WRITTEN IN REVERSE

TIME FOR YOU GUYS TO HEAR THE FIRST SINGLE FROM SPOON'S TRANSFERENCE.


WRITTEN IN REVERSE. it takes some NPR spelunking to find it, but i'm sure you'll be able to. that piano intro.... dear god in heaven. if my roommates were not in my room i probably would've screamed out loud. something about that piano is sooooo sexy. i don't even know what it is.
i'm sure you REMEMBER THIS POST... well, my feelings have not changed.

BONUS FLASHBAQ TIME: SPOON LIVE SOMEWHERE IN KNOXVILLE IN JUNE OF 1996. i was FIVE YEARS OLD when this show was recorded and it's full of some of my favorite spoon songs. take a walk doesn't even have real lyrics yet BUT IT'S SO SICK.

archive.org has a ton of spoon bootlegs you should check out. i'm making my way through all the pre-2000 ones! i can't believe i've only seen this band once --- and when i saw them i only knew gimme fiction stuff. NOW THAT I AM AWARE OF THEIR ENTIRE DISCOGRAPHY...

OLD SCHOOL DPZ

lately i've been really into dirty projectors circa getty address (2005) and the new attitude ep (2006). both of these recordings precede the lineup pictured above and are totally ridiculous and awesome. to give you a hint: for getty address dave longstreth gathered together a touring lineup of about fifteen people which included TWO FLUTES, TWO SAXOPHONES, and TWO CELLOS.

anyway, here is a DIFFERENT LINEUP ENTIRELY doing two TOTAL JAMS for a college radio station in 2006. i wish more than anything that they had two sheep asleep up, but unfortunately they do not :( these recordings are amazing, though! check them out.

FUCKED FOR LIFE --- DIRTY PROJECTORS (from new attitude)
NOT HAVING FOUND --- DIRTY PROJECTORS (from getty address)

also, here's my favorite song from getty address, FINCHES' SONG AT OCEANIC PARKING LOT.

FOOL'S GOLD

i went to go see fool's gold last weekend. sweet afro-pop jams, sung in hebrew, lots of percussion and saxophone. i wish i'd been into this in the summer. i've got to drive around playing their music ASAP!!
they're awesome live, let me tell you --- so much fun! such nice dudes, as well.



SURPRISE HOTEL --- FOOL'S GOLD
you can download this, just click "read full post."

and watch NADINE

IDIOT DRIVER IDIOT DRIVE

reading decade-end lists really just makes me sad that people do not understand the pure unadulterated genius which is this band, spoon. their evolution as a band / sound absolutely blows my mind.

IDIOT DRIVER --- SPOON from telephono, released when i was five years old.

ME & MY YOU & YOUR

edited out of the review i am writing on this for PMA:
I read Andre Breton’s Soluble Fish today and I was struck by this one line: “The ground beneath my feet is nothing but an enormous unfolded newspaper” and my heart and my head and everything in me read, after the word “is:” HOT GARBAGE AND CONCRETE AND NOW THE TOPS OF BUILDINGS I CAN SEE THEM, TOO. So maybe what I am getting at here is that I am not impartial and perhaps somewhat of a terrible liberal arts student, inserting song lyrics into world-renowned surrealist works. Throughout everything the point remains that I like a band called Vampire Weekend and I like them a lot because perhaps with some strange telepathy they are capable of making songs that sound like what I want music to sound like. Luis asked me to be objective with the misguided faith that objectivity was possible for me, but I have never been able to make sense of my love for this band. I cannot explain it to people when they laugh at the round and complex number of times that I have seen them play live (eight as of now, probably ten by February). But I will try to make sense of how much I love Cousins, which is the first single from their second album, which is called Contra.

you can read the finished review on pma when it's done, i'll link you. for now:

COUSINS --- VAMPIRE WEEKEND (LISTEN ON PMA)

you can now read my completed review there as well.

PARDON ME WHILE I BECOME RELIGIOUS

GET THE MOTION --- SAM BUCK ROSEN
this song is so hot, i can't even get over it. i forgot how hot it was. the saxophone! the sexy lo-fi fuzz! the voice! gah! everything! lately i've been listening to it on virb because it was UNAVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.
BUT NOT ANYMORE

if you do one thing that i recommend today, make it this thing. download this song right now, seriously. and then get down.

ps. this shuffled on my computer into lady gaga's recently leaked "fame monster" which is INCREDIBLE. seriously, go get your hands on that for sure.

200

in honor of my two hundredth post and the constant youtube linking i've been doing lately, here's a fantastic, fantastic, fantastic cover i discovered by born ruffians' luke lalonde and his sister in a garage somewhere in canada, doing animal collective's fireworks.



all the singing in this is perfect. i love how luke does that whole "i've been eating with a good friend..." part. he has such a fantastic voice.

i've just rediscovered my love for born ruffians. every time i am on the radio i play something of theirs.