Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
this is a test.
it worked!
(i haven't been able to embed video on this template, but i've been tweaking the code...i know you're all fascinated)
i intended to delete this post, but it's a freaking good song so i'll leave it.
twenty five albums.
i was hoping to dodge this meme; not because i dislike it, but because i know how much thought and time it would take.
pick 25 albums that had an impact on you...only 25?!? my tag-er, tim upped the ante by adding memories associated with each album. i am loosely organizing them in the order they influenced me. so here goes...
1) Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. this was my FIRST album (or cassette rather). my bedroom upstairs at the salina street house.
2) R.E.M.: Green. walking to school through baldwinsville.
3) Beastie Boys: License to Ill. my father had this cassette. a road trip to a wiccian church in new hamshire made possible by skipping school.
4) The Cure: Disintegration. it's hard to pick one album here, but this one always brings back the most memories. hanging with kate and walking around downtown b'ville. pizza man.
5) Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes. indispensible album. the song she chose wasn't on this album, but i remember nicole quoss chose a VF song to play during 10th (?) grade english class and the teacher was concerned.
6) Minor Threat: Out of Step. fuel for an angsty teen. totally in love with Ian MacKaye.
7) Janes Addiction: Nothing's Shocking. completely makes me think of a party at Jen Donahue's house. eggs were thrown. skateboards were ridden.
8) They Might Be Giants: Flood. odds are that a song from this album would be on any of the mix tapes we made in high school.
9) Fugazi: 13 Songs. one of the best albums ever. songs from this album would be on the soundtrack of my life.
10) Pixies: Bossanova. high school art class and staying after school to draw.
11) The Smiths: Louder than Bombs. big black shoe posse. roller skating at the rink in baldwinsville.
12) Inside Out: No Spiritual Surrender. this album was a light in the dark for me. the lost horizon and hardcore shows. taco bell.
13) Beck: One Foot In The Grave. moving back to syracuse and our first apartment.
14) Indigo Girls: Rites of Passage. one year at OCC. driving the dodge omni.
15) G Love & Special Sauce: G Love & Special Sauce. green haired nick and...that other guy. going to taughannock falls and throwing unopened cans of garbanzo beans in the campfire.
16) The Toasters: Dub 56. late night trips to Wegmans. dave.
17) Ani Difranco: Puddle Dive. some coffeeshop on the SU campus. getting ready to move to buffalo.
18) KRS One: Return of the Boom Bap. long studio sessions at the center for the arts at UB.
19) Zap Mama: Sabsylma. my first apartment alone on elmwood ave in buffalo.
20) Medeski, Martin and Wood: Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps). working at the brewpub in glens falls. closing the restaurant and going to the bars.
21) Q Tip: Amplified. leaving two terrible, consecutive relationships. getting my life back in order. driving with the windows down in the jeep. RSS.
22) Metric: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? finding my path and motivation.
23) Tegan and Sara: So Jealous. being in the best, most simple/awesome/supportive relationship. home repair. crandall library.
24) Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass. my brother and learning that he'll be a father (and me an aunt!).
25) The Weepies: Say I Am You. driving back from the HIV clinic. feeling helpless and inspired by client's struggles with addiction.
honorable mentions: 7 Seconds: The Crew, Killcreek: St Valentine's Garage, New Order: Substance, everything sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Sonic Youth: Dirty, Blackalicious: Nia, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Motel, the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and INXS: Listen Like Theives.
pick 25 albums that had an impact on you...only 25?!? my tag-er, tim upped the ante by adding memories associated with each album. i am loosely organizing them in the order they influenced me. so here goes...
1) Cyndi Lauper: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun. this was my FIRST album (or cassette rather). my bedroom upstairs at the salina street house.
2) R.E.M.: Green. walking to school through baldwinsville.
3) Beastie Boys: License to Ill. my father had this cassette. a road trip to a wiccian church in new hamshire made possible by skipping school.
4) The Cure: Disintegration. it's hard to pick one album here, but this one always brings back the most memories. hanging with kate and walking around downtown b'ville. pizza man.
5) Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes. indispensible album. the song she chose wasn't on this album, but i remember nicole quoss chose a VF song to play during 10th (?) grade english class and the teacher was concerned.
6) Minor Threat: Out of Step. fuel for an angsty teen. totally in love with Ian MacKaye.
7) Janes Addiction: Nothing's Shocking. completely makes me think of a party at Jen Donahue's house. eggs were thrown. skateboards were ridden.
8) They Might Be Giants: Flood. odds are that a song from this album would be on any of the mix tapes we made in high school.
9) Fugazi: 13 Songs. one of the best albums ever. songs from this album would be on the soundtrack of my life.
10) Pixies: Bossanova. high school art class and staying after school to draw.
11) The Smiths: Louder than Bombs. big black shoe posse. roller skating at the rink in baldwinsville.
12) Inside Out: No Spiritual Surrender. this album was a light in the dark for me. the lost horizon and hardcore shows. taco bell.
13) Beck: One Foot In The Grave. moving back to syracuse and our first apartment.
14) Indigo Girls: Rites of Passage. one year at OCC. driving the dodge omni.
15) G Love & Special Sauce: G Love & Special Sauce. green haired nick and...that other guy. going to taughannock falls and throwing unopened cans of garbanzo beans in the campfire.
16) The Toasters: Dub 56. late night trips to Wegmans. dave.
17) Ani Difranco: Puddle Dive. some coffeeshop on the SU campus. getting ready to move to buffalo.
18) KRS One: Return of the Boom Bap. long studio sessions at the center for the arts at UB.
19) Zap Mama: Sabsylma. my first apartment alone on elmwood ave in buffalo.
20) Medeski, Martin and Wood: Last Chance to Dance Trance (Perhaps). working at the brewpub in glens falls. closing the restaurant and going to the bars.
21) Q Tip: Amplified. leaving two terrible, consecutive relationships. getting my life back in order. driving with the windows down in the jeep. RSS.
22) Metric: Old World Underground, Where Are You Now? finding my path and motivation.
23) Tegan and Sara: So Jealous. being in the best, most simple/awesome/supportive relationship. home repair. crandall library.
24) Aesop Rock: None Shall Pass. my brother and learning that he'll be a father (and me an aunt!).
25) The Weepies: Say I Am You. driving back from the HIV clinic. feeling helpless and inspired by client's struggles with addiction.
honorable mentions: 7 Seconds: The Crew, Killcreek: St Valentine's Garage, New Order: Substance, everything sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Sonic Youth: Dirty, Blackalicious: Nia, Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Motel, the Rocky Horror Picture Show soundtrack and INXS: Listen Like Theives.
say what.
i've posted before about the great band charlie everywhere, signed to the local sub-bombin label.
but here's a portion of a message i received from josh carter, one half of the duo that makes up the band:
"Due to some trademark law issue that we honestly don't fully understand and kinda' don't want to bother with (hooray for lawyers!), we will be changing our name effective now. We know this may be a bummer or at least an unexpected twist for some of you out there -- imagine how we felt -- but we're happy with the new name we've settled on, and think that it actually sounds a bit more like our music anyway: PHANTOGRAM."
what a drag...i have an awesome 'charlie everywhere' sticker on my car. now that 'charlie everywhere' isn't a band, what the hell is it? i searched google to see if there is some other thing called 'charlie everywhere' but couldn't find a link to anything but the band. i don't know if i should leave the sticker on as a super esoteric and elitist statement of how i liked them "back when they were charlie everywhere" or if i should take it off for fear that i would be advertising something crazy like drug activity or racism.
but here's a portion of a message i received from josh carter, one half of the duo that makes up the band:
"Due to some trademark law issue that we honestly don't fully understand and kinda' don't want to bother with (hooray for lawyers!), we will be changing our name effective now. We know this may be a bummer or at least an unexpected twist for some of you out there -- imagine how we felt -- but we're happy with the new name we've settled on, and think that it actually sounds a bit more like our music anyway: PHANTOGRAM."
what a drag...i have an awesome 'charlie everywhere' sticker on my car. now that 'charlie everywhere' isn't a band, what the hell is it? i searched google to see if there is some other thing called 'charlie everywhere' but couldn't find a link to anything but the band. i don't know if i should leave the sticker on as a super esoteric and elitist statement of how i liked them "back when they were charlie everywhere" or if i should take it off for fear that i would be advertising something crazy like drug activity or racism.
mix tape.
i forgot how much fun it is to put together a music compilation. i haven't done it since i listened to cassettes.
remember those?
so this morning, while adam has been flailing around on the floor in the kitchen trying to install our new dishwasher, i thoughtfully created two playlists. i burned them and they will soon be in the mail and off to virginia. dad and karen (purely coincidentally~today is her birthday!) are the lucky winners of my morning efforts. it is important, after all, to have your recipient in mind when creating a mix...it's almost like a letter to them.
crap, that's pretty emo, huh?
so enough of that...
maybe i had better see if adam needs some help in there.
good ole' days.
i was pretty psyched to happen across the national geographic channel last night at 10 PM.
they did an hour episode of 'inside' on straight edge. i thought the show really captured a lot of the angst, music and emotion that i remember. the only thing that i missed was some reference to the vegetarian/vegan angle. it was overall pretty awesome; although it seems that the scene has been pigeon-holed as a gang by some that don't really understand it. some of the vernacular is different (ex. posi and militant. being that i work in the HIV/AIDS arena, posi means something TOTALLY different to me now) but the scene is generally the same. we called militants 'hardliners' and they caused a bunch of grief then too.
i can't imagine that they won't re-broadcast it...but there's a blog following the episode.
they did an hour episode of 'inside' on straight edge. i thought the show really captured a lot of the angst, music and emotion that i remember. the only thing that i missed was some reference to the vegetarian/vegan angle. it was overall pretty awesome; although it seems that the scene has been pigeon-holed as a gang by some that don't really understand it. some of the vernacular is different (ex. posi and militant. being that i work in the HIV/AIDS arena, posi means something TOTALLY different to me now) but the scene is generally the same. we called militants 'hardliners' and they caused a bunch of grief then too.
i can't imagine that they won't re-broadcast it...but there's a blog following the episode.
*i may not have the edge anymore, but i still love you ian mackaye*
night out.
i haven't been out to see and hear some music in a while, so when my brother suggested we all go out to watch a few bands it seemed a great opportunity.
the show was at falstaff's on the skidmore college campus. comments were made on the way to the venue that we may just be the oldsters of the crowd, but i think we passed alright. although i think that only a true oldster would believe that.
charlie everywhere started it off. they are infectious and wonderful. their music is a bit hard to define, which is one of the reasons i like it.
the headlining act was yeasayer. i have to admit that we pretty much went to the show to see charlie everywhere, so i had never heard of yeasayer. thanks to youtube i was able to get a preview. my first impressions were of rusted root-esque, kind of jammy, but i have also heard them compared to radiohead. apparently their music is also hard to define.
i was frequently reminded of past all ages shows; especially because of the conspicuous lack of alcohol (well...there were some 'rebels' who sneaked in a bottle of beer). also there was the 'x' on the hand and the five dollar door charge. all i needed was a mosh pit to really bring on the reminiscence.
the show was at falstaff's on the skidmore college campus. comments were made on the way to the venue that we may just be the oldsters of the crowd, but i think we passed alright. although i think that only a true oldster would believe that.
charlie everywhere started it off. they are infectious and wonderful. their music is a bit hard to define, which is one of the reasons i like it.
the headlining act was yeasayer. i have to admit that we pretty much went to the show to see charlie everywhere, so i had never heard of yeasayer. thanks to youtube i was able to get a preview. my first impressions were of rusted root-esque, kind of jammy, but i have also heard them compared to radiohead. apparently their music is also hard to define.
i was frequently reminded of past all ages shows; especially because of the conspicuous lack of alcohol (well...there were some 'rebels' who sneaked in a bottle of beer). also there was the 'x' on the hand and the five dollar door charge. all i needed was a mosh pit to really bring on the reminiscence.
needless to say, it was a good time.
chore.
i may be a bit behind the times, but i am just now getting around to converting all of my compact discs to mp3.
this is a sucky chore. i never thought that i had a lot of music, but this is time consuming even for 200 discs.
i am also realizing, based on the release date of my "newest" music, that i stopped any serious investing in music about 8-10 years ago.
does this mean i am getting old and set in my musical ways?
or does it mean that i just don't want to buy cds anymore?
(they are a nuisance...hence my overdue move to mp3)
this is a sucky chore. i never thought that i had a lot of music, but this is time consuming even for 200 discs.
i am also realizing, based on the release date of my "newest" music, that i stopped any serious investing in music about 8-10 years ago.
does this mean i am getting old and set in my musical ways?
or does it mean that i just don't want to buy cds anymore?
(they are a nuisance...hence my overdue move to mp3)
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