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I am taking a "working lunch" today but I am so distracted I can't do a damn thing. So, I decided to discuss my latest musical obsessions.
Indra - Thievery Corporation
Album: The Mirror Conspiracy
This song (and the entire album) is so chill that listening makes me feel like I am in some snooty lounge with so-modern-it-hurts furniture and martinis and douchebags who are soooo much beter than everyone else. I am not really into that type of scene and actually prefer something more along the lines of a dive bar but this makes me want to consider it. It is ambient and world-music at the same time and I can't get enough of the sitars.
The Dress Looks Nice on You - Sufjan Stevens
Album: Seven Swans
I prefer my music more upbeat and a little more electronic but the lyrics are honest and the music grabs me by the gut and squeezes. I can imagine a scene where she is maybe feeling insecure about herself and a little self-conscous but all he sees is this vibrant woman who dressed up a little for the occasion.
I could be totally wrong about the actual intent of the song but it's a nice little fantasy.
Northern Lites - Super Furry Animals
Album: Guerilla
Woohoo! Calypso music and lyrics about the frozen north! I love it! I had totally forgotten about SFA until a few weeks ago when someone gave me a music mix with this song. How could I forget such an awesome band? Never again my dears. Never again.
Your Place - Zero 7
Album: The Garden
The song starts quietly but the lyrics don't last long though. What begins as mellow ambience turns a little more urgent with a constant drum beat in 6/4 time (gawd i am a sucker for 6/4 time. it just instantly grabs me). After a minute or so the horns start. I'm talking trumpets, trombones, and french horns. The horns become more urgent and begin to soar and with each measure I am even more moved. Then the song starts to slow down from the rising crescendo and goes back to the sound at the beginning. It's mellow calm and chill again.
PlaidStallions is moving! (slowly)
5 years ago
Ahhhh, music is one of the few things that gets me through my work day...take away my music and the gloom here just makes you want to eat the barrel of a glock...
ReplyDeleteOgod that is so true. I share a small office with 4 people. One of them talks NONSTOP. She even talks out the emails she is writing. If it wasnt for the noise cancelling headphones and chillaxed music I would be homicidal.
ReplyDeleteI suddenly feel so...mainstream.
ReplyDeleteCome to the indie side...we have crunchy vegan cookies and free-trade coffee.
ReplyDeleteI like the free trade coffee and I am completely behind the principles of "free trade", but vegan, I did one week of that diet(i'm sorry, lifestyle) and I shit like 5 times a day, huge shits, all of them. I did lose like ten pounds in a week though. I think I will moonlight a while with the vegetarian diet once my garden is up and running.
ReplyDeleteI am thinking of going vegetarian myself. The hard part will be my dislike of legumes. blech.
ReplyDeleteYummy legumes. I make a killer Red beans and rice and Black bean and Corn salsa. Bean soup, 15 bean soup, pinto beans and onions, I could go on and on.
ReplyDeleteIf you ever get caught in the Guillermo "Dutch Oven", you will die...
It's not from a lack of trying. I have tried to make myself like them and I just can't do it. Blech.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to comment on your last post pertaining to Peaches. I forgot. I am sidetracked easily. Peaches? Damn. I am going to go out on a limb and assume you dig on Lords of Acid as well. You have great musical taste.
ReplyDeleteThe only genre I have a dark passionate dislike for would be Country. The complete and utter horror of Butterfly Kisses caused bile to eat away at 50% of my esophagus lining.
I do find myself puzzled. You hold a deep understanding and love for the beauty of music yet NOT the musical fruit!?! How could you!?!
Mexican is my specialty. Billy, you MUST swap salsa recipes with me.
Why thank you! Yes I do dig on Lords of Acid as well as Ladytron, Chicks on Speed, Robots in Disguise, and Electrocute.
ReplyDeleteOgod Butterfly Kisses? Just thinking of that song sends me into convulsions. *shudder*
You all have no idea just how much I have tried to like beans. I still try. I WANT to like them. They just make me gag.
She doesn't like beans because she hates our freedom, TERRORIST!! May sweet baby jesus have mercy on your low fiber low iron soul.
ReplyDeleteI know. I make the baby jesus cry with my dislike of beans.
ReplyDeleteLet us stop the sacrilege, my stigmata is flaring up.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry, I couldn't read that from all the olive oil pouring out of my orifices.
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