting way, here. Plus, the second part gets darkly biblical in subject matter.

Sufjan Stevens - Come On! Feel the Illinoise! – 1. The World's Columbian Exposition 2. Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream

Chorus line: "Are you writing from the heart?" (Faulkner)

mp3: Jackie, Dressed In Cobras - The New Pornographers

Looking at the stuff, I had, today on this computer to burn a new cd that I promised to Ava for the coffeeshop music project. And I dug out the New Pornos' tune which was actually the indestructible Dan Bejar's work with the New Porno crew mostly providing a chorus line (Neko Case is the most prominent). Dan Bejar is crazy, his words reminded me of Rebecca's dream.
The New Pornographers - Jackie, Dressed In Cobras
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Look we've seen this kind of thing before.
Jackie flirts with cobras at the door.
Dont live your life inside an arrow filled with glances
New York's sick, you've had your chances,
Yes you've had 'em. Yes you've had 'em. Yes you've had 'em.
On a train devouring the land,
theres a kid going insane over her man,
insane over her man, insane over her.

Look, we've seen this kind of thing before,
Orchids hanging from the Reverend's door,
and if he hollers, let him out 'cause gonna shout.
See, something in the way she moves just shouldnt be allowed.

Wrecked on the jungle floor, Jackie's dressed in cobras,
giving me ideas. What I really need now is ideas.

Look, we've seen this kind of thing before.
Vampires drawn across the ballroom floor.
Mistake this bloodlust feast for dancing.
You felt sick. You've had your chances,
Yes you've had 'em. Yes you've had 'em. Yes you've had 'em.

On a train devouring the land,
theres a kid going insane over her man,
insane over her man, insane over her.
On a train devouring the land,
theres a kid going insane over her man,
insane over her man, insane over her.
On a train devouring the land,
theres a kid going insane over her man,
insane over her man, insane over her.

Wrecked on the jungle floor, Jackie's dressed in cobras,
giving me ideas. What I really need now is ideas.

Aloha - Brace Your Face

This song reminds me of ol' pink floyd and king crimson - the so-called prog-rockisms are littered here aplenty. There was a subtle shift of tempo halfway through the tune and that got me hooked.

Aloha - Brace Your Face

mp3: Battles - Atlas

dangerous work. This could score the ending credits of a film adaptation of Gravity's Rainbow.

Battles - Atlas

Guns Of Brixton - Nouvelle Vague's interesting spin.

Guns Of Brixton - The Clash cover and Forest - The Cure cover by Nouvelle Vague

How things pop up sometime? I looked into this French ensemble band the day I was going to go hang out with Chrissy, Devin and the gang in NYC in March. And it felt like the kind of music I wanna listen to right now. They had done a curious sounding cover of The Cure's - Forest which is kind of loungy (and so it works!), so different from the original yet steer itself very close to the essence of that five minute pop-song.

Another very good example of Nouvelle Vague's unique spin is The Clash's Guns of Brixton. I am not sure about the vocalist Camille who guested for this take but it is pretty good! The song itself would have fit right in Jean Genet's "Notre-Dame Des-Fleurs" as the soundtrack of life for our Lady of the Flowers.

Guns of Brixton
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

When the law break in
How you gonna go?
Shot down on the pavement
Or waiting on death row

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton

The money feels good
And your life you like it well
But surely your time will come
As in heaven, as in hell

You see, he feels like Ivan
Born under the Brixton sun
His game is called survivin'
At the end of the harder they come

You know it means no mercy
They caught him with a gun
No need for the Black Maria
Goodbye to the Brixton sun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton

When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun

You can crush us
You can bruise us
Yes, even shoot us
But oh-the guns of Brixton

Shot down on the pavement
Waiting in death row
His game is called survivin'
As in heaven as in hell

You can crush us
You can bruise us
But you'll have to answer to
Oh, the guns of Brixton