December 2010
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Hanging Up My Lovers Of Sounds Cleats...
31DaysOfMusic is over… I’m taking my online identity back over to
http://missfitzpdx.com (also on tumblr)…
See you there or see you in another life, brotha…!
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November 2010
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 30: Song/Album that brings up a...
Doesn’t everyone have a million of these?
I remember I got this album on the same day that I bought Anne Rice’s The Witching Hour, which I bought because in my junior year English class in high school we had to do a fucking BOOK REPORT. All the jocks in my class chose The Bridges of Madison County, which if you don’t know, is less than 200 pages long. The Witching Hour is...
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31DaysOf♫, Day 29: an artist everyone hates but...
Heh heh, kidding. I hate them, too.
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 28: Song that is the Anthem of...
I can’t even come to grips with all the songs I’d need to sMASH-UP to make the anthem of my life, but it probably is primarily a mixture of Madonna’s “Music” (terrible grammar and all!) and Auf der Maur’s “I Need I Want I Will.” And though I could conceive of actually trying to mash those two songs up (I neeeeeed [music!]) - I won’t put you...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 27: Artist You've Seen Live the...
Playing in a promising local band means that I’ve seen a couple regional bands an uncountable number of times. I can’t think of one national act that I’ve seen more than about 4 times (Madonna, Placebo, Josh Homme)— guess that’s cause I grew up in Reno and no one played there, so my concert-going life didn’t start til about 2001. Anyway, I’ve seen the...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 26:
A song/album that changed your opinion about an artist
Well, I don’t really know how to choose between Lady Gaga and Kanye West for this one. With Lady Gaga, I hated her with a passion at the start— mostly because I don’t like anyone stupid/ballsy enough to go around talking about wanting to be the next Madonna. With Kanye, I knew he was good, but I don’t listen to much...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 25: An Album That Disappointed...
Every INTERPOL album that came after Turn On the Bright Lights.
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 23: Favorite Lyric from a...
Oh don piano..! These are all people whose lyrics I LOVE:
Neko Case * Missy Elliot * Ben Gibbard * Leslie Hall * PJ Harvey * Joe Henry * Josh Homme * Aimee Mann * Rhett Miller * Morrissey * Karen O * Nina Persson * Pamela Rooney * Kanye West * Thom Yorke
I can’t really pick one. How bout 31DaysOfFavoriteLyrics?
Last Friday, Nanno and I were having drinks before our set, and this Death Cab...
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I want you all to know that...
…gate C13 at PDX smells like feet.
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 22: 1st Album Owned
You know that I had 45s by the Bee Gees, Michael Jackson, Kenny Rogers, and Charlie Daniels Band… but I didn’t buy any of those for myself… I just kind of inherited them. Here’s a run-down of the FIRSTS of things I bought for myself:
CASSETTES:
Bought these on the same day, the first tapes I ever bought using my own money and free will:
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Not too long after this, I...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 21:Fave Song From Childhood
WHY I had a Bee Gee’s 45, I cannot tell you— but I CAN tell you I played the fuck out of it.
For what it’s worth, I also played Kenny Rogers’ Gambler and Charlie Daniels’ Band’s Devil Went Down to Georgia and Michael Jackson’s Thriller - all played on a Fisher Price Phonograph.
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31DaysOfMusic, Day20: Favorite Love Song
I can’t believe life’s so complex
When I just wanna sit here and watch you undress
This is Love, This is Love that I’m Feeling
-THIS IS LOVE, from PJ Harvey’s total fucking masterpiece Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea. I went to find a video for that song (which I’d never seen before) and found so much more to fall in love with that I’m posting...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 18 Favorite Singer
This is impossible.
Well, it would be impossible, if not for two people giving me an easy out.
First, JEFF BUCKLEY.
His voice was like a superpower that he couldn’t always control to use for good.
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 17: Favorite Bassist(s)!
While doing some light-weight pondering on my answer for this question (since I already knew MAdM had a spot!) , it dawned on me that I really, really, REALLY™ like bassists who don’t so much play their bass as dance with their bass as if it was a part of their bodies or as if it was a sentient being they were trying to seduce. All 3 of the players that first came to mind to answer this...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 16: Favorite Drummer(s)
I’ve always loved the crap out of Jimmy Chamberlin and think he was the secret weapon in Smashing Pumpkins.
*AND*
Sorry. I grew up on this guy, and though he is a total tool, he is that sweet, innocent, buffoon of a showman who hits the everloving fuck out of his drums…and who wears facepaint, weirdly.
Honorable mentions: Neil Peart, Lars Ulrich, Steve Sidelnyk, Sam Fogarino,...
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31DaysOfMusic BONUS POST!
Just came across this and had a minor internal freakout. I bet we’d all love it. Someone with an iPad go download the app, please!
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 13: Your Favorite Songwriter
I’ve already extolled the virtues of MENOMENA, and I’m selecting them for favorite songwriter based on their unique PROCESS alone.
from Menomena’s wikipedia page:
Creative process
The band’s songwriting process involves a computer program called the Digital Looping Recorder, or Deeler for short. It was programmed by Knopf using the language Max.[7] Seim explains the...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 12: A song you used to love but...
I’m sorry.
I think Peter Gabriel is a genius. I love him. But “In Your Eyes,” a song that once moved me to tears, now feels like 50 mosquitos biting me in the face. Through sheer repetition, inappropriate-licensing&placement-of-the-song, and other peoples’ obsession with Lloyd Dobbler — I’ve just grown to hate hearing it. I know it’s good, I just...
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Day 11: A Song You Hate.
{inset name of every song she ever sang} by JEWEL.
Also, Lightning Crashes by LIVE. Dudes have no right to sing the word ‘placenta’ in what purports to be a rock song.
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 10: Favorite 'Classic' Album
1. I apologize for how long this is going to be. Skip it if you want/need. 2. I can’t get over the fact that choosing a 20 year old album means choosing from Heaven or Las Vegas, Ritual de lo Habitual, Doolittle, Listen Without Prejudice Vol I, Violator, Disintegration, Little Earthquakes, Pretty Hate Machine, etc. I’m not gonna lie- it hurts…more than a little. Unrelatedly,...
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pop that rocks: White Russia →
popthatrocks:
I had the good fortune of discovering this London-based duo earlier this morning via yvynyl. White Russia are Marina Elderton and Benjamin Bufton. They craft ominously sexy synth-goth jams reminiscent of Fever Ray if Karin Dreijer-Andersson was more interested in screwing you than…
This is not 31DaysOfMusic related but I’ve been following PopThatRocks and through...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 8: Most Overrated Album
I’m never going to have anything true to report here. I have a hard time saying that people don’t deserve their successes, even though I have no problem saying I don’t fucking GET why some albums are successful.
I tried to research this subject to get ideas for albums that I would agree are overrated, but nothing struck a true chord of discontent in me. I tend to like stuff that...
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31DaysOfMusic, Day 7: Underrated Album
Well, this subject is dangerously close to Day 24: an artist that you wish people would have liked more. In fact, I wrote out a whole mini-essay for today’s subject before deciding that perhaps it was better suited to Day 24… but they’re pretty intrinsically connected in my eyes… I seem to take some sick pleasure in liking things that not that many people like/appreciate..
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WatchDay 7, Part II : ZOOROPA -U2
Fans seem to be on one side or the other when it comes to U2; you’re either in The Joshua Tree camp or the Achtung Baby camp. I’m in the latter. I love experimental, atmospheric U2—and not just because of the mindblowing guitar rigs necessary for Edge to make those sounds…!
When Zooropa came out, I immediately fell in love with it, but it...
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Day 1: Your Current Favorite Artist
PREFACE: I haven’t figured out who wrote this 31 Days of Music list, but I want to both hit them and kiss them. Starting with your current favorite artist is cool, because it lets you indulge in whatever your current fascination is and certainly says something about you in this very moment… but it also kind of sucks because it insinuates that this artist isn’t always your...
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31 Days of Music
saramacgregor:
I found out about this through Willing Enabler and thought it would be a good opportunity to think, read and write about music. For the next 31 days I’ll do my best to write my answers and read what other people have written. Lovers of sound I’m listening…
This made my day. :) Thanks, macgregor!
