Friday, February 26, 2010
calling all collaborators!
apparently some friends are having issues with posting rights here so this is me, inviting you guys to submit your tracklist and link for download in the comments!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Jenny Sigler - Best of 2009
EDIT: a few of, if not all of, the cds I gave out at the party went all gobbledigook towards the end of the tracklist. so pretty please download this if yours did that. the best songs are at the end in my opinion. :)
jenny.
>>>>> DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<<<<
Here is my Best of 2009 mix
01. Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
from the album Weathervanes
02. Seabear - I Sing I Swim
from the album The Ghost That Carried Us Away
03. Old Canes - Little Bird Courage
from the album Feral Harmonic
04. Hello Seahorse! - Won't Say Anything
from the album Hoy a las Ocho ("Tonight at Eight")
05. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Home
from the album Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
06. Cold Cave - Life Magazine
from the album Love Comes Close
07. Kael Alden - Where you Belong
this song was on a Lexus commercial I understand
08. Animal Collective - My Girls
from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion
09. Passion Pit - Sleepy Head
from the album Pretty Penny
10. Faded Paper Figures - North By North
from the album Dynamo
11. Sharam (feat. Kid Cudi) - She Came Along
from the album Get Wild
12. The Notwist - Boneless
from the album The Devil, You + Me
13. Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
from the album White Water, White Bloom
14. Broken Social Scene - Love Will Tear Us Apart
from The Time Traveler's Wife soundtrack
15. The Middle East - Blood
from the album The Recordings of The Middle East
16. Lake - Don't Give Up
from the album Let's Build a Roof
17. Architecture in Helsinki - Like a Call
from the album Fingers Crossed
18. Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies
from the album First Days of Spring
jenny.
>>>>> DOWNLOAD IT HERE <<<<<
Here is my Best of 2009 mix
01. Freelance Whales - Generator ^ First Floor
from the album Weathervanes
02. Seabear - I Sing I Swim
from the album The Ghost That Carried Us Away
03. Old Canes - Little Bird Courage
from the album Feral Harmonic
04. Hello Seahorse! - Won't Say Anything
from the album Hoy a las Ocho ("Tonight at Eight")
05. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes - Home
from the album Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros
06. Cold Cave - Life Magazine
from the album Love Comes Close
07. Kael Alden - Where you Belong
this song was on a Lexus commercial I understand
08. Animal Collective - My Girls
from the album Merriweather Post Pavilion
09. Passion Pit - Sleepy Head
from the album Pretty Penny
10. Faded Paper Figures - North By North
from the album Dynamo
11. Sharam (feat. Kid Cudi) - She Came Along
from the album Get Wild
12. The Notwist - Boneless
from the album The Devil, You + Me
13. Sea Wolf - Wicked Blood
from the album White Water, White Bloom
14. Broken Social Scene - Love Will Tear Us Apart
from The Time Traveler's Wife soundtrack
15. The Middle East - Blood
from the album The Recordings of The Middle East
16. Lake - Don't Give Up
from the album Let's Build a Roof
17. Architecture in Helsinki - Like a Call
from the album Fingers Crossed
18. Noah & The Whale - Blue Skies
from the album First Days of Spring
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Andy Whitman's 2009 Mix
Here's my 2009 mix. All songs from last year.
California On My Mind – Wild Light (Adult Nights)
A bright, summery Beach Boys pop song to start the proceedings. Except they’re singing:
Give me a lake that I can dive into
Bury my head in the shit at the bottom
Fuck today
Fuck San Francisco
Fuck California
Hey, who hasn’t wanted to harmonize along with those sentiments while cruising down the freeway with the windows rolled down? I hate California, too.
Try This At Home – Frank Turner (Poetry of the Deed)
Winner of The Clash/Billy Bragg Soundalike Award for 2009, Frank Turner writes short, angry odes that are sure to deflate whatever his target happens to be at the moment. Plus, I’m pretty sure he’s right when he sings “There’s no such thing as rock stars/There’s just people who play music/And some of them are just like us/And some of them are dicks.”
The Heartbreak Rides – A.C. Newman (Get Guilty)
A.C. (Carl) Newman is best known as the leader of power pop supergroup The New Pornographers. He has an effortless melodic gift. The latent pirate in me also appreciates a chorus that starts out “Yo! Ho!.”
Canned Food Demons – Boston Spaceships (Planets Are Blasted)
Bob Pollard is one half-assed dude, and he starts another band about every other month. But this one sounds the closest to his old band Guided By Voices. That’s a good thing, in my opinion.
In Babylon – Aaron Strumpel (Elephants)
Aaron Strumpel puts the “lament” back in the Psalms of Lament. Most CCM music (which this is not) treats the psalms as Broadway/American Idol schmaltz. Strumpel sounds like his head is ready to explode.
French Navy – Camera Obscura (My Maudlin Career)
Sweet ‘60s girl group pop music the way Phil Spector used to make it. That wall of sound is spectacular.
Bitch, I Love You – Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears (Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears)
A tender love ballad, sung the way James Brown might have sung it.
Kiss With a Fist – Florence and the Machine (Lungs)
A bit like Chrissie Hynde fronting The Ramones. This is another tender love ballad, and what I like to think of as the answer song to the previous tune.
Cooperstown – The Felice Brothers (Yonder Is the Clock)
I love baseball. I love Bob Dylan. I love surrealistic poetry. So when you find a band that sounds like Bob Dylan, and sings about baseball in a surrealistic, poetic kind of way, you know you’re onto something. I’m on first, and you’re on third, and the wolves are all between, and everyone’s sure that the game is over.
Norman Bleik – I Was a King (I Was a King)
Power pop from Norway, with help from Sufjan Stevens and Daniel Smith from Danielson Familye. This one is a thinly disguised homage to the lead singer/songwriter of Teenage Fanclub, one of the power pop greats.
Shreveport – The Gourds (Haymaker!)
A Cajun hoedown, with lyrics about Geddy Lee, truck drivers, and spandex, and with a lead vocalist who sounds like Levon Helm from The Band. Just your average band from Austin, Texas.
Tidal – Immogen Heap (Ellipse)
Swooning laptop pop. There’s a bit of Bjork here, a bit of Kate Bush. It was difficult to pick a favorite from this album. It’s stacked with great pop tunes from front to back.
Channel – Joe Henry (Blood from Stars)
Joe Henry, in my opinion, is the best songwriter going. I take this as a parable about marriage, and it’s the truest and most poetic encapsulation of that peculiar dance I’ve heard in a long time. “I love you with all due desperation and disarray.”
We Sing In Time – The Lonely Forest (We Sing the Body Electric)
These four kids from Seattle remind me of the early Who. They make a wondrous racket, but they still remember things like melody and hooks.
Halfway Wrong – Lucero (1372 Overton Park)
Lucero are a glorified bar band, but that’s alright. I love rowdy roots rock sung by guys who sound like they gargle with Drano. That’s what this sounds like to me. It’s just about the best sound in the world.
United States of Eurasia – Muse (The Resistance)
If Freddie Mercury had grown up reading George Orwell and Franz Kafka, he would have sounded like the paranoid wanker from Muse. But over-the-top, operatic, paranoid pop sure sounds great, doesn’t it?
Preacher Blues – Dave Perkins (Pistol City Holiness)
My buddy Dave Perkins has played with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, and about 2/3 of the CCM establishment in Nashville. But his first love is the blues. On his first solo album, released in 2009, he absolutely rips it up. Plus, he’s funny. “I would hang with the Baptists if they could get that girl for me.” Those are some serious blues.
Party to Survive – No Through Road (Winner)
The Strokes live! Okay, they’re not quite dead, but this Australian band does The Strokes, circa 2001, better than The Strokes.
Fear – Benjy Ferree (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee, Bobby Dee)
Nihilistic doo-wop. I’m not sure what to say about this. Benjy Ferree multi-tracks his vocals, and sounds like four guys standing around an oil drum fire in Philly, harmonizing about the impending apocalypse.
America’s Wives – Watermelon Slim (Escape from the Chicken Coop)
Watermelon Slim is an old coot who drives a truck. And that’s what he sounds like. He’s real country, and he’s got more soul than all the Nashville models in Stetsons put together.
Wet Wings – Dan Deacon (Bromst)
This is an old shapenote hymn, suitably bent by electronica wizard Dan Deacon. He creates an eerie drone/howl that I dearly love, and it perfectly suits the ominous lyrics: “The day is past and gone/The hour of death is near.”
Don’t Get Hung Up In Your Soul – Richard Hawley (Truelove’s Gutter)
A closing hymn for 3:00 a.m. The former Pulp guitarist/songwriter Richard Hawley has headed in an entirely new direction in his solo career, pursuing the ineffable Sinatra middle-of-the-night blues. He’s found ‘em, too. Plus, there’s theremin! Goodnight.
California On My Mind – Wild Light (Adult Nights)
A bright, summery Beach Boys pop song to start the proceedings. Except they’re singing:
Give me a lake that I can dive into
Bury my head in the shit at the bottom
Fuck today
Fuck San Francisco
Fuck California
Hey, who hasn’t wanted to harmonize along with those sentiments while cruising down the freeway with the windows rolled down? I hate California, too.
Try This At Home – Frank Turner (Poetry of the Deed)
Winner of The Clash/Billy Bragg Soundalike Award for 2009, Frank Turner writes short, angry odes that are sure to deflate whatever his target happens to be at the moment. Plus, I’m pretty sure he’s right when he sings “There’s no such thing as rock stars/There’s just people who play music/And some of them are just like us/And some of them are dicks.”
The Heartbreak Rides – A.C. Newman (Get Guilty)
A.C. (Carl) Newman is best known as the leader of power pop supergroup The New Pornographers. He has an effortless melodic gift. The latent pirate in me also appreciates a chorus that starts out “Yo! Ho!.”
Canned Food Demons – Boston Spaceships (Planets Are Blasted)
Bob Pollard is one half-assed dude, and he starts another band about every other month. But this one sounds the closest to his old band Guided By Voices. That’s a good thing, in my opinion.
In Babylon – Aaron Strumpel (Elephants)
Aaron Strumpel puts the “lament” back in the Psalms of Lament. Most CCM music (which this is not) treats the psalms as Broadway/American Idol schmaltz. Strumpel sounds like his head is ready to explode.
French Navy – Camera Obscura (My Maudlin Career)
Sweet ‘60s girl group pop music the way Phil Spector used to make it. That wall of sound is spectacular.
Bitch, I Love You – Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears (Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears)
A tender love ballad, sung the way James Brown might have sung it.
Kiss With a Fist – Florence and the Machine (Lungs)
A bit like Chrissie Hynde fronting The Ramones. This is another tender love ballad, and what I like to think of as the answer song to the previous tune.
Cooperstown – The Felice Brothers (Yonder Is the Clock)
I love baseball. I love Bob Dylan. I love surrealistic poetry. So when you find a band that sounds like Bob Dylan, and sings about baseball in a surrealistic, poetic kind of way, you know you’re onto something. I’m on first, and you’re on third, and the wolves are all between, and everyone’s sure that the game is over.
Norman Bleik – I Was a King (I Was a King)
Power pop from Norway, with help from Sufjan Stevens and Daniel Smith from Danielson Familye. This one is a thinly disguised homage to the lead singer/songwriter of Teenage Fanclub, one of the power pop greats.
Shreveport – The Gourds (Haymaker!)
A Cajun hoedown, with lyrics about Geddy Lee, truck drivers, and spandex, and with a lead vocalist who sounds like Levon Helm from The Band. Just your average band from Austin, Texas.
Tidal – Immogen Heap (Ellipse)
Swooning laptop pop. There’s a bit of Bjork here, a bit of Kate Bush. It was difficult to pick a favorite from this album. It’s stacked with great pop tunes from front to back.
Channel – Joe Henry (Blood from Stars)
Joe Henry, in my opinion, is the best songwriter going. I take this as a parable about marriage, and it’s the truest and most poetic encapsulation of that peculiar dance I’ve heard in a long time. “I love you with all due desperation and disarray.”
We Sing In Time – The Lonely Forest (We Sing the Body Electric)
These four kids from Seattle remind me of the early Who. They make a wondrous racket, but they still remember things like melody and hooks.
Halfway Wrong – Lucero (1372 Overton Park)
Lucero are a glorified bar band, but that’s alright. I love rowdy roots rock sung by guys who sound like they gargle with Drano. That’s what this sounds like to me. It’s just about the best sound in the world.
United States of Eurasia – Muse (The Resistance)
If Freddie Mercury had grown up reading George Orwell and Franz Kafka, he would have sounded like the paranoid wanker from Muse. But over-the-top, operatic, paranoid pop sure sounds great, doesn’t it?
Preacher Blues – Dave Perkins (Pistol City Holiness)
My buddy Dave Perkins has played with Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, and about 2/3 of the CCM establishment in Nashville. But his first love is the blues. On his first solo album, released in 2009, he absolutely rips it up. Plus, he’s funny. “I would hang with the Baptists if they could get that girl for me.” Those are some serious blues.
Party to Survive – No Through Road (Winner)
The Strokes live! Okay, they’re not quite dead, but this Australian band does The Strokes, circa 2001, better than The Strokes.
Fear – Benjy Ferree (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Bobby Dee, Bobby Dee)
Nihilistic doo-wop. I’m not sure what to say about this. Benjy Ferree multi-tracks his vocals, and sounds like four guys standing around an oil drum fire in Philly, harmonizing about the impending apocalypse.
America’s Wives – Watermelon Slim (Escape from the Chicken Coop)
Watermelon Slim is an old coot who drives a truck. And that’s what he sounds like. He’s real country, and he’s got more soul than all the Nashville models in Stetsons put together.
Wet Wings – Dan Deacon (Bromst)
This is an old shapenote hymn, suitably bent by electronica wizard Dan Deacon. He creates an eerie drone/howl that I dearly love, and it perfectly suits the ominous lyrics: “The day is past and gone/The hour of death is near.”
Don’t Get Hung Up In Your Soul – Richard Hawley (Truelove’s Gutter)
A closing hymn for 3:00 a.m. The former Pulp guitarist/songwriter Richard Hawley has headed in an entirely new direction in his solo career, pursuing the ineffable Sinatra middle-of-the-night blues. He’s found ‘em, too. Plus, there’s theremin! Goodnight.
Saturday, January 2, 2010
Monday, April 20, 2009
Monday, February 2, 2009
Andy Whitman's Favorites of 2008 Mix
Thanks for the mixes. I'm slowly making my way through them. This could take a while. So far I've listened to Nick's and Jenny's, and enjoyed both. Here's what's on mine, with added commentary, because I like to babble online.
1) Frightened Rabbit -- Head Rolls Off
U2 arena bombast with a Scottish brogue. From the album "The Midnight Organ Fight," which sounds like an extended metaphor for combative lovemaking, and is.
More detail here.
2) TV on the Radio -- Golden Age
If Prince did political commentary, this is what it would sound like.
More detail here.
3) Alabama 3 -- Mao Tse Tung Said
This song was recorded in 1997, but re-released last year, when I heard it for the first time. So it qualifies as a 2008 release for me. That's Jim Jones, the Peoples' Temple guy from the late '70s, ranting at the beginning of the song. He's scary. The rest of the song is pretty funny, IMO.
4) Beaujolais -- Contemptual You
One-man band from Chicago goes through a divorce, feels bad about it, writes a batch of angry/sad songs, and tries his best to sound like Brian Wilson. Most of the time he does.
5) Son Lux -- Stand
Probably my favorite song from 2008. You get Radiohead blips and beeps, hip-hop beats, classical piano, and a guy who repeats biblical passages like rosary beads. And who samples Maria Callas operatic arias for good measure.
More detail here.
6) Watermelon Slim -- Archetypal Blues #2
The blues, and nothin' but the blues. More detail here.
7) Blind Pilot -- I Buried a Bone
A couple of Portland, OR folkies sing a folk song. With mariachi trumpets.
8) Centro-Matic -- The Rat Patrol and DJs
I'm a sucker for dirty, distorted guitars and sweet pop singing. More detail here.
9) Bon Iver -- Re: Stacks
Sensitive, bearded folkie retreats to wilderness cabin and soothes his wounded heart by shooting moose and writing lovelorn tunes. More detail here.
10) Darrell Scott -- American Tune
This is a bluegrass version of an old Paul Simon tune, which in turn was cribbed from a J.S. Bach chorale. The path from J.S. Bach to bluegrass is a winding one, but Darrell Scott covers this song beautifully, and the lyrics remain some of my favorites, ever. More detail here.
11) Ezra Furman and the Harpoons -- Take Off Your Sunglasses
He's a smartass, and he can't really sing. Kind of like Bob Dylan in that way. Well, actually in a lot of ways. What's not to like? More detail here.
12) Jacob Golden -- Out Come the Wolves
Another sad divorce song. I don't know what it is. I'm happily married. I swear. More detail here.
13) Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit -- Shore to Shore
Royal Shakespearian actor goes slumming, adopting a Dickensian raggamuffin persona, sounding like a singer from Merrye Olde England, but writing lyrics like Billy Bragg. That's a pretty great combination. More detail here.
14) Bob Dylan -- Red River Shore
Now, I've heard of a guy who lived a long time ago
A man full of sorrow and strife
Whenever someone around him died and was dead
He knew how to bring 'em on back to life
Well, I don't know what kind of language he used
Or if they do that kind of thing anymore
Sometimes I think nobody ever saw me here at all
'Cept the girl from the Red River shore
Who else writes songs like this? More detail here.
15) Plants and Animals -- Bye Bye Bye
They're Arcade Fire imitators, but they're good Arcade Fire imitators.
16) Sun Kil Moon -- Harper Road
This guy (Mark Kozelek) writes the prettiest and saddest songs in the world. He's the King of Mope, and he did nothing to loosen the grip on his crown on his 2008 album "April." More detail here.
17) Vampire Weekend -- A-Punk
Evrybody has this album. Everybody likes this album. Me too. It's mindless fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. Ay-ay-ay-ay.
18) White Winter Hymnal -- Fleet Foxes
Everybody has this album. Everybody likes this album. Me too. It's not mindless fun, but it sure is pretty.
19) Anathallo -- The River
In the absence of a new Sufjan Stevens album in 2008, this one will do quite nicely. More detail here.
1) Frightened Rabbit -- Head Rolls Off
U2 arena bombast with a Scottish brogue. From the album "The Midnight Organ Fight," which sounds like an extended metaphor for combative lovemaking, and is.
More detail here.
2) TV on the Radio -- Golden Age
If Prince did political commentary, this is what it would sound like.
More detail here.
3) Alabama 3 -- Mao Tse Tung Said
This song was recorded in 1997, but re-released last year, when I heard it for the first time. So it qualifies as a 2008 release for me. That's Jim Jones, the Peoples' Temple guy from the late '70s, ranting at the beginning of the song. He's scary. The rest of the song is pretty funny, IMO.
4) Beaujolais -- Contemptual You
One-man band from Chicago goes through a divorce, feels bad about it, writes a batch of angry/sad songs, and tries his best to sound like Brian Wilson. Most of the time he does.
5) Son Lux -- Stand
Probably my favorite song from 2008. You get Radiohead blips and beeps, hip-hop beats, classical piano, and a guy who repeats biblical passages like rosary beads. And who samples Maria Callas operatic arias for good measure.
More detail here.
6) Watermelon Slim -- Archetypal Blues #2
The blues, and nothin' but the blues. More detail here.
7) Blind Pilot -- I Buried a Bone
A couple of Portland, OR folkies sing a folk song. With mariachi trumpets.
8) Centro-Matic -- The Rat Patrol and DJs
I'm a sucker for dirty, distorted guitars and sweet pop singing. More detail here.
9) Bon Iver -- Re: Stacks
Sensitive, bearded folkie retreats to wilderness cabin and soothes his wounded heart by shooting moose and writing lovelorn tunes. More detail here.
10) Darrell Scott -- American Tune
This is a bluegrass version of an old Paul Simon tune, which in turn was cribbed from a J.S. Bach chorale. The path from J.S. Bach to bluegrass is a winding one, but Darrell Scott covers this song beautifully, and the lyrics remain some of my favorites, ever. More detail here.
11) Ezra Furman and the Harpoons -- Take Off Your Sunglasses
He's a smartass, and he can't really sing. Kind of like Bob Dylan in that way. Well, actually in a lot of ways. What's not to like? More detail here.
12) Jacob Golden -- Out Come the Wolves
Another sad divorce song. I don't know what it is. I'm happily married. I swear. More detail here.
13) Johnny Flynn and the Sussex Wit -- Shore to Shore
Royal Shakespearian actor goes slumming, adopting a Dickensian raggamuffin persona, sounding like a singer from Merrye Olde England, but writing lyrics like Billy Bragg. That's a pretty great combination. More detail here.
14) Bob Dylan -- Red River Shore
Now, I've heard of a guy who lived a long time ago
A man full of sorrow and strife
Whenever someone around him died and was dead
He knew how to bring 'em on back to life
Well, I don't know what kind of language he used
Or if they do that kind of thing anymore
Sometimes I think nobody ever saw me here at all
'Cept the girl from the Red River shore
Who else writes songs like this? More detail here.
15) Plants and Animals -- Bye Bye Bye
They're Arcade Fire imitators, but they're good Arcade Fire imitators.
16) Sun Kil Moon -- Harper Road
This guy (Mark Kozelek) writes the prettiest and saddest songs in the world. He's the King of Mope, and he did nothing to loosen the grip on his crown on his 2008 album "April." More detail here.
17) Vampire Weekend -- A-Punk
Evrybody has this album. Everybody likes this album. Me too. It's mindless fun, and there's nothing wrong with that. Ay-ay-ay-ay.
18) White Winter Hymnal -- Fleet Foxes
Everybody has this album. Everybody likes this album. Me too. It's not mindless fun, but it sure is pretty.
19) Anathallo -- The River
In the absence of a new Sufjan Stevens album in 2008, this one will do quite nicely. More detail here.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
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