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(still not posting about anything furry) Music meeeeme
15 years ago
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For some reason I have a weird desire to talk about music in places where I normally don't talk about music. This has no place on RYM, too messy for my blog and I've no idea what to do with my LJ so FA it is!
1) Take your mp3 player/massive playlist/Last.FM personal radio/anything with a big library of music you listen to and has a shuffle function. List the first ten songs that appear - no cheating! And link to them if possible so other peeps can hear 'em too.
2) And write about them! Don't just post a boring list, say something about the music that you obviously like or has a connection to something you like because it's in your music library.
1) bLiNd - Starfox Space Cowboys OC Remix
Oh wow, game remixes right from the start. I used to spend ages in OC Remix, searching for new awesome stuff. I haven't visited the place properly in eons but I've got a bucketload of old favourites saved and this is one of them. I absolutely love the soundworld in this one - that glistening, popping percussion, those breezy synths and that generally really airy, open feeling. You can just imagine the Starfox team chilling out in the Corneria sky. Music for floaty chilling.
2) Moby - Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)
Probably as typical as you could go with Moby - you've got the Mobystrings, the calm and moody pace, the fragile vocals, and all that. Can't blame it for that though, considering how great that recipe is. 18 is a bit of a weird album, a transitional effort if anything, and while it suffers from major overlength issues this is definitely one of its keepers. Just a really well-crafted, beautiful song.
3) M83 - Be Wild
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts is an album I put on whenever I just want to sink into sound. That thick, loud, impenetrable wall of buzz, fuzz and rigid synths is a great place to just disappear into. Be Wild is less raucous than its other counterparts but its secret weapon is that tense feeling of constantly seeming like it's going to blow up and hit a climax, but it never does. Keeps you on your toes. And god, love that synth sound.
4) Sigur Rós - Salka
It's Sigur Rós, so it's basically a dictionary definition of beautiful, ethereal, magical and all other sorts of strong adjectives that describe something rather special. And yeah, Salka hits that same definition too. What a band.
5) Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Weird Fishes (aaaagh, grammar error!) took the longest to grow on me from In Rainbows. It's an album composed of very strong, individual moments and Weird Fishes is a bit weird in that respect that it's a very subtle song that doesn't really make a ruckus about its existence. It just kind of... flows. But the subtle ones are always growers and time has shown where Weird Fishes' magic lies: specifically, that hypnotic combination of the near-mechanic drumbeat and lingering guitars, the drawn-out backing vocals that catch you unaware the first time, and that final rush to the end that completely turns the song's mood upside down. And of course, how could I not mention the brilliant shredded version and especially its amazing backing vocal parts.
6) Beck - Elevator Music
Beck has to be one of the most annoying artists I like. He's a man capable of utter brilliance, but his slapdash do-whatever attitude results in half of the man's arrows missing the goal completely. To quote someone else, he is an artist who has created an absolutely phenomenal classic - shame he's scattered it all over several albums. Fortunately for this list, the shuffle picked out one of his great tunes for me. It's so loose and lazily groovy - love it.
7) R.E.M. - Daysleeper
R.E.M. are one of my favourite bands ever, Up is one of my favourite albums ever, Daysleeper is one of my favourite songs on that album and its video is one of my favourite R.E.M. videos. How wonderful! That jaunty rhythm and drowzy atmosphere perfectly capture the insomniac feel the song's meant to convey, and like much of Up it has that beautifully melancholy heart that really lifts it into somewhere special. Absolutely gorgeous.
8) The National - About Today
During 2010, The National have really become an immensely personal thing for me. I liked, even loved them before but during the course of 2010 I've formed a really intense, personal bond with their music. I know that sounds cheesy but y'know, I've lost the count on how many times I've zoned out on their music and felt it really speaks to me. Anyway, About Today is phenomenal. It's simple, but it takes that simpleness and turns it into a precise, powerful stab - both musically as well as the lyrics, which in all their straightforward minimalism really hit a tender spot (much thanks to Berninger being such a brilliant and evocative singer). That violin gets me every single time...
9) Ben Folds - The Luckiest
One of my favourite sincere, no-strings-attached love songs. The song that actually introduced me to Folds. Stunning.
10) Kent - Ingenting
I'd love to link to the full album version but I love the video so much that I can't help but post it, even if it uses a radio edit (the rushed ending really pains my ears). It's just so brilliant visually. The song's fantastic too - it was the first song released to public from Kent's current, more electronic-driven incarnation and I remember hearing it for the first time, just overwhelmed by how excellent it was. I love rock-Kent but I do feel they've made an absolutely brilliant transition to a more synth-filled form and Ingenting continues to be as brilliant as it always was. Love that little glimmering signature keyboard melody.
1) Take your mp3 player/massive playlist/Last.FM personal radio/anything with a big library of music you listen to and has a shuffle function. List the first ten songs that appear - no cheating! And link to them if possible so other peeps can hear 'em too.
2) And write about them! Don't just post a boring list, say something about the music that you obviously like or has a connection to something you like because it's in your music library.
1) bLiNd - Starfox Space Cowboys OC Remix
Oh wow, game remixes right from the start. I used to spend ages in OC Remix, searching for new awesome stuff. I haven't visited the place properly in eons but I've got a bucketload of old favourites saved and this is one of them. I absolutely love the soundworld in this one - that glistening, popping percussion, those breezy synths and that generally really airy, open feeling. You can just imagine the Starfox team chilling out in the Corneria sky. Music for floaty chilling.
2) Moby - Sunday (The Day Before My Birthday)
Probably as typical as you could go with Moby - you've got the Mobystrings, the calm and moody pace, the fragile vocals, and all that. Can't blame it for that though, considering how great that recipe is. 18 is a bit of a weird album, a transitional effort if anything, and while it suffers from major overlength issues this is definitely one of its keepers. Just a really well-crafted, beautiful song.
3) M83 - Be Wild
Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts is an album I put on whenever I just want to sink into sound. That thick, loud, impenetrable wall of buzz, fuzz and rigid synths is a great place to just disappear into. Be Wild is less raucous than its other counterparts but its secret weapon is that tense feeling of constantly seeming like it's going to blow up and hit a climax, but it never does. Keeps you on your toes. And god, love that synth sound.
4) Sigur Rós - Salka
It's Sigur Rós, so it's basically a dictionary definition of beautiful, ethereal, magical and all other sorts of strong adjectives that describe something rather special. And yeah, Salka hits that same definition too. What a band.
5) Radiohead - Weird Fishes/Arpeggi
Weird Fishes (aaaagh, grammar error!) took the longest to grow on me from In Rainbows. It's an album composed of very strong, individual moments and Weird Fishes is a bit weird in that respect that it's a very subtle song that doesn't really make a ruckus about its existence. It just kind of... flows. But the subtle ones are always growers and time has shown where Weird Fishes' magic lies: specifically, that hypnotic combination of the near-mechanic drumbeat and lingering guitars, the drawn-out backing vocals that catch you unaware the first time, and that final rush to the end that completely turns the song's mood upside down. And of course, how could I not mention the brilliant shredded version and especially its amazing backing vocal parts.
6) Beck - Elevator Music
Beck has to be one of the most annoying artists I like. He's a man capable of utter brilliance, but his slapdash do-whatever attitude results in half of the man's arrows missing the goal completely. To quote someone else, he is an artist who has created an absolutely phenomenal classic - shame he's scattered it all over several albums. Fortunately for this list, the shuffle picked out one of his great tunes for me. It's so loose and lazily groovy - love it.
7) R.E.M. - Daysleeper
R.E.M. are one of my favourite bands ever, Up is one of my favourite albums ever, Daysleeper is one of my favourite songs on that album and its video is one of my favourite R.E.M. videos. How wonderful! That jaunty rhythm and drowzy atmosphere perfectly capture the insomniac feel the song's meant to convey, and like much of Up it has that beautifully melancholy heart that really lifts it into somewhere special. Absolutely gorgeous.
8) The National - About Today
During 2010, The National have really become an immensely personal thing for me. I liked, even loved them before but during the course of 2010 I've formed a really intense, personal bond with their music. I know that sounds cheesy but y'know, I've lost the count on how many times I've zoned out on their music and felt it really speaks to me. Anyway, About Today is phenomenal. It's simple, but it takes that simpleness and turns it into a precise, powerful stab - both musically as well as the lyrics, which in all their straightforward minimalism really hit a tender spot (much thanks to Berninger being such a brilliant and evocative singer). That violin gets me every single time...
9) Ben Folds - The Luckiest
One of my favourite sincere, no-strings-attached love songs. The song that actually introduced me to Folds. Stunning.
10) Kent - Ingenting
I'd love to link to the full album version but I love the video so much that I can't help but post it, even if it uses a radio edit (the rushed ending really pains my ears). It's just so brilliant visually. The song's fantastic too - it was the first song released to public from Kent's current, more electronic-driven incarnation and I remember hearing it for the first time, just overwhelmed by how excellent it was. I love rock-Kent but I do feel they've made an absolutely brilliant transition to a more synth-filled form and Ingenting continues to be as brilliant as it always was. Love that little glimmering signature keyboard melody.
