Mad World
Wednesday, August 10, 2005, 11:55 PM - , ,
Tonight I got a letter from an old friend. It did not make me sad, nor did it make me happy. It was just a whole new level of emotion that I have not felt for a long time. It was good and very bad at the same time. Hurtful, beautiful and ghostly familiar. I can find no more words to express my feelings. Is that good?One thing is for sure: life is never what you plan nor expect it to be. All the preparation will not get you ready for that moment when you realize it is all nothing but farce and you really don't have it together and you never will nor can. That is the moment when you fall flat on your face and the wind gets sucked from your body. I have seen it with my own eyes these last 9 months and done everything in my power to save everything and everyone dear to me. You who know, know what I mean. You who don't never can.
The real question that is left in your mind after experiencing lack of meaning lies at the core of existence: Why do I exist?
It's a mad world.
Warning: This one is not legal. Download it if you don't care. I sure as hell don't right now.
Artist - Gary Jules
Song - Mad World
Album - Donnie Darko Soundtrack
Genre - New Wave Power Banjo Pop Core
Artist Page - garyjules.com
Forgive the honesty.
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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Tuesday, August 9, 2005, 10:01 AM
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are Alec Ounsworth, Lee Sargent, Robbie Guertin, Tyler Sargent, and Sean Greenhalgh.
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah is a baby band, with nary a release to its
credit and only a pile of T-Shirts to hawk after its shows. Already,
however, this local quintet has its sound outlined with a precision
unmatched by many veteran acts - a duality that, when coupled with the
unbridled oomph of musicians who have yet to tire of their material,
can work wonders.
The group has stockpiled a mass of oft-trampled influences, including
what amounts to a 12-course meal of in-vogue '80s acts. What's
interesting is the manner in which the players assemble this source
material. The Cure and The Smiths, for instance, are probed for
neither nostalgic angst nor fashion cues. The Reagan-era creepiness
that often surfaces when contemporary acts dabble in such sounds in
curtailed by Clap Your Hands' apparent affinity for the Clean and
other indie slouchers, to say nothing of the harmonica strapped in
front of singer Alec Ounsworth's mouth. (Republicans play keyboards,
but it takes a socialist to pull of the consecrated harmonica holder.)
This harp is employed with restraint. On "Details of the War" (a
ballad available for free at the band's eponymous website), it cuts
through the song's conclusion, washing away a keyboard drone; during a
January residency at Pianos, the instrument served as a predominantly
silent reminder of the group's strangeness. Ounsworth furthers this
cause: With half-closed eyes and a stoic air, he sings in a thin,
David Byrne deadpan. The voice, at once unaffected yet rife with
masked passion, seems a model front for this promising band. -Jay Ruttenberg
Artist - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Song - Over and Over Again (Lost & Found)
Album - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Genre - Indie/Disco core
Artist Page - clapyourhandssayyeah.com
Eminem remix by Go Home Productions
Saturday, August 6, 2005, 10:52 PM -
'A SLIM McSHADY' Eminem / Wings Without Me / Silly Love Songs The first track GHP ever made available way back in May 2002. Eminem's 'Without Me' was pretty popular at the time and BoomSelection ran a chart encouraging folks to boot the acapella. Originally placed the vocal with a Led Zep track that a certain Soundhog did at the same time (quirk of fate) so I resigned myself to using Wings 'Silly Love Songs'. This track was playlisted on national radio in New Zealand and did a pretty good job of getting me noticed. Played by Chris Moyles on Radio One during the spate of 'Without Me' bootlegs that were aired on this lunchtime show and given a nice 8.5/10. May 2002Artist - Go Home Productions
Song - Without Me Disco Remix
Album - 18 Songs
Genre - Remix/barley beer
Artist Page - gohomeproductions.co.uk
Fruit Bats
Thursday, August 4, 2005, 09:47 PM - , ,
"Eric Johnson has been making experimental and pop-inflected folk-rock with increasing compositional and thematic complexity since Califone/Perishable Records founders Tim Rutili and Ben Massarella prompted him to explore his craft in the mid-‘90s. Johnson’s recordings, enriched by contributions from an ever-revolving cast of Chicagoan characters (the current lineup includes I Rowboat’s Dan Strack and percussionist John Byce) used a melancholy hand to touch on love and the human experience on 2001’s Perishable debut, Echolocation, and 2003’s Sub Pop-released Mouthfuls. Around the release of Mouthfuls, Harp magazine described the Fruits Bats as residing somewhere on a continuum between Califone and The Shins, combining, “...the latter’s widescreen vision with the former’s melodic knack to create something at once familiar and new.” After the years of extensive touring that followed, including stints with Modest Mouse, The Shins and Iron & Wine, as well as a handful of Wilco opening slots, Johnson returned to the drawing board with distinctly darker intent. “I was going to write this dark bummer record with shades of optimism, but my life started getting better,” he explains. The result of much soul-searching, Spelled in Bones is truly Johnson’s enlightened Romantic opus — in the 18 th century English literary sense of the term. With an emphasis on the “bigger picture” of life as it relates to nature’s organic relationship to man (“Legs of Bees”, “Spelled in Bones”), and irrational, spontaneous moments of beauty and rebirth (“Every Day That We Wake Up It’s A Beautiful Day”), Spelled in Bones proffers warm, thoughtful, bittersweet pop that’s as hopeful as it is curious." - Artist PageArtist - Fruit Bats
Song - Lives of Crime
Album - Spelled In Bones
Genre - Indie Rock/Photosynthesis
Artist Page - fruitbatsmusic.com
I'm laying off some of the artwork as it's getting harder and harder to do when I'm busy.
Holopaw
Tuesday, August 2, 2005, 09:09 PM - , ,
It is difficult to label Holopaw. While certainly incorporating elements of Country music, they quite transcend the genre in much the same way their sister band Modest Mouse transcends the idea of Rock and Roll. You may recognize John Orth as the moderating influence in Isaac Brock's Ugly Casanova (I have a song of UC to post as well), and he brings his more tender influences to his main band. This is the most literate and moving album of the year, and it will have to be a pretty impressive year to top this effort. -Amazon
Artist - Holopaw
Song - Curious
Album - Quit +/or Fight
Genre - Alt/Judas Iscariot
Artist Page - holopaw.net
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