Lost Wisdom / Dawn / Black Wooden EP

Pitchfork just dropped off a bunch of Phil Elverum infos. The dang track listing for Dawn. It's incredible.

Lost Wisdom:

01 Lost Wisdom
02 Voice in Headphones
03 You Swan Go On
04 Who?
05 Flaming Home
06 What?
07 If We Knew...
08 With My Hands Out
09 O My Heart
10 Grave Robbers

Dawn:

01 It Wasn't the Hunting
02 Cold Mountain
03 Moon Sequel
04 I Have Been Told That My Skin Is Exceptionally Smooth
05 I Say "No"
06 Moon, I Already Know
07 With My Hands Out
08 A Show of Hands
09 Woolly Mammoth's Mighty Absence
10 My Burning
11 Great Ghosts
12 Climb Over
13 We Squirm
14 Voice in Headphones
15 Who?
16 Dead of Night
17 See Me
18 Log in the Waves
19 Goodbye Hope

Black Wooden EP:

01 Black Wooden
02 The Bottomless Pit
03 If We Knew...
04 Appetite
05 Marriage
06 Mount Eerie Revealed (version)

"Moon, I Already Know" is on Dawn. Holy crap yes. Lost Wisdom has a 'musicians in a room playing music' vibe. Holy heck. Black Wooden has "Marriage" oh crap. There will be THREE studio recordings of "With My Hands Out" which is fantastic. Could mix tracks from Dawn and Lost Wisdom together. Song soup. Oh man.

Please play these simultaneously

Elliott Smith / The Softies

Just finished listening to Elliott Smith's self titled album. After I finished, I put iTunes back on shuffle and it went to The Softies' "Selfish" from their self titled EP. I think this is a good opportunity to post some stuff.

First:


Second:

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith

Third:

The Softies - The Softies EP

What would be a pretty lengthy and overly literal listening session:

Starting with Don't Wake Me Up:

1. Ocean 1, 2, 3
2. Florida Beach
3. Here With Summer
---Where It's Hotter, Parts 1, 2, and 3
4. Where It's Hotter Pt. 3
5. I'm Getting Cold
6. I'll Be in the Air
---You'll Be In The Air (before "You Were In the Air" by choice/narrative)
7. Tonight There'll Be Clouds
8. You Were in the Air
9. What Happened To You?
10. It Wouldn't
11. I'm in Hell
12. Don't Wake Me Up
--- Wake Me Up
13. Sweetheart Sleep Tight
14. Instrumental (not putting the other Instrumentals here)
15. I Felt You

It starts working a lot better with It Was Hot, We Stayed In the Water

1. The Pull
2. Ice
3. Sand (Eric's Trip)
4. The Glow
---The Glow, Pt. 2
---The Glow, Pt. 3
---The Glow, Pt. 4
5. Karl Blau
6. Drums
7. The Gleam
---The Gleam, Pt. 2
8. The Breeze
9. (Something)
---The Blow, Pt. 2
10. Between Your Ear and the Other Ear
11. Organs

Onto The Glow, Pt. 2. Going back in time, on this one.

1. I Want Wind To Blow
---The Glow
2. The Glow, Pt. 2
---The Glow, Pt. 3
---The Glow, Pt. 4
3. The Moon
---Moon Sequel
4. Headless Horseman
---Headless Horseman, Pt. 2
5. My Roots Are Strong and Deep
6. Instrumental
7. The Mansion
8. (Something)
9. (Something)
10. I'll Not Contain You (could include the Little Bird version)
---The Gleam
11. The Gleam, Pt. 2
12. Map
--- I'll Be In the Air
13. You'll Be In the Air
--- You Were In the Air
14. I Want To Be Cold
15. I Am Bored
16. I Felt My Size
17. Instrumental 2
18. I Felt Your Shape
--- I Felt Your Shape (with new ending)
19. Samurai Sword
20. My Warm Blood

Not really much to go off from with Mount Eerie, save for the lyrics referencing past songs.

EDIT: Since this is sort of related, I just remembered/heard one of my favorite parts of a Phil bootleg:

GUY IN AUDIENCE: "Glow, Pt. 2"?
PHIL: Oh, no. Sorry, I can't.
GUY: Aw.
PHIL: (starts playing "The Glow, Pt. 3")

Cymbals - Anthology

Cymbals are described a lot as Shibuya-Kei, and in "Hey Leader" they describe themselves as "a band that's naughty and cute, with the spirit of punk," which is kind of funny. But they do have a lot of great songs. Anthology is as varied as band catalog retrospective albums tend to be.



Apologies for having to put this into parts.

Cymbals - Anthology (PT 1/2)
Cymbals - Anthology (PT 2/2)

Songs from the work radio, pt. 2

Paul Simon - "Run That Body Down": I love songs with this sort of vibe. There's this undercurrent of a troubled marriage, then this sort of minor musical collision at the end. Beautiful.



ABBA - "S.O.S.": God, listen to the synths! From Wikipedia: "The descending chords and ominous synthesizer melody line of the introduction set the tone for Fältskog’s vocals, sounding almost as if she were breaking down in tears." Then the chorus basically contrasts that with synths made of tidal waves and everyone singing out to the waves and oh man yeah.



The Pretenders - "I Go To Sleep": If I go through life without this song coming back for me at the right moment it'll mess me up pretty hard. Maybe not pretty hard, but I guess it'd be disappointing. It's an incredibly rainy and weighted-down song. A night-time-fog-out-your-looking-window sort of song. (The version the work radio played was by the Pretenders, not the original by pre-punk band The Kinks).

B-52s - "Topaz": When I first heard this song it was one of those things I'd obviously like and it turned out I liked it. The vocals seem to intertwine like vines, then flourish out and explore their space during the chorus. The lyrics seem like something I'd write off as a list for song titles or titles for anything, here they bring to mind plenty of colors and images. I think I'm moving sideways on this one, I've written about it a few times so I'm out of steam.

I've got more than enough for you

"The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)" is the new Weezer album. My prediction is there might be other songs that share the same media as "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived", but it will be merely as an afterthought. Just break this song up into ten tracks. Make the Red Album an EP just short of 6 minutes. It'll be good. Scott Shiner even said "The song 'The Greatest Man That Ever Lived' is a masterpiece that includes ten different styles of music based around a common theme," so there are ten different styles, and certain Weezer albums are borne on ten tracks. It just works! But serious, maybe the actual Red Album is what Weezer likes to do. Maybe the first two albums were the accident.

Anyway, just tried to do a drinking game to "Roxanne" by The Police and hell if I can drink anything that much.

Music from the work radio, pt. 1

This is something I'll be doing every so often. Sometimes the work radio (more like a single track data CD that we change every so often, but work radio flows better) plays some pretty good songs in between all the kitschy instrumental music and Jon Secada. This is a collection of all the songs I can remember strongly, whether I like them or not. I'll make sure it's obvious.


Sting - "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free": Sting and Sega CD quality video combine and I do not know how to feel.



The Highwaymen - "Silver Stallion": I love this dang song so much. Incredible lyrics, music that seems to wrap all around you, and there's just this awesome marriage of melancholy in a strong character that I'm all for. I'll admit, I'm all for when some tough guy admits they love the smell of grass in the spring. That is what I am all for. Also: any song that uses "thunder and lightning in her thighs" in such an honest and modest way has more than it knows going for it.

So only two songs right now, but heck if I can remember anything anymore. I make all these posts drunk.

My life: At home everyday, drinkin' coke in a kitchen with a dog who doesn't know his name

This is going to be a place for me to just spew out a bunch of stuff about music. For starters, I mainly made this because I've been listening to American Water by the Silver Jews while drinking a tall can of Olde English and I realized a lot of what I want to say about music should best be done in an environment fitted for talking about music. Most of my favorite music blogs have been on blogspot, so I'm just going to get into this thing right here.