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Posts about music
January 26th, 2010
Then dive down there with the lights to lead
That seem to shine from everything
Down to the bottom of the deep blue sea
Down where your heart beats so slow
And you never in your life have felt so free
Will you come down there with me
Down were our bodies start to seem
Like artefacts of some strange dream
Which afterwards you can’t decipher
And so, soon, have forgotten everything.

Joanna Newson, Colleen

I was pointed to a page of Newson’s lyrics by Neven Mrgan’s post. I don’t listen to her music much—it’s not really my style—and so had no idea how amazing her lyrics are.

music
December 4th, 2009

The Ramones, in summary.

Things The Ramones wanted to do: Be your boyfriend, sniff some glue, dance, be a good boy, Carbona, be well, have something to do, be sedated, live.

Things The Ramones did NOT want to do: Walk around with you, be learned, be tamed, be a pinhead no more, be buried in a pet semetary, fight tonight (on Christmas), grow up.

Things The Ramones could not, would not, or did not do: Be, care, give you anything, make it on time, let it happen, seem to make you theirs, control themselves.

Things The Ramones did do: Make a living by peelin’ a banana, go out west where they belong, remember you, go mental, be affected, sit in their room (humming a sickening tune), think of you (everytime they ate vegetables), believe in miracles, love you.

Things The Ramones told you to do: Shut it up, Beat on a brat with a baseball bat, ring up the FBI to find out if their baby’s alive, give them shock treatment.

Things The Ramones warned you about doing: Shutting it up, killing that girl, talking to commies, opening that door.

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—Timoni

the ramones music lyrics
October 19th, 2009
In 1992, Brancowitz was part of a short lived Beach Boys-inspired guitar group called Darlin’. The band consisted of his friends Thomas Bangalter, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and himself. After releasing their songs on Duophonic, a review in the British music magazine Melody Maker called the music “a bunch of daft punk.” Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo decided to create Daft Punk in 1993 as Brancowitz joined forces with Phoenix.

Laurent Brancowitza, via Wikipedia

Anybody got any tracks from this band?

bands music obscure phoenix daft punk darling
September 27th, 2009
Admittedly, I opened a bunch of tabs first, but when I finally checked Justin Timberlake’s website, the first thing I saw was another performer, which immediately struck me as really, really cool: world-famous guy is so confident that he (or his marketing team) is comfortable putting another performer in the main banner on his site. Sweet.

Admittedly, I opened a bunch of tabs first, but when I finally checked Justin Timberlake’s website, the first thing I saw was another performer, which immediately struck me as really, really cool: world-famous guy is so confident that he (or his marketing team) is comfortable putting another performer in the main banner on his site. Sweet.

music marketing justintimberlake
September 17th, 2009
What Was I Listening To? - Andy Smith

Love it, love it, LOVE IT. Tells you what songs you were listening to while tweeting.
music internets personalization theinternetismydiary
August 28th, 2009
- Anatomy of a Hipster #144., by indierawk Wait, what? Don’t they mean “Coachella,” not “Lollapalooza?” (I dislike and try to ignore hipster-bashing-by-hipsters, normally, but this was too confusing to ignore.)

- Anatomy of a Hipster #144., by indierawk

Wait, what? Don’t they mean “Coachella,” not “Lollapalooza?”

(I dislike and try to ignore hipster-bashing-by-hipsters, normally, but this was too confusing to ignore.)

society music
August 18th, 2009

I think that, in general, everybody is eccentric. Aside from a small minority of people that are as one-dimensional as they appear, I think most people have a secret life. Most people are extremely interesting. Anybody that you see just walking down the street is probably a very interesting person. I don’t think that artists are necessarily more interesting than non-artists. Someone like Salvador Dali, who was just performing all the time, I mean, his whole life was a performance. He probably seemed more interesting than other people. If you’re not envisioning the world looking in it at you, you’re not documenting all the things in your head.

You might be extremely eccentric, and you’d have no idea. In our band, everybody thinks that every other member of the band is totally crazy, that they are the only sane one. It’s probably like that with all groups of friends. It’s some weird aspect of the human condition that we think everyone else is crazy, except for ourselves.

of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes interviewed by Jay Hathaway for Suicide Girls

society music
August 14th, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

Try Me, I Know We Can Make It, by Donna Summers

I stumbled across this song searching for photos of Barry Manilow, a search that led me from this page, inviting comparisons between Manilow’s Chopin-influenced “Could It Be Magic” versus Summers’ disco cover, to the Amazon album page for “A Love Trilogy,” which politely asked if I’d like to listen to any samples, so I did, and the first song is “Try Me, I Know We Can Make It,” and thirty-two seconds in, I swear, I fell in love, and you will be, too, and stay in love for the next seventeen minutes and twenty seconds.

disco music
August 10th, 2009
Translation party You should stay.

Translation party

You should stay.

technology humour music
August 4th, 2009
…there are more kids than I ever, in my wildest dreams, thought possible, that love Third Eye Blind and consider them their favorite band EVER. I don’t know how this happened. I really, really, really don’t. But it did. I don’t really understand how it could, and would love to be enlightened. But seriously, kids think Stephen Jenkins is a fucking hero genius, while lots of people over the age of 27 had absolutely no idea he was even relevant. While those of us over 27 had left him for dead, basically, Stephen Jenkins was being hailed by the kids as their biggest musical influence and inspiration. What. The. Fuck?

Well, now you know.

I was talking to one of my musical heroes recently and she asked me what the 90s revival was all about. When I told her “Well, I’m glad you’re sitting down because when I tell you what i know, you might faint or cry: The 90s revival is all about Third Eye Blind. It’s not about Nirvana, it’s not about Hole, it’s not about Pearl Jam, Green Day or Beck whose constant stream of musical input has lasted til now. It’s not about any of the bands that Rolling Stone or SPIN hailed as the saviors of mankind… it’s all about Third Eye Blind.

ultragrrrl’s THIRD EYE BLIND EXPLAINED, via nikography

Third-Eye Blind is definitely the sound of the nineties. The nasal tone, the weird pronunciation, the heavy guitars* of “Semi-Charmed Life” instantly scream 1997—unlike the above-mentioned Nirvana: “Nevermind” sounds as fresh as the day it was released in 1991.

It’s understandable that folks would want the sound of the nineties to be one of the best bands of the nineties, but that’s not going to happen any more than Radiohead will ever be hailed as the sound of the 00s. Although, like ultragrrrl, I thought of Third Eye Blind as a joke band, I get it. I can see why the kids like it.

*See also: Blink 182, Live.

music society
July 23rd, 2009

Realization

I just found out “Hey Paula” and “Blowin’ in the Wind” were both released in 1963. At first, I couldn’t believe it; really, were our folks honestly singing along to duets about post-high school marriage before spring graduation, then getting high and listening to Dylan in their dorm rooms come fall?

I did a bit of digging around to see if I could find a similar case. Turns out both “OK Computer” and “Spice World” were released in 1997.

Fact & a half: History comes up with some strange bedfellows.

—Timoni

music history society
June 25th, 2009
[ Michael Jackson via MSNBC ] (This is from the Victory Tour, 1984.)

[ Michael Jackson via MSNBC ]

(This is from the Victory Tour, 1984.)

music photos
[ Michael Jackson via 100 Luscious Presents ] Google reminded me how cool Jackson used to be (and why I, uh, used to kiss my Thriller poster every night). 1982: best year for him. After that it was the downhill road to scary and pale, but in 1982, he not only got away with sequins but totally rocked them.

[ Michael Jackson via 100 Luscious Presents ]

Google reminded me how cool Jackson used to be (and why I, uh, used to kiss my Thriller poster every night). 1982: best year for him. After that it was the downhill road to scary and pale, but in 1982, he not only got away with sequins but totally rocked them.

music photos
June 24th, 2009
[ We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Morrissey, via www.vulgarpicture.com ] (My favorite Morrissey cover. So cute with the glasses!)

[ We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful - Morrissey, via www.vulgarpicture.com ]

(My favorite Morrissey cover. So cute with the glasses!)

photos music art
[ Viva Hate - Morrissey ]

[ Viva Hate - Morrissey ]

photo music art
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