REALLY AMAZING

THIS MODERN LOVE

happy halloween!

JAMZ OF LATE PART III

1. I'M GOOD I'M GONE (LYKKE LI COVER) --- FRIENDLY FIRES. really like this band as of late. they put a nice spin on this song.

2. GALLERY PIECE --- OF MONTREAL. i'm not the biggest OM fan but this song really appeals to me to such a huge extent. i love that riff and the chant and they way it comes in and goes out. the lyrics are so hilarious and weird and sexy. "i wanna crash your car. i wanna scratch your cheeks. i wanna make you sick." what?

3. PATIENT PATIENT --- MORNING BENDERS. sweet, slow, nice drums and guitar, this great little vocal thing toward the end.

4. DESEO --- SAM BUCK ROSEN. i would be hard pressed to find any recent jamz with as much power as the first minute or so of this song, with that little guitar dip, those random backing instruments. humorously i believe this tune is named after a j-lo fragrance.

BLIND ME WITH YOUR HEAAAAAT

OF COURSE pitchfork gave deerhunter a 9.2. why i even bothered to scroll down to 'best new music' to find out if it was there is beyond me. OF COURSE IT WAS. for the record this is the same score they gave no age's NOUNS earlier this year. i predict right now that these, in some order, will be the top albums of the year. just you wait and see.

this is deerhunter's only good song.
HAZEL ST. --- DEERHUNTER
you'll like it if you like fuzz and moodiness. i like it because, to some extent, i can appreciate fuzz and moodiness, and there is this great vision i always have when listening to it of a gigantic hazy desert a la there will be blood and no country for old men, although this makes no sense based on many of the lyrics, and i saw both those films long after i first heard the song.

DOWNLOAD THIS NOW PLEASE

i didn't like FRIENDLY FIRES until i heard this song five minutes ago. all i can say is OH MY GOODNESS.
ON BOARD --- FRIENDLY FIRES.

i read this fantastic interview with bradford cox of deerhunter wherein he was talking about how noise for him is like sexuality for most people. i still don't understand this analogy but i like this idea. that being said, it is common sense that music can be really, really sexy but there are few bands that can carry this through without sounding sleazy. i am not saying that friendly fires are one of these bands. this song is especially sleazy: check out ed macfarlane, who is an attractive guy, kind of moaning "don't stop" at 1:16. but sleazy is not necessarily bad, and like bonde do role, who i linked to above, and we are wolves, who we talked about last night, friendly fires do this sleaze very well. god, when can i get down to this?

after some more listening i have decided that it is also in your best interest to listen to PHOTOBOOTH and IN THE HOSPITAL. both are really sexy in this jittery, nervous way (the best way!).

I AIN'T NO LITTLE BIRD

this came up on shuffle and i forgot how much i love it:
LITTLE BIRDS --- WE ARE WOLVES

don't have the words for this song --- really sexy, but all their stuff is sexy, and it isn't sexy in an orthodox way. shivery and fuzzy and dirty, with this pulse like a heartbeat. that chorus is so ridiculous and nonsensical but when you really think about it: "oh baby baby, i ain't no little bird!" but you can't put this song in a wicker cage, "yellow red and blue. yeah girl you know it's true." there's that mythical creature - i remember reading this fantasy book, as a child - that rusts iron cages, so you can't keep it in a box. i think this song is like that. very hungry, very wild.


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also i found this really old ra ra riot lounge act from 2006, before john pike (their former drummer) died in 2007. it's absolutely incredible. ghost under rocks is the first song, but it's here titled 'fever' and the verses are really different, although the words to the chorus are the same. this is really intriguing to me because even with different words and a different title this is a devastating and incredibly intense song. i'm into everest right now and almost dying because it is so incredible. it's all grouped together and the songs aren't separated so i'm just going to give you the whole file right here:
LIVE ON WOXY.COM, 2006 --- RA RA RIOT. with ghost under rocks, everest, each year, can you tell, dying is fine, hounds of love, two interviews.
not to be confused with LIVE ON WOXY.COM, JANUARY 2008

FOR THE LOLZ

if you were curious, my top played list on itunes. it's verifiably hilarious. if you sort by artist it becomes devastatingly evident who my favorite bands are. i'm pretty sure every song vampire weekend have recorded is on there.

BEHOLD!!!

note some ridiculousness: #12 and #18 are the same song. #4 and #46 are the same song. #1 is #1 by over 100 plays (at roughly 2.25 minutes, i've played it almost 300 times, which means i've listened to it for eleven hours and fifteen minutes. i try to stress that i am usually doing other things at the time.) i haven't listened to #30 for almost a year. #8 and #9 have basically the same play count because i don't want either one to "win" because i like them equally.

TWO HEADED BOY

jeff randomly showed up saturday night in pittsburgh and played a neutral milk hotel song, "engine," with julian koster, making saturday night the first time any two members of nmh have played together in ten years. coincidentally, in the aeroplane over the sea was ten years old a bit earlier this year.
PROOF

one of the most beautiful things in the world:
HOLLAND 1945 --- NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL