February 24, 2009
February 22, 2009
February 18, 2009
Wake Up Song: The Format - First Single
Homemade video of a folky-acousticy song that came out a few years ago. I always liked the hook to this one.
February 17, 2009
Wake Up song: Beethoven - 7th Symphony, Second Movement
Absolutely, positively, indisputably the most powerful piece of music ever written. Performances of this in the 1800s were banned due to its power and majesty.
February 15, 2009
Big Audio Dynamite - Rush
Embedding the video is prohibited, but click on it to view it on youtube.
Blame Hilary for this one, she brought it up during the Cowboy Junkies show tonight.
February 14, 2009
Wake Up Song: REM - Don't Go Back to Rockville
Homemade video, with bonus Nightingale Song at the end.
February 13, 2009
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
A lot of grunge music is starting to sound dated these days, but these guys and their music never age. Sometimes it's easy to forget what a tremendous band Soundgarden was.
February 12, 2009
Wake Up Song: The Fixx - Saved by Zero
Blame Roach for this one, we were discussing the awful Toyota ads from this fall and I idly wondered if this Fixx song by the same title was its inspiration. It's not their fault that this turned into the most irritating ad campaign of the football season!
February 9, 2009
Mike Doughty - 27 Jennifers
This is a new version of a song he did in 2005, and I like it a lot. One of my favorite lyrics ever is "16 Jens, 10 Jennys, and then there was her." This version's quite different from the original, and its video was shot with 27 girls actually named Jennifer. Pretty cool. Is it better than the original? Well, I just happen to have that one here as well in a homemade thing a fan made...
Envelopes - Sister In Love
This is one of those songs I like more and more every new time I hear it. Underground indie stuff makes me smile these days. DIY is not dead yet.
February 7, 2009
Foo Fighters - My Poor Brain
Audio only. This one hit me when I complained about my brain in the last post.
Dirty Pretty Things - You ... Love It
THREE CHORDS AND A CLOUD OF DUST.
I thought of this song when I dropped a pizza tray and it sounded just like the clatter at the beginning of this song. Somebody save me from my brain!
February 6, 2009
Fine Examples of Instrumental Rock
An underrated genre, this. I think every guitar wizard I grew up with dreamed of being Joe Satriani. Me, I wanted to be Stu Hamm. Hope you like these.
Joe Satriani - Friends
Stu Hamm - Linus and Lucy
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Steve Vai - Bad Horsie
February 5, 2009
Mike Doughty - Looking at the World from the Bottom of a Well
I don't know if I could find for you any single song that's come out in the last four years that I like more than this one.
Stereophonics - Too Many Sandwiches
Thanks to Tom making me set my iPod on shuffle, I got this one stuck deep in my head early this morning. This is the kind of song that takes me 20 minutes to listen to because I'm constantly backing up to re-listen to bits and hooks and chord progressions.
Wake Up Song: On - Soluble Words
Homemade video, audio only. Ken Andrews, of Failure and Year of the Rabbit, had a side project called On in his early career that spawned some pretty cool minor-chord electronic music. This was always my favorite song from the first album, and thankfully someone has made a home video with it as the background music.
February 4, 2009
Dead Milkmen - RC's Mom
If the Dead Milkmen themselves hired consultants and paid $1 million in production costs, they couldn't have dreamed up a better video for this song.
Apologies
Note to self: be careful when posting Yahoo videos. The Pretenders video from a couple of days ago was causing the script error you were seeing if you tried to close this site. Pretty sure the problem is fixed now, but I had to kill off a couple of posts to get the problem fixed. We should be all good now.
Wake Up Song: People in Planes - Pretty Buildings
Another good one by a tremendous band. The more I dig into their collection, the more I like these guys.
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