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Wednesday, May 25, 2005By Request
We all know that I'm always up for a challenge. Good friend and fellow music lover Chad Hermann threw one my way. I've long thought about doing some regular feature on this site about the music that inspires me, but I always somehow get bogged down by it all. I'm sure I could do a list like this once a week and it would be almost entirely different each time. But clearly I'm not going to do that -- I've got books to write, people.
So, to Chad and to you all, enjoy a slice of the music that inspires my madness. TOTAL SIZE OF MUSIC FILES ON MY COMPUTER: 37.47 GB THE LAST CD I BOUGHT: Funny that I just had this conversation with Chad that my buying habits have changed recently. Now I'm very likely to sample songs from my wonderful resources of friends, and if I really love it, I'll buy the album on vinyl. That way I'm rocking the turntable and the iTunes. So I'll split this category into... VINYL: Welcome/Nowhere by Thanksgiving. Haunting, beautiful, and the best packaging for collection of music I've ever seen. CD: Woman King ep by Iron & Wine. One of the best songwriters of our time. Really. SONG PLAYING RIGHT NOW IN iTUNES: (actually on shuffle on the ipod in the airport ... I'll list all the one that come up while I write this) 1. "Lawyers, Guns, and Money (live)" by Warren Zevon 2. "Fantastic Voyage" by Takako Minekawa 3. "Big Time Sensuality" by Björk 4. "Lit Up and Protruding" by Electric Company 5. "On With the Show" by Motley Crue 6. "When the Levee Breaks" by A Perfect Circle 7. "Let's Not Shit Ourselves" by Bright Eyes 8. "Do Not Be Afraid" by Mt. Eerie EIGHT ALBUMS I LISTEN TO A LOT RIGHT NOW: I'm not a song guy; I'm an album guy. So once again, I changed this category to my liking. In no order. 1. Glow, Pt.2 by The Microphones 2. Devil's & Dust by Bruce Springsteen 3. Franz Ferdinand by Franz Ferdinand 4. General Patton & the X-Ecutioners by Mike Patton & the X-Ecutioners 5. The Disintegration Loops II-IV by William Basinski 6. Super Hits Vol. 1 by Max Raabe & Palast Orchester 7. Odyssey by Fischerspooner 8. With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails EIGHT SONGS THAT EVOKE A LOT FOR ME: Watch how I still succumb to the power of song ... at least for this category! 1. "I'm Deranged" by David Bowie 2. "California Dreaming" by 386dx 3. "The Charles C. Leary" by Devendra Banhart 4. "We Must Have Blood" by Dwarves 5. "Die Bifindlichkeit Des Landes" by Einstürzende Neubauten 6. "Visitor Q - End Title" by Kôji Endô 7. "The Struggle Against Unreality" by Matmos 8. "Washer" by Slint EIGHT BANDS I JUST FEEL LIKE MENTIONING: My mangling of the categories is now complete! 1. 13 & God 2. Animal Collective 3. Autolux 4. Eyvind Kang 5. Jon Brion 6. Mono 7. The Twilight Singers 8. The Winter Pageant // posted at
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5 Comments:
this is a pretty awsome list! and some things i've been meaning to check out. iron&wine - amazing stuff, simply amazing, as is "bright eyes".
Bravo, Mr. Pascoe.
Bright Eyes just missed the cut on a couple of my lists; now I wish they hadn't. Jon Brion is great, and I'm loving that Franz Ferdinand album too. The Iron & Wine ep is amazing (thanks!), and "With Teeth" is starting to push "Devils & Dust" for serious iTunes play time.
And by the way -- a regular feature about music that inspires you would be all killer, no filler.
Rock on, my friend.
thanks, you two, both for the inspiration and the comments. I'm pretty happy with scope of this list, but I wish I had more time to talk about the individual bands, some of which (like the AMAZING Winter Pageant) are unsigned.
So maybe, just maybe, you'll see some more music talk.
Dude. Johnny Thunders.
any list that has thanksgiving, mt. eerie, microphones (so far that's almost all the same!), mike patton, and more importantly, mono and the winter pageant, is pretty great. oh and animal collective, eyvind kang and 13 & god (at least when they're not bad), too.
All you commenters who don't bother acknowledging the bands above, do it! Listen to the music secretary of iraq, or, well, or else! Or at least tell a joke....
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