Dec 30, 2013
Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there; I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints on snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not here; I did not die.
The Flaming Lips And Friends – The Time Has Come To Shoot You Down… What A Sound - 2013
01. I Wanna Be Adored (HOTT MT And Stardeath And White Dwarfs)
02. She Bangs The Drums (The Flaming Lips, Poliça And New Fumes)
03. Waterfall (Blobs Descending From Heaven, HOTT MT And Stardeath And White Dwarfs)
04. Don’t Stop (Stardeath And White Dwarfs)
05. Bye Bye Badman (New Fumes And Def Rain)
06. Elizabeth My Dear (The Flaming Lips And New Fumes)
07. (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister (HOTT MT)
08. Made Of Stone (Stardeath And White Dwarfs And The Flaming Lips)
09. Shoot You Down (Peaking Lights)
10. This Is The One (Depth And Current, Jonathan Rado And The Flaming Lips)
11. I Am The Resurrection (New Fumes)
12. Fools Gold (Spaceface)
A Stone Roses cover album done by Flaming Lips and Friends! Serious...
Most covers are off of their simply stellar first album... Very experimental, putting many of the songs through a refreshing treatment.
Great songs are great songs, just the way it is.
X is Y - 2010 - 2013
X is Y initially slow-burning appeal has gained considerable momentum in recent months. Having begun as solo folk songs written by Guillaume, X is Y’s math-rock material has grown increasingly energetic on stage and the band are now one of the leading acts in the city. ‘I’m more into playing loud and screaming than performing low key folk shows,’ he says of the sound’s evolution.
Dec 28, 2013
Jackson & the Wargonauts - The Summer's Eye - 2013
Seems to me these guys have been influenced by Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco and the likes - very nice release.
Jackson Wargo is the creative engine of the 10-piece folk/rock ensemble affectionately referred to as Jackson & the Wargonauts. The music focuses on intricate lyrics entwined with soaring melodies that are complimented by a four-piece horn section, and 5-piece rhythm section that follows the passion of the song to the ends of the dynamic spectrum. Jackson’s songs range stylistically from Elliott Smith’s subdued and intimate musicality to the most energetic and dynamic musical movement of Spiritualized. Debut album The Summer’s Eye is released November 30th on Doughnut Records.
Dec 27, 2013
Dec 26, 2013
Top 20 Songs 2013: Moby - Almost Home
All this time
In a moment's time
To turn away
Leave it all behind
So we climb
So we all uphold the line
The crowd is home
The treasure found
(Chorus x2)
So let it go
Wake up, wake up, wake up
We're almost home
Time to scout
When I was a child there
I know at heart
To be at your side
So we climb
So we all uphold the line
I dream it too
The stars remind
All this time
In a moment's time
To turn away
Leave it all behind
So we climb
So we all uphold the line
The crowd is home
The treasure found
Dec 22, 2013
Top 20 Songs 2013: Yo La Tengo - Ohm
This came out early in the year, but has been on steady rotation in my home; the drive , the harmonies, the magic… Listen again!
Sometimes the bad guys come out on top
Sometimes the good guys lose
We try not to lose our hearts, not to lose our minds
Sometimes the bad days maintain their grip
Sometimes the good days fade
Hurts the brain to think, hurts the hand to drink
But nothing ever stays the same
Nothing's explained
The higher we go, the longer we fly
Cause this is it for all we know
So say good night to me
And lose no more time, no time
Resisting the flow
I heard you calling from far away
I thought I heard you cry
Hadn't the voice to make it right
So I just cry
I felt her slipping, slipping away
Before I could even see
Tried once more, lost my grip, you were gone
But nothing ever stays the same
Nothing's explained
The longer it takes, the looser the ties
'Cause this is it for all we know
So say good night to me
And lose no more time, no time
Resisting the flow
Doo doo doo doo
But nothing ever stays the same
Nothing's explained
The stronger the wind, the faster we'll fly
'Cause this is it for all we know
So say good night to me
And lose no more time
No time
Resisting the flow
Dec 21, 2013
Top 20 Songs 2013: Nightlands - Time & Place
The son of a genetic engineer, Dave Hartley has eschewed his father's profession but decidedly inherited his analytical proclivities and love of "the lab." As Nightlands, Hartley is a scientist trying to create and understand art through analytical process. Here, with sophomore album Oak Island, his follow up to 2010's superb Forget the Mantra, new questions are explored: what happens when the human voice is layered exponentially? Is the sum more man, or more melancholy machine? In seeking these answers, Nightlands takes us on a spirit quest through lush forests down into The Uncanny Valley. Each distorted, silver-voiced melody is wrapped in the sounds of 70s AM gold -- plucked acoustic guitars, trumpets, dulcimers and hand percussion. In using these pop touchstones, the songs become something close to memories, the faded feelings that tide in and out of you when conjuring the past.
Dec 19, 2013
Clara Engel - Ashes & Tangerines - 2013
“Clara Engel’s voice comes to me from that deepest of all places, imaginative space, from which she visually retrieves an inner landscape converted by breath into the rock equivalent of poetry. Rarely has a voice sounded so authoritative, so unapologetic in its disclosures, so sure of its direction in going home into song,” - British poet Jeremy Reed
Top 20 Songs 2013: Michael Feuerstack - Trees
TREES
Just ask the Sycamore, or the Juniper
The old Oak, the Redwood and the Fir say the same
You can’t go wrong with the sun and the rain
Even the cactus and the evergreen
Lining your forest or your desert scene
They say you can’t go wrong with the sun and the rain
Mighty up above shining down on us all day
There must be something we can do
Soaking up your beautiful rays and drops from on high
You make the trees so happy they reach for the sky
You feed the animals and you keep them warm
The wise old owl and the calf just born
They say you can’t go wrong with the sun and the rain
On a dusty and arid or a humid and stifling day
There’s always somewhere we can catch some shade
Under the trees, the sweet green glowing leaves
The trees are so happy they reach for the sky
Meet me in the summer and we’ll take a walk
With your generous manners and your beautiful talk
You say you can’t go wrong with the sun and the rain
Mighty up above shining down on us all day
There must be something we can do
Soaking up your beautiful rays and drops from on high
You make the trees so happy they reach for the sky
Dec 17, 2013
Top 20 Songs 2013: Jake Bellows - New Ocean
New Ocean is sentimental in every good way possible. Bellows’ songwriting, while not necessarily highly evolved technically from the output of Neva Dinova, is grounded in an inherent wisdom that can only come from having been writing songs pretty much nonstop for over 15 years. paste
Dec 15, 2013
Top 20 Song 2013: Islands - Becoming the Gunship
Islands, the Canadian art-poppers led by former Unicorn Nick Thorburn, are preparing to unleash their new album Ski Mask upon the world. The first single they shared was the lush but twitchy “Wave Forms,” and now they’ve got another one called “Becoming The Gunship,” a title that Thorburn claims came to him in a dream. The song is a slow, sweeping, assured ballad with a poised and powerful lead vocal from Thorburn, who seems to be getting better as a singer all the time.
When it was dark
I was a question mark,
Becoming the gunship. wooh oh oh ooh
I had a heart, but it was thorn apart
Now, I'm the gunship.
Run away
Runs away
You don't wanna be here
When I hit 'em all.
Unlike the wealth that doesn't know itself
I am a bird that doesn't fly.
I lost desire to whom my file
I am the gunship.
Run away
Runs away
You don't wanna be here
When I hit 'em all.
When it was dark I was question mark,
Becoming the gunship.
I couldn't stop,
Had no control to turn it off.
I was the gunship. I am the gunship.
Will be the gunship, becoming the gunship
No Monster Club - Foie Gras - 2013
“No Monster Club turns Ireland's rather gray songwriter formula Technicolor... like a stripped-down, sugar high ‘Pet Sounds’.” - Jenn Pelly (NYLON Magazine/Pitchfork)
“An impossibly chirpy, deliciously lo-fi guitar pop jam, ‘(I Think You Could Only Get Away With This Carry On When You’re In) The Sun’ is everything a modern-day bathing beauty could hope for in a soundtrack; fun, messy and infinitely singable” - Hotpress
“No Monster Club has blossomed into Ireland’s premiere jangle-thrash trio. Masters of 3-minute exuberant pop nuggets, the band has caught the attention of Ariel Pink, Sic Alps, Jeff The Brotherhood and Wavves” - My Old Kentucky Blog
“Like The Libertines and Dan Deacon, they are a band quite visibly fuelled by a sense of camaraderie with their fans, a back-and forth live experience that feeds off the room and often feels as much house-party as gig.” - Asleep on the Compost Heap
“Wow, that ‘Give It Up’ cover you did is so cool! You are the record guy! The music is so different!” - Jedward
Dec 14, 2013
Top 20 Songs: Tindersticks - I Know That Loving
Absolutely love this track from tindersticks latest release Across Six Leap Years… Sultry, smokey, the sway, the groove hits on all the right notes.
She sinks inside me
It's so beautiful
Not hear her calling
And I would raise myself
To live up to her love
And not look down on me
Forgiving me again
And I hear her calling
Do you wanna get out of the water
Do you wanna try and carry on
It gets so low
I get so low
She sinks inside me
It's so beautiful
Not hear her calling
But it's like a waterfall
Falling down on me
Forgiving me again
And I know that loving
Chorus:
Like feet that have never been walked on
I know that
Hands that never held no blame
Can't you see that I guess you're staying
Eyes that have never cried angry tears
It's always the same
A face that never felt that shame
Well that's my heart
It's calling out your name
She sinks inside me
There like chemicals
I see the birds fly
And I'd disgust myself
To be free of that love
Pull myself from under the weight of it all
And I hear her, hear her
Chorus
I've got to give it up
I've got to give it up
It's just that quality of forgiveness
Forgiveness is what I need
If I could only get out of the water
If I could only get myself clean
I've got to give it up
I've got to give it up
Like feet that have never been walked on
I know that
Hands that never held no blame
I'm running on my knees again
Eyes that have never cried angry tears
It's always the same
A face that never felt that shame
She's standing at the altar
Like feet never walked on
I know that she's waiting there
Like hands never held no blame
If I could only get out of the water
No crying angry
If I could only get out of here
but I've gotta give it up
that felt no shame
I've got to give it up
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