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Fine Tune Friday brought your knife along
It was inevitable. The cannibalization has started. I started up another music blog and I end up writing about the song that’s been on my mind all week, which means I’d only be repeating myself on Fine Tune Friday and nobody wants that. The song I would have been writing about was the irritating-but-irresistible “If This Hat Is Missing I Have Gone Hunting” by Get Well Soon, but I already wrote about it.
Instead, enjoy another nice slice from the same album, a song called “I Sold My Hands For Food So Please Feed Me”, a song that isn’t irritating at all, but is actually really lovely. It reminds me a little of Radiohead’s “Let Down”, which is maybe a little bit too much of a comparison stretch, since that’s one of my favorite songs of all time, but it’s in the same vein. Enjoy.
New to my library this last week:
- Mates of State, Re-arrange Us. Nothing we haven’t heard before from these folks, but nice all the same.
- Sigur Ros, Med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust. I think I might be one of the few people who like Sigur Ros more with each album they release. I never got into the first one too much, but each release has hit me harder. This one is great.
- Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Lie Down In The Light. A combination of recommendations from Pitchfork, Christian, Thomas and good ol’ Limo Crazy’s Muxtape made me cave and buy it. It’s great.
- Various, Ken Burns Jazz - The Story Of America’s Music. As I slowly plow through this, I finally broke down and bought the whole thing on Amazon. I’m sure that jazz purists would laugh at anyone learning about the history of jazz through Ken Burns, but…I love it. It’s a nice capsule.
- Girl Talk, Feed The Animals. More short-attention-span mashups that’s…pretty much exactly the same. A whole lot of fun, but not a whole lot more.
Gotten anything good lately?
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June 27th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
at first listen it sounds a little like Beirut without the interesting rhythms…but I have to admit it grows on you. definitely picking up the album.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:22 pm
Just heard two songs from the new Virgins album (”One Week of Danger” and “Rich Girls”, think both were also on their previous EP). I think you’ve mentioned them before. Anyway, I was impressed enough to buy the CD. Which, for some reason I’m buying a lot more CDs lately rather than downloads. But I think it’s because the price of CDs have really come down recently: Amazon has the new Death Cab and Coldplay for $10, Sigur Ros and My Morning Jacket for $9…where CDs were more like $15 to $17 when I stopped buying them a few years ago.