2 posts tagged “music”
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
I rarely listen to my iPod on shuffle. Usually, I queue up several albums and just let them play, or create a specific playlist of songs I'd like to hear right now. The exception is when I'm driving a long distance, occasionally I like to break the monotony with the unexpected juxtapositions that a random playlist offers.
After putting my music player on shuffle, here are the first ten songs to play:
Mountain Goats: "Chinese Rifle Song" from Yam, the King of Crops
Julie Doiron: "Shivers + Crickets" from Heart and Crime
Morrissey: "Ouija Board, Ouija Board" from Bona Drag
Architecture in Helsinki: "City Calm Down" from Fingers Crossed
Jens Lekman: "Too Happy" from spelar i Kalmar 17/12
CocoRosie: "Terrible Angels" from Le Maison de Mon Reve
Josephine Foster: "The Way Is Sweetly Mown" from Hazel Eyes, I Will Lead You
Johnny Cash: "What Do I Care" from The Essential Johnny Cash
Devendra Banhart: "Korean Dogwood" from Cripple Crow
Casey Dienel: "Embroidery" from Wind-Up Canary
I am a fan of singer-songwriters, who would have known?
As I finalized my half-year list of 2006 favorite books and music, I was listening to Fewer Moving Parts (which incidentally made the list), the new solo EP from Pedro the Lion frontman David Bazan.
The EP is unique, in that Bazan offers five songs, then the stripped-down demos of the same songs (in the same order). Surprisingly, I love both the studio and demo versions. Where the studio songs excel musically, the demos bring Bazan's songwriting to the forefront.
This track, made available by Bazan, is a rough mix of the studio version, so it falls somewhere between the studio and acoustic version.
