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Rock
A taste for the Invisible
Dot Allison – I Wanna Break Your Heart feat. Peter Doherty (Right Click to Download)
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The young, the good and the faithful
Hey I found a whistle that hangs like a charm
and when my noose is tied I could blow it
and fall down into your arms
15 centuries of dissolution and grief
to return a yellow trickster and a thiefYeah I found a whistle that works every time
that’s when the trail escapes to nowhere
and the flood erases the crime
such conviction
to paint all the wall with the blood
of the young and the faithful and the goodYeah I found a whistle as thin as a sheet
to split the dumbness of a vision
between asleep and a sleep
tiny axes
repeatedly raising the flag
all ignored, real emotion’s such a dragHey I’ve got a pistol that’s aimed at your heart
and on dark nights when the moon is right
I could show you
the head attached with a scarf
aerophane sorceress, at home obeying the fates
when it’s gone, has it gone all the way?This time
found a whistle
that works every time
Yeah, I found a whistle
that works
hangs like a charm
Yeah, found a whistle
that works every time
Yeah, I found a whistle
that works
closes my mind every time
a whistle
I’ve got it,
I’ve got it,
this time
I have to admit MGMT’s second album, Congratulations, took me by surprise. Instead of selling out after the commercial success of their debut album, Oracular Spectacular, or failing to achieve the quality of their debut album, the duo have apparently matured profoundly and gave birth to a very introverted & darker sounding production. I Found A Whistle, with its typical MGMT style layout (one recurring theme/chorus differently emphasized every time through + indecipherable obscure lyrics), is the hidden gem of their latest album.
MGMT – I Found A Whistle (Right Click to Download) (buy)
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Like a friend
Don’t bother saying you’re sorry
Why don’t you come in?
Smoke all my cigarettes againEvery time I get no further
How long has it been?
Come on in now
Wipe your feet on my dreamsYou take up my time
Like some cheap magazine
When I could have been learning something
Well, you know what I meanI’ve done this before
And I will do it again
C’mon and kill me baby
While you smile like a friend
Oh and I’ll come running
Just to do it againYou are the last drink I never should have drunk
You are the body hidden in the trunk
You are the habit I can’t seem to kick
You are my secrets on the front page every week
You are the car I never should have bought
You are the train I never should have caught
You are the cut that makes me hide my face
You are the party that makes me feel my ageYou’re like a car crash I can see but I just can’t avoid
Like a plane I’ve been told I never should board
Like a film that’s so bad, but I’ve just got to stay ’til the endLet me tell you now – it’s lucky for you that we’re friends
Pulp – Like a Friend (Right Click to Download) (buy)
The Treachery
If you remember how much easier it is to remember what you would rather forget than remember, than remember what you would rather remember than forget, then you can’t forget how much easier it is to forget what you would rather remember than forget, than forget what you would rather forget than remember.
– Elmira Gazette, quoted in New York Times, Feb. 13, 1891
I have been procrastinating a lot lately and i have to admit, Today’s songs are long overdue.Both songs are similar to songs in John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band album with regards to the pure intimacy between the artist and listener.
Cecile has once again transformed an indie song into an epic abyss of pure emotion. Like the subconscious, White Sky isn’t afraid to be many things at once. Different sounds fade in and out. A tropical melody transform into dark and mysterious yearnings without any warnings.
Caribou’s very intimate and fragile “Jamelia” is also his hidden magnus opus in his latest album “Swim”. Jamelia sounds like melancholic panic attacks within subconscious of a hopeless romantic.
Vampire Weekend – White Sky (Cecile Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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Caribou – Jamelia (Right Click to Download)
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“What am I supposed to be?” Bonus
John Lennon – Look at Me (Right Click to Download)
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Nostalgia was better in the old days
2 Originals and 2 remixes. Both songs have around a 30-year time difference between of the original and the remix.
Daydream was released in 1968 at height of Europop’s popularity by the Belgian Band, Wallace Collection. Despite its English lyrics, it had failed to achieve any success in the English speaking world.
Wallace Collection – Daydream (Right Click to Download)
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Heavy sampling days of the late 90’s revitalized Daydream. This is the famous trip-hop remix of Daydream by I-Monster. If you were alive in the late 90’s and early 2000’s, it is impossible for you to have never heard of this tune.
I Monster – Daydream in blue (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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She’s lost control was played for the first time in 1978 by the controversial band Joy Division. Punk rock was on its death bed and had “no future”. Minimal lyrics are about a girl having epileptic seizures. It is worth mentioning that the lead singer Ian Curtis was suffering from epilepsy and occasionally had seizures during concerts. From 1977 to Curtis’ suicide in 1980, Joy Division almost single-handedly placed post-punk and electronica on the mainstream and influenced many other genres from electro-clash to alternative rock.
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (Right Click to Download) (iTunes)
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D.Ramirez’s 2009 version of the post-punk classic. Still pessimistic but more suitable for the modern dance floors.
Joy Division – She’s Lost Control (D.Ramirez Remix) (Right Click to Download)
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A Momentary Lapse of Reason
A paradox is not a conflict within reality. It is a conflict between
reality and your feeling of what reality should be like.
Music with balls. I wish there were more tracks like these two coming out everyday.
Boy 8-Bit – The Keep(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Rubix – Disco Electronique (Clip Edit)(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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More Phoenix. Italo-disco interpretation of Lisztomania and spaced-out instrumental centerpiece “Love Like a Sunset”.
Phoenix- Lisztomania (Holy Ghost! Loves Paris Remixomania)(Right Click to Download) (beatport)
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Phoenix – Love Like A Sunset(Right Click to Download) (itunes)
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Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Once upon a disco dream:
Groove Armada – History(Right Click to Download)
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Groove Armada – Paper Romance(Right Click to Download)
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Pylon – Cool(Right Click to Download)
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Bohemian like you.
3 post-rock songs from Colette #9.
The Brute Chorus -Chateau (Right Click to Download)
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Tunng -Bullets (Right Click to Download)
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Wooden Shjips -Losin’t time (Right Click to Download)
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Let’s just stay in.
Monday again. FML.
John Frusciante -Before The Beginning (Right Click to Download)
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Heartsrevolution – ???????? (Right Click to Download)
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If I could just leave my body for the night.
In the Flowers is such a powerful song.
I fell asleep listening to it and had the most vivid dream in which I was promenading in a empty field in Iceland.
Explosion at 2:30 is just epic.
Got a dancer
Who gets wild to the beats of record rhythms
But I’m always away for weeks
That pass slow my
Mind gets lost
Feeling envy for the kid who’ll dance despite anything
I walk out in the flowers and feel betterIf I could just leave my body for the night
Then we could be dancing
No more missing you while I’m gone
There we could be dancing
And you’d smile and say, “I like this song”
And when our eyes will meet there
We will recognize nothing’s wrong
And I wouldn’t feel so selfish
I won’t be this way very longTo hold you in time
Animal Collective – In The Flowers (Right Click to Download)
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Animal Collective – Summertime Clothes (Right Click to Download)
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