17 posts tagged “indie rock”

What are the weirdest song titles in your playlist or music collection?
Submitted by Charline.

It's hard to beat Sufjan Stevens for eccentric (and long) song titles.

Audio: Share your favorite track from a live album.
Submitted by -Lisa.

Of course, I couldn't properly answer this QotD without some choice live cuts by the greatest live band of all time, the mighty mighty Guided By Voices (my previous answer was just for practice.) First off, here are the first four or five songs of their farewell show 12/31/04, including "Over the Neptune/Gear Mesh Fox",  "Watch Me Jumpstart" and "Fair Touching,"

Main Set Part I

Guided By Voices

Then some choice cuts from their earlier live album "Jellyfish Reflector" which I just picked up at Amoeba about a month ago. For some reason I hadn't really hard that much about it, which is surprising, because it's actually quite awesome.

This morning I finally updated the production site with the new code that I've been working for the past month. As a result, the Trizzle Project now sports some new features, including:

• You can now review, rate and tag artists and albums as well as songs.
• Trizzle search has been enhanced--it's now faster, thanks to the mysql 5 view, and will handle multi-word search strings better–ie, if you search for "zep dog" Trizzle will now return Led Zeppelin's song "Black Dog" whereas before it would not.
  
• The recent reviews page now shows recent reivews of songs, artists and albums.
  
• Feeds! You're probably sick of hearing about them by now, but in case you're not, there is now a feed of the most recent reviews to be entered into Trizzle.
  

Now that the site has been upgraded, I felt it was time to put some more compelling content on it. This evening I finally added more featured songs to Trizzle, after many months of their being absent. Since there was such a long hiatus, I added more than usual, fifteen in all, including new songs by the Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, the Kings of Leon, Of Montrel, Beirut and more.

Not only that, but every featured song has a high-quality un-DRMed mp3 so you can listen to the whole song (no 30 second samples on Trizzle!) and even add it to your media player of choice (but i f you do and you like the song enough to listen to it more than few times, please do buy a copy of the song from the ITMS or better yet the entire album.)

Click the link below to see what's featured on Trizzle this month:

Trizzle featured songs

Trizzle Featured Songs–Feb. 2007

Next four songs in Party Shuffle:

Jacksonville    5:24    Sufjan Stevens    Come On Feel The Illinoise!    Indie Rock
Sole Survivor    3:41    Asia    The Very Best of Asia - Heat of the Moment 1982-1990    Classic Rock
She Bop    3:51    Cyndi Lauper    She's So Unusual    Alternative
Letter To Bowie Knife    3:06    Calexico    Garden Ruin    Indie Rock

djchall's favorites: Feb. 2007

1. Heart of Hearts  (!!!, Myth Takes)

2. White & Nerdy (Parody of "Ridin'" By Chamillionaire featuring Krayzie Bone)  ("Weird Al" Yankovic, Straight Outta Lynwood)

3. Intervention  (Arcade Fire, Intervention - Single)

5. Song For Clay (Disappear Here)  (Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City)

6. The Prayer  (Bloc Party, A Weekend In The City)

7. Underwater (You and Me)  (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Some Loud Thunder)

8. Wamp Wamp (What It Do)  (Clipse featuring Slim Thug, Hell Hath No Fury)

9. Hang Me Up to Dry  (Cold War Kids, Robbers & Cowards)

10. Ballad of Human Kindness  (The Dears, Gang of Losers)

11. Back and Forth  (Earl Greyhound, Soft Targets)

12. Ghost Is Back (edit)  (Ghostface Killah, Ghost Is Back (single))

13. Outta Town Shit  (Ghostface Killah, More Fish)

14. You Know I'm No Good  (Ghostface Killah, More Fish)

15. All This Time  (Heartless Bastards, All This Time)

16. Chips Ahoy  (The Hold Steady, Boys and Girls In America)

17. Do U Wanna Ride  (Jay-Z, Kingdom Come)

18. Anything  (Jay-Z, Kingdom Come)

19. Mr. Jones  (Mike Jones, Mr. Jones - Single)

20. Dashboard  (Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank)

21. Gronlandic Edit  (Of Montreal, Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?)

22. Supernatural Car Lover  (Robert Pollard, Normal Happiness)

23. Full Sun (Dig the Slowness)  (Robert Pollard, Normal Happiness)

24. Don't Feel Right  (The Roots, Game Theory)

25. Sea Legs  (The Shins, Wincing the Night Away)

26. Insistor  (Tapes 'n Tapes, The Loon)

27. Miss Sarajevo (2005 Live from Milan)  (U2, Live In Milan 2005)

28. The Room Got Heavy  (Yo La Tengo, I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass)

29. Luci Baines  (Yo La Tengo, Live Session - EP)

I just ordered the just-released second volume of Robert Pollard stage banter, "Asshole 2: Meet the King." Who wouldn't want to listen to it, though, after reading this description:

Meet the King: Asshole 2. It's the second comedy (read: stage banter) album from Robert Pollard. It's available now on Yuk Yuk Motherfucker Records. Meet the King is the follow up to 2005's Relaxation of the Asshole. Recorded mostly during the final Guided By Voices tour, you get to hear Bob's routines on family ("Fuck you Dad!"), offer advice to the youngsters ("we got any college kids out there looking for jobs? Get wasted when you do your interview!"), take on modern music ("Three years ago I thought Alien Ant Farm was the worst it could get. Now I look back nostalgically on Alien Ant Farm") and even examine his own career ("I'm Burt Bacharach in reverse").

Good thing I have the turntable set up, since it's vinyl only.

Meet The King Front

How about this? Name your Guided By Voices desert island discs. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only have five GBV albums to listen to, which ones would they be?

Here's mine, in order of release:

1. Propeller
2. Bee Thousand
3. Isolation Drills
4. Universal Truths and Cycles
5. Earthquake Glue

It was really hard leaving Do the Collapse off the list. Not to mention Half Smiles. But such is the nature of a desert island list.

Audio:  Share a great love song.

Guided By Voices aren't known as a romantic band, but when the mood strikes him, Robert Pollard can crooon with the best of them.