nearly one year's worth of tunes! / 2008-03-08 / stockholm
ouch. ok, i've been real slow in putting up tracks... but that is not to say that i haven't been collecting them. so in one year of podcast listening, here are my picks. the list of music is getting long so for convenience i've moved everything over to this seperate page. so please listen on...
'when lost at sea' -- good guitar and vocal.
'basement apartment' -- never had a basement apartment, but have spent many a long nights in others' basement apartments. what is it about basement apartments? why are they a bit smelly but oh so comfy, quiet and good for drinking beer, watching movies and staying up all night listening to music while debating who had the better strategy in last weekend's game of Risk?
'dreamer' -- makes me think of summer evenings. not sure why.
'no ending' -- another guitar vocal.
'surround' -- sounds a bit like main-stream radio, but good non the less. if stations insist on playing cookie cutter music, why don't they bother picking up on much better quality canadian bands?
'nostalgia' -- a change in pace to a bit of hiphop. good mix track between verses.
'a different direction' -- keeping with the hiphop theme, a great 2 minute beat track.
'there goes my heart' -- ok, another genre change to teen punk. yah yah, just listen - it's pretty catchy. again this should be prime main-stream radio material, but the stations ignore it.
'oh dead life' -- nondescript, but makes me think of skipping out early on a sunny wednesday afternoon.
'if the creeks don't rise' -- gets my foot tappin' every time.
'how you used to know me well' -- somehow still a feel-good tune despite the sad lyrics.
'run from safety' -- good mix of a handful of instruments. harmonica + lap guitar + electric guitar + acoustic guitar + ... organ and trumpet, who knew?
'weighty ghost' -- ...and one with a xylophone?
'photocorners' -- nice little ramp up at the end.
'unnatural progression' -- guitar is not so great, but the voice is good and mellow.
'she's a ghost in the house' -- oooo so good smokey, sombre vocal and various strings. a female version of nick cave, but a much nicer voice to listen to.
'the pilgriming vine' -- another delicate but good female vocal.
'doctor blind' -- had to put this on the list simply because of the award it got from cbc radio 3 as "best song to listen to in the fetal position".
'war trilogy' -- a fantastic peotic east coast ballad to those who stepped up to the calling for peace and county.
'dinner at eight' -- a live cbc studio recording of the he-who-should-be-legendary Rufus Wainwright. rare occasion of just Rufus and piano and nothing else.
'my marie of the sea' -- sunday evening driving track, with a good intro bit from Shane Nelken.
'left and leaving' -- truely a defining bit of music, if there can be such a thing in indie music. the most requested track on cbc radio 3. from winnipeg's The Weakerthans, it just doesn't get much more canadian.
'one great city' -- to all of us who have/are "left and leaving" our beloved winnipeg. a beautiful song poetically capturing that strange love-hate relationship that i'm sure we all have with our home town (winnipeg or not). see ya at the mall.
'melody day' -- great beat track with a dash of the 70s.
'get on the bus' -- one of the best finds in the past two years. if i were to make a film on travels though the far east, hard core skiing in the karakorem perhaps, this would be the sound track. if anyone starts the typical conversation: "oh yah, canadian music... i know! like bryan adams, celine dion, and ... and who else?", then whip out your ipod and play them this indian-irish-and-everything-else-in-between track.
'salut la neige', 'the west was one' -- two down beats to slow things.
'chimeras' -- an ambient track to end things.
