Jaydiohead

For those of you who liked "The Grey Album" from Danger Mouse and liked "Collision Course" (probably just me). Enjoy this!!

Radiohead+Jay-Z= good stuff and titles like "Dirt off your Android"

http://jaydiohead.com/

This album may be old news now...

apropos

how to waste $50

[i just posted this on my blog and thought is was appropriate here]

i got back in town last night to discover that the show i've been obsessing over the past month (to be my first proper concert since i got here) was about to begin in an hour and was sold out. i didn't think girl talk was playing until next thursday. fool that i am didn't think it necessary to buy tickets beforehand or double-check his dates.

as soon as i got off the train, megan met me to try and scalp tickets. we spent an hour in the cold, haggling with scalpers and generally being angry at every 16 year old boy dressed like a woman and every girl dressed like a 12 yr. old. finally we were able to get two tickets, one from a nice and intoxicated kid going to school at loyola in chicago. the other came from a guy who's other ticket for his wife was a phony (foreshadowing). for the both of them we paid about $50, which was only $20 more than face value.

when we went through the line to get in, it turned out that my ticket (from the intoxicated loyolan) had already been scanned. the kid went through, then came back out and sold us his ticket. i don't know if it was out of malevolence or drunkenness, but anger and frustration are not adequate words.

we sat in the lobby for about 15 minutes just stalling, hoping the ticket checker would have a heart and let us in. there was nothing he could do. either megan went to the show by herself (not an appealing proposition, espeically in light of one of the better conversation we'd had outside the venue earlier with a particularly wise 19 yr. old: "i had sex with a girl at the last show! the enitre crowd saw my ass." amazing. i'm sure that's how she would describe it as well), or neither of us went. we gave up and went home.

i guess the most disappointing thing about the whole evening was that by the time we got home, i wasn't that depressed. maybe i'm trying to be coyly jaded or just getting older, but sitting outside the theater last night seeing those kids didn't make me want to experience that crazy concert at all. i should've known before going to a concert like girl talk, but i guess i just ignored that quiet, prideful and judgmental voice in the back of my head until last night.

i still love going to shows. and i even truly appreciate the semi-counter culture that the indie music scene can be. i've just gotten very choosy about live music and what was once unique is now mainstream. there are still plenty of original artists (girl talk is one of them) and there are plenty of listeners who will enjoy them as art and not as consumption (maybe girl talk is intended to be more of the latter?). but i guess all things change, including my love for live music and what used to be considered independent. this sounds pretty trite and stuffy, i know, but there it is. in spite of everything, here's to hope for art...

forgive the two posts

I cant figure imeem out so I am using box and cant figure out how to have a player and put more than one track on one post. so... sorry.... deal with it.

06 Track 06.m4a

per Jason's request

here are a couple tracks from The Welcome Wagon.

02 Track 02.m4a

Ok Ok Here is My List

2008 wasn't an amazing year in music, especially when compared to 2007. So being in agreement with Jason and others it wasn't a great year for a lot of things... music being one of them. That said there has been some great music and here are my top albums.

10. Beach House- Devotion.





9. She and Him-Volume 1





8. Frightened Rabbit- Midnight Organ Fight





7. The Raconteurs- Consolers of the Lonely





6. TV on the Radio- Dear Science





5. Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend





4. Department of Eagles- In Ear Park





3. The Welcome Wagon- The Welcome Wagon





2. Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes





1. Fleet Foxes- Sun Giant EP






I know that you are all thinking that I am totally lame with my top two. But I think that they are the best of 2008. I put Sun Giant as my #1 because I am obsessed with the song Mykonos. They are both amazing though. I agree with Pitchfork that they both deserve to be #1.

Well that's it... like Jason I am lazy and didn't put up any tracks.
Bobert

my small list

In no particular order:

[Bon Iver- For Emma, Forever Ago] I know that this is from 2007, but we all know in our hearts that For Emma, Forever Ago is an album that helped define 2008. Also, Bon Iver was the best show I saw all year, so I'm putting it here.



[Delta Spirit- Ode to Sunshine] Delta Spirit is a newer one to me, but I'm a firm believer that you can never have enough happy beach music in your life.



[Of Montreal- Skeletal Lamping] I love these guys. Skeletal Lamping is more experimental than Hissing Fauna, and the complete lack of song structure was a bit off putting. But the pure gold nuggets of mini songs hidden in the tracks keep you coming back.



[Beck- Modern Guilt] I'm a child of the 90s, so Beck insured with Odelay that I would buy every album of his for the rest of my life. Modern Guilt isn't his best, but it gets better with every listen.



[Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend] I'm surprised how much of a guilty pleasure this is on the end of the year album lists. Everybody is a little ashamed to like them, but Vampire Weekend is too good to ignore. I got through some tough days this year building the house with Oxford Comma keeping me upbeat.