Summer Playlist
Let’s build a summer playlist! Here are the rules:
Every comment must nominate two songs for the playlist, the next person must eliminate one song from the previous post and nominate two more.
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Quite possibly the best song of ’09 thus far.
Since we’ve moved on to the second page here is the last update/nominations:
Matthew said:Phoenix – “1901”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Cold Spring”
Dirty Projectors – “Stillness is the Move”
Mos Def – “Quiet Dog Bite Hard”
Joe Gideon and The Shark – “DOL”
Ida Maria – “Oh My God”
St. Vincent – “Marrow”
Jason Lytle – “Brand New Sun”
Camera Obscura – “Honey In The Sun”
Animal Collective – “My Girls”
Japandroids – “The Boys are Leaving Town”
Das Racist – "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Mix)
The Thermals – “We Were Sick”
Passion Pit – “Eyes as Candles”New Songs
Millionaires – “Just got Paid, Lets get Laid”
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – “I’m Broke”
I know I already voted, but I’d like to double vote against anything involving a Passion Pit, Pizza Hut, or Taco Bell.
Phoenix – “1901”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Cold Spring”
Dirty Projectors – “Stillness is the Move”
Mos Def – “Quiet Dog Bite Hard”
Joe Gideon and The Shark – “DOL”
Ida Maria – “Oh My God”
St. Vincent – “Marrow”
Jason Lytle – “Brand New Sun”
Camera Obscura – “Honey In The Sun”
Animal Collective – “My Girls”
Japandroids – “The Boys are Leaving Town”
Das Racist – "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Mix)
The Thermals – “We Were Sick”
Passion Pit – “Eyes as Candles”
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – “I’m broke”
New Songs
Grizzly Bear – Southern Point
Bibio – Flesh Rots, Pip Sown
Someone new should jump in now!
Or I will put my other two forward
Grizzly Bear moves on from your last two
and I pick
Crystal Stilts – Prismatic Room
Phantom Band – Left Hand Wave – Although The Island is the best track on the album if you have not heard it
Phoenix – “1901”
Cymbals Eat Guitars – “Cold Spring”
Dirty Projectors – “Stillness is the Move”
Mos Def – “Quiet Dog Bite Hard”
Joe Gideon and The Shark – “DOL”
Ida Maria – “Oh My God”
St. Vincent – “Marrow”
Jason Lytle – “Brand New Sun”
Camera Obscura – “Honey In The Sun”
Animal Collective – “My Girls”
Japandroids – “The Boys are Leaving Town”
Das Racist – "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell (Wallpaper Mix)
The Thermals – “We Were Sick”
Passion Pit – “Eyes as Candles”
Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears – “I’m broke”
Grizzly Bear – “Southern Point”
Phantom Band – “Left Hand Wave”
New Songs:
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – “Young Adult Friction”
DOOM – “Lightworks”
I tried, man, but I really hate that Pains of Being Pure at Heart album. There’ just… there’s nothing to it.
bump.
BUUUMP!
Agreed, John. I bump the Pains of Being Pure at heart
Add:
The Twilight Sad – “I Became a Prostitute”
Memphis Bleek – “Alright (Ratatat Remix)”
Fuck, I regret ever having bumped it. I really can’t stand tPoBPaH. I’ve tried so many times but it’s just sooooo…. generic. I’d imagine it’s sort of like what listening to the Strokes was like for people who were really into the Ramones. But if the Ramones had their heydey only a decade or so beforehand, instead of several decades beforehand.
John said:Fuck, I regret ever having bumped it. I really can’t stand tPoBPaH. I’ve tried so many times but it’s just sooooo…. generic. I’d imagine it’s sort of like what listening to the Strokes was like for people who were really into the Ramones. But if the Ramones had their heydey only a decade or so beforehand, instead of several decades beforehand.
I have no idea what this even means. Are you saing tpobpah sound like the Strokes? Or that the Strokes sound like The Ramones?
I’m saying tpobpah (which I think is a far better name than the full version, by the way), sound like every shoegaze band I’ve ever heard and really don’t bring anything new or interesting to the party, sort of like what the Strokes did with the Ramons (except that the Strokes were insanely fun and catchy, whereas tpopbah is just super repetitive and predictable and it grates on me like what).
I have to give tpobpah another listen. I only gave it 1 or 2 whirls a while back but I dont’ remember it sounding shoegazey as much as 80’s retro pop along the lines of a Phoenix or something of that nature. Now I’m curious again.
If the Strokes sounded anything like the Ramones they might have actually been good and instead of being boring, contrived hipster garbage. Thankfully now they’re pretty much cemented as the Tommy Tutone of the 90’s.
Needless to say that was a band I could never get into.
Hmmm….just listened to the album again and sure enough….yeah, it is sort of shoegazery (slightly though). In fact I described them as such msyelf when i posted about them some time ago. Not horrible, but I can see the repetitive thing in that all the songs sound similar. I can see not liking it, but hating it seems a bit hyperbolic since it’s just innocuous jangly pop.
I really can’t stand innocuous jangly pop, though. There are exceptions, but for the most part, it really grates on me as a whole.
Hm….fair enough.
Is it too late to nominate Kelly Clarkson’s “I Do Not Hook Up”? This song is pop genius.
Do it, Reg! But you gotta pick one of Steve’s and offer up two songs to choose from.